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Show A Miscreant. The Chicago Times tells a story of a man named George Johnson, who left his wife and family twenty-three years age at Sheboypan, Wisconsin, and camo to Utah. For a few years ' a correspondence was kept up, but finally he ceased to hoar from homo or his family Irom him. Having made a haudaomo fortune, ho returned return-ed to Sheboygan to look up his family. He found no trace of them, but learned that a man named Johnson had removed from Sheboygan several yers before to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin. He Huppoaed this was his brother and accordingly went to Fonddu Lac. Hia sur.-niso proved correct. He learned thai- his wife was married to a man named John Foster, and was living in Oahkosh. He further learned learn-ed that his daughter .had married a bod of Foster. He arrived there, called on his wife, and her feelings on seeing her husband, wh ra she supposed dead, can be better imagined than described. After remaining for a few days, Johnson took his departure, depar-ture, leaving behind his much mar-ried mar-ried spouse. This story may he correct, or it may bo false; but there are by hall too many George Johnsons in these United amies, aim 1, them just as if they were gentlemen instead of creatures who merit unequivocal une-quivocal denunciation. A man who will abandon his family tor twenty-three twenty-three years, or any other number of yi?art deserves the execrations of honorable po..p1), and instead of being be-ing made the object of sympathy when his dwerled wife is married again, ho should bo kicked out of society, if not into jail. |