Show THE BRIDE or OF A WEEK arx RETURNS burns AFTER A TWELVE YEARS ABSENCE we have been requested to io suppress the names in the following curious history which be has 8 recently transpired or rather the last chapter of which recently occurred in this county A farmers formers son eon twelve years ago married a neighboring girl the daughter of a very respectable family they removed to a distant where they had been living but a few days when upon his return home one evening the wife of a week was missing she did not return that night during which be he felt of course the utmost anxiety and in the morning he started in search of her ile he could only learn that she had taken the stage alone which led to a railroad station some miles distant he followed but at the depo lost all traces of her ile he wrote to her former home and published notices in the newspapers but could obtain no clue to her whereabouts he grieved in loneliness at her supposed criminal act and to escape the scene where his week of unsullied happiness had been followed by so great a grief he removed tp to this then sparsely settled wilderness ild erness he here settled upon a promising piece of land and in its cultivation and the cares of life sought forgetfulness of the past ile he succeeded measurably has filled offices of trust and grown wealthy after a few years his H s li home me requiring attention he married but h his is wife lived only long enough to bear him a bon eon and witness the first year of the little ones existence A few weeks since as the well to do man of the world was sitting by his own fireside there entered the house a woman well clad of fuller form and twelve years older but the picture of the long lost bride of a week and she was accompanied compa nied by a girl of near a dozen years the sober man of forty was startled but asked the strange visitor to be seated then came her long and agonizing story all was oblivious to her for th the first ten years of their separation she could tell nothing axce except pt of one hour of returning reason when the i little ittle girl beside her his da daughter U was brought into the world after that long lime fitfully and at periods remote from each other came cama back reason and memory she had bad wandered to a distant city in n a state of mild insanity there she he fell among some kind people and was installed in an insane asylum after the birth of the daughter and ten years more spent within is wall wal ay thoughts of her youth her home and husband came back she sio slowly recovered then visited her parents learned where her husband was and flew to him be sure be he clasped her in in his bis arms and they wept upon each others necks again going before the altar they were united and she now presides with careful dignity and ard ease over his household bat little is said about abolt it in the neighborhood 0 except expressions of wonder at squire Ds D sudden and unexpected marriage to one who whom they suppose to be a fair widow with whom he had recently become acquainted |