SHORT AND SWEET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 322, 22 November 1879, Page 2

SHORT AND SWEET.

A civil service marriage is thus recorded 111 the Reno Gazette :~ Judge Richardson doesn't pretend to be a parson, and therefore isn't as well up m the marriage ceremony as the slimy supporters of a decayed hierarchy are The young couple stood up before him the other evening, and the Judge enquired in a cross-question kind of tone of the groom States'?" y ° U a C ' tiZen ° f th ° United The groom took hold of the waistband ot his trousers, and tugged, savin" " T voted for Tilden, Judge." 0 " Why, James!" faintly exclaimed the blushing creature by his side. , Itß - a /i lct ' E J nmer /' protested James Judge 8 y » and S larin S at the His Honor coughed, and demanded severely- Do you sir, as a citizdn of Nevada, and a lawful voter of Reno, solemnly declare that you will forsake all other evils and cleave to this one I" "I've got money bet on it,"responded lie groom, growing pale, but placing his unround the waist of the shrinking Then, cried the Judge, bring his fist down on the desk, "God has jointed you together, and damn the man that puts you asunder. The fee is just what you ike to give young fellow." It was pretty liberal, and the Court set them up, and kissed the young wife several times-be-sides.