Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-31
"A wedding in Camp.

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asliss sfi1 sariivFing merchant of Saar-
A7sqss was to have been married al saar-
Louis 70 young gslady from Schleiz, oa3he
/ l16tkz8ay of July On that morning came
the selegraphic oder efmobilization. The
skin carried eff the bridegroom quarter
$40 hour. befofe the time ixed for the
M fage lie, ike thousands of other men
efss gaQd position In life, took
: Esa Isrisske in his regiment--the
Edfsses Il dohenzos n-ands eheerfully ar
Akles1ged kkith.hi BRIDE spsa the marriage
Should take 1slEce as acon as his battalion
Should harbrtiekk. !. 4fe.Eeuld then
go .ef,sfo. the esssar, and She would re-
tarujSsss hhs4e ifesto. her home. The bride.
cane yesturday ypsEhsher brother, to Shar-
Fraes had tho assure of walking up
| VT them, This ateraeon. to wateh Ehs,
lbzfsaffons in which TIE h1sdeEo6sn ssgas 5o;
sppeaf:: and pass sagSssn the kfga road into,
sals stodae field The bridegroom was
there IN the thick of the heImafed stream.
! andAran from the ranks and kissed q y
hE1sde with German fervOr. The fieusmsreh-
! ing. past looked at them with sympathetic
| admiral ton, but with no sign of wonder,
| npslf less of deriFion! Then tha BRIDE
gnpd1a'ran on to theaplace he had letf, and
thssbride went to an Officer and begged a
IL 10 Is leave .4gr the Bridegroom. that
= ,sAf get married, The officer, of
&as only too glad 60 listen to such
e4laest from the lips of sReh an anpIi-
fcaaaA aud escorted the bridert the Colonel
of he4sginent, from ahefaA leave had to
beohta Insa # ssass fhe. bride, with dark
'sses mere xssive thaa ever, and a
shadow of apprehension over her broad for
head, not too tipF1san for perfect beauty,
repeatlag her qest to the Colonel. and
f-~-.sz-7a--.--s41n answer. The brfdegruom
was sent off on leave till midday to-mor-
row. The marriage will be a few hours
earlier. [ do not think that any English
man could have witnessed the scene with
out the thought crossing him that it i'm
piled such a society in the army and such
4 noble simplicity of life as we in England
have not yet learned even to aspire to-
Extraordinary, how o1ltre would it seem in
England if it were told that a gentleman
serving as private in the army ran from
the ranks and kissed his bride, and then
that the bride went up before half the reg
Iment to the officers and made the same
request which have recorded And what
would be the behavior of the men who saw
it take place Ifi excited admiration il
would be for the singularity and unusual
ness of the thing; in Germany it was
perfectly natural, and 1 mention it not be-
cause it was singular, but the reverse, be-
cause 1t caused no surprise and no err Flsr-
rassment to any one benedse it shows
what is the tone of tip German army, in
which men of all ranks serve side by aS9e,
and how simple and natural society," - in
comparison to everything that we are ac-
customed to in England. To assure you
that this is no romance, l give, with the
appreciation of the bride and bridegroom,
the names Of both. The bride is the
Fraulein Angelica Henng, born in Schleiz,
in Central Germany the bridegroom, Herr
August Britt, born in Saar-Louis.-N. Y
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