Year: 1868

There passed through this city yesterday.
eEroute to Chicago, a lady whose history is
one OF the most remarkable ever brought to
public notice. 1t has been well said that
truth is stranger than fiction, and the details
oFthls lady's history obundantly verify the
adge- For reasons which all will see'the pro
ptfety of, we withhold her name, merely re-
id51ng the facts as they were communicated
tdsonf reporter by one who had heard her
'sstrange, true story" from her own lips.


IN 1888 her parents emigrated to this
cshatry from England, leaving behind them
anonly son some ten years of age, who had
engaged as cabin boy on a merchant vessel
ins the East India trade. They landed in
New York, when, a few months later, the
subject of this sketch was born While she
was yet helpless infant her parents died
and she was sent to the Foundlings' Home,
where she remained some time, when she
was finally adopted by lady and gentleman
who then resided in Elmira, New York. Of
course she knew nothing of her sailor broth
er, and she grew up in the belief that she
was really the child of her foster rarents.-
AT the age of eighteen she married an in.
dustrlous young mechanic and set out for the
Great West. After travelling in various
States they finally settled in Missouri, where
they continued prosperous and happy until
the storm OF war burst upon the country
Then her husband, in common with the
thousands of his misguided countrymen, en-
listed In the service of the rebellion. and was
assigned to Gen. Prices army. He served
faithfully during the first eighteen months of
the war, but was finally killed in one of the
southwestern engagements. From the break
ing 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 Dor
ton 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 hus
band embarked in business in St. Louis
This last marriage was thoroughly happy
one, and in course of time two children were
born unto them. The husband gradually ex-
tended 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 a lady and gentle.
man, who, by fortunate chain of circum-
stances, he ascertained were the long lost
foster parents of his wife. Delighted at the
discovery he bad made, and pleased, no
doubt, with anticipations of the joyful sur.
prise he should give his wife, the husband at
once concluded his business, with the inten-
ton Of returning to St. Louis and bringing
her to Chicago for the purpose CT reuniting
her with her friends, without having first
prepared 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 daughter
had married her own brother, who before
she was born, had sailed for East India
Horrifej beyond expression the wretched
man fled from the house, and from that hour
no tidings vf him have ever reached his
friends.


This was in March last, and few weeks
later the wretcbed wife sister was rendered
comparatively poor by the destruction of a
large portion of the property left in her hands
by fire.


Although gh written to by her stricken friends
their letters never reached her. and few
weeks since she started for Elmira. her early
home. Upon her arrival there she learned
the address of her lost parents, with whom
she at once communicated, giving them full
details of her experience since she had first
bade them farewell upon setting out for her
western home. Their answer to her letter
contained a statement of the terrible discov.
cry of the identity of her husband and BROTH
er, together with affectionate invitation to
come to them with her children and share
their home.


Heart-broken and nearly crazed by the
strange denouement of her happy married
life, the wretched woman fastened to accept
the offer, and this morning will doubtless see
her reunited with her earliest and dearest
friends.-Detrou Press. Nor %.