St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-22
a Brief Romance.
THRICE MARRIED TWO HUSBANDS.

THRICE MARRIED TWO HUSBANDS.
About fifteen Wears ago. Il Young
woman living in her home i'll Mon>un.
Miss. hrcamc pu>>,>sud With the dt>llr
To- 90 West and teach school. Ia the
town ui Anamo>a. Iowa. She found hcI
Vuratinn. Lud hl-and-hy a husband.
lie MS the Youngest and indul%cd son
of II wealthy widow. The happy couple
set out early "u ;ii1 matrimonial SEA.
both hcm" only about nineteen y"ar>
al age. When our heroine wrote to her
tati.cr IN Monsoon of her plans. he went
on /" Iowa for few months visit. and
being pleased with his daughters pros
pets. l,IiIt and furnished Il house for
her. The mother of the Young husband
gave him Il time farm. well stocked and
equipped. and no Young couple ever
started i'll life with brighter prospects,.
In a short time. however. bad Sprcu-
lHtI"u> and miSmamagrmrn had >tIip-
ped her husband of all his property.
His pride WaS terribly mortified hN this
turn of affairs. and in sudden dc>pcra-
ti"u he left his hum". his wife and in
tIut daughter. and enlisted in one of
the first regiments which was raised to
put down the rebellion. His family re-
ccivrd Il few letters from him. and then
cam" an unhrnkcm silence. In vain
they wrote To him. and then to his of
ticor~ and comrades. He was reported
among the missing. The wife or widow
she knew not which-at length re
tIIncd to her MnnSon home and after
wards came to this city and entered the
empiov of Tnkham Il Co.. proving
l., 1 / 4 Il
millinery department.
Al the end of four or five years. she
revisited her husbands friends III Iowa
and soon married Il gentleman there.
having first. for the sake of certainty.
obtained Il divorce from her long lost
husband, although really supposing her
self Il widow. In Il few months after
this marriage the second husband died.
and the lady again returned to her New
England home (twice widowed. as she
supposedly and soon was in her old
place at Tmkhams.
Some months ago-and this is one of
the strahgcst incidents in this evcntfnl
history-she dreamed that Il hack called
at her boarding place and took her to
the Massasoit House, where she met
her husband. to whom she was again
united in marriage. The dream. of
course. made deep impression on her
mind, but as months wore away and
nothing came of it. she regarded it as
''only a dream" But one day last fall
a letter reached the postoffice at Ana
mosa, directed to her. Some one who
knew her. caused it to he returned to
this city. 1t so happened that she was
absent on visit at the time. and after
remaining in the Springfield Office a
while it was returned to Iowa. Her
friends there then inclosed it in another
envelope and sent it to her again, and
it finally reached her as she was at
work in TinIlham's store.
On opening it she nearly tainted. 1t
was from her first husband. from whom
or of whom not lisp had been heard
by his friends for thirteen years. 1t
stated that he was in the wilds of
Texas, following the hazardous life of a
ranchero. He had left home with the
determination of never returning till he
had made good his shattered fortunes.
Several times he had so far redeemed
his VOW that he was on the point of
seeking his family and friends, when