State Ledger clipping

An interesting marriage took place last Saturday evening, at Mayor McGill's office. The couple were colored, and it was not the ceremony nor the high standing of the contracting parties which made it interesting, but the circumstances which brought it about. The father of the bride, Rev. J. Aaron Moore, was very anxious that Wm. B. Taylor should possess his daughter Ida, for a wife. William was not much in the notion of marrying, but the father was so firmly fixed in the belief that he was the right man to have her that he persuaded him with a shot-gun to stand up and take her for better or for worse. The ceremony was short and impressive, after which, instead of the usual salute from the groom and the congratulations of friends, etc., etc., they parted to meet no more. "One flew East and one flew West," etc., etc.