The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-23
elope and get

| married without letting nel' lolhS KNOW any
thing about it, and she did. Of course this is
all right, but wasn't it a cool sort of a pro-
ceeding though! Pauline Fuller, as has been
told in the various accounts of the elopement,
is the fifth of the eight handsome daughters
of Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States
supreme court.
The beauty of the girls and the splendid
training they have received has made them
exceedingly popular in Washington, and
none of them has excited more admiration
than Pauline who is nineteen years old, and
one of the handsomest and most accom-
| plished She is said to have always had
mind of her own, this Pauline, and for seve-
raj reasons she didn't like to live in Washing
ton. and preferred Chicago, where she had
| always lived The chief reason was that she
| did not like to be SO far away from hand
some, dashing young fellow named j. NJ
! Aubery, between whom and herself there ex-
listed an affection the depth of which was en-
tirely unknown to the girls parents. A short
/ time after Christmas Pauline expressed a de-
sire to go to Chicago to see some friends She
went, and the other day she and young
| Aubery, in the most unexcited manner pos
! sible, took Il train for Milwaukee and were
married by a justice of the peace. There was
no rope-adder- horse-and-buggy business
about it. It was plain, everyday Chicago
elopement The usual reconciliation act has
followed. BLESS you, my children" has been
pronounced, and they viii probably be happy
for ever and evermore.
What funny affairs these Opponents are,
anyway! The idea!
But they are on the increase. There are
probably more Opponents in the United
States an in any other country in the world.
And there are some very curious ones. Dur
ing the year 1888 a woman of GO went to
Gretna Green with boy of 10; stepmother
eloped with her stepson; the fat woman of a
dime museum ran away with the skeleton, and
many other incongruous runaway marriages
were made. There were many tragical
elopements, too, the most notable one being
that of young Buckley and the daughter of
Judge Hillyer, of Washington. The parents
of the girl refused to be reconciled to the
union, and the young wife killed herself at
her fathers house not long after the elope-
ment
A much talked of elopement was that of
Henry w. Moore the journalist, and the
wife of John W. Norton, the ex-actor Moore
and Norton had been the closest of friends |
and Moore's base act in clipping with his
friends wife was universally execrated The |
e!opement of Evander Berry Wall, the king
of the spuds, attracted n good deal of atten-
ton.
''Gretna Green marriages used to be |
common term in England. Gretna Green !
was originally the name Of farmstead in |
the vicinity of the village of Springfield, in |
the parish of Graitney, in Dumfriesshire, |
Scotland, but it is frequently applied to the I
village of Springfield itself
This spot being the first convenient hating |
place for runaway couples from England,
gave the name to this kind of marriage, orig
inally an easy mode of evading the English |
marriage act, which required the consent of
parents and guardians, publication of bans, |
and the presence of Il priest-all of which in
volyed considerable publicity and inconven-
lent delay, but which were got rid Of by the
parties passing the English border into Scot
fish ground The rule being that a marriage
is valid if contracted according to the law of
the place where the parties enter into the con-
tract, it was easy for English couples to avail
themselves of the mode of contracting
marriage allowed by the law of Scot
land, which required nothing but a mutual
declaration of marriage to be exchanged in
presence of witnesses-a ceremony which |
could be performed instantly-and it was i'm
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not. This declaration generally took place
in presence of a blacksmith, who in reality
was no more necessary than any other wit
ness, but who gradually assumed an author
ity which imposed on the credulity of the
English strangers and thereby profited by
the liberality usually dispensed on such aus
picious occasions for his trifiing services. The
declaration of marriage being exchanged,
the parties could return at once TO England,
and their marriage was held ever after to be
valid there and all the world over.
These marriages have received much dis
enlargement of late. Not only has the strict
ness of the English law of marriage been dis
pensed with, by allowing marriages to be
contracted in England in comparative Sc
crecy before the superintendent registrar,
without going before priest, but the Scotch
law has also been altered, with view of
checking this evasion of English law No irs
regular marriage of that kind in Scotland is
now valid unless one of the parties had at the
date thereof his. OF her, usual place of resi-
Szz0r0, CT Rad l.ycc - &c.,
twenty-one days next preceding such mar
rage. The effect of this statute is, therefore,
an obstacle to runaway marriages from Eng
land SO far that one of the parties must at
least have resided in Scotland twenty-one
days.