The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-15

Il
tTfuth iis stranger tthan fiction" but
ITS application Mas h9ysr more foroibly
illustrated than by the brief history Of
Two persons, (which eliminated yesterday
t Tue Astot House id this city. Il runs
About Twenty-Five yeayssgo, Mr.. M,
Northern gentiennaR, married Miss NJ,
bf this State Eosail appearances twas
sts! a t!:e J;s:l5 sc happy happy
marriage. Abonntss one year after Ills
hnion, Mrs. M. presented her husband
With fine boy, whose appearance seem
bd to be an additional living and breath
ing bond Of affection, The 'ihappy
couple lived together fori about ten
years, when, by reverse of circum-
Btahces In Mr.! M. p business over which
he had no control, he became quite
poor. Passing oyar details, suffice it to
9;sJ 9;sJatlssss=aa<2iyeres=er;rrilesingHneither
party was easily, obtained in, o. court of
pne of the States, whose 16ose laws now
abffer Inducements to the discontented to
violate the solemn ordinance OF marriage
si 7#;.h ;EEaEcH;..i. PPs PPst siais vas not trap
epfung by one party 1itho1tithe know
ledge of the other. It was mutual di-
Mrs. M. was saa q sihaalltAh healthy, fine looking
woman, and in "a few years became the
wife of p wellsto-d do gentleman. This
was heppy marriage throughout. The
Second Ensband died little moro than one
year ago, leavingithei widow small for
tune Of abouss$ s$20, ,OO0.l l1h no a.t ~
During tIesb sight or nine years of life
i with second husband, the lady did not
Forget her ifigst- born; nor did the SON lose
igkt Of The mother. The affection in
both was strong. The, boy was the di-
vino maghet which attracted the divorced
Bnd widowed mother and the wandering
Father from his search for business and
happin eds in distant Costa Rica. At the
death of the second husband the son had
reached the manly age Of twenty. Ina
agine his feelingeu as he came to realize
tho real situation ,of bis father and mo-
|thes,o One arasingle man; the other
widow. One anIunhappy wanderer, still
without sufficient worldly goods to make
life worth living for; the other the occu-
pant Of "a husband dless house, with a
plentiful nlarder.s Ever present was the
Thought chat one yet lived whom she had
Sworn before God to '1ove and cherish" ("
he .ds he father. Of her son. The son,
who loved his mother, loved his father
mot less. The mother could not gaze
'into the face Of her only born without
behold lding the image Of his father. Time
passed. The son brought his divorced
father and widowed mother together.
|They talked over the past. They agreed
upon the future. The boy was the CEN
tire Of attraction. He was flesh of their
flesh, bone of their bone. The ties of
nature were too strong for resistance.
Like two drops of quicksilver, the two
hearts united. Yesterday, in this city,
the SON had the happiness to celebrate
the anniversary Of his twenty. first birth
day by witnessing the extraordinary
scene of the marriage OF, his own father
and mother. .H ~ eGj4u"r Old
Mr.. and Mrs. M. accompanied by their
son and several friends, dined at the
Astor House yesterday afternoon, and
afterwards left for Boston on their bridal
tour to enjoy his second and her third
.'honeyTmoon." The son, who is o pro.
missing. 6ne-looking young man, is a
operator employed in this city.
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