Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — Howard Glynlon and Her Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Howard Glynlon and Her Marriage.

This well-known writer and poet is Laura C. Redden, a deaf mute, who was educated at a school for deaf mutes in Mystic, Conn., and has written some charming verses, though never able to hear h word spoken by herself or any other person in her life. Up to within a very few years she has not been able to utter an intelligible sound, but medical skill and modern science have finally succeeded in developing a peculiar voice through which she can express herself to those accustomed to hearing it very well, but strangers find it extremely difficult to understand wliat it is she tries to say, and replies have invariably to be written or communicated by deaf and dumb alphabet. The sound which she produces is precisely that of a materialized voice in a dark seance. It is as if it were projected upon the air by some instrumentality in her throat independent of her volition, for it comes with gasps and apparent effort, which is almost painful, ana though it has sweet tones, is incapable of proper modulation, because the speaker does not hear herself, and cannot graduate it as if it were entirely under her control and subject to her will.

But she is a veiy bright,attractive woman, nevertheless, dresses with great taste, and is exceedingly food of society. The romance of her life—for it had a romance —has ended, or perhaps only begun a new and more interesting chapter by her marriage last Wednesday to a young lawyer of this city, Mr. Edward W. Searings, a native of Western New York, where his family hold an inflnential position and are highly respected in the Friend’s Society, to wfcich they belong, and by the public at large. Mr. Searing is a rara avit nowadays. Possessed of a considerable talent, he is' at the same time a man of high honor, industrious, loyal, devoted ana true. The deaf mute has really won a much better husband than many girls who have the use of their eyes and their tongues. I have heard, on excellent authority, that Miss Redden was engaged to be married once before to & Presbyterian minister, who had known and loved her from childhood, but exercised tyrannical authority over her. Her wedding garments were even prepared, but he harrassed her to such an extent, insisting that her life should be governed by such rigid laws, that she should only write religious tracts and hymns, and be subject in all things to his wiH asthe rule of her faith and ac-

tion, that at a late moment die rebelled and broke away from his dictatorship. She said it was not her fault if God had made the world seem a pleasant place to

Jier, and it she felt more like singiog songs than psalms, and pcaiaes than giving utterance to groans; that her whole nature cried out for freedom, for expression, for love and good will, and that to become the mere echo of his thoughts would be crucifixion. So the brave Laura gave up all idea of being “ supported.” and went on writing musical words out of her own heart, which found a response in the hearts of many others, doing also “ correspondence” and many other things, and gradually winning her way to acknowledged position. Her future realdence will probably be iu New’ York.— Cor. Baltimore American.