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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 July 1866, Page 2

Practical Joking-. — The St. Louis Democrat says that, a few days ago, ■ Charles Moritz, a returned soldier, being a xious to marry and settle down, offered an acquaintance fifty dollars, provided he procured him a person of "whom he might make a wife. The bargain was struck, and Moritz's friend and a few others determined to work a practical joke on^tiie bachelor. They had a boy, dressed up in women's clothing, introduced to Moritz, who waß pleasod with the the look of the bargain, and arrangements being wade, to that end, a confederate joker married the pair, and received five dollars from the happy bridegroom for tying tho knot. Morita also paid over seventy dollars ibr tho wedding supper, and gave his bride a handsome present in money. The sudden ilneao of c eistcr called the bride ay.'ay from tho wedding feast, and she did not return. Next d«y Morits set out to iniut .her up, when ho vraa tolcl the v,!u.i« ftSlait 1 wiw. a fayed. * Ho did not regwd th« parior in tha same jijjiit, Riul tiie ga?iie§ 59 j| ftrc in .; ;a o» ft. ohu'^jis pf awmflli^»