Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — DID NOT HOLD HIS PEACE. [ARTICLE]

DID NOT HOLD HIS PEACE.

As • Result the Wedding Proceeded with Another Groom. i ' “I attended a mountain wedding in McDowell county, W. Va.,” said a writer in the Washington Star. “Everything went along smoothly at first. The cabin was brilliantly lighted with candles and one pf the best fiddlers in the country was present to furnish music for .the dance to follow the wedding ceremony. Nothing occurred to mar* the proceedings until theininlster came to the point where he Invited anyone who had anything to say why the couple should not enter the bonds Of matrimony to speak or thereafter hold his peace, When a rough-looking mountainin-" 1 *■“" ~~ 1 * 1 “ ‘Anything ter say, parson? Wall, T reckon ! hev. I hev alius intended -ter. marry that gal myself, an’ thet fellter knowed it, so he jess kep’ outen my way. I sent Tm word to prepare for a linkin’, an’ he lef’ the country, but kep’ a-writin ter the gal. Now, I’m here ter make my word good, an’ ’fore this hyar event goes any farder, the taller-faced coward has me ter fight.’ “In vain the preacher tried to restore -STEterr--A”"rlng~was "soon" squared~Tu the center of the room and the men went at it. In about ten minutes the groom announced that he had enough, and the victor, taking the arm of the blushing bride, deliberately changed the groom’s name in the marriage license to his own, while the vanquished lover made his escape. Everybody appeared to be satisfied, and the marriage took place as though nothing had occurred to Thar the solemnity of the occasion.”