The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-03
Were they Marriott

Who was CAMS wife2 This STARTLING
| question was the subject OF late SER
mon by the Rev. Mr.. MCCARTHY of this
| city. The preacher contended that CAIN
| couldn't have married his sister when
he went to the land Of Nod, because he
hadn't any sister. There is no mention OF
ADAMS having any daughter. CAIN went
to a land where there were people. be-
cause he was afraid that they would kill
him on account Of his crime; but the Lord
set q mark on him that he might be saved;
because he built q city, and as he couldn't
have done 1t alone, he must have found
human beings in the land OF Nod. Hence,
when CAIN was driven out there were
races OF people on the earth he joined one
of them, and from among II he took his
bride. Therefore mankind do not come
from single pair. The Bible nowhere
saws there were only two people originally
created. Such is the argument of Mr.. No
| CARTHY. We cannot now stop to consider
1t rs we might do on scriptural, ethnologi-
cal, historical. and other grounds, but
must content ourselves with merely stat
ing IL.
But the problem that now disturbs the
town OF Brewsters, in this State. Is not
who Is GAINS wife. but who is Miss MARY
T.. KNox's husband. 1t is strange that
there should be any doubt who is "A
woman's husband but there IL one in this
case, and very perplexing one. Miss
KNOX says that Mr.. JONI A. MERRITT. who
is several years her junior, had courted her
long and successfully, though not with the
approval OF his parents. This fall he urged
her to marry him at once. She consented,
| and he being short of cash, she furnished
twenty dollars. which she borrowed of her
mother, and the twain, on the sth OF this
month. started after parson, who mar
ried them. JOHNNY then drove her home,
babe her good by, told her to keep the
marriage a secret, and drove on TO his
fathers house. Since then she has neither
seen JOHNNY nor heard from him. and he
now denies that he ever married her. This
il her story, and the paTson. the Rev. Mr..
DEAN. though he remembers having per-
formed marriage ceremony that evening,
IL not certain about the identity of the
parties. Mr.. DEAN must be man OF an
unobserving habit or q short memory.
Meantime, Miss KNOX calls herself Mrs.
MERRITT, aud Mr.. MERRITT continues to
|
| queer affair.
| We have another case OF n disputed mar
rage from this State. The Rev. DR.. STRAIT
TON OF Rochester, on the I'D of September.
1873, married two persons signified to him
as ANNIE BOURNE and CAssIUs ID. woR-
RILL, in the presence of a witness who
signed the marriage certificate. Now,
when the woman claims the man rs her
husband. the man swelrs he was never
married to her He says that tired out by
the opportunities of two of her relations,
he was induced year ago to promise to
marry Miss BOURNE within a year. On
the day named he went TO Rochester with
her and her sister and brother-in-law
named WILLIAMS. He got under the infiu-
ence OF liquor aud fell asleep. When he
awoke Miss BOURNE was sitting with him,
and the WILLIAMsEs were just entering the
room. When the year came TO an end he
didn't wish to tulhl his promise to marry
the woman, but she confronted hun with
the marriage certificate, claimed him rs
| her husband, and demanded support.
WoRRILL says that some one must have
| personated HIM in the ceremony. His story
Is not probable on its face. Miss
BOURNE, for her part, says that the mar
rage took place; that WoRRILL was the
man she married; that he stipulated
with her that the marriage should be kept
secret until The end of the year, when he
would have settled up his fathers estate;
that then they should be remarked; and
that now. when the year is up, he turns her
over to his lawyer. and drives her to the
| law to get her rights.
The trouble III both these cases is that the
marriage war secret. Let all girls take
heed, and beware Of c'andestine marriages |;
and. also. be sure that the munster who
performs the ceremony gets so good II look
AT them that he shall be able 10 Identify
the pair IA few weeks or year afterward
us the real parties to whom he gave the
marriage certificate. II is bad business
going to all the trouble and expense Of
getting married, aud then having duub;
thrown on the genuineness of the bond.
The British Polar EIpedition-Wh hat
II has Accomplished.