Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-18

A Wiis's Pan and Wan6eriags.
In the summer of 1865, just shortly
after the close of the war. q young ~,
who had been . stranger to the place
made bis appearance in . qnist villiag'
within radius of thirty miles Of Johns
town. Pa. He soon secured the ae
quaintance of the citizens generally. and
particularly ingratiated into the good
graces of the lady Of household whose
husband was frequently compelled to be
absent from home on buisnes required iu
the manufacture in which he was en-
gagged. The young man we speak Of
was gifted with most pleasing address,
and the young wife. who had only been
married three years, began to look upon
the plauaable stranger in way that bo.
ded no good for the future peace and
happiness of a heretofore loving and
prosperous home. Neighbors began to
remark in kind of a gossiping way that
Mrs. G. was tolerating attentions from
him, that if known to her husband.
would certainly have excited grave sus
picions in his mind az to whet er the
intimacy did not border on criminalty.
Finally the sad end came. One morn
ing during the absense of the husband, a
a neighbor who called at the wife's
house discovered that the lady was not
at home Toward uoon that day sus
picions became rife that an elopemept
had been planned and carried out be
tween the stranger and Mrs. C.. as
visit 10 the inn where he had been stop.
ping revealed the fact that be had left
the house the previous evening at late
hour and did not return again. Three
days after the husband came back from
a business visit to Clear6eld and found
that his home was broken up.
If he felt grief over this sad ending.
he did not show it publicly. He went
about his business in the same manner
that be did when everything was ap-
parently moving in the quiet groove of
domestic happiness existing before the
tempter came, but those who knew him
best were aware that he was undergoing
the keenest and most poignant of an
guish over the faithlessness of his chosen
Matters passed on quietly in the vii
Iiagc spoken of during the interval be-
Tween that time and the present. For a
year or two business retrograded, and
some of the families living there at that
time left. Three whom we were per.
sonally acquainted with now reside in
This city. But new manufactures sud
denly gave an impetus to the place En-
capitalists invested in The vi.
ciuity, and the village commenced to i'm
prove. The husband Of whom we are
writing had owned large tracts of land
in the neighborhood and suddenly he
found a market for the timber growing
upon it. He became comparatively
wealthy. but his brooding sorrow over
he criminal elopement of his wife seem
ID to affect him more deeply as time wore
IN. aud only few months ago he passed
away.
And now comes the strange part Of
'ur story. About two weeks ago
woman rather poorly yet cleanly dressed
made her appearance in the village. She
inquired for Mr.. C. at the hotel to which
'he wended her steps. On being told of
lis death she became visibly affected.
Shortly after she left the house and pro-
;eeded to the residence of an unmarried
sister, the only relative of her deceased
husband. Upon entering, the erring but
.epentant woman who had left her happy
home eight years previously was not
She made known her name
out was not upbraided as she expected.
Her sister in law said to her that the
husband had exacted promise prior to
lis decease, that if the wife should ever
'eturn che should be received and cared
or. These two women are now living
ogether, and the widow who once took
be fatal step avows her determination to
'tone for her error in the past. The
person who enticed her from home, aban-
loned her about two years ago in Den
'er, Colorado, and eince then she had
heard nothing of him. In the meantime
The supported herself by doing the house
work for a respectable family in that
:ity. This narrative is given US by
gentleman who is thoroughly conversant
With all the facts, and who vouches for
he statements contained therein.-JOhns-
oun TriJune.
Some negro divers brought up from
dobila bay. last week, fragments of the
Exploded boiler of the steamer Franklin
which, tbirty-six years ago, went down
With many lives. The operations of the