Romantic Marriages

A very romantic affair took place a the Falls oC Niágara recently. A tinelooking man, known as Dr. Jlarry Dar ling, of Atlanta, (Ja., recently register ed at Uosli's Hotel, and, af ter reniain ing a few days, spending his nionej freely, visited the Table-ltock Iloust and museum, where he was equally free in his expenditure. Finally liis gaze rested upon oneof Mr.Davis' hand some assistants, Miss Anna Murphy formeiiy of St. Oatharines. He askei her if she would Ukötb be mamwl and have him for a husband. She said she would, and did. ïhis was on Mooday Tuesday the pair went across the rivei and were married, and are now spending their honeymoon and lots of monei at the PalU. The sleepy passengere on the steamer Capital, on its last Uip froni Oakland recently, were aroused by i very Buiden precipitation of a nianiage cereniony. The parties were Mary Francés Virtue, of San José, and D. S. Richards, of SanFrancisco. The couple procuring a license here, started for Oakland in the afternoon, intending to be married there. As the law would not permit of their marrying outside of the county where the license was issued, they seeured the services of the Hev. J)r. Tood, who agreed to return witli them to this city and to inarry them on the boat when within the county line. The knot was tied just as ihe boat reached the wharf, and the steamer's whistles tooted loudly for a few minutes as a substituto for the usual wedding chimes. A feud hasexisted foryears between the Curtís and Davis families, -v lio uve in the same neighborhood, iiear Maquoketa, la. But as there was a Juliet O the Davis farnily, so there was a Romeo in the house of Curtís. Romeo, Ben, and Juliet, or, in matter of fact, Matilda, met at church, clandestinely went sleighing together on moonlight lights, and last winter eloped. Arrived at Dubuque.bound west insearch of a new world, the lovers were overaken by the girl's father, who foreibly took his daughter back to Maquoketa. Fair Matilda was kept a prisoner in her father's house until last Tuesday, upon which day she attained her majority. In the middle of the morning she saw a chance to escape, xeti ran bonnetless to the woods, through which she made her way to the Curtis farmhouse, several miles distant. Hergown was torn by briers, and she was forced to take off her shops to wade streams, but she pushed on and feund her lover at work in a field about 1 o'clock. Young Curtis sent his younger brother for Justice R. "YV. Henry at Maquoketa, and when the latter arrived the bride and groom were sitting on a fallen oak in a roadside grove. Justice Henry began to twit the young people upon their romantic surroundings, when the bride exclaimed: "Hurry up, 'Squire, father's coming!" "Rush it, Judge!" shouted the groom. Justice Henry looked up the road and saw the bride's fathér riding down upon the party at a furious speed. The old man wis rolling along like a summer evening thunder-storm, and Justice Henry hurriedly placed the lovers under the urnbrella of matrimony, "uni'ing them," as the local paper says, "in as few words as the law allows."