Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-18
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Pennsylvania Rules and Regulations
| Versus Those OF Tennessee.
A few evenings since, the Catholic Ca
thedral Of this city, situaied on the corner
of Summer and Cedar streets, was the scene
of scene that will long be remembered in
Nashville annals. 1t was the occasion Of
the temporary blighting Of a couple Of
ardent young hearts, whose utter ignorance
Of the laws Of our State led TO the unpleas-
ant occurrence. Long prefaces, however,
are sometimes disagreeable to some i'm
patient readers, and for their benefit exclu-
sively, we purpose this time, at least, TO
discard the prevailing custom 80 predomi-
nant among modern newspaper reporters,
and plunge headlong into the stern facts.
Months ago, in one of the quiet, pleasant
little hamlets, that stud the interior of the
far-of "Key Stone" State, dwell hand
some, young gallant, full Of manly viyacity
and winsome ways. In the same village
there, lived a charming, bright-eyed little
beauty, Whose smile 80 lovely yet so arch.
the overlooking of an innocent heart that
no one e'er saw her but to love her.
One day it CHANGED they met-this
couple; but it was only meeting of eve
and eye, for no introduction passed yet |
consistent with the susceptibility and |
strange notions Of youth, twenty-four hours |
after found them with but single |
thought" An introduction was sought BY |
the young man and obtained at an early |
day. Their first meeting was q mutual |
bright moment. The golden hours on /
angel wings" fled unaccountably fast, and |
parting seemed to come before they had /
hardly met.
Well, well, il seems 30 strange that wo-
man WM love man "for the tales he tells"
aud it seems no less strange that man
should reciprocate because woman gives
credence to them; yet such are naked facts.
And as was the case with ten thousand
thousand couples gone before, 30 it was in
this particular instance; for the young
man possessed q sweet, smooth tongue, and
harTOlged up her heart TO "that pitch where
matrimony is sure TO follow"
Six months passed and found the Young
man in Southern State-in Tennessee. TO
be more explicit-toiling meath the rays of
a torrid sun. He had not left his home,
however, without first swearing to be true
to his bonnie darling throughout the long,
long weary days Of absence, and, at the |
time we speak, right nobly, too, had he kept
his vows. regular correspondence, dd
interim. had been kept up, and nearly every
and incoming Northern mail was
freighted with some sweet little billet dOur
that but served TO seal effectually their
courtship. 81
Fortune smiled, the young man succeed
ed, his barns were filled and he was happy.
He wrote for her, and she came to be his
bride.
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The appointed day rolled around, and
The better portion of it was passed in grand
for the occasion. Ere long
The day was done,
And darkness stole on the wings Of night"
The avenue that fronted the cathedral
was lined with the carriages of the inUitsd. |
The merry ringing laughter amid the rust
ling Of silks and the weird.like chickering's |
Of the vestal lights, together with the grand
Did swell of the church organ, certainly
vent to make up a scene solemn and beau
iful The priest came with his long flow
ng robes, and was about opening the GER
amony, when, a. is the law and custom of /
tennessee he asked for the marriage Ii
sense. Had thunderbolt struck in that /
DldilAN hO kACahGA SCitHhtiOu tOulu nave Il
been manufactured. The bridegroom ]
hadn't it didn't know the Tennessee law.
The groomsman hadn't it By George, |
hey had forgotten to getu! What could be
lone The house was crowded with i'm
patient lockers on. The fatted calf had been
that was terrible fer warm
weather.. At length messenger is sent to
ook after the proper authorities with
power to grant the privilege. The pale
young bride sat trembling with fear. The
inpatient groom paced up and down the
isle in grave meditation, until the mes
eDger returns and reported mo license
ound p The crowd quickly disperses
mid laughter, and the two who had acted
n the drama, made their exit to their
proper domiciles wiser, il not a sadder
ouple." .. ..s.. ."
Time at last, is said to make all things