A Hindoo Widow-Marriage in Excelsis.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 8, 29 December 1869, Page 2

A Hindoo Widow-Marriage in Excelsis.

’ “ Ilerio Hose,” in the Indian Daily News , tells the following story : —“ I was reading the other, day the story of the Egyptian fellah who loved the Saxon maiden, and swam after her either to win her or to die ; but I have got a tale to equal that. By the northern shores of the lakes where poets have dwelt, who, like Wordsworth, have born the name of ‘ lake poets,* there is a Bengal Ice woman, the wife of an engine-driver. The cold Cumberland hills face her now instead of those within whoso shadow she was born at Raueegungo. She was a virgin-widow ; the engine-driver did not rescue her, as Job Charnock did his widow, from the burning pile. A poor Brahmin, who was timekeeper in the same yard as that at which the engine-driver worked, often spoke of the widow ; and the man who drove an engine at tho rate of forty to fifty miles an hour, swore at station masters and firemen, ran over bullocks, and was cool in all dangers, conceived the idea of marrying this woman. The Brahmin—a progressive Brahmin—consented ; the woman-—the girl, I should say—agreed : and one evening, after a quiet baptism, the Cumberland man took to his homo his Bongallec Brahmin wife. Two years afterwards, he returned to England. Ilia wife went with him—a hearty, happy woman, —and she is now working hard, learning fast, and is a perfect lioness amongst her husband’s friends. Talk of men crossing tho sea for their examinations, but here is tho first instance, I should lauey, of a Bengal 100 woman—a Brahmin—going across with her European husband to live and die in an English home ”