Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-07
Extraordinary Nuptiui.-A subtorrancan
Marrinso ana ssAips-well0 Ceremouv.

Marriaso and ''Alps-wolo Ceremony.
Some days since, an unsophsticated couple
from Fulton County KY, arrived at the Spen-
Ger House. and by their entirely natural
though not at all graceful, department, at
tracted much attention from the habitues of
the hotel. They wandered up and down the
corridors, hand-in-hand, with eyes a-stare
and mouths a-gape, peepine into one apart
rnent and then another, manifestly lost in
wonderment at what they saw, and giving
unquestionable evidence Of never having Wis
tied great city or great hotel before
They were young he about twenty, prob
ably, and she not more than seventeen, and
dressed in an outre manner that would have
created sensation in Fourth-street. They
seemed very good-natured, though rather per-
picked, giving them rather strange facial
expression that would have puzzled taBruy-
ere or Balzac to determine.
After passing up and down the halls, and
gazing into the drawing, reading, smoking
and reception-rooms, the parlor and ordinary
until they had become objects of general OBJ
servation, they were approached by one of
the clerks, Col. French, who courteously in
quired the nature Of their desires.
"Well, stranger" said the young man, run
ming his digits through his unkempt capil-
laries, and turning half affectionately, half
laughingly to his companion, "the fact is we
want to get spliced, and we don't know how
TO do it. This here's the place, Mr.. Spencer's
tavern, where people gets tied up-isn't it2"
The Colonel replied in the Affirmative
whereupon they said they wanted queer
chap-Squire some-such-name as 0Fall
(they meant McFalD TO marry them. They
had read about him in the papers, and how
he did the business in a funny way, and they
wished 1t done for them ''kind O. odd like
Justice McFall was at once sent for and
arrived rubicund with hope, heat and
haste, and entered into an idiosyncratic ac-
count of the various marriage ceremonies he
had performed under peculiar circumstances.
He proposed to join their hands in divers
methods on street car, on top of the house,
in the cellar, on the stage of the 0pera-house,
on horseback, or on the ferry, ON the spire Of
the Cathedral; but none of these pleased the
candidates for wedlock.
ut wasn't odd enough" they said They
wanted something never ''heerd tell of be-
FORE"
"Well, said the magistrate, after little
reflection, I'll fix you off. have it now.
Get in this carriage at the door, and I'll marry
you right"
In a moment, the rural couple were whirl-
ing up Broadway, with the magistrate on the
opposite seat Of the vehicle; and in half an
hour they stopped at a German lager-bier sa-
loon, on Vine-street, where they alighted, and
each drank quart of the Teutonic beverage
by way of refreshment
The Squire then led them into a kind OF
rear garden, and pointing out weH, told
them he would marry them down there. This
seemed to them quite odd enough" and they
were gratifed with the idea. He let one Of
| them down in the bucket, while the other
stood at the top; and put the usual questions,
which were responded TO alternately, on and
below the earth's surface. He then poured a
glass oflager on the head of the man, and an
other down the woman's throat-not forget
ting two for his own: shook hands with
Jacob" embraced "Mary;" received hal
an eagle, and an invitation to come down tC
| ''Old Fulton" and drink Bourbon as long as hi
wanted; and departed with loud laugh thai
made the beer-drinking Germans lift theii
| lips moment from the amber-hued LIQUID
before them; to marvel what the jovial noise
| portended.
The welded ruralists were gratified beyond
| measure with the ceremony, and returned to
the Spencer, believing they were the best
| married pair in the world.
Our Kentucky neighbors may have chosen
| this peculiar manner of marriage because
| they believed, instead of the old aphorism
| that Ais well that begins well; or they
| may have thought that as "Truth lies at the
bottom of a WELL" they would seek it at the
very commencement of their connubial life
| After all, however, it may be doubted, if they
| should not have let swell enough alone" and
| adopted the regular mode
| OF joining hand with hand where heart is none.