Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-26
A Wedding and a charivari.

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w. Hicks, at Cerulean Springs, Trige
county, Ky, on the evening of the
10th, inst, Prof. Is. L. Thorn and
Miss Emma Hicks. Attendants, Mr..
j. N. Griffith aud Miss Carrie Blake,
ly. The ceremony was performed by
Ed. A. w. Meacham in the presence
of small. number of the most init.
mate friends of the contracting par
ties. The company after partaking
of magnificent supper, just such as
Mrs. Hicks knows how to set before
her guests, spent few hours in So
cial conversation and then quietly
dispersed.
While this quiet marriage was
passing in the residence of one Of the
most high-toned, respectable gentle-
men of Trigg, just across the street,
almost in front of hisresidence, was
farce being enacted which beggars
description, and which is, think,
without parallel arfibng civilized
people. 1t had been arranged for
this to be very quiet marriage, aud
to take place on the evening of the
llth, one day later, but the family
hearing that preparations were be-
ing made for a charivari, which
among people of cultivation is re-
garded as a burlesque, or an insult,
hoping thereby to avoid being in
suited, the parties interested changed
the time to the 10th, but the revelers
were On the lookout; about half
past 6 o'clock, as the officiating min
lister arrived, the signal shots were
fred from a business house within a
few yards of Esq. Hicks residence.
Prompt to the call the rabble began
to assemble. Who fired that signal
gun? Echo answers who. This
business house and its surroundings
seemed to be the headquarters of the
disorderly crowd. Whether this
house was hired, loaned, or forcibly
possessed, l know not. l could hope
for the latter. AT an early hour the
affair was opened. The first scene
very much resembled what one
might expect of whole herd of
beasts of the bovine species, madly
believing to hear the music of their
own voices. This was interminglcd
with the jingling of numerous bells,
then commenced the laundering Of
an anvil, with the savage yells and
obscene mockery of religious meet
ing; one impious specimen of human
dcpraviiy dared to assume the role
of preacher and sacrilegiously at
tempted 10 mimic one or more ven-
Grated men of God in conducting re-
vival meetings. 1t is mercy that a
just God did not palsy his blasphe-
nous tongue, or with thunder-bolt
send his guilty soul TO perditi0n.
/ must say to the credit of Esq.
Hicks and his most excellent wife
and daughter, whose unsullied char
acters cannot be stained by such
ribaldry, that they treated the farce
with that supreme contempt which
il so richly deserved. The Esq.
quietly remarked that they knew bet
ter than to enter his yard. If such
is to them source of pleasure, let
them alone. In fact / wasreminded of
an incident of past years. l was spend
ing the night with a friend who was
the owner of a pack of half grown
CANNES. Some time after supper
these animals set up tremendous
barking and bowling. My host said !:
"Charlie, my son, go and see what
those puppies are barking at" In u
little while master Charlie returned
saying: "Pa, the little fools are bark
ing at the moon." "Well," said the
gentleman, "why did you not drive
them away" "Pa," said Charlie,
'just let them alone, reckon they
love 10 hear themselves bark and the
moon laughs at their folly" The
Esquire thought that if such was
congenial to the taste of the owner of
the house in which they were assem-
bled he had no right to interfere.
This blasphemous revelry was
kept up all night. just as the
first beams of the rising sun stroked
the eastern horizon, the actors in
this disgraceful affair crept away to
their hiding places, from which they
ought never to come forth until they
have learned some of the first princi-
Piles of civilized life. / saw no one
of the actors in these orgies. Ibid
not recognize the voice Of any, but l
wish soberly to ask few questions.
Who furnished, planted and
operated the anvil upon that memoir
able nightp Was it christian? II
so, did he do it for the glory of God ?
Who furnished, with or without
reward, the whisky that heated the
blood of those revilers..of christiani-
ty for that occasionp
Was the order in said business
house that night such as usually
characterizes the place?
Would the good people of Ceru-
lean who look with deep mortifica-
ton upon the proceedings of that
night, have considered that suita-
BILE place for their wives and daugh-
ters? God pity the community in
which quiet marriage can not take
place without such conduct,