Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — A Mormon Sequel to an Enoch Arden Case. [ARTICLE]

A Mormon Sequel to an Enoch Arden Case.

Undoubtedly the papers are reporting too many Enoch Araen oases,, and the melancholy reflection that there are many more to come makes it still worse. Recently, however, a case has come to light which is too rich to be ignored. A man named Morrison,. a. weU-tewio mechanic, started for California upon the steamship JapanW the Straits of Magellan several years ago, and, on arrival at Rio Janeiro, en, route, changed his mind and left the ship. From the time he went ashore all trace of him was lost. Subsequently, it was reported that he left Brazil for Lisbon in a bark, which was shortly after wrecked, and his death was regarded as a certainty. His widow In themeantifne was disconsolate, and mounted her husband as all affectionate Widows are bound to. Time passed, and the woman emigrate’d to the interior of the State. A mouth ago the husband returned, having, it seems, been in Buenos Ayres for seven years, and the first thing he did was to inquire for his wife, but ‘she was as completely lost a« he nad been so long before. He advertised for her, and received a jet? ter statute that, she was dead, and,’sure enough", lif a cemetery he found a record that Maty Morrison had been buried four years. Evidently resolved to have a wife anyhow, the man in two weeks wedded another, and set up housekeeping in East Eighteenth street in this city. One week ago he was gtuxtlqd by his former wife walking into hTs apartments and rushing eagerlv ftito his arms. A brief explanation sufliced. The dead woman was afiv othef Mary Morrison, and she had come back in response to the newspaper potice —another evidence of the pbiyer of advertising.- The situation was 1 serious, but Morrison seems to have been equal to it. He called his second wife, ana told her frankly the position, of tilings. Then he proposed that they should all live together, Mormon fashion, and he would take care of both. Strangely enough the weak Women consented, and here we have a Mormon arrangement in fujl force. Their gossiping neighbors understand it, and probably there wijiyet be another chapter to the sequel.—JV. Ti Cvr. fftfimgo Tribune. I ; > 'lilt A *

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