Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-20
Mr.. Benefits Announcement OF His
Marriage.


IRON Ms NsC FORK Herald June l, ls4Ol
To THE READERS OF THE HERALD-DEo-
TAXATION OF LovE-CAUaHT AT LAST
GONG 20 BE MARRIED-NEw MOVE.
MENP IN CIVILIZATION.
| am going to be married in a..few days.
The weather is so beautiful times are
getting so good, the prospects of politi.
cal and moral reform so suspicious, that
| cannot resist the divine instinct of hon
est nature any longer, so L am going to
be married to one Of the most splendid
women in intellect, in heart, in soul, in
property, in person, in manner, that |
have yet seen during my interesting pill
grimage through human life. cannot
stop in my career must fulfill that
awful destiny which the Almighty Father
has written against my name, in the
broad letters of life, against the wall of
Heaven. I must give the world pattern
of happy welded life, with all the chart
ties that spring from nuptial love.
In few days [ shall be married, ac-
cording to the most holy rites of the most
holy Christian church, to one of the most
remarkable, accomplished and beautiful
young women of the age. She possesses
a fortune l sought and found a fortune
"A large fortune. She has no Stoning-
ton shares of Manhattan stock, but in
purity and uprightness she is worth half
million of pure coin. Can any swim
ding bank show as much ? In good
sense and elegance another half million ;
in soul, mind and beauty millions on mil
lions, equal to the whole specie of all the
rotten banks in the world.
Happily the patronage of the public to
the Herald is nearly $25, 900 per annum,
equal to the Presidents salary. But
property in this worlds goods was never
my object. Fame, public good, useful
ness in my day and generation the re-
ligious associations of female excellence ;
the progress of true industry-these
have been my dreams by night, and my
desire by day. In the new and holy con-
dition in which am about to enter, and
to enter with the same reverential feel
ings as | would heaven itself, I anticipate
some signal change in my feelings, in my
views, IN my purposes, in my pursuits.
What they may be I know not-time
alone can tell.
Ny ardent desire has been through life
to reach the highest order of human ex-
cellence by the shortest possible cut.
Associated night and day, in sickness and
in health, in war and in peace, with
woman of this highest order of excellence,
must produce some curious results in my
heart and feelings, and those results the
future will develop in due time in the
columns of the Herald. Meanwhile re-
turn my heartfelt thanks for the enthu-
siastic patronage of the public, both of
Europe and America. The holy estate of
wedlock will only increase my desire to
be still more useful. God Almighty
bless you all. j. G. BENNETT.
In the postscript to the announcement,
Mr.. Bennett gives notice that he shall
have no time to waste upon the editors
who attacked him "until after marriage
and the honeymoon. On the Sth of
June, 1910, the marriage was announced
at the head of the editorial columns of
the Herald, as follows
On Saturday afternoon, the 9th inst,
by the Rev. DR.. Powers. at st. Peters
Catholic church, in Barclay street, James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor and editor
of the New York Herald, to Henrietta
Agnes Cream. What may be the effect
of this event on the great newspaper con-
test now waging in New York, time alone
can show.