The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-11-01

1872 he applied for and was granted
q divorce from her on the ground oI
desertion. married again, and
in 1874 To was left widower with
two children. About q month go
Myron Pool. rs executor Of Gates
estate, was handed letter by the
village postmaster, addressed to the
deceased, post-mark Litc h Fl o ] d,
MINI, It proved to be letter
from the long absent wife and
daughter, Eliza She wanted so sue
wrote, to return homo and be for-
given before she died. She had
suffered terribly for her wicked act
of ten years ago, but she said that
she was not the abandoned creature
that she was no doubt believed 70
be. She was willing TO return and
be nothing more than servant in
her fathers house if she could be
forgiven. Mr.. Pool handed the let.
ter to Mr.. Tuer without delay, and
the latter gentleman declared his in
tention TO start at once for Litch
field Mr.. Pool accompanied him.
They found Eliza working as a
seamstress in Litch6eld, under her
maiden name. After the emotion
created by the appearance OF her
former husband and the news OF her
fathers death had subsided, she
related her bitter experience. Her
narrative was such that the deeply
wronged husband felt that her pun
ishment had been greater then her
crime. Acting on this belief, ho was
willing to take back tho wife of his
youth, and they were married in
st. Paul, MINI, on the Ia inst
Tho wife's story of her 10 years
struggle with the world after her
unfortunate step 10 years before is
substantially as follows: She and
Miller had arranged to elope only
the day before she went away. She
was to go to Indiana, obtain a dis
vorce, meet Miller wherever he
might be then marry him. aud fol-
low his fortunes At Wheeling he
tried to induce her rot to waste time
in getting a divorce, but to go with
him at once. She refused. He went
to st. Louis and she started direct
for Indiana. She applied for di'
vorce at Lafayette, through n law
yer named Bowditch. She had not
long to wait for it. Miller wrote to
her from Central City, Col She
went to that place at once, met him.
and they were married by Rev Mr..
Whitehead, an Episcopal minister.
They. remained in Central City a
year. living contentedly together,
Miller prosporing in supplying
miners with stores. Then he fell in
with gamblers, and wasted all his
gains aud lost his business. ile be-
gan to treat his wife with cruelty,
aud habitually tnuut her with her
eiopement with him. From Central
City they removed to Corinne, Utah,
from there to Salt Lake, City. To
this latter place sho refused to go,
but Miller threatened to kill her
unless she went along. At Salt
Lake, Miller and Bill Olney opened
a gambling house and house OF
prostitution. In tho latter Miller
forced his wife to net as housekoep-
er. For two years they lived in
Salt Lake, tho wife being subjected
to habitual bsatings and other cru
city. At last Miller joined the
Mormons and gave up his gambling
place for time. He brought two
other wives in the house within
three days. This was the indignity
of all others that the woman who
had given up all for Miller could not
brook, aud she fed from his house
ono night in the fall Of 1871. After
three months OF hardship and peril
she reached Denver. She was wait
ress in o dining room there for Is
months. While she was there Miller
was shot and killed by Olney, his
partner, in Salt Lake, Then she
went as waiting maid to an English
lady TO New Mexico, returning to
Denver in 1874. Sho then started
to go home. At st. Louis she was
attacked with fever. She used up
all her savings before she recovered.
Then she was offered the position
OF travelling companion to an invalid
lady, who with her husband, was on
her way to Minnesota. She accept
cd it, and was two years with tho la
dy, when she died near tho head
waters Of the Mississippi Again
the wanderer turned her face home
ward. On her way from ltasca
Lake to Brainard junction she was
robbed by her half breed guide of
all her money, and was compelled
to walk 30 miles to reach her desti-
nation. Since then she had been
earning a living with her needle, un-
til tho desire to hear from her homo
and know that she could return and
be forgiven led her to put aside hor
pride and shame and write tho LETT
ter which had brought about no un.
expected and happy termination to
her troubles.
On Saturday evening last Mr.. and
Mrs. Timer left Elmira for Philadel-
phia, and by this time are settled in
the home 30 ruthlessly destroyed 10
years ago. They seemed rs happy
as II rcthing had ever occurred to
disturb tho even tenor Of their