Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-09
Cupid On "a Rampage Among the
Shakers.

From the EliEabethtoFn tky.) Banner.l
There is a religious society called
Shaking Quakers," composed of men,
| women and children-the latter said to be
| orphans gathered from the outside world
of unbelievers. The Shakers dwell IN
communities by themselves, and are noted
for their industrious habits, the neatness
of their towns, and the p~lainness Of their
| attire of domestic manufacture, the men
| wearing strsight-breasted coats and broad
brimmed white hats; the women wearing
hoopless skirts Of scanty proportions,
with a head rigging of plain hoods with
ont the flowers sud fancy fnery of the
Gentle women OF the land. The most
notable Characteristic of the Shakers is
the VOW Of lifelong celibacy which all,
who enter there, voluntarily take upon
themselves. Accordingt to their faith they
neither marry nor are given IN marriage.
That sly, little-winged divinity, Cupid,
so prone to throw himself in the way of
gallant youths and blushing maidens,
making. in countless instances, 'twain
hearts TO be one fesh," is excluded by the
inexorable laws of ShakerdOm from fire.
ouenting their villages, and interfering
with the felicities oftheir terrestrial para
disc of Hsingle ~blessedness.h But the
mischievous little elf lately Caught nap
ping the venerable bachelors and anti
auated maIdens of Shakertown or South
Union, in Logan county, Kentucky. Que
starry night, Cupid slyly entered the
saerei precincts of the Shaker village,
and BY his pranks with two Of the cell
bates of that establishment has brought TO
grief the faithful bachelors and steady
maidens who Inger there. Among the
susceptible denizens Of S~hakerdom, Eu-
rene La Hote, a native of the yine-elad
hills of France, and Katharine Jones, a
descendant Of the renowned and respec-
table John Jones, Esquire, who immi-
grated to this country from "merrie old
England" in 1920, or whereabouts and
ia also a remote Einswoman OF the Smiths
and Browns of the same classic land,
Cupid selected Eugene and Katharine
moderately young and rather comedy in
appearance, to try his powers upon. And
whether they woke or slept; whether hoe
ing potatoes in the field, picking berries
in the garden, Smelling corn in the barn,
or plving needle in nthe lady's chamber"
Cupid was persistently whispering into
their guileless hearts honied words of s
hieher felicity in the outer world than that
of a life Of celibaey in a Shaker village.
Eugene and Katharine needed the seduc-
tive words Of the tempter in their terres-
trial 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
ayhere there is s will there is q way"
With their all of this worlds goods snug
" packed in 8 few trunks they found
themselves on q train of cars, northward
bound on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, and fearing "the old folks at
homer-the enrsged bachelor aud maids
aparientsr OF South Union-would inter-
cept them at Louisville By telegraph, and
nut a stop to their matrimonial resolves,
thew stepped of at this place, and aided
by clerk and clergyman executed their
rash design, and ceased to be Shakers,
though true to humanity they SHOOK a lit
tie while the nuptial knot was being tied
round their yielding neeks. We are au-
thorized to make the following announce
ment:
MARKrEp-At Elizabethtown, Ky,
March 10, BY Rev. W. W. Laubuth, d.
D. Mr.. Eugene La Hote to Miss Kstha-
rine Jones, both recently residents of the
Shaker village-South Union, Logan
county, KY
The marriage transpired in the psrlor of
the Eagle House, in the presence of a few
witnesses. An eager crowd assembled 10
witness the novelty of 8 Shaker Wedding,
but the modesty of Eugene and Katharine
reYolted at the idea of their becoming 8
public exhibition, and, at their re-
Quest, the discounted crowd withdrew.
The ceremony ended, Eugene remunera-
ted the officiating clergyman with q re-
spectacle fee in greenbacks and silver
coin, and seven-fold rewarded him with
q ~profusion of thanks from himself and
bride.
The happy pair departed on the next
train, intending to take up their abode on
one Of the prairies of Illinois, where they
hope to find Glove in q cottage" more re-
muneratiYe in bliss than single blessed
ness in 8 Shaker village,
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