The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-20

In 1858, the owner of thrifty little farm
in the luxurant region of Kentunky, known
as the blue grass country, was comely
widow whose bercayed condition had temp
ted more than one matrimonial pretender to
offer futile suit for the succession. 1t was
believed, indeed, by the neighbors that she
had determined to accept no second liegc-
lord; but one day, in the autumn of the year
mentioned, dusty wayfarer on the public
highway leading through the farm thought
he detected less selfish disposition in the
hosptable lady of the grange stranger
in the place, pausing at her doorway to ask
for a drink of water, this astute individual
was asked to enter and take temporary rest
and so ingratiatcd himself by his deferential
manner that the kind-hearted widow did not
hesitate to give an affirmative answer to his
request for permission to call again. He
was respectfully educated Irishman of the
better class, travelling in quest of some farm
supcrintendency, and resolved at once to
remain in the neighborhood for while.
His second call was followed by a third,
and that by another In short before the
neighbors had fairly exhausted their stock
of wonder at the strange acquaintance they
were informed that the widow and the late
wayfarer were engaged to be married.
When the wedding took place it was n fur
Their scandal to the gossips that, as the bride
was Baptist and the bridegroom Roman
Catholic, and each firm in their respective
faiths, there were two ceremonies. one in
Protestant and one in Catholic church.
Unpopular as was the match in any light
this doubling ofthe bond was regarded as
ominous of not more than half the usual
cprtaintips of matrimonial uniou and ,.,,l,
lie sentiment predicted that no good would
come of it. Sure enough, after awhile the
Irish husband suddenly disappeared from
Kentucky, wrote briefly to his wife from
this city that he had been abruptly
summoned to Europe on business re-
luiring immediate attention and set sail
an the day upon which this strange letter
was dated. The next news for the deser-
ted lady, was report of the loss of his
yessel at sea with all on board and as five
or six years passed away without contrary
iniollrancc from him or anybody else the
WIDOW discarded her robes OF mourning
and gave her still desirable hand to a third
husband. But, az the reader has probably
suspected, the Celtic rover was not dead.
Two or three years after the remarriage of
the lady of the grange, the latter learned
10 her dsmay, that he survived the perils
of the sea somewhere abroad, would not
disturb her by returning to this country.
and colnselled her to make her present
social status good by obtaining a divorce
from hiIa. AT once Withdrawing from
wedlock, the mortified woman did not pro-
cure the divorce; after which she and her
last husband were remarked Thus twice
welded to two successive lords the lady
should have been matrimonially settled in
life at last. 1t seemed, however, that the
story was not yet ended. In 1861 she was
once more widow, and the eccentric gen
ileman in Ireland, hearing of il, crossed the
sea once more upon another visit to Ken
lucky. Once more he appeared at the
door of the farm house dusty, thirsty
wayfarer, was recognized by the same hos
pitable hostess and in very penitent fashion
renewed his old suit. Uuspcakable was
the fresh scandal of the neghbors when
they heard that the pair were to be mar
ricd for the third time but, for all that,
the wedding took place; though only in
the Protestant form on this occasion, as
the bridegroom had renowned his catholic
ism and the union has been exemplary in
its harmony and happiness ever since.
The story is given TO the GAINESVILLE Mo. y
Sentinel by former elder of the Baptist
congregation In which the thrice-marricd
husband and wife are now Jealous COM
municants, and thinks its illustration of
the pluralities of matrimOny possible with
in the statute and canon laws is more curl
Gus, If not more romantic than the average
invention of the novelist.