A RACE FOR A HUSBAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8942, 7 October 1907, Page 1

A RACE FOR A HUSBAND.

Angry Father in Hot Pursuit,

After a long flight of more than 350 miles with her angry father in pursuit, not twenty miles behind all the way, MiiS Julia Jackson Christian, the beautiful gnnddaughter of Stonewall Jackson, fha Confederate general, was married at Salisbury, North Carolina, on August Bth, to F, Randolph Preston, a joung lawyer of Cbarlottee. The father of the bride, W. E Christian, arrived a few minutes behind h ; s daughter, Miss Christian, who lives at Charlotte, N. 0., wi h Mrs Stonewall Jackson, and had been visiting her father in Atlanta, where she was the recipient of attentions from numerous pubi c men, even the Georgia Senate adjourning in her honour.

Thursday night he was astounded to receive a telegram from her announcing that she had taken a train for Charlotte. Suspecting what her intentions were, he dashed out, and was just in time to board the second section of the New York and New Orleans, Limited, the first section of which, with his daughter on board, had pulled out thirty minutes ahead of him.

Then began the chase, the father hoping again:t hope that something would happen to detain the train in front so that he might catch up. But like the true granddaughter of Stonewall Jackson, Miss Christian had laid her plans well. She wired her sweetheart to meet her at the station. The young man telegraphed a college chum at Salisbury to have a preacher and license at the depot when the train arrived there. Then he boarded the train with Miss Christian, and when the couple arrived at Salisbury they found the preacher on hand. The ceremony was performed immediately.