TWO STRINGS TO HER BOW.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1772, 7 September 1874, Page 3

TWO STRINGS TO HER BOW.

j A Redding recently took place in Syracuse, California, under unusually interesting and romantic circuinßtances. In Adams-street, in that town, lived a young lady as attractive as any damsel of Syracuse. She was accomplished, well educated, refined, and came from a respectable family. She was not however rich in this world's wealth, nor sufficiently well born to satisfy the relations of a young bank cashier who had, been for some time engaged to her. The marriage of the young couple was to have taken place oh the;2Bth 'March; but /wheni, the guests were all assembled and the Minister waiting, the bridegroom was only conspicuous by his absence. The bride alone showed no signs of discompoiurei--nor, indeed, had she any cause for anxiety, for after a brief interval a young gentleman hurried into the church, took the place of the absent bridegroom, and was duly married to the fair bride, who, at the conclusion of the ceremony, with much emotion, explained the mystery to those present. It seems that she had long mistrusted the sincerity of the bank cashier's affection, and her suspicions were strengthened by an intimation she received, from him a few days before the wedding that he would be compelled to proceed to Pennsylvania on business. Determining not to be made a fool of on the occasion of her wedding,, she .telegraphed to another admirer yrho lived at Hamilton; telling him to be in readiness on the morning pf the 25th, as M^service might be required as a bridegroom in the event of the bank cashier not making his appearance. A telegram received from the bank cashier suggesting the postponement of the wedding was traated with the scorn it deserved; the lover from Hamilton proved ready at a moment's notice to take his place, and thus occurred the change of bridegrooms at the lait minute. The happy couple were warmly congratulated on this pleasing termination of the affair, and departed on their wedding tour amid a shower of old shoes and blessings.