The Lincoln County herald., 1870-12-22
Marriage.
A FEW INSTANCES OF STRANGE NUPTIAL
.. C0nrsAoTs AND CEREMONIES. l'

The "most married" woman Of which
there is any record was undoubtedly the
Harlem woman spoken of BY Evelyn in
his diary, whose propensity for re marry
Jog had to be checked by law. "Shc
married to her twenty. fifth husband, and
being now a widow, was prohibited to
marry in the future"
Many years ago a man in llaftSv'lle,
N. Y, became attached to young and
beautiful damsel who died before their
intended marriage could be consumated.
lie then married the mother Of the de-
ceased, who was some twenty years her
senior, but with whom he lived happily !
until she was eighty aud he was sixty |
years Of age. AS the wife had by this
time become quite decrepit, they adopted
y maid of some thirty summers, who had
lived with them year aud half when
the old lady died. ..a
Before the time appointed for the fu
moral tho man himself was taken sick, on
which account the funeral services we're
postponed four weeks. But in less than
two weeks he sent for justice Of the
peace, and was married to the maid he
had adopted. The next day the couple
applied to the town for support, and
week later the man himself died, his fu
neral being attended before that Of his
vile and the woman he had so recently
married being the only mouruer. Hu
man folly is vast and illimitable.
When Socrates was asked whether it
we're better for man to get married or
live single, he replied: Let him do
either. and he will repent it,
With due respect to Socrates we must
object to the above. We once knew
fortune hunting young man who married
, a maiden lady on the wintry side Of fifty.
She was worth about one hundred thou
, sand dollars, and died in less than a
month after the celebration Of the nuptial
cermon es. He inherited her property,
AID he never repeutod his marriage
9 Among the ancient Germans it Vas
: death for any woman to marry before she
was twenty years old. BY the laws Of
Lycurgus the most special attention was
f paid to the physical education, and no sick j.
8 or delicate women were allowed to marry
i. In the Royal Library Of Paris is I
!. written contract, drawn up IN 1927, be-
O tween two persons os noble birth in Ar
= magne. The document bound the hus
band and wife tu faithful wedlock 70
}. seven years. 1t stipulated that the par
it ties should have the right to renew TIT
tie at the end of that time if they mutu
ally agreed but if not, the children wer
W to be equally divided if the numbe
!, should chance not to be even, they wcr'
NJ to draw lots for the odd ono.
70 In Borneo, marriages, which general
g, succeeded heightened routine Of enig
,e matical courtship peculiar to those pee
70 pie, is celebrated with great pomp an
~ considerable originality. The bride an
Ii bridegroom are conducted from the opp,
at site ends of the village to the spot wher
n, the ceremony is performed. They ar
Of seated on two bars Of iron symbolical q
es the vigorous and lasting blessings
a store for them. A cigar and a betel lea
de- carefully prepared with areca nut, are p,
q, into the hand Of each. One Of the Of
to ciating priests advances, waves two fow
pe over the heads Of the Letrothed, aud iu
he long address to the Supreme Being and
,e, short one to the couple, calls down etc
nal blessings on them, implorcs th
de peace and happiness may attend II
be union, and gives some temporal advic
sometimes Of character more medic
he than sanity. The spiritual part beir
he thus concluded tie material succeed
an Tho heads of the affirmed are knock'
ut, together three or four times then Il
he bridegroom puts the be,el leaf and Gig
he into tho mouth of the bride and III
of they are acknowledged welded coupl
Is with tho sanction Of their religion.
o later period on the nuptial evenin
IN fowls are killed, the blood caught. in
m. cups, and by ITS color the priest foretc
,ed the happiness or misery Of the new
married. The ceremony. 10 closed by
... feast, much dancing and noisy music,
The following romantic story is told
1Io M Lord March grandson Of Charles I
M, who afterwards became the second Du
-. Of Richmond, and who while yet gu
s young, was engaged, without being C
~ :. suited as to the choice, to a young Ia
81 'oi still younger. The bride was LADY,
.'i ,s daug hter of the Earl Of Cadegsn, NJ
an borough's favorite general, Their uui
80 (acoordi6g to Naples account) was . b
"a gain to cancel gaming debt between
nw parents, and the young Lord March =
~, ,ss, brought from college, and the lady fr
"a "a the nursery, for the ceremony. I
- BRIDE was amszed aud silent, but
bridegroom exclaimed a"SureIy you
:, IF MT going to marry me to that dowdy
.tg Married he was. however, aud his tu
,sd I instantly carried him off to the contine
;u E A few years after this event Lord Ma
,bs ,bs returned home from his travels a IN
am -" accom- plisbed gentleman, but having s,
49, 49, a very disaereable recollection of
haS G wife. he avoided home, and repaired
Vii, Iii the FIRST night Of his arrival, to tho tn
md tire, There he saw a lady Ct so fine
appearance that he asked who she v
a"' and on being answered that she was I"