Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-16
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.
Seven Times Married and a Widow
Again.

Smyrna (Del.l Times.
BENJAMIN Abbott, ,one of our old citizens,
died in this town Saturday last in the
year of his age. He was a
quiet and inotfenSiVe citizen.
He was a nephew of the celebrated Rev.
Benjamin Abbott, the great Methodist re-
vivalist of the early part of this century,
and came TO this State from New Jersey
when a young man and settled IN the
''Neck.'' east of this town, where MS ac-
tive life was mostly spent. But the nota-
BILE feature in Mr.. Abhott's otherwise un-
evcntful life is the remarkable fact of his
being the seventh husband of his widow,
who survives him.
This much-talked of and much-pub-
lished event (fOr it went the rounds of the
press of the matiOn,) when he for the sec
ond and she for the seventh time bowed |
before the altar of Hymen, occurred June
30, 1879, he then being seventy-eight and |
she eighty-twO years old. Mrs. Abbott |
history, in the marital relation OF life, |
stands, perhaps, without parallel IN the |
records of the nation; and the wonder IS |
where that secret power was hidden, in |
what charm it was cnCaSed, that gave her |
such power over Cupid as to cause him to !
speed an unerring dart, whenever. the |
services of the presiding genius OF love |
was invoked.
All efforts tOanalyZe her character by
the usual rules that give a charm to fe- |
/
not in beauty nor poetry, beguiling ways
| nor siren songs, and if it is past diVina-
| tiOn, the fact nevertheless remains, she |
! has been successful beyond the most ami
able, gentle and artful of her sex; and, if
| it gives her any pleasure, and we presume
| it does, she has the proud satisfaction of
standing on the most elevated modern
| pinnacle of female charmers. But it stops
| not here, Tradition has it there is to be
yet another. 1t is currently stated, with
out contraditiOn; that some years ago she
had vision in which eight men stood be-
fare her in a peculiarly impressive man
ner, which she has ever regarded as pro-
phetic of the number of cOnquests she
was to lead to the sacred shrine.
The eighth is just as likely and as rea-
sonable as the seventh, and already pub
lie gossip is beginning to mark this and
that man as the victim of next conquest.
She is only eighty-five or eighty-six years
old, as spry as of yOre, and in the light
of the experience of the past, it need not
be surprising to see the eighth marriage
announced in these columns. If the
prophetic vision is worth anything, the
sable curtain will close on the next con-
, quest and wondering humanity will be
! ready to join in the inscription Tequiscat
, il pace.
1t has been published before, but it will
, | not be amiss to give again the facts in
, | this much-married career. Her maiden
name was Williams, and she had been
successively Mrs. Traux, Mrs. Riggs,
= Mrs. Farrow, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Berry,
:. Mrs. Pratt and Mrs. Abbott. In every
4 instance, says the first, she has married
a widowers, some of them with n gOOC
number of children, and one occasion il
h her early married life, she went to the
~ Aims House and took therefrOm three
" children and raised them. She neve
y had any of her own. All her life ha
p been spent in this vicinity, and all he
!, husbands buried by the same undertaken
II Daring Train Robbery Ln WissOurI.
l., Chicago Times.
m BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, October S.-Th
a night express of the Chicago & Alton
10 which left Kansas City at o'clock thi
10 evening, bound for Chicago and st. Louis
a met with thrilling adventure soon afte
%, its wheels had commenced to tell off tn
X miles across the fields and forests of Mis-
Mt souri,. The country for many miles thi
at side of Kansas City has noted history &
9y having been for many years the abode {
be desperadoes and robbers. During the re
We belliOn the vicinity of Independence, no.
h. on the Chicago & Alton, about twenty
five miles out of Kansas City, was the Ta
ne lying ground of the bushwhackers an
at gueFillas, whose strOnghOlds were upO
ty the Big and little Blue, and in other dar
he and dismal hiding places hereabouts. Bt
Ii tween Independence and the town
,e, Blue Springs, and about thirty miles fro
Iat Kansas City, is the village of Glendal
which consists of a water tank, sma
station house, and few dwellings,. The
: nestle in the dark shadows of a hollow
= dismal and forlOrn place, about tn
" evening, a few minutes before the e,
au press train from Kansas city was du
= twelve masked men entered the static
e and took possession, enforcing stri
,oI obedience with wicked looking reVOlve
u4 and other weapons. Mr.. w. E. Bridge
nd for of E1o inf r
ne az office, with Agent McIntire. The robbie
III III ordered them to throw mp their hanC
= "a :" which they did at once. They then ]
~! "! lieved them of all their effects, and to
~, l u what they chose of the contents of Il
'hS office. They then placed them und
es- s guard and demolished the telegraph i
ieIs, struments. Haying done this they C
L!e the wires outside the office. They tn
= awaited the arrival of the express. Sot
IM ,2F the train arrived, and the engine stOpp
IlIc c at the tank, and the masked men took pt
20. VI session of the train. Three men, elm
55ln, ing into the express car, ordered t
~ startled messenger, Grimes, to surrend
leI and deliver his keys to them, When
icy manifested a disposition to defend t
iiI On property of the company, he was stru
rs rs on the head with the butt of heavy
ui' YOlVer and knocked down and OVerpO
WI cred. The robbers seized his keys a
@ @llS- took packages estimated to contain abe
a. a. $50 900 in currency from the safe. Mea
lIiy time the rest stood guard, offering no V
onl lence to Conductor Greenman and his
tL GI sistants, ,and not disturbing the passenge
Clle They Immediately went away mount
M M1W- horses and scattering while the train
nj M parted for the east. The whole affair
)hio Crin9ae yT9e not hall hIrt TVboI1 ]
train reached Blue Springs the facts W.
reported. Soon after Bridges and Me-
life tire succeeded in repairing the sever
wires, and Kansas City was soon acces
can BILE, but having no instruments, GIend
Ort- was not.
the A special train was ordered to TAX
Of heavy force of men from Kansas City
/ in Glendale, and also from Endependen
,ed- and in a few minutes they were in
lust pursuit. 1t is quite confidently expec
ces, that some captures will be made bef
ter morning, as the bluffs of the two B
hey rivers are filled with horsemen, and SEQ
an are being sent out in every direction
sur
sess Distress In Great Britain.