Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-23
Married TO the Man VINE
Hanged Her First Love.

sedalia (NIo.) Bazoo.
A BaSoo reporter yesterday met gem
tlemen from Joplin who gave him the
particulars of one of the most remarka-
bic divorce cases of which we have ever
heard. The following is the story:
A lady sued for divorce in Joplin re-
Gently, and when it came up the startling
developments of which we write were
brought to light, and upon their strength
it was granted.
In 1868, the lady, then young and
handsome maiden, resident of Stone
county, Southwest Missouri, married a
worthy young man, to whom she had
long been engaged. Their union was
happy one, and as both had been reared
in the vicinity and were beloved and res
pected by all, they received the kindest
benisons of all who knew them.
But the war was raging around them,
and their locality was alternately occu-
pied by each of the contending armies
A draft was about to be made, and the
young husband, month after his mar
riage, concluded to take advantage of the
Governments liberal offer and enlist,
rather than to run the risk of being forced
into the ranks without any emolument
save the meager pay of private. So he
voluntarily enlisted and became a private
in the ranks of the Union army.
His courage and intelligence soon
gained the respect of his officers and fell
low-men, and in several hard-fought bat
ties he distinguished himself to such an
extent that his name was forwarded to
the department headquarters in st. Louis,
and in a short time returned emblazoned
in a second lieHtenant's commission. The
regiment was then stationed in Northern
Kansas, and at this OppOrtune moment,
when he was so near to all he held dear
(for son was born to him in his absence),
he could not resist the temptation to OBJ
tain short leave of absence and visit his
wife and child.
This boon was easily obtained, and
with his commission in his pocket, he
mounted his horse and started for home.
At length the well-remembered land
marks came to view.
He was close to home.
A few hundred yards of the leafy for
est, and he would be in the opening where
he could see the smoke from the cot that
contained his treasures.
How he would surprise them!
How his wife would cry for joy!
How his bright-eyed babe would
"Haltr' came fierce order, in stento-
rian tones, from the brush that surround
ed the road. Ere he could rein in hi!
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he was, as if by magic, surrounded by
twenty or thirty fierce and heavily armeC
men, whom his practiced eye told hin
were the most unFelenting foes that tn
uniform he wore ever had. His hear
t sank within him, brave as he was, for h
new there was no mercy in the breast o
d a buslawhacker, for such they were.
4 A few questions we're put to hime b
the leader of the band, but they wer
more for forms sake than anything else
His uniform was mute answer for a
they wished to. know, while from hi
pockets, which were rapidly turned il
side out, was the commission drawn fort
which made them more eager for h
blood.
The leader of the band was man nes
his own age, and to him he appealed an
demanded that he be treated as prisol
er of war. His request was treated wit
If derision, and moment more his 1eI
es were pinioned, and an ominous rope wi
u moose at the end dangled from the lin
'ss of an adjacent tree. Again he appeal'
to his inhuman captors, and implore
them to let him see his wife and child b
mt for moment before he died, But ev,
~ as he supplioated the leader put the fat
nd loop around his neck, and gave sign
with his hand, and the unfortunate M
was swungoff into eternity with pray
IRE for his widowed wife and orphaned chi
upon his lips.
The next day the corpse was discover
= swaying in the wind by passing soldi
who, stopping at the next house (whi
told the woman that there was m
hanging dead short distance down
road land it was better, perhaps, he shol
receive Christian burial. This was I
unfrequent news in that locality, a
nearly all the men being in the army,
). sad work of interring the dead and carl
for the wounded devolved upon the X
women. And faithfully and tende
was it done, too, for they knew not
their own loved ones were being ca
q for in a similar manner far off in SO
distant State.