Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-25
A Soldiers Marriage.

Saarbruck Correspondence N. Y. Tribune.l.
A young and thriving merchant of
Saar Louis was to have been married at
Saar Louis to young lady from Schleiz
on the 10Th of July. On that morning
came the telegraphic order of mobiliza-
ton. The train carried off the bride
groom quarter of an hour before the
time fixed for the marriage. He, like
thousands of other men of an equally
good position in life, took his place as a
private in his regiment-the Fortieth
acknowledgements cheerfully arranged
with his bride that the marriage should
take place as soon as his battalion should
reach Saarbruck He would then go of
to the war, and she would return, as his
wife. to her home. The bride came yes
terday with her brother TO saarbruck. |
had the pleasure of walking up with them
tbis afternoon to watch the battalion, in
which the bridegroom was to appear,
mass from the highros3 into the bivouac-
field. The bridegroom was there IN the
thick of the helmeted stream, and Fan
from the ranks and kissed his BRIDE T.ltll
German fervor. The men marching
past looked at them with sympathetic ad-
miration, but with no sign OF wonder,
much less of coarse derision. Yhen
the bridegroom ran ON to the
place he had left, and the bride
went to an officer and begged
few hours leave for the bridegroom
that they might get married. The officer,
of course, was only 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 shadow of apprehen-
sion over her broad forehead, not too
German for perfect beauty, repeating
her request to the Colonel, and winning
from his lips of discipline the gentiest
answer. The bridegroom was sent of
ON leave till midday tomorrow. The
marriage will be few hours. earlier. j
do not think that any EngiishEap could
have witnessed the scene without the
thought crossing him that it implied such
a society in the army G1d such noble
simplicity of life as we in England have
not vet learned even to aspire to, Ex.
traordinary, how outre would it seem in
England if we were told that a gentle
man serving as a bElsste N the
army ran from the ranks and kissed
his bride, and then that the bride vent
I'D before half the regiment to the officers
and made the request have recorded
Ana what would be the behqyior of the
men who saw It take place2 If il excited
admiration 4 would be for the singu-
larity and unusualness Of the thing IN
Germany it was perfectly natural, ana
mention It not because it was singular,
but the reverse, because it caused no
surprise and no embarrassment to any
one; because it shows what is the tone OF
the German army, in which men of all
ranks serve side by side, and how simple
and natural society is in comparison TO
everything that we are accustomed to IN
England. To assure you that this is no
romance, l give, with the appreciation OF
the bride and the bridegroom, the names
of both. The bride is the Fraulein An
gelica Hennig, born in Sehleiz, in Cen
trail Germany; the bridegroom, Herr
August Britt, born in Saar Louis.