CARELESS MARRYING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 261, 3 April 1875, Page 3

CARELESS MARRYING.

The Providence Journal refers to the careless facility with which clergymen often perform the marriage ceremony, for any man who comes with a woman on his arm and a fee in his hand, and thinks it was a mistake to repeal the old law which required the publication of the banns of marriage, An exception to the custom to which he alludes is the following:— “ This matter is brought to our notice by the very proper conduct of a clergyman in this city, who was waited upon last week by two candidates for matrimonial felicity, aud in the course of the inquiries which he deemed it proper to make of them he readily discovered that the man was decidedly under the influence of strong liquor; and he told him that he would not marry him. ‘Why not?’ stammered the expectant bridegroom. " Because you are drunk; come here sober and I will decide whether I will marry you or not; but in your present state you are not fit to enter into so solemn an engagement.” The man refused to leave till the ceremony was performed: but he found that the minister belonged to the church militant, and he made a hasty retreat with a boot close behind him. Doubtless he found somebody to marry him.”