The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-09-04
>Curiosities Of Wedlock.

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the blue grass country, was comely WIDOW
than one matrimonial pretender to offer futile
suit for the succession. It was believed, indeed,
by the neighbors that she had determined to
accept no second iege-lord; but one day, in
the autumn of the year mentioned, a dusty
warfarer on the public highway leading through
the farm thought he detected less selfish dis
position in the hospitable lady of the grange.
a stranger in the place, pausing at her door
way to ask for a drink of water, this astute in
dividual was asked to enter and take Temporal
nv rest and so ingratiated himself by his defer
entail manner that the kind-hearted widow did
not hesitate to give an affirmative answer to his
request for permission to call again. He was
respectably educated Irishman of the better
class, travelling in quest OF some farm superin-
tendency, and resolved at once to remain IN
the neishborhood for while. His second call
was followed by third, and that by another.
I'm short, before the neighbors had fairly ex-
hausted their stock of wonder at the acquain--
tance, they were informed that the widow and
thelate warfarer we're engaged to be married.
When the wedding took place it was fur-
ther scandal to the gossips that, as the bride
was Baptist and the bridegroom Roman
Catholic, and each firm in their respective
Protestant and one in Catholic Church. Un-
popular as the match was in any light, this
doubling of the bond was regarded as ominious
of not more than half the usual certainties OF
matrimonial union, and public sentiment pre-
dicted that no good would come OF it. Sure
enough, after while the Irish husband sud-
denly disappeared from Kentucky, wrote briefly
to his wife from that city that he had been ab-
ruptly summoned to Europe on business re-
curing immediate attention, and set sail on
the day upon which his strange letter was da-
ted. The next news for the deserted lady was,
a report of the loss of his vessel at sea with all
on board; and as five or six years passed away
without contrary intelligence from him or any
body else, the widow discarded her robes of
mourning and gave her still desirable hand to
third husband. But, as the reader was proba-
bly, suspected, the Celtic rover was not dead:
Two or three years after the remarriage OF the
lady of the grange the latter learned, to her
dismay, that he survived the peril OF the sea
somewhere abroad, would not disturb her by
returning to this country, and counseled her to
make her present social status good by Obtain
ing divorce from him.
At once withdrawing from wedlock, the hor-
rifed woman. did procure divorce; after
which, she and her last husband were re-mar-
,ried. Thus twice welded to two successive
lords thelady should have been matrimonially
settled in life at last. Itseemed, however, that
the story was not yet ended. In 1861 L she was
ence more widow, and the eccentric gentle
man in Ireland, hearing Of it, crossed the sea
once more upon another visit to Kentucky.
Once more he appeared at the door of the
farm house as dusty, thirsty warfarer, was
recognized by the same hospitable hostess, and,
in very penitent fashion, renewed his old suit.
Unspeakable was the fresh scandal of the
ueighbors when they heard that the pair was
30 Be married for the third timel but for all
that, the wedding took place; though only in
the Protestant form on this occasion, as bride
groom had renounced his Catholicism and the
union has been exemplary in its harmony and
happiness ever since. The story is given to
the Clarksville, (Mo.) Sentinel, by a former ell
der of the Baptist Congregation, in which the
thrice-married husband and wife are now zeal
Gus Communicates, and he thinks its illustra-
tion of the pluralities of matrimony possible
within the statue and canon laws is more Gu
1zious, if not more romantic than the average
invention of the novelist.