The daily gazette., 1874-08-28

| to any Of the villagers. Soon after. the
wedding, Sir John left his young bride
and returned to his home across the wa
ter, having promised to record the mar
rlage in due form as soon as he should
arrive, and having additionally promised
that he would return within the year and
take his wife to England.
The year Went past, and Sir John did
| not come. Meantime Rev. Mr.. Currier,
the only person in America besides the
young wife who knew of the transaction,
died, and his secret died with him. An
| other year passed, and five, then ten, al
most twenty, and still the waited for
husband did not return TO make good his
promises, nor did any tidings--we under
| stand-reach the ears of Candace con
cerning him. At last, in March last, we
believe, through the instrumentality OF
| o personal advertisement in one of the
New York papers, the long silence was
broken, and tidings for which the Dun
dee bride, now grown to almost midd, e
age, had SO long waited, were received.
1t appears that the return of Sir John
to England without his American wife
was for the purpose Of arranging matters
satisfactorily with his parents, who he
knew would be indisposed to receive his
bride it she were taken to them without
Shortly after his return home that while
| out riding with his mother one day his
horses took fright, ran away, threw the
two out, killing his mother, and very
seriously injuring Sir John. From this
| affiiction, however, he recovered partial
ly, and in due time set ont for America
to reclaim his wife. AS If adverse fate
directed his every movements, when he
reached Liverpool he was taken severely
ill, and for q long time he lay vacillating,
| as it were, between life and death.
Though recovering, his illness had so
preyed on him that he became demented
in which condition he lived all these years
unable to make known the object for
overlook fim. In the latter part of last
winter sanity returned to the afflicted
man, but only for short interval before
death relieved him of that life which had
been burden. During this lucid inter-
val recollections OF his earlier life came
back to him and the secret wife in Dur
dee was uppermost in his thoughts. He
made known to his brother, now Sir Al
fred Talmage, tho true story of his mar
riage in this country, " lied his immense
fortune OF s., ,000, 900, half to a brother and
a sister, and the other half to his wife in
case she might be found alive. He fur
tIef pleuBeu his DrOUnef TO SGQu u special
messenger to America for the purpose of
hunting up his wife.
In pursuance Of these pledges, Il mes
senger was, as early as possible after the
demise of Sir John, dispatched to this
country with instructions to find the
bride by advertisement or by personal
search. The advertiseing was done us we
have seen. but the messenger, following
the direction given by the husband before
death, came from New York to Dundee
soon after landing. At the latter place
he found the parents OF the lady, who d.
rected him to Elmira, where she was then
visiting. This was in the latter part of
May last. On arriving in this city the
messenger inquired for the residence OF
Charles Roland. brother-in-law Of the
lady whom he sought. He repaired to tina
gentleman's residence, No. 457 East
Water street, where he found the
long waiting and long-sought bride
of twenty years ago. Tho lady hap
pened to be alone at the time the
messenger cn'led. The commingling
of astonishment, pleasure. and sorrow
which contented for mastery ms the sadly
romantic history of her long ago bride
groom was nnfolded can be better i'm
agined than told .--Elmiro Gosette 1ag.
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