Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-01-27
Queer People In Ohio.
A REsrEcrAsLs YouSe LADY MARRIED
TWICE IN ONE DAY.

put up at the Lang House, securing one of the
best rooms in the hotel, and explaining to
the proprietor, Judge Lang. that he was to be
married here to-day. Young Wyant was
well dressed and, although stranger
carried in his face the evidences of an honest,
upright aud respectable young gentleman,
and everything was done to make the wedding
an affair of respect and credit. Young
Wyant went to the Probate Judges office bv
o'clock and procured license to marry
Melissa j. Remsburg, young lady of his
Immediate neighborhood, near Kansas sta
ton, the daughter of respectable farmer
and only child. who was bright and intelligent,
and had on Christmas celebrated her
eighteenth birthday.
For four years young Wysnt had been the
accepted suitor of Miss Remsburg, and for
three years had they been betrothed, and the
day when they two should be made one under
the law was fixed to be Immediately upon
the removal ofparental restraints by Melissa's
celebrating her majority. The watchful
parents of Melissa had determined otherwise.
They were resolved that Melissa should be
the wife of another, young man named
Wesley NJ. Kline, respectable farmer boy,
who resided some five or six miles distant in
another neighborhood over in jackson town
ship. Melissa treated Kline courteouslv,
and entertained him as became an obedient
child to please her parents. but declared her
preference for Wyant
Last Thursday Melissa met Chauncey Wv.
ants brother on the highway, and slyly hand
ed him a sealed envelope addressed to
"Chauncey J. Wyant, Kansas, Ohio" and
requested the young gentleman to be particu-
lar, and hand it to Chauncey. The letter was
delivered as requested, and Chauncey was.
as he believed and had reason to believe, the
favored one. Although it should be said that
he did not even suspect that Melissa was in
any danger of becoming the wife Of Young
Kline, he had believed the difficulty solely to
be the opposition of the Gemsburg parents.
The note mentioned above read thus Dear
Chauncey-Be at Tifiin on next Monday, or
the next day after Christmas. BE at the Lang
House. Remember the place. Get your IL
cense on Monday morning early, and if you
would get the Evangelical minister to be
there, at Tifiin. it will be all right. for we
want to get married at Tiffin As soon as YOU
get your license. Have all arrange
ments right and be at the Lang House.
intend to go to Bettsvilc and 90 up on the
train on Monday morning. and you can have
your license and the minister will be at the
Lang House by ! or II o'clock sure. | will
be at the Lang House at IL o'clock, and If
you are not there by II o'clock | will give
you up, for | cannot wait any longer. will
explain all when see you"
Yesterday morning Wesley NJ. Kline and
Melissa J. Remsburg, accompanied by two
ladies, arrived in Tit1n on the train from
Toledo, and took a carriage to the Empire
House. They remained there short time,
and then ssuntered out on the streets, the
four together. No trace is had of them for
the day.
At . 80 o'clock, Melissa appeared at the
Lang House with waterproof thrown over
her head. The minister, the Rev. DIR. l.. II.
kefauver, who had been with the about-to be
groom patiently since =. NJ, was ready,
and after the lady's at the hotel quickly ar
ranged Melissa's toilet, Cbaunccy l.. Wyant
and Melissa J. Remsburg we're declared by
the Rev ID. d., in due form, husband and
wife, and he sealed the matter with. "Whom
God hath joined together let no man put
asunder.. Melissa Immediately put on her
cloak, aud said she had an errand she must
go down street. Her husband offered to 90
with her. She said "No, I must 20 alone.
You stay here. will be here again at pre-
cisely o'clock" and at that she glded down
the stairs and disappeared. Ten minutes
later she appeared at the Probate Judges
Office with young Kline, and Kline asked for
license for himself and Melissa j. Rems-
burg to marry. Judge Bum remarked
"Why, issued license once to-day for you
to marry" addressing himself to Miss Rems-
burg.
II guess not" said She The Judge turned
the record over to her and said, "See for
yourself She looked at it with seeming
curiosity and remarked: "well, that's ahead
of my time. He must either be crazy, or
am" 'Do You know Mr.. wyant," inquired
the Judge of the girl, who seemed perfectly
cool and calm. eyes, he's a neighbor Of
ours; but haven't consented to anything of
the kind, was her answer. pointing to the
record. 81 never authorized him to get
license. | haven't seen Mr.. Wyant, to speak
to him, for five or six weeks" BY this time
Kline became somewhat nervous, and quzzed
Melissa about the matter, but she stoutly de-
MED that she had known ANYTHING about
Wyant for several weeks, and could not un-
derstand why he should have procured a IL
cense. Kline said he had been in her COM
pany all day except for the past hour The
license was then issued TO Wesley w. Kline
and Melissa J. Remsburg, and Kline sent
Commissioner ChiIjs out for magistrate,
refusing to go himself and leave Melissa. II
want to be married here" he declared.
Soon Mayor Noble was brought to the Pro-
bate Judges Office, and after some testing,
young Kline and Melissa were married by
Mayor Noble in due form and declared by
him to be man and wife at 4. 20, so that, in fact
Melissa j. Remsburg was married twice
within the space Of twenty-five minutes time
by the clock. Melissa, with husband No. 2.
returned TO the Empire house. Kline ordered
carriage to drive him and his wife TO Ben
ton. Crawford county. They left orders for
their baggage to be sent to Defiance, Ohio,
entered the carriage, and started south in
the direction Of Benton. Melissa asked
the driver if he could get them to Bascom, a
station six miles west Of here on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad. before the 7.48 train
went west. Being answered in the affirma-
tive, the double wife ordered the driver to
take them to Bascom, where they were land
ed and iook the 7.4S train west.
Young Wyant got word Of what had oc-
Cured at the Probate Judges Office, and
rushed to the Empire House, but the truant
wife of ten minutes, with her second hus-
band, had gone. The young man for short
time was almost broken down, but he rallied
and conducted himself discreetly and man.
fully. He returned home this forenoon to
await further Developments. Cleveland Her
aid.
Any father who goes out and puts tar on
top Of his front gate after dark must be lost
n all sense of humanity.-Not 20 the one
who buys bottle Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
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