Daily Republican., 1882-08-10
A MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE.

embarrassing Position OF o New
York Produce Broker and hiI
Sweetheart.
Passing strange IS the way of a mar
with maid whom he wishes tn marry
and the strangeness frequently Increases
to romantic proportions when the mar.
rage ardor is famed by tender COM
mnniOn along the sad sea waves or un-
der the fragrant shadow of armountain
grove 1t is rarely. however, that the
Rrotesque aspects of hasty marriage
are more amusingly shown than by the
nuptials OF Mr.. Louis Mills, a New
York produce broker, son of s B. Mills,
the pianist, and his Brooklyn bride,
Miss e. L. Laty, at midnight on Satur-
de-" lac at hotel at Long Beach,
Long ] AMI.
rat uag couple had been betrothed
for - rust month and their wedding
day vas fixed two weeks hence, an in
saIvu which must have seemed to them
iiGe an eternity. They ran down from
the sitting city in the afternoon train
and wandered far along the sands, COM
muning with themselves and Old Ocean
and exchanging VOWS, all unconscious
how the hours sped away. But the
Long Beach trains, like time and tide,
wait for no man, or woman either, and
when the infatuated produce broker
pulled out and gazed at his stem win
ding watch he realized that he was left,
and left with charming, highly con.
nected, eminently respectable and en-.
tirely unprotected young woman upon
his hands.
The broker and his betrothed were
registered at a hotel where three OF
four hundred people were living, with
many of whom tho young couple were
acquainted, but still they felt as if they
had been cast ashore on an uninhabited
Island, the sole survivors of a ship
wreck.
The young man talked of charteriDg
o special and rushed to find the railway
employees, while the damsel haZarded
wild and agitated conjectures as to
what mamma and Mrs. Gruudy would
say.
No train could be had nor were the
oottage.owning friends of the unfortu-
nate pair able to offer the lady refuge.
The hotel man extinguished the last
ray Of hope by she announcement that
there was but one vacant room in the
house. The sensitive broker then pro-
posed to sit up all night or walk four
miles to the next hotel, leaving the
room for his sweetheart. But this un-
selfish proposition was ridiculed by the
large and sympathizing crowd of ao-
quaintances who had gathered to con-
dole with the unfortunate young man.
They stirred up the manager to fresh
and finally another vacant
room at the opposite end of the long
hotel was found and the lovers bade
each other an agitated good night and
vanished.
But the terrors of the situation prey
ID upon the excited broker and In few
he reappeared at the office and
to know if there was priest
In the hotel and announced his inten-
lion OF avoiding all compromising COM.
ment by a marriage then and there.
q clergyman was among
the guests and he was reused from
,lumber, and after strict investigation
0f the merits Of the case he consented to
unite the embarrassed couple. All the
world loves lover aud the young pro-
luce broker was received with rare en-
;husiasln when he rushed to the Office,
erased his earlier entries and registered
lnew as q min with a wife. The happy
pair took the early train for New York
IN Sunday morning and have probably
lot yet ceased to wonder at the facility
with which people can get married when
hey once make up their minds to do it.