Connecticut western news., 1875-08-06
AM ENOCH ARDEN IN REAL LIFE.
Husband Supposed to be Dead Returns nfter Seven Years Absence to n Dying

A Husband Supposed to be Dead Returns
 nfter Seven Years Absence to n Dying
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 In the city of Brooklyn, N. r., within five minutes walk of the Fulton ferry, a modest-looking two-story cottage is situ- ated. It has the appearance of having g dropped down among the trees and flow CT gardens, just as if quiet spot had been sought away from the more preteq tious mansions and the noise of the buster part of the city. The birds are l tanner there. The shrubs and plants are not cramped for room. The never opened shutters and the occasional ap- pearance in the garden of young woman in mourning caused the neigh bors to believe some extraordinary grief was hidden beneath that roof. The lady seldom appeared in public, except to at tend the services of the Methodist church, of which she has been @ member for number of years. A few Sundays ago most interesting bit of romance eulminated in this cottage.
 Just after the commencement of the late war 8 young man of more than or dinary talent and ability married we'll to-do farmers daughter in the vicinity of Troy, and immediately thereafter re- moved to Brooklyn. To the call for troops in 1861 he was among the first to respond, and bidding adieu to his bride entered the regular army, in which, by reason of good conduct, he became a lieutenant, and the year 1868 found him on duty at General Grants headquarters in Washington, his wife having gone on to live'with him there. November 21, I A1 soS l.. * mand, g cavalry regiment, in Texas, and since that time until recently. the wife has not.seen him, and having read of the death by shooting of person of the same name as her husband in Texas, has , believed herself to be a widow.
 The lieutenant has had most event. full life, as he relates the story, and he gives dates and locations in every in Stance. For not controlling his men sufficiently to prevent them from raidi1g on property of citizens he was placed e under arrest, and subsequently, allowed : to resign At that time he was provost marshal, under General Buell., at Jeffer- son, Tex. .-,5az l-
 We..fnd. the exl lieutenant at St. Louis re-enlisted again, in 1870, in the regulp pr army, with the hope of being reinstated. l The whole of his time was served in the : department of the Platte and at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory, his hope not being realized. During this service he was in several Indian fights, and in one was cut off with party of twenty men, his sergeant killed and he so se- verely wounded that his discharge was matter of necessity. These discharge papers are dated June, 1872. Chagrined at the inglorious termination of his ser vice, he started for Cheyenne and thence to Omaha, with the intention of return ing home. While purchasing suit of citizens clothes in the last-named city, he was knocked senseless and robbed of all his money. A long, ugly scar across the forehead shows the violence used. Recovered of this wound and penni- less, he made his way back again to Fort Laramie. with the intent of obtaining government employment, but in this j was disappointed, and upon the invita- ttion of the chief of the Arapahoes (Fri- day), whom he had previously met, to , join that band of Indians in 8 hunt, he did so on the 3d of August, 1872, and with them he lived until June, 1874, when by strategy he managed to get to the party of explorers under command of Colonel Smith, of the Fourteenth in fantry, at point now known as the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. but which at that date was almost desert.
 The lieutenant says he was treated well by the Arapahoes in every way ex- 2 cept that he was not allowed to return to the United States posts. This permis- sion was refused on the ground that he . insured them protection against contra band traders, of which class he says there are more than there are of the i- censed. He lived with them in their | tepes in winter, and was presented with four ponies. In April, 1873, he was with the Arapahoes and Sioux in their battle, with. the Grows, fought on the : Rosebud, a branch of the Powder river, not far from the point reached by the recent expedition commanded by Gen eral Forsyth. He says he has traversed
 many times much of the Black Hills re- g on; that there is gold there, and that the whole section of country is known among the Indians as the sf Bad lands," although aside from the water the soil is of the best. He also states that there is another white man named Ben Roland with the Arapahoes, and that he remains with them from choice. T 5-.. a-.s As has been stated, dates and minute , details have been omitted to great ex- tent. With the ordinary incidents of . travel over the plains he reached civili- zation again and returned unannounced to his wife, who is fast sinking with con sumption, and over her couch he now 7l watches, not counting the days of his absence, ,ebut the few that may elapse ere final separation. ...2 --...,.
 It is for this reason and at the personal request of the parties that their names are not mentioned in the narrative. - Graphic. 5. li The Mountain Meadow Massacre.