Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-30
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Complication Deer Knot that a ColOred
Preacher Tied--Intended as q Joke, Bat
Made to Wear a ScriOns -4spect--The Id
Venture OF Pretty .Saies,cOnian and a
Brooklyn Clerk.
New York Sun.
The Rev. Voss Neal, an aged colored man
of 63 Troy avenue, Brooklyn, is on six days
of the week packer in Ovington Bros
china store at 248 Fulton street, Brooklyn.
On the seventh day he breaches in Bethel
Methodist Episcopal church, at Schenec-
tady and Dean avenues. He is very old
very moderate in his movements, and his
s;anty locks are thickly sprinkled with
gray. He is of an accommodating dispo-
sition, and when pretty Gussle Cropsy,
the little black-eyed saleswoman, presented
herself before him in the basement last
Friday accompanied by Will Everingham, a
clerk, who is the nephew of the Ovingto MS
and the reputed heir to large estate, and
with great merriment requested him to
marry them," the old man put the usual
questions with great solemnity, and sent
them away with the Injunction to go and
get a certificate and he would fill it out.
When few hours later Miss Cropsy was
accOsted by her fellow clerks as Mrs Ev-
eringham," she professed to be amused,
but the day after was very indignant, and
said there was no use of carrying the fun
any further.
"Fun," said fellow-clerk; ''do 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 a joke to ask
not be marriage.
and nothing can change it now. You are
man and wife, and had better make the
best of it.''
The Rev. Voss Neal was sitting last even
ing in the rear chamber of his dwelling.
HIS coat was Off, and his stocking clad feet
rested in chair. He laid aside his news
paper as the reporter entered, and looked
up over his glasses.
did I marry VIII and Gussie +? Come,
now. This things gone far enough. I've
heerd nothing but marry, marry, for the
last week. and I've been kept up high long
enough. It's plenty bad to have hun
dred clerks dingin' it in your ears without
their putting up strangers to it.'
But it is claimed that you took advan-
tage of the ignorance of the two young
people, and when they came to you in a
frolic tied them up in earnest
''Well. just wish had. But it was all
in fun. There's no marriage to it. They
haven't got a certificate, and I haven't re-
turned one of these blanks t6 the health
department. Why, do lots of marryin'
I'm too old to make such a mistake as
that
well, you must own it was a good
joker"
"A good joke! Well, I should say SO.
But they've carried it far ENOUGH down to
the store. and 1 wish they'd drop it. I've
really been mad about it once or twice,
but there's no use grumblin' about their
sassy tricks. They will have their fun with
the old mau, and when a lot O. young folks
think they're doin' something smart you
can't tell them anything"
Il 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 tearing down and says, Marry
u.s. with lots of gigglin' and carrin' on"
"'Whats your name!' I said to the boy.
and he said Joe Johnson
What yours?'
- Miss Grim
"'Well,' said, Joe Johnson, will you
have this woman to be your wife?'
eyes,
"'And, Miss Crimp, you'll have this man
to be y 'ur husband:'
Eyes.
"'Well, that's all. Now you're m a-ried.
Go and get a certificate AMI I'll fill it
OUT"
Don't you call that a legal marriags?'.
mo, no! OF course not. They we're on
gale, and it was all in fun. They didn't
think of getting married, and di INT
think of marryin' 'em. It's all in the mo-
tive, you know. sides I didn't say you
are man and wife,"
''What if the young lady shou'd say she
was not in fun?''
WELL, that might raise questi on
But she won't say anything of the kind
Il think will see young Esering ham,"
Don't do it, now. You take my advice
if you know when you're well Off. Don't
you do it! He's in bad frame of mind
The clerks have been at him every day.
They've congratulated him and Sc, their
congratulations by mail, and they've asked
when the reception was comm Of, and if
he was goin' to Greenport on his weddin'
trip. His language has been awful. Pro-
family don't no way describe it. If was
his nearest friend I wouldn't mention the
subject to him."
''How does Miss Cropsy feel?"
''She cried once Or twice about it, but
lately she's been more resigned. Mr.. Hall,
the floor walker, fined them both fifty cents
for leaving the floor without permission.
Fact is, it's been pretty rough joke ali
round, and when they all ask me who Pm
goin' to marry next fee like giving 'em
piece of my mind
Mr.. Everingham and Miss Cropsy
were not to be found last evening.
clerk said:
'Of course it was genuine marriage.
and has been the talk of the neighborhood.
lis stated, on what seems to be good an
thority, that large sums have been offer d
to Miss Cropsy by Everingham's friends to
put the matter at rest by declaring that it
is not IN arriage, and that she has refused
to do so. They have been acquainted for
ID ho.