Show THAT HASTYJfATlBIAGE Howard King Gives a Tribune Yarn an ErapIiaticJJame I A marriage thai was somewhit Semantic and very foolish was solemnized ov Judge Smith In this city on Wednesday i Thosroom tro was Howard King a mere boy18 years of age who Uves in the Tenth Ward The bride was a young girl named Nettle Peck whose home Jsiln Provo The couple never saw each other until last Friday when they met at Pullers Hill It might be set down as a genuine case of love at first sight but the marriage was the result of a banter the boy daring the girl and the girl daring the boy to get married Young King already repents his hasty and foolish step and was reported yesterday to be making a great effort to raise sufficient funds to send his childwife to her home at Proro SALT LAKE Crnf MayS 1885 To the Editor of THE HERALD The above scandalous and libellous article appeared in yesterdays Tribune and I wish at once and emphatically to brand it as a lie I did marry Miss Nettie Peck of Provo not on Wednesday Wednes-day but Tuesday I have known her fully six months instead of five days I am 20 years of age instead of 18 married mar-ried her in the presence of her mother Mrs Nettie Peck who was a witness to the ceremony and so far as I know there have as yet been nothing like regrets re-grets on either side In conclusion let me say that my brother who gave the Tribune this falsehood is the last man who should talkof any irregularity in the marriage of another How AnD KING |