AN ENGAGING LEGEND.
' : The Springfield Herald tells an engaging legend of Mr Childers Und Lucinde Phillips, worthy. Americans of the neighborhood. They were married in 1856. When the Civil War broke out Mr Childers answered his country's summons; in due courso was reported killed, and the widow married a gentleman named Phillips, who had judiciously stayed at homo. "AVith him tho wur,worn soldier found her on returning. He caused no unpleasantness, but promptly and sympathetically reduced himself to tho tame criminal state of bigamy. The second Mrs Childers died in ton years, but as Mr Phillips persisted in living on with the blameless Lucindo, the tender widower had no choice but to take another -wife. This lady also died before Mr Phillips, and Childers began almost to despair. But ut length that interloping gentleman submitted to the fate of all humanity, and left Lucindo a widow. Forthwith then did tho patient Childers mako himself known to her, and •with all convenient speed they were married a second time. If ever a marriage was clearly and demonstrably arranged by fate, it should.bo this of Childors and Lucindo. For after testing its genuineness all ways with a good deal of iteration on the husband's part, they returned solaced and convinced to their early love.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3904, 24 January 1884, Page 4
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212AN ENGAGING LEGEND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3904, 24 January 1884, Page 4
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