A LIVELY WEDDING.
A lively episode occurcd at a marriage ceremony which took place at Loadvillc, U.S.A, recently. The big brother of a young lady compelled her lover to fulfil his promise of marriage, and they brought him by force into the church. During the ceremony the bridegroom, being dissatisfied with some performance of the clergyman, fired his revolver at the divine, but missed his shot. The latter continued the discharge of his sacred functions until the twain were one flesh. Thereupon, in order that all things might be done in the best style, and according to the old fashioned rule, he stepped forward and kissed the bride. At this the jealous bridegroom was wrath and smote him. Whereupon the rev. church militant—a brawny priest of some six feet iu height—sprang over the chancel railing, and seizing the newly-made husband by the back of the
neck, gave him, under cover of the pistols of the newly-made brothers-in-law, such a dreadful drubbing that he will remember it as long as he lives. This closed the marriage solemnities.
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Patea Mail, 20 November 1880, Page 4
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176A LIVELY WEDDING. Patea Mail, 20 November 1880, Page 4
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