Unnamed woman returns to find husband remarried

MATRIMONIAL ROMANCES.

Enoch Arden in Slavery—Bound to
Marry—A Little Foolishness.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
BARNWELL, S. C., January 22.—A colored
Mrs. Enoch Arden has been developed in this
county. About the year 1857 an old colored
couple, to whom had been born several chil-
dren, were forced to part by the sale of the
wife and children to parties who took them
out of the county. The old man says he never
heard anything more of his wife, and, becom-
ing reconciled to his bereavement, found an-
other, who was willing to share the joys and
sorrows of his declining years. To her he was
married, and has lived with her up to the
present time. A few days ago, however, the
little log cabin of this couple, who now reside
in this town, was startled by the announce-
ment that the wife whom the barter of slav-
ery had taken from the old man had arrived
at a point not a score of miles away, and she
would be glad to have a visit from her former
husband. The last wife insisted that the re-
quest of wife No. 1 should be complied with,
and in a few hours the husband was in the
arms of the wife he had not seen for nearly
thirty years. The old man learned that his
children by No. 1 are all married and
doing well, and that the wife of
his better days had traveled over 250 miles to
see him, and still boasts of a warm spot in
her heart for her old-time husband. The old
man is in a bad predicament–between two
wives living near each other–and says he
must have time to determine whether he will
take the first or cling to the last, by whom he
has no children. This is a remarkable occur-
rence, and one calculated to put wiser men
than the old darky to thinking. It would be
difficult for even a Chicago divorce lawyer to
determine which of the two wives he belongs to.