{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
a curious scene took place in Barnstable
church on Sunday sen'nlght. A young fe-
male, the daughter Of Mrs. Hill, Of the
Crown and Anchor Inn, presented herself
at the altar to be joined in holy matrimony
to a recruiting sergeant. For several years
she had been engaged toa respectable young
tradesnan Of that town, to whom report saws
she was this week to have been united, with
the entire appreciation Ct her family and
friends, and with whom she had taken an
early walk on the morning of the day on
which she was married, but the serieant
having attacked her affections, made a
breach i'll her constancy, pursued his sd-
vantage, and hastened to the church, before
her friends had any conception of their in
tentions. Immediately AS the intelligence
reached them, they fed to the church,
where they found the clergyman performing
the ceremony, which WAS suddenly Interrupt
ted BY their entrance; but i'll spite of the
tears, entreares, and the threats Of her mo-
ther, the pathetic appeals, the affectionare
remonstrance, or the agitated feelings of her
ayonized lover who tainted on the spot, she
persisted in her determination to be unite,
to the soldier; and her mother and lover be-
ing removed from the altar, the ceremony
was concluded, and the newly married cou-
pie entered the carriage which awaited them
1t the church, and drove off towards Ply
mouth to join the regiment, under marching
orders for Ireland.--English haher.