Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-25
AIDOUBIE KNOT.
4 Lively Romance OF The Pacific.

= HiNciI hOaHohCe VI the EacAhc.
The San francisco Chronicle of late
date gives this lively story:
II is not often that man has the
| pleasure of twice courting and twice
marrying the. same woman, at least in
this world; and we have scriptural au-
thority for the statement that in the
world to come there is neither marrying
nor giving in marriage. But an instance
of this strange and unusual repeated
courtship and duplicate marriage has
recently come to light, in which the par
ties are San Franciscans, although not
of American origin.
Some months since German lady of
this city felt q great yearning for the
Fatherland, and, with the consent of her
husband, who is also German, she
started on her journey to visit the land
of her birth and once more look upon
the beautiful Rhine, on whose banks her
girlhood had been passed, and where she
first saw the comely fair-haired youth
who was now her portly husband-a hus-
band who colored with age, as had his
pet meerschaum. She traversed the
longway, and whether humping her head
as she performed her modest toilet in
the upper berth of Pullman palace car,
or when leaning over the rail of the
Hamburg steamer, she never once lost
sight lin her minds eye) of the corpu-
lent but loved husband, who mourned
her absence in Meirische's cellar, and in
vain tried to console himself with caviar
sandwiches, dominoes and weissbier SO
she, poor thing, thought; but in San
Francisco events of an entirely different
nature were occurring. The tickle hus-
band had listened to the Teutonic ac-
cents OF designing, intriguing compan-
ions, and, fired with beer and jealousy,
sought the courts and put in his prayer
to be released from the matrimonial
bonds which tied him to his absent frau,
81 was one bright day in Germany,
while she was seated on low stool in
an arbor of grape vine, busily knitting
stockings for the yellow-mustached sol
diers of her country, meanwhile singing
Vaterlandl mein Vaterlandl" etc, that
the unhappy woman first heard the pain
ful tidings of her lord's unfaithfulness.
A youth in wooded shoes and no stock
ings brought letters and newspapers to
the Industrious and loving wife. She
opened them and saw that her husband
had sued for divorce.
The paper dropped from her hand as
she rolled Imply from the three-legged
stool, and with the exclamation, "Mein
Gott in Himmill Was ist das2" wrung
from her tortured heart, she fell, tenn
porary corse, on the sward below As
the writer's say when they have exhausted
their powers of description, let us draw
veil. We resume our narrative few
hours later, when the wife, recovered
from her temporary indisposition, is
bending her energies to the packing of
her trunk, an inelegant but cOmmodious
receptacle covered with brass nails and
iron hoops, capable of holding the ward
robe of considerable family. Without
delay she steamed across the Atlantic
and rallied over the American continent,
arriving in San Francisco only few
days after the decree of divorce had been
granted. This fact was communicated
to her; but while it cut her big heart
almost in two, she did not despair. A
shrewd woman, turned of forty, does not
readily resign her claim to the man she
loves. .t--.--
She demanded an interview, which he |
dared not decliIe-in fact, he was almost |
as ready as she, He was ushered into |
her presence and she saw a CHANGED |
man. The buttons were gone from his |
shirt, bis wrist cuffs frayed at the edges, |
and hisnecktie presenting most shabby |
and dissipated appearance. He had
grown thin comparatively, too, and |
there was a rum blossom on the left side /
of his nose. She questioned and re
preached him at first, but explanations
followed, all the dark suspicious were
cleared away and, with the cries, "Mein
Katarina l'-" Mein Fritz
Like torrent from the mountain hight,
They rushed into each other sarms." ."
A marriage certificate was procured |
without delay, and within ten days Of /
the time when the decree Of divorce was
signed, the wife and ex-husband had re-
piighted their troth at the altar, and two
Of the happiest mertals in the whole city
oalahrafad THAR second marriaoa