Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Mated, Not Married. [ARTICLE]

Mated, Not Married.

Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. A very interesting and romantic affair occurred not a tbousand years ago and not a thousand miles from the town of Shelby ville, in Bedford county. The facts were related to a Banner reporter not long since, and as he knows they are facts be prints them. The names of the parties are also known, but they will be omitted here, because the facts will be recognized by those who are familiar with the circumstances.

A young gentleman and lady were engaged to marry, but found an almost insurmountable object in the path to the consummation of that happy event in the persons of her irate and stern father and obstinate and unsympathizing mother. She tried in vain to soften the obdurate parents. She endeavored to frighten them into giving their consent by threatening sel t destruction, and after finding that would be of no avail, she announced her determination .to elope with the man of her choice. A close watch was kept over her for some time, and she became silent about the matter, and her parents thought she had concluded to take their advice « nd forget the object of her affections. Soon after, however, "when the leaves began to turn,” she, with her parent’s consent,went to visit a friend in an adjoining county, and upon arriving,there notified her affianced. He came promptly, with the necessary legal purchased in Bedford couuty, aud they were married. Several months of happiness passed by and not a shadow fell across their pathway to mar the scene o( bliss which they then believed wouldVbe eternal. But suddenly a thunderbollNgHin/flie household, which turned joy nlTo sorrow, and sunshine into darkness. They were informed tnat they were not married at all, only mated, as the marriage was illegal and void, it having occurred in one county and the license issued in another. The distressed and terrified young lady was still more terrified when she was informed that her father and mother, having heard the facts, were both en route to her once happy home to tear her away from the man she had so long called husband, but who really had no title to that name. Everything ended happily, however, as another license was procured and they were united before her parents arrived. The affair created quite a sensation and for a time was the talk of the whole couu try. It served as a warning to other young people matrimonially inclined, however, aud a mishap of that nature has not occurred since.