Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-24
MARRIAGE NOTICES.
a Curious Mistake OF Minister
How IL Game Near Getting In the
Newspaper.

An amusing mistake OF 8 minister came
near to seeing light in the MORNING. NEWS
some weeks since. The item is too good to
be kept forever from the world, but pro-
priety forbade its publication at the time 1t
occurred. 1t is now too late, however, for
the personnel of the story to be identified,
and telling it will therefore do no harm and
wound no ones sensibilities.
The day after certain wedding the Rev.
Mr.. Blank. to whom had been delegated
the duty Of informing the public through
the columns Of the press that two loving
hearts would no longer futter In single
wretchedness, called at the counting room
of the MORNING NEWS and handed In
a marriage notice written In the usual
stereotyped form. The advertisement
or rather to use q more - 'tnetlc term,
announcement-Was filed, and was In
fair way to get to the printer, when the
clergyman hurriedly re- entered the once,
which he had left short while previously,
and requested the return OF the notice,
stating that the names in It were incorrect;
z at the parties therein mentioned were not
vet bound together for better or for worse. He
explained that this mixing up OF happiness
occurred in this wise: He had returned the
certificate of the marriage to the Ordinary'e
office for record as required by law,
and failed to make a memorandum OF the
names, and che oversight did not occur to
him until he remembered that he had been
requested to put notice of the marriage In
the paper. By some mental process he. In
thinking the matter over, got the names OF
a couple whom he was to marry that even
ing mixed up with those he had already
united the previous night, aud so
he wrote the announcement and
brought it to the office for publication.
After he had, as he thought, fulfilled his
duty, and had nearly reached his home, 1t
occurred to him that the names In the mar
rage notice were not those Of the parties
whom he had joined together In we'd
lock. and so satisfied was he that
there was a mistake that he went
again to the Ordinary's office, and,
looking over the certificate he had handed
in, discovered that his apprehensions were
we'll founded. Luckily the error was cor
rected In time; but little more absent
mindedness would probably have caused a
lively interview the next day in the MORN
ING News counting room. "All's well that
ends WE'LL" however, and the simon pure
marriage notice appeared in due form.
This incident reminds US that a very
ludicrous and at the same time painful mis-
take occurred some years since regarding
marriage notice. A gentleman about to
become q benedict, and wanting his friends
to know it without delay, intrusted to late
boon companion the solemn duty of having
duly herslded the important event which
was to make "the happiest day OF his life, I"
as 1t were. The friend mistoOk the day, or,
from some cause or other, travelled ahead
of mundane affairs, and inserted the mar
rage notice day before the proper time.
The next morning it took all the clerks In
the Office and several press room hands to
hold the to-be bridegroom while matters
were satisfactorily adjusted.
As the matrimonial market is quite active
at this time, It will be well for those inter
ested in making public these important
events to be sure they are right, and then
90 ahead. The price of marriage notices
have not gone up with the other necesssries
of life. One dollar will secure public an
nouneement OF such suspicious events.