Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-02
The Cost of Getting Marie d to Another
Hans BetrOghed

Years morning, and found team
hitched in front of the door, and q
young couple inside. The object OF
their visit was soon made known by
the young man, who informed the min
lister that he wished to be married to
the young lady who was in the other
room arranging her toilet.
The clergyman suggested that 1t was
an unreasonable hour for a wedding,
and proposed that they postpone the
nuptial ceremony till the next day. In
reply TO this the young man said they
were not intending to be married until
the next day, but had concluded the
evening previous to take trip to his
home In Jaffrey, n. H., and were going
down to Winchendon on the night
train.
The story was so plausible that the
clergyman married them. They left
AMI went to hotel in the village,
where they spent the remainder of the
night. In the morning they went to
the depot TO take the train for Ludlow,
neglecting to pay their bill at the hotel
or for their team hired at the livery
stable. The landlord followed them
and demanded the bill of the bride
groom, which he paid. The livery
stable keeper also went and presented
his bill for the use of the team. The
bill was also paid, and the man returned
to his stable, and discovered that the
whip he had furnished the young cou-
pie was missing. He went back i'm
mediately to the depot and demanded
pay for the lost whip, which the
happy bridegroom handed over. On
returning to the stable he found the
runners of the sleigh broken, and fear
ing the train might leave before he
reached the depot, hasrened thither and
presented a bill for the third time to
the happy but unlucky man, who paid
live dollars for the damage done to the
runners of the sleigh. The cars soon
arrived and took the young couple to
Ludlow, and the livery stable keeper
returned 20 his stable. On examining
his sleigh more critically he found the
beams of the sleigh were also broken.
Hitching up team he soon started for
Ludlow and found the young bride
groom, and for the fourth time pre-
sented bill, which was this time can
celled with FIVE dollar greenback.-
Nothing more occurred to mar the
pleasure of their honeymoon till
the up mail train arrived at Ludlow,
when off stepped q young man in search
of the runaway couple. This man had
a bill to present to the young bride
groom, who had proved rival in this
love affair, the facts of which were that
the two young gentlemen then con-
fronting each other had been counting
the same girl but lover No. / (who
had Just arrived on the train in search
of the fugitive) got the girl to promise
to marry him, and after they had ap-
pointed the wedding day, invited lover
No. to attend the festivities. The in
vited lover, however, stole march on
his rival, and on the evening alluded to
got team and went TO see the lady,
when, after a few minutes CONVEX
sation, they agreed to proceed to the
minister's residence as above, and be-
come "twain of one flesh" The truant
girl, however, did not fail to array her.
self in the marriage garments furnished
her by lover number one, who, upon
learning of the proceedings, was greatly
incensed thereat, and upon meeting
bis rival at Ludlow claimed that the
the naughty girl had promised to mar
ry him and that he had bought the
clothes she had on her at that time
her wedding suit. The bridegroom re
monstrated in vain with the rejected
lover, whose indignation would be
quieted with nothing short of
full payment for the nice clothes
he had furnished the treacherous
girl. But here the bridegroom
was in a bad situation; such inroads
had been made upon his financial re-
sources that this last bill, the unkind-
est cut of all, diversified him, and he
was unable to pay it howmuchsoever
he might have desired to. Bat his re-
lentless opponent was uncompromising
in his demands, and nothing short of the
bridegroom's money and watch would
satisfy his wounded heart and depleted
pocket-book. At last the bridegroom
yielded to these stern demands, and
gave up his watch and last dollar, and
doubtless feels rich in the possession Of
one who has forsaken another, and
agreed to cling unto him alone through
life.