The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-09-18
AN UNEXPECTED VISIT.

An l. NEAfNlED v1SA1s
The First Wife Of a Shawnee
Street Aian Gives Him q Call.
II We were endowed With the wonderful
powers claimed BY the clairvoyant and could
thus pluck from every household its dark
mysteries which are 30 carefully guarded
from the public, sod especially from Mrs.
Grundy and her mischief-making sister,
Dame Rumor, what startling revelations
would b0nA upon an amazed world in the
columns Of the daily pres.
What cherished theories of life and vir-
tue, and honor would be overturned, and how
many thousands OF those Who now appear
before their tellow-men in the gsrb of sanity
humility would be summed a moral lepers.
Let % al be thankful that human vision has
been Limited, and that not all the spiritual.
istsf from Foster down, nor all the clsirvoy-
ants combined, can read the mysteries that
lie hidden in the human heart, or exhume
as pleasure the skeletons that lie grinning
and moulding in 90 many households.
In many cases the mysery and wrong Is ef.
fectually e6aeed BY the soothing balm of
time, which public exposure would have
rendered impossible, and the public sees
enough Of the depravity of human nature to
covet any spiritual microscope to enable
them more infinitely to detect the errors or
sinfulness of their neiehbore.
The little incident which We are about to
mention has been kept very quiet in the
neighborhood in whichit occurred, but like
murder, such things Twill out" and con-
sidering the present scarcity OF news We con.
slider ourselves extremely fortunate in being
made acquainted with the facts.
In April last q well-to-do mechanic, hail
ing from Des Moines, Iowa, and accom-
panied BY brunette beauty Who acted in the
capacity Of his wife, hired small tenement
house on Shawnee street, and forthwith
settled down to the enjoyment of domestic
bliss, and congugal felicity.
This was all right and proper. Not the
least objection could be raised 10 such pro.
ceedings, but in less than two weeks the bru-
nette wife left her protector, and wandered
no one knew where. Shortly after her die
appearance another bright-eyed, auburn
haired little maiden was seen presiding over
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A little lady With golden hair.
Whom he eaiirth his eonsln' but whom he had
In the Italian manner, as men sail;
And great vas the scandal everywhere"
The hair of the maiden was, Of course,
not golden, but possibly it WAS as near it as
that of the lady OF whom LongfellOw 80
sweetly sings, and she was possessed of such
gentle temper that she did not heed in the
least the gossip OF her neighbors, in relation
to her amour with the man--her cousin.
The couple lived in happiness and peace till
about three weeks ago, when an inquisitive
lawyer began 10 make some inquiries in re-
lation To the domestic affairs of the man
which did not seem to be at all agreeable.
He seemed very diffident and non-communi-
cative. He did not care to have his private
affairs pried into, and wished people would
mind their own business and let his alone.
He was gra:ifed in his " sh up to last Mon.
day, when well-dressed lady, accompanied
by gentleman friend, came in on the Chi
cago and Rock Island train, and forever
put quietus To his house keeping in this
city. The woman was his lawfully welded
wife, who resides in Geneva, N. y. at which
place he married her some two years ago.
Last spring, according to her statement,
her husband suddenly left her,
and it was rumored that he
had gone to Omaha with a bold, dashins
brunette widow, with whom he had been on