Year: 1873

n 4eW udJS dSO Iuo 11Ou. JOuu Is. Porter, Judge of the Police Court of Omaha, received a dispatch from James Sexton, on old friend, announcing that himself and wife would pass through the city in the afternoon on their way East. The meeting of the judge and his old friend Sexton was an event full of pleasure to his Honor, for concerning Sexton there is deeply interesting and truthful history, which rivals Tenny- sons romantic Enoch Arden"

 In the year 1949 James Sexton was a young married man living in Independ- year with a train of traders bound for Santa Fe, leaving young wife behind him. When the train arrived at Albu- querque young Sexton was taken down with typhoid fever and was not expected to live, and so his comrades were in- formed of the fact by the physician. The train moved on to its destination, and the traders, on their return home, told Mrs. Sexton that her husband had died of typhoid fever.

 Sexton, who had been left behind for dead, had the good fortune to fall into the hands of couple of Spanish nurses, who by their kind attention saved his life. After his recovery from his illness, which had lasted several weeks, he re- mained in New Mexico over year, and then returned to Independence, expect ing to find his wife awaiting his arrival But alas! what must have been his dis appointment upon his return home to to find his young and beautiful wife welded to another mani He came back altered in appearance, his hair thin and gray, and his features almost entirely changed, so that even his nearest friends failed to recognize him.

 He had, by inquiry, learned that his death had been reported at home, and that thus his wife had been led to mar ry again. Like Enoch Arden he stole 0 glimpse of her, and being almost broken known, but hired out to another trading train bound for Lower California, where after his arrival, he began dealing in cattle, and became very wealthy.

 It was in the Cocomongo range, fif- teen miles east of the Los Angeles, that Judge Porter, who has had an extensive experience in New Mexico and Cali fornia, first met Sexton and learned his romantic and sorrowful story.

 It was after Sexton had been in that country several years that another very startling and romantic episode occurred in his life, and which reduced him to his former state of melancholy.

 Accompanied by Judge Porter, he had arrived at mining camp called evil iams' Ranche," with 5000 head of sheep, and while disposing of them in- formation was brought him that his wife was living not far dis5aut with her sec- ond husband. He immediately sought an interview with her, and when She became convinced that he was really her first husband, whom she had supposed dead, she tainted away and was sick for 8 week.

 She had borne him child while he had been absent in New Mexico, and since her arrival in California with her second husband had also given birth to another.

 After her recovery Sexton again met her, and tried to induce her to live with him and desert her second husband This she would not do, as the child of her second husband was still an infant, and she thought she owed him the strongest allegiance. Finding that neither money nor entreaties would ac- complish the desired result, Sexton compromised the matter by obtaining possession of his own child.

 Shortly after these events happened, Judge Porter left the country, and nev- CT saw Sexton since till Wednesday afternoon at the Union Pacific depot What was his surprise, upon meeting him, to learn that the wife who accom- panied him was none other than the woman whom he had married at Inde- pendence, Mo-, and whom he had after ward met as the wife of anotAer man, at williams Ranche," in California. It was all explained by the fact that the second husband had died, and Sexton had been re-married to his widow as we'll as to his own wife, and thus were united again. They have probably reached their eastern destination ere this, and will undoubtedly enjoy the remain ing years of their life upon the hand some fortune amassed by Sexton during many years of hard labor. Verify, truth is stranger than fiction.