A RACE FOR A BRIDE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2284, 13 July 1880, Page 3

A RACE FOR A BRIDE.

A novel wedding was celebrated recently at Pollockville, H. C. It seems that John Miller and Alexander Bibb, two well-to-do young farmers, fell in love with the same girl, Leonora Lloyd. She was not able to decide which she liked best. Miller went to sec her, and understood her to say she would marry him. Both men the next morning went to the court-house to got out the license. Each procured the necessary document and started oil with the license to marry Miss Lloyd. They met at the courthouse door, and after some talk, agreed that the first man who reached the lady’s house should marry her. The residence of Colonel Lloyd was one mile distant, and both men started on the race for the bride. Bibb soon quitted the road and dashed into the wood, expecting to make a short cut and roach the house first, but Miller kept the road, and got in eight minutes before his rival. They were in sight of each other going up the lane to the house. Bibb’s effort to overtake his rival was almost superhuman. When they reached the house, Bibb, from sheer exhaustion, fainted in the porch, falling almost at the feet of his ladylove. When the situation was explained to her, she said she had come to the conclusion that she liked Mr Bibb the best, and therefore she would marry him. Her sympathies were won over by seeing him faint. She said she believed that both loved her, but that he who faints at the danger of losing a bride must love her more than lie who is cool and unconcerned in the midst of it all. The Eev. Aaron Jasper married Mr Bibb and Miss LIO3M that afternoon.