Butts-Spalding County GaArchives Marriages.....Redding, Samuel Arthur - Frate, Marie November 22, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of December 23, 1898
Redding – Frate

On the 18th instant Col. R. J. Redding received a letter from his son, Samuel 
Arthur Redding, conveying the news of the marriage of the latter to Miss Marie 
Frate, in the city of Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil, south America, on November 22.  
The letter was written November 26th and was just 22 days on the way.

Manaos is a city of 40,000 inhabitants, the capitol of the state of Amazonas, 
in the great republic of Brazil and is located on the left bank of the Amazon 
river, about 1000 miles from its mouth and about 200 miles south of the equator.

Our young friend Arthur has been a resident of Manaos about seven months, and 
is connected with the management of the Manaos Electric Light Co. In that short 
time he has been led captive by one of the dark eyed beauties for which that 
country is noted.

We congratulate him in his happy servitude and wish him and his bonnie bride a 
long and happy united life.

By the way, it was Arthur’s purpose to marry in the southern hemisphere on the 
same day and hour which witnessed the recent marriage of his sister, in 
Griffin, Ga., but by an unfortunate misreading of the figure “3” for “2” he 
married 24 hours earlier thus depriving his father of the unique distinction of 
having a son and daughter to marry on the same day and hour, the one in the 
Northern and the other in the Southern hemisphere.

It requires not less than three weeks for a letter to go from Griffin to Manaos 
the same for a reply to reach Griffin, and the cable rate is $1.90 per word, 
via London. - 
Griffin Call



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