Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — A Family Arrangement [ARTICLE]

A Family Arrangement

Little Rock Gazette. Mr. J. L. Holcomb, a gentleman of Kentucky, but who has been in Crittenden county, this State, for several , months, tells us of a rather remarkable, though, hardly unprecedented matrimonial affair which occurred In that county recently: Out from the line of the railroad and aside from almost any other very well defined mark of civilization—marks so ill delineated, in fact, that they are as a half-worn date on an ancient coin—there lived old man Rosebury and two sons, tjvins. The age of the old man is rather doubtful, but it Is believed by his near neighbors, the nearest of whom are within a stone’s throw—that is, if the stone be thrown a mile and a half—that he is about fifty. The sons, being twins, are about the same age, twenty-seven. The nearest human habitation was a house occupied by a Mrs. Glenn and two daughters, though, pity to say, the daughters were not twins at the time of their birth, and have not yet succeeded in attaining that point. Mr. Rosebury fell deeply in love with Mrs. Glenn, and the two sons. Robert and John, fell equally as much so with the two daughters, Mary and Rachel. The most imaginable wholesale love-making ehsued. The old man and widow seemed devoted to each other, and the young people were sufficiently so to marry, which they all di •on the same day. After the ceremony the six happy souls and the six hajipy bodies repaired to the residence of the husbands. Everything worked smoothly. The old man was very kind to his newlv-made daughters, particularly so to Rachel, the wife of his son John. The kindness increased, and the other matrimonialists marveled, one to another. The old man evendisregarded the wishes of his wife, and Rachel snuffed her Grecian nose at her Roman-nosed husband. One morning, about two weeks after the marriage, the family of several divisions discovered that the old man and Rachel had gone. Searching, and not being able to find them, but, learning from a ferryman that they had crossed the river into Tennessee, the family returned. Pretty soon an ‘intimacy sprang up between Robert, Mary’s husband, and the old lady. The old lady was so wise and - had had such broad experience that Robert never grew tired of profiting by her counsel. Another disaster. Robert and the old lady ran away, leaving John and Mary, who seeing, as they were not blind, that they were leftalone, clasped them- ! selves in loving embrace, for it seems that they had loved each other from the first. Did they stay on the farm? No, sir. There is a mortgage on it. They packed up, and, according to the ferryman, went over