Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-29
THE SENSATIONAL MARRIAGE.

The Shelby aurora of last week contains
the following additional statements con-
corning the recent marriage of DR.. Atkin-
son and Miss Little, which gives promise
of becoming a sensational affair, unless the
alleged bride of two husbands can make a
satisfactory explanation of the awkward
position in which she seems to be placed:
The aurora last week published the SEN
s~ational marriage of DR.. Atkinson, a drug
gist of Chester, S. c., to Miss Florence Lit
tie, a charming young lady of Gaffney's,
S. G. At midnight at Blacks s.. c., on
Sunday night, Feb. IL, 1888, Rev. g.: M.
Webb performed the ceremony at Crosby's
Hotel. We stated that a previous day for
the nuptials had been appointed, that DIR.
Atkinson arrived at Gafney's on Wednes-
day train, 2 O'Clock, according to appoint
ment, but on his arrival at the afianced's
home, the lover found that the object of
his alteration was smiling upon another
lover, Mr.. Augustus Mintz, son of John
Mintz, of Blacks, and that she was enjoy
Mintz in the country. The groom waited
for his afianced to return that night and
shed Joy upon his soul, but she came not
until Thursday morning, 8 O'Clock.
AS she leaped into the buggy she said
to her ardent admirer: "This is your day,
Mr.. Mintz tomorrow will be DR.. Atkin-
sons day."
Mr.. Mintz whispered to a friend that he
expected to return a married man, before
Wednesday afternoons ride. He returned
alone after midnight to the hotel at Gaff-
ney's. She returned alone on Thursday
morning, the day for her appointed mar
rage to DR.. Atkinson, of Chester, who was
impatiently awaiting her return to Gaff-
ney's.
Now for the secret divulged this week,
a secret that causes a sensation, a scandal
and soon an appeal to the courts, in which
the fair and attractive Miss Little, the
belle of Gaffney's, S. c., occupies an en-
barrassing position. On that memorable
Wednesdays buggy ride, Mr.. Augustus
Mintz and Miss Florence Little halted at
the residence of Rev. j. G. Carter, below
Gaffney's a few miles, and were secretly
married and invoked the minister's ST.
lence. They were to keep the marriage a
secret for two years and then divulge it to
the world. Each were to live as formerly
and tell no one until the expiration of two
years. A rash, silly promise, which leads
to a sad denouement! All this time DR..
Atkinson, a stranger, was ignorant of the
plot and blind to the situation, for he
flowed not wisely, but too WE'LL" No n
at Gaffney's except the contracting parties
and Mr.. Black knew of her secret marriage
until recently. Now for Miss Titles mar
rage eleven days afterwards to DR.. Atkin-
son.
Her prolonged and strange absence and
apparent Indifference provoked her be-
trothed's jealousy and anger, which culmi-
mated in his hasty departure home.
Soon mutual explanations were made.
She said she was ready and true to her
promise on that Thursday, but he left in
anger. Love, which laughs at lock-
smiths and overleaps all obstacles, culmi-
mated in a correspondence and an inter-
view at Blacks, where she met, by ap-
pointment, her Chester lover. The inter-
view was protracted into a wedding cere-
mony which blended together the lives
and bliss of DR.. Atkinson and Miss Flor
ence Little on Sunday at midnight, Feb
ruary II, 1888.
TRIALS OF A TRIAL JUsTICE.-Our