Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

WINTER SENSATIONS.

THE RESOURCES OF LOVE IN MONROE.

A determined Youth Captures a sweetheart in Spite of Her Mother-Other Occurrences of Interest.

Thursday night a barouche, which was being driven from the village of Saarsville to the Bruce farm, near Monroe, and in which there were three ladies, met a carriage about midway between the farm and the village.

As the vehicles turned aside for one another to pass, one of the ladies sprang out of the barouche and ran back toward the carriage. She called out "Lu, Lu, they are taking me back."

Simultaneously the two other ladies sprang from the barouche and the man alighted from his carriage. He ran to meet the lady who had called to him. He caught her in his arms, and, hurrying back to his carriage, helped her in, and, springing to her side, drove away with his horse on a run. The ladies hurried back to their barouche, and, turning their horse about, started in pursuit of the carriage.

When the latter reached the village it was driven to the residence of 'Squire Dawes. The gentleman gave as his name Lucien B. Bond, and the lady's as Lizzie Bruce. The justice was requested to marry them, which he did. The ceremony was barely over when the barouche arrived at the 'squire's, and the two ladies hurried in. When they saw that they were too late, one of them gave way to a violent fit of weeping, but finally grew composed, kissed both the bride and bridegroom, and the party all left together.

The Widow Bruce's farm was one of the best in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Among the help she had to cultivate it for her was a young man named Lucien B. Bond. He was not a common farm laborer, but a young man of good address, fair education and respectable family. His father was a Baptist preacher, and having been a widower some years, proposed to the Widow Bruce and was accepted. His sudden death a year ago prevented the union. Young Bond fell in love with the widow's daughter Lizzie, who returned from boarding school last fall. The attachment was mutual, but Mrs. Bruce was bitterly opposed to it, and when young Bond asked for Lizzie's hand the mother not only refused to consider the proposal, but promptly discharged him from her employ.
Last Thursday afternoon Miss Lizzie told her mother she was going to call on a young lady living a mile or so from the farm. She had not returned at 10 o'clock in the evening and Mrs. Bruce suddenly had suspicions. She went to Lizzie's room and discovered enough to conclude that her daughter had gone to Saarsville and would meet her lover there. Mrs. Bruce at once ordered her horse and carriage and started for the village to stop the proceedings. She found her daughter and with the aid of a lady friend compelled her to get in the barouche and return with them. It was on the way home that they met young Bond on his way to the rendezvous, unaware of the fact that Mrs. Bruce had discovered all and had captured Lizzie. The latter knew that they must necessarily meet him on the road and formed the plan which she carried out successfully.