From the Scohnria Rennblican.
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# singular .Adpenture.-Some fifteen or
twenty years ago, man and his wife, set
tied in the adjoining town Of Duane-burgh
They were in very INDECENT circumstances
at that time, and like many others who have
commenced the world with better prospects,
have held their own remarkably ever since;
supporting family of small children by the
precarious trade of basket making.-The
woman was a native of one of the West In
dia islands, and widow before she married
her present husband. Her appearance and
manners plainly showed that she had seen
better days, and she efteu told her neighbors
that she had wealthy connexions and pro-
perty of her own in her native country. The
neighbors of course, gave very little credit
to this story.-About six years since, how
ever, the old lady having carefully laid up
ten or fifteen dollars, took her departure
unaccompanied by any one, for the West In
dies. Weeks, months, and years had pass
ed over, but there came no tidngs of the old
lady. She had almost ceased to exist in the
recollection of her nearest neighbors; the
old man, her husband, had given her ur
for lost, and it is said, had long since begun
to cast his eyes about among the plump wi
dows and antiquated damsels of the neigh
borheod fearing that he might be under the
necessity of supplying the place of his long
absent, and perhaps deceased wife; (for ht
waxed old, and did not love to be alone,


when one day last week, while the old mar
sat cogitating on the subject at his cottag,
door, beautiful carriage droveup and mad,
halt-the door opens-thc steps are lc
down. and 10! out jumped the old lad,
dressed in silks and satins," plump int
the old mans arms The old man, we sus
pect, was considerably Shocked