Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-01

[From the New York herald
JACKSON, Mich, Feb. 1a-Tbo Oar,
Knox case has been discassed II IN,
Herald and other journals a. onaSf tn,
most curious cases on record. md va,
the DUST covered legal records If Mich,
igan car tell of a case still m6Ip singu
lar. Miss Knox was er gsped to 3
young man named Merritt, Teee day wss
set for the nuptials, they1lroge away
together and were married md nov
Merritt vows he was n0tle hriI D.
groom. She VOWS that /. was. hi
can not prove it, and bot b made on d
pretty good case. One ia well arcus
that he ought to know wlle 4er he er
married a certain young lads or , Of,
and the said young lady nay VII ar ne
that she ought to know the Yong rlan
who rode to the clergym ms With rer,
stood up beside her, made his,espon Sos
in due form and drove her nnk home.
These arguments are what bystifv. the
Knox case. Now for onasstill more
singular:
A CURIOUS y L
About 20 years ago THE IiyeI in
Central Michigan a curio / old Bane-
dick named Dodsworth. 4 the ace of
80 he married a girl of 20, nd whe 1.-The
burden OF 80 years bore I'm dow 4 his
wife was only h@lf his ag4 Dodsqerth
was noted for his peculi Fities. but the
climax came when he fouad himsalf on
his dying bed. He waswo tn 5nout
$4,000, and he hadn't 3 ,lood re tive
Iuinn Sn for 90 ho --o "
to leave ais property to life, the
pair had lived very hapl Y, bat get he
could not leave it withlt dsspi wing
some of his peculiaritic in the rrovis-
ions of the will. Some old mt | dis
play a mean spirit wher maxim their
wills and draft in q PRECISION ltting
the wife OFT with a shillilg if $. , mar
ries again. This old nan W MT of
that stamp. His young wife ' - good
looking, vivacious, fond If soci ", and
it was folly to suppose shn wouId mourn
for her "late departeln any great
length of time. Therefore Mir. Dods-
worth turned heel on tie usual custom
and said ia his will:
"In case my wife Celia does not take
unto herself another husband within
thirteen months from date of nv burial
all requests otherwise hade in this will
are to revert to the Site of Michigan,
to be used for building and furnishing
a home for old womer'.n
Whether Celia was pleased or dis
pleased at this provision deponent saith
not, but the old mar had not been un-
der the sod more than six months when
the widow was saiG 10 be looking ont
Ior ahother man. If it was singular for
tne oylng DodsWSrth purge his wife to
marry again, It Was still more singular
tna1 ne should qesire the ceremony to
DC performed Under the following cir
vi6
Ano IL Is Fnade incumbent on said
DodswoYr tn that in taking q new
nusoano mel marriage ceremony shall
pc per1orn&Pf in the big barn on my
larfn, on the Hood. h shall take
pace at og4io'clock in the evening, on
Inc mann h?ydr, without lights of any
description nth all doors saut, and a
liee lhVlta ia be extended toall. The
;leIgymanI hall stand in the stables
alu tne olT i9, and groom On The main
ceremony stH he dressed i, black
att
A WILING WIDOW.
The wiel sov 0rro,,ncad her ;ntentior
n al I'm 5lly obey in spirit and in letter
ne WI was probated, and the twelfth
nonIn I'd carcely PASSED before sh'
an imitation for the public t.
sIIehu d wedding at the big barn. Jus
NJ .he grolm was to be no one coulC
'c'' jiY assert, as the widow had BEEF
,ooPlnt company with a widower,
"nne II andtwo young men, and, a
81 % any outsider could judge, sh
ou ne as well as the other. Bein!
go cooking and talented, and havin!
100 ~De behind her, it was not strang
ne shCnld have q number of suit
She seemed to enter into the spirl
n yss., With great Zest, as also oil
ue u Minister; and, to further mystif
II sople in attendance, the bride er
IIleU = the barn alone at one door; an
ekf$aoom alone at another, and nc on
= IeN H4that the minister had arrived ur
L. voice was heard in the stables.
BOUND IN THE DARK.
~ here were at least 200 people pres
ho and each one understood that eve
ho striking of q match would brea
gill. Many jokes were passed an
- derable confusion existed, but {
va th the minister announced that a
hr1,1 ready. The ceremony was gon
f. .Fough with, and at its conclusion, tn
Eir having been q profound SUI
i" rj,n a rush was made for the bride
ro1 was kissed by a hundred men, an
Is then carried home, a distance OF
&c and a half, in a big arm-chair.
WHO IS I'll HUSBAND!
Now comes the mystery. When tt
/ dy was set down at her door the VII
.Awer, the bachelor and the two youn
ZEN each claimed to be her true an
awful husband. None of the crow
ould say who was the lucky man, tt
minister was at sea and the bride he
elf seemed to have doubts. The Wi
over was the man of her choice, but
the confusion he could have been hu
tied aside, md he did affirm that an a
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