Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-01-11
A LOCAL ROMANCE.

| Tradition has preseryeds singular anacdote OF
| John Tbach8r, a son Of one OF the earliest set
| lers of this town. Ha was ma ried in 1861. 10
Miss Rebbocca Winalow, of Duxbury. in Plvm-
outh county, il we mistake not On his Wav
home with his new bride he stopped for the nirGt
at the house of a friend, Colonel Gorham. OF
Barnstable, ore of the most prominent citizens
of the town. Merrment ana gayely prevailed.
and during the evening a female infant about
three weeks cid was introduced, and the night
of her birth being mentioned, Mr.. Thacher OBJ
| served :. THAT is the very night On which we
were married, and taking the child in his arms,
| he presented it to his bride and okilciy said.
''here my dear is a little lady that was born on
| the same night that We were married. | wish
you would kiss her for I intend 10 have her for
my second wife" Il will. nv dear. with tie
greatest pleasure" replied she, ''but hope it
will be a very long time before your Intention is
fulfilled in that respect"
Mr.. TEACHER and his wife lived happily to-
gether for about twenty years, and faithfully full
filed the scriptural injunction to multiply and
raplanish the earth Mrs. L. left large fami-
ly Of children, among whom was a son named
Peter.
After Mr. Thachcr had mourned a reasonable
length Of time he began to think of getting an
other partner. None of the maiians. Young or
old seemed TO please him like lydia Gorham,
the little lady Of the proceeding part Of our story,
now grown up. if we may believe tradition, to
fair comoly Girl, full of gushing Ele,' as the po-
cts say. But there was one impediment in the
way. His eldest son Peter had shown prede-
LECTION for the girl, and the old man was at loss
to decide whether she favored the suit Of the
sire or the son. The enc rode black horse on
his visits, and the other rode u white one. There
was kind Of taCit agreement between the two
that one should not Interfere wiki the visits Of
the other; SO when the father found a white
horse tied in front Of Col. G0rham's unlike the
good Samaritan, he crossed over on the other
side; and the SON. when the black horse was
there returned the favor Thus things went on
till the patience Of the old gentleman was well
nigh exhausted, and he resolved on desperate
step 10 decide the matter Taking his son one
side, he said to him, Peter, are you or are YOU
not going to marry Lydia Gorham? Peter re-
piled THAI he had net made up his mind. Wei,
said the old gentleman. i win make you 3n Of
fer; ii you viii Give her Up ard coart her no
more, Twill give you thirteen pounds 10 money,
and the pair Of black steers u What ID you say
10 that Z The Young man Lesitatcd bat mo-
ment It's bargain, said he; and il is due the
parties to say that it was observed by them all
with rieot good faith. Whether Lydia knew
the bargaining that her charms had occaaioued,
tradition sayotA not: but SHE subsequently, be-
came Mr.. TEACHERS wife, and bore him ten chill
dren from whom many members Of the namar-
oas and highly respectable family of Thacher
have sprung. Oar venerable toWnsman, Mr.
Peter Thatcher, is tie grandson Of the Peter no
ticed above Yarmouth Register.