A RACE FOR A BRIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 166, 13 July 1880, Page 4

A RACE FOR A BRIDE.

A novel wedding waa celebrated recently afc Pollockville, N. C. It seems that Moses John Miller and Alexander Bibb, two well-to-do young farmers, were in love with the same girl, Leonora Loyd. She was not able to decide which she liked best. Miller wenfc to see her, and understood her to cay that she would marry him. Both men the next morning wenfc fco the courthouse to gefc oufc tho license. Each procured the necessary documents, and started off with a license fco marry Miss Loyd. They met at the court-house door, and, after some talk, agreed that the firsfc man who reached the lady's house should marry her. The residence of Colonel Loyd was one mile distant, and both men started on fche race for fche bride. Bibb soon quitted the main road and dashed into fche wood, expecting to make a short cut amd reach the house firsfc, bufc Miller kept the road, and got in on the hothestretch eighfc minutes before his rival. The men were in sight of each other going up the lane to the house. Bibb's effort; fco overtake his rival was almost; superhuman. When they reached the house, Bibb, from sheer exhaustion, fainted in the porch, falling almoß. at tho foot of h_a .ludj-loTO. "Wheu. the situation was explained fco her, she said she had come to the conclusion fchafc she liked Mr Bibb the besfc, and therefore she would marry him. Her sympathies were won over by seeing him faint. She said she believed that both loved her, bufc thafc he who faints at the danger of losing a bride must love her more than he who is cool and unconcerned in the midst of ifc all. The Rev. Aaron Jasper married Mr Bibb and Miss Loyd that afternoon.