The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1861-05-08

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inps of her absent husband. Post
Offices were examined-but no letters
came. His name was looked for in the
public p,ilts but none cDuld be found.
Travellers were inquired of, but to no
avaik Net word could she hear of
him. At length she gave him up as
dead, and conceived of his death in
many ways. At one time she would
fancy that she could see his bones at
the bottom of some stream in which he
had been drowned in attempting to
cross again she could see him in some
lonely spot, murdered by robbers, or
destroyed by Indian violence and at
other times she would fancy that she
saw him languish on some foreign bed;
and after severe and lingering illness
fall into the grave among strangers.
A thousand times she looked on the
way she saw him depart, and mourned
him dead till time had dried away her
tears. ssaa5
At the lapse of seven long years
and more since the departnfe of Mf.
Lossley, Mr.. Starks offered his hand
in marriage to Mrs. Lossley. and as it
was firmly believed by herself and
friends that Mr.. Lossley, was dead, and
Mr.. .Starks being a gentleman worthy
of her, she accepted the offer and they
were married.
After this time Mr.. Lossley was liy
ing with his second wife in the State of
Missouri, where he continued to live
something like eighteen years. About
fifteen years after his marriage his sec
children, q son and daughter. The
daughter was the eldest, and took
charge of her fathers house-but a
little more than three years after the
death of her mother. she married and
moved to North Alabama, and her
father and little brother went with her.
In the mean time Mrs. Starks had
lost her husband and father, and having
but one child, that little daughter,
she removed to North Alabama also, to
reside with an aged uncle who was liv-
ing in that part of the country; SO that
Mr.. Iossley and Mr.. Starks became
neighbors-and they again became
acqu tinted with each other as Col.
LoSSLey (Which title he had had when
among the efur-traders) and Mrs. .StarhS.
They soon formed an attachment for
each other, and Col. Losslcy eventu-
ally offered her his hand in marriage,
which she accepted. 1t is to be OBJ
served that during the whole of their
intercourse, they both took great care
never to mention any circumstance con
Meeting itself with their first marriage !;
and both passed for having been
married but once. They had both been
so very cautions on this subject, that
the slightest acquaintance until the
night before the marriage was to have
been solemnized. Perhaps the sacred
fount of their former sorrows was seal
ed too deep to be readily broken up
again by either of them.
The night before marriage, ns they
were conycrsing alone, the Colonel re-
marked that he expected to be a little
frightened on the next evening-say-
ing with him the older the worse-for,
| said he, when ! was married the first
time, was not 50 much embarrassed
as when I was marrid last to which
Mrs. Sparks replied by saying-you
have been married ttcicc it seems. The
Colonel at first tried to change the
subject of conversation. but soon found
that would not do and knowing il
would have to come out sooner or later
he went into IL detail of all the circum.
stances connected with his first mar
riage, giving name and dates.-IhI'
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