Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — THREE BOY BRIDEGROOMS. [ARTICLE]

THREE BOY BRIDEGROOMS.

One Forced to Marry, Another Jailed for Marrying, and Another Spanked for Marrying. [Meriden (Ct.) Dispatch.] Edward Baribeault is about 17 years old, but Is small for his age. He ran away with Emma Keefe, who is 15 years old, Saturday, and the pair were' married In Hartford. On their return home In the evening Edward took his bride straight to the residence of his mother and sought her blessing. He got Instead a vigorous cuffing and was sent “straight to bed;” but the old lady subsequently relented and the ceuple were made happy. [Baltimore Dispatch.] On Thursday last Charles Cope, the 19-year-old son of Charles Cope, Sr., a wealthy gentleman residing on Roland avenue, and Miss Mary Porter, of the same age, daughter of a poor widow residing in the same nelghbhorhood, were married by the Rev. A. D. Nelden. The young couple remained at the house of a friend until Saturday, when the young husband was arrested by the order of his father, and, being taken before Justice Dorsey, was committed to the House of Refuge as Incorrigible and beyond his father’s control. [Rockford Dispatch.] Willie Salisbury is a youth whose chin has ne’er yet felt the draw of a razor, son of respectable people who live in Beloit. Nannie Petersen is the buxom daughter of a respected Bwe.de in this city. The boy with the beardless chin and the beauty had been friends and sweethearts. To-day the father of the girl received a confession from her and’he had his son hitch up the sleigh. All three got In, and on the way to Beloit took in a preacher. They drove to Salisbury’s house and called out Willie. He speedily became a husband and Nina at the same time became a bride. Old man Salisbury refused to recognize Nina, and the preacher has got a lawsuit on his band for performing the ceremony.