Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-22
The Boom in Riganlv.

Even in this day of ''booms," banquets leg islation and speculation the remarkable per formances of Mir. John J. Houghton cannot fail to attract share of the attention of an en- frightened community; and grave as has been his offence even Justice herself can scarcely regard his methods without a smile. It has been observed of late that men are tending to avoid maria ge, and SO curious an exception to the tendency as that of MT. Houghton, who so far from objecting to take wife, took two, and carried hIs reck less prodigaity to the ex- tent of talk ing both at the same time, must in certain fashion be admired, even while we hope that it may not be initiated.
 MT. Houghtons plan was very simple. With his first bride, whom he espoused on the 4th of May, 1858, he lived in New York with his second, with whom his nuptials were SOL emnized on the 9th of October, 1878, he took up his abode in Yonkers and, considering the wellknown proclivity of history to repeat it. self, we may safely assume that if MT. Hough- ton had been let alone long enough he would have married some other lady in 1898, and settled with her at Coney Island. The con- pletion of this symmetrical cycle has however, been rudely prevented and MT. Houghton is now in the custody of the myrmidons of the law to answer for crime which Sir Peter Teazle would say should carry it's own punish ment along with it.
 Just as the sunlight of good fortune some- times breaks through the darkest clouds so does adversity occasionally spring from events that seem most suspicious. The first and therefore the legal Mrs. Houghton about month ago came into legacy. With the pro- ceeds she bought house and lot at Woodlawn, where, all unconscious of her husbands opu- lence in wives, she proposed to continue her occupation of keeping boarders. With her were seven children, the issue of her marriage; and Mir. Houghton passed back and forth from his family in 1onkers to his family in Wood lawn with much comfort and general harmony of feeling. Now and then he took his eldest daughter, fine young girl of fifteen years, for visit to his Yonkers establishment He represented to the mistress who presided there that his daughter lived with hls mother and he made such private communications to his daughter as led her to observe with strictness his injunction to secrecy. The variety which is the spice of life Mir. Houghton thus enjoyed without let or hindrance; and to all appear ance he was destined to glide smoothly down the river ot life as happy as the butterfly that fits from flower to flower until he was ready to consummate his third matrimonial engage ment in 1898.
 But the move to Woodlawn, the chief mi grafton born of prosperity, was the signal of fate for the ingenious MT. Houghton. It was accomplished but little month ago; and it's
 
 series of accidents that are apt to prevent the course of either true or bigamous love from running smooth, certain suspicious were arous- ed. The result was that each Mrs. Houghton discovered the existence of the other Yonkers and Woodlawn are too near together The two wives had been near to each other before in the sense of sharing the affections of their husband, but they had been far in the sense that the elder was concealed in the popuous a oit xph fho was guarded by lucky chance and tempera- ment utterly unsuspicious of guile. But the former short time back got clue, followed 1t up with sleuth- hound tenacity, interview ed" her young rival, or successor, an explo- sion followed, and the uxorious exploits of MT. Houghton were brought to sudden close we may hope forever Er sr
 What is most puzzling in this notable case IS the fact that Mir. Houghton paid his two wives more money than he received. Now, since most men notoriously, or at least by the concurrent testimony of the single partners of their bosoms, give them vastly less than they receive; and since in all the other mant ex- amples of bigamy lately heard of from the South and West the guilty husbands have newer given their wives any money at all, this circumstance must surely be set down as sin gular and surprising. How far it may be re- garded as an extenuatlng circumstance in the case of this latest illustrator of the most wick ed and obj ctionable bloom" that has lately resounded, we are not prepared without further reflection to determine. A patent, however for MT. Houghton's secret would assnredly prove not less profitable than that for Mir Edison's improved but somewhat long post poned electric light bids fair to be.-N Y. Post. E7a @
 Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie in big ginghan apron experimental every day at the foundry of the Washington Navy Yard the prepara rations that are making to cast in bronze her statue of Admiral Farragut for which the gov ernment contracted at cost of $20, ,00O The model is ten feet high and represents the Ad- miral on the deck of ship, standing with his foot upon a coil of roap, and in his hand , marine glass which he is in the act of raisips to his eyes. The statue will be put up mex summer in Farragut Square, plot in the aris toeratic part of Washington on which some O the finest dwellings front. Lieutenat Hoxi has just built a handsome house fronting thi park, and heand his wife will always have tn, statue visible from the windows.
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