OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE

Globe, Volume II, Issue 146, 21 November 1874, Page 3

OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE

A marriage took place at Trenton, New Jersey, in the United States, under unusually romantic circumstances. It appears that Colonel Jerusalem Freeze, described as "banker, widower, ex-editor, and patron of literature, the line arts, fine horses, and fiancees," took an immense fancy to a fine horse owned by a widow lady who had recently removed to Trenton. Although Colonel Freeze offered a considerable sum for the animal, the widow lady was unwilling to part with it, and refused even to entertain a further bid. After a short but serious reflection the gallant colonel decided on offering to take the widow lady as well as the horse, and pushed his suit with such ardour that in three weeks from the date of his first visit to see the horse, he and the widow lady were engaged to be married. The colonel's conduct during the period of his betrothal was marked by the exquisite delicacy and refinement for which he is so remarkable. Two days before the time fixed for the wedding he arrived at the widow lady's house in a carriage filled with flowers of the choicest varieties, and, accompanied by his intended bride, he visited his former wife's grave and decorated the ground and the handsome monument he had erected to her memory in the most tasteful manner. The next day the colonel appeared again at the widow lady's house in the same carriage filled with another lot of flowers, and the loving couple proceeded to another cemetery, where the mortal remains of the widow lady's husband are interred, and in like manner decked the grave of the deceased gentleman. Having made these appropriate peace offerings to the manes of their deceased partners, the colonel and the -widow lady were next day married, and started upon their happy wedding tour. "Who," asks a local journal, "but Colonel Jerusalem Freeze could do up a thing like this ?"