The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-22
In Love with a Ghost.

A few wears since a man was ar
rested in Washington for threatening
to assassinate General Grant. When
arrested he declared that the General
had alienated the affections of his wife.
and had broken his peace of mind,
hence the threat to take vengeance.
After being questioned closely in court
it came out that the man wife had
been dead for some years and that
Grant had never seen her while alive;
but the aggravated husband m2inta ned
that the General had become &C uaint-
ed with her in the spirit form, and in
this way was carrying on a wicked iir-
tation with her. o. .it.. t
1t Icing deemed, from so strange a
story, that the man was insane, he was
committed o an asy lum and Grant s
moral character vindica ted.
A case somewhat sim lar to this has
occurred in Chicago. the particulars of
which were given in yesterdays DdHy
NelOs. HFa t#. ea.
Mr. Edward CleayeE a young man of
this city, was married last July to his
coti sin, Miss Myra Cleaver. A few
months ago she was taken quite i'll. and
a few weeks after was sent home TO her
fathers house, her husband announcing
that they could not live longer toge' her
as man d wife. The wie's parents
accuse the Young man Of cruelty turn
ING his wife out of doors while she
was sic and abandoning her without
| cause. Mr.. Cleayer tells a. strange
and lutte d fferent story. IL seems that
in 1879 yovnr man to whom Miss
| Myra was attached went y est and iinal-
| " die in Omaha. Mr. EDWARD
| Cleaver knew the young man and
| Fr-ar,nranNltF hFa
| cousin a ter his friends death
| to com ort her over her loss.
These visits led to an intimacy and
| finally to a marriage During the
/ wedd NO tour Mr.. Cleaver says nc
noticed that the actions Of his wife were
| Deeul ar. and after she was taken i'll he
! discovered that - he was filed with re-
| pret at having married him, and that
| s.her heart was with her dead 10 er."
The proof OF this not only anne out IN
her delirium, but curiously eno"eh he
! found a great lot of letters, seventy IN
! all. count them" which she had been
writing to her dead sweetheart Mr..
CIeaver volunteers the rather unneces-
sarv information that she never sent
them. Of course BGt she wrote them
all the same generally inditing one i'm
mediatelv after his own visits to her
during their courting days, addressing
them to . Darling Win. a. rbrcath.
ing the most pa siOnate love for him.
The last letter in Mr.. Cleavers 5 posses
sion Is dated February Is, 1882, fOul
months before his marriage to her. nc nt
have been found bearing later date
thoaoh Mr.. Cleaver is convinced tha
she has written letters to her dead lover
SINCE. r-=..
Now here is a queer case. 1t is diff
cult to sav what sh uld be done abeu
it. Is man justified in becoming ieal
GUS Of a de ur ct sweetheart? Is pas
sionate Devotion TO a spirit for =
ground for d vorceP 1t is pretty hare
Tor man to have his wife rush ava,
and pour out her troubles to her de
ceased lover through pages of foOlscal
! every me she has tilt with her hus
band in the flesh: but where's the rem
! edy. where the precedent, where tn
= case in the books that gives him re
{ cOu sc in damages or entities HIM to
separation for this sort of marital inf
delitVP If the matter comes before tn
: courts on application for divorce. "
D | may look to see puzzled Judge and
= dumbfounded jury Chicago Net0s.