Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-09-09
A Wedding In Camp.

A young and thriving merchant Of
Saar-Louis was to have been married at
Saar.Louis to young lady from Schleiz
on the 10th day of July. On that
morning came the telegraphic order Of
mobilization. The train carried Of the
bridegroom o quarter of an hour before
the time fixed for the marriage. He,
like thousands Of other men of an equal.
ly good position in life, took his place as
a private in his regiment-the Fortieth
Hohenzollen-and cheerfully arranged
with bis bride that the marriage should
take place as soon as his battalion should
reach Sharbruck. He would then go
off to the war, and she would return, az
his wife to her home. The bride came
yesterday, with her brother, to sharbruck.
l had the pleasure Of walking up with
them, this afternoon, to watch the bat
talon, in which the bridegroom was to
appear, and pass from the high road in
to the bivouac field. The bridegroom
was there in the thick of the helmeted
stream, and ran from the ranks and
kissed his bride with German fervor.-
The men marching past looked at them
with sympathetic. ..,admiration, but with
no sign of wondor, much less of derision.
Then the bridegroom ran on to the place
he had left, and the bride went to an Of.
ficer and begged a few hours leave for
the bridegroom, that they might get
married. The officer, Of course, was on.
ly too glad to listen to such request
from the lips Of such an applicant, and
escorted the bride to the Colonel of the
regiment, from whom leave had to be
obtained.
We saw the bride, With dark eyes
more expressive than ever, and shad-
ow Of apprehension over her broad for
head, not too German for perfect beauty,
repeating her request..::to the Colonel,
and winning from his lips Of discipline
the gentlest Of an answer. The bride-
groom was sent off on leave till midday
tomorrow. The marriage will be few
hours earlier. eo.not think any Eng
lishman could have witnessed the scene
without the thought crossing. him that it
implied such society in the army and
such noble simplicity of life as we in
England have not yet learned even to
aspire to. Extraordinary, how outre
would it seem in England if it were told
that 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 regiment to the of
ticers and made the same request which
have recorded. And what would be
the behavior Of the men who saw it take
place? If it excited admiration it would
be for the singularity and unusualness
of the thing; in Germany it was per-
fectly natural, and / mention it not be-
cause it was singular, but the reverse,
because it caused no surprise and no en-
barrassment to any one becauseit shows
what is the tone Of the German army.
in which men of all ranks serve side by
side, and how natural and simple society
is in comparison to everything we are
accustomed to in England. To assure
you this is no romance, give, with ap-
probation of the bride and bridegroom.
the names of both. The bride is the
Fraulein Angelica Henng, born in Sch
leiz, in Central Germany; the Bridegroom
Herr August Britz, born in Saar-Louis.
~ Y Tribune.