Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-01-26
Extraordinary sslssisa Of MatrimeaiaI
Riddle.

Prom the Nashville Banner, Jaa. i6l
Our Edrefeld neig bors have recently heen
startling. in the shape OF nothInr Ie.. than a
double elopement. The circumstances are as
follows:
For .eme two or three months past family
named Riodle, from Esst Tennessee, have been
hvlng at Hicks olo brick ard IN Lower Edge
field. The family consisted Of Mr. RtddIe.
his wIfe, q little son Of Mrs. R. by former
marriage, and young lady whose name we
were not able TO ascertain. Here comes IN the
inevitable young gentleman. His name is
Harris, and his visits were frequent Having
dies he introduced into their Eden a scar
pint" named John Lambert John was sixty
hve, and, as the deooument proved, sedue-
tive.
Last Sunday week Harris and Lambert went
TO Riddles house in company. Their erraRd
was a sinister enc. They went 20 tear Mrs. X
from the embrace of her unsnspecting hus-
band; and so the latter was informed by Lam
bert. Riddle snickered at the idea-'twas n
good joke. But when he noticed the firm COM
preston of Lamberts lip and the ominous
glitter Of Harris'seye-when Lambert growled
out Hem between MS teeth, IN the most ap-
proved melo- o-cramaiic style, that they had
come for Mrs. Riddle, and were going TO have
her, and that IL be made any resistance they
would "decapitate' hIm in the shake of a
Sleeps tail-Riddle realized the Intensity of
the crisis, and sprang 10 the bed for his pistol
The charges had been drawn. There was a
'traitor in the camp" Riddle was betrayed.
At this juncture Harris, who was heavy on
the muscle, seized and tied him fast Forth
came the recreant wife, and undid him
win four brief words, alt IL too true"
With impertursahle calmness and a grin
sort OF smile, as IL she were paying of old
scores, she proceeded 20 revelations, which
hlled the soul Of Riddle with any amount of
uncomfortable emotion. In the first place
arrangements lor the elopement had been sys-
temancally concluded. She was ..b0und" 10
30 with Lambert, and the young lady name
unknown) was bound 20 go with Harris. The
for fhsa
"old man." bat she CONSIDERABLY hoped that he
would ''grin and bear IT." Lambert had given
her "something to make her love him'-some
sweet obliyious antidote. aud that was the long
anc short of lt. She had. in fact. been a perfect
stranger 10 love until she met Lambert, and ~
would be very ungenerOus OF Riddle 10 stand
In the way OF Aer happiness. The least thing
he could do for all concerned was TO let Der
depart In peace.
Strange TO say, this singu1nr plea set Rid
ole, as our informant states, 70 - thinking"
Such an aggregation OF domestic calamity Al
such short notice. paraIized. as a. were. his
powers OF action 80 he took a seat. utterly
subdued, and while he was cropping an the dim
recesses OF his mind for relief from this great
sorrow Of has life, morning came, and with It
the express wagon which was 10 bear away
Mrs. X. and her luggage. RIDDLE aroused him
sell; he made a last appeal TO has levantng
better half, without avail Lambert's love
potion was still in "successful operation -
Seating herself on an ancient cedar chest, the
tIit OF her first husband. she waved adleu
with a yellow bandRna pocket handkerchief
until lost by distance TO the tear -dimmed vision
of her deserted spouse.
At last accounts Mrs Riddle, Lambert, Har-
rls, and the ''young lady" had embarked for
CAIRO, en- route. II j. supposed, for Missouri,
where a brother of Mrs X. resides
Lambert is between sixty and sixty i've years
OF age, and formerly lived near EliZabethtown,
Ky, hut for the last three or four years has
been an the employ OF Mr.. Kramer, IN Edge
held. He left behlnd hIm wife, who is old
and afflicted, besides sey eral children, and we
are informed. grand children.
That husbands are false and that women are
fraIl,
Or that men with each others wives meddle
Is a truth We'll admit-though the wife in this
tale
Is an incomprehen ible Riddle