The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-09
"A Strange story.

.fd we copy the following from tho New York Times;
stOne Of the most extraordinary stories OF married
44Ss We ever heard Of has just been made public.
are more improbable than NJ; novelist
tion would dare to use. The story, as 1t or1g1na-
8: IL snpaared; was that Mr.. Wight, OF New Albany
Indiana, had married Miss chamberlain, having
;:iust pbSainsd.a divorce from his first wlfe on the
saEted de bridesmaid at Miss Ghamberlain's mar
ritga standing there, as we are told, like hylng
:sSospse. THE curse and blight OF the Almighty
we're invoked by tho sgoniZed reporter upon She
newly married, couple. ,n-
Wright has come forward with q long statement,
In which the assertions Of the reporter are contra
d1cted; but q narrative in every way more strange
;snd remarkable is substituted for them. fhe nus
band tells his own story and it far transcends the
: widest dreams Of Defoe or Sue. In 1854 MIR.
WRIGHT returned to this country from Europe in
!, order to marry a lady to whom he was engaged
.GHea came sooner than he intended, because the
.dYs parents and all her family had died and left
:; her unprotected She was twenty three years old
: md afflicted with q nervous disease, which her
mother described as hysteria. The pair went to
England, and while at Kcswlck one night, amonth
Alter Their marriage, the husband was horrlfied to
sea. hiswiYe fall at his feet in fit OF epilepsy.
II .rHhec- had ]; seventeen fits before the morning.
Shocked at the discovery :thaths wife was afflicted
-Wlth efs most awful disease; knowing that 1t WIS
and despairing Of escape from his terri
I he that night, as ne states' adopted
fom 81 hi thst lime to this he has nursed her snd
taken care, her, bat he has never resumed tho
relationship OF their marriage tic. He calls her in
.hiHytarfntives This patient and his ward. Once,
when she thought he proposed to treat her as o
wife. she was rendered extremely unhappy Her
disease grew Worse-the very servants and nurses
He'd tom the, house in horror. Some years ago
Miss Chamberlain came as q. nurse, and, as Mr.
wight Gays, his patient, herself proposed that he
cshSud marry this lady. She (the first wife) had
eoraete regard it as religionsly wrong to think OF
fulfilling the relations Of wife in her condition
i'She pressed him to marry Miss Chamberlain. Let
nd imagine what she must have suffered ere she
Scond bring herself to this. They tried to get q
divorce in Indiana, but failed, for reasons which
!, NE Wright, aIttleinconsstently declines to men
ton. At.iast they succeeded-for the wife helped-
;aid Hiss Chamberlain was the sohtary witness on
whose evidence the compact was dissolved. VI
what nature thateyidence was we are not informed
iThs divorced wife WINS present at the marriage
ceremony, and she is to 1.-Two with the couple for
aWas there ever such story? One scarcely
knows which to pity most, the Liam chained to
scarcelyl living woman for thirteen years, appalled,
night and day by the terrible Tisitations to which
afis was subject; or the woman doomed to witness
the misery she has CAUSED, loss OF his aftechons
and his marriage with another, and to bear III al,
Glition the remorse which her own deception and
ein must necessarily occasion. her. Verify, tho
tragedies Of real life are more ghastly than those
which the imagination conjures up"