Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-11-10
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Some time ago, says the Cincinnati Daily
Times, while the family were at dinner one
day, at one Of our wealthy farmers houses,
In Pendleton county, Kentucky; the wife
OF the household walked ont Of the room.
Her departure was not noticed particularly,
until The lapse Of time made IL obvious that
she woald not return Observations soon
convinced the husband that his wife had
eloped with hired man who had been at
work on the place Time in its progress
auayed the modification, and assuaged the
pain OF the deserted husband, aud he plod-
ded on from day to day in the silent and
almost unyarying monotony of his course
The wife was heard Of no more.
New affections sprang up in the breast
OF the man, whose heart.stFings were so
suddenly and so rudely torn. The sister Of
her who had been the departed wife--for
the husband was now divorced by law
slowly and almost unconSciousy gained fa.
vor ia his eyes, aud filled the vacant place
10 his sympathies lie married her
di'Fhe period Of six months in the years
marriage of the second sister glided away,
when one day knock was heard at the
door, and the absent wife was returned.
The hired man with whom she bad gone
away fell into drunkenness aud debauchcry.
soon treated the deluded woman with ne'r
lect and cruelty, aud at length deserted
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She struggled on then, amid many pri.
EHtions aud much suffering, and in the maze
of her miSeries wandered back to her ia
theirs honse, whose farm was adjoining her
husband 5. HerJ father would not permit
her to come into the house, aud commanded
her to leave. "A f..,.s..-.-r .-4,...,.s3 .a
She then turned to, her husbands house,
aud there he found her in the doorway When
he came to answer the summons.
Her worn aud tattered garb, pale aud
haggard conntenauce, lack luSter eve and
sorrowful air, made her an object whose
saduessCan only be pictured in the mind.
The husband elost to her, was struck
dumb with pang of recollection that pen,
etrated him like a thuhder-bot, in mo.
ment more the gloom cloud opened little,
and tear drop gIistening fell from his
eyes. '''
His wife would not see her sister No
member Of the family would hold inter
course with her She could not live with
them .ao.rE5rle 20 slttlla.a IsaHaa agE
But her husband bailt her cabin in
the extreme corner of the farm, provided
for her subsistence, and there she now lives,
an utter strang er in her own household,
DAD HAS Struck LIE. The following
story Of the coal oil excitement in AIIegha-
ny CO., Penn, is as like to nature as if true,
as it probably is, for that matter :asr ee
Ina neighborbood on the creek, Lived
and labored a son Of Vulcan, who with his
small means, had bearly enough 10 secure a
small piece of land, and to obtain scanty
living for bis rising family, The ideas Of
his children had been taught to shoot but
little in any direction toward knowledge
and refinement. and be little expected to
be more than the village blacksmith. Bat
when the oil fever broke out learning of
the success of his neighbors in finding oil,
he thoughthe might as well spend his lei,
sure hours in drilling q hole upon his own
homestead lot and having tools convent
ent he went to work, and after few weeks
patient industry was successful in obtaining
good show of oil. 1t wat soon noised
about the village and the blacksmith be.
come somebody at once. He had a dangh
ter also, who had blosSomed into maiden
hood almost unuoticed and unknown, bui
now became more an object of interest to
the few young men Of tho community. 1t
became a question how to break the ice Of
former indifference, and to secure favor.
able acquaintance with the heiress of the
oil we'll. For while the natural timidity
of the boys kept them aloof bnt at last
one Of the boldest and best favored among
them determined 10 try his luck, and on
Sunday evening attired in his best, reSolute.
ly marched forward and offered to escort
the .dnmsel home. Imagine his chagrin
when she, turning upon him with look ol
lofty independence, that would have don't
honor to a Broadway belle, replied in Ian
guage more severe than chaste; Nonsense
You cau't come thati Dad has struck iie.
THE SURVIVING HERO OF THE BATTLE Of
BUNKER HILIA-Ralf Fsrnham, the las
survivor of the battle Of Bunker Hill, VIII
has been on visit 10 Boston, has returned
to bis home in Acton. Me. He has pab
lished letter, giving an account of hil
hvmeward journ y, from which itappeaFi
lie was received by enthusiastic crowds a
, all the towns along the route, and libera
contributions of money were Spontaneously
made TO support him in his old age. From
! his letter We quote the following
, las' Though 4 am In my lO5th year 7 an
not past all usefulness. Igsplit my own
kindling wood, and baild my own fires J
am the 6rst one up 10. the morniag, and th'
Gr,t opa in had at nityht I meyer sleeT1 ol