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Enoch Arden Eclipsed.Fowler, Ind. Oct 10.—This delightful rural county-seat is now enjoying a sensational affair that has eclipsed anything of a romantic nature ever known in this section of Hoosierdom. It is replete with startling developments, and could by the 1 ability of a dramatist be shaped into an | intensely interesting play. Here it is all the talk, for nothing has so deeply engrossed the attention of the people as thisromantic and novel affair. The facts, as briefly narrated, are as follows:Twenty years ago there lived in Illinois a young man named John Morning-star. Himself, wife and infant daughterconstituted his family. They were in indigent circumstances, and it was not long ere John enlisted in the regular army, and upon the breaking out of the rebellion he with his regiment was dispatched to the South for active service.In an engagement that followed Johnwas wounded and separated from the regiment of which he was a member. As time went by he conceived the happy plan of removing to the Golden State ami there engage in mining, with the hope of securing to himself and the loved ones at home a sufficient amount of the world’s goods to enable them to live in easy circumstances. He accordingly journeyed to California, and there engaged himself at work as a common laborer and miner. And there we leave him to return to what had once been his home.His wife awaited the return of her husband, but he came not. Four or five years passed away, and yet no John came to occupy a father’s and husband’s place. Shortly after this Mrs. Morningstar married again, having given her husband up as a sacrifice to his country’s cause. The second husband, one Hen Scott, a drayman, located here in this growing town and carried on his business, barely able to support his family. Time flew, ami the young girl grew to womanhood. To support herself sheworked out among friend , receiving the customary servant-girl'swanes.• ^In the meantime the now for ^*‘tcn Jonn Morningstar kept on with hio pvk and shovel. He several times wrote to his former home, but his letters novel reached *is wife. She, giving him up as dead, removed to FowleV, as slated before. Had he been able to secure funds to defray his expenses ho would long ago have returned and sought his family, but the inevitable something hindered, and the invitation to continue prospecting among the mountains of California remained open as far as poor, unfortunate John was concerned. Twenty years had passed, when prospecting in a new region, be struck a bonanza, and John was almost instantly converted into a Croesus. He sold his claim and struck out for Illinois, his pockets full of money. His search for his wife and child soon brought him to Fowler, and when yesterday Jis came and found another in his place thelre was a surprise little less than a calamity. The situation may be imagined—Scott and wife in their poverty-stricken home confronted by this modern Enoch Arden. Mrs. Morningstar-Scott is in a quandary. The law says that an absence of suyeh years without any intelligence received-* of the missing man during the time is primafacie evidence of his death, but since Mrs. Momingstar married before the close of the £seven years after her husband’s disappearance, it rather complicates affairs.f Ml »• ■ • 1 •
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Greencastle Star
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 18, 1879
Page 4
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