Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — LINKED SWEETNESS. [ARTICLE]

LINKED SWEETNESS.

Henry Wynn, a bachelor from the west, who was recently visiting his brother at Owen Sound, Ontario, expressed the desire one day to get married before his return. The day of his departure had already been set, and to expedite matters he offered his b rother’s wife a deed to fifty acres of land if she would get him a wife by the Saturday following the date of the offer. After exploring the town without success for several days, on Friday Mrs. Wynn met a Mies Melrose, who was willing to accept the offer. She was introduced to her prospective husband on Saturday evening, just before the boat was leaving. A consultation was held, the pair were married on the spot, Mrs. Wynn was handed over the deed for fifty acres of land, and the bride and groom steamed away for their prairie home. " A pretty Nebraska widow, who had ensnared the affections of many respectable farmers living near Wyman, was recently Ordered to leave the country by a band of “regulators” under penalty of a coat of tar and feathers. Nothing daunted by the threat the widow bought a double barrel shotgun and awaited developments. When the regulators approached the house to carry out their threats, the sight of a loaded gun pointing from one of the windows deterred them, and one of the number, in admiration of the woman’s pluck, advanc ed under a flag of truce, proposed marriage, and was accepted on the spot. Then a parson was called in, the mar riage was celebrated, and the night wound up with a round of festivities.

A romantic wedding took place at Edwardsville, 111., the other day, when Prof. James O. Duncan, of Vandalia, a widower, was married to Mrs. Lillie Carroll, of Springfield, a widow. The marriage was the culmination of a series of coincidence in the lives of the wedded pair. The Rev. J. B. Thompson, who performed the ceremony, officiated in the sarhe capacity at Prof. Duncan’s first marriage, and also at Mrs. Carroll’s first marriage, and preached the funeral sermon at the death of Prof. Duncan’s wife and at the death of Mrs. Carroll’s husband. It was this strange fatality of circumstances which induced the couple to seek again the services of Mr. Thompson. Sam Peters is a good-looking young negro, who has been hauling watermelons into Quitman, Ga,, from his master’s farm in Brooks county. On the way he always kept a sharp lookout for a pretty yellow girl .w ho sometimes flirted with him fromthe roadside. Last Monday, as he was passing her house, she cried out: “Wish I had one of dem are watermillions.”’ Sam said he w’ould give her the biggest one of the lot if she would ride into town with him, and she accepted. By the time they had reached town Sam had persuaded her to marry him. A preacher was hunted up and the knot was tied.