New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30

. FUNDAMENTAL LAW Observation-Disclosures
AaoNG THE Thee AND "THouERs."
IFrom The Ellanbe.htovn tKy.l Banner

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| There s religious society called g Shaking
Quakers," composed OF men, women aha eniiu.en,
\ the latter said to be orphans, gatherea IogetneF
| from the outside world Of unoeiieyers. Inc Sna
noted for their Industrious habits the neaness OF
their towns and the painness OF their attlre--oi
| domestic nIanufacture--the men wearing straight
breasted coats and broad brimmed white hats; the
women wearing hoopess skirts of scanty proper
tons. with head rigging of plain hoods, without
the flowers and fancy fnery of the Gentle women
of the land. The most notable characteristic of
the Shakers is the vow OF lifelong eelihacy which
all who enter there voluntarily take upon them
selves. According to their faith, they neither
marry nor are given in marriage. -sa ...
That sly, little winged divinity, Cupid, so prone
to throw himself in the way of gallant youths
Stances twain hearts to be one iesh," is excluded
by the inexorable laws of Shakerdom from FREE
quenting their villages, and interfering with the
felicties of their terrestrial paradise of single
6 caught mapping" the venerable bachelors and
antiquated maidens of Shakertown or g South
Union,,' in Logan county, Kentucky. One starry
night Cupid slightly entered the sacred precincts OF
the Shaker village and by his pranks with two OF
the celibates of that establishment has brought to
grief the faithful bachelors and steady maidens
who linger there. Among the susceptible denizens
of Shakerdom were Eugene La Hote, native OF
the vine.clad hills of France and Katharine Jones,
a descendant Of the renowned and respectable
| John Jones, Esquire. who migrated to this country
| from merrie ould England in 1920, or p" there
abouts," and is also remote knswoman OF the
| Smiths and Browns of the same classic land. Gu
4 pid selected Eugene and Kathrine-moderately
| young and rather comely in appearance-to try
| his powers upon, and whether they woke or slept,
whether hoeng potatoes in the field, picking ber-
ries in the garden, shelling corn in the barn.
plying needle in the aays nta 9hsr
guileless heart, honied words of higher felicity in
out world than that of life Of celibacy in Shaker
4 village. Eugene and Katharine needed the seduc-
tive words Of the tempter in their terrestrial Eden
and mutually resolved to fly from the restraints OF
Shakerdom and commit matrimony. How they
escaped we shall not attempt to recount; but they
demonstrated the truth of the adage that " where
there is o will there is way" With their all OF
| this worlds goods snugly packed in few trunks
they found themselves on o train of cars, north
| ward bound, on the Louisville and Nashville rail
road and fearing $ the old folks at homen-the
4 enraged bachelor and maid PARENTS of South
| Union-would intercept them at Louisville by tele
| graph, and put stop to their matrimonial re
solves, they stepped off at this place and aided BY
i clerk and clergyman, executed their rash design
4 and ceased to be Shakers, though true to human
ity they shook little while the nuptial knot was
being tied around their yielding neeks. We are
| authorized to make the following announcement
4 MARRIED-At Elizabethtown, KY, March 18th
4 by Rev. W. W. Laubuth, NJ. D., Mr.. Eugene La
Hote to Miss Katherine Jones' both recently res
idents of the Shaker village, South Union, Logan
county, KY. -s.-- 4.a4.s,
! The marriage TRANSFERRED in the parlor of the Ea
1 gle House in the presence of a few witnesses. An
eager crowd assembled to witness the novelty of a
Shaker wedding, but the modesty Of Eugene and
! Katherine revolted at the idea of their becoming
public exhibition, and, at their request, ehe dis-
! committed crowd withdrew The ceremony ended,
Eugene remunerated the officiating. clergyman
with a respectable fee in greenbacks and silver
coin and sevenfold rewarded him with profusion
of thanks for himself and BRIDE
The happy pair departed on the next train, in
tending to take up their abode on one of the prai-
ries of Illinois, where they hope to find Glove in a
cottage = more remunerative in bliss than g single
blessedness in Shaker village. 5