MARRIAGE BY TELEGRAPH.
The Milwaukee Sentinel gires an account of a recent marriage -, oeremony " extending from, that city, to Owatonna, in Minnesota," where the bridegroom was detained on business., He was very desirous that his* brother, a clergyman, should conduct the cerembnial/and as the rev. gentleman could not stay any' lotigtf* at Milwaukee, he attended with the fauld and a party of friends at the Milwaukee telegraph office, sent the essential question, by telegraph to the bridegroom, who was waiting for it in the Owatonna office, and having received the usual answer "by. wire", and the bride'i consent in person, put, a ring Jpn, her finger and pronounced the two to be «nan, and.wife. A letter to the Sentinel from a lawyer points out that the statute ia force assumes the presence of both, parties at "the place of the marriage/ and provides that the declarations of < both?ishalt he made in the presence of the ~minbtfc£ It is, therefore, suggested that this lady and gentleman should be warned "that they are not yet rerj much married,"
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Thames Star, Issue 3829, 23 August 1879, Page 2
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176MARRIAGE BY TELEGRAPH. Thames Star, Issue 3829, 23 August 1879, Page 2
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