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Wedding After Forty Years of Separation.

Our town is all agog this morning over the wedding that is to be celebrated in a day or two between Aunt Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of our place, and a former husband, from whom she has been separated for forty years. Forty-three years ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr. Johnson, in Fleming County, Ky., and was the wife of a Geo. Perry, also a slave, whose master lived in Mason County. He ran off and went to Canada, but returned and got his wife and child, and succeeded in reaching Chillicothe with them, where they were overtaken by Johnson, and the wife and child taken back. She remained a slave until 1864. Not hearing from her husband, and supposing him dead, she married a man by the name of Jerry Johnson, some four or five years after being taken back, but she was left a widow in a few years. She moved to Ripley soon after being set free. Perry, who had been living in Canada until after the war, and since that time has been engaged in teaching school in Louisiana, wrote a letter to the son of Aunt Vina's master in Kentucky last March, inquiring whether she was alive or dead. Johnson wrote to Harry Armstrong of our place, Aunt Vina's son-in-law, and he answered that she was living here. Perry was at once advised, and he commenced a correspondence. Everything was satisfactory, and he wrote that he would be here on Monday night last. That Aunt Vina was all anxiety and in a fever of excitement no one need be told. True to his promise, Perry arrived on Monday evening, and the meeting was a joyous one. They have determined to be remarried, and are making every preparation for that event.--[Ripley (O.) Bee.