Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-28
Froa NE Birmingham Ergo Advertiser.
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

NONh<A-NSb UT NAL LIE L.
IL ms been truly remarked that many Of
the events of real lite would sur,uss the
pages OF romance If told with the same pa
thos and feeling, and this town and neighbour
hood has latterly been the theatre OF deeds as
romauc as amy novelist could conceive,
though invested with all the true sobriety OF
matters and fact. A Young American plan
ter, named DIR. Costa. Of good family and i'm.
menss fortune. without any incumbrances,
and almost without living relatives. had lat
,cfiy IL appears, come over to England in
search oil ~wiie,-athcr a romatic errand,
considering the number of ladies' 10 which
the United States; have given birth; but, one
respecting which he had only one person TO
please X that one himsclf...Alter visiting some
VI me most fastiionsb bic cities of the kingdom,
anu spending his money like u prince, with
Out meeting the object OF his search, he paid
a visit TO Birmingham. and was standing one
day at the door of the Hen and Chickens,
when, as old wives would Say, land circum-
stances have In this case proved the truth OF
the saying,) the very person he came to Eng.
iano 10 look Tor walked across New street,
nearly opposite were he stood. Struck by
her appearance with those peculiar sensations
which lovcis will best understand. but which
wo-mauGrc onr gray ~hairs-have not yet
quite forgotten, h. followed the lady, and with
much po%iiteness lin words we will not pre-
end 10 detaiD expressed q wish for a better ac-
quaintance. and u desire to sec her homie
Ihe young lady, a Miss Rimmer, of Alccster,
wasat thai time on a visit at MIR Heeley's, Bris-
tol-road, TO whose house. the stranger accompa-
MED her, but his partner in lite not quite liking
such d romatlc vlslter too Young lady then un-
der her matronly protection, with due sense of
propriety discouraged the gentleman, and re-
ierred him 10 her parents. The traveller.
! nNAnAa NNnS moi - l.
Jectin search of whom he had travelled so
lar; and the little town OF Alcester was short
ly alter well nigh frightened from its ~proprie-
~ by a carriage and lour driving up full speed
To the house Of Mr.. Rimmer. After many
wonderlnSs and many guess IS" among the
inhabitants who IT could be, il turned out
that IL was Mr.. DE Costa, come in the most
gentlemanly and hoIorable manner to request
oil the paran,s permission To pay his address
rs to their daughter. Advice was asked of
those with whom they usually advised on
other matters, aud, all circumstances duly
weighed, and consent was very naturally Civ
en-; anu The stranger gave such evidence OF
the sincerity of his attachment that he was
nor long fnding his way 10 the heart of Miss
simmer; and then-well, then?-why, what
think you, gentle reader?-he neither abandon
ed her TO u broken heart. nor seduced her and
leit her 10 comiert herself with a dose of
pIussic acid, though many tales were a1oat
OF what the modem "blue beard would do,
but married her al Alcester Church, on Sat
urday last! ihree carriages and four conveying
the parties who graced the nup,ial ceremony
with their presence. You see we are not
Whiting a tragedy, but an opera; and opera we
trust II will be, as far as the Characteristic
goes OF oil ending happily, for the people
whose daughter has thus become a wife, are
good, honest people, in moderate circumstan-
ces, the lady possesses good sense as well as
personal attractions, and the stranger has
shown himself by his rnunificent presents,
and by various acts OF kindness, as delicate as
they Were generous, to be really what he pas
SEES ior-a man of vast wealth, and q gentle.
man. We understand that the eldest BROTH
er OF Miss Rimmer is 70 accompany her to
ner new residence OH the other side of the At
ianuc, when his fortune, as well as hers, will
be made. And so ends our romance of real
life b