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Southland Times, Issue 656, 12 April 1867, Page 2

EIOPEMENT OP A "YOTTNG- Q-ENTiBMAJT WI.JJH a Cook. — The Edinburgh, correspondent of the " Fifeshire Advertiser " is responsible for the following : — " An elopement has taken place in one of our first families, of the eldest son with his father's cook. The young gentleman had been reared with the greatest care, having only returned from Eton last year with high aoademic honors, and was destined by his father as the husband of a young and beautiful heiress, to whom even our hero had paid his addresses. The bride, who is a buxom brunette, is by some years older than the bridegroom, and has been in the family for a considerable period. No appearance one morning of the cook at her post, or of the young gentlemen at the breakfast-table, inspired ominous surmises and suspicious remarks, which ultimately resolved into the. truth, the chamber-maid confessing that ' they were awa to get married in Aberdeen." The telegraph and all other means were resorted to to stop the fugitives, the father taking the earliest train to ; Aberdeen. After searching, in company with* a detective, every place where they were likely to be found, it was discovered that they had departed for Montrose, whither the ' furious parent ' followed, but only to find them inseparably united and sweetly slumbering in eaoh otker's arms. So enraged was the old gentleman that, forgetting all delicacy, he dragged the bride from the embraces of the bridegroom, and, in a torrent of abusive language was about to eject "her from the bedroom when, all the spirit of cookie's sex arising, she collared her quondam master and hurled him headlong from the apartment, to the considerable injury of his clothes and person. The runaway eon then endeavored to explain, and pacify his insulted parent ; when the lady, not exactly relishing her peculiar posit ion, nor the usage she had received, sans ceremonie seized her husband, and conveying him almost vi et armis back to the bedroom, looked the door, and left the old gentleman to collect his scattered senßes and arrange his disordered attire, lhe young gentleman is entitled to considerable property in his own right. The pair are holding the honeymoon now at Cheltenham, I whore the parents of the bride keep » stt&U | nukiu imd grocery. M< .