Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — MARRIED ON THE CARS. [ARTICLE]

MARRIED ON THE CARS.

A gentleman arriving in the city yesterday from Jeffersonville tells a good story of a wedding on the cars which occurred in Clark county on Sunday. Two cousins, J. W. Mahrs and Mattie Mahrs, of Boone county, Ky., had run away from home to he married. They were escaping from the unkind male parent, who wished to prevent their nuptials, and had stopped at Jeffersonville to obtain the requisite license. The lovers then proceeded to New Albany to find a clergyman, and having been successful in their search, were about to be married in short order, when it was discovered they were not in Clark county, and that therefore the license was of no value. Clergyman, bride and groom then got aboard a train on the Louisville and New Albany short line, and by an understanding with good natured conductor W. S. Noyes, a brief halt took place when Silver Creek, just over the border, in Clark county, was reached. The word had been passed through the cars that something unusual was to happen, and accordingly all the passengers gathered in one coach, In the presence of this assemblage of strangers Mr. Mahrs and his Mattie were married, the Rev. Mr. Pittner, of New Albany, being the officiating clergyman. Wedding ceremonies have before now been knows to take place in queer places and with strange surroundings, but perhaps this is the first time that they have occurred in a railroad car.—[lndianapolis Journal.