Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-14
Another EnOch Arden-Singular and
Romantic Story.

away S"ici' w Si'S Wiz GlLGCulGuL IN
his own words:
"That play recalls to my mind circum.
stance that happened in my own experi.
ence A Sergeant in my regiment was
wounded at Chickamauga, and was re.
ported dead. He was seen to fall in the
heat of the engagement, and our lines be.
ing pushed back, the body was not 70.
covered until next day When the poor
fellow was found, he was so mutilated by
being trampled on by the cavalry, that his.
face could not be recognized. A comrade.
however, found in his breast pocket amin
iature Of his wife, and sent it to her, with
an account of his death. II turned out
that the body was not that of Tom c..
but sergeant of another company. Tom,
desperately wounded, fell into the hands
of the enemy, and was sent to Anderson
vile, where the rebel surgeon cut off one.
of his arms and one of his legs, and in
spite of his bad fare, he recovered in due
time. never knew why they kept Tom
so long in prison, except it was for the pur-
pose Of exchanging him for sound man.
"When poor Tom returned to his home
in Pennsylvania he was mere wreck of
his former self and nobody in the village
knew him. His wife had removed to Hi.
nois with her parents, more than year pre-
viously. Without making himself knownto |
any of his oldac acquaintance in the village,
Tom started for Illinois to hunt for his
wife, When hearrved in the neighborhood
where she was living, he learned that she
was married to an old friend Of his who
had followed her from Pennsylvania. His
first impulse was to make himself known
to her, and claim her as his own; but
when he saw the snug cabin IN which she
was living, and heard how kindly she was
treated by her husband, he changed his
mind. Suppose | go and claim her" he
said to HIMSELF chow can support her?
What can | do for her, with only one arm
and one leg, and body weakened by
months of suffering at Andersonville? No;
she is happy and contented and thinks
me dead, and viii! not destroy her happi-
ness and become burden to her"
Tom acted upon this resolution, and
worked his way to New York where he
set up small business as curb-stone
merchant, selling nuts, and cake, and soda
water, and getting along prosperously.
He soon made money enough to buy him
an artificial leg, and after while he got0
DatSHt ain liluttC, uiAU w Stt IlLL WdihlH1<
along the street you would not suppose
that he was but little more than half
man. He was good business man, and
in The course of a year enlarged his stock
in trade and opened regular retail gro
Gerry. He made money fast, and became
prosperous merchant, respected by all who
knew him.
"ln his prosperity, he never forgot his
wife, and always cherished a hope that she
would be restored to him. He was a regu-
lar subscriber to the village paper pub
lished at the town near which his wife
lived, and read it with great interest One
day he saw in this paper the announce
ment of the death of the man who had
married his wife. He lost no time in STAT
ing for Illinois. He found his wife in
deep mourning for her late husband, and
she had added another infantile linkto tie
family circle. Tom made himself knoWl
to her, and was rejoiced to find that she
still loved him as fondly as ever It va
some time before he could convince bey
that he was not ghost returned from TIC
other world. In order to make thin!,
sure the parson was called in, ana Tom
and his wife were married over agar =,
They went to New York, where they
still living, as happy a couple as you w /
find in Gotham. They live in a brow
stone front, and the family, when l saw
them, were preparing to add another little
link to its circle OF course, they il
not tell everybody about then
family matters, but you can rely
upon this story as strictly true.
The ending is rather better than that OF
Enoch Arden, and think Adams woul(
do a good thing if he would depart from.
the version of Tennyson, and in the las
act get Philip Ray ground up in his owl
Enthusiastically, of course--make poor
Enoch step in and enjoy the wife and the
'Nrtune lett behind
What about the picture Of Toms
wife, found in the pocket Of the dead sol
der?"
"Oh | forgot about that Tom says
when he was wounded and left upon the
Held a straggler came along and be stopped
him. Surprising he would bleed to death,
ne gave the picture to the straggler, with
a message for his wife. The rebel cavalry
made charge soon after, and killed the
straggler with the picture Of Toms wife
in his bosom, and carried Tom of to An
'iNlo'llN illOs lldl dJtOuillS ltL tAAN t'N'
being found and causing everyone to be'
lieye that Tom was killed. 81, LohlS
Democrat.
Near Smyrna, Tenn, a few days ago,
ayoung man named Retory, in company
with small boy, named Williamson Da-
Wis, was amusing himself with q pistol,
when the former remarked playtully IN
show how one man shoots another, ana,
pointing the pistol at young Davis, vas
accidentally discharged, and the ball enter,
ing his eye, and, CHANGING outward Passe1
around the head, lodging in the BACK pa
Of the neck, creating dangerously hot
mortal wound.
1t is discovered by phys1e,iln that
the celebrated fasting boy Of onlaihe-
bleau is secretly sustained ~ aOsololnS
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