Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-22
CONNUBIALITIES.

Wilkesbarre, Penn, has had five elope-
ments among its 'toniestn married people in
the space of one week.
Miss Olive Green and Ivory White were
welded in an Iowa town recently, Rev. MIR.
Black performing the ceremony.
A Rochester girl has asked police protec-
tion against a too-constant lover, whose ultl-
matum was a wedding or a funeral.
Lee Jerome, a waiter in a hotel at Wich-
tia, Kan, has just married Mrs. Hettie Zim-
merly, a widow worth $500, 900, whom he
waited on at the table for nine months.
The Rochester Union refers to the families
in that city who are raising girls for the ex-
port trade" meaning girls who are expected
to one day marry wealth and a title. There
are a thousand blanks to one prize in that
lottery.
Mr.. Dawson, of Marion county, Ind, now
inhis seventy sixth year, has been married
to his seventh wife. He began marrying
in 1882. None of his many wives have been
over thiriy-one years at the time of their
marriage.
years ago from her lover, deeds for California
lands which both of them considered worth
less. She has just sold them for S256, 900.
She has now cruelty refused to marry the
young man ON the ground that he is only a
fortune hunter.
ga ''spirit marriage" which had been
widely announced and ridiculed in the news
papers drew a large crowd to a San Fran
cisco church the other day. The woman
spiritualist who had been booked to wed
'her affinity in the spirit land - failed to APP
pear, being abashed by the fun made of her.
One of the Cleveland hotels is sheltering
quite a number of newly married couples. A
large number have been registered there
since it opened. Two such parties arrived
the other day, and one pair was somewhat
verdant. The groom had quite a serious time
in registering, and at last looked appealingly
at the sympathetic clerk and asked, "How do
you spell wife"
In a consignment of eggs just received from
Carmichael's, Green comfy, one bore the
following inscription in lead pencil: ''Ellen
Anderson, age fifteen years and six months
on March IA, 1888, height four and one-half
feet, complexion fair, hair brown, large eyes,
weight los pounds, will receive sealed pro-
posals of marriage until she reaches the age
of sixteen, but reserves the right to reject
all proposals"
Stony Bridge, Pa, is promised a novel
wedding next month, The ceremony will be
performed on the bridge in the village. The
ers and the national colors. When the cere
mony ends a large balloon will be sent up
from the top Of the bridge and the band will
play up in a Balloon" Congratulations
will follow and then there will be dancing
and games. There will be ten bridesmaids
and ten groomsmen in attendance. The bri-
dial pair will take a palace car for their we'd
ding tour the same afternoon.
The inhabitants of Carrie Springs. Texas,
were treated to a sensational elopement. The
parties were Jacob English and Sallie Fort
ner, proprietress of the principal hotel of the
place. When last seen the couple were in a
buggy on the open prairie and heading for
Laredo, fifty miles south, where by this time
they have been married. English is twenty
four years old, is a cattleman and has been
married once before, his first wife having Sc
cured a divorce. Miss FORMER is but twelve
years of age. Her relatives say they will
scalp English if they ever set an eye on him
again.
Atlanta (Ga.) hes quite a sensation. Some
days ago a man, sixty years old, and blind,
who paraded as the owner of a gold mine in
Montana, visited Atlanta, and shortly after
succeeded in winning the hand of a girl,
aged 49,. He lavished money upon her. and
the couple got along swimmingly until Tues
day, when the groom was arrested on the
strength of a dispatch from Efingham, ILL.,,
which stated that ''the old sinner played the
same game there last November" The
western wife is enroute to Atlanta, and the
husband in the meantime lies in Jail. The
new wife is disconsolate, but believes i'm
plicitly in her husband.