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Show Curious Story. An Instance almost as strange as flc- ,tln itself occurred In the marriage license tfepanment at the recorder's office yesterday. It appears that about fifteen years previous to the late civil , war a colored man, wbo now gives the name c f Anthony Edwards and i who wa then married alter tre cue torn of those times, resided with his master in Pike County. Mo. From some cause not known to Edwards his master sold him to a Soutdern planter, .' but retained possession of bis wife and one child, the only result of the marrlasre. After reaching the South, Edwards lost all tiace of his wife and , his former mazier and child. After the war he remarried, as did also his wife. His second wife dying.be drifted to St. Louis several, y safs asro, and by a peculiar coincidence bis wife, having lost her secoud husband, also came te this city, the daughter bv the Pike county or slave marriage accompanying accompany-ing her. The daughter, having received re-ceived some intimation that ber father was in St. XjOuIs, madtv indefatigable efforts to find bim, and after about tbfee years' search succeeded in locating locat-ing him in Eoward&vlllp. The result was a meetii g between hr father and mother, alter a serara iiin of over thirty-flye years. The s qn of thla meeting was the appeararce at the - recorder's office yesterday of te aged couple for ie purp sn of o tainii g a marriage licence. Ttuy gave lbHr names a Anthony Howard , aged 79 years, and Lucinda Gloou, aged 78 years They looked rt-nmkabiy vigorous vig-orous ano h-ary, CfD;d'inK their aes, a d 41J! havt ht-ftne id alfssn tu sevr l n. e; h?s i t 1 tie Thr, daui?t '- wh prsei't, Mpr appeared civ-rj tv. r cm t f he nvade-Mrs. nvade-Mrs. jSt tifiH 's Glebe Democ at |