Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-24
ONNUBIALITIES.

1t Is said that David Davis gave his
bride $500. 0O0 In cash and bonds.
A lively accident insurance agent issued
policies for 500, 900 on o single wedding
party from Denver to Chicago.
Senator Harrison's son, who has grewn
rich in the Montana mines, will soop marry
the daughter of Senator Saunders, of Ne
braska.
Ristori's daughter received a dowry Of q
million lire upon her recent marriage to
Bacourt, the former secretary of the
French legation at Rome.
"A young Baltimore woman. actuated by
no matrimonial considerations, has re.
nounced Methodism and made q formal
profession Of the Jewish faith.
A young lady living near New Orleans
has chartered O steamer and is to be mar.
ried on board. After the ceremony the
boat will take all present up the Missis-
sippi for o protracted tour of which she
bears all expenses. Ia wiz ~.n 49,.
How q man may be divorced legally
from a woman to whom he has never been
married legally, has been demonstrated by
o st. Paul judge. who granted o decree of
absolute divorce to a single man who had
been married" to q woman whose undi-
vorced husband is still living. The court
admitted that the first.named marriage
was no marriage at all, and yet h~egranted
the decree.
But the thirty.eight letters which the
Earl Of Dalhousie will get from bachelor,
benedict and widower governors, giving
| their observations upon family quarrels-
what curiosities of literature! we almost
regret that Claiborne j. jackson is not
| now governor of Missouri. 40 that he
might make the response to Dilhousie for
our state He could have written his ex-
perience, for he married four sisters, all
there were in the family, and 1t is related
that when he asked the father for his con.
cent to marry the last one, the old man
ripped out an oath and said, Eyes, take
her, but for Gods sake don't come after
the old woman when Sally is gone"
Stilson Hutchins, the editor Of the
Washington Post, was married o few days
ago to q Miss Brady, for some timea clerk
In one Of thu depaytments at Washington
and also = -SyspAPN correspondent Of
some ability. Mr.. Hutchins was some time
since divorced from hig first wife, from
years. Two sons lived with him, and q
daughter with Mrs. Hutchins. On the
wedding day Mrs. Hutchins, from her
home In New Hampshire, sent q letter to
her former lord, wishing him all the hap.
piness and prosperity, together with that
contentment In his second marriage which
he had failed to lind In bis first.
A Nodaway county jury ordered that
Mr.. John Martin Brodrick should serve
three and q half years in the penitentiary
for seducing Sarah LeonA tanning under
promise of marriage. But Brodrick'i
father put 81, 200 in the hands Of q truste,
/ to be invested In real estate for Sarah anc
her heirs. on condition that she woulc
| marry his son and thus save him from tn,
| p~enitentiary. The trial had fully vindi
Gated the young girls character, and undo,
r the advice of friends she consented. In
stead of booming the youth to o convict
fate, the judge performed the ceremon.
. which made them mar and wife; and now
' II the young man does not made q goo,
4 husband. Sarah will ct least have q it'll
I home of her own,