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OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.

Remated After a Separation of Thirty Years.

CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.

Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the Grave Together After All.

[Special to the EXAMINER.]

VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage ceremony in the colored Methodist Church here to-day developed in an ante-bellum romance of more than the usual Enoch Arden tendencies.

The contracting parties were Uncle Green Morgan, seventy years old, and Aunt Prudence Croan, sixty-eight. It was the second marriage between the two. In 1858, during slavery days, Prudence Morgan, the slave wife of Green Morgan of this place, was sold to a Louisiana planter, separated from her husband and taken south.

YEARS ROLLED ON.

The war came and ended. Slavery became a thing of the past, but Morgan never heard of his wife. Finally he gave her up for dead and married again. By this wife he had several children, all now grown up, two of them married and with families of their own.

Last year the second Mrs. Morgan died. Uncle Green began to primp and look out for a third matrimonial partner, when one day he received a letter with a Texas postmark.

HEARD FROM AT LAST.

It proved to be from the first wife, sold thirty years ago as a slave- She was alone and well, and wanted to join Green. She casually mentioned that she had married a man named Brown after the war and had emigrated to Texas and raised a family. Brown had died a few months ago and the children had married.

Morgan at once sent for Prudence, and she arrived here last week. It was necessary, of course, to have another marriage ceremony performed, and this was done yesterday.