St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
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MATRIMONIAL STRATAGEM
HOW TWO HOUSEHOLDS BECAME ONE.

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HOW TWO HOUSEHOLDS BECAME ONE
Mrs. Bcnoni Benson was fat, fair,
and forty-four, when her husband, a
soap-boilcr i'll very good circumstances,
was called from his life task of CON
tributing to the general publication of
mankind Mrs. Benson took refuge
from her grief in pretty cottage,
situated on the principal street in the
town of C.
At first she was inconsolablc and
she used to say, with solemn en-
phasis, which carried conviction to
the hearts of her hearers, that nothing
but the thoughts of her daughter
Florence would have prevented her
from terminating her existence by the
intervention Of poison.
Mrs. Benson was, in no small de-
gree, indebted to her daughtcr-Sincc
in less than three months she threw
aside her mourning, and became as
lively as ever.
Touching Florence, she had now
reached the mature age Of nineteen,
and began to think herself marriage
able. She was quite pretty, and toll
crably wcl-accomplishcd SO that
her wishes in that respect were very
likely to be fulfilled.
just over the way lived Squire
Markham, the village lawyer, just
vcrging upon fifty, with his son
Charles, who was about half his age.
Being young man of agreeable eX-
terror, the latter was quite tavorltc
with the young ladies i'll the neighbor.
hood, and considered in common par
lance quite a "catrh."
As yet, however, his affections had
never lccn seriously cntaugIrd, auC
might have remained SO, bad 1t moi
been for the sudden apPartt.um, one
morning, Of Florence Bcnson, riding
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