The Florida agriculturist., 1889-02-27
Two Determined Girls.

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John Moran well known Walnut street
man.
"No, sir: never did," replied the
scribe.
"Wel, can tell you of an event of
that description. It happened in this
way: One afternoon, not long ago, two
young men whom l had known in
Streator, Ills, came to me and informed
me that they had induced two sisters to
elope with them from town in central
Kansas, and that it was necessary that
the nuptial knot be tied without delay.
They were, they said, expecting the irate
father and the grown up muscular
brothers of the girls to arrive in the city
on the next train, with blood in their
eyes AS the boys were old school
mates of mine, of course told them that
they had but to command me and was
at their service.
1--WE hired a carriage and drove to the
hotel where the young ladies were await
ing the return of their to be husbands,
whose names are William B and
Charles W. 1t was then nearly 5
o'clock p. M. AS soon as we could get
the girls into the carriage we hurried to
Recorder Hinde's Office, where William
and Charley presented themselves before
the marriage license clerk and requested
that they be given the documents neces-
sary to entitle them to we'd their girls.
AS remarked before, the girls are sis
ters. Their given or Christian names
are Lille and Lidie.
After obtaining the licenses the young
men and their ladies and myself went to
the residence of preacher, whose name
have forgotten. His church is on the
east side Of the city. and not more than
six blocks away from The Journal Office.
Handing him the licenses, William and
Charles requested him to join their low
ing hearts in the bonds of matrimony at
once. Now Lille was the intended of
William. and Lidie the intended of
Charles. Don't forget that.
''You can better imagine the conster-
nation of the members of the wedding
party than / can describe it, when the
discovery was made that the young man
who had issued the licenses had assigned
Lille to Charles and Lidie to William as
life partners. In their haste to put their
necks into the hymeneal halter the
young men had thrust the licenses into
their pockets when they were handed to
them by the license clerk, without in
specting them to see if they were rightly
made out.
They did not discover that mistake
had been made until after they had
joined hands and the parson began the
double ceremony by saying: DO you,
William -, take Lidie - for your
lawful, welded wife 'Stopr ex-
claimed William. / am marrying Lille,
not Lidie.' No, sir, retorted the par
son, you are not. You are licensed to
wed Lidie -. The. you say-beg
pardon, sir, calculated William. Let
me see the document
''The license was shown him, and there,
sure enough, was .Lidie's name coupled
with his own. The proceedings were
Immediately suspended, the parson in
forming tho young men and the ladies
that he could not marry them until their
licenses were in proper form. Lille and
Lidie began weeping and nearly went
into Mysteries. William and Charles and
assm ed them that we would have the
mistakes in the licenses rectified. Leav-
ing the young ladies in the parsons par
lor, we rushed out Of the house and
jumped into our carriage, in which we
were driven at a rapid pace to the court