The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-03


ego FFOuI he Ga1 York TtHeI, -
One of the most axtraordi nary stories
OF married life we have ever heard OF
has just been made public. The Incl.
dents are more Improbable than
novelist OF dEamAtistI= with strict re-
gard for his reputation, would dare to
use. The story, as 1t originally appear
ed, was that a Mr.. Wight had married
a Miss Chamberlain, having Just OBJ
tanned a divorce from his first wife on
the sole evidence of the-seOond. The
first wife then acted as bridesmaid at
Miss Cham6erlain's marriage, standing
there, as we are told, alike a living
corpse" The, course and blight of the
Almighty" were invoked by the agon.
couple. "a IA -ri - 79Nsi5
These are, not pheasant things to
hear, and Mr.. Wight has come forward
with a long statement, in which the as
sertions ofthe reporter are contradicted,
but a narrative in every way more
strange and remarkable Is substituted
for them, The husband tells his own
story, and il far transcends the widest
dreams of Defoe or she. In 1854 Mr..
Wight returned to this country from
Europe in order to marry lady TO
whom he was engaged. He came sooner
than he intended, because the lady's
parents and all her family had died,
and left her unprotected. She was
twenty-three years, and affiicted with a
nervous disease which her mother de-
scrtbed as hysteria. The pair went 70
England, and while at KeswlCk one
night, a month after their marriage,
the husband was horrifed to see his
wife fall at his feet In a ut of epilepsy.
She had seventeen fits before the morn
| ing. Shocked at the discovery that his
disease, knowing that II was incurable,
and despairing of escape from his terri
/ BILE position, he that night, as he states,
''adopted her as his child"
From that time to this he has nursed
her and taken care of her, but he has
never resumed the relationship of their
marriage tie. he calls her in his mar
rative, This patient" and "his ward, y
Once, when she thought he proposed TO
Extremely unhappy" Her disease
grew worse-the very servants and
| nurses fled from the house in horror,
Six years ago Miss Chamberlain came
as nurse, and as Mr.. Wight says, his
''pRtient" herself proposed that he
should marry this lady. "She," 1.-THE
first wife) chad come to regard 1t as re-
ligiously wrong TO think Of fulfilling
the relations OF wife in her condition."
| 60e pressed MN 10 ulAEIy N446S Suhll@
berlain. Let us imagine what she must
have suffered ere she could bring her.
self to this. They tried TO get divorce
inIndiana, but failed, for reasons which
Mr.. Wight, little Inconsistency, de-
clines to mention. At last they succeed,
ed for lhe,wiie helped-and Miss Cham.
berlain was the solitary witness on
whose evidence the compact was dis
| solved. OF what nature that evidence
was, we are,not Informed. The divorced
wife was present at the marriage cere-
mony, and she is 10 live with the couple
for the future.
Was there ever such a story Z one
scarcely knows which to pity most, the
man chained to scarcely living wo-
man for thirteen years, appalled, night
and day by the terrible visltations to
which she was subject, or the woman
| doomed to witness the misery
which she had caused, loss of his aflec.
tons and his marriage with another,
and to bear in addition the remorse
which her own deception and sin must
necessarily ocCasion her. Verify the
tragedies of real life are more CHASTITY
than those which the imagination con-
lures up.