Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — A Happy Ending to a Practical Joke. [ARTICLE]

A Happy Ending to a Practical Joke.

A well-to-do farmer of Bobb township, Posey County, a bachelor of fifty-five years, bad successfully resisted all the blandishments of the fair sex and repelled all attempts on his personal liberty until a short time ago. Some graceless youths, w’bo lived in the neighborhood, wrote him a letter in a feminine hand, soliciting a personal interview with him, and to the document signed the name of a widow some fifteen or twenty, years his junior, residing in the same township. The bachelor was old enough to have forgotten if he had ever received any parental warning to “ beware of vidders; Samivel,” and all artless as he was, though not without a dash of wonderment, he called as requested. The interview was, most probably, somewhat awkward at first, as the widow had.never heard of the request, and the bachelor had no doubt of its authenticity. But’ however the interview passed off, it is quite certain that the widow’s charms were not marshaled before unappreciative eyes, and. that in the end the bachelor took advantage of the situation and consummated arrangements which led to their marriage a few days ago. During the solemnization of the ceremony in church some unrepentant boys considered that as his happiness originated with'them they were entitled to their sport, and, catching several young rabbits, put them in the bride’s basket in the buggy. When the party arrived at the gfoom.’s house, and the bride was introduced to her new friends, she had occasion to open the basket, when out popped the rabbits to the astonishment of all, but the rabbits did not cut short the happiness, and all is now as serene as the summer sky. — Evansville (Ind.) Journal.