The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-08-03

Pleased with chirping, pleased with song,
Qnieted by nothing long,
Care you most for milk or wino2
Tell me, little baby minel
Little cherub sunshine, star,
Baby, comfort Of mamma
Welcomed to tbis- world with kisses,
Crowned with love and earthly bIlsses;
Dimpled darling, blue-eyed boy,
future hope, presentjoy
Why thus round my heart entwine
Tell me, little baby mine
fFrom the St. Louis Dispatch.
An EnOch Arden Case ia Mis-
sOurf-A Second Husband
Gives Up his Wife and Three
Children.
The assertion that "truth is
stranger than fiction" is certainly
illustrated in the following sketch,
and we are indebted to J. c. Ryan,
the agreeable first clerk of the
steamer st. Luke, for the principal
items.
During the first year of the waI
J. NJ. WaIdrup left his pleasant
homo in central Missouri and shouI,
dered his musket to fight for what
he considered right, and to spill his
blood, if necessary, in defense o.
the confederate cause. At home he
left a young wife and one child, and
from that time till last Sunday they
never even heard from him.
Mr.. Waldrup passed through the
struggle safely, and was paroled in
st. Louis in 1865. So soon as he
could earn money enough he start
ed TO find his wife and child ht
visited his old home and called OF
his neighbors. But his search wal
unsuccessful. The only information
he received was that his wife hat
taken the child and gone to liv,
with some relatives in Callaway
county.
Visiting Galloway county he oh
tanned work on a farm and settle,
down to ponder over the whera
bouts of his wife and child and t
earn enough to continue the search
In the mean time Mrs. Waldru,
had heard that her husband wa
dead, and had gone to live witt
some relation near Cedar city, op
posite Jefferson city, Missouri
Here she became acquainted with
well-to-do blacksmith, whose nam
we have not learned. In due tim
they were married, and last wee
were living in a comfortable HON
at Cedar city, and Mrs. WaIdru
had blessed the blacksmith wit
three fine children, the eldest fv
years old.
Last Saturday Mr.. Waldrup rod
leisuroly into Cedar city, and, hall
ing at the blacksmith shop, request
ed that worthy to shoe his hOrsr
While conversing on the heat Of th
weather, crops, &C., the blacksmit
learned WaIdrup's story, and ha7
ing heard his wife tell about be
lost husband, surmised the trutl
and in his blunt honesty invite
| Mr.. Waldrup over to the hous
with him. The recognition wa
mutual, and the wife tainted in he
first husbands arms. After th
first agitation Mr.. Waldrup wen
back to the blacksmith shop, an
talked the matter over sensibly an
COOL, yand agreed to allow the We
man to decide as to which man sh
would cling.
After pondering the matter owe
in her own mind, the doubly mate
lady decided to go with her frs
husband, on condition that the SCI
ond allow her to take the children
By some process of reasoning, ine2
plicable to US, be decided to Civ
up wife and children, and Mr.. an
Mrs. Waldrup decided to come +
St. Louis.
Yesterday the st. Luke stOppe
at the landing, and Mr.. Waldru
came on board and ordered passag
for himself and three children, an
| the blacksmith assisted bis wife o
bo ard, and then brought on th
/ children. Then came an affectin
scene, that brought tears to th
eyes Of captain, clerks and passer
gers. The deserted husband too
| first one child and then tho other j
his arms and kissed them passion
atelv, while the tears rolled dow
| his cheeks. Then he bade gOod-b
to his wife, who seemed deeply a
| fected, and lastly to Mr.. WaldruI
| The two men gazed into each other
faces, shook hands long and carr
estly, and then the blacksmith, b
q strong effort of will, released tn
hand of Mr.. Waldrup, and wake
quickly ashore, never turning b
face toward the boat, which SOC
passed out of sight. We can Onl
Imagine the loneliness in this POI
! mans heart and home, as he reache
! the room where he had so often s.
{ with his wife and children, an
thought
A Democrat in the country says
the nngw departure" is right and Il
negro Ou,vht to vote, then the R