Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — A Marriage Without the Bridegroom. [ARTICLE]

A Marriage Without the Bridegroom.

_,’he scenes In Vienna were brilliant in the extreme. The civil contract was signed on the 10th, the religious ceremony occurred on the 11th, as appointed, and then followed a- banquet where Berthier was absolved from all the ceremonies considered obligatory upon one of his rank lu the Hofburg. Three da.vs later the new Empress was handed to her traveling carriage by the Archduke Charles, and amid salvos of artillery, which scarcely drowned the cheers of the populace, slie set forth. Her journey through Bavaria and Wurtemberg was one long ovation, for these countries believed their welfare to be bound up with that of France. On the 2Gth her cortege, having passed by way of Stras. burg, was moving toward Soissons.Ceutury. •