Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-30
God moves in a mysterious way,
4 DULUTH LOVER.

He Comes to st. Paul to Wed and Pays
Three Dollars for Bogus Marriage at
the A1hambra-The Police Recover the
Money and Now He Proposes to be Mar
ried for One Dollar.
He was from Duluth, the zenith city, made
famous throughout the length and breadth
of the land by the eloquent panesyric of |
Proctor Knott-Duluth, the future great city |
of the nnsalted sen, where young men who
have followed Horace Greeley's advice grow |
up with the pumpkins and the country. and
become gorgeous, Respondent greenhorns.
His name was Jacob. He resembled the
Jacob of Holy Writ in one thing. at least.
He loved. But her name wasn't Rachel, but
Sophie. Sophie was tender-hearted maiden
who hibernated in the southern part of the
State. She loved Jacob, and at his com
mand she left her home, her
chickens and her pigs and came to
st. Paul to meet and to wed him. Jacob
also left his luxurious home in the zenith
city, and taking railroad ticket and S13.65
in his pocket, he arrived on the morning
train yesterday, and sought out his Sophie
with his heart trimming over with love and
his pocket with peanuts. The two devoted
ones were not long in finding each other,
and arm in arm they started out to find a
magistrate who had the legal authority to
make them one flesh. 1t was no eaay mat
ter, for neither of them were posted as to
the whereabouts of these officials. In sore
perplexlty, after wandering up and down
Third street several times, they applied to
a gentlemanly appearing fellow for
assistance in finding justice.
They took the stranger into the
confidence, told him of their love, of their
hopes, and their desires. Jacob wanted to
be hitched to his Sophie right away, and en-
treated the stranger to pilot them. He did
SO. He knew of limb of the law who
placed the letters j. P. after his name, and
who was proficient in the process of uniting
fond hearts in matrimony. He took them
down to the Alhambra where gentlenanly
bartender was introduced as the magistrate.
He asked Jacob if he would have Sophie to
be his lawful welded wife. "You bet," was
Jacobs response. "And thou, Sophie, wilt
thou have this man to be your husband?'
Sophie wilted They were marched and
countermarched through the rows of chairs,
caused to embrace and osculate repeatedly,
to measure and remeasure sundry ''yards of
cloth.'' to Jump the broomstick and pass
through an ordeal that would have astonished
a member of the Ancient Order of a
Thousand and One. Finally, when the boys
had got all the fun out of the couple that
could be had, they let them go, Jacob bear
ing with him what purported to be certifi-
! cate of marriage in the pocket nearest his
heart, but poorer in worldly pelf by S3 than
, when he walked into the trap.
Arrived at their hotel they proceeded te
inspect their marriage certificate, when 10
it turned out to be a blank sheet of paper
Distracted by doubt, smarting from the los
of his 49,. Jacob rushed for police head
quarters, and procuring the assistance o
Capt. Clark, he started out for vengeance ant
his SO. The Alhambra was visited and Pa
! Connolly confronted with the irate Duluthian
= Pat confessed the imposition. and forket
. over the So, which were eagerly grasped b.
> Jacob. 81 knew it was a fraud, y he exclaimed
= as he departed, 'for can get married IL
! Duluth for ST. And he started out to fin,
9 a g nuine justice who would do the bushes
= up brown for ST. note