The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-03-22


MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL.-Sil
Walter Scott used to relate the follow
ing curious anecdote
My cousin Watty. (said he,) was a
mldshlpman some forty years ago in
ship at Portsmouth; he and two other
companions had gone on shore, and had
overstald their leave, spent all theiI
money, and run up an immense bill al
a tavern on the Point The ship made
the signal for sailing, but their land.
lady said
No, gentlemen, you shall not es-
cape without paying your reckoning p
and she accompanied her words by ap-
Propriate actions and placed them un-
der the tender keeping of sufficient
party of bailiffs.
They felt that they were in a scrape.
and pelltloned very hard to be released.
: No, NJ" said Mrs. Quickly, Il must
be satisfied some way or t'other: YOU
must be well aware. gentlemen, that
you will be totally ruined If you don't
get on board in time"
They made long faces, and confessed
that it was true.
/" Well," said she "I'll give you one
chance. ] am so circumstanced here
that cannot carry OH business as sin-
gle woman, and | must contrive some-
how TO have husband-or, at all events.
J must De able to produce Il marriage
certificate and, therefore, the only
terms on which you shall all three have
leave to 60 ON board tomorrow, is. that
one OF You consent TO marry me. [
don't care snap which it is but by
all that is good, one of you'll have. or
else all three go to Jail, and your Ship
sails without you!'
Inc virago was not TO be pacifed. and
the poor youths, left 10 themselves.
agreed, after time, to draw lots. and i;
to fall on my cousin. No
time was lost, and off they marched to
church. and my poor relative was forth
with SPIiced. The bride, OH returning.
gave them good substantial dinner.
and several bottles of wine a piece, and,
having tunbled them into a wherry,
sent them off The ship sailed, and the
young men religiously adhered to the
oath OF secrecy they had made, pravi-
Gus to drawing lots.
The BRIDE, should have said, merely
wanted to be married, and was the first
to propose an eternal separation.
Some mouths after, at Jamaica, a file
OF papers reached the midshipmen's
berth, and Watty, who was observed to
be looking over them careIessIy, read
ing an account of a robbery and mur-
derer at Portsmouth, suddenly jumped
IN his ecstasy, forgot his obligation of
secresY. and cried out
Thank Heaven, my wife is hangedm
ANEcDoTE OF PARsoN Bold Parson
B, who presided over a little flock
in one of the back towns of the State
of Nj, was, without any exception,
the most eccentric divine we ever
knew. His eccentricities were carried
as far in the pulpit as out of il. An in
stance we will relate.
Among his chuich members was one
who invariably made practice of
leaving the church ere the parson was
two-thlrds through his sermon. This
was practiced so long, that after a
while It became a matter of course,
and no one, save the divine, seemed to
take notice of it. However, he at length
notified Brother P. that such a thing
must, he felt assured. be needless, but
P said that at that hour his family
needed his services at home, and he
must do it; nevertheless on leaving
church he always took a roundabout
course, which by some mysterious
means. always brought in close prox-
unity with the village tavern, which he
would enter, "and thereby hangs a
tale.n
Parson B. ascertained from some
source that P's object in leaving church
was to obtain I" dram,n and he deter
mined to stop his leaving and disturb
ng the congregation in future, if such
/ thing was possible.
The next Sabbath Brother P. left his
seat at the usual time and started for
he door, when Parson B. exclaimed
Brother Prp
P. being thus addressed, stopped
hort and gazed towards the pulpit.