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Show THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. Tribulation r a Dminf ouplo Wtam Wmueit to l.rt Matrtvtt. li:t.U.i it i.r. 111.. Aug. 22. A young St, Louis couple, giving their uames as Charles 1!. Johtisoti and Augusta Door-ing, Door-ing, accompanied by a mutual lady friend, applied for a license ut Comity Clerk Rhoins oilier, Belleville, yeter-day yeter-day morning, and ihey were wailed on by Mr. Khein's obliging and affable deputy, Mr. J". V. Ikwhliii. They were greatly chagrined, however, when Mr. Kloischboin informed them that he could not comply with their wishes.: owing to a letter, dated m, Louis. August 18, having been received by County Clerk Hheiu from the young man's fattier. Mr. William : C. Johnson, who Hims a general j brokerage and purchasing busno-sj at No, Olive street, in St. Lmiis, directing di-recting him not lo issue his son a mar- I l ingo license should he apply for one, j as he was under age, Icivinir been bom dune !l. 111. eiiiig Johnson was i shown the letter and admitted its genu- j ineness. Much niortilicd our I he turn affairs had taken, the young eotipio do- I eidod lo lake a Cairo Short Line (rain! for Kasl st, Louis and try their lic k in j some other oonulrv, hut al the Short j Line depot a commercial traveler in-' formed .voting Johnson that by going to j Livelong, a town Jut seven uules .southeast of Hcllrvillo, he could gi t nitir- j lied thorn without a license. The party j concluded to try their luck in that tow n, mid seining a carriage they slut ted t-ed for r'recburg. Hy an unlucky turn thev got on the ticorgelown plank road ami move through the toll gate without slopping lo pay toll, never having seen such an institution u a loll gale lforc, They succeeded in netting U rrcohurg. only to be inlormrd that a license could only be hud at Heiloville, 'Ihey let raced their way to Belleville ami drove through the lieorgehnin toll gato again, without paving loll, ami gelling back to Belleville, they took a late dinner at Iho Itellevllta house, and then started for the Louisville Louis-ville & N.islix iln depot, intruding lo lake the ( T nlntt train for ( l alien, go loCarlvIe, III., and there gel a marriage mar-riage license. Hut their dicttm f pleasure was ruthlessly blasted when Constable I'eler JalTroy appeared and put young Mr. .lolinoi under at rest on a warrant for driving throtiuh thi lieorgetown loll gate without with-out paying toll The party llien went In Justice llrnrv (iuent's oftire where Johnson was tlnril i and costs on a plea of guilty to the complaint, the hill amounting to t'M. Mr. Theodore Theo-dore J. Krafft. I he Secretary ol the lieorgetown Plunk Road compiinv, who is also an old and well knewn le(leile lawyer, interested himself to try to gel lite young couple a license, us young Johnson claimed to be SI years of age, but Clerk Hheiu Moiitly declined lo issue the license owing tn tha letter if-eeived if-eeived from Johnson's father. Ih" young lady felt bad over thn misfor-tunes misfor-tunes of the day, hut she docl.irad she would slick In Charlie through lire, nud t tint, thev vvottld gel a lici'tun yet, ns I "where there Is a will therr I a way'1 said him. They left this tnen'me on tho H-JO Louisvillo As Niududle train for Nashville, Jll,, to get married. Th,y liiid trird to get a marr'utgn lictilise lit St. Louis, Inn young Johnson's father prevented il. |