Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-04-29

eAdpSeO Wnel a KICK from q VICIOUS morse
killed him. Robert consoled the widow,
and determined at the expiration of a
year or so to marry her. He had too
much respect for her to press his suit i'm
mediately, and did not for fifteen months,
when he proposed. To his horror she
informed him that she was already enga-
ged, and that In three months more her
second marriage was to be consummaied.
Two years passed. In the meantime the
widow and her husband moved 70 Syra-
cuse, n. Y, and Robert possessed by
some strange hallucinatioH followed them.
That season the cholera swept that city,
and among It's victims was the second hus-
band. Robert allowed a year to pass, and
was on the point of urging his claims,
when he received an invitation to her
wedding. She was to be married TO her
late husbands partner. Robert remon-
strated. The lady assured him that her
present step was not one of love, but
purely of necessity. The partnership
affairs of her late lamented were in such
state that settlement was impossible,
and to save immense losses she had deter
mined upon marrying the surviving part
ner. She assured him also that her SEN
timents towards him were unchanged, and
that should she ever become widow
again, she would give him the preference.
She was married and in short time re-
moved with her third husband to Detroit,
Mich. But a fatality seemed to pursue
her. Herself and husband were on
board of a steamer that was wrecked
near Buffalo some years since. The hus-
band perished and she escaped only
through the superhuman exertions of a
friend who happened to be on board.
The friend was young, unmarried, and
his gallantry inspired such sentiments in
the breast of the widow, that she married
him before Robert had time to claim her.
When he learned the state of affairs, he
was somewhat indignant, but she told him
the circumstances and managed to satisfy
him with the promise that if she ever be-
came widowed again, she would most po-
sitively marry him. The lady with her
fourth husband settled on farm near
Bacyrus, while Robert removed to Mans
field that he might be near her. In the
course of a year, they removed to Pitts
burgh, where the husband went into mer-
camille business on Liberty street-resid-
ing, however, in Allegheny city. Robert
followed them. and finding employment
determined to watch the chances closely
One day he was passing the store Of Mr.
. -r-ho hn 10 Of1O
Rushing in he saw Mr.. -, a mangleC
corpse upon the floor. A cask of rice
uhich was being hoisted had fallen an(
killed him instantly. He inquired if an!
one had been sent to aoquaint his wife oi
the accident. Yes the first clerk hat
Just started. Looking once more at pool
Mr.. -, to make sure that he was per
fectly dead, Robert started for Alleghen,
as fast as his legs could carry him. Th'
; first clerk was only trife ahead of him
and Robert knowing the importance o
being in time, from past experience, an
fearing that the clerk had designs upo
the widow, ran like an Indian. Side b
: side they ran, until they reached tn
, Hand street bridge. The clerk was obi
ged to stop TO make change, while Robel
who paid toll by the year, passed withou
delay, He reached the house, told tn
heart-rending news and obtained solem
L pledge from the widow before the cler
l. /: arrived. This time she was true to be
y promise, and after ayear had passed the
J were married. Asal her husbands die
4 4 wealthy. Robert isvery comfortably fxet
D His history shows what perseverance wi
accomplish.