The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-07
Matrimonially Mixed.

By combination of circumstances
Mrs. Rachel Foster and Mrs. Rachel
Clark-who is one and the same person
finds herself legally bound matrimonially
to two husbands, and has applied to the
courts to relieve her from the bonds ot
the double connubial knot. According
to the papers in divorce filed by Mrs.
Foster-Clark with the Prothonotary Of
the court of Common Pleas the lady in 1
1860, at the age of fifteen years, was
married to Thomas Foster. Their hon.
eymoon was brief, for in two months
they quarreled, and he left her to strug-
gle along as best she could. With the
breaking out of the rebellion the truani
husband went forth to the defence of his
country's flag and the girl-wife became
a grass-widow only to don the widows
weeds after the first battle of Bull Run,
when word came home that Foster had
fallen on the field of battle.
In the spring of 1866 she succumbed
to the wooing of Elisha Clark, who was
connected with the United States marine
corps, stationed in this city. They lived
very happily together till 1881, when
Mrs. Clarke made the discovery that in
stead of occupying hero's grave her
first husband was in the flesh and
resident of Bridesburg. They met on
friendly terms, the peculiar situation in
which the woman had placed herself by
her second marriage with Clark was
discussed, and separation from the
latter followed. 1t was at this juncture
that she sought the advice of counsel for
assistance in extricating herself from the
peculiar position in which she had been
placed. She then filed in Common Pleas
Court Room No 8 two libels in divorce, one
from Foster on the grounds of a twenty
years separation, and the other from
Clarke on the grounds that her marriage
with him was voidable, owing TO the
ibelant already having husband living
at the time the marriage ceremony was
solemnized. Since the proceedings in
divorce were commenced the fact has
been developed that Foster, her first love
in whose interest she instituted the suits,
had also taken unto himself q second
wife, thus complicating matters consid-
erably. When the case comes up for
adjudication spicy revelations are prom
ised. Philadelphia Times.
-" You are looking bad" remarked
Snowberger to Colonel Percy Yerger.
What's the matter?' The doctor
says nv lungs are affected and that I
day" ''I would try some other DOCTOR"
"1 did, and he said the same thing"
Well, then, if each one of them said
you could take three drinks day, that
makes six drinks" 81 never thought
of that before. I'll see the rest of the
doctors in Austin, and if they all say 1
can take three drinks day, that will
make about sixty drinks day, and that
is as mnch as Is good for an invalid
Teras Syfings.
An official report upon the number
of wild beasts killed in Algeria during
1880 has recently been published by the
Government of that colony. There has
been a constant diminution in the num-
Der of these animals, who have mostly
retreated southwark since the country
has been colonized by the French. How
ever, in the year mentioned there we're
killed in the province of Constantine
fifteen lions, seventy-two panthers and
twelve hyenas; in Afger, one lion, twen-
ty-two panthers and sixty-three hyenas;
in Oran, eighteen panthers and sixty-six
hyenas. There were besides $500 jack
ais killed in the three provinces.
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