The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14
An Enoch Arden.
Very singular and Romantic Story of the Bat.
tie OF electromagnetic improvement on
TennysOn's Poem.
From the St. Louis Democra

#~s From the ST. Louis Democrat.
A gentleman who witnessed the play of
uEnoch Arden" at De Bars Opera
House, relates a circumstance very similar
in its details to the sad story of the cast
away sailor. We give the statement in his
own words:
"That play recalls to my mind a cir
cumstance that happened in my own ex-
periehce. 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 re-
covered until next day. When the poor
fellow was found, he was so mutilated by'I
being trembled on by the cavalry, that
his face could not be recognized. Acom-
pade, however, found in his breast pocket
a miniature of his wife, and sent it to her,
with an account of bis death. 1t turned
out that the body was not that of Tom
c. but a sergeant. of another company
Tom, desperately wounded, fell into the
hands of the enemy, and was sent to An
dersonvilIe, 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 80 long in prison, except it.was
for the purpose of exchanging him for
a sound man. $50 q. fYl@
"When poor Tom returned to his home
in Pennsylvania, he was,a mere wreck of
his former self, and nobody in. the village
knew him. His wife had removed to
Illinois with her parents, more than a year
previously. Without making himself
known to any of his old acquaintance in
the village, Tom started for Illinois to
hunt for his wife When he arrived in
the .neighborhood where his wife was liv
ing, 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 wasliving,
and heard how kindly she was treated
by her husband. he changed his mind.
Suppose / go and. claim her," he said to
himself how can support her? What
can do for her, with only one arm and
oneleg, and g body weakened by months
of, suffering at Andersonville? No; she
is happy and contented, aid thinks me
dead, and I will not destroy her happiness
and become a burden to her" la -,
Tom acted upon this resolution, and
worked his way to New York, where he
set up small business as a 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 got
patent arm made, and to see him walk
ing along the street you would not sup
pose that he was but little more than hall
man, He was good business man, and
in the course of year enlarged his stock
in trade and opened regular retail
grocery. He made money fast and became
prosperous merchant, respected by all
who knew him. 30 vi atas y 1900 s..
Sin his prosperity he never forgot his
wife, and always cherished a hope that she
would be restored to him. He was re
gular subscriber to. the village paper,
published at the town near which his
wife lived, and read it with great inter
est One day he saw in this paper an an
nouncement of the death of the man who
had married his wife. He lost no time
in starting for Illinois. He found his
wife IN deep mourning for her late hus
band, and she had added another infantile
link to the family circle. Tom made him
self known to her, and was rejoiced to
find that she still loved him as fondly as
ever 1t was some time before he could
convince her that ne was not a ghost re-
turned from the other world. In order
to make things sure the parson was called
in, and Tom and his wife were married
over again. They went to New York
where they are still living, as happy a
couple as you will find in Gotham. They
live in a brown stone 'front.' and the fami
ly, when saw them, were preparing tc
add another little link to its circle. OF
course they do not tell everything about
their family matters, but you can rely upon
this story as strictly true. The ending is
rather better chan that Of Enoch Arden
and think Adams would do good thing
if he would depart from the version Ten
nyson, and IN the last act get Philip Ray
ground up in his own mill--accidentally
Of course-make poor Enoch step in and
enjoy the wife and the fortune left BE
hind" F e
"What about the picture of Toms wife
found in the pocket of the dead soldier? p
=" Oh, forgot about that Tom says
when he was wounded and left upon the
field, straggler came along and he stop
ped him. Surprising he would bleed tC
DEATH he gave the picture to the strag
gler, 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 off to Andersonville. That account
ed for the picture being found and caus
ing every one to believe that Tom was
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A Little domestic story comes from Pa.