Year: 1868

brought to public notice. 1t has been
we'll said that truth is stranger than fc-
ton, and the details of this lady's history
abundantly verify the adage. For reasons,
which all will see the propriety of, we
withhold her name, merely relating the
facts as they were communicated to our
reporter by one who had heard her strange
true story from her own lips.


In 1888 her parents migrated to this
country from England, leaving behind
them an only son some ten years of age,
who had engaged as cabin ooy on
merchant vessel in the East India trade
They landed in New York, when few
months later, the subject of this sketch
was born. While she was yet a helpless
infant, both her parents died, aud she was
sent to the Foundling's Home, where she
remained some time, when she was finally
adopted by a lady and gentleman, who
then resided in Elmira, n. Y. Of course
she knew nothing of her sailor brother and
she grew up in the belief that she was
really the child Of her foster parents At
the age of Is she married an industrious
young mechanic, and set out for the great
west. After travelling in various states
they finally settled in Missouri, here they
continued prosperous and happy until the
storm Of war burst upon the country.
Tnen her husband, in common with the
thousands of his misguided countrymen,
enlisted in the service of the rebellion,
and was assigned to Gen. Prices army.
He served faithfully during the first eight
cen months Of the war, but was finally
killed in one of the south western engage
ments. From the breaking out of the
war, the lady Of whom we write had lost
all trace of her foster parents, owing to
the disturbed condition OF that portion of
the country in which she resided, and
after her husbands death she removed to
St Louis, where she sought to maintain
herself by sewing.


In 1863 she again married, and her
Louis. This last marriage was a thorough
ly happy one, and in the course of time
two children were born unto them. The
husband gradually extended his business
operations, so that much Of his time was
necessarily spent in travelling about the
country, and during one of his business
tours he visited Chicago, where he became
acquainted with lady and gentleman who
by fortunate chain Of circumstances, he
ascertaned were the long lost foster pa
rents of his wife. Delighted at the dis
covery he had made, and pleased, no doubt,
with anficipations Of the joyful surprise
he should give his wife, the husband at
once concluded his business, with the
intention Of returning to St. Louis, and
bringing her to Chicago, for the purpose
of re-uniting her with her friends, with
out first preparing either party for such
an event.


On the night before his contemplated
departure for home, while conversing with
Mr.. and Mrs. =, it happened that he was
led into a recital of his adventures about
the world, and before the narrative was
finished his listeners knew that their
adopted Gaughte. had married her own
brother, who, before she was born, had
sailed for East Indla. Horrified beyond
expression, the wretched man fled from
the house, and from that hour no tidings
of him have ever reached his friends.
This was in March last, and in few weeks
later the wretched sister wife was render
ed comparatively poor, by the destruction
ola large portion Of the property left in
her hands, by fire.


Although written to by her stricken
friends, their letters never reacher her,
ard few weeks since started for Elmira,
her early home. Upon her arrival there
she learned the address Of her foster-pa-
rents, with whom she at once commun ica-
ted, giving them full details of her expe-
rience since she had first bade them fare
well, upon setting out for her western
home Their answer 10 her letter con-
tanned a statement of the terrible discovery
of the identity of her husband and broth
er, together with an affectionate invitation
to come to them with her children aud
share their home.


Heartbroken, aud nearly crazed by the
strange denouement of her happy married
life, the wretcbed woman has;ened to ac-
cept the offer, and this morning will
doubtless see her reunited with her early
friends.


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