Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — A Wedding Incident. [ARTICLE]

A Wedding Incident.

An amusing wedding Incident recently occurred at Stoke Church, Eogland. The Rtiv. J. Hector de Courcelles officiated, and when he asked for the ring it was missing. The bridegroom declared that the bride bad it; the bride said to the contrary. The service was stopped; both turned out their pockets, and, meanwhile, the hriiemroom rated the Bride somewhat soundly for her alleged carelessness, while the bride persisted that she had given the ring previously to the bridegroom, and that he must have lost it. Mr. jse Courcelles had no ring on, nor had any one in the church, and bride and bridegroom departed to the church porch —the one grumbling and the other scolding, to look for the missing link. At length it struck the clerk that a small ring attached to his watch-guard, on which hung a locket, might be detached and lent for the occasion. It was very small, but it just went on tbe orthodox finger, find the clergyman therefore returned to the altar, ana tbe two were made man and wife. Directly they were married, however, the railing commenced again, and continued until the ring was found in the bowl of a pipe that was in the man’s pocket. —The very last charge recorded in the books of the Southern Hotel, according to the Chicago Times, was “ To fire in room, fifty cents.”