The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-23
A MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.

-Remarried to the Husband She De-
serted
ELMRA, n. Y, Aug, 12s-About ten
wears ago the wife of Annals. liner, a
miller of Winchester, Pa,
eloped with young man named George
Mills, clerk in the store of Uni Gates,
father of Mrs. Timer. The match be- |
tween Miss Gates and Timer was made
by her father against his daughters
wishes. She desired to marry young I
Mills. She had been married less than
month when the elopement tookplace.
The runaways were followed by the hus-
band as far as Wheeling, W. Va. There
all trace of them were lost, and nothing
was heard of them afterward. In 1870,
Gates, the father of the runaway wife,
died. He made will leaving his prop
erty, valued at $4,000, to, Timer, the
daughter having been his only child.
There was in the will provision that if
any news should be heard of the daughter
within two years after her fathers death,
and she was in want, she was to receive
the interest on SIC, 900 for one year at
seven per cent, to be paid in INSTALL
ments of $40 week. If, at the end of
a year after her being found, she
had not voluntarily returned home
and begged her husbands forgive
ness, no further claim of hers on the
estate was to be allowed. In the event
of her being with Mills, if fotind within
the two years, she could have no claim
against the estate. If she returned re-
pentant within a year, the executors OF
the will were to provide her suitable
home and allow her 80 week as long
as she lived. The executors were AMI
S. Timer and MSron Pool, d cousin of
the testator. L.....r..-. o., -..
Timer made every effort to find some
trace of his long missing wife, but fail
ing, procured divorce from her in
1872 and married again. His second
wife died in 1875, leaving him two chill
dren. On the 23d of July last letter
addressed to Mr.. Gates, and postmark-
ed Iitch66ld, Mimi, was handed Mr..
Pool, as one of the executors of the es-
tate of the deceased. 1t proved to be
from the runaway wife and daughter.
1t breathed spirit of repentance, and
declared that the writer was anxious,
after ten years of suffering, to ask for
giveness of those she had wtonged, and
be permitted to come home, if only to
be servant. Pool went with the letter
to Mr.. Timer. The latter resolved to
90 at once to Litchfield. He was ac-
companied by Mr.. Pool. On Wednes-
| day last Timer and the wife who had de-
serted him ten years ago, and whom he
had found working as a seamstress in a
Litchfield family, arrived in Elmira,
where he has relatives. The story OF
his wife's life since she left him satisfied
him that, while she had compromised
both his and her honor, she was more
sinned against than SHINING, and they
were married in St. Paul on the 4th
inst. The runaway wife's story is sub
stantially as follows:
She accompanied George Mills only
as far as Wheeling. There he left heI
90 to St. Louis. She then went to In
diana. She refused to become the COM
panion of Mills until she could legally
become his wife. He had $500. He
gave her 5000. She went to Lafayette,
Ind, where she obtained a divorce
through the agency of divorce lawyer
named Bowditch, being in the place bu
a few months. Mills, meantime, haC
gone to the plains, and brought up il
Central City, Col. She joined him there
and they were married. Mills mad,
! considerable money by supplying min
ers with stores, and they lived content
edly together for year. Then Mill
fell into the habit of gam
bling; he squandered all his gains, an(
his business passed into other hands
They then went to Utah. Mills got ;
position.as mining clerk at COrinne
and for time was steady in his habits
The life of a clerk was not stirring
enough for him, however, and he final
ly resigned the position and went t.
Salt Lake City. There, in compan
4 with miner named Olney, he opened
faro bank. He began drinking, an
abused his wife. To cap the climax @
her misery Mills joined the Mormons
and added two more wives to his family
This indignity the unfortunate woman
who had left her home and friends TO
Mills, could not brook, and one night
in 1871, she ran away from his house
and after months of hardship reache
Denver. She was a year and half i
that place, working at a hotel. Will
! there she read the account of the KILN
] of George Mills in Salt Lake City by hi
partner, Bill Olney, while quarreling i
, their gambling saloon.
In 1873 she engaged as waiting mai
to an English lady who was travelin
with a party in the Rocky Mountains
She visited New Mexico, the SPANS
Peak, and all the principal points OF il
terest Whereabouts, with the party, re
turning to Denver in 1874. There sh
left the party, and started East. 81
was Frustrated with fever in st. Loui
and all of her money was usedup befoI
she was able to leave. She then engas
ed as travelling companion to a Mrs. Va
Alta of New Jersey, who, with her hu
band, was going to Minnesota for h,
health. They Travelled through th'
State until September, 1876, when Mr.
Van Alta died, in the vicinity of flask
Lake. Having some money, she detel
mined to return to her old home. o
the way from the lakes to the railroad
| some fifty miles, she was robbed by he
guide, half-breed Indian. She wall
ed thirty miles to Brainerd, on the Mi