Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — The Romance of a Bridal Tour. [ARTICLE]

The Romance of a Bridal Tour.

A New York letter tells the following: We’ll call him Henry, as that is a popular name. He came down from Troy last week in company with an elderly woman and her daughter. The girl was the Dulcinea of the hero Henry, and their purpose was to get married. The first two days they passed getting together a wedding outfit ; lots of nice underwear, walking-suits, in-door costumes, and a series of bonnets were bought and sent to the East-side hotel where the trio stopped. Sunday was to be the bridal day, and Saturday night Henry went off to invite some friends to see the fun. During the time they had been in the hotel a spruce young clerk had paid divers underhand attentions to the Trojan damsel, and on this Saturday evening he found the brideelect in the parlor and had a long conversation with her. What he and how he said it will never be known. But when Henry came back at nine o’clock the obliging clerk met him with th# information that Dulcinea and her mother had gone.to the Gilmore garden concert and he was to go right up there and find them. The obedient man jumped into a car and headed for Twenty-seventh street. Meantime every newly-bought article was speedily packed into trunks by the bride-elect during that absence, and the hotel clerk and the lady went off on the eleven o’clock boat for New Haven. The returning lover woke the echoes and roused the hotel when he received at the desk a note in which the faithless girl advised him to renew an engagement with some previous flame who resides on Mount Ida, in the classic city of Troy, “because,” said she, “I never knew what love was till I met Mr. ——, and we have gone together." There was tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth in that hotel when the prospective mother-in-law was aroused and told the 'news. ■' ' Dulcinea had been in and out during the hot evening, but had gone to bed at ten, so she supposed. She had considerately brought mamma a seductive brandy punch, in which a bunch of mint was not the only green thing after ma got her nose in. __ !_ Th» two deserted creatures sat and lamented together, and the buxom mother was the first to saggest comfort. “ Cinny was a young, inexperienced thing; girls were nd good, anjyvay.” Henry began to think they were not. As law Mrs. jf c had not been an unpleasant prospect. and the upshot of it was Sunday morning at twelve o’clock there was a wedding, but the bride was Mrs. , not tMiss . The Fort Smith (Ark.) Independent relates the following ’story regarding Col. Boudinot, the eloquent Cherokee: Recently two negroes were put on trial for the theft of a bull in the Choctaw nation. Col. Boudinot was elected as the attorney of the accused, one ot whom was tried, with the understanding that if he was ac- ! pritted he was to be a valuable witness or his comrade. His acquittal was secured by the eloquence of his counsel, when, to the astonishment alike of the Colonel and the court, the witness entered the box and persistently declared that his comrade had stolen the nbull. The utmost efforts of the counsel were unavailing to overthrow the witness’ testimony, and the secoml'hegro was convicted.