Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — Coming to Claim His Bride. [ARTICLE]

Coming to Claim His Bride.

The readers of the SiiA inay ’’rMdfctrtbcr the story of Mr. (Low Benedict, of Duprez Benedict’s Minstrels, wjm five years ago, ■being then a ]M>er courted tlie daughter of a New York millionaire, and obtained tlie father’s consent to his marriage with her on condition that he would first 'amass $50,000: ’He entered the bfirht cork profession, became part proprietor of thfe troupe fiamed above, and toiled aud scraped together tor five long weary years for thfe price of his happiness. After counting th? receipts of the box office of the Arch Street Theatre, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening, he found that the last $l6O waa in his possession. He immediately telegraphed to his intended father-in-law the joyful intelligence, and claimed the fulfillment of his wellearned contract. Mr. Benedict intends to cling to his profession until he has made enough to provide his bride with' a handsome trousseau.— N. Y. Sun, Aug. 19. At Buffalo, recently, a pet Cushat -dove, was lost for seven days, and whcir found was between two closely johaed houses, so confined that it could not escape. The bird, it is thought, had nothing to eat for the ■even days, but whan rescued waa as. lively M * cricket. x