The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-05-09
4 Negro wedding.

Fhe bride and groom, answering to the
names Of Andraw and Susy, were field
hands Of unmstakabIy pure Guinea blood,
and both of them had passed the first half
century of life. Their dress, however, showed
that they had net yet entirely eschewed all
the folies Of their youth, for though rude
and cheap, az became their condition. it
was nevertheless not unembeished with
those bits Of &c gaws and glarng fnery Of
bright colored ribbon and tie, in which the
negro delights. With the most decorous
gravity the preacher began:
Andrew, does you lub dis yere wo.
man n
I" ! duz 50, was the emphatic reply.
Will you promise 70 stick close to her
fro6 time and tarnity renouncin all oders,
an clea5in only to her for ebyr an eber an
amen n
III will dat"
will you lub, honor an bay" -" Hold
on dar, Ole Jack n--here interrupted tho
groom, with no little show OF Indignation
faint no use talkin' to dis nigger bout
begin De wimmen. Can't promise to hey
no wimmen felix's only 'cept ole Missusm
Silence, dar you owiumptious niggerw
roared the wrathy preacher what fur you
60 fur sple de ceremony You done split
all de grabity Oh de 'cusion Dis yere's
only matter % form an Indispensable to de
'cason Now don't you 90 far to open your
black mouf tilt de time fur you to speak r
Will you promise to ub, honor an hey
Andrew still shaking his head omiEously
at the obnoxious words dis yere niger,
Susy, furpishin her wild all tnga needful fur
her comfort an happiness, chershn' and
pertectn her frum all suferin'an' sorrer, an
maxim smuye de paff Oh all her precedn'
days to cum2'
~ s'po mus say yes to dat" said
Andrew, meekly.
Den pronounce desc yere two couples
to be man an wife an when de Lord had
jined together, let no man 60 fur TO put dem
'sunderl"
Here an uproar arose among the blacks,
betokening dilemma entirely unforeseen
by Old Jack For innsmuch as he had
forgotten to require the usual VOWS Of Susy
they insisted that however firmly Andrew
might be bound n the bonds OF matrimony,
Susy was still single, and the pair We're but
half married. The matter was at last adj
justed BY the preacher commencing the
erelnony IL moro, by which means the
couple were finally united to tile satisfaction
Of all.
"ATLANno surtEnrRs9 are begging in
Western cities.
Miss EBnNnARpr, the Georgia poisoner,
i to be pardoned.
4 wooLlY CALF is the reigning novelty Of
Lafayette, Indiana.
oTnREE gurapnD JIM is one of lodll
heroes Of Iowa City.
A son Of james, the English novelist, is
the editor Of Wisconsin paper
TIE Board Of Health has been abolished
BY the Mobile city council,
IuEY manufacture fuel from hay aud
! straw, BY machinery, in Western Iowa.
COLUMBUS, Ga, has collected 2,47l vol
umes in one year for Us city library.
TuE widow Of Pollard, the ''lost caese''
: historian Is lecturing in Pennsylvania.
] BEN. BUTLER announces himself az IN the
) field for the Goyernorshp Of Massachu-
t setts.
TIE Arkansas Legislature did wind up
with fight, between Representative and
janitor.
II is said that 100000 pilgrims have
visited the birth place Of Mohammed, at
r Mecca, this year.
0 In Kansas City woman levied ou and
a carried away another woman ) baby to sat
: isfy debt Of six dollars.
y GEORGE francis TRAM is still occupying
!, the time Of the courts and experts Of New
r York in order to prove his sanity.
= A WORTHY counle Of West Concord, vt.
aged nincty-four and ninety one, took thei
: FIRST ride on the cars the other day.
j The "good little children of Chicopee
I Massachusetts, have formed "Juveoil
and Anti Swearing Society" numberinI
If about fly members.
ID Mrs. MARY CoTroN has been hanged i
England for poisoning three husbands an
ry sixteen OF her children. With so man
a more husbands aud children than she kne'
re what to do with, what in the name Of he
lg manity would they have had her Do with th
superAuity ?--IEx.