The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04
An Illinois Wedding. =
AtyilroJs "a M MsaIDasao5 Mo5z11vnsrIs SCENES.

Cole, the. artist, has just returned from o trip
down the Feoris; PsEiiyff and Jacksonville Rail-
road, and while stopping at Forest City, he
Witnessed a rural wedding which quite throws
into the shade anything of the kind we have
ever heard Of While at the; hotel in the even
ing, party drove up, and assembling in the
parior sent for the landlord. They had come
from the prairie, and were in search of an Off
cial to tie the knot that should make them one
and inseparable foreyermore. Cole was invited
to witness the ceremony, and ascending to the
parlor, found the expectant bridegroom, man
about forty years of age, and fair and blush
ing damsel of twenty, waiting impatientiy the
arrival Of the parson. For some reason no
minister could be found, apd they were Obliged
to fall back on young fellow newly elected
justice of the peace, and who had never before
oficiated at a ceremony of this kind. He was
yery nervous at the idea Of having TO- perform
the ceremony, and had brought wish him g
copy of "Every Man His Own Lawyer" and
"Hayne's Township Laws" through which he
searched for desired form. Not finding one,
and the crowd, growing inpatient ne told the
couple to stand up before him and hold up their
riehtr Hands,< Tits Idone he pronounced the
following unique charge:
"You and each of you DO 6olemnly swear
that in the cause now upon hearing, you will
tell the truth, the whole truth, anu nothing but
the truth, and that you viii love, honor, cherish
and obey each othet during the term Of your
patural lives, so help you God"
3, Both answered isolemnly, 81 will, ~ and then
the justice charged them q dollar each, and
pronounced them man and wife. = One Of the
friends then produced g. jug of whiskey from
their wagon and proceeded to compound q
punch, of which the whole crowd drank freely,
and had dance. AS they could find no music,
their efforts were principally confined to jigs
and break-doWns4 AT last the party concluded
willing to 90; Because she said she was tired
and her shoes pinched her feet. The girls of
the party-teok her1oE to her chamber and SOON
disrobed her. and announced to the young men
bridal-chamber, where the face, Of the new
made bride was sweetly feposihg on the pillow:
After romp and the perpetration of the Gus
tomary jokes, the young fellows intimated to
the bridegroom that they proposed to divest
him of his wearing apparel and put him by the
side of his wife. He demurred, and then
scufle ensued. The bridegroom was as strong
as an OK, and getting angry he blackened one
fellows eye and tore another ones coat off his
back. In. tho turmoil the whole party getout
of the room, tpmbled down stairs, and brought
up in, the bar-room, where, good order being
restored, everybody took drink. In spite OF
all persuasions, the newly married man de-
clared he wasn't going 20 let them take OF! his
clothes. His comrades then got rope. and
tried to drag him up stairs. They nearly
choked him to death, when the landlord inter
fered and cut the cord. Then they fastened it
to bis Leg and in trying to drag him up stairs,
broke lounge, tore down hand rail and half
the banisters. Finding that they couldn't get
him up stairs, they went up to see if they
couldn't make the bride get up and come down,
but she locked the door and wouldn't let the
crowd in. Some Of them got ID hammer and
nails, and getting ladder, put it up on the
outside Of the house, climbed into the brides
apartment and mailed up the door solidiy,
vowing if the bridegroom wouldn't let them
put him to bed he shouldn't get in the room
anyhow, They hid the ladder and went off:
The happy man finding the coast clear, walked
quietly to his room and attempted to enter he
couldn't get in, and he frantically shouted:
"Jenny, open the door," Jenny informed him
that it was nailed up. He tried to kick it open,
when the landlord interfered and told him he
was not going hSyet Be flr6iture Of the house
ruined IN thae MayS HeiRens out end tried to
find the ladder, but couldn't do it. At last
some one remembered that q company OF light
ning-rod men had some ladders at the other
end of the town. So down the newly-married
soul hastened, secured ladder, and at 4.3O in
the morning succeeded in joining his bride in
the room above. The next morning the party
returned home, declaring that they had had the
jolliest wedding ever known in that section
This is no fancy sketch, but bona fide occur
renee. We could give the names of the parties
if we wished.-Psoria Republican.