Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-07

want woman TO look after the pigs while
| am out at work. July, 1892 Equally
practical minded was the collier groom who
demurred to utter the all-important 81
will, !" until he had received from his blush
ing bride a satisfactory answer to the ques-
ton, "Wi' ia clean my bOots?"
Some persons about to marry have shown
such supreme Indifference, that one Won
ders how they ever comprised the prelimi-
nary courtship. A couple appeared at a
parsonage in Ottawa, and expressed their
desire to be united; but just as the clergy
man was about to commence proceedings,
the lady discovered she was minus one of
her gloves, and requested the gentleman to
go and get her pair, and to be quick about
! it, or
SHE MIGHT CHANGE HER MIND.
He obeye6. Clergyman, witnesses and
bride waited and waited, but neither gloves
nor groom came to hand, until things
| looked so serious that the good parsOn HIM
| self started Ofin search of the dilatOry BRIDE
groom. After a long hunt, he was dis
covered comfortable 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 mOncbGldat gentleman said,
was waiting to see if she was going to change
her mind? This Indifferent individual was
one of that take-it-easy school to which the
LATE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND
belonged, if Mr.. Grants otory of that no
bleman be true. just two hours before the
time fixed for his marriage with one Of the
most beautiful women of England, a'friend
came upon him in St. James park. leaning
carelessly over the railing at the edge of the
water, throwing crumbs TO the waterfowl.
"What you here to-day I thought you
were going to be married this morning?7
eyes," replied the duke, without moving
an inch or stopping his crumb-throwing;
81 believe am. The same writer tells
story of living nobleman to much the
same tune. This easy going parsonage left
his father to choose a bride for him, and
make all the necessary arrangements; but
concerned himself so little about the mat
ter, that he had. arranged to meet friend
in Long Acre on the very morning appointed
for the marriage, which fact he announced
In the following words: DIT will not be nee
essary to meet me tomorrow to go to Long
Acre to look for carriage. From a re-
mark made by the duke to-day, fancy
am going to be married." The force of in
difference could hardly further go; but in
this case the lady in crested must have been
as easy going as her intended husband, and
of very different temperament to
THE VIRGINIAN LASS,
who, finding her swain could not raise the
dollar for the clergyman's fee, entreated
the latter, if he could not marry them full
up for less, to marry them 2T cents worth,
and they would call for the rest some other
time.
Recklessness in matrimonial matters has
brought many to grief and repentance; but,
for ali that, welded bliss is more likely to
wait upon needless than oVer-cautious
maTTierS. An unhappy result may safely
be predicted of union when the parties to
it have so little confidence in each other as
to formally bind themselves over to good
behavior by
PRE-NUPTIAL CONTRACT.
When Jacob Sprier and Deborah Lean
ing, Of Philadelphia, both of whom had ex-
perienced the joys of matrimony before, re-
solved upon making a 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 of
which at any rate was a sensible one:
EsThat the said jacob Sprier shall not up
braid the said Deborah Leaning with the
extraordinary industry and good economy
of bis deceased wife; neither shall the said
Deborah Leaning upraid the said Jacob |
Sprier with the extraordinary industry and
good economy of her deceased husband;
neither shall anything of this nature be OBJ
served by either to the other of us with
any view to offend and irritate the party to
whom observed; a thing too frequently
practiced in a second marriage, and very !
fatal to the repOse of the parties married"
Still more fatal to the Tepose Of such par |
ties is the
UNTIMELY RESURRECTION
of defunct spouse. Rambling husbands |
reported dead have an awkward knack of |
turning up ''very much alive" to the great /
CONSERVATION of the consoled relict and the |
CONSIDER.
Ten years ago, merchant captain mar !
ried lady of SOleure, Switzerland; the |
honeymoon had just waned, when the new |
made benedict received orders to depart on /
a voyage. Before many weeks had passed, |
the grievous rews came that his ship had |
gone down with all hands, off the coast Of |
Africa. For half-a-dozen years the cap |
tain's widow remained faithful 10 his men, |
DRY. Then a trip to Paris brought her an |
acceptable woOer, and Switzerland saw her |
no more. Four years later, a bronzed and |
bearded gentleman entered a cafe on the |
Boulevard Montmartre, and called FORE |
freshments. While waiting, he looked |
around him, until his eyes rested upon a |
Comely lady busy at desk; long search |
ing look, and he was at the desk, too; few |
words were exchanged, then with a loud |
scream the lady tainted, and the whole !
place was in an uproar. She was the !
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her sailor husband, who, after vainly seek |
ing his bride in the land wherein he left |
her, had thus accidently found her-the !
happy wife Of another man, and the proud !
mother of three fine children. Another |
case is that in London police court. A |
man applied to 4 magistrate to get a little !
matter settled. He had twelve months |
ago, married a widow, the widow of a
drowned sailor. While he was at work |
one day, some one came to him and told |
him his ''missis" was at home with another |
man. Throwing down his tools, he hurried |
to see into it, and, sure enough, found his |
wife with another mans arm round her |
neck. He told the intruder she was his !
wife, but the man said: "No, she was his |
wife, an assertion the object Of dispute |
verified by going off with her old love, leavr |
ing her second mate at his wits end, and |
so in bis trouble he came to the magistrate
''to get the matter settled one way or the |
other" The Eoor fellow left the court in
a very dissatisfied mood, because all the |
worthy magistrate could say was, that ne
thought the matter trGS settled the other
way already.
American newspapers are full of these
EnOch Arden cases, which lead tc very
funny complications. The ladies seem to
like T. -Tiage so well as not to bear the
denial of widowhood for long time. But
it is rather a peculiar feature of these affairs
that the returned first husband generally
carries of the prize, though there are some
exceptions. Men with
WEAKNESS FOR DIGAAY
cannot now in MOrmonland indulge them
selves to their hearts content; but that
they could do 50, witness this announce
ment in a newspaper of Utah "Married,
in Salt Lake City, on the 10Th ult., in the
presence of the saints, Brigham Young, to
Mrs. J. NJ. Martin, Mrs. L. NJ. Pendegrist,
Mrs. r. NJ. Jenkinson, Miss Susie P. Cleve-
land, Miss Emily P. Martin, all of the
county of Berks, England" Fancy one
man marrying three widows, all at once
Old Mr.. Weller would have hadlan apopeCtic