The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-10-26

They have some efTecting weddinrs oct
Ia the fat country, beyond the trees
Take Indian weddings, for instance.
On Dutch.
In the semirural districts of Winona, on
tile Minnesota side of the Mississippi River,
lives among several people, a Jolly good fel-
low Of Justice Of the Pegce, whose ideas
of matters are much ike the waters Of a
deep river Once started It is hard to turn
them On fair day last week, after the
/ I0xl2 law dispensary had been swept, after
chairs had been set IN row against the
side of the Office and sundry whipped
! quIds Of tobacco and mutilated cigar stumps
4 had been kicked under the stove, there was
4 a step oa the stairs and q VI sor sus rap at
+ the door
Come in, said the justice, as he settled
into legal look 50 betting man of law.
handsome, black eyed, Spanish-looking
woman entered. It was a clear case of a
senorita Of the new Mexican brand She
had.on a short, wooien dress-wooden-soled
shoes-sp0rted red cheeks. black hair, and
eyes that snapped Ike the lock of a shot
gun. In a Spanish accent, and ia the worst
possible English, she said:
g You may jTsticia aqitfag You law
man p
" Yes, madam, be seated
" ant paper Want paper to take man T.
just then a stout French halfbreed
entered the room he was unable to speak
half dozen words, and looked either
scared or basbfuL The Justice saw at once
there was some marriage to come Of, and
said to the woman, who stood with com
pressed lips watching tie justice at the
door
',Tant paper to take this man ?"
q Yes; want paper Ne teach him.
(Niee woman thought the iustieel He
good man, me take him so quick as can p
9" All right, my cOvies fix you ia the
jerk of lambs tail, SAID the Justice as he
turned to the man, and said You know
this woman, can you take her p
The man shook his head and muttered
uninteligible words.
''Ahl l see. Can't talk English Well,
never mind.
He ran into the street, invited few
friends, and, on returning with them, said to
the woman
You want to take tt is man for better or
for worse
f" Yes me want to take him me pay"
"a ii right"
Then turning to the man who stood
trembling:
You take this woman for. better or for
were and promise 20 keep her, etc, etc.
UmphP and several mods of the head.
"Then, in the name of the law, and by
virtue of the authority IN me vested, | pro-
nounce you man and wife, and ne stepped
forward before the woman could say a word
and kissed her red lips"
81 Slap I" came her hand In his face and
she clutehed his hair The new husband
jumped in to take the woman away, and to
protect her as the man supposed, when, In
selfpreservatiou, the Justice gave him a rap
on the nose. The woman pitched into the
husband, who in turn, pitched into her. and
for about five minutes there was a general
bustling and display of legs, garters etc.
Al last the parties were separated, when
the man and woman took another turn st
each other, the blood and hair flying in all
directions. Down came the stove, over
went the table, catter went the chairs, and
into the street ike a mad bull, went the
Justice with black eye, the bosom of his
shirt looking like a warrantdeed covered
with red seals
A crowd rushed up stairs and found the
man and woman lying on the floor hugging
each other like young Bruins, their arms
and legs mixed up worse than tomatoe vines;
the woman on top, and pummeling her
newly made husband with a hearty viii.
The newly married couple were separated,
when, through the aid Of interpreters. it was
discovered that the night before the parties,
occupying adjoining shanties In the lower
part Of the town, had got into dispute ever
some stove pipe which was claimed by both,
and from words they had come to blows.
Each party had hastened to the Justices
Office, in the morning, for warrant for the
other, with the result as stated above.
The last news from there was that the
parties had gone in search Of another JUS
tice to unmarry them, while the genial
cause of their terrible squabble was set
ting up the boys" and bathing his bunged
eye with camphor and whisky