The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-30
MATRlM0NYS FREAKS.
THREE CURIOUS PROPOSALS., ONE
BY \ MINISTER.

From the New Ofk Man ana Express.
There IS more method, perhaps. than
modesty in the recent proposal TO the
world at large of a japanese lady, who
advertises: Il am a beautiful woman,
with cloud-like hair, flowery face, willow
Ike waist, and crescent eyebrows. have
enough property TO walk through life hand
in hand, gazing at the flowers in the day
and at the moon at night. If there is
gentleman who is clever, learned, hand
some, and of good taste, l win join with
him for lie and share the pleasure of be-
ing buried in the same grave" says the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
one of the most unconventional and
starting proposals on record was that of
Lorenzo Dow, an eloquent and popular
Methodist minister MIR. Dow had mourned
his first wife for year, and thought it
was high time TO replace her. One day at
the close OF his sermon ne electrified his
congregation by announcing: Il am can
dldate for mauimony. ana If any woman
In this congregation would care to take
me, let her rise" After a modest interval
two ladies rose from their seats. oae at the
foot of the pulpit and the other at the
back of the church. The reverend gentle
man Inspected them for a moment, and
then said: LAS the one nearest to me was
the first 10 rise, l win make her by wife;
and now we viii sing Hymn No -"
Such an audacious proposal deserved the
happy union which followed 1t, and Mr..
Dow was not the less eontented with his
choice because she was amply supplied
with this worlds goods.
Only few weeks ago il was recorded
that famous performer on the trapeze
proposed to his wife when
they were swinging in mid
air from the same bar and in a re-
cent shipwreck an Australian named Han
een was so much struck by the courage
and beauty of a young governess who es-
capped in the same boat himself that be-
fore they were rescued he had secured her
promise TO be his wife.
The Emporia CKan) Gazette has piece
about the gentle and refined courteses
which the people of that cultured town
are wont to bestow upon bridal couples.
Albert Sheldon, a normal student, came
TO town with his bride, a pretty young
school teacher. On alghtng from a train
their enthusiastic friends first deluged
them with buckets of water, after which
the groom was seized by his former COM
rades in the Twenty-first Kansas and
tossed up and down in a blanket until,
as the Gazette reports, Mr.. Sheldon fell
out of bounds on the depot platform"
Then there was some more rough and
tumble, after which she unhappy pair es-
capped One of these days there is going
&c be a Kansas Legislature big enough
and broad enough to enact a law exclud-
ing bridegrooms from the penalties of
homicide
A Natal correspondent of the London
DAILY Graphic writes: A remarkable trial
with go natives as defendants has Just
ended here. The prisoners were charged
with faction fighting near the Krantzkop
magistraey, Natal-Zululand border, be-
tween the tribes of the Chiefs Hlangabaza
and Gayede, who have a long-standing
feud. At the wedding of a girl, Noma-
zembe by name of Gayedes tribe, to a
man named Misc of Hlangabaza's section
an alteration arose after the wedding fes-
Invites had concluded, and utywala ina
tive beeD had been freely partaken or
which resulted in desperate fight be-
tween the two tribes with murderous cane
knives assegais and knob kerries, ending
In nineteen Kaffirs being killed and many
others seriously wounded A special mar
quee was erected for the hearing of the
case, which concluded on Dec. Il, after
lasting three weeks and day Ninety
witnesses We're examined. The sentences
ranged from two years to four months
imprisonment, and the fines imposed
amounted TO 1850. AZ the conclusion OF
the trial the court was thronged with
Dutchmen, and hundreds of natives walt
ed outside to hear the verdict. Seventy
of the prisoners left with an escort of
Natal police to work at the breakwater
in Durham, 1870 miles away.
This is one of the most disastrous tribal
nights which have taken place within the
colony since its early history, and it will
be seen that the warlike spirit of these
dusky warriors, the broken armies of that
nerce and despotic Zulu chief. CetewayoS is
stu far from dead pen and ink
skelch represents the heroine of this trag-
edy as she appeared in court to give her
evidence. Her father was among those
who We're killed. She escaped to her nao.
pie the same day, and now refuses to re-
turn to her scarcely welded husband.
Polly owen wife of William Owens al
White River Township, has lust settled
down In matrimonial bliss for the four.
teenth time. She is but 80 years of ace
ana looks as though she would survive
her fourteenth and at least dozen more
husbands. She Is mother of six children
the result of her former marriages Shs
was married The first time when she wa,
10 years OF age, and was left a widow wv,
years later. Since then she has averagef
a marriage every two years. She has Sc
cured eight or nine divorces while dealt
has done the releasing in the other cases
she is part Indian, her mother being ,
half-caste. BY marriage she has a rela
uonship with half the people of this coun
try, writes Strawton Ind, correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Tribune There is n,
one in Indiana who closely approaches he
record.
There are two or three cases of MARI
age the sixth time and one case wher,
marriage was entered into the seventh
time but she discounts that record. Youn,
Benson Eggers of Hendricks county. how
ever, is in fair way to attain a similar dis
tnction He has just passed his nine
teenth year, and is preparing 10 contrac
mis- fourth marriage. lie was married m
nrst time when he was hut IA years of az,
and his wife but u. The marriage wa
upon consent of parents. He treated hi
wlfe as a playthiug. but when he grey
tired of her he slung her around as though
she were 9. doll, and scared her to dear
oy drawing razors across her throat. Sh
got tired of this and went home. Tn
marriage was annulled. The next tw,