Year: 1877

OdliIOTnlan h0ma0O6,


It has been said that our State is pecul-
lar IN many respect, being as it is at what
is termed the jumping off place" of the
continent of North America. San Fran
cisco or Oakland receives the fugitives
from old States in the East who are either
fleeing from justice or from some results
of bad deed committed far off, and who
seek among the thousands of strangers
a perfect refuge. Hither comes the de-
faulting bank cashier, the fOrger, the rec
reant husband or wife, forgetting the fact
that their sin will find them out" no
matter how many miles are placed be-
tween them and the avenging ones who
seek them. A case illustrative of this
has just been developed in Oakland.


Some ten or twelve years ago there
lived in one of the quiet towns among
the green hills of Vermont young lady
of prepossessing appearance and unex-
ceptionable family, some of the male
members of which to-day occupy high
positions of honor and trust under both
the National and State Governments.
This lady was wooed and won by a
young gentleman every way her equal,
and happy friends of both We'd with
each other in congratulations when the
ceremony was performed that united
them in marriage. Time passed on, and
the years brought to their home circle
four children. Fortune grew adverse
and ceased to smile upon the exertions
of the husband to attain that competence
which is the goal of every man who
loves his family; and, as times grew
harder in the Green Mountain State, the
husband resolved to emigrate to the far
| West and seek that wealth which seemed
denied to him in his youthful home.


During period of some years sickness
and death had been added to his other
Affections; and when some two years since,
through his wife's relatives, he secured
a situation as mail-agent on the Union
| Pacific Railroad, he took his wife and
the only remaining child, girl of four
years, and moved to Omaha, Neb. From
here his route was to Ogden and return,
and this necessitated an absence from
home of from nine to ten days at a time,
and sometimes when his train encountered
one of those heavy snOw-storms so fire.
quent in winter in Nebraska or Wyo-
ming his stay would be much longer.
His wife during these periods had no
company but her child, and bore the
separation with fortitude. To all ap-
pearances he was the same loving and
conslderate husband as ever, and it was
his custom when starting out on his trip to
take the little girl with him block or
so from their house, and then kissing
her good-by go to the train, and the lit
tie one would return to mamma. But
| ha hod foE ion
of him and he resolved to leave his wife.


He quietly made arrangements to be
transferred from the Union Pacific to
the Central Pacific Railroad, ana one
morning about two years ago started as
usual for the train with the child in
company. His wife supposed the little
one would soon return, and waited some
what longer than usual The little feet,
however, were not heard pattering to the
door, and she listened in vain for its
childish voice. Becoming alarmed, she
hastily donned her outdoor garments and
went to the train, which was almost
ready to pull out on its journey to the
Pacific coast. She rushed to the mail
car and inquired for her husband. The
other mail. agent told her that he had not
put in an appearance yet, but he would
soon be there. and if she would stand
near the baggage room she would be GER
tain to see him. The bell rang, the con-
ductor shouted "All aboard" and
off went the train. A friend who kne "
her, seeing her standing about, evidently
watching for some one, upon inquiry
was told the story, and she then discov-
cred that her child had been taken from
her. Overtake them she could not, as
the next train did not leave for twenty
four hours, and, after telegraphing and
writing her husband and receiving no
reply, she sold her furniture and with
the proceeds returned to her girlhood
home, heartbroken and alone. There
she remained while, and having some
friends in Northern Wisconsin paid them
visit, and remaining there one year
sought and procured legal separation
from her husband, the decree giving her
the custody of the child.


Armed with this, she put detectives or
the husbands track, and, finding thai
he was still in the employ of the United
States as mail.agent on the Central Pa


cific Railroad, came to Oakland, and put


ting up at one of the hotels there ap


piled to the courts for writ of hdJeGi
corpus for the child, which was supposed
to be boarding with q lady acquaintance
of the husband. The writ was served
on the lady at once, but she made an


swer that she did not have the child II
her possession. Another writ was ISSUED
to another lady, who also made reply
that the man himself had the child witt
him. Lawyers were employed, and al
Under Sheriff was provided with another
writ to be served on her husband, but hi
failed to put in an appearance at hi
place of abode, and this week has beer
spent in vain endeavor to find him


The lawyers employed by both parties
had several conferences on Tuesday, anC
in the office of one of them the long
parted husband and wife met, she will


cold and severe aspect, and he with tina
; shame-facednes which so became him


The negotiations for an amicable set
tlement were prolonged, and the lawyer
retired for lunch, leaving the estrangeC


couple together. On the return OF tn


legal gentlemen their astOnishment wa
great, for there sat the husband holding
his wife's hand in a loving clasp, ant


her face beaming with happiness. Mex
: day she met the Under Sheriff who ha,
the writ, and calling to him said; "Yo
need not serve those papers. think
: like the climate of California, and Oak
land especially suits me-" Wednesda
the couple were remarked, and let Il
hope that the dispensing of the dar
: clouds which have so long obscured tn
sky of their married life may leave tn
: matrimonial atmosphere clearer an
: purer forever. Surely it is better T.
! chronicle such reconciliation thai
either murder or suicide.-Sah Fran
cisco Post


T "A couple in Franklin County, Tenn
I are the parents of twenty-five children
d nineteen of whom went at the same tim
d to the same school. The dinner was ca
; ried TO them by boy on mule. On
! of the nineteen has represented Franl
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