A CORIOUS MARRIAGE
A curious marriage took (place recent'y at inciimati. A good-looking widow wanting a mate, advertised for a husband, being the dernierr&mrt of Ibeso silly American women; \ negro, hailing from California- being almost while, answered the advertisement, nnl, nf'er much writing, and the exchange of photographs, 'he. (pair were manied by telegraph, he sanding at one end of the wires, she at the other, Now, the negro was a barber by trade, hut ho pretended to his a|.coney lover that, he ivas a doctor,.and .before she joined him he bad discarded the razor. Wnen she anived she graciously put her hand into her pocket, and paid for his new ollice and sign. After months of wedded bliss, a middling neighbour—a female, of course—told the wife that her better half was only a “nigger,” which so horrified madam that she (lacked up, anil would have “ made tranks,” but tbc spoi.se threatened to kill her if she left ; so tho police locked them both up. Now, tho parson who married the pair was also n shaver nt male chins; and no parson ; therefore, llt now.not what will be tho result, but the affair shows up woman as a gr at simpleton. ■ ‘ Silver Pen,” in the Auckland Herald.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1192, 2 January 1885, Page 3
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207A CORIOUS MARRIAGE Dunstan Times, Issue 1192, 2 January 1885, Page 3
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