The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16

A great sensation was created in the
year 177S by the marriage of the then
celebrated female historian, Mrs. Cath.
crime Mscaulsy, who was far advanced
i'm years, with a surgeons mate, under
age, of the name of Graham. Mrs.
Macaulay was quite a literary lioness;
and DIR. Wilson, an elderly and learned
admirer of her talents, had actually
built a house for her, called Albert
House; this he presented to her with
furniture and valuable library. He
went so far as to have medals struck in
her honor. Great, therefore, was the
amazement amongst the literary and
fashionable world of Bath when Mrs.
Macaulay, who had always been con-
sidered a rock of sense by her friends,
made this extraordinary match.
In Mr.. Cudworth's interesting book,
Ground about Bradford" he mentions
the low status of the GOLFERS of Wibsey
in the year 1851, and says that the
humilitating spectacle of the wedding
of johnny and Betty" is not yet for
gotten, nor the collection of oddities
and absurdities that passed through
the streets of Bradford in that year, on
the way to the Parish Church. On a
couple of wards of painted calico, the
secret of all this rejoicing was told in
he following words:
Eat Johns and Betty's wedding
We will merry be,
For Johnny's sixty-fve,
And Betty's seventy -threeF'
Mr.. Cudworth also relates that the
incumbent of Wilsden, Mr.. Barber, was
once called upon to perform 'mar-
riage in trust" There was person
living at Haworth Parish known by the
name of "Moses o. Lukis." Moses
having persuaded woman to take him
''for better, for worse" they appeared
at Wilsden Church to be married; but
when the knot was tied, the happy
couple had no money to pay the feesi
Moses promised to pay the reverend
gentleman in beSomS; and honestly
kept his word. This reminds us of
couple who, not having the where
withal to buy a wedding-ring, the large
key of the church door had to be tenn
porarily used for the purpose.
Ireland was not behindhand in the
oddity of its marriages; we come across
whole clusters of them in Walkers
Hibernian Magazine. Among them are
the following: 'Mr. John Hogarty, of
Ballymanduff, County Dublin, aged
twenty, to Mrs. Flood of said place,
aged eighty-six. THE Rev. Athana-
sius Huring, aged eighty-two, to Miss
Carr, aged twenty-five, an agreeable
young lady, with fortune of fifteen
thousand pounds. Mr.. Richards.
gardener, to Miss Mary Roper. The
bridegroom is in the sixty-second year
of his age, and five feet four inches
high; the bride aged twenty-one, and
only two feet eleven inches in height"
A match in high life between GER
tain Dowager Duchess and handsome
Irishman, Mr.. Hussey, created a great
deal of heart-burning and envy. Han
bury Williams, one of the rejected
suitorS, composed some very spiteful
verses on the occasion.
The problem how to unmarry q
couple was attempted by clergyman
i'm the West Riding of Yorkshire in the
year 1905. He found out on inquiry
that he had married a young man and
woman who were brother and sister by
marriage Cprobably deceased wife's
sister,. Inc cleTSymdn, dITalu That Nc
might be punished for uniting this
couple, attempted to unmarry them by
taking the brides bonnet from her
head and placing the church Bible
thereon; but the charm was not sue
cessful; and the loving pair firmly re-
sisted this innovation of undoing the
hymeneal knot.
Some very curious changes Of names
have taken place in marriage. In
Derbyshire, there now lives woman
who has been married three times.
Her maiden name was Wildgoose-
quite a common one in that locality
she changed it first for that of Fox,
then for that of Goodlad, and finally
settled down as Mrs. Derbyshire. A
Mr.. Bacon was once married to Miss
Beans; and Miss Pane married Mr..
Glass. Abundant instances of the Same
sort might be multiplied; but enough
have been given to show how strangely
things sometimes work out in the i'm
portant matter of neutrality-suspicious.
6ers' Journal.