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WERE SOLD IN SLAVERY.

Story of Two Sisters Who Were Reunited After Forty-Two Years.

BONNE TERRE, Mo., July 11.--An event rather out of the usual line occurred here this week in the meeting of two sisters,col- ored women, who under the operation of the old slavery regime were separated 42 years ago, when both were children, and had not seen each other since. Tuesday evening, Mrs. Woodsen, the elder sister, now 54 years old, astonished her baby sister of 42 years before, now Mrs. Culton, by presenting herself at the latter's door. In 1849, Mrs. Woodsen, then a girl of 12 years, was sold and taken South, where she became the property of a man named French, in whose family she remained a slave until liberated. After the close of the war, for a short time she attended a school for colored people, established by a Mrs. Snelling, where she learned to read and write. She then instituted inquiry for her relatives, and by correspondence with cer- tain white ladies whom she remembered, she obtained information of the whereabouts of her sister, Mrs. Culton, who was an in- fant in her mother's arms when Mrs. Wood- sen was sent South. Her presence with her sister is the result of her inquiries.