Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-20
ALBANY.
An Bxpsctaut Bridegroom Given the Slip
at the Last Moment--A Pin Causes
the Trouble.
The Episode Of Hat that Escapes from
Its Owner by Night-A Skating
Rink Park.
Special.

tne lhr-Ihneu eWamps OF arKhnsaw
never produced an incident in marie
age history that will rival the proceed
ings in love affair enacted in this
county last week. The high.contract-
ing parties, after settling all the pre-
liminaries, secured the license, made
out in due form by our obliging clerk,
and started on their way homeward,
to all appearances as happy on the eve
OF their marriage as other people UNI
der similar circumstances. The course
OF true love seemed TO run 80 smoothly
that we can Imagine Cupid smiled
in satisfaction over the results Of his
unerripg aim. But even Cupid "can't
most always sometimes tell - at least
he could not foresee what would hap
pen. The guests were assembled
in the banquet hall, and the
venerable parson, with his immac-
ulate shirt front rejecting the
purity OF his own soul, smiled in an
ticipation OF the golden eagle that
would flutter from the nervous grasp
of the excited bridegroom into his
sacred palm. The last moment had
arrived, and as the happy, expectant,
would.be-bri degroom led the blushing
maiden toward. the venerable parson,
hush fell over the assembled guests
like calm over the troubled waves of
the sea. Suddenly, without any warn
ing, like thunderbolt out of clear
sky, the voice of the bride broke the
stiffness, ooh, shucks! don't want to
marry
The reaction was so unexpected that
the venerable gentleman sat down on
his stove-pipe hat and mashed IL out OF
all resemblance to its former stately
beauty. Amid the confusion that fol-
lowed, the expectant bridegroom was
heard to exclaim, enough said by
g-olly," and jumped for his hat, and
disappeared in the murky shades Of
the night.
Next morning the clerk received an
envelope containing the license re-
turned, and on examination found in
dorsed upon it in the would-be BRIDE
groom's handwriting, these words:
mo good; she flew the track on the
home rum
Subsequent developments go to
prove that some Of the maiden's
clothes did not exactly fit her, and
that a refractory pin somewhere in
the mysterious depths of her under
wear tortured the flesh beyond endur.
ance and caused the fatal words to
escape her at the trying moment At
last, after sleeping over the affair,
she concluded TO recall the exlled
groom, and matters wore happily adj
justed by the county judge.
Moral Young ladies about to
marry should use pins judiciously.
As one trouble follows another in
quick succession, so we suppose it Is
with amusing incidents. Another racy
affair has reached the ears OF your cor
respondent, that for while seemed to
foreshadow as great mystery as any
of st. Louis latest sensations. A
straw hat belonging to one OF our soci-
ETY. gents was caught by the mischiev-
Gus FRANKS OF the wind one night re-
Gently and, after fluttering around in
the darkness like Poe's Raven, alighted
in most conspicuous place on WAL
nut street. The pedestrians In the
early morning, going to and coming
from market viewed IL with wonder,
and soon speculation began to weave a
first-class mystery around that hat.
Wild rumors OF suicide, robbery and
selves with it's strange an
pearsnce, and, long before the busy
hours arrived, small groups OF twos
and threes were seen tonversing in
whispers, and ever and anon some
wiseacre pointed an ominous finger to-
ward that hat. How long this would
have lasted and to what pitch of ex-
element the populace would have at
tanned we are unable to say. But the
spell was broken by another young
man who knew the circumstances con-
neoted with the loss OF the hat, who
picked 1t up and dispatched It in
charge OF small boy to its owner; so
ended the prospects Of % first.class sen.
sation.
Springtime has come In earnest, and
our farmers and cattlemen are as busy
as bees.
j. +. Conrad g. Co. are preparing TO
move their large stock Of goods into
the new stone building just finished
on South Main street.
Jacob Bros. are building first.class
skating rink at beautiful hole OF
water one-half mile west of town.
They are also constructing suspen-
sion bridge across the water and in
tend placing bUats in the stream in
fact, they are making regular park.
This place is known as the Elm Grove,
and Is the prettiest place near town.
We predict large patronage for these
gentlemen.
The Central road has changed the
schedule time of the arrival and de-
parture OF the trains as follows Leaves
$3.50 q. M, arrives $3.50 p. m. This
throws our daily papers one day be-
hind time, ms our mail Is not distributed
until O'Clock the next morning,