San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-26
MARRIAGE AT SIGHT.
Five Minutes Personal Intervie W
Was Enough for This Couple.

Was Enough for This Couple.
From the Washington Post.
One year ago George w. Arnold. q
war veteran. of Wood bridge, Va, adj
vertised in a Western paper for u
wife Yesterday MIR. Arnold stood
in the grand corridor OF the Pension
office beside Miss Cecilia Nein, OF
Cleveland, and they Were pronounced
man and wife, while a cheer broke
forth from the largest audience hich
ever witnessed q wedding in Wash
iugtOn, 80 much tor the value OF adj
vertising
Until the two met in the coIri'
dor of the Pension Office yesterday
morning they had never reen each
other. Miss Nein. answered the adj
vertisement from her home in Cleve-
land, and her letters struck Mr.. Ar
mold as more business Ike and con
veying a ring Ofgreater sincerity than
any other OF the many applications
for his bed and board. Consequently
be replied with ardOr, tempered with
business, and, finally, photographs
were exchanged. At length, some
two months ago, an agreement was
made, by the terms OF which the two
" ere TO meet in Washington and be.
come one. Mr.. Arnold is 81 pensloner,
and accustomed 10 visit Washington
quarterly to draw his reward for
having fought and bled, and he de
termined TO Kill two birds with one
stone. He was familiar with Gen.
Raum's building, and, conse-
quently that was made the trystriDg-
place. When the Virginia veteran
arrived in the city yesterday morning
he WAS dressed in his best. He hied
himself forthwith to the court house
and procured marriage license
A bout noon some of the pension
clerks noticed q tall. thin, bearded
Virginia farmer with G.. A. r but
ton on his coat, nervOusly pacing
about the fountain in the cent ter of
the building. Soon a lady who had
no had seen about 40 years and who
wore dark blue travelling dress and
This is Miss Nein, l reckon" the
farmer retorted.
Then the two strOlled around the
wide corridor twice, carryirg on
subdued conversation. Finally they
stopped CotOred messenger.
"Csn you tell me where to find q
minister" asked Mr.. Arnold.
The cOlored man took in the situa-
ton st glance and entered into the
spirit OF the occasion.
You want 10 get married" he said,
and MIR. Arnold assented. There is
minister right here You won't
have to go a sttp.n He summoned
Rev. w. II. Black, who is MethO-
dist preacher, hut is employed In the
bureau. The reverend gentleman
came forth from his Office, the license
was exhibited, and brief eXplana.
tiOEs followed. Meantime the
messenger hsd dropped q hint, and
the news was spreading. A crowd
gathered about The little. group and
peered over the shoulders of the near
est. A quiet wedding had been in
tended, so they stepped between two
cases of patent files. But a quiet
wedding WAS out of the question,
for the report spread like wildtire.
Clerks dropped their pens and
ran out TO the two TOws of galleries
enCircIiug the main floor. When he
asst words had been pronounced a
great cheer weent up from 1000 spec.
tatOrs. A finer arena could not have
been provided tor the display. The
clerks. pressed around the bride
and the groom to shake hands and
fer their sincere congratulations.
Mr. Arnold quietly presented So to
the clergyman and led his bride away.
The excitement upstairs in the gals
leries did not subside tor some time, |
and many Tumors OF its cause were
float. One was to the egect that a
clerk had inherited 81 900, 600 and was
TO leave without resignIng, and many |
thought that fight had occurred.
BY the time the ladies had subsidized |
into composure Mr.. Arnold was well |
on the way to Woodbridge with his
bride. He said that he had never
seen her before, but was well salts
fed with his bargain.
Later in the day Commissioner
Rsum summoned Rev. Mr.. Black to
his room TO know why he had stirred
such q commOtIOn in the bureau.
When the minister explained that he
had no PremouitiOn OF any such COM
motion the incident was dismissed
with laugh.
on Of then EuCaIVDruS Tree