The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-28
STRANGER THAN FicTIoiNS.'

A WHnuGTGr Meets his WlIe AT INC
Crave Of her SECOND Husband.
| Some fdeeAl ycars agd tllerG lkedm
the northern part of Portage township
Ohio, II young married CouplGby the name
ofWilliun and Annie ClTkinson. They
Owned little farm, and .maaC enough "a
keep themselves comfortably in the world
and were apparently happy, William ,wq1
I1nndsome Gnd well cducatGtli haYinG
graduated with honor ut an Eastern uni
versity. lie did not like the honest but
humble occupation OF farming. Wealth
accumulated too slowly by following tho
plow; he wanted to made money by the
thousands Of dollars. So the flrun WAS
sold. Mrs. ClarkinsOn went too live with
her parents, and William started Tor the
golden State Of California, with the GxpeC'
n.tiOn OF "mcking up" 4 couple ofmilliou
dollars in n couple OF years, .,y.s
For few months Mrs. ClarkiMson o.
casionally heard from her husband either
alirGrtly nr through some oil the neigllb9F
ENy66 ariil friends with ID sSlG, tiatl with
wRhif lIuT husband SNdS' going. i1'hGh
there was Il long interval, during which
no word came After time there were
runiorsthatthc. train had been attacked
by Indians and every ono killed. This
WIS ut last too truthiully verified by one
Door fellow, WIN was found by another
party few, days after with just life
enough lift I'd ttAl' llbw the train had been
attacked one dark night, and before any
could recOver1rOm the surprise all were
killed and scalped, and tlie Indians r0CC
triumphantly away with their booty.
!, For ulree years Mrs, Clarkinson mourn
ed for licr dead husband. AIter tile lapse
oftliSt time she married again, and NOV
cd to Wood county. For nearly twelve
years she was rs happy ny kind and Ut
ieCtionate husband and two beautiful CHI.
lrcu could make woman. At the cnd OF
that time (which carries IlS up 10 tho 1st
inst afflicti0n again cast its mantle over
her. Death chained her husband, and
again she was n snrr0wing, weeping
widow. !l,.t, I,,..
iShG follows weeping to Il 10 grave she
hears the sad solemn words: dust 10
dust and ashes TO ashes" the earth falls
with Il dull, dreary tlud upon the collin,
us the sexton slowly covers up all that re-
mains ofhim4wh9sc spirithas gone before
tasila other 9bfld,SE q Il + -
ode widoWf,tsesalIe black 4ciIt and
looks around. AS she does so she meets
Il pair Of eyes fixed ntcntly upon her.
She starts-mCmory rllshGs back fifteen
Years and brings mp tli6I picture Of her
ilrst husband. There can he 10 mistake
.1RtS I'D. THE Recognition Il 4XttuAl.
Thc;wilOw and vile iaiDtS; the ,bronZetl
Stranger explains lid relation IL tic wo.
adan v and plETeH4ir t9 tlle house Of her
who ten minutes ago wis q widow, but
now isar witeagai1 . Then M. William
Clarkinson tells how lie was not killed by
the Indians 1T thetimG -!of that sudden
onslaught 2R tlc plains, but was pskcn
prisbiicr by tic BtaCkfeet;] and cstrricd
iaEaway, among; HE; IAopntalnj businesses,
anil during an those long years had been
fprcedyto aaye for iS cruel q1Et9rs.Vy
lie had finally escaped, and during his
flight through :mbihtaim gulnlies2 hGg dis.
covered u rich gold deposit. How chad
wrlt(C1t GAck ID Ais on GFief1R, hut could
get no, answer, lie then SYsnt, back and
worked Tie gold mine Which nc Ind dis
covered. lie grew rich, and lOnged to
again visit the home Of his youth and hap-
IpinEss,v Ate hid got oil The GeGrs VI Pitts
Burth Mil htAkCfr tiiG' 'Sthge II Bowling
Green; llad hired a buggy there and was
driving TO his old home, when he over
took theifungrAl; n strange impulse, in
duccl lin to follow; the widows person
seemed strangely flIbilbr, and when she
drew aside her veil he recognized her rs
the wife lie had hidden a0icu to fifteen
years before, and whom he had thought
.l0.be.l eaGL,-~lEAey. are- now Living. happily
together OUCIJ a 25HIW