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

We copy thefonowing from the New York Times:
One OF the most extraordinary stories O: married
Lie we eyer heard Of has just been made public.
The Incidents are more improbable than a novelist
or dranatlst, with striotGTegard for his reputa-
tion. would dare to The story, as it original
T. appeared, was that MI Wight Of New Albany
just obtained divorce from his first wife on the
:. sole evidence Of his second. The first wife then
acted rs bridesmaid at Miss Chanberlain's mar
rlhge, standing there, rs We are told, like living
corpse Tho curse and blight OF the Almighty
were invoked by tho agonized reporter upon; the
newly married couple. ss@:ss--HH-'. H..
e; These are not pleasant things to hear and Mr.
Wright has, come forward with q long statement
in which the assertions of the reporter are contra
pngs
band tells hs own story, and it far transcends the
widest dreams of Dcfoe or Sue. In 1854 Mr.
Wright returned to this country from Europeln
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 unWprotected IF She was twenty-three years old
and afflicted with q nervous disease, which her
mother described as -hysteria. The pair went to
England; nnd while at Keswick one night, q month
sz hez s %a1ags 5 e e hss6Pd m Il 1sa s6ss
She had seventeen; fits before the morning.
Shocked at the discovery that his wife was afflicted
With this most awIui disease, knowing that it was
1ncurabe, and despairing Of escape from his terri
:he post ton he that night, as he states, adopted
. From that time to this he has nursed her and
relationship Of their marriage tie. He calls her in
his narrative his patient and his ward Once
when she thought he proposed tc treat her as a
wife, she was rendered Extremely unhappy Her
disease grew orse-the very servants and nurses
fed from the house 81 horror. Some years ago
Miss Chamberlain came as 3 ntirse, and az VI.
Wight says his patient herself proposed that he
iahonld marry this She 1.-THE first wifeJ had
,toregard it as ragiously wrong to think of
fulfilling the relations.of wife in her condition
She pressed him marry Miss Chamberlain: Let
ue imagine what she must have suffered ere Hhe
could bring herself to this. They tried to get
divorce in Indiana, but failed, for reasons which
Mr.. Wright, little inconsistently declines to men
ton. At last they succeeGed--for the wife helped
land Miss Chamberlain was the solitary witness on
whose evidence the compact was dissolved. Of
what nature that evidence was we are not informed
The divorced wife was present at the marriage
ceremony, and she is to live with the couple for
the future. ~ 7sE 4- II ] :;
WAS there ever such 3 story? Z? One scarcely
knows which to pity most, the man chained to o
scarcely living. woman for thirteen; years. appalled,
night and day by the terrible evisitations to which
che was subject, or the woman doomed to witness
the misery she has caused, loss Of his affections
end his marriage with another, and to bear in ad-
dhon the remorse which hen, own deception and
ain must necessarily occasion her. Verify, the
tragedies ofreal life ore more CHASTITY than those
which the Imagination conjures up" ," ;ss