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Show MAY AND DECEMBER. General Cassius 91. Clay's Wedding; to EUi Fifteen-year-old Ward. The only witnesses to the marriaga were McClelland Richardson and Dr. Cassius Clay Smith, the latter a physician physi-cian of Richmond, Ky. Dr. Smith refused re-fused to say anything about the wedding, wed-ding, explaining that he had promised General Clay not to do so. It was learned that the ceremony took place in the sitting room. The brida WH not dressed as brides usually ara. -. ore a plain dark dress, was bare-hoauud, bare-hoauud, her long black tresses hanging in an almost disheveled mass down her back. She wore no gloves, had no oraugo blossoms and carried no bridVs roses in her hand. It was a simple ceremony. cere-mony. The girl, who had remained sitting sit-ting until General Clay and the magis- i trate arose, got up from the divan and took her place beside her white headed bridegroom. It was a touching scene. The man who had led admiring thousands thou-sands in a crusade for human liberty, who in his youth was a perfect Apollo Belvidere in appearance, if not a Napoleon Na-poleon in the cause of abolition, stood as meekly as a little child, with an expression ex-pression of unspeakable happiness upon his time worn but still fresh and almost youthful features, and by his side that lmple, trusting country girl, as shy aa a gazelle, knowing as little of the great world in which her venerable husband had played so conspicuous a part as the most untutored daughter of nature. The ceremony was very brief, and when It was over the bashful child went back to the kitchen, and General Clay and his family physician sat talking by the large open fireplace, in which glowed two bushels of burning coals. And thus was celebrated one of th9 most remarkable weddings that ever took place in the United States. Louisville Lou-isville Courier- JournaL |