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Show AN INDIANA MARR1ACE. On Friday morning Justice Sheet.-', of Paris, Illinois, was called upon by a happy couple. The man beckoned him aside, and p;iid that he wauled j to be married. The young lady was j 25, while her lover was about Len yours her sonior. The justice adjusted his spec tack1.-., put on the lo k heusunlly wears when about to make people (un) happy for life, ani told them to stand up. This they did. and as he was about to bein the ceremony, the following formula was handed to him by the groom, who stated that they had concluded to he married by tbia : Verbatim it ia as follows: "Mr. V. C. Coin do you Uke this woman Lida Hutchius whom you hold by the rito hand to your lawful and wedded wife in tho presence of God and these witnesses. wit-nesses. So long as you both love each olhcr and live happy together aud will you endeavor to make her happiness happi-ness that of yoaraclf and familys. your hieat earthly aim to take care of her in sickness and iu health, so long as you both live together as husband and wife? The same formula for-mula was presented interrogatively to the lady, except that the sentence 'to do your duty by him bo long as you live together as husband aud wile' was interpolated at the close. The parlies live at Chrisman, Us. Tcrre Haute xrcss. |