Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-01-07

scenes calculated TO try firmer resolutions
than hers, but through which she clung to
her resolve with true English. obstinacy
she found herself on the shores of Austral
ia, but as much at loss concerning the exs
act locality of her husbands whereabouts,
as she would be of needle for which she
was hunting In a hay-mow. She perse-
vered, however, but four long years pass
ed away before she was enabled to obtain
the slightesr trace Other husband, from the
fact that when once landed from The shin.
each convict receives number by which
only he is known TO his keepers. She did
not know her husbands number, and as
oiten as she made inquiries fer him, she
was always baffled with the question, his
number, ma'am? sel. G..e
AT the end of the time sroken of. during
which her means had become exhausted.
and she had been compelled to resort to
menial labor, she one day picked up a
Sidney paper, in which was an account of
her husbands release, the real criminal of
the larceny having been found and export
ed. The account gave her husbands num-
Der and the facts which convicted him, in
so precise manner that she could not
long doubt as to whom was meant Her
course was marked out at once Going
to the prison authorities of Sidney, she at
length learned that ticket of leave man.
No. 1885, her husbands number bad left
the island for the United States of Ameri,
ca. two weeks after his release. The next
thing for her to do was TO follow him.
Getting together her scanty means, she
possessed barely enough TO pay her pass
age She seized upon the first opportuni>
ty presented, and in June, lS47, she was
once more on the ocean. bound for the
land of the free, with her mission still un>
accomplished. I'D.
In due time she arrived at New York
city, where she remained until the war
broke out, not having heard one word OF
her husband though she had made every
excrtion to find his whereabouts. When
the war broke out, and at the first call
for nurses in the hospitals. she responded
and, until peace was declared, there
was not one more faithful in tho care of
our wounded than Mrs. Clara Leffingwell.
While in one of the hospitals at Washing.
ton she nursed to life and strength a man
who knew her husband in the army, who
had been his mess mate and boon com>
panien, and who, in his delirium, constants
ly called upon his conrade for assistance.
When the crisis was passed, and it was
known that the soldier would live, she
questioned him concerning her husband,
and asccrtained that he was in a Pennsyl-
vsnis regiment. having enlisted from Pitts
buIgh two years before, She at once adj
dressed q letter TO him. stating In full her
efforts TO find him, and detailing at length
her disappointments. With the usual per-
yersity of the army mails that letter never
reached him. tci raf -
She watched and waited, but ne answer
came, and at length when the war was
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over, she set out once more in search OF
her husband. Avisit to Pittsburgh re
yealcd the fact that her husbands term of
enlistment had expired two years before,
and his identity was once more lost. She
inserted advertisements in number of
Pennsylvania papers, and then sat herself
again to watch and wait But time
crept slowly on, still no tidings of her lost
one. l1
A week ago, when she had given up all
hopes OF seeing her husband again she un>
expect dly received direct information of
his place of abode from one who came
across the advertisement of three years be-
fore. The paper containing il had very
providentislly escaped the destruction
which usually comes upon the dailies OF
different cities, and now was the means OF
uniting two persons who for twentyseight
years had been separated by most crue.
fate.
Our heroine at once prepared to 60 to
her husband, who liyes in or near Cincin-
natl, and who had been spprised OF her
coming. She accordingly left Pittsburgh
last Friday morning and arrived in Cleye>
land in the afternoon Of the same day
What was her surprise, and pleasure, on
alighiing from the cars at Union Depot TO
procure some refreshments, to be met by
her husband. For a mement they stared
at each other, and then, with simultaneous
impulse they rushed into each others
arms, all unconscious of the gazing crowd
who, with their usual curiosity, paused in
their hurry 10 witness the scene.
The years that haG separated them, al
though they had silvered the heads of each
and left lines of care upen their faces.
had not eradicated the love they bore one
an other, or torn from their hearts the re-
memmanee of the olden time, before a
a relentless fate had cruelty thrust them
apart. The trials of the past were forgot>
Ten in the present joy, and they took the
the train at seven in the evening, happy
only in each others company. 1t was
while they were awaiting the departure of
the Cincinnati, train, and through the of,
fees of the Cleveland e. Pittsburgh Rail-
Road officials, TO whom Mrs Leff1ngwell
related parl of her history, that this was
obtained. Though, as we said at the be-
| ginning Uf this article, the story has the
| imprint oil the roms snfic and unreal, still
we give il a. il was given us. believing In
| its truth.
An indignant wife recently visited an In
diana judge and solicited his authority In
compelling the return of truant husband.
But my dear madam, said the tashful
judge, can't make him come back a.
what's the reason yeas can't, I'd like to