A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1699, 31 October 1887, Page 3

A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT

The amusing outcome of a double elopement, which took (lace recently at Louisville, In America, haa been, so to say, that the right man has married the wrong girl, and that the double marriage has been rather a confused affair. Two brothers, It seems, were engaged to be married to two young women In the town, and, the parents of the girls objecting to tbe suitors, It was arranged that the four should elope together. The enterprising yonng men called for their Intended brides m buggies, but to avoid suspicion, the girls were exchanged — the future wife of the one going with the fnture husband of the other, aod m this way they started for the nearest railway station, a few miles off. It chfrnced, howevery, that the pareots of the girls heard of the departure from the neighbors, and set off on horseback m hot pursuit. They came up with the buggy m the rear, and stopped It from going farther ; but the two occupants of the other buggy just reached the station ai the train pulled up. and into It they got. It occurred to the young man that the best thing now to be done was to marry the girl who was his companion, since his sweetheart bad been left behind ; and the damsel raising no objeotlon, the two were united. To make It all right with his brother, whose place he had usurped, the bridegroom wrote at once after the ceremony, pointing out that " both girls were very nearly alike," and that matters could be squared if he would mirry the ether, In this way matters were ultimately squared, nor does it appear that any of the four are diesititfied with the exchange of partners for life.