What the Marriage Statutes Provides — Advice to Merchant and School Teachers.
- Editor CLIPPER:– There is much more in the request of having published monthly the names of parties entering into marriage relation than may appear in the article named.
- The marriage statute provides that persons shall not marry within the fourth degree of consanguinity. The statute in this point has frequently been violated — even own cousins have been known to go out of their own county to avoid exposure.
- The CLIPPER will be doing much good to point out to its readers the evil that will result from such actions, and maybe your correspondent “Blackatone” would kindly point out the bad results legally to such persons who may be ignorant of the risk.
- There must be something radically wrong where parties wish to avoid the publicity of their marriage amongst their neighbors and friends.
- There appears to be a necessity to restrict the limit of credit to persons within their means and disposition of payment.
- It is alleged that the total amount of indebtedness on the books of the parties entering into the mutual protective association to be nearly one hundred thousand dollars, if this should be a fact, there is a great need of a radical change. Why not go a little farther in the reform and cut down margins to a cash basis.
- It is very evident that goods heretofore have been sold on long credit and large profits.
- If times are calling for close economy, the merchants could and should adopt a safe basis; then cut to the one cent in everything that is possible. In one year, the people would be accustomed to buying very close and paying for their purchases spot cash.
- Amongst, the nearly forty teachers in the schools of the county, there must be good material for some interesting correspondence and essays from their fabers.
- Are there no literary societies in the county that can give us something through the colums of the CLIPPER that may interest us in their pursuits, and encourage others to do better than FRANK