ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2167, 14 December 1875, Page 4

ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

A romantic marriage took place the other <Jay in Nebraska. The bridegroom, according to the Omaha Republican, which gives a lengthened account of the affair, is Colonel J. C. Robb, M.1)., of the Cheyenne Agency, Dakota Territory, and the bride " has just enough African blood in her reins to class her among *'kdies of colour." Colonel Robb is no ordinary man. His father is a half-pay colonel in the English army, " is married to a lady of title, and is himself in the direct succession of a ducal coronet." Colonel Robb was educated at the Bluecoat School, and thence sent to ..Oxford, ■where he graduated with honors. His parents decided that he should follow the medical profession, and entered ,Mm at the Middlesex Hospital, where he passedthe necessary examinations, and subsequently was made a F.R.C.S. Becoming tired of the medical profession, he entered the Army, obtaining, by his mother's influence, a commission in the Ist Life Guards. In this regiment he served, through the Crimean "War with credit, and subsequently, under Havelock in India at the time of the mutiny. Here, however, the gallant Robb committed an offence against the rules of the British service, and, after being condemned to .death, was sentenced to 15 years* banishment from the British Empire and its Provinces. Under this sentence he came to America, where he entered the Union service, and conducted himself with such prowess that he soon attained the rank of Colonel. Since the close of the war he has at different times followed the profession of civil engineer and the practice of medicine. For some time pnst he has been at the Cheyenne Agency, where he has a large interest in the fort traders' store. Some idea, aays the Republican, of the rank of Rbbb's father may be formed by the fact that Princess Louise and Lome spent their honeymoon at his house. His family is "in full succession from the Plantagenets," and some few years ago a movement was on foot when the Prince of Wales was less popular than at present, to establish the Plantagenet family on the throne. Had [this movement succeeded, Robb would one day have been monarch of Great Britain. His marriage to the colored lady will, it is expected, excite a profound sensation among the nobility of England.