Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-15
MATRIMONIALITIES


satin pen-wiper as a gift.
The betrothed of Col. Ellsworth
mourned him six years and then
married.
In Sacramento Sophia Bierman
has been divorced from Julius Bier
man. Julius was too much of q
herman to suit Sophia.
A breach of promise case in Ken
lucky, where the damages were
laid at $40, 900, was recently com.
promised by the plaintiff accepting
S. and a new chignon.
81 love you as the tempest loves
the placid lake" wrote James Gray,
of Vermont, and now she gets a
terrific storm about breach of prom
Use.
A Pennsylvania lady has shown
her natural preference for her hus-
band by returning to his bosom for
the sixth time after clipping with
other gentlemen.
In Wisconsin they r proposing
to dock the best part of the minis
ters' marriage fees by disseminating
the privilege of kissing the bride.
This won't do at all.
The marriage of the Grand Duke
Vladimir, of Russia, with the
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin Is to take place at st.
Petersburg in the month of August.
The proposal for civil marriage to
be made obligatory throughout the
German Empire having failed to
obtain o sufficient number of votes
i'm the Federal Council the measure
must for the present be considered
shelved.
Niagara is as popular as ever as a
resort for newly married couples.
They can sit on the balcony of the
Clifton House, and say all manner
of sweet things, where no mother-in-
laws voice can be heard above the
roar Of the falls.
A widow lady but recently "be-
reaved" lately visited StellacOom,
California, to buy a wedding outfit
for her second marriage, and among
other Unnecessary" articles she Or
dered a neat tombstone for her de-
funct husband.
For marrying Miss Rogers, who
is thirteen years old, Thomas Reedy
of Rowley, Mass, has been sent to
the State Prison for four years.
Technically, 1t was a cas- of abduc-
ton; and Reedy had already three
wives living.
James BOchmar did not fully ap-
preciate his acquisition, when he
married a young and languishing
girl, in Louisville, Kentucky. Now
he is better informed, because at the
end of the first week she threw him
down stairs, and broke both his
legs.
A prospective mother-in-law up
i'm Knox County, KY, joined issue
with a young man who declined to
fulfil his marriage engagement with
her daughter. When she got
through with him there were no
longer any breeches of promise.
As a bride and bridegroom were
about to leave Cleveland a constable
stepped into the car with an attach
ment and seized the bridegroom's
beautiful new plug hat. The dis
honest bridegroom went on with
his matrimOny bareheaded.
A Miss Lovejoy, of Wisconsin, is
now prosecuting her fourth breech
of promise suit. Some man will
yet marry that girl in self-defense,
and then will be determined what
is to become of her suits and
breaches.
The Rev. DR.. Bellows, of All
Souls Church, on the last of the
present month will join his fortunes
with the daughter of the Rev. DIR.
Peabody. A singular coincidence
about the latter event is told. 1t is
said that the bride was born about
the time that her father preached
the ordination sermon of the BRIDE
groom, thirty-five years ago.
At a recent English wedding,
while the bridal party vert kneel-
ing down around the chancels, the
grOomsman poked the groom i'm the
side, he laughed, the bride laughed,
and so did the bridesmaids, and the
clergyman retired in high dudgeon
from the church; l2 o'clock came,
after which no marriages are per-
formed; SO that they had to 90
home, and spend twenty.fOur hours
cultivating a serious frame of mind.
Calvin Bliss, widower, was sew
snty-one, and lived i'm Prince Ed
ward county, Va. Mrs. Robbins,
widow, was thirty, and resided i'm
the same shire, He proposed, and
she accepted. The day was set, to-
wit, the 29th Of January last. She
and her orange blossoms were there.
He wasn't; having had an inter-
view with his grown-up children.
She wanted $4,000 for his failure
to comply with the contract, and
a jury awarded her s., 800, a
beggardly- compensation for the loss
Of even temporal Bliss.
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