The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-09

Ia Haverhlll, Mass, August, 1879,
Cotton K. Simpson of Pembroke, N.
H., to Miss Sarah r. Marble.
An old calculation of gain and Of loss
Proves "a stone that Is rolling will gather no
A happy expedient has lately been thought on.
BY which Marble may gather and cultivate Cot
ton.
Married at Washington, KY, March,
1914, Mr.. Samuel january to Miss
Pamela January. "a cold match"
AT Black Lake, i. J., February, 1928,
james Anderson to Miss Ann Bread.
While toasts the lovely graces spread,
And tops around them fiutter,
III be contented with Ann Bread,
And won't have any but her.
In Bozrah, Conn, August, 1919, Mr..
John Bate, of Williamtown, Mass, to
Miss Mary Ann Bass, of the former
place, after a courtship of one hour.
Is this not angling well, 1 ask,
Such tender bait to take?
He caught in one short hour a Bass;
The Bass, though, caught the Bate.
Married.-At Williamsburg, on
Friday, April 10, 1868, by the Rev. Mr..
Malone at st. Peters Church, MI. w.
Moon to Miss Ann Cooke.
He is not made, though lunar light
His broth did overlook,
For he has gained, to his delight,
A wife that is a Cooke.
"His goose is cooked, 2 and other maids
May envy her the boon,
whose tab ambition wished and got
The bright man in the Moon.
In New York, March, 1882, Mr..
Thomas A. Secord to Miss Cordelia
Ketcham.
"Ketcham, Cordelia, If you CAM"
Il have, says Satisfactorily the man."
Married, at Bridgewater, December
16, 1888, Captain Thomas Baxter, of
Quincy, aged sixty-six, to Miss Whit
man, OF the former place, aged fifty
seven, after a long and tedious court
ship of f~orty-eight years, which they
both sustained with uncommon torti-
tude.
In Concord. February, 1926, by the
Rev. DIR. Mcfarland, Solomon Payne,
Esquire, of Canterbury, CT, to Miss
Ruth Barker, daughter of Lemuel
Barker, of this town.
Some females fall in love with wealth,
Some with a lovely swain;
But Sarah. in the bloom of health,
Takes to her bosom Payne.
In Concord, October, 1868, Jeremiah
p. Raymond, of Weare, to Miss Susan
Gale.
A constant Gale for ever prove
TIC fan the fane of virtuous love.
In Boston, April, 1921, by the Rev.
William Sabine, Joseph Willicutt to
Miss Susan Whitmarch, after a tedious
courtship of thirteen days, and but
t~hirty-five days after the death of his
former wife.
The best way, it seems, a deep sorrow to
smother
For the loss of a wife is-to marry another.
In West Springfield, Mass, Deem
Der, 1926, Stephen Bulnprey, aged
seventy-six, a revolutionary pensioner,
to Miss Sarah Dewey, aged thirty
eight.
In rs he fought and bled;
At rs he wood and wed.
In Washington, May17, 1884, Joshua
Peck to Miss Amelia Bushel.
Alzookers, hobs and wedding cakes
What changes of measures marriage makes;
Quick as a thought, at Hymen's beck,
A Bushels changed into a Peck.
June 26, 1916, in Carroll county,
N. c., by the Rev. B. Groves, Captain
William Graves, son Of John Graves,
Esq, to Miss Nancy Graves, daughter
of General Asariah Graves.
The graves, tits said,
viii yield the dead
When Gabriefs trumpet shakes the skies,
But if God please,
From Graves like these
A dozen living folks may rise.
At He~rculaneum, Mo-, May 23, 1881,
John w. Honey, Esq, to Miss Mary
S. Austen.
From sweet flowers the busy bee
Can scarce a drop of honey gather;
But oh, how sweet a flower is she
Who turns to Honey altogether.