Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — Surpassingly Strange. [ARTICLE]

Surpassingly Strange.

New Albany Ledger-Standard. There are sometimes stranger {things happening in real life than are read o in the most sensational novel; and thef affair that we write of, while perfectly true, is only another evidence that truth is stranger than fiction. -The tale, if told connectedly, would date back several years, with a young couple of this county starting out in life with the brightest prospects. But very soon their married life was clouded. The husband became dissipated, which resulted in a separation and the inevitable divorce.*: ‘ The husband went west, but maintained a complete silence, his exact whereabouts being unknown to his best friends. ' The wife came to this city, earned her own living, and sustained a good social position. In time a friendship sprung up between her and. a gentleman, which gradually ripened into affection , and ended in marriage. Everything was prosperous with them until, in an evil hour, the first husband wrote his whilom wife a letter from the far west, telling her how he had abandoned his bad habits since (heir separation, of his good social standing and ownership of the property that, at a low valuation -was worth $35,000. He spoke of his love for her, and how the thought that they would one day be united had been an incentive to industry and acumulation. 'The wife showed the letter to husband No. 2, aud it proved a bombshell in the camp. It seemed to be smoothed over, however, but it was only in appearance, as on a careful review of the situation the wife can only see a close struggle for a comfortable existence on the one baud, while Non the other ready money and a luxurfchs home await her. J U9t how things stand at the presenfewriting, but the few in the secret predict that another family in New Albany will soon be sundered, and one of them will “go West.”