The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1852-11-20

his name is a talisman of might against
faithless officials. as it also is the terror
of thieves and sharpers. By adapting
it to harmless stratagem, ] recovered
my property. Such is the Russian po-
lice.
Truth Stranger than Fction-A bit
of romance in humble life has been re-
lated to US. which, for its successive
singular effect of the denouement, has
an excessively French tinge about it.
Some time since. during the spring
OF 1S48, a German opened. in south St
Louis. an unpretendin@ but we'll fur
nlshed grocery store, the fruits of a
rigid economy and untiring industry
Not only was he possessed of COM
plete assortment of grocer's merchan-
disc, but was drawing an annual in
come of nearly $1,000! Besides all
this. the industry of his wife and a
grown daughter rendered the little
garden which surrounded their dwell
ing on the outskirts of the city another
source of profit. About the time, how
ever that he embarked in shop-keep-
ing, new obstacle, presented itself to
him. A young gardener became enam-
ored of his daughter and asked her in
marriage.
The swain was penniless, and the
girl (her father deemed) rich in his
own possessions-at all events she was
of too much service to him to be be-
slowed on comparative pauper The
lover was denied on pretty fiat terms,
and forbade to show himself again at
the house. The lover paid his visits
from thai time by stealth, until one
evening late. as the Girl and her father
stood at their door, wondering because
of the mothers protracted stay at
market, a stranger on horse back rode
up IN great haste, ami called by name
or the old man.
The stranger, after relating to him,
in an excited, but plausible vein, a
serious accident which he said had lust
occurred 10 his wife, put spurs to his
horse and was again out Of sigh. The
old man, a few moments after. cane in
hand, was on his way to the North
| Market. distance of three or four
| miles from his residence. He had been
gone some ten minutes, when the lover
made his appearance with baggage
car, into which placing an old chest
that contained the entire fortune of his
inamofata. and both taking their seats
in the vehicle, they left the house at a
brisk trot. The husband in time met
his wife at her usual stand. An expla-
nation ensued when it appeared that
the stranger equestrian who had brought
false intelligence to the husband only
a short time before. had called on the
wife, at her vegetable stand. and in
formed her that her husband requested
| her to remain there until he would call
the stranger represented himself as a
particular friend of the husband. and
transmitted the message merely as a
courtesy. The whole affair was mex
plicabe until the couple reached home,
when the absence of their daughter,
and the few unmistakeables signs which
attend @n eIopemeut, suggested the
full truth of the case.
The old man continued to prosper
until the summer of 1919. when he
was thrown back almost TO his original
poverty, by the double loss in the great
fire, in which all his property was con-
sumed, and an unfortunate endorse
ment. His remaining notes. the last
due on his real estate. matured and
helped 10 complete the work. Indeed,
he was lett the little garden on the
city'S outskirts as his last STAY. Not a
word had been heard in the meantime
from the daughter, until the arrival
from New Orleans. last "Wednesday. oil
herself and her husband, on the steam
er TuScnmbia. They had just returned
from California. The young man easily
effected a reconciliation with his. father.
in-law. for he is no longer penniless
Three years of hard digging in the
mines near Sacramento had rendered
him capitalist to the tune of S9000
of which $500 were yesterday depos.
tied in one of.our banking houses. Our
informant states that the young man
has already commenced an attempt tc
redeem some of the old mans property
Although the different members of the
party have occupied opposite positions
on the wheel of fortune, they seem all
equally satisfied, we are told, since
they have met.