PURSUING A WIDOW UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 360, 23 October 1858, Page 6

PURSUING A WIDOW UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

The Bucyrus (O.) Journal tells the following, whuh is readable as a romance. The editor was prompted to "perpetuate" it, by observing in a Pittsburgh paper the marriage announcement of a couple who formerly resided in Bucyrus.

" Twelve years ago the bride was a young lady of twent)', the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Washington, Pa. In her father'! employ was a young man named Robert , who, the young lady being bewitchingly beautiful, as in duty bound, fell desperately in love with her. She reciprocated the attachment, and they were betrothed. Unfortunately the young lady's father entered his protest against this pleasant arrangement, and accordingly the young couple put off the happy day indefinitely. About a-year afterwards she received a most tempting proposal, which, urged by her father, she accepted, and to the eternal despair of poor Robert was married. But alas for the poor bridegroom! Scarcely three months had elapsed when a kick from a vicious horse killed him. Robert consoled the widow, and determiued at the end of a year or two to marry her. He had too much respect for her to press his suit immediately, and did not for fifteen months. When he proposed, to his horror, she informed him that she was already engaged, and that in three months more her second marriage would be consummated. " Two years had passed. In the meantime the widow and her husband had removed to Syracuse, N.Y., and Robert possessed by some strange hallucination followed them. That season the cholera swept that city,- and among its victims was the second husband. Robert allowed a-year to pass, and was on the point of urging his claims, when he received an invitation to her wedding ! Robert remonstrated. The lady assured him that her present step was not of love, but purely of necessity. The partnership affairs of her lamented were in such a state that settlement was impossible, and to save immense losses she had determined upon marrying the surviving partner. She assured him also that her sentiments towards him were unchanged, and that should she ever become a widow again, she would give him the preference. She was married, and in a short time removed with her third husband to the Deroit Mich.

" But fatality seemed to pursue her. Herself and husband were on board a steamer that was wrecked near Buffalo, some years since. The husband perished, and she escaped only through th^superhuman exertions of a frier.d who happened to be on board. This friend was young, unmarried, and his gallantry inspired such sentiments in the breast of the widow, that she married him before Robert had time to claim her. When he learned the state of affairs, he was somewhat indignant but she told him the circumstances and managed to satisfy him with the promise that if she ever became widowed again she would most positively marry him. The lady with her fourth husband, settled on a farm near Bucyrus, while Robert removed to Pittsburgh, where the husband went into mercantile business in Liberty street — residing however, in Alleghany city. Robert followed them, and finding employment, determined to watch the chances closely. One day he was passing the store of Mr , when he saw a terrible commotion. Rushing in, he saw Mr. , a mangled corpse upon the floor. A cask of rice which was being hoisted had fallen and killed him instantly. He inquired if any one had been sent to acquaint his wife of the accident, and was told that the first clerk had just started. Looking once more at poor Mr. •— , to make sure that he was perfectly dead, Robert started for Alleghany as fast as his legs could carry him. The first clerk was only a trifle ahead of him, and Robert knowing the importance of being in time from past experience, and fearing the clerk had designs upon the widow, ran like an Indian. Side by side they ran, until they reached Hand street bridge. The clerk was obliged to stop to make change, while Robert, who paid by the year, passed without delay. He reached the house, told the heart-rending news, and obtained a solemn pledge from the widow before the clerk arrived. This time she was trne to her promise, and after a year had passed they were married, As alb her husbands died wealthy, Robert is comfortably fixed. Hia history shows what perseverance will accomplish.