Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — What a Woman Gained. [ARTICLE]

What a Woman Gained.

A woman in Newburyport, Mass., in losing one husband and gaining another, made a profit of $2,000. She was the wife of a soldier, and believed herself a widow, as her husband was reported dead. She was entitled, as a soldier’s Widow, to a pension, and for some years received it. Then she concluded to take a second husband, and, in doing that she of course had to give up the pension But how the first husband turns up alive, And the result is that the supposed widow’s second marriage has lieeu pronounced null and void, and she gives ub husband No. 2, but is deelareA»to bo entitled to about $2,000 of arrearages of pension money, which would have been pkid to her in place of her first husband, supposed to be'dead, if she had remained iri her supposed widowed state. She fares pretty well, anyhow, bad two husbands, and now, by surrendering the new and resuming the old relation, she gets back the first husband and his pension, and the arrearages into the bargain.—