River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-16

next DAY, MS butcher informed him that tia
bill was counterfeit, his patience was ex-
hausted he enclosed the note to the ann
posed offender, accompanied by few scath-
ing lines. The prompt detection and ex-
posture OF the offender, and the replacement
the original gratuity by one equally
handsome, followed as matter of course.
some churches are more popular than 9th
ers. Trinity church, for years after ito com
pietion, was fevorite resort of blusbino
brides and their grooms. People used to
come from other States to be married az
Trinity. Wedding parties intending to make
the tour of Europe went there because of its
convenience. Its location. its size. and The
impressive memories associated with it. as
one OF the oldest and wealthiest churches in
the country, long made it favorite wedding
center, and 1t IS still patronized largely for
that purpose. Trinity chapel, in West
Twenty-nfth street, is fashionable place for
weddings, and its services are almost
constantly in requisition. OF the
churches on Murray Hill, st. Thomas.
at Fifty-second street. is considered
the most aristocratic. The we'd
ding fees paid here are reputed to be the
largest in amount of any church in the city.
DIR. Howard Crosby's, on Fourth avenue
and Twenty-second street, is another favor
lite church.
One of the assistant ministers of Trinity
church at one time used to average from
two to five marriages day, while popular
rabbi up town has officiated at nearly 1000
weddings.
A clergyman of this city who was called
upon to marry the son of one of his thrift
lest members, was astonished at receiving no
fee. Six months afterward the heart of the
lIGaDnn1ntQ1 acfn f,Ia INV ha
sight of bag of the finest Mocha coffee,
which the member-a grocer-sent as a sub
stitute. Soon afterward a second son of the
grocer was married, and, after waiting the
same length of time, two bags of Mocha APP
peared. The legend does not relate whether
the grocer had many sons: if he had, his
pastor would soon have been able to COM
pete with him in business.
One day couple who called at Trinity
had no ring. The minister told the groom
that if he didn't have one of gold a silver
one would do. But the groom didn't have
even that, and after scurrying around the
neighborhood in search of something within
his means, came back with brass one, and
was married with it
| The genial chaplain of one of our crack
| city regiments tells the following: 81 was
once called on TO marry fine, hearty young
German, and his fraulein, pretty, blue-eyed
| little thing, SO SHY and modest that she
| could hardly speak. When | got through
the husband asked me how much it was
'"Give me- said, las much as you love
your wife,
he looked tenderly down into the blush
ing, appealing face that nestled alongside of
| him, and then, diving his big, burly fist in
to his pocket, brought it ont running over
with silver and gold. 1t was large fee, but
he assured me that he could afford it, and,
not to hurt his feelings, | took it,
former Clergyman of the Trinity church
was importuned by an Irish laborer and his
sweetheart, Tno wanted to be married. They
were too poor to pay fee they said, but they
would remember him with thankfulness to
the last day of their lives. Ascertatning that
there was no impeachment the doctor per-
formed the ceremony, whereupon the thrifty
groom asked "his riverance' for the trifling
loan of half dollar to get a nights
lodging!
An east side clergyman had bride and
groom who were poor and proud. When the
service was over, the bridegroom indignant
ly refused to be married gratis, and insisted
on fishing fifty cents in pennies and five
cent pieces out of his pocket. The grooms-
man, not to be outdone in hberaGty, added
another fifty cents from his own store.
Besides the clergyman's fee, it is usual in
fashionable churches to give fee to the
sexton for opening the church. In Trinity
and Trinity Chapel, this is IS, but in some
of the fashionable churches the Incidental ex-
penses amount to $40 or $50. When Catholics
marry Protestants, a dispensation has to be
procured from the Pope. Authority is given
to the bishop to grant these dispensations as
be sees fit, and a fee of IS, enormously called
a "dispensation fee,'' is paid to the clerks of
the chancery office on their furnishing the
required document.
Justices of the peace charge anywhere
from seventy five cents to IS. Mayor Hall
used to charge So for performing marriages
in the city hall, the money going to the
clerks and hangers-on to drink the brides
health. Mayor Havemeyer usually pocketed
his fees, and insisted on kissing the bride
in the bargain.