The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-03-21
Correspondence of The Tribune. ,ts,
A Joke and its Consequences.

n Joke and IT'S consequences!
,-...,r, ,,-..,a, ALBANY March 49, D
The Divorce Case to which | alluded the
other day is curious compound of fun, folly
and romance. ltpartakes very much of the
character ofthe celebrated Foster case, whose
icy bands the Legislature were vainly implor
ed for so many years to loose. The Judicial
ny Committee have had several meetings and
taken all the testimony, but as yet have come
to no settled conclusions. There is some trh-
ing Discrepancy in the evidence, but the fol-
lowing are the main facts,as they were devel-
oped. ,..t.. .H'.... "Ni
| The partleS-whoSe names j may now
| give, lnasmuch as they have been made pub
lie i'll the proceeding-Mr Hall and Miss Lii
lie, had only been acquainted but about five
months The latter as | told you,was young
lady of fine personal appearance and attain
ments, and being quite n proficient in
music, relied mostly upon that divine art for
n livelihood She was member Of the South
Baptist Church, and officiated as Organist
! therein. The former, so far as know,a young
mGu ofirreproachable character, was sort
of superintendent or clerk of the Temper
ance House of n Deacon in the same Church.
| The Sleigh ride was got up by Hall and u
mother young man, who took with them three
young ladies. On the way out, as might
have been expected from such sedate COM
| pany,the conversation turned on the interest
| ing topic fmatrimony. II. asked i. if she
would have him,and she consented in as terse
and direct n manner as did Rebecca of old
when the servant of Isaac "popped the ques-
tion." The prelminaTies were all settled
and here will remark, all parties agree in
| testyfying that it was understood as nothing
but joke. ArriAed at the house of their des-
tination, which was that ola Justice of the
Peace, he was called upon to officute. He
was rather green in his line of business, and
as this was the first knot, he had ever tied he
went about it in rather primitive way. Hall
| contesses that he had now made up his mind
TO use his own words--ifs she would marry
him "to stick to it."-The Justice arranged
the parties with all solemnity, but as there
was most immoderate laughter, lie put on n
very solemn face, read them Il lecture on sobri
ety,and sat down: He was asked to try again,
| and this time he succeeded in stopping the
laughter and the ceremony proceeded. "IIave
YOU" said the Justice, addressing Hail. "auy
objections to matrimony?" "No Sir" was
! the reply. "Iiave YOU" was the farther ques-
ton 10 Miss l., "any objections to getting
married! and she, as every other young lady
naturally would replied, 'Not at all, sir"-
She says she intended, when the Justice put
the farther question, "Will you have this man
cal and unmistakable negative. But he gave
her no opportunity but immediately upon the
above questions being put and answered, lie
pronounced them man and wife.
Here was Il pretty kettle of fish, but the
! lady still regarded the whole as Joke, not
! supposiug that such an overhanded knot
would stick. BY the dint of perseverance
and considerable help, the Justice made out
| the certificate, and late mt night the parties
set ont for home TO mediate over the old pro-
! verb FEF E..l ...f
"Those who marry in haste can repent at
! leisure" ...
In the case of the lady, repentance came
soon enough. The rest of the testimony con-
sists merely of Essays rs" and Essays she's" OF
those who volunteered their advice or condo
lence, and does not amount to much. 1t is
evident to me that she was deceived some
where and by somebody, although she can
not be acquitted of blame in trifiing with
such a subject and in attempting TO carry the
Joke so far -
| What the report of the Judiciary Commit
tee will be ] know not, but think it win be
favorable, A bill for her divorce will pass
the Assembly with perfect rush, but of its
fate in the Senate there is doubt, MS that
grave body is very much afraid of precedents.
From the peculiar circumstances of this case
and the intense interest manifested in it, es-
pecially by some ofthe younger members of
the Legislature, do not know hut it may be
called 'tho great measure of the session." -
MURDER IN HARTLAND. Stephen Rogers,
of IIartlaud, was stabbed, in his own house.
on Friday p. NJ. last, by Andrew Rogers, an
Irishman, and died of the wound on Sunday.
The Irishman had been on a spree for several
days, and was just drunk enough to be brutal.
The affair was occqsioned, we understand, by
an abandoned woman, whom the Irishman
supposed to be at the house; and the wound
was given during a struggle-the Irishman
having been ordered away and refusing to so.
He has been arrested and lodged in jail
WinGsor Chronicle.
New SINGLE MACHINE. Mr. VIM. F.
Fitch, ofNewport, Penobscot co., Me, has in
vented new shingle machine. The Bangor
Wing describes it as possessing the advant
age not only ofregulating itself during the
whole cut ofthe block, but also of regulating
its own movement in accommodation to the
various widths ofthe block; thus saving one
third ofthe run of the carriage, upon previous
plans. The amount of labor, 100, is much
lessened by the contrivance.
Upon an application to the Legislature of
Tennessee for a Lottery to complete u Cath
olic Church, member, Mr. McCaughen, said
he chad no objection 10 the erection of a
Church to worship our Savior in, hut was OPP
posed to calling on the devil TO build it,"
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