The Russellville Democrat., 1880-01-08

. W re not present, or, if they were, must I h ye witnessed the brides marriage to l 70 telegraph operator, and that no cer- tificate could have been given specifying the lace of marriage.
 1 Among marriages that were odd in ] their manner of celebration may be | mentioned that of Mir. Horace Tell'and l Miss Jones on public road in Calvert county, Md, in July. They set out from home at : a. m., so.. did the clergyman, and at the point where they met the l happy couple were united on horsback ] beneath a shading oak.
 l June IS, at Monticello, Ill.. the Rev. Duncan MeMillan, of Utah, was united in marriage to Emily Kent Johnson, l daughter of the Rev. Adam Johnson, wh6 officiated The ceremony took place under two grand hickory trees, the branches above forming natural bower. Guests assembled under the trees, and the bride and groom came to the shade preceded by two little girls, who dropped I lilies on the path. A Mormon bishop named Allen performed an Ge fresco we'd ding on the line between Utah and Ma bvada, having one foot in the State and one Tn the Territory, while the bride was in Nayada and the groom was in 1 Utah.
 At New Haven, Conn, there was a marriage on the stage. At the close of the regular performance it was annouced that Mir. James Jones, of Jones X Cres- ton, the rife shots, would be united in marriage to Miss Josephine Blanchard, a member of the company. After Miss Farrand and the Ross sisters had finish ed dancing, the curtain was lowered and and the orchestra played the Wedding March," The curtain was then rung up, disclosing the happy pair surrounded by the entire company. After the applause the Peace. stepped forward and perform cd the service of the Episcopal Church. The audience kept order until the service was over, and then applauded and called the happy pair before the curtain.
 Among curious marriages in ane ther qe,rre may be mentioned that of Mir F.. Dixon Reid and Miss Carrie A. Perry, at l Philadelphia, August 26, the brides father performing the ceremony while the bridegroom was dying of consump- ton. The bride was widow two days 1 later. V
 At Quincy, H.. Mrs. Salina Downing got divorce for her husbands desertion and three hours later she had set out on her bridal trip as Mrs. Calvin Herring. This was outdone at Franklin, O., on the 10th of May, where, ten minutes after 1 Judge Hord had divorced Mrs. Hattie Danforth from her husband, he was called upon to marry her to Mr. Edward l Wilson
 A Georgia paper announces the mar riage, in Taylor county, of Mr. John l Childrews, twenty three years of age, to Mrs. James Bartlett, fifty-nine years of age, widow of three months standing. "Mr Childrews,' the paper added, lis poor, but worthy, young man, who has i for several years past been an employee of Mir. Bartlett. Mrs. Bartlett. being a lady of considerable wealth, has agreed to thoroughly educate her husband and he is now in attendance at Butler lnsti- l tute."
 At Berlin an aged gentleman wooed and won the young daughter of a poor widow, and on their marriage day made a will leaving her all his property, amounting to several hundred thousand marks. The marriage was celebrated in l brilliant style, and the weddedpair, with their guests. sat down to breakfast. Scarcely had the feasting begun when l the venerable brideeroom dropped his knife and sank back in his chair dead, from heart disease.
 Still more appalling was the case of a gentleman of seventy-Eve, residing in Munich. He was old, and sick nigh unto death, and on the day set for his
 wedding a handsome young girl i'll car riagc drove up to the door, four we'll dressed men got out, entered the house,
 rolled the ailing bridegroom up in his bed clothes, packed him into the vehicle and drove away. There is no clue to the old gentleman, and none to his abduct- ors; whether they were friends of the girls sweetheart, or members of his own disgusted family. w In the way of wholesale wedlock, at a
 recent wedding in Bowling Green, Ky,
 the four children of one farmer were
 married at one ceremony, three of them
 uniting with three children of another
 farmer, he
 Mrs, Benjamin Abbott, of smyrna, Del, may lay claim to being the cham
 pion widow, as she has just buried her
 seventh husband Her maiden name
 was Williams, and she has been success
 sively Mrs. Truax, Mrs. Riggs Mrs. Far
 row, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Berry, Mrs
 Pratt and Mrs. Abbot. In every in.
 stance save the first she has married
 widowers, some of them with children andon one occasion, in her early married life, she went to an almshouse and took from it three children and raised them
 She never had any children of her own
 All her life had been passed in tho
 neighborhood of smyrna, and all hel husbands were buried by the same un dertaker. She is eighty-six years old and four years ago married her las ! husband who was then seyenty-eigh years old. t-r