The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-25
A Springfield Love Story.

man living in her home in Monson, be
came possessed with the desire to go
West and teach achool. In the town
of Anamoso, Iowa, she found her voca
ton, and by and by husband. He
was the youngest and INDUCED son Of
wealthy widow. The happy couple set
out early on the matrimonial soa, both
being only about nineteen years Of age
When our heroine wrote to hor father
in Monson of her plans, he went on to
Iowa for few months visit, and being
pleased with his daughters prospects,
built and furnished house for her.
The mother of the young husband gave
him fine farm, well stocked and
equipped, and no young couple ever
startcd in life with brighter prospects,
In short time. however, bad spccu
lations and msmanagcrnent had strip
ped her husband Of all his property.
His pride was terribly mortified By this
turn of affairs, and in sudden despcra
ton he left his home, his wife and in
iant daughter, and enlisted in one O.
ihs first regiments which was raised to
put down tho rebellion. His family
received q few letters from him aud
then came an unbroken silence. In
vain they wrote to him, and then to his
officers and comrades. He was reported
among the missing. The wife or
widow-she knew MT which-at length
returned to hor Morton homo, and after
ward came to this CITY and entered the
employ of Tinkham g. Coa,,proviny her
self capable and efficient in the millen
cry department.
At the end of four or five years she
revisited her husbands friends in Iowa,
and soon married gentleman there,
having first for the sake of certainty
obtained divorce from her long lost
husband, although really supposiug her
self widow. In few months after
this marriage this second husbind died,
aud the lady again returned to her
New England home (twice widowed. rs
she supposedly and soon was in her old
place at Tinkham's.
Some months ago-and this is one of
tie stlang.s st incidents in this eventtul
history-slle dreamed th:.t hack called
at her boarding place and took her Ia
the Massaoit House, where she met her
missing husband to whom she wAsayaiu
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 more
and more as only dream But one
day, last fall, a letter reached the post
office in Anamosa, directed to her. Some
one who knew her caused it to be dir
ectcd to this city. 1t so happened that
she was absent on a visit at the time
and after remaining in the Springfield
postofhce awhile 1t was returne t.
l>wa. Her friends there then enclosed
it in another envelope and sent it here
again, and it finally reached her as she
was at her work in Tinkham's store.
On opening it she nearly tainted It
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 hazadous life of ,anchero
BE had left home with the determine
ton OF never returning till he md g
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 some turn of
the wheel of fortune had dashed him
back to poverty. AT length The tickle
goodness had favored him and he was
rich again. Whether his wife was
living, whether she was the mother of
another mans f'mily, and host of
other questions asked, she hlstened to
answer
Other letters were written by both ;
but all failed, by reason ofehostilc
indians, iaithless carries etc OF reach
inS their destination. But the QUO
assuring him that his wife was still his
own and telling where she could be
found, was enough.
Some time afterward stranger in
qnired one afternoon at the Massasoit
Uouhe il there WAS surh a firm IA T;.l