Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-14
MATRIMONIAL EccgarRrc1r1Rs.

We recollect a wedding at which. the
happy pair had no sooner been united
than, to the amazement of every one ex-
oept the officiating clergyman, who had
been let into the secret few minutes be-
fore, the eldest brother of the bride ad-
vanced with one of the blushing brides
maids, and requested that the ceremony
should be repeated for their behoof 1t
appearing that all the necessary legal and
other preliminariesh had been duly arranged,
the demand was complied with, and the
company had to celebrate two weddings in
stead of one. This recalls the case of an en-
terDrising widow, who, failing the appear
anoe at the eventful moment of her intend
ed second husband, utilized the occasion,
the clergyman and the company in
way which must call forth the admiration
of the most skilled diplomatist. She was
a bouncing young widow of %, and had
agreed 10 marry /" No. 3" as she playfuliy
termed him, in year and day from the
demise of me l." The happy day fell
on Wednesday, and the ceremony was TO
take place az the brides house. A mag
nifcent wedding feast was provided, aud
about sixty guests invited. The hour fixed
for the marriage was 6 P NJ. In the fore
noon the bridegroom arrayed himself IN
his best, and went off to invite a few
| friends in the country who had been over
| looked. Whether he happened TO take with
him a copy of the g Pickwick Papers, and
! came across Mr. Wellers famous advice
to his son Sam on the subject of 6 vidders,
will probably never be known but by this
or some other means he appears to have
| been reduced to a peculiarly yaclllatlng
state of mind with regard to the important
| step he was about to take for by the al
| ternoon post his bride-elect received from
him an intimation to the effect that he had
conscientious scruples as to marrying
woman so recently widowed. He would
make it matter of careful consideration,
and abide by the result of his subsequent
feelings. She was not to take this as
positive declinature but if he had not
arrived by 6 o'clock she might con-
slider the marriage off The widow did
not faint or go into Mysteries, but
decked herself in her bridal robes and
smilingly received the guests who had
been hidden to the feast. When all the
company had arrived the lady read to them
the communication she had received from
the recreant bridegroom. Loud and long
we're the denunciations it elected, and the
heroic bearing of the widow under
such trying circumstances was marked
and commended by all. d" This
need not prevent the feast" she
said and the banqueting began. The
feas5ing over, the room was cleared for
dancing, and everything went as mer-
rily as if the wedding had passed off
under the most favorable auspices. The
L h,on
elor, who had opened the ball with
the irrepressible widow, became so
enamored of her that before the evening
was far advanced he had proposed, and
what was more, had been accepted. The
minister was recalled, and at II P. M. the
wedding, though not the one for which the
guests had been assembled. was solemnized.
The ceremony had scarcely been performed
when the door-bell was violently rung and
in stalked the superseded bridegroom.
g Careful consideration had at length
overcome his conscientious scruples, and
he had come back to claim his bride-only,
however, to be introduced to her as the
wife of another. Served him right.
The very act of marrying at all is In
some instances most eccentric proceed.
ing. What, for example, could be more
absurd than the recent marriage, in
small agricultural village in England, of
couple whose united ages came to l56, the
bridegroom being II, snd the bride 81?
Nor was this the only peculiar feature OF
| this extraordinary union. The bride
groom's Christian name was Thomas,
and the brides Mary and this was
the third Mary that Thomas had selected
as his partner, while it was also the third
Thomas to whom Mary had been united
by the conjugal bond. To crown all, both
were in receipt of parochial relief to the
extent of two shillings and loaf each per
week. -lChs mbers journal.