Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-03
TEXAS WEDDING.
A Ceremony In Which Trusty Rifles Plsyea
an Important PART

an Important PART
Not very long since two men rode into
the town of Columbia, Tex. 1t is not
unusual for two men to ride into Texas
town, but these two visitors attracted
attention from the fact that they were
covered with mud, as if they had
ridden very hurriedly. Besides the mud.
they also had on their persons an ar
senal of knives, pistols and similar
documents.
! One was man over sixty, with long,
gray hair, and bloodin his eye; the other
was man of thirty years, built like a
giant and wearing terrible scowl on
his face. They were father and son,
William Wofford and Sam Wofford. from
the backwOods of Matagorda County.
The old man said he was looking for his
''darter Kate" who had lit OUT with
her cousin. Bill Wofford
1t seems that the principal cause of
the fathers anger was the poverty of
Bill. 1t takes hog and hominy to keep
house. The young lady's father was of
the opinion that the best time for poor
man to marry was on the 3lst of Febru-
airy. On the other hand, Kate preferred
an earlier date.
The father and son discovered that
the runaway couple were occupying q
small tent half mile from the town.
The next thing the visitors did was to
make call at the tent The missing
couple were at home, and prepared to
receive company, for the flap of the
tent was thrown open, and then Bill
and Kate, each armed with Winches-
ter, which they brought to bear ON the
| visitors, sterued out.
Then it was that the Young Lochinvar
from the COW counties addressed the
following remarks to his prospective
relatives:
''Do you pose I'm go'n to give her
up arter we done tramped it together
all the way from the Colorado to the
BrazOs? Not much; she's mine, and
you may stan there now and see us
married"
A minister who had been sent for ar
. rived, and in short time the ceremony
was performed. The clergyman, who
would have been between two fires if
hostilities had broken out. was very
much Mortified at the prospect of his be-
ing suddenly called on to bear palm
and prance around in the mansions of
light. He was not on this occasion
wound up to ruu for three solid hours.
as if preaching sermon. He went
through the marriage service as quickly
as if he had just heard that his house
was on fire and he had no time to lose.
While the ceremony was in progress,
the bridegroom kept his rifle at half
cock, pointing at his father-in-law.
There were no congratulations except
that the clergyman congratulated him
self that he was not called on to oflici-
ate at funeral in the capacity of
corpse.
After the marriage was over the old
man earnestly pronounced q benedic-
ton to the effect that if either of the
happy couple ever put foo in Matagor-
da County he would kill them both.
1.-The whole world is before you, 'cept
Matagorda County, and when.I am not
there to attend to you, Sam here will
provide for your wants." he added,
patting his rifle and shaking his yellow
locks.
The old man and son departed, Kate
and Bell retired to the interior of the
tent and pulled down the flap, while the
disappointed spectators behind the trees,
who had been expecting a bombard-
ment, slowly returned to town.-TeGas
SittingS.