The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-08
NUMBER 15f.
A ROMANCE IN REAL LEE :.

Lillput, the lively correspondent Or the
Rising Sun Weekly Visitor, tells the following
as a true story, and states that itSoccured in
this city: ~ @
About twenty years age,-as the story
goes,-a man and wife (ofprominence, fashion,
fable position who had been welded long en-.
ough to be blessed CD by female babe, iiscov-.
cred that they did not love one another as they
should, and therefore separated forever. The
Ewife took the child and sought a.. home in an
Eastern city, where her parents resided, resum-
ling her maiden name and giving to the child
the same. After divorce had been agreed
upon and obtained by due course of law, the
lady married and the little girl was sent to a
relative in the interior of York State where
her education was attended to and where she
lived until few months SINCE
The man has continued to reside in the
West, and being young when separated from
his wife. of a hale constitution and particular
ly careful to remove from his countenance, as
tar as possible, all traces of times Footprint,
has kept up a very youthful appearance, con-
sidering his age. Being in atfluent circum-
stances, of good address, and decidedly agreea-
bic in all the little niceties that combine to
stamp the gentleman of fashionable life, he was
always regarded as desirable prize, by de-
signing mamas. Nevertheless, he had escaped
all their snares. to the great annoyance Of pret.
~ girls and charming widows, who really
thought that it was the dut o Mr. to .
married. 1t might have been a settled aver
sion to the sex,-or it might be attributed to
his early lesson,-yet, a fact it was, that he
did not marry. shs Is6. 3 ~ -
|, But not to be too prolix, we will cut off
some Of the little unimportant items, and pro-
ceed to the story. During last June, Miss
J--arrived here from the East on visit to
a relative, who had been a resident offQheen
City but few months. The second week of
her Western soourn threw her in company
with the grass widower twenty years standing
who showed by his attention that he was more
than usually impressed by the charms of the
fair stranger Every evening found him at
her side, and she was thought not to be
entirely insensible to his charms of person
and mind. A month glided away-a month
of courtship, which was carefully noted and
meaningIy winked at by her relative. At
length her hand was asked in marriage and
the matter referred to her connexiof
He seemed to favor the project, and appoint
ed an interview for the trio, the same evening.
They met in the parlor, when more formal
solicitation for her hand was made, and while
the trdent suiter was waiting with breathless
anxiety for the answer that was to seal his fate
the young lady was led forward and presented
to her oaOn .fataer!-the lover. - e3
1t is needless to add that both were asto,Ind-
ed however, it has resulted in good, the father
has settled liberal fortune upon the daughter
and ere this both are in Paris, preparatory to
making the tour Of Europe. This romance Of
every day life, is but another instance of truth
often times being Stranger than fiction.