MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME XXXIII.

FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1871.

BOSTON:

OFFICE AMERICAN UNION AND THE MONTHLY NOVELETTE.

No. 63 CONGRESS STREET.

BALLOU'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE

VOL. XXXIII.-No. 1. JANUARY, 1871... .. WHOLE NO. 193.

THE ORO-SLUMGULLION MARRIAGE.

The following announcement came to the busy town of Humville, and appeared in the Humville Chronicle, causing an immense flutter of excitement in all the circles and squares and rhomboids into which society at Humville was divided:

because Col. Oro would never see sixty again, and there had been previous gossip that he was designing to marry his former housekeeper, who had left him and gone to Frothboro' some months before. They concluded she must be old, not handsome certainly, even if it was not the housekeeper-they couldn't MARRIED.-In Frothboro', at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Dr. Scoote, judge that it was her from the announcement assisted by the Revs. Messrs. Spoon and Lath--and they definitely determined that the er, Col. Jethro Oro, of Humville, agent of the bride was both old and ugly, even if her father

Universal Patent Toothpick Manuf. Co., to Miss Hero Slumgullion, daughter of Simeon Slumgullion, Esq., of F. A large party at tended the reception at the residence of Mr. Slumgullion, which was both recherche and distingue, the bride appearing very charming in her elaborate bridal toilet, imported for the occasion, supported by twenty-five bridesmaids, elegantly dressed. The ushers were from the principal Frothboro' families, and sustained their parts with great affability. There were five thousand tickets sent out, nearly all of which were returned. The hapPy pair immediately left on their bridal tour, previous to their final settlement in the charming village of Humville.

The young people were greatly agitated by it. What was the bride like? Old, doubtless,

was rich, and they didn't envy her at all; not they to be sure. Graver people, who knew Col. Oro very well, wondered what he could want to make himself such a fool for, and, in reply to the question as to why he had not participated in the service, the Rev. Mr. Smellers-whose likeness may be seen on the seventh page, adorned with those clerical and personal graces that denote position and eminent respectability-gravely informed his querist that they were not of his parish-attended, indeed, at some conventicle down town, of no great pretension, and in short, he had

not been invited, which reason seemed to comprehend all the rest. He need not have con