The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-24

VERY YARDENIsII.-Ssrt0H1 11sd his Bride
y esterday morning John Il. Porter,
Judge of the Police Court, received tele-
gram from James Sexton, an old friend,
announcing that himself and wife would
mass through the city in the afternoon on
their way East. The meeting of The Judge
" ith his old friends was an event full of
Measure to his honor for concerning Sex
Ton there is a truthful history which rivals
Tennyson's .:Enoch AIden.''
~ In the year 1S49 James Sexton was a
youl married man, living in Independ-
ence, Missouri. Ho left the same year with
a train bound for Santa Fe, leaving his
young wife behind him. When the train
arrived at Albuquerque, Sexton was taken
down with typhoid fever, and not expected
to live, and SO his comrades were informed
by the physician. The train moved on to
its destination, and the traders, on their
TetuIn home, informed hrs. Sexton that
her husband had died OF typhoid fever.
Sexton had the good fortune to fail into
the hands of q couple of Spanish nurses,
WHO saved his life. After his recovery he
remained in New Mexico over a year, and
then returned to Independence But what
must have been his disappointment TO find
his young wife welded to another man .
He came lack altered iii appearance, his
hair thin ard gray and his features changed
so that even lis nearest friends failed to
recognize him.
lie had learned that his death had been
reported at home, and that his wife had
been led TO marry again. Like Arden, he
stole a glimpse Of her. ard being almost
en-hearted, did not make his presence
known, but hired out to another train
bound for Lower California. where he Ue-
gan dealing i'll cattle, and became very
wealthy. " -,f--
After Sexton had been in that country
several years, another startling and roman
tic episode occurred which reduced him to
his former state of melancholy.
Accompanied by Judge Porter, he had
arrived at mining camp called Williams
Ranch, with 1000 head of sheep, and while
disIosing of them, information was .bro't
that his wife was living not far off with her
second husband He immediately sought
an interview with her, and when she be-
came convinced that he was really her first
husband, whom she supposed dead, she
tainted She had borne him child while
he was absent in New Mexico, and since
her arrival in California with her second
husband had given birth to another.
Sexton again met her and tried to induce
her to live with him. This she would not
do, as the child of her second husband was
an infant, and she thought that to him she
owed tho strongest allegiance. Finhing
that neither money nor en:reaties would
accomplish the desired result. Sexton CON-
promised the matter by obtaining posses
sion of his own child. Shortly after these
events Judge Porter left the country, and
never saw Sexton since till esterday at the
Union Pacific Depot
What was his surprise upon meeting
him to learn that the wife who accompa
MED him was none other than the woman
he had married AT Independence, Mo, and
whom he afterwards met rs tie wife OF
another man at Williams Ranch, in Cali
fornia. 1t was all explained by the fact
that the second husband had died. and
Sexton had remarked his widow as well as
his own wife Omaha See.