Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-01-09
Romantic Incident.

A young lady correspondent, who takes
the nom de plume of "Rose Rover" re-
lates the following romantic incideut, as
having occurred in village somewhere
in Tennessee. Truth is often stranger
than fiction:
81 have been playing the part Of brides
maid nearly ever since ] wrote last, and
have, therefore, but little time left in which
to indito this epistle. One of the mar
riagcs, at which / oficiated in the capacity
mentioned, was quite romantic affair !;
and as no harm will be done, | will give
YOU the particulars-suppressing names,
however. After the union of the couple
to whose marriage we were bidden, they
had scarcely sat down before another
stood up and desired to be joined by the
hcly bond. The minister WAS much sur
priscd, as he had expected to otIiciate but
once; but, feeling that it was not his bu.
siness=to Inquire into, the why's and where.
fore that he was not, preaadvised, ,hesasked
for the necessary authority; and it then,
forthe first time, occurred to the bride
groom, that license was indispensable to
the consummation of his happiness. He
exclaimed,
"This shall not interferep'
And Immediately left the house, saying
he would return in few minutes.
"Whilc he was absent, we learned that
few minutes before the union of the first
couple, the young gentleman, in lively
conversation with several sprightly and
mischief loving girls, had told them that
he was about to make proposition to
test their courage, (ofwlich, it seems, they
had been rather boastlully 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 performed! Several of them shrunk
from the ordeal; but one of them, more
courageous than the rest, accepted the
cllallenge-thinking he would 'back out
before the ceremony was finished!
"Some Of the company told the young
lady during the gentleman's absence, that
he would never yield, and that she had bet
ter do so, unless she was seriously in
clincd to have him for lie's partner. She
replied that she was determined as him.
self, and was not to be 'outdone:' and
seemed to think that it could he nothing
rpore than a ajoke! All arguments were
i'll vain; so, when the young gentleman
returned, and presented the license, (hc
having procured it at the clerks ofice-it
being the county seat where we were as
scmbled,) she gaily laughed, and again
placed herself beside him in front of the
minister. The old gentleman admonishcd
them but they told him to proceed; and
the ceremony commenced! The bride
groom responded affirmatively in a gay
tone, and as he did so, cast triumphant
glance upon her. When it became her
turn to answer, she hesitated moment,
but presently said laughingly,
ou shall not triumph sirp'
"And Immediately uttered the little
word that cannot be retracted, and which
made them ono during the remainder of
their lives The bencdiction being over
she said, in half serious tone,
why, feel as had been married in
earncst!'
"You certainly are" solcn,nly said the
minister.
"She doubted it at first, but was at
length convinced, that she was really and
dc fdcto Mrs Fora time, she wept
violently; but her new relative, who, by
this time, began to see his folly, seeing al.
so that the consequence of their hardiliood
was irremediable, determined to make the
best of it and therefore used all his
power to console her, in which he, at
length, succeeded.
"They had never met before that eve
ming; and they little dreamed that at their
first meeting they were to utter vows that
were irrevocable, and which were to unite
them to each other for life. Both of them
belong to families of the highest respecta-
hility, and are both wealthy. They seem
well suited to each other; and who shall