Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-19
Their Courtship aud Hedding- Ceremonies.
 Presents, Cro,cds at People.
THE RECEPTION, THE sERENADE

Those who did and those who did not ati end the wedding ot Gen. Thomas 'rhumb anl QueenLaviniaW W arren composed the population oi thls Metropolis yesteruay, and th.uceio;lh religious anu cHil parties sink into compara tive inslgniticance uefore this one arbitrltin. query of iate-Did yoa or did You not see Toni haniG married
 he Scripture teiis us that little matter kihdieth great fane, aud that being the casa no o''s "eed bc surprised that little matters should create such tremendous huliabaloo such d faf0ye of excitement sncli an intensity Uf interest in lis fem nine world uf New Y urI and its nei2hborhoud as have the loves of our Liliputiahs. We say feminine world be cause there We're more than twenty thousand women in this City yesterday morning up and dressed an hour aud q halt before tl,r,r usual time solely aud simply because of the approach ing nuptials of Mir. Stratton and Miss warren They didn { all have cards of admission oh nu but 1t wasn't their fault. Fathers were Hat tered, husbands were hectereti, brothers bul lied and cousins were cuzened into buying, beg ging, borrowing or in some way CT other gettin3 tickets of admission to the grand affair
 The marriage of Gen. Tom Thumb cannot he treated as an affair of so mom.nt-in snn,e respects 1t Is most monlpntuns. Next to Luuis Napoleon there Is na one person better known by reputation to high and low, rich and poor. than he.
 THUMB WAS BORN, lso runs the legend of loJr but honest par rents on the 4th 0f February. 83S.in the pleas ant bureh of Bridgeport, Conn. At his birth he weighed nine pounds aud half SO that he bid tair to bec"'ne a bouncing boy. He grew steadily until he attained the age of eighteen months, when nature put veto on his upward pr"press, aho ordered him forever afterward 10 remain in statu quo. When he was two yer old. persons alicled that hs had not grown a,, men Tor some tune; measures were resurtpd t,, for ,h" purpose uf ascertaininv his st.t;nn,ry condition. hut although in every ether rasn..c, he improved with rapidty, not hairs brta,,tb was added to his statue Calisthenics c,n.,m' ', help him, aud "Phyricians were in vain.''
 That he was no longer. no shorter, no heay. fer, but much handsomer, was accredited in to him by every one. His appetite incr.ase,l. he never complained 0fillness but part,ok fr... ly of ordinary foo.l, enjoyed refreshing slsep. and has always enjoyed perfect health, with the exception of those slight colds to whicl, the most robust are liable. His parents have had other children who are of the ordinary sixs. In fact there is nothing in his history or orappeaance, or in that ofhis family. which furnishes the slightest clue to the astonishing phenomena which are presented by his minia- ture feature and frame.
 He kept up his growing operations only till he had attainedthe height of thirty one inches and the weight of twenty nine pounds. II the age of ten or thereabonts. Mir. Barnnm, ,ns Muse,ln,ite. found him out and has kept am S. "ut ever since. Ills tour through the Saa.es. ... through England and over the Cont. aans aan are matters of rrc0rd in the newspapers. ca c",, z. oa reu'elnLrance with the elders Of oul %,man.'y but for the benefit of our youthful
 s,s f~h.s we will state that the little Gvusrs.l i;uis s, rns chr,s,e0ed Tnm Thnn,b after the sli I ch. hISSss1'cks s'f tho Fairy Tale with whom.
 N s sh ase Of courus fsmiliar,) met with