Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-09
MARRIED AT SEA.
The Story of n Romantic Couple.

A romantic California pair of runaway
lovers took a fancy to be married on the
"deep blue of the mighty ocean," regardless
| of the rise and fall of a palpitating bosom
| under excitement. A steam tug was chartered
| and SO was a clergyman, and so the twain
went to sea in a tug, putting the "briny" be-
tween them and all parental pursuers. The
San Francisco Chron5cte gives the particulars
of tying this sailors knot: ..I.
''From the pleasant valley of Santa Clara,
Miss Mary +. Parr had been wooed by Mr..
John Z. Davis. Like Paul and Virginia,
John had stuffed the gentle Marys craw with
ripe grapes and crab-apples, borne her across
the Coyote-a dangerous torrent, some inches
in depth-and made himself generally agree
able to the lovely rustic, and here was the
result: ''.'" 's. 't'
Der the glad waters of the dark blue sea, D, !.
Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free
hummed Mr.. John Davis as the steamer cast
off from the wharf, and the blushing Mary
gazed timidly yet confidently on the smoke
stack. And they were happy. Once, and
only once, John thought he perceived culver
in the neighborhood of Mary's eyelid. He
drew forth his handkerchief and whispered
softly: Don't weep, dearest She met his
gaze with world of affection in her swim
ming eye, murlnuring, almost inaIdibly,
same time the foreign particle which had
been cast from the envious smoke stack. As
Goat Island was left astern, the rolling swell
of the ocean was felt Rev. II. M. Hender-
son, who was to officiate, struggled down the
hatchway to get into his toga, and the fair
bride and the gallant bridegroom stood side
by side. The grand waves tumbled along
boisterously and clambered up the vessels
SIDES to get peep at the happy pair: The
clergyman reappeared, clinging to the bull
warks, and executing brilliant balance feat
with the Book of Common Prayer, and the
runaways joined hands, ...'... rr
And he stood calm and quiet, and he
spoke the fitting VOWS, but heard not his own
words, and all things reeled around him,
Why did the bridegroom's cheek grow pale,
and what boded that green hue on the downy
cheek of the angel who was to pledge her
troth to him? Why did the native hue of
resolution on Mr.. Henderson's lofty forehead
become 'sicklied DER with the pale cast of
thought?' Was the vision of another love
looming spectre-like before the Davis youth?
Did the bride distrust him who had chartered
the good steam tug Joe Redmond to celebrate
these clandestine nuptials thereon? ~. s,.t "
"'Will you, John Davis, said the clergy
man, solemnly, take this woman to be your
welded wifeT
az WILL; faltered the groom, and hardly
had the words escaped his lips than he was
leaning over the side of the steamer, sobbing
under the influence, of the most powerful
emotion and the discharge of load of sand
wiches he had taken in before his departure
The bride; oh! where was she? Her beatlti-
fully nodded head, crowned with glowing
tresses, lay in deep despair III the lee soup
pers; her sweet lips were parted, and she
suffered deeply and acutely. q '~
1.-The hapless clergyman had made pillow
of the Book of Common Prayer, and was
chanting the burial service at sea with mourn
full cadence, only interrupted by powerful and
resonant spasmG. .st
"'Come!' shouted Captain White, hitching
the waistband of his pantaloons and turning
the quid of tobacco in his mouth. Come,
my hearts of oak! Why, shiver my timbcrs
and douse my tarry top-lights You're all on
your beam ends. Heave up, my hearties;
it's your watch on deck. Heave up and get
spliced Come, bear hand!' -
again they stood up to the scratch, and
again were they prostrated. AT last the trem-
bling and unneryed clergyman made them
man and wife, and the Joe Redmond returned
to the city with the lately welded and much
sea-sick Mr.. and Mrs. Davis.
awe predict that it will take many months
among the classic vineyards of Santa Clara
before the remembrance of those lee scuppers
and the ill-fated sandwiches are obliterated"
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