Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-25
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suvgrns soAg GnrRp ~ GETTING OUT
Not long since there arrived at Grafton,
Virginia, from this city lady calling her
self Mrs. Alfred Wor'hinglon, wife OF Cap
tain worlhlngtou Of m Ohio Regiment
then stationed Nt beverly. On the Same
evening there arrived at Grafton from the
Northwestern road another lady also calling
herself Mrs. Alfred WOrthingIon, wife Of
Capt worthluglon rs aforesaid, Beth Of
these ladies were going, they said to see
their husbands at Beverly. The people
about tho hotel concluded after many sur
misses and coujCcturc', that one Of these Ia
dies was Capt, Worthington's wife, and Ms
he was not supposed to be Mormon, that
tho other was not, and in this tho people
were right. Tho wife Of Captain Worth.
ington who had came by way of Parkcrs.
bargh, was gaily dressed, attractive lady,
but not very good looking. The mistress
ofCaptala WortblngtOn who came by way
OF this city, was a plainly dressed, unas.
Stunning young woman aud good looking.
The people about the Hotel supposed that
the plainly attlrsd aud good looking young
lady was Captain worthingtou'i vito, and
that the gOudily rugged and rather homsly
woman was his mistress, but in this
tho people were wrong. The good looking
woman had an eye to business. She got
up early in tho morning and happily Sc.
cured passage In an ambulance wagon
going to Beverly, and without being aware
that Sho had slept under the same roof
with another person Of the sans name, set
cut for that village. She reached the vii.
lago in duo time and found Captain
WorlhuglOn who introduced her to his
brother officers and friends rs his wife.
Somehow or other, Mrs. worthinglon
was detained at Grafton for some days,
during which time she was avoided by the
guCsts.ot the holCl, and regarded with sus.
piciOn, from tho cause just stated, and we
are not sure that she entirely escaped IN.
suit. At last, however, CHATS good
word,) she was enabled to find room in an
ambulance bound for Beverly, and set OF
in that direction. Like her good looking
predecessor, she came iu sight Of Beverly
in good time, and
NseclnE tho lights Of the village
Oloam through the raln and the mist,
she thought Of her husband and tho joy Of
meeting him in his lonely tent, after n long
absence. She repaired to Captain WORTH
inEton's quarters, and found that gentle.
man absent, but discovered instead, good
looking, plainly got up young woman,
whereat she was much NGtOnishcd. Mrs.
W. asked tho young woman to identify her
self The young woman said she was
vie to Captain wOrthingtOn, whOreupOn
Mrs. W. made known that she was ashamed
to say that she herself in m evil hour, had
been induced to place herself in that rela-
ton to the Captain, and proceeded to de.
noauce tho young woman as one whom
solomon would have called strange NO
man, About this timC Captain WOrtbIng'
ton came in, and seeing in moment
that he was in for 1t, beat retreat
Tho nice young woman gathered VI
her traps, and in less time than i
has taken us to write this 'Owre trut
.ale," was on her way back to Grafton IL
tho same ambulance which had brought
Mrs. WOrIhingtou to Beverly and hcrSel
and tho Captain to grief But Mrs. Worth
inEtou was all that her dress and bearing
denoted her, and Instead of being satistie,
with the young wOmau's departure, inform
ed the COloncl OF the regiment Of all tha
had occurred, and after ClEeCtaally exposing
her husband, and dcnouneing him rs q dis
grace to tho uniform hc wore, put bacl
after tho nice young woman whom sh
threatened to eat up alive aud then appl
for a divorce. Whether or not sho di
these things this dCpOnCnt saith not W
only tell what We know,