Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-07-05

through With, and at its conclpsiaih
the affair having becn - sfprotonnd
success" rush-was made tor the
bride; she was kissed by q fundred
men, and was then carried hoiue, q
distance OF a mile and a halt, III a
big armchair. '-..,.,-.,,1
Now cones the mystery, Wien
the lady, was down. at her own door
the widower: the bachelor, and tho
two yonrg men each claimed to DO
l.er true and lawful husband. None
of the crowd could say who was tho
lncky man, the minister was at sea,
and the bride herself seemed to
have doubts. The widower WAS tho
| nan of her Choice but in the cons
fusion he could have been hustled
aside, and he did affirm that anfat-
tempt had been. made toF:hoke bin
and get him out Of the barn. Tho
achelor vowed that she had proInt
i<ed to marry him, as also did both
Young men, and each Que was sure
that he held the widows plump
hand and was legally married to
her. The four men had a fight; ;lint
that didn't mend matters. The
crowd ducked two ot them in II
creek, but that didn't decide the
question,
Just how it wonli have tefrni+
mated had not the wiGower been,
man of nerve no one can tell, as tho
other three hadialready- appealed ta
the law, when the widower stepped
in and took his place as husband
and settled with the others FOR $2,h
600 each.
One of the young men, now over
forty years cd and havin. all tho
wife he wants (she weighs $50
pounds), is living in this city, aud
during All interview had with him
to day, he solemnly and earnestly
assured your correspondent that ho
was legally married TO the Widow
Doisworth that night in the big
barn. Another OF the parties lives
in Clinton county. and lie has time
and again asserted that he is tho
woman's true and lawful husband,
so help him God. The bachelor is
dead. but were he alive and Kicking
he would renew his oft repeated
protestations:
81 marriad her, by gum +! and, by
gnm, | ought to have her 20
When the frs: troops of Cossacks
lode through Bucharest the lto.'
rnanian ladies were very anxious t"
see them, and the long avenue WAS
lined with carriages A column Of
dust arose, thickening and drawing
nearer. a cry of delight and i'm
patience passed all along-ladies
eagerly stood up, favored gentle
men climbed upon the coach box
and the wheels. The column of
dust approached, and presently tho
Cossack lanccs pierced it. glitteripS
!: in the sun. Dark aud colorless
masses loomed through it, and
strange but stirring music was in
the air. Not a sound WAS heard,
even while they passed., except that
martial war song of the bards who
head each sotnia and the shriH. ac-
compartment of whistles, modBlated
to weird harmony. No rattle pt
accoutremcnts betrays the Gossa'k; (;
t his very horse seems trained to
e move with Silent aciivits. With
that pean in ones ears, and tho
] whistles screaming through it, ohe
! beholds without astoRisllrnent these
: warriors glide past, steadily and
S swift. One Recognizes the sprviv>
e ing race of an earlier time. To tho
S same war song, perhaps, marched
\ the ancestors OF these people iwhe II
they overran Russia. The Bnch
Arrest ladies were not @ little iu-
D pressed and not little frightened g.
/ They looked at each other blankly
; with little slrugs OF the shouldcl
: to express distaste. Ono at them
: afterward confessed to the Standard
e correspondent, who describes, the
Il scene, that her MEscosite sympao
d THEA vvnished at sight Ut the first
Il Cossack, SO ugly and So dirty was
Z he. ..,ga5 Il OIL.
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