American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-07-21
o. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY q. 1859.

Double Representative Men Tun away
with each Others Wives and Meet az a
HALFWAY DoIOt.
Evening before last, just before the $3.50
p. M. 81. Louis train left the Ohio and
Mississippi Rsil-road Depot, a well-dresssd
and honest-lOOking man, in company with
q fair haired woman, wished his bag
gage checked to the Mound City. While
the baggage master was picking out the
stranger 3 Trunks, another couple, mascu-
line and feminine, the lstter daTk-heifed
and blsck-eyed, went up for The same pur-
pose. and were waiting patiently. when
the brunette stared at the twain and said:
"WLy you are my husband; what are you
doing here, and with that bussey ,tool'sp>
plying terms to the blonde more remark
able for intensity than their politeness.--
So roundIy did she abuse her that the blonde
could not Withhold very provoking reply.
whereupon she brunette leaped at her
throat Ike tiger. and would have strsn-
gled her. perhaps. had not her adversary
protected herself resolutely..
Then followed grand scene. The two
females fought after their peculiar fashion
energetically, tearing each others clothes
and hair, and scratching each-other's faces
industFiously. Their protectors made no
effort TO seperate them. seeming lGther to
enjoy the sport; but at last two or three
Of the railway attaches interfered aud
caused cessation Of hostilities.
The brunette by this time was crying
violently, and began to upbrsid her hus.
band for deserving her, proving the ruth
Of what Montague says Of tie sex. The
husband remarked that he was doing no
more than she-that he was running of
with another mans wife, and she with an
mother woman's husband, and wished to
know the difference in their moral deprav-
! ity.
This was puzzle to the dark-eyed Kan
tippe, who by way OF answer, said she
had always hated her liegelord. and always
would hate him.
The blonde then spoke to her husband,
the brunett's companion, Of bis fsithless'
ness, but excused it 10 consequence OF her
own, assuring him he need not endeaVor to
change her purpose. for she would never
live with him again.
When the party became cool, they sp.
peared we'll satisfied with the exchange o.
wives, and were in favor Of continuing the
arrangement, although at a loss for some
time to determine how they had met a
the depot
The couples were neishbors, and th'
men had for months been enamored o
each others spouses, disliking their owl
accordingly. The consequence was al
elopement on a certain night, which boil
happened to choose. ignorant Of the in
teution Of the ether until they had met a
we have related.
singular as it may appear, it is actuall
true, and shows the strangeDess OF colnci
dences il many cases in which it seem
Predetermined.
! The women liked their lovers, but abhor
red their busbands;and. therefore conclude
mot unusually it may be-that the
would take what was agreeable to them
and leave the unpleasant part behind.
The husbands were satisfied, and th
wives delighted, and the quartette agree
to 90 on 10 ST. Louis, and live there in tb
new relation they bad assumed. The
had found their sfiuity and were incline
to adhere thereto, in spite Of husbands, la
and fete.
The two couples got on two differeI
cars. The loc motive whistled; the trai
started. and the droll parties passe
trough the shadows Of night beyond th
reach of vision. happy. perhaps, in the
deliverence from natures uneongenial
their own, and in the possession of being
who respond to the beat Of their being an
, The thrill Of their loving SOUL Gin. Enc