Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-21
WEEPING FOB A WIFE.
A Tickle Maiden Promises to Marry Tive
Men and They Have n Crying Match
for Her Hand-The Winner
Gets n Farm Also.


Gets Farm Also.
PARIS, KY, August 2o.-The little city
of winchester, Clark county, has been con-
siderably excited for the past week over the
announcement of the marriage Of Miss
Mamie Petticord, which was to take place
tomorrow. She is a tall, handsome lady
of about 90 and during q visit to Missouri,
last summer, won the affections of a Mr.. G..
A. Goodman of Hamilton, thst State.
After her return home, she and the above
named gentleman kept up correspondence,
and their affection for each other grew
into love, and from love into a mar
riage engagement. Tickets were issued,
stating that their marriage would take
place at the residence of the bride in
Winchester, on Tuesday, August 20, and
one of these cards was sent to Mr..
Thomas jackson, who was also suitor
for the heart and hand of Miss Petticord.
On receiving the announcement, he at once
sought an interview with the lady, and. be-
tween sobblngs and tears, told her how he
loved her, and that, III he was not successful,
the shock would kill him. This softened
the heart of the young lady, and she then
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 receiving the an
nouncement of her change of mind, imme-
diately took the train for Kentucky. and
arrived in Winchester a week ago. He,
too, sought an interview with Miss Petit
cord, and with the same persuasion (crying),
she promised to be his wife.
Thinking 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 and
then the other being the victor, and the
fathers of the two young men each offered
his son farm if he should be successful.
Pools were sold on the result, and nothing
else was talked of in Winchester.
On Friday evening Mr.. Goodman had an
engagement to call, but, while he was at
supper, Mr.. jackson procured q marriage
certificate and a minister, and when Mr..
Goodman arrived at the house they were
man and wife.
Paris experienced similar wedding to
this several years ago. A young lady, the
daughter of q minister, was engaged to four
wealthy gentlemen of this county. and they
all knew of her engagement to each of
them. They were all to appear at her resi-
dence 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 a
hat and drawn out, and the one that came
out first was to get her. On the day set
each man was there in wedding 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 disappoint-
ment, tainted, and, after he had fully re-
covered, the lady married him in prefer.
ence to the one that was drawn. The sue
cessful man Is now the President of col
lege on the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, not many miles from Louisville, and
they have a most interesting family of
children.