SINGULAR MARRIAGE MISADVENTURE

Southland Times, Issue 866, 16 December 1867, Page 2

SINGULAR MARRIAGE MISADVENTURE

I About a month ago, a young German, I wishful to lead to the altar a fair one of I his choice at Middleborough, went to a well-known literary institution, under the impression that the clerk of one of our churches lived there, with a view of making the preliminary arrangements in connection with the marriage ceremony. The good lady who answered the door received the commands of the suitor, which were given with a rather Teutonic accent. The young G-erman, doubtless, nervous on the near approach of the happy event, hesitatingly said he wished to " put two names in." Thinking that he wished to propose two persons as members of the institute, the person he addressed innocently told him he would have " Is 6d to pay, and that they will be proposed at the next committee meeting." The complexity of the case was not lessened by the German inquiring " if it (i.e., the announcement of marriage) would be on Sunday." Said the lady interrogated, with a sort of deprecation of his impiety, "Oh no ! the Institution is not open on a Sunday." The inquirer after marriage was then asked to write his name for proposal, and he did so, adding, of course, the name of his fair inamorato. 3?or a month the names were upon the proposal board of the institute. One morning last week the G-erman and his affianced, thinking all was right, duly presented themselves to the parson to be made one flesh. Of course the pciest was greatly astonished at receiving so summary a summons to perform the ceremony, and had to inquire into the circumstances before the event could be celebrated. G-uess the horror of the young couple on hearing what a mess they had been let into. Of course there was nothing for it but to postpone the marriage. The mistake arose through the German's bad English, and in consequence of "a clerk of the church having formerly lived at the institute. — Torh Herald.