Year: 1879

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On last Tuesday evening quite rum


pus was kicked up among the staid


and peaceable farmers, upon semi


weekly backing tLer vehicles up to the


curb on King street above Fourth, by
a tall sandy moustached individual,
who came along minutely examining
each wagon, swearing great big DIS that
his wife was hidden away in one OF
them. Finally wagon belonging to
Mrs. P. was struck when the husband
swore more solemnly than ever that
that was the identical wagon, and that
he was positive his better half was
stoTed away somewhere within its
deep recesses.


Mrs. P. Indignantly denied the as
sertion and said that respectable wag-
on like hers, that was dedicated sole
ly to tomatoes, potatoes and garden
produce generally, was never so out
rageously aspersed and then she imme-
diately got up on her ear, and the war
OF words that ensued between her and
the irate searcher sitter part Of his
household, would have done justice to
a Boston quilting party.


Thinking that there was something
mysterious in the ground work of this
interesting duett, reporter of the Re-
PUBLICAN went on little investigation Of
his own and ascertained that the green
eyed monster was at the bottom of the
affair and that the monster in this in
stance was of the greenest hue.


1t seemed that the wife hunter, whose
name was D, and who is carriage
maker by profession has had pretty
rough seas to sail in ever since he en-
barked on the marital ocean, and he
and his wife have several times found
one establishment too contracted to hold
both and have on these occasions occu.
pied two at distance from each other.
About year ago, the story runs, he
came to the conclusion that his wife
had too many callers in his absence, and
sent an auctioneer up to the house to
CART the furniture away, saying that
Ae had made up his mind to break up
housekeeping. The wife met the man
of "quick sales and small profits" and
induced him to wait few days until
she could make some arrangements. In
the meantime she took train for Phil
adelphia, wrote letter to her husband
from that city saying she wished to see
him on important business and imme-
diately returned to Wilmington.


The husband, Oh receipt Of the iet-
ter, started off in haste to the City of
Brotherly Love, and of course did not
meet his wife, and on his return to this
city found that she had cleaned the
home nest out from centre to circum-
ference and disappeared.


In spite of this little iasco they came
together again few months afterward,
and until month ago things seemed
as bright with them as Bland dollar
fresh from the Mint. But about that
time jealousy again took possession of
the head of the house, the particular
object of his antipathy being young
farmer who attends King street market
regularly, and who, according to DIS
testimony, carried Cupid's darts in his
tomato baskets, and had love sonnets
written on his egg-plants.


Be this as it may, it is alleged that
the yonng wife, short time ago, went
out into the country on visit and did
No. rtgurn FOR a week, and it is also
ti.at during that time she was
III tn" n-ighGorhood Of the King street
truckers farm.


On her return home last week she
and d. han little spat and a coolness
again nsa which eliminated in her
leavin,, the house on Tuesday evening,
saving sb4 WAS going to the country
again. Hence DIS search among the
market wagons. He did not find his
wife however and up to the latest ac-
counts had not ascertained her where
abouts. He threatens however to have
out of the rustic destroyer
by his peace and some interesting de-
Velopments may he expected.