The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
NUMBER 10.
WEDDING ANECDOTES.
From Appleton,s Journal.

Oh aHecuoueH OF weddings, an Install
ment of which we give below, promis
ing more to follow:
When the collector of rare and Gu
rious specimens of insects, and flower
and minerals, finds new objects of in
terest, he sticks pin in them, or put!
them in alcohol, or labels them, anc
then sits down to count his collections
and see what he has actually gathered
In the same way we may stick pins il
the various experiences of life, anC
thus collect museum of rare speci
specimens. The present collection .o
wedding-anecdotes are specimens o.
eccentricities at this trying hour thai
have come across the writer's path.
We see plenty of curious epitaphs in
cemeteries let us look at some wed
ding-scenes as strange as any of these
A young clergyman, at the first
wedding he ever had, thought it was q
very good time to impress upon the
couple before him the solemnity of the
act.
81 hope, Dennis" he said to the
| coachman, with his license in his hand,
"you have well considered this solemn
step in life"
II hope so, your reverence" an
swered Dennis.
| cts a very important step you're
taking, Mary" said the minister.
"Yes, sir, 1 know it is" replied
Mary, whimpering. Perhaps we
had better wait awhile"
"Perhaps we had, your reverence
chimed in Dennis.
The minister, hardly expecting such
a personal application of his exhorta-
ton, and seeing the fivc-dollar note
vanishing before his eyes, betook him.
self to more cheerful aspect of the
situation, and said:
Eyes, of course it's solemn and i'm
portant, you know, but its a very
happy time, after all, when people
love each other. Shall we go on with
the service?"
Yes, your reverence" they both re-
piled, and they were soon made one in
the bonds of matrimony, and that
young minister is now very careful
how he brings on the solemn view of
marriage to timid couples.
A party came to clergyman's house
one evening to be married. Every
thing went ON tremendously until the
woman came to the word "obey" in
the service. Here balky scene en-
sued.
Never ever!" she said. 81
did not know that word was in the
service, and l will never say il J"
ooh, DEAR" demonstrated her part
ner, edo not make trouble now. Just
say it-say it, even if you don't mean
it. Say it for my sake-for your own
dear Johns sake
"Never-never !" insisted the high
spirited dame. 81 will not say what |
do not mean, and l do not mean to
obey. You must go on, sir, she
added, to the clergyman, without
that word"
s'That is impossible, madam, re-
piled the minister. Sc cannot marry
you unless you promise to love, chez
ish, and obey your husband"
"Won't you leave us for little
while together?" interceded the young
man. ~ think | can manage her
after awhile"
So the minister went back into his
study, and wrote ON his sermon for an
hour and half, and finally, at a quar-
ter before ten o'clock, there
a.. came a tapping
As of some one gently rapping."
and the mild-mannered Benedict in
formed the parson that at last, after
long wrestling of spirit, his "dear
Jane" had consented to say "obey."
But how that compromise was brought
about, no one ever knew.
l have often heard this same clergy
man relate how, after wedding-cere-
mony on one occasion, which occurred
in his own parlor, the husband whis-
pered to his bran-new bride, rs they
approached the door, ," Mary, have you
got any small changer"
The old Swedes' church in Philadel-
phia was the famous marrying ground
for nearly two hundred years to all the
neighborhood and the churches i'll that
vicinity. The record-book of that
venerable parish is tceming with mar
riages. There has to be an "exten-
sion" made to that department in
every new register. Notes and men,
oranda adorn the pages of the "wcd-
ding-columns explanatory of the diff
ferent couples. One clergyman kept
a list of foreign sailors with wife
very probably in very large porD and
runaway country-girls whom he had
refused to unite in matrimony because
of his suspicious, or because of the
lateness of the hour, or of the absence
of witnesses. Colored weddings have
always richly humorous side. The
colored race is susceptible, initiative
one, and when they are fine, as at we'd
dings, they are generally superfine.
A clergyman was called on upon one
occasion to officiate at Il colored we'd
ding.
ave assure, sah," said the gentle
manly darkey, g this yere wedding,
sab, is to be very 'appropos quite a
la mode, sah."
Every WELL" replied the clergyman,
Il will try to do everything in my
power to crafty the wishes of the
parties"
So, after dinner and dancing and
supping was over, The groom's "best
man. called again on the minister,
and left him ten-dollar fee.
q hope everything was as your
friends desired it?" said the urbane
clergyman.
DWELL, sab; to tell the truth, Mr..
johnson was a little disappointed.
answered the groomsman.
Why, took my robes" said the
minister.
Yes, sah-it wasn't that"
81 adhered to the rubrics of the
church."