Show SHE LEFT Hut Mrs Virginia Edwards of New York had been engaged for a number years to a Mr William Plummer of Petersburg Peters-burg Virginia The other day according accord-ing to apoiutraent they met at Chattanooga Chatta-nooga to be married But as the couple stood up before the minister 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 the ministers hand and threw it In the face of her ai I mosthusband refusing to marry him I and set out for New York alone The I action of this lady will daubtless become I one of the leading features in temperance temper-ance lectures and countless maidens will be told to go and do likewise with their 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 not likely to exercise either of these qualities to any very great extent The woman who starts out iu life with a drunken husband with the expecta lion of reforming him goes out to sea upon a shattered plank and puts her trusrin 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 respectfor the lady he was about to marry If he would go to the altar of Hymen drank The lady was properly indignant |