Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — A Man Loses his Wife at Cards. [ARTICLE]

A Man Loses his Wife at Cards.

About eight or nine months since -a man livingin the northern part of this city, went ont into the eastern portion of the State to seek his fortune in the new mines of that section, leaving his wife and one child here in town. Some seven months ago a gallant disciple of St Crispin persuaded the White Pine widow to take up her abode with him in a bouse which he furnished for her. The new pair lived together for about seven months, when a few days ago the genuine husband returned. Of course there was trouble in the camp, but after some quarreling the two men agreed to play a game of seven -up for the woman. The game came off- last Saturday night, and the husband won his wife back by just “two points ” The man claimed his wife, and the man of leather could not say but that he had fairly won her. The woman preferred the shoemaker, but the husband and winner'was determined to have his own. He packed up what furniture they possessed, and last Saturday evening, with all his household goods and gods, left by a fast freight wagon for- California. When the wagon started from North C street there was quite a scene. A crowd of nearly one honored persons had collected to see the husband carry away his “ stake,” and there was much merriment over the rorh&ntic affair. The woman q;icd and wanted to stay with the shoemaker, and the shoemaker cried at parting with the treasure he tad lost by not holding enough “ tramps.” He asked some of the crowd if they thought hewould be arrested if he attempted to take the woman out of the wagon. They told him, he had lost her “ on the square,” and he must bear it like a mad; so the wagon moved on, and sobn the Mr one wan “gone from his gaze.”—Ffrytafa, Snierpritt. >