1895 - THE BRIDEGROOM CAME NOT, And the Bride To Have Been Is Now Ill With Grief and Chagrin. A Church Wedding Which Failed to Come Off at Bridgewater, Mass.

Bridgewater, Mass., June 29. - Many invitations had been issued to the Perkins-Bevan wedding at Trinity-Episcopal church this forenoon, but the young man failed to put in an appearance and the young lady is ill at her home, prostrated with grief at the sudden change in her plans.

She first learned of the true state of affairs late Friday night from James Perkins, father of Robert H. Perkins, the prospective groom, who informed her of the departure of his son.

The breaking of the match is said to be the disinclination of the Perkins family to have the young man marry at present. He is 23 years old and Miss Bevan 29. Both are well known socially here, she being organist at Trinity church.

Perkins was for a while engaged in business here, having a store in Central Square.

It is understood that Miss Bevan will pass the summer in England. The couple had a home fitted up for their occupancy.