The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-23
MARRYING AND GIVING MAR.
RAGE.

Register Dunn's Rushing Business.
his Office is Equipped for Issuing the
Fapers and Tying The Knots.
When Mr.. S. NJ. Dunn, the new regis.
ter OF deeds went into Office, he announc-
ed that he was going to boom the mat
rlmonial market. He found a lot of
marriage licenses on hand and said he
was going to sell 'em. They were made
to sell.
Well, he has made terrifying success
of the business. He has not disclosed
the process by which he has worked up
the boom, but he has been issuing from
four to seven of those binding contracts
per day, and yesterday he put ten of
them out on the dazed public. First
thing he knows he will be in condition
something like that which the school
books say Alexander was in. He will have
married off everything in the county,
and will then walk around whooping
and shifting because there is nothing
else to marry.
Register Dunn has observed that
when fellow comes in for one of those
indissoluble articles of agreement, be is
generally IN an unaccOuntable hurry
not so unaccountable now either for some
recent events have proved that there is
danger IN delay-particularly in this
particular business. And in order that
everything may be executed with the
least possible delay, he has installed in
his office Mr.. Harry Roberts, Justice of
the Peace, whose special business is to
Immediately tie the "Gorgon" knot for
any fellow whose faith in his girl NAV
have been made shaky by such events
as above referred to.
Register Dunn has good reason to
congratulate himself on his profound
sagaclty in making this provision for on
ly two days since Justice Roberts was
called on to tie up two couples who
were afraid something might happen If
they waited TOO LONG.
Justice Roberts has a way of tying
those knots so intricately and firmly thai
Alexander himself would not know how
to 90 about cutting or unloosing them. II
is said that one of the men whom he
bound up for life listened in paralyzed
amazement at the questions and prom
ises put to him, and after the matter had
, been closed, the new benedict, (being o.
the colored persuasiOn), drew IA lon,
breath and said: "Fo de lawd, boss
, nothin' cept a streak of thunder ::anC
lightnin' and sudden death can breal
loose dat unitement"
There was one application recently ir
| which the 1IoonSQ WaS not iSSnpd
This was highly coored case in whicl
the would be bride was only sixteen
The register told the groom aspirant tha
: he must get the consent of his dulcina'
parents, or uncle, or guardian or some
body before tn. license could be deli,
> cred. The groom didn't exactly kno'
4 whether there were any of these person
ages extant or not, and he felt in such
- hurry about the matter that he didn
=, want to make the investigations tht
a might prove necessary; and to haste
= the matter forward he confidential
- offered Register Dunn a slight advant
= on the legal price of a marriage doc
ment if he would "make it all right"
But that incorruptible official scorne
IL to accept the bribe of filthy lu:re, ian
!. in this case it was ever-more particular
and specially FL - soiled) and dignifed
waved the would be briber away fro
him.
'. The groom perambulated meditative
r to his waiting -to-be spouse and reportt
!. the situation.
y She forthwith hurled a cyclone of a
le athemasa at the official who inferred th
N she was not old enough to attend to b
own business, and went up to see abo
y the matter in person. But she couldr
10 change the situation, and then both I
le solved that they would walk to Weld,
De where the indignant and would
ne spouse declared she could get all t
ne marriage license she wanted for nothin
~ There was another case last week
which colored man and young colo
ed woman walked in and wanted the
cense and the knot tied all in few mi
utes; for they said another woman W
III wanted to marry the man was comi
behind them, and "de goodness or
J, knowed what she would do if she got q
4o befo' dey was married"
,u But this girl was too young by
own account. Then the man wanted
to swear she was nineteen, but the reg
ter COulQ nG p0TmlC SuCu PIoOOooii
though the woman was perfectly willll
Us To make the matter short, the N
found be just couldn't get license on
er' count of her age and both walked o
But within an hour the man came bs
VI with another woman, presumably
one he had been running from. To m,
TO- the matter perfectly safe both swore
was not less than forty, then the lice
ne' was issued Justice Roberts tied
knot and both went away ha-h -hamI
W. ~. ed.
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