The New Bloomfield, Pa. Times

Tumultuous Matrimony

A gentleman relates to a News reporter a singular matrimonial case, running throughout twenty-five years in the past history of Brunerstown, Jefferson county.

A gentleman in that town married a lady of the same neighborhood about twenty-five years ago. After living together four or five years they separated on account of incompatibility of temper, and the husband received a divorce. A couple of years after the divorce both parties again married.

The husband, however, as in the first case of the marriage, did not get on pleasantly with the second wife, and in a couple of years after the second marriage he applied to the Chancery Court for a divorce from his wife, and the coveted divorce was granted, and he was again free. Then two or three years more intervened, when the doubly-divorced husband pined for another wife, and, seeking among the fair women of that section of the country, he finally succeeded in finding one well suited to his mind, and after a short courtship he was married to her, thus coming into possession of his third wife. A few years later he was divorced from her.

The first wife of the much-divorced man lived with her second husband very happily until five or six years ago, when he sickened and died. And now comes the singular feature in the history of the widowed wife and her first and three-times divorced husband. He again pined for matrimony, and as he again cast about for another partner for his now declining years, he bethought himself of his first wife; and no sooner had this thought taken lodgment in his mind than he hied himself to the pleasant domicile she occupied in her widowhood, and proposed that they once more take passage in life's boat together.

The old times and the differences between them were talked over, and that the flame of their first love was re-kindled is not at all singular, for does not poetry say that first love is ever enduring? And so they agreed to again wed, and soon thereafter their nuptials were solemnized. The intervening years have glided peacefully, prosperously, and delightfully for them, and they live lovingly together, and are not only happy themselves, but make all happy who come under their hospitable roof.

Both parties, and indeed, all parties to the several marriages and divorces, are very respectable people, and the "News" publishes this seemingly series of matrimonial episodes only because of their singularity, defying any other county in Kentucky or the South to furnish an equal example of matrimony and divorce to the one above narrated. The truth of the matter is just as valid as though the names of the parties were given, but the giving of the names is neither proper nor important.