Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-24


knot was tied and somewhere between
the years 1888 and 1874 Lincolnshire Gu
rate officiated at wedding where the
heroine of the occasion stood before him
enveloped in q sheet. Such attempts to
evade the law of debtor and creditor evinc-
ed a laudable desire on the part of the bold
brides to spare the pockets of men of their
choice, which is more than can be said of
the means adopted not long ago by Staf-
fordshire woman to evade paying certain
moneys she had received on behalf of the
turnpike trustees. She had been sued by
the county court and ordered to pay the
money, and appearing in answer to a sum-
mons for contempt, cody produced her
marriage certificate and pleaded that her
husband was now liable for the debt. She
had married travelling tinker the day
after judgment was given against her, aud
where he was to be found she neither knew
nor cared. boz
Some persons about to marry have shown
such supreme indifference that one wonders
how they ever eompassed the preliminary
courtship. A couple appeared at par
sonase in Ottawa, and expressed their de-
sire to be united but just as the clergy
man was about to commence the proceed
ings the lady discovered she was minus one
of her gloves and requested the gentleman
to go and get her a pair, and to be quick
about it, or she might change her mind
lie obeyed. Clergyman, witnesses and
bride waited and waited, but neither gloves
nor groom came to hand. until things look
ed so serious that the good parson himself
started off in search OF the dilatory BRIDE
groom. After long hunt, he was dis
covered comfortably seated in the verandah
of hotel, with his feet on the back of a
chair, quietly enjoying his cigar Upon
the clergyman demanding an explanation
of his behavior, the nonchalant gentleman
said, with all his GOODNESS Imaginable, that
he was waiting to see if she was going to
change her mind. I... ...
This Indifferent individual was one of
that take-it-casy school to which the late
Duke ofSutherland belonged. if Mr.. Grants
story Of this nobleman be true. Just two
hours before the time fixed for his marriage
with one Of the most beautiful women in
England, friend came upon him in St.
James Park, leaning careless,y over the
railing at the edge of the water, throwing
crumbs to the water fowl. "What you
here to-day thought you were going to
be married this morning?" Yes" re-
piled the duke, without noving an inch or
stopping tfs crumb throwing, II believe l
am The same writer tells a story of a
living nobleman too much the same tune.
This easy going parsonage left his father TO
choose bride for him, and made all the
necessary arrangements ; but concerned
himself so little about the matter that he
had arranged to meet friend in Long
Acre on the very morning appointed for
the marriage, when fact he announced in
the following words 1T will not be neces-
sary to meet me tomorrow to 60 to Long
Acre to look for a carriage. From re-
mark made by the duke to-day, fancy |
am going to be married ~ The force OF
indifference could hardly further go; but
in this case the lady interested must
have been as easy going as her intended
husband, and of q very different tempera
ment to the Virginia lass, who, finding her
swain could not raise the dollar for the
clergyman's fee, entreated the latter if he
could not marry them twenty-seven cents
worth, and they would call for the rest
some other time. .. .. ............ .
When Jacob Sprier and Deborah Lean
ing, of Philadelphia, both OF whom had
experienced the joys of matrimony before,
resolved upon making second experiment
Jointly, mindful of the source of conjugal
jars in such cases, they drew up an agree
! ment of twenty-five clauses, the last oI
| which at any rate was sensible one
THAT the said Jacob Sprier shall not up
braid the said Deborah Leaning with tho
extraordinary industry and good economy
of his deceased wife !, neither shall any
thing of this nature be observed by eithel
of the other Of us with any view to otlent
and irritate the party to whom observed
thing too frequently practised in n SC
cond marriage, and very fatal to the repos'
| of the parties.''