St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-16
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ACRYING MATCH FOR A WIFE
Two Remark able Love Stories
From the Kentucky Blue Grass

Two Remarkable Love Stories
From the Kentucky Blue Grass
Region.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The little city of Winchester. Clark
county, has been considerably excited
for the past week over the announces
ment of the marriage of Miss Mamie
PetticOrd. which was to take place to-
morrow. She is tall, handsome lady
of about twenty, and during a visit to
Missouri last summer won the affections
OF Mr.. q. A. Goodman, of Hamilton,
that state. After her return home She
and the abOve-named gentleman KEEP.
up correspondence, and their affection
for each other grew into love, and frOm
love into a marriage engagement.
marriage would take place at the resi-.
dence of the bride in Winchester on
Tuesday, Aug. 20, and one of these
cards was sent to Thomas Jackson, who
was also sutton for the heart and hand
OF Miss PetticOrd.
On receiving the announcement he
at once sought an interview with the
lady, and, between Sobbings and tears.
told her how he loved her, and that if
he was not successful. the shock would
kill him. This softened the heart OF
the young lady, and she then and there
consented to hold on to her first love
and cancelled her engagement with the
MissOurian. She wrote him that her
mind had been changed, and that she
now loved another. Goodman, on re-
celvlng the announcement of her
change OF mind, Immediately took the
Winchester week ago. He, too, sought
an interview with Miss Petticord. and
with the same persuasion (crying) she
promised to be his wife.
Thinking that he had everything his
own way, Goodman went to his hotel;
but Mr.. jackson then called and made
another most affecting appeal, and her
mind was again changed.
This was kept up for a week, first one
then the other being the victor, and the
fathers of the the two young men each
offered his son farm if he should be
successful. Pools were sold on the re-
suit, and nothing else was talked of in
Winchester.
Con Friday evening Mr.. Goodman had
an engagement to call, but, while he
was at supper. Mr.. Jackson procured
marriage certificate and minister, and
they were man and wife.
Paris experienced a similar wedding
to this several years ago. A young
lady, the daughter Of minister, was
engaged to four wealthy young gentle
men of this county, and they all knew
of her engagement to each of them.
They were all to appear at erresidence
on the day set for the wedding, and, as
she loved one as much as she did the
others, their names were to be placed
in hat and drawn out and the one that
came out first was to get her. On the
day set each man was there in a we'd
ding suit and the drawing began. The
first name was that of Frank Hibler,
now deceased, and the wedding was
about to take place when one of the
suitOrS, shocked by his disappointment,
tainted, and after he had fully recOv-
cred the lady married him in preference
to the one that was drawn. The sue
cessful man is now the president of
college on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, not many miles from Louis
vile, and they have most interesting
family of children.