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From, .arthur's Home Gazette.
Singular Marriage. (

A young. lady correspondent, who take.
the nom de plume of "Rose Rover," /" relate,
the following romantic incident, having oc.
Cured in villsge somewhere in Tennessee
Truth is often stranger than fctIcn. orgas
Il have been playing the part Of brides.
maid ever since / wrote last, and have
therfore, but little time left in which to in.
dite this epistle. One of the marriages, al
which Ioficiated in thecapsci.y mentioned
was quite romantic affair; and as no harm
twill be done, 1 will give you the particular.
-suppressing names, however. After the
union of the couple to whose marriage We
were hidden, they had scarcely sat down
before another stood up and desired to be
joined by the holy bond. The minister wa,
much surprised, as he had expected to Of.
fciate in but one; but, feeling it was no,
his business to inquire into the why's and
whsrefores that he was not pre-sdvised, he
asked for the necessary authority; and il
then, for the first time, occurred to the
bridegroom, that license was indispenss.
ble to the consummstion Of his happiness
He exclaimed: 'f.aa--. Saw
"This shall not interfere" .-
"And Immediately left the house, saying
he would return in few minutes.
while he was absent, we learned that q
few minutes before the Union of the frs,
couple, this young gentleman in lively
with several sprightly and
mischief-loving girls, had told them that he
was about to make proposition to test their
courage, { of which, it seems, they had been
rather boastfully speaking and this was
nothing more nor less than that he would
challenge either Of them to marry him as
soon as the expected ceremony was per-
formed. Several OF them shrunk from the
ordeal; but one of them, more courageous
than the rest, accepted the challenge
that he would back OUT before
the ceremony was finished.
Some of the company told the young Ia
dy during the gentlemsn's absence, thst he
would never do so, unless SHE was seriously
inclined7tn havehim for s'sfe's psfsner.--
She replied that she was as determined as
himself, and was not to be 'out-done;' and
seemed to think that it could be nothing
more than joke. All arguments were 10
vain, so that when the young gentleman re-
TUNED, and presented the license, hs hav-
ing procured it at the clerks ofice--it be-
ing the county seat where We were.sssem-
blsd,-) she gsiIy laughed, and agsinspla-
ced herself beside him, in front of the min
ister. The old gentleman admonishsd them;
but they told him to proceed; and thu cer-
enony commenced. The bridegroom re-.
sponded affirmstiveIy in gay tone, and as he
did he cast triumphant glance upon her.
When it became her turn TO answer, she
hesitsted a moment, but preseatly said,
lsughingIy, You shall not triumph, SIR
And she Immediately uttered the little word
tha. cannot be rrtracted, and which made
them ONE during the remainder Of their lives.
The benediction was said, and the words
had hardly died away before the bride said,
in q half serious tone. .t, lr....rs II
'Wiy, ] feel as if l had been married in
earnest .r. ~, p s..- ,-r- .sd a.'s
'Yon certainly are,' solemnly said the
minister. a'..g .....G is.i =, tre :. q.
sShe doubted il at first, but was at length
that she was really aud de fact0
Mrs.--For a time, she wept violently; but
her. new relative, who by this time, began
to see his folly, seeing also that the conse
quence Of their hardihood was irremediable,
to make the best oft. and there.
fore used oil his powers 10 console her, in
which he at length succeeded. : god
sThey had never met before that evening";
and they little dreamed that at their. hrst
meeting they were to utter vows to unite
hem to each other for hfe.-Roth Of them
belong to families of the highest tFespse setabil-
ty, and are both wealthy. Thiy, seem well
suited to. each other; and who shall say that
their,union so strangely brought about, may
not be replete with happiness for each2-|
They now appear to be rscoueiled to their
destiny, and I, for one, bellows, that it will
be- abright ene.' .g, III, ang ,a
Il We sincerely hope, with our fsir cores
pondsnt, that this strange uniRn may indeed
1s replste, with hsppinsss. 8us,4we would
oy no means advise others to try 30 dangsr-
,us an experiment. Marriage Il. too sacred
thing to be triasd with in this way. We
rust that few. .ministsrs 10 ths, lssd could bel
'oupd who would oficiats under similar Cir
esd sf5i.a sE'F s4..fa.
4v,f - --r- - 7--T----'t ecGi s3f f"'I
Z ZfLoye matches, sreofsen formed by pso-
pie who pay for month, ofhonsy with slifsI