The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE,

" Madrid, on Tuesday, by the Rev. Wm. Ash, Thomas
Mowitt, to Charlotte Conry, both of this city."
The above marriage was consummated in this city on last
Tuesday week, and thereby hangs a tale of the marvellous.
Mr. Mowitt is a respectable boss shoemaker, who keeps
several men employed, and amongst the rest was John Pels-
ing, who had ingratiated himself so much in his favour by
his faithfulness, industry, and sobriety, that he took him into
partnership about three years since, and had no cause to
regret his kindness. From that period Mr. Mowitt and Mr.
Pelsing were constant friends and companions, and hoarded
in the same house until about twelve months since, when
one day they were subpoened for a coroner's inquest, which
was about to be held on the body of a man that had been
aken out of the Maiden Lane Dock. The deceased had all
e appearance of having been a regular dock loafer, and it
s the opinion of all present that he had fallen into the slip
of intoxication ; but the verdict—which was
in a few minutes—was merely " Found drowned."
MThe jury being dismissed, Mr. M. turned round to look
for his friend and fellow juror, who had been at his side till
that moment, but he was gone ; and he thought he saw him
running at almost full speed up Maiden-lane. This struck
him as being curious : and it also reminded him of another
curious fact (at least curious as taken in connexion with his
sudden flight,) namely, that when Mr. Pelsing had first
glanced at the face of the corpse, he started and turned
deadly pale. Mr. Mowitt then proceeded to his boarding-
house, and thence to his store, to look for his partner, but he
was found at neither ; nor did he return that night ; nor the
next ; nor tne next ; nor the next ; and two months passed
away without bringing any intelligence of him, during which
time Mr. Mowitt had fully made up his mind that there was
some mysterious connexion between his friend and the man
that was found drowned, and that, in consequence thereof,
Mr. Pelsing had in all probability made away with himself.
Well, so matters rested until a certain day in last June,
when a lady called at Mr. Mowitt's store, and asked for Mr.
Pelsing. She was told the particulars of his story. " And
hasn't he been here since ?" she inquired. " Not since,"
replied Mr. Mowitt. " I know he has," said the lady.
" He was not, I assure you, at least to my knowledge," an-
swered Mr. Mowitt. " But lam positive !" said the lady,
somewhat smartish. " What proof have you of it ?" inqui-
red the shoemaker. " The best in the world," returned the
stranger, " for 1 am here, and I and Mr. Pelsing are one and
the same person." And, strange as it may appear, such was
the actual fact. Well, the question was, whether Mr. Pel-
sing was a gentleman or a lady, and it turned out that she
was a lady, and more than that, her name was not John Pel-
sing at all, but Charlotte Conroy, and furthermore, that she
was the widow of the man that had been found drowned.
She then stated that her husband was a shoemaker in Phila-
delphia, and to whom she had been married about two years ;
he treated her very badly, the consequence of which was,
that she picked up his trade by stealth, and when she thought
she was sufficiently perfect, equipped herself in man's clothes,
and ran off to this city to be more safely out of the reach of
her lord and master.

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Here, as we have seen, she got into the employment and
remained in the confidence of Mr. Mowitt until the time of
the coroner's inquest, immediately after which she proceeded
to Philadelphia, where she learned that her husband (who
had become a wandering loafer) had, on the hint of some
friend, sot out to New York, about a week before, to look
for her ; but where, instead of an injured wife, he found a
watery grave. The upshot of this romantic affair was, that
Mr. Mowitt requested Mrs. C. to make his house her home ;
that after awhile he found that he liked her yet better as
Mrs. C. than as Mr. Pelsing, that by virtue thereof, he pro-
posed a renewal of their terms of partnership, which was
accepted; that on last Tuesday week, Mr. l‘lowitt, and the
late Mr. John Pelsing became husband and wife. This is
the first instance, we believe, on record, wherein a wife per-
formedl the office of a coroner's juryman on the body of her
owown master. or
wherein a young man was married to his
The lady, by the way, is very good-looking,
and still on the safe
s'ide. of thirty.—New York Sunday
Morning News.

CAUTION TO F.!,OCKMASTER.S.-Mr. Flower, of Downham,
last week
lost eighteen valuable ewes, all having lambs by
their side, in consequence of eating ground ivy, in a piece of
grass land where they had been grazing,