The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CUMBERLAND "ENOCH ARDEN.' The Marpport Advertiser says: We can vouch for the truth of the following romantic dory. The names of the persons to whom it relates are withheld for obvi us reasons. Upwards of 20 years ago a husbandman, a native of Cumberland, married a girl belonging to the county. The newly-married couple went to reside with the bride's friends. The bridegroom, however, could not agree with them, and in the course of a few months he left his wife and went away, no one knew whither. The woman had reason to believe that her husband, after leaving her, took his passage in the ill-fated steamer London which in the year 1865 or 1806 foundered on he; voyage to Australia. Seeing in the list of those] who perished a name similar to that of her husband, the woman concluded that he was dead. Shortly after her husband's departure she gave birth to a daughter. After waiting for many years, the woman married a miner residingin a village near Maryport, and the pair have since lived happily together. The daughter by the first husband is now married, and has gone to Newcastle to reside. A fewdaya ago the first husband made his appearance at the residence of a sister in Wigton, and to her he stated that he had been for some time living in Newcastle. He then made inquiries respecting the wife he had left, and was surprised to hear that he had a married daughter living in Newcastle—the very town that he had himself been residing in—and that the wife he had deserted wan lll,llried again. His sister was unable, however, to give him the address of his daughter, and after waiting upon sonic of his relatives at Maryport—to whom he announced his intention of searching for the daughter he had never seen—he proceeded to the residence of his wife, not far from the town, in order to obtain his daughter's address. The second husbaud was not at home when the wanderer paid the visit, and the woman was in the house alone. He knocked at the door. When the woman opened it she failed to recognise him, and asked what he wanted. The man asked if she had a daughter alive, and if so, where she was ;lying. The woman wished to know his reason for asking such a question. and inquired if he was any relative of her daa,:hter's husband. "No," he replied, "I am a nearer relative than that," The woman then ins-it, him into the house and procuring pen, ink, and Paper, gave him the address which was on a letter she had received from her daughter, to copy. The man was so unnerved by the interview that he was unable to write at all, and asked his wife if he might tear the address off the letter. This she agreed to, and, tearing- off the address he put it into his pocket, and prepared to leave the house. As he was crossing the threshold, he turned, and looking her full in the face, said, '• Well, you have got inarr:ed again, and Ila e that you will do well by your husband and liv, comfortably. lam your ladder's father." The poor woman knew him then, and almost fainthur, cried in a thrilling bale, "Oh, ! but before she could recover her comp .sure he had walked away. Unable, however, to resist the impulse of taking a last look at his wife, the man turned, and saw her grasping the table to cli pp.Tt herself, and gazing after him with an expressi.n ,“irre.w that a,, add have melted a heart of stone. Su he left her, and has since left the country.  On Satorday a ymm:s man named Daily fell from tho r‘s& of a house in st. Swithin's-lane, city of London. and was killed ii the spot. He was attending to some telegraph wiles, and, it is supposed, slipped on the slates and over the coping.  ifeitinet, the Frenchman- who murdered his daughter's child under circumstances too hideous to reproduce, has la r-rtied from the guillotine by a telewram of commutation from the Yresident of the Republic. Si any disquiet has been occasioned in Geneva by the appearance of a large body of French troop nromiivring at the frontier and within sight of (I.i.e,a. This being in _effect a violation of the 1816