New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-23
vtpy SpOTTSUOOD or ELNIRA.

Pcoplc are always Interested in the breaking of
a record whether it be that of the steamer time
across the Atlantic or that Of the number oi DAYS
which a ,upcrliuous man can 60 without food ana
still continue his supcruiY. SO 1T IS not strange
that when it is announced that an Elmlra young
woman. twenty four years old, h7s just been mar
rlcd for the fifth time, a demand for information
concerning her should arise s. loud that we can
not ignore it.
Before her marriage. two days ago, with the
prcscnt incumhcnt the lady's name was Mary
Mason Space will not permit us TO give her en-
tire list Of names, and thus run back To Ter
maiden namc-wc can only say that her father WAS
named SpottSwood. and as Mary Spotiswood She
was known 10 her schoolgirl friends. Sh" was
bright and pretty. and later WAS well known IN
Elmira society. Seven years ago she contracted
tbc marrying habit and has not yet been able t.
shake it of. \ Tioga man named j. VI. Cole
man met Mary Spottswood and won her young
heart So they were married in June. while the
forward roses cambcrcd up the vcranda and
pccpcd in tile open windows at the rcdder roses
in the checks of the bride. She was dressed in
some sort of clinging white stun. while the bride
groom wore the conventional black. Sin months
Of welded happiness rolled by, when the foolish
Coleman stopped behind vicious horse to look
at the scenery The horse knew the danger and
switched his tail warningly, but still Coleman
tarricd and fcastcd his eye on hill and dale.
Then the horse kicked and Mary Coleman put on
her first mourning. But she did not wear it
long. for mourning seems so out of place for a
bride especially when it is for a former husband.
Samuel Ruckcr. of Bingham, came in seven
months and claimed her for his own, and again the
roses on the vcranda cnyicd those in her cheeks.
Ruckcr was Il butcher. and strong and healthy, and
cautious as t. horses, but the smallpox came, and
hc fell sick Of il. Ills young wife nurscd him
faithfully, but one day she told the hired girl 10
20 up stairs and TO bring down the mourning.
Mary Ruckcr was II widow after five short months
of married life. But there was one slight con
solation-how slight none may Knoxville mourn
ing had not had time To 90 out of fashion. And
the same may be said of her wedding dress, for in
A few more months Edward Alling, of Buffalo,
threw himself at her feet and hand in hand they
went to the altar. while the girl packed away the
mourning up stairs and tho roses nudgel one an
other in the ribs as they pcepcd in the window.
Alling lived year, and it occas,oned much quiet
talk in the ncighhorhood But one day he went
into the bar 70 get lemon and beer keg cA-
ploded ard blew him through the ceiling The
faithful domestic had the mourning out before the
Coroner arrived, for Mary Ang was widow.
The dresses needed little changing, owing to the
lapse Of time, but not much. And for that mat
ter the wedding dress had TO be made over, tQo,
because it was almost year before Mary married
again. This time the bridegroom was named J. :.
Nason and hc was from Broct1n, and was a CON
tractor II is said that the roses did not take
the trout to peep this time as it was becoming
an old story 10 them, and the minister only looked
i'm a moment and said, " Consider yourselves mar
ricd, and hurried away. The life insurance COM
panies withdrew their policies on the life Of j. s.
Mason and the honeymoon began. Fourteen
months later he fell oil scarold. TIE fall was
fatal He was five miles away from home, but in
some mysterious way the hired girl felt that some
thing was going TO happen, and when the mes
sengcr came she was busting off the mourning