Show A GRAVEYARD COURTSHIP Ito = One of the most romantic marriages mar-riages on record took place im this city yesterday by which Benjamin Ferguson a stonecutter was united to Mrs Amelia Wagner The story of the courtship and marriage a I singular one and plainly shows tow to-w hat strange channels love will run I Several months ago the helpmate of Mrs Wagner died and his remains 1 were buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in the family burying ground Time passed swiftly by and after daily visits to the cemetery Mrs Wagner became convinced that a monument reared over the mound that covered her deceased helpmate would mach imvrove the looks of things thereabouts I there-abouts So she had a plain marble slab erected over the grave This remained there for sometime some-time and Mrs Wagner resolved that she would have some inscrip tion carved upon the monument setting forth the good qualities of the deceased and leaving some memento me-mento of her affection She looked < around for some one to carTe the inscription in-scription and at length Ferguson was employed and he commenced his task three days ago He began work early in the morning and during dur-ing the day the disconsolate widow came to the cemetery to watch the progress of the work The stonecutter stone-cutter was very much interested in the widow all the more from the fact that she had a very handsome face and he thought it his duty to console her He paused frequently between the strokes of his hammer and offered her words condolence at the same time intimating to her that there was yet a bright page left in the book of life for her By evening quite an intimacy was established between the two the widow thinking wkat a nice fellow fel-low the stone cutter was and wondering won-dering if there was not some way I besides money in which she could repay him for his labors On the other hand he came to the conclusion conclu-sion that the most solid comfort he could offer her was by offering to take the place of the deceased husband hus-band He returned to his work the next day and the widow also came Matters were renewed upen a more solid footing than before and by night a bargain had been made that the widow was to pay him for his labors by bestowing upon him her hand and he was to occupy the place in her heart left vacant by the death of her husband On the third day after their meeting yesterday there was a quiet wedding and the two were made one The inscription inscrip-tion on the momment remains half completed just as he left it on the second day He will probably renew re-new his labors on the epitaph as soon as his honeymoon is over Louisville CourierJournal |