Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-06-23
From, tie ,i,ew York ,Suniay Dispctch
A STRANGE DRANAIN REAL LIFE

We have just received the particulars Of
amost extraordinary story, (which has given
rise to no little gossip in neighboring
city, and the chief actors in which have
always heretofore been looked upon as per-
sons of the highest respeo ability. Our
columns have often testified to the fact that
the most ingenious romance will often fall
far short OF city reality, and never was
that truth made more plainly evident than
in the narrative which we are about to re-
late. We give the incidents precisely as
they were given to rs, m 1el y suppressing
names, and are satisfied that, in the main
particulars, they are strictly true.
Some months since, family, consist
ing of gentleman, his wife, mother and
a housekeeper, were living happily in the
city above alluded to. The gentleman was
Intelligent, good looking and had not yet
passed the meridian of life, while his wife
was also young, we'll educated, and Of re-
fined manners. She had borne her hus
band two children, OF whom they were
mutually very fond, and the husband and
wife were looked upon by their most in
innate friends as happy couple. Indeed
there can be no doubt that they were happy,
and, but for an cxhition of those dark
phases OF human character which some
times starile the moral world, they would
have remained SO.
A short time since, the wife, who had
relatives in Europe, expressed a desire to
vst them, and the husband, always wiling
to crafty her, engaged passage for her,
and she departed. Things went smoothly
enough for one time after she had gone,
but at length the mother Of the husband
thought that she discovered signs of too
much familiarity between her sen and the
housekeeper. She was not willing to be-
lieye the evidence of her senses at first
for the housekeeper, besides being no great
beauty, had pa. sed the ey-day Of youth,
having reached the matronly age OF about
forty tive. 1t was not long, however, be.
fore the mothers first aroused suspicious
were fully confirmed, and she at once
wrote letter to her daughter r-in-law, sta
ting the facts and advising her Immediate
return. The wife was not willing to be-
ltive in her husbands infdelity-and, un-
der the idea that there must be some mis-
take in the matter, she addressed note to
, him, revealing what she had heard. She
wound up, however, by expressing de-
sire to return home, aud requesting hcl
husband to send her money for that pur-
pose. No attention was paid to her letter
; and she then began to get really alarmed
so, raising what money she could from
her friends, she took passage for home
On board the vessel in which she saileC
she met with young man whom she hac
known from childhood, and who had beer
a suitor for her hand previous to her mar
riage with her first husband. AS she was
: alone he assumed the protection of her,
and during the passage paid her every at
tention which brother would show to {
sister. She arrived at home safely and
G Immediately took her way to her former
a residence, when she was terribly shocked
l to learn that her husband had sold off al
e his effects and with his children was liv
+, ing with the housekeeper. Filled with az
: ony, she sought out her mother-in law
: who had taken up her residence with an
e other son and she learned that what Bh'
S had heard was too true. The old lady in
:. formed her that her husband had indee,
taken up his abode with the housekeeper
= but that he had kept his residence a pro
found secret In state bordering upol
8 frenzy, the unfortunate woman was about
e to rush forth in search Of further informa
ton, when singularly enough, her (aithles
t husband entered the room. He quaile
: before the glance of his injured wife, whom
he had thought still in Europe, and whe
she appealed to his feelings as a hnsban
y and father, and asked to know why he ha
i thus deserted her, he merely replied tina
: he could not help himself-that he woll
r place no obstacle in her way to divorce
: and that her best cource would be to MARI
the young man who had accompanied he
/. home( for she had informed him ofthe pal
$ ticulars concerning the passage. To thi
she replied that she did not wish to pal
| from him--that he was her husband an
the father Of her children---that Il he ha
e done wrong she was willing to forgive hin
to forget the past, and to thing only OF tn
future. He reioined that the thing was i'm
!. possible he would do all ne coul
Tor her in pecuniary view, but that b
: never could live with her again; and thu
: the interview ended