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Show jiai:i;ii:ii i:v Tin-: laiv t:itvoK. A tol-gram from Taylorsville, lib, says I that for thtj lirst time in tho history of the United States a tjovernor of a state I has performed a marriage ceremony. This statement is open lo some doubt, but il was ne frtheU's.s an interest! n;r occasion. I-'iveyeai s ago. while ni.-ik in;r his campaign lor conoresa in the l'il'lh 1 Indiana district, the l!ev. IhaJ. Chak j met a young man, llAiittisciv by name, to whom ho took a fancy. "When you get. married, I want to perform the ceremony," cere-mony," said Mr. CiiAsn. "J will hold you io your promise, sanl tho young man, anil he did. Last week tho reverend rev-erend gentleman, who is now governor of Indiana, recei ed a Idler from the young man, w ho hail moved in Taylorsville, Taylors-ville, lolling tho day of the wedding had been lixod and asking him to keep his promise. Tho governor decided that I because he had succeeded to the gov- ' ernorship was no reason why he should break his promise, and Saturday he j nent to Taylorsville and tied the knot, j |