Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-12
BIGAMOUs sCRIBNER.
re M"rries Professionally, and Securing
Fire Wires No,U Lnngmishes IN Jail

GAINESVILLE, Mlnn., July 9.-HlS name is
Scribner-but, unlike the
Samuel of biblical fame, he does not seem
to have been eminently plous and good. In
fact quite early in life he developed won
derful propensity for marrying, quite neg
Letting the maxim that 'sIt's best to be off
with the old love before your on with the |
new" His physique is certainly striking if |!
not prepossessing. TALL well formed, light |
complexioned, blue eyes, curly sandy hair
and beard, and thirty -eight years of age, is
the outline-a makeup naturally suggestive,
and one which his life has shown to have
been an index of his tastes and desires. His
entrance upon the matrimonial field was
made at Mt. Vernon, near the city of Augusta,
Maine, at the tender age of sixteen years,
without, as he informs your reporter. the
knowledge or consent of his parents. His
inamorata was blushing maiden of nine
teen summers, of Mt. Vernon, but. ac-
cording to our hero, some two or three
months developed the fact that she was not
such very coy maiden after all, and while
our hero was rejecting in solitude at some
distance from the sharer of his early joys
and woes principally woes) she-skipped
with another man. Embittered ty his un-
fortunate experience i'll the hymenial line
the youthful Scribner scorned to call the law
to his aid to free him from his unwise en-
tangiement. but for the next few years cult
waited cehbacy. and upon the breaking out of
the war gave himself to his country.
Returning to Watertown, n. Y, when the
blast of civil war had spent ITSELF he dotted
the blue, and in falling back into the dull
routine of civil life, he realized with double
force the Scriptural idea that it is not good
for man to dwell alone. and our ex -soldier
tries his hand again. Leaving the past sin
the eternal past,' he casts about him for
suitable affinity. To no guileless maiden
would he again trust his happiness. buxom
widow would be more to his mind,
and such an one is readily found Hand in
hand they tread life's rugged way for the
next four years, during which time three lit
tie olive branches came to cement the bond
between them, but it didn't seem to cement
them very hard Our soldiers wife seemed
to develop certain incompatibility of tenn
per that rendered life full of misery for our
hero, and he began to contemplate another
change. To think was with him to act and
so, like the Arab, he ..tolded his tent and 81
lently stole away from the vicinity of Ann
Arbor, Mich, where they had removed from
New York
|
| the first one, out of its ashes arose a new
JOY. He finds at Grand Ledge the only So
lace that his soul could know, and again
Hymen's chains held him in her mild but
strong embrace. For one short wear 10Y
reigned supreme around the Scribner family
hearth, but again his inevitable memorable
fate follows him. He discovers that which
to one of his strong family tastes is a bitter
disappointment. Never will their family
| circle be blurred with the innocent prattle of
young Scribners. Never would the family
| tree put forth any tender shoots To him the
thought was u.endurable, and at the ED of
one short year of married life Grand Ledge
knew him no more. His departure was UNI
ostentatious and without display. He avoid
ed the pains of a last hahdshaking with the
partner OF his bosom, and just quietly skip
ped. at Milwaukee our hero makes a short
stop, but as his stay in the Cream city was
not productive of results in the matrimonial
line, we pass i. by and open the scene again
under more favorable auspices.
At the town of Greenfield, Wabashaw
county, Mimi. he fiEds room for the display
of his talents. and we next behold him as
husband of very estimable lady there, with
! whom he maintained the relation of
husband for some three or four
/ y made
happy by the advent of two fine young Serb
ners. But the demon of unrest again claims
him and, turning his back upon his happy
home. his wife and babes at Kellogg, he again
becomes wanderer.
For year or Whereabouts he roams over
Minnesota and Iowa. and at last lands at
GAINESVILLE. Here he forms co-partnership
| in the wagon and blacksmithing line and
turns his attention to business. AT the no
tel at which he is quartered he sees waiting
girl who awakens in his bosom those tender
feelings which the exercise of upon his pre-
ylous partners had failed to quench, although
the strain had been immense. He finds him
self dreaming the old dream over again.
WITH her he could again be happy. Hand
III hand they might tread life's rugged path
| together-for time at least. After one
snort week OF courtship he proposes. The
lady asks for time, the acouaint-
ance IS so short. One week
IS granted her for reflection, and at its end
our hero again sacrifices himself on the bv-
menlal altar. How long he might have con
tlnued to enjoy this new domestic felicity
none can tell. How much the last love
might have aided him in committing the I'M
fortunate record of the past to thu sea OF
oblivion 10 one could imagine, had not the
unregenerate nature of his partner in the
wagon business prompted him to question
the veracity of our hero and to place credence
upon the report that he (our hero) was too
muchly married already. Taking ALRIGHT
at the first note of alarm our hero fled At
Mankato he pauses for reflection. Can he
thus rudely and without one parting word
leave her he SO lately promised to cherish
and protect. Never. The bare thought is
agonizing. He will return at all hazards.
and then, at the home of her brother.
whittier she had fled at once,
the cruel minions of the law
surrounded and captured the CAV
Lothario and conveyed him to the care and
custody of Sheriff Switzer, at Mankato.
pending an examination. To-day 9th his
examination takes place at GAINESVILLE. and
with wife No. from Kellogg present to tes-
TRY against him, there are strong probabii-
ties that he will be Leid for trial, and in de-
fault OF bail will be remanded to Mankato
for safe keeping. That the outcome will be
the requirement Of some useful trade under
| the watchful tuition of our State industrial
school at Saltwater, is the general expectation
OF the public who are conversant with the
| facts III the history of this gay deceiver. The
good OF society seems to demand that some
protection he afforded to unsusnectino
women.
THE OLD STORY.