The Nevada Democrat., 1857-12-16
Arxu.T..,ve story.

We propose u tell little love stery, which
il 90 pretty and romantic in its details that We
would suppess It fiction bat fer the good au-
thority upen which We have ehtainedh.
Some Gftesn or sixteen years age in the Fad
erlaud. . ysung man named Hing and yeHng
rirl named Wesnn loved each ether very hard
and wanted to marry. A tightnsss In the mon
ey market, hswever, forbade the banns; 20, AZ
ter considering the matter, the lever kissed his
sweetbeart. swers q trus-lover's cath 10 esme
back and marry her in good time, and came to
the United States to seek his fortune.
He worked like geod fellow, and prespsred;
and after saving up a COED SUN he few back On
the wigs of love to Germany. But terrible
disappointment awaited him. His intended
bride Was gone
She had not taken "cold pisen," or sloped
with tinker; but weary Of her levers long alb
sencs and despairing his return, she had, like
the brave little sweetheart that she was, set cut
for the United States. determined 10 find him.
and enter into that united state which Is the FL
Dorado of all true lovers.
So the young man came back TO this country,
on the paddle-wheels Of love, and with the addi-
tional celebrity which the screw propeller Of an
anxious suspense always imparts. He sought
his fair enc elsewhere; many journeys he took,
and much money and much sleep be lost; but
ell to no purpose; and he gave up bis Christine
as forever lost to him.
He came to New Orleans; and time, after
cooling and petrifying the lava-eurrsnt Of bis
first love, introduced him to fraulen, as fair
and sweet, perhaps a. the lost Christine. He
married her, and they went to Texas, where
they settled and were happy. Old Time con
tinusd to trundle the years around. TIVE fnt
children blessed the union, but a sad event fol
lowed in the death of the wife and mother
Ever since then, or urtil recently the wdoweI
remained there, prosecuting his business and
taking care of his children.
Some weeks ago he came to this city on bus
| ineSs and whilst here found it necessary to gs
to Cincinnati. He went there, to stop few
days. One night whilst he was returning tc
his lodgings from some place of amusement, h'
was alarmed by female screams net far off,
He ran, with others, to discover the cause, and
found that the screams proceeded from CIR
about eight years old lying helpless on the ban
quette. She was badly but not dangerously
hurt; and in reply to the questions of the crowd
stated that her uncle, with whom she was liv
ing, had cems home drunk and violent, cans
ing her, in her anxiety to avoid him, TO fall ou
at a window.
AS she was q German girl, the widower Ilinf
naturally felt interested in her, and piled he
with all sorts ofquestions, as to her parentage
circumstances. &c. She told him, among othe
things, that her mothers first name was Chris
tine. That arous ID an old memory. and stim
ulated fresh inquiry. The girl gave such in
formation, finally, as to leave no doubt in II
ings mind that her mother was his own Ions
lost sweetheart first love. She had beer
for some years widow. and was living depen
dent upon the charity Of her deceased hus
bands brother, on farm ten miles out in the
country.
Next morning Hing took the little girl eut
there, and was by her introduced to her moth
er. Tho recognition was mutual and instan-
taneour. OF course there was scene-all sorts
OF scene. The old petrefaction of first love
melted on both sides The widow told her
story She had searched and despaired, and
sought consolation in marriage with another
time had made her mother to one child, aud
left her widow.
| The lovers seemed to have met by Providen-
tial direction, and were young again. and inef-
fably happy. or course the rest may be sntic-
pated. The couple reached this city few
days ago, having married during the passage
down the river-the little girl Of course being
aloug-aDd put of by the earliest conveyane,
to Texas.--N o. Crescent.