Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — The Count's Choice. [ARTICLE]

The Count's Choice.

The Troy Timet says: “Syracuse, briny, pickled and wrinkled as it is, does I sometimes turn up a . fresh, ripe and wholesome sensation. ‘lts last 1b one of decided interest in the social line. On the 26th of December Count Tinus Edwardus, N. 8., from Cassel, Holland, put up with his two servants at the Temperance Hotel. Just opposite this hotel, in the Downer block, lives a mechanic named Mitchell who was blessed with a pretty sixteen-year-old daughter named Effle. With her the Count quickly became acquainted, and the result was a wedding on Tuesday last. The bride was elegantly dressed, wearing a skyblue silk trimmed with applique lace costing $250, a present from her grandmother. Orange blossoms also* added their beauty to that of the bride, while a fine diamond necklace and a fine gold watch and chain, presents from her husband that is, helped to complete her loveliness. But not satisfied with these, a fine cluster diamond ring also was placed on her finger, while in her dress pocket she found $2,000 in gold and, just before the ceremony a certificate of deposit in one of the city banks for SIO,OOO was banded this lovely girl by her generous Count. This formed her marriage portion; but as he has an annual income of $75,000 she may not be obliged to draw very mucb from her portion. The happy couple will visit the Holland home of the Count in the spring, but Syracuse is excited over the rumor that they will settle in that city. This mechanic’s daughter’s good fortune is in pleasing contrast with that of the wealthy young ladies who go to Europe in search of titled husbands and bring home penniless frauds to prey upon the fortunes of their toiling fathers.”