The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-08-04
From The Fin.llay lOhiol courier.I

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Fifteen Years u Cap;Ire With the In
diaHs-i WandeFeT Meets His Wiz
si tie GFaTe Of her Second Husband
+. Some fifteen years ago there lived il
] the northern part Of Portage township
a young married couple by the naml
Of William and Anna CIarkinSon.-
They owned a little farm, and madi
enough 70 keep them comfortable IL
/ the world and wereapparently happy
I William was handsome and well edu
Gated, having graduated with honor a
an eastern university. he did no
like the humble, but honest, Oeeupa
ton of farming. Wealth aecumulat
ed too slowly by following the pIOw
/ he wanted TO make money by ths
/ thousands of dollars So the farm
was sold. Mrs. Clarkinson went tC
live with her parents, and William
started for the golden State Of CalifOF.
mia, with the expectation of picking
up" a couple OF milliOn dollars in Z
couple Of years
For few months Mrs. CiarkinsOn
occasionally heard from her husband
either directly or through some of the
neighbOEs who had friends with the
same train which her husband was
going. Then there was a long inter.
val during which no WOHl came. AT
| ter q while there were rumOTs that the
| train had been attacked by Indians
and every one killed. This was at last
too truthfully verified by one poor fel-
low, who was found by another party
q few days after with just life enough
left to tell how the train had been at
tackled on a dark night, and before
any could recover from the surprise,
all were killed and seaIped, aud the
Indians rode tTiumphantly away with
lheir booty.
For three years Mrs. Clarkinson
mOuTned for her dead husband. After
the lapse of that time size married
again, and moved 20 Wood county,
For nearly twelve years she was IS
happy kindand afleetiOnate husband
and two beautiful children could make
awOman. At the end Of that time
(Which carries Us up to the lst inst, ]
affiictiOn again casts its mantle over
her. Death claimed her erhusband, and
again she was a sOrrOwing, weeping
widow.
AIuN AuAAnNT VIZ IAAA. - tAtN - ~ &
she hears the sad words "Dust To dust
and ashes 20 asheS'i-the earth falls
with = 3ull, dreary thGd upon the eOf-
fin, aS lie sexton slowly covers up all
that remains u him whose spirit has
gone before to the other world. The
widow raises the black veil and looks
around. As she does 50 she meets a
pair of eyes fixed intently upon her.
she starts-memOry rushes back NJ
teen years and brings Up the picture
Of he first husband There can be no
mistake-'tis he. The recognition is
mutal. There Is seene-the widow
and wife faints-the brOnLed stranger
explains his relation to the woman.
and al -s-pair to the home OF her who
ten minutes ago vas widow, bat
now a wife Then Mr. William Clark
iRSOn tells how he vas not killed By
the Indians AZ the time OF that sud-
den onslaught on the plains. bur Was
taken prisoner By the Blaekfeet and
carried far away among their mOUn-
tain fastnesses, and during AL those
long years had been 6oreesi 20 slave
for hfS cruel espSOEs-
he had finally escaped. ami during
Ms hight through moUEtalE gulcaeS
he discovered rieh gold tiepOslt-
How hehad written back 70 his frieRGs
and could get No Snswer- He thea
vent back and aOCked the gold mines
he had diSeovsEsd- He gTeE riet. and
lOlged % again visit the kOue q hsS
youth and hapqiResS he had gOs Off
tie c5rs At ReETySbU-S sld taken the
S-ase 10 B0E6Rs Gueen-l1sd hirei q
SGEgy there Sasi Vss driving to hss
OF home when he overlook the fun
sEl-a strange IllVGlse ilSlzraeSi 5m
ID SlllOW-tiae vy5si0E's person sesl-Ee3
s-rSnssiy sam5lsT- and when she drew
aIsille sseT veil ks recognized her s. he
wife Ee had biJiel asiieu q fifteen
yeaTS ief0re, and whom lie had
thOUsht "a DC dead. They sre now
living happily tOgeshST-