The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-05
MARRIED ONLY IN JEST.
Complications Over a Knot
That a Colored Preacher
Tied.
Intended as a Joke, but Made to
Wear Serious Aspect-The
Adventure Of q Pretty
Saleswoman and a
Brooklyn Clerk.

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 Owing
ton Bros china store at 24S Fulton street,
Brooklyn. On the seventh day he breaches
in Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, at
schenectady and Dean avenues. He is
very old, very moderate in his movements,
and his scanty locks are thickly sprinkled
with gray. He is of an accommodating
disposition, and when pretty Guss;e Crop
sy, the little black-eyed saleswoman, pre-
scented herself before him i'm the basement,
last Friday, accompanied by Will Everipg-
ham, q clerk, who Is the nephew of the
OvingtOns, 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 solemniiy, and
sent them away with the Injunction to go
and get certificate and he would fill il
out. When ftw hours later he was &C.
costed bv her /. low clerks as Mrs. Ever:
ingham," size pretended to be amused, but
the day after Was very indignant, and said
there was no Use OF carrying the fun any
further
-F,.i?" said fellow clerk; do you call
II ,anr You're married as last as any wo-
man who ever lived. Do you mean to say
YOU didn't know that Voss is a minister ?''
Everingham was summoned, and was ap-
parently uhunderstruck at the information
lie had considered it a joke to ask Voss to
marry them. OF course, it could not be a
marriage.
"But it is" his fellow clerks replied.
'and nothing can change it now. You are
man and wife, and had better make the
best OF it."
The Rev. V0ss Neal was sitting LIS.
evening in the rear or amber of his dwell
ing. His coat was cd, and his stocking
clad feet rested in chair He laid aside
his newspaper as the reporter entered, and
looked up over his glasses.
"Did marry Will and Gussie? Come,
nowI 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 a hun
dred clerks digin' it in your ears without
their putin up strangers to IT,"
"But 1T is claimed that you took advan-
tage OF the ignorance OF the two young peo-
pie, and when they came TO you in frolic
tied them up in earnest"
SWELL, just wish had But it was all
in fun. There's no marriage to il. They
haven't got a certificate, and haven't re-
turned one of these blanks to the health
department. Why. do lots of marryin'.
Pun too old to make sch . mistake as
that"
"Well, you must own it was a good
joker"
"a good joke! Well, should say SO.
But they've carried it far enough, down to
the store, and wish they'd drop it. Ive
really been mad about it once or twice, but
there's no use grumhling about their sassy
tricks. They will have their fun with the
old man, and when q 10: o. young folks
think they're doin' something smart you
can't tell them anything"
81 suppose they've exaggerated it. How
did it really occurT
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 yonr name" / said to the boy,
and he said Joe Johnson
What's yours%
"Miss Crimp."
"Well," said, Joe johnson, will you
have this woman to be your wife"
Yea"
"And. Miss Crimp. yos'll have this nan
to be your husbaDd?"
"'Yes.'"
"sWell, that's all. Now ysu'rs mar.
ried. Go and get your certificate and I'll
ell e OUT"
"Don't You call that legal marriage :"
mo, mol Of course not. They were on
. gale, and it was all in fun. They didn's
think Of getting married, and I didn't
OF msRryin' 'em. It's all in the motive,
you know. Sides, didn't cay you are
man and wife,"
"whas if the young lady should net say
she vas net in funT
"W-s-ll, that might raise . question.
But she won't say anything Of the kind"
II think ] will see young Everinghan."
Don't do il now. You take my advice
If You knew when you're well of. 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 sent their
BY mail, and they've asked
when the reception was comm of. and If
he was gein' to Greenpoint On his weddiu'
trip. His language has bsen awful. Pro-
family don't no way describe it. If I vas
bis nearest friend / would net mention the
subject to him."
5 How does Miss Cropsy ieelf'
she cried once or twice, but lately
she's been more resigned. NJ. Hall, tie
floor walker, sned them both City cents for
leaving the floor without permission.
Fact is, it's been . pretty rough joke all
'rosnd, and when they all ask me vino I'm
goin' to marry next l feel like givin' q
piece of my mind"
Mr.. Everingham and Miss Cropsy were
sot to be found last evening. A clerk
said:
"Of course it was genuine marriage,
and has been the talk of the neighborhood.
II is stated, on what seems to be pretty
good authority, that large sums have been
offered to Miss Cropsy by Everingham's
friends to put the matter at rest by declsr-
ing that it is not . marriage, and that she