The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-06-26
His Wedding Report.

The railroad reporter, with a map
spread before him, was busily en-
gagged building the last link of road
which was to connect the Y. Y. w.
and the g.. Ii. roads, forming a
grand trunk line between the imp0r-
tant points of A. and u. the local
traffic of which would pay operating
expenses, fixed charges five per cent,
quarterly dividends, with an occa-
sional scrip issue to holders of pre-
ferred paper. While thus engaged,
the society editor turned in his chair
pulled down his corsage, and said:
Are you much of ladies' manw
"Mc? Yes, am always on time,
although | may not look it." said the
railroad reporter, very calmly. ''At
one time was regular standard
guage, steel-rail, stone ballast swell,
but of late years | have uncoupled
from that sort of business and have
been running on different line"
ado you think you could relieve
me tonight of a recherche affair
among the creme della creme, and do
justice to the tout ensemble of the
soiree?'
II think | can, if there's time to
make that transfer without missing
connection"
"You'll be on time to witness the
denoucmcnt. It's the marriage of
Colonel D'Oille's daughter. Pay
strict attention to the brides costume
and write.up detailed description Of
it,"
"Thc railroad reporter took ont his
linen dustcs from the bottom of his
escritoirc, borrowed a chew of tobac-
co from the political reporter, and
started for the residence of Colonel
D'Onle.
Among the wedding notices the
next morning was the following:
"Last night large number of high
joints blockadcd the residence of Col
oncl D'Oille to witness the mrrriage
of his lovely daughter, Jeanne Bap-
tiste, to the Hon. John Quincy James
Jr Colonel D'Uillc was general man.
ager of the entire guest system, and
had his headquarters established inthe
dining-room, and only left his post
and the. .sideboard, where the gentle
man were frequently side-tracked for
repairs to go through the parlors on a
tripe of inspection. Mrs. D'Oille ac-
ted as commissioner of the guest pool
and superintendent of the dining SER
vice, and spent the most of her time
fixing the division of the supper
courses and seeing them forwarded
to their destination on schedule time
1t was in fact Miller platform, Yves.
tinghouse-brake, paper carwhccl oc.
casiOn. Just before the arrival of the
conductor who was to pull the bell.
cord for the matrimonial start Col
D'Oille left the sideboard and started
up grade with heavy load, and IN
consequence slipped an eccentric and
come into the parlor running on ont
side, but was tagged down in time
to prevent his jamniing his headlight
through bay window. The colonel
in stopping to fill his tank too often
lost the right of way and did not wit
ness the ceremony.
"The bride, slender beauty
was dressed in a flowing robe dt
chambre of yellow tinted bobine
muslin and lace. looped up at th'
sides with Hungarian pompadoul
of blue grenadine and fichus of Queer
Ann gimp. The dress was cut on al
incline of forty-eight degrees acroo
the shoulder and curved around un
der the left arm. The bosom Of th'
fair bride was surmounted with
trestle work of Louis XIV, lace, ant
; her waist was surfaced up and filled
with artificial flowers, made attrac
tive by several narrow-guage shor
! lines ofred trimming which skirtet
around and conferred at a common
terminal point on the crest other pol
onaise. Down the front of the rob
was midland route of antique bul
serge, intersected by numerous feed
ers Of costly fez merino.'-Chicag