A DEAD HUSBAND COME TO LIFE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1113, 16 November 1883, Page 2

A DEAD HUSBAND COME TO LIFE.

A Romance of Real Lite.

The Maryport Advertiser publishes a romantic story, for the truth of which it vouches: Upwards of twenty years ngo a husbandman, a native of Cumberland, married a girl belonging to the county, and the newly married couple went to reside with the bride’s friends. The bridegroom, however, could not agree with them, and in the course of a few months he left his wife and went away, no one knew whether. The woman had reason to believe that her husband, after leaving her, took his passage in the ill fated steamer London, which in the year 1865 or JBG6 foundered on her voyage to Australia. A large number of the crew and passengers were drowned, and among them were the Bishop of Sydney and Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, the tragedian. Seeing in the list of those who perished a name similar to that of her husband, the woman concluded that he was dead. Shortly after her husband’s departure she gave birth to a daughter, and the two lived together for a long time without any particular incident occurring to change the current of their daily life. After waiting for many years (lie woman married a miner residing in a village near Maryporl, and the pair have since lived happily together. The daughter is now married, and has gone to Newcastle to reside. A few days ago the first husband made his appearance at the residence of a sister in Wigton, and to her ho stated that ho had for some time been living in Newcastle. He then made inquiries respecting the wife he had left, and was surprised to hoar that ho had a married daughter living in Newcastle, the town that ho had himself been residing in, and that his wife was married again. After waiting upon some of his relatives at Maryport, to whom ho announced his intention of searching for the daughter ho had never aeon, he proceeded to the residence of his wile, not far from the town, in order to obtain his daughter’s address. The second husband was not at homo when the wanderer arrived, and the woman was in the house alone. He knocked at (ho door. When the woman opened it she failed to recognise him, and asked him what ho wanted. The man asked if she had a daughter alive, and if so, whom slio was living. The woman wished to know bis reason for asking such a question, and asked if he was any.relative of her daughter’s husband. “ No,” ho replied, “ I am a nearer relation than that. The woman then invited him into the house, and, procuring pen, ink, and paper, gave him tho address, which was on a letter she had received from her daughter, to copy. The man was so unnerved by tho inter-, view that ho was nnnhle to write at all, and asked his wife if ho might tear the address off tho letter. This she agreed to, and tearing off tho address ho put it in his pocket and prepared to leave the house. As ho was crossing the threshold he turned, and, looking her full in tho face, said, “ Well, E , you have got married again, and I hope that yon will do well by your husband and live comfortably; I am your daughter’s father.” The poor woman knew him then, and almost fainting, cried in a thrilling tone, “ Oh! Jim,” but before she recovered her composure he walked BWay.