A CURIOUS MARRIAGE.
A curious marriage took place recently at Cincinnati, A good-looking widow wanting a mate, advertised for a husband, being the dernier resort of these silly American women. A negro, hailing from California, being almost white, answered the advertisement, and, after much writing, and the exchange of photographs, tho pair were married by telegraph, he standing at one end of the wires, she at the other. Now, the negro was a barber by trade, but he pretended to his spooney lover that he was a doctor, and before she joined him ho had discarded his razor. When she arrived she graciously put her hand into her pocket, and paid for his new office and sign. After months of wedded bliss, a meddling neighbor—a female, of course—told tho wife that her belter-half wes only a “nigger," which so horrified madam that she packed up, and would have “made tracks," but the spouse threatened to kill her if she left; so the police locked them both up. Now, tho parson who married the pair was also a shaver ot male china, and no parson ; therefore, I know not what will be the result, but the affair shows up woman as a great simpleton.—“ Silver Pen,” in the ‘Auckland Herald.’
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Evening Star, Issue 6775, 15 December 1884, Page 3
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209A CURIOUS MARRIAGE. Evening Star, Issue 6775, 15 December 1884, Page 3
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