The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-09-03
INTERESTING WEDDING PARTY.

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of August 9th, was witnessed such wed.
ding party and sucl, marriage ceremony
rs perhaps never occurred in the United
States, certainly not in Kentucky. Mr.
JOHN Blount, tho briIcgoom, is a deaf
mute, who was brought up in Alabama,
but received his education at tho Kentucky
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at
oanville, where he is at present an accom-
plised and highly esteemed instructor. IIo
is tall and fine looking specimen of a
man, and Is gentleman in every sense Of
the word. Miss Lucretia Ann IIoagland,
the bride, is also Il deaf mute. She was
educated III the institution ut Danvilc, and
would pass for 4 beautiful and accomplish-
cd lady in any circle Of society. Mr. and
Mrs. VIM. 1LoagIand, tic parents Of the
bride, ut whose house tho marriage took
place, also both Of them deaf mutcs.-
They received their education somo twenty
five or thirty years since, ut the Same insti-
tuition. They have three other children
two of whom hear and talk their young est, =,
little boy OF nine years old, is like the
bride, mute, and expects before long to
go TO the same institution, to obtain tlla.
ines,inabIc blessing. good cducation-
which his father mother and sister have re-
ccivcd lcGorc him.
There wilS also present, as invited guests,
| some twelve or fifteen educated mutcs, all
Of them present or former pupils Of the
above namcd institution.
The attendant of tho bride, Miss Mary
Boyd, from Harrison county, WAS rs mod
est, beautiful aud elegantly dressed lady
us alorns any drawing room. She was
formerly Il class mate of the bride; other
young ladics who were mutcs, wcro present,
who attracted marked attention by their
personal charms rs we'll as hy their superior
Intelligence. Young gentlemen, also, were
not wanting, of fillc appearance, education
and manners to lend interest to tho occa
sion. In addition to the mutcs who were
present, were others who, from intercourse
with the family Of the bride or in some
other way had become familiar with the
sign language, SO that the conversation of
the cvencng was held chiefly in the beaut,.
ful pantonimc of Tic deaf and dumb.
But that which, perhaps, gave the most
peculiar interest to the occasion, was the
fact that tho marriage ceremony was cclc-
hratcd i'll the sign languagc of the deaf and
dumb. The officiating clergyman was the
Rev. :. j.. Check, Vice Principal of our
State Institution at Danvllc. Not word
was heard during tho whole ceremony
the prayer, the propounding Of the MARI,
age covenant, the Lencdiction, and the
blessing Of the wedding feast, were all per-
formed in the graceful and eloquent, though
vocclcss languare of nature, which may be
termed the vcrnacular Of the deaf and
dumb. The mutes who were present all
testified their peculiar delight, saving they
had often witnessed marriages before, but
had never understood what WAS actually
said and done until this occasion. 1t was,
taken altogether, cmpllaticaIly mute fcs,i-
val, i'll which all parties present were do
lighted, and which furnished Il most stri-
king cxcmpliiication Of what has been done
and can be done for the unfortunate mute.
Louisville JournaI.
AUTHORS NOT FATHERS.
Mr.. Walter Savage Landor has been
calling the attention of the British public to
the fact-made known by William lIowitt
that some Of Shakspcars descendants
arc in needy circumstances with view of