MARRIAGE INCIDENTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3097, 1 June 1881, Page 4

MARRIAGE INCIDENTS.

American contemporary, in an article on marriage, gives the followin.'; 'is mtri'ius illustrations of actual ».'vents :—.Vlr-i Katherina Chesna, of Verb", Hungary, claims attention as having had setvn husbands before she was forty, one of whom —married at the age of 87 —enjoyed 13 years of connubial felicity, leaving only 10 years among the other six. At Conquest, N.Y., last summer, a husband sold hi a wife to another man for 5 dol. and the expense of drawing tho bill of sale, a transaction not much more dubious than that reported from Union, near Binghampton, where a young married couple, a young lac'.y visitor, and a gentleman friend drove to a clergyman's house and were ' crossmiiLchecl,'. the wife marrying the friend and tho husband the wife's visitor without any previous formality of divorce. There have been railroad and telegraphic marriages. At Rochester, Mr K. W. Locke, of Speneerport, was married on the cars to Miss Mary Olcott, by the Hey. Mrs Gardiner. Miss Oleott's train was late, and her husbandeleot had a pressing engagement, and as the happ\ cuupie could not go to the church the clergy woman was brought to the happy couple, .-•om? little time ago Mr Charles F. 3tilJman, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Miss Ida . Williams, of Elgin, Illinois, were married at 5 o'clock in the morning, in a sleeping car, while a train was being shifted in Mip depot in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Then there is the case of a young girl who left Dubuque for New Zealand on the summons of her sweetheart, who was to marry her on her arrival there. She returned alone unmarried. Finding the man evidently disappointed because she was not so handsome as when he had last seen her, she promptly released him from his contract. Her unhappy fate may be said to be atoned for by the lover of Miss Clara Shaffer, of Mercer, Pa. She was engaged to the Rev. George Bovard, a young missionary in India, who desired her to visit its coral strand and there espouse him. Neither of the young people had any money; but she borrowed funds from I'iehard Wright, a clothing merchant of the town, and set off for Two or three days after her departure Mr Wright grew despondent, and chided himself for having given away his chance for marrying Miss Shaffer himself. A thought struck him to follow her, and, if possible, overtake her before she boarded a steamer in New York for distant India. He acted promptly on the thought, took the cars, reached New York, and found the vessel on which she was to sail. Miss Shaffer was already on board ; he made know his affection, asked for her hand for himself, was accepted, and the two returned to Mercer a few days ago as man and wife.