Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — Preventing a Wedding. [ARTICLE]

Preventing a Wedding.

How' ST Virginia girl prevented her father’s second marriage is thus described by the Richmond Whig: Some months since, an elderly gentleman, highly respected and a widower, met with a widow who lives in the upper part of the city. The acquaintance soon ripened into friendship, and the friends of the gentleman were susprised to see him riding with, the young widow in his buggy. The next, new's that readied them was an invitation, to be present at liis wedding, which would he private and would take place at the lady’s house. The time for the ceremony was last Wednesday. It seems that the gentleman thus contemplating matrimony is the father of a young lady wiio, until a few days before the time fixed for the wedding, had been kept in ignorance of this whole affair. Her father told lier that he intended to marry again, and went on to praise the lady who would be her stepmother. The intelligence shocked the young lady. She had not dreamed of a thing. She at once protested against the proposed match—would not hear of it. She did more than this —she sent for several of the intimate friends of her father, and then, in their presence, earnestly appealed to him to break off the match. The gentleman is very much attached to his daughter, but for a time he resisted all her pleadings. The young lady declared she would leave the house the instant the widow entered it. Her grief at the resistance of her father was great, and she fainted several times. Her screams soon brought in the whole neighborhood. Finally, she succeeded in making him promise that lie would not marry the widow, and made him give her the assurance in the presence of several of his friendsAlthough the minister had been spoken to, the time fixed, and arrangements made for the wedding Wednesday night, it did not come off. Some of the invited guests assembled at the house, hut there was nothing about it to indicate that a wedding would take place, and, marveling much, they left. It is to he presumed! now that the ceremony will not come off..