Arizona silver belt., 1884-03-01
A BRIDAL TOUR DELAYED.
A Jolly Time In . Vermont Farm. house, While the Snow Fell Thick. ly Outside and Shut In Bride and Groom
from the New York Times.l

field, a little village in the heart of Franklin county, there resided, until quite recently, Miss Mariana McEnan- ey, the belle of the settlement. She had been wooed and won by MT. Barrett, of this town. The wedding day was fixed. Mir. Barrett went from here to Fairfield to claim his bride. With him went several of his friends, old and young. Fairfield happened to be some distance from railroad, and the party drove to the residence of the brides parents. They reached the hospitable McEnaney mansion in the midst of driving snow-storm. The welcome to the groom and his friends was as hearty as such welcomes customarily are. The brides friends were present in goodly numbers; and the wedding party as jolly as such parties can be. During the ceremony itself, at the wedding dinner and the reception following, all went merry as a wedding bell is alleged to ring.
 The bridal trip was to have included a trip to this town and thence to Bos- con. To this place the trip was to have been made in sleigh. The fall ing snow had made the outlook for the trip anything but pleasant. It had been falling with a vigor and per sistency which baffled all recollections of the oldest inhabitant. This didn't frighten the newly-made husband and wife, however. A wedding without a bridal tour would be only half a we'd ding, they jointly and severally de- clared. They bundled themselves up, packed the trunk in which they now had joint ownership, and prepared for the first stage of their journey, from Fairfield to this town. The sleigh was ordered brought to the door. Mir. and Mrs. Barrett bade goodbye all around, and every man, young and old, had exercised his right to kiss the blushing bride.
 MT. and Mrs. Barrett stood at the open door through which cloud of flakes was being driven into the open room. They peered out as best they could, but failed to discover the steed which was to bring them here. The reason they didn't discover it was because it wasn't there. Mir. Barrett instituted inquiries, and was astound- ed by the discovery that it was im- possible to get the St. Albans Mercury and the Portland cutter through the snow drifts which had piled up while the wedding ceremony and its accom- panying abilities were in progress. The truth, dlsagreeable but undenia- ble, stared the newly.married couple in the face. They were showed in. The wedding party of about forty also had to stare pointblank at the same fact. They were prisoners in the Me Enaney homestead.
 "There are sleeping accommoda tions for only eight in the house" was the information first whispered about among the guests. This made the sit uation extremely unpleasant. At first something akin to gloom pervaded the party. The novelty of the situation struck them all as peculiarly funny at last. Then everybody laughed at everybody else, and sympathy was ex- tended to the luckless newly-married couple. A St. Albans citizen turned the gloomy party inty a jolly one by suggesting an all-night dance. The suggestion was adopted. Merrily at first, wearily at last, the party danced until the gray morning light appeared. It had showed and drifted while the wedding party danced. The morning light showed the roads impossible, and house and barn we'll nigh buried from sight. To dance the day through, as they had the night, was impossible. Besides, the merry-makers wanted sleep. Finally, at the suggestion of the groom, all the male members of the party, with overcoats and buffalo robes, abandoned the house to the ladies and dug their way to the barn. For the next six hours Morpheus claimed the worship of the men Tn the barn and the women in the house. Sleep restored the good humor of all, and at about noon the men tramped back from the barn and helped the ladies make sad havoc with the we'd ding dinner. The men then prospect ed, but found no way of escaping from their wedding party prison. The gay cites of the previous night were re- sumed and continued until evening.
 The snow storm had meantime turned to one of rain, and it poured down in sheets when the men, dark ness having settled down upon the village, returned to the barn for their nights rest. At noon of the next day,