Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — A Marriage That Didn’t Come Off. [ARTICLE]

A Marriage That Didn’t Come Off.

A young man on Minnesota street and one of the lady teachers in one of the public schools not far from Case avenue, having concluded that a consolidation of their joys and sorrows would lead to their mutual advantage, resolved that upon the 17th day of July, 1878, at eight o'cloek in the evening, they would be joined in holy wedlock. All the arrangements usually called for bv a wedding were made, even to the securing of berths in a sleeping car for an eastern trip. The minister and the awful hour of eight p. m. arrived. The COuple. with beating hearts and new presented tlieniselveS for the ceremony which was to unite two loving hearts and give him the privilege of paying for her clothes, and her the right to go through his pockets for other women's, letters. Then the minister asked to see the license. The young man said he had nd license. The preacher said he couldn’t marry them without a license. The young man didn’t know that license was necessary. He begged the minister to go on. The minister respected the majesty trf the law and refused. The bride burst into very unschool-mannish tears; she sobbed and prayed the bard-hearted

clsrgyman to look upon that wedding outfit and complete the oerem6ny. The would-be bridegroom thought of the secured berths in the Wagner and entreated him to speak the fatal words. ’Twas vain! The man of prayers refused to lay himself liable to six month* in the Workhouse, and would do naught"* without the license. Then the bride- > groom proposed to go to Judge Tilden, and if he would say it was all right, would the minister marry them? He would. Then the young man hustled around, and ran to the nearest tinshop to borrow a directory to find the residence of Judge Tilden. Thence he hastened to the Judge's house, leaving the wedding guests m expectancy. An hour elapsed. The bridegroom returned; the bride rAshed to meet him; the minister cleared his throat; the guests rose in expectation. With a dejected air he sank into a seat and mopped the sweat from his brow. “ What did he say?” all ejaculated anxiously. “Hesaid: around in the morning and I’ll give you the beat license in the house.’ Just as if a man could get married any time of day.” The bride was carried off by sympathizing friends, the bridegroom sank into the depths of gloomy reflections, the minister pullea his hat over his ear and went home, and the 10:30 train nulled out of the Union Depot with two less passengers than the schedule called tor.—Cleveland Herald.