Show SUE LEFT UDLt 1 Mrs Virginia Edwards of New York had been engaged for a number of years to < a Mr William Plummer of Petersburg Peters-burg Virginia The other day accord lug to anointment they met at Chattanooga Chatta-nooga to be married But as the couple I stood up before the mmister to be made one Mrs Edwards discovered that the man so soon to become her husband was drunk Instantly the lady interrupted inter-rupted the ceremony snatched the marriage license from this ministers hand and threw it In the face of heral mosthusband refusing to marry him and set out for New York alone The action of this lady will doubtless become one of the leading features in temperance temper-ance lectures and maidens will be told to go and do likewise with iheir swains who to drink are inclined It will not be bad advice either For under the most propitious circumstances cir-cumstances starting out on the matrimonial sea is is A serious matter It is the important step of a man or womans life their whole happiness depends de-pends upon the devotion the kindness and consideration that each exercises for the other and a manenslaved to drink is DO likely to exercise either of these qualities to any very great extent The woman who starts out in life with a drunken husband with the expecta ilion i-lion of reforming him goes out to sea upon a shattered plank and puts her trusfin miracles to save her In the case of Mrs Edwards we think she did the proper thing in leaving the altar without becoming Mrs Plummer for the fellow surely had small respect for the lady he was about to marry If ne would go to the altar of Hymen drun The lady was properly indignant |