Holmes County Republican

New York Wedding Snobbery.

Extravagance, pretension, pomp and snobbery on wedding occasions have been growing rankly in this country of late, and have just gone to seed under Cuban cultivation in New York city. A few months ago a Cuban named Oviedo, said to be worth $4,000,000 in sugar and coffee plantations and slaves, met in New York a daughter of Lieut. Bartlett, formerly of the Navy, and won her hand. It was the meeting of January and May, 55 and 56. For weeks past the approaching bridal has been a fruitful topic with snobdom and the penny-a-liners.

The wedding took place on the 13th in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Hughes officiating Railings were erected to keep the uninvited from the vicinity of the altar, and 3000 invitations were issued. Several of the New York papers devote columns to descriptions of the crowd, parties, and ceremonials, ekeing out in the most stilted flunkeyism minute accounts of the number of bridemaids and grooms, six of each, the jewels of the bride, the cut of the whiskers and mustache of the dark wrinkled bridegroom, and the paternal tears at the altar! The bridal presents are reported at $35,000, the bridal dress $5,000. jewels, &c., $100,000 etc. etc. Bridal dress of Paris point lace, hair wreathed with orange flowers, the jewels from Tiffany thus described:

The necklace, a broad festoon of pure strands of pearls, met in ribbon of brilliants arranged as a love-knot, from which depended a pear-shaped pearl of great size -and, no doubt, price. The bracelet was a quadruple band of pearls. but confined within two rows of diamonds. The ear-rings were composed of diamonds and pearls. The brooch was formed of diamonds unalloyed by baser jewels, and especially distinguished by a superior "brilliant" diamond, a stone of peculiar shape and cut.

In closing its sickening account the Tribune says-"Society breathes more freely." No doubt of it, scrub snobbery constitutes metropolitan society.