The Benton weekly record., 1882-11-30
MARRIED ONLY IN JEST.
Complications Over a Knot That
a CoIored Preacher Tied


New YORK, Nov. 12.-The Rev. Voss
Neal, an aged colored man, Of 65 Troy
avenue, Brooklyn, is on six days Of the
week packer in Oyington Bros. china
store at 248 Fulton street, Brooklyn. On
the seventh day he breaches IN Bethel
Methodist Episcopal Church, at sehenec-
tady and Dean avenues. He is very old,
very moderate in his movements, and his
scanty locks are thickly sprfnkled with
gray. He is of an accommodating dlspo-
sition, and when pretty Gussie Cropsy,
the little black-eyed salesWonan, present.
ed herself before him in the basement last
Friday accompanied by Will Everingham,
clerk, who is the nephew Of the Owing
toms and the reputed heir to a large es-
tate, and with great merriment requested
him to ''marry them,o the old man put
the usual questions with great solemnity,
and sent them away with the injunction TO
60 and get certificate and he would till
it out. When a few hours later Miss
Cropsey was accosted by her fellow clerks
as "N1rs. Eyeringham," she professed to
be amused, but the day after was very in
dignant, and said there was no use Of car
rying the fun any further.
ssFun? 20 said a fellow clerk; .ssto you
call it fun? You're married as fast as any
woman who ever lived. Do you mean" to
say You didn't know that Voss is "a minis
ter?'
Everingham was summoned, and was
apparently thunderstruck at the informa-
ton. He had considered it joke to ask
Voss to marry them. Of course, it could
not be a marriage.
'sBut it is," his fellow clerks replied,
and nothing can change it'll now. You are
| man and wife, and had better make the
| best Of it.''
The Rev. Yoss Neal was sitting last
evening in the rear chamber of his dwell
ing. His coat was off, and his stocking
clad feet rested in a chair. He laid aside
newspaper as the reporter entered, and
"Did [ marry Will and zGussie? Come,
| now! This things gone far enough.
I've heard nothing but marry, marry, for
! the last week, and I've been kept up high
long enough. It's q plenty bad to have a
hundred clerks diggin' it into your ears
without their putin up strangers :. to
| it?
0But it is claimed that you took adya.l-
| tage Of the ignorance Of the two young
people, and when they came to you in q
frolic tied them up in earnest. = asa
"Well, just wish had. But it was all
in fun. There's no marriage to it. They
| haven't got certificate, and haven't re-
turned one of these blanks to the Health
Department. Why, ] do lots Of marryin'
I'm too old to make such mistake as
that"
swell, you must own it was q good
joke?"
"a good joke! Well, ! should say SO.
But they We carried it far enough down to
the store, and wish they'd drop it. I've
really been mad about il once Or twice,
but there's no use grumblin' about their
sassy tricks They will have their fun
with the old man, and when q lot g young
folks think they're doing something smart
you can't tell them anything
81 suppose they've exaggerated it.
How did it really occur?''
"Why, ! was sitting by the stove in the
basement eating my dinner, when these
two come tearin, down and says Marry
u.s. with lots of gigglin' and carryin, on.
'sWhat's your name?" I said to the
boy, and he said Joe johnson.
"What's yeurs:''
'sMiss Crimp."
"We1l, said, Joe Johnson, will you
have this woman to be your Wife?"
ssYes.''
'sAnd, Miss Crimp, you'll have this
man to be your husband?'
eyes,
sWeI, that's all. Now you're marri-
ed. Co and get your certificate and fill it
out.''
ssDon't you call that legal marri-
age?"
ssNo, no. OF course not. They were
on a gale, and it was all in fun. They
didn't think of getting married, and |
didn't think of marryn' EN-. It's all in
the motive, you know. Sides, ] did't say
You are man and wife. >,
ssWhat if the young lady should say she
was not in fun ?''
"W-e-l-l, that might raise question.
But she won't say anything Of the kind,
s.I think will see young Everingham. y
'sDon't do it now. You takemy advice
/ if you know when you're well off Don't
you doit. He's in q bad frame of mind.
The clerks have been at him every day.
They have congratulated him and sent
their congratulations by mail, and they've
asked when the reception was comm of,
and he was goin' to Greenpoint on his
weddin' trip. His language has been aW-
full. Profanity don't no way describe il.
II was his nearest friend wouldn't
mention the subject to him.
'eHoW does Miss Cropsey feel e,
ssShe cried once or twice about i, but
lately she's been more resigned. Mr.. Hall,
the floor walker, fined them both 80 cents