AN AMERICAN ELOPEMENT.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 41, 24 September 1857, Page 4

AN AMERICAN ELOPEMENT.

A New York paper, under the title “ A. Runaway Marriage in High Life—the Bride worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” has the following :—A marriage took place in Grace Church on monday last that excited no little interest m fashionable circles, and caused quite a fluttering among certain wealthy families. It seems the bride is an heiress, and worth in her own right 250,000 dollars. She was the inmate of one of our most exclusive female seminaries, and is but fourteen years and eight months old. Her wealth and the high position of her family were of course known to her associates, and her acquaintance was consequently courted. , Among the gentlemen she was introduced to was S K , a well known habitue of Fifth-avenue saloons, but who had reached the mature age of thirty-one years. The acquaintance ripened into intimacy, and eventually the parties became engaged to be married; but as the parents might interpose an objection, it was arranged that ii should take place unknown to them, or any of the young ladies’ friends. It was agreed that the happy event should come off last Saturday (St. Valentine’s day), and the church was opened, the minister ready, and a few spcc-

tators had also assembled to witness the marriage ceremony, which was announced for 11 a.m. But noon came and went, and no bride made her appearance, and the church was closed. It seems that the principal of the seminary in which the young lady was a pupil got wind that something unusual was on the tapis, and she locked the would-be bride in her room, and so prevented the fulfilment of her engagement. But “love laughs at locksmiths,” and by some means Mr K was notified of the situation of affairs, and arranged matters in such a manner that the young lady escaped from surveillance, and the couple were duly married in one of our most fashionable uptown churches on the 15th inst. The bride and bridegroom immediately started for Washington, and intend to spend the honeymoon on a Southern tour. This pleasant little affair has created quite an excitement among the young ladies in Upper Tendom, and is to them far more interesting than the Bond-street tragedy.