Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-04-09
Adding New Terror to Matrimoay,


New York Tribune.
OF late years there have been SO mai
complaints both Of the uniitness
Young women for wives and the unfi
ness Of young men for husbands, th
the honorable estate Of matrimony mig
almost be thought to ba falling into d
repute, did not statistics rsassure
doubtiAg public by showing that
wedding ring Is as numerous as ev
But if a dispatch from Macon, Georgl
which DurpOrted to relate the surpisll
experience and melancholy fate OF M
Fannie Howard DO true. more fOrmi
able obstacle to the union OF twin sol
has arisen than the most confirmed cy
lie and pessimist ever imagined or hop
for. According to the Macon dispat
the lady in question was q widow. All
her husbands death one Sterling Cal
in the nsighborhOoa. "The widow. stru
by Sterling's remarkable resemblance
her late husband, encouraged his a
vanass," and, in word, they were ms
ried. And now comes the rsmarkat
part of this highly interesting mari
| tive. AS soon as the bridal pair ste
ped out into the hallway, while the lad.
attention was attracted by seine Obje
she felt her arm deprived Of its suppo
and looking up quickly observed tn
she was standing alone. Her husbal
had vanished into air. She has come
the conclusion that it was the materia
lied spirit of her first husband" 1t
superflOus to remark that this is stal
ling and altogether weird denOaemer
but 1t is much more than that, for
true Gt is perhaps necessary to emph
size the cORditiOn) brand new vista
hereby opened, down which are ragged
striking assortment of novelties in d
nestle and social catastr0phss.
BridegrOoms have vanished before, b
not thus. We have heard all OF mate
alizations also, bat they have been ju'
eiOusly confined to the seanee room, a
sceptics have complained that they me-
ifestsd a lask Of purpose. Bat II spi
bridegrOOms are to revisit the p
glimpses Of the moon, clothed in so 2
feet a facsimile of flesh that their
LETS cannot distinguish between tn
and mortals, and II they are to rssu
the domestic relations Of life in 50 far
to circumvent the aforesaid relicts, Of
to leave them in tbs lursh by the m
unpriEciplsd and heartless dematsris
cation at the church door, what secur
; or assurance can there be any more Il
ever against such post norton pleasa
, ries? Nor is it widows alone who {
! menaesd by this thoroughly illegitimi
mixing up of two states OF being. Sp
stcrs will have to devise means Of to
ing the soli6ity and permansncy OF tn
: suffers, and science will be called vi
! to invent new methods of detecting u
; terialized spOoks who would a-courti
60. !.
/, And it is not every widow who desi
!, further relations with the dear depart
= CagliOstro made his greatest hit by ;
nouncing that he was going to resurr
, the dead in French country churt
: yard. All the heirs, all the wido
thrOngsd to the magician, and paid h
!. lavishly to let their dead rest. The m
al is obvious. The naturalization
husbands would not as rule be pc
: lar. and the uncertainty Of their den
. terialization would produce q state
painful tension both in the dOnsi
circle end in s0eisty. On the VIII
J, therefore, tho best that can be hoped
= that the Macon dispatch did not rel
= facts; and this conclusion will, fort
|" ately, be mere easily reached by the |
- jority than its sxtrems distressing
psrturbing contrary.