Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1875 — A Wall from Jasper. [ARTICLE]

A Wall from Jasper.

. Jfriowßd.J W- 'I, they do tilings queeriy in some places.. J wail from jjajpor copanty, isSsbul-ifbrever harrow of fflerk to think that he wWfef stand’ between two loving, hearts that longed to beat as one, is too much in thia age of loose mer.-ds and free love. “Last week the tender-hearted perk of Jasper county , was compelled to refuse to issue a marriage license to a loving couple who find the excessive cold weather of this winter too prolonged and too severe to be endured separately and alone during the silent watches of the night, wtfhoul" mtfre bed cov-ring than is theeustoinary share of individuals in this locality. The reason Mr. S t itler refused to grant to those parties an instrument wlii.h the Iteva of Indiana insist is necessary to the-apprintxnent of all well-regulated families within her jurisdiction was, that the willing to be bride was not of lawful age to marry, being only a little more than twelve years old. Her paren’.a were willing, anxious even, for her to enter upon the matrimonial estate; but the Btatute is bold, positive, and inexorab e, female children under the age of fourteen years are considered “oweryoung to marry” in Ilooa.erdom. “Pap’’ said it would not take her long to become the citizen of a Stale where the laws which do hedge about the heavenly institution of matrimony are leas exHctingon the subject of qualiiications, and it is prestimed’tiwS youthful pair have hied away to that happy spot wbeie they may hav - liberty to curtail their individual freedom. The lad was nineteen years old, according to the family bible.”