A GORGEOUS CALIFORNIAN

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 3, 16 April 1877, Page 2

A GORGEOUS CALIFORNIAN

The San Francisco News Letter contains the following .—" On Wednesday last, our esteemed young townsman, Mr j Washington Sole, led to the altar Mis^ Heavisides, daughter of our wealthy and well ( citizen, Stearine lleavisides, proprietor of the. Refinery and Tallow Boilery on the city front. Thje, blushiug bride, supported on Ihe arm of her father, looked most dccollette in a white corsage, cut bias and with flounces to match. She is a specimen of Pacific health, weighing 170 pounds, though only seventeen pears of age, and she wore a wreath of Californian quartz, with. two. silver bracks for earrings, and a bracelet of immense Arizona diamonds. She had eight bridesmaids, dressed in lillies of the valley, and a coiffure of solid gold hairpins. Mr Sole, who is in partnership with his father in the mammoth shoe, factory, wore no jewellery of any kindj except a watch chain of golden shoe tops, presented, to him on this occas.ion) each, link represented a custom-made shoe. The way in which he wore bis. kid gloves was most degage. At the conclusion, of the tying of the nuptial knot, which was. twenty-two carats fine, and very heajy, the happy party adjourned, to the house of the brijde's father, where four banquets., were spread. Among the presents re* ceived by the happy pair was, six silver plated muffin rings, an embroidered coal" scuttle, and a black reversible flat-iron. A gold brickbat, three bric-a-brac, and four dozen pairs of nujnber nine shoes testified the love of the bridegroom's i father foi; his new daughter, while ten cans, of lard (the product of the bride's younger, brother) adorned a marble centre table in the parlor. One of the features of the banquet was a beautiful cold chicken weighing ten pounds, grown on the ranch, of the bride's aunt. The tables not only groaned, but fairly perspired under the tempting viands. Water melons, beef, sturgeon, and huge boar's, heads formed part of the menu, and the cojlation was served in the most superb style. The newly married couple went by the 4,30 train to San Miguel to spend their honeymoon, and on their rteurn will give a, reception dansante in the immense factory, of Mr Sole, senior. One complete dinner service of verdu, antique, and a barouche made of Califoruian laurel, were accidentally omitted from the lisj of presents. Keporters of the daily press are warned againsj; imitating this style of notice, aa it is copyright, and cannot be used by any other journal.