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A *ri»l of Social Scandal from Gibson’jStation.The social atmosphere around Gibson's Station in this connty has been surcharged of late wiib rumors ofscandal of some magnitude, in which the name of Abel Garbrrt a wellknown stone and bridge contractor, and a Mrs. Floyd, wife of Samuel I Floyd of near Gibson’s Station were freely made use of as being associated together rather more frequently and at times and under circumstances m re suspicious than wouldhe proper between persons of the op j posife sex. other than (hose bearing the i elation of husband and wife.ft seems these rumors were so rife as to become common property, so to j speak, being so generally discussed as t'j cause threats by Garber of suits for slander against sor'.e of the bes I people of the community, and while this may have deterred their peaceably disposed neighbors from openly charging them with crime, the factof suspicion being aroused against them, does not seem to have deterred the parties themselves from continuing to tread the forbidden path. O.n the other hand, their conduct became so notorious as to convince Mr. Floyd, who had hereto'ore maintained the utmost confidence in his wife, that she was unfaithful and a separation wae at once determined upon. Mrs. Floyd possessed in her own
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Cambridge News
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1880
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