A SINGULAR WEDDING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 101, 26 September 1874, Page 3

A SINGULAR WEDDING.

A wedding took place on the 25th of March in Syracuse, California, under unusually interesting and romantic circumstances, which are related in the Syracuse Courier. In Adam street in that town, lived a young lady as attractive as any damsel of Syracuse. She was accomplished, well educated, refined, and came from a respectable family. She was not, however, rich in this world’s wealth, nor sufficiently well born to satisfy the relations of a young bank cashier, who had been for some time engaged to her. The marriage of the young couple was to have taken place on the 25th ult, but when the guests were all assembled and the minister waiting, the bridegroom was only conspicuous by his absence. The bride alone showed no signs of discomposure—nor, indeed, had she any cause for anxiety, for, after a brief interval, a young gentleman hurried into the church, took the place of the absent bridegroom, and was duly married to the fair bride, who at the conclusion of the ceremony with much emotion explained the mystery to those present. It seems that she had long mistrusted the sincerity of the bank cashier’s affection, and her suspicions were strengthened by an intimation she received from bim a few days before the wedding that he was compelled to proceed to Pennsylvania on business. Determining not to be made a fool of on the occasion of her wedding, she telegraphed to another admirer who lived at Hamilton, telling him to be in readiness on the morning of the 25th, as his services might be required as bridegroom in the event of the bank cashier not making his appearance. A telegram received from the bank cashier suggesting a postponement of the wedding was treated with the scorn it deserved ; the lover from Hamilton proved ready at a moment’s notiee to take his place, and thus occurred the change of bridegrooms at the last minute. The happy couple were warmly congratulated on this happy termination of the affair, and departed on their wedding tour amid a shower of old shoes and blessings.