The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-16
MASSACHUSETTS, MORALS.
DARK LOVE.

DARN LOVE.
The citizens of Dalton. in the western
part of this state, have, perhaps never be-
fore, saws the Boston Herald, been so tho
roughly excited as they have been during
the past week or two, about one of the
strangest cases of domestic trouble that it
has ever been our lot to chronicle. The
following detail, are given by the Pitts
field Eagle;
About dozen years ago youth of
nineteen, who is now a respected, and un-
til recently, well-to-do citizen Of Dalton
married a girl Of seventeen, and together
they began life hopeful and happy. Their
felicity, however, was not of long dura-
ton, though until latterly their incompat-
Utility has not been So serious that either
sought separation. There have been
two children, one Of whom is now ten
and the other two years old. Recently it
has been observed that this woman has
been on very friendly terms with q colorcd
man who has been working in that town,
and who has a wife ia white woman and
two or three children now living in Dali
ton. The intimacy between this colored
man and the wife Of the nAlinuinn has
been noted by the hc:ghbors, though for
sometime it was unknown 20 the husband.
and only when hi, attention was called to
it by a friend did he have any suspicious
that there was anything wrong. When
his eyes were fairly opened he at once ex-
postulated with his wife, rebuldng her for
her manifestations Of ,u,piciouly ardent
affection for the colOred man. but instead
of pcnttcnro and shame the woman de-
clarcd her love for her ebony friend.
vowed that she never loved
her husband, and told him that
her youngest child was not hi.
And more, il i, said that one day she en-
braccd the darkey in her husbands pres
encc and said to him while caressing
him "GOd knows | love you" There
are few men who would have looked upon
such II scene without quickly furnishing, if
not killing outright one Of the guiltycrea-
lures, but this man was one Cf the few.
OF course he could no longer tolerate her
in his house, and he babe her pack up and
leave. But in sending her away he was
surprisingly kind for he not only allowed
per to help herself to what she pleased
and she took literally Of her husbands
clothing FIR the use Of her lover-but he
gave her also, more than thousand dol
lar in money, which he had earned bv his
industry and saved by economy, and then
told her to depart in peace, but never to
come near him again. On Tuesday night
Of last week, when this bargain was con-
summatrd, the c1lDrel man came 70 tins
town, hired carriage drove to Dalton,
and brought the woman and her youagest
child 70 PiU-hcld where, so far a. we
know they are now living, though it i, re-
ported that he has gone to California, and
that she will soon join him there.
The darkey.- white wife at Dalton, hav-
ing meanwhile learned that another white
woman had supplnnted her in the affect
ions Of her husband, managed to get an
interview with the parties before they left
town, and was for time determined to
make trouble but Il present Of fifty dol
lar bill quoted her, and she withdrew her
opposition. The affair is the town talk of
Dalton, and the victim of this shameful
irtllelity has the deepest sympathy of the
entire community, lie is well known as n
man Of correct habits kind heart and
pleasant deposition. llo occupies Il
responsible position in one of the paper
mills Of the town, and his employers and
the employees under him hold him in high
esteem, The money he gave To his faith
less wife was all he possessed but he SAYS
he never made a better bargain in his life,
and never felt richer.