The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-05-12
ROMANTIC INCIDENT.


man in New York city contrived awhile to
pay his addresses to beautiful girl there,
the daughter of an obstinate Pearl street
merchant, who was opposed to the young
man visiting his daughter. He persisted in
his endeavors to win the young lady. and
at last was forbidden to enter the old mans
house.
Still, the lovers contrived to meet, occa-
sionally, afterwards; and at the expiration
of some six months, matters having been
previously so arranged, the girl consented
to marry the youth. He did not seek the
fortune, for he was in employment, at
handsome salary. as principal bookkeeper
in an extensive jobbing house, and his Pc
cuniary prospects were very fair. But
the parents were obdurate and he was driven
from the house.
At the end of twelve months they agreed
to be married. and all the requisite arrange
ments were made; the evening was fixed
upon. and even the chaplain had been en-
gagged; but on the morning of the day pro-
posed secretly for the nuptials, the whole
plan was discovered, and the match broken
off peremptorly by the absolute authority
of the parents. Time passed on: the daugh
ter was sent to distant part of the coun-
try for a while-the young man was disap-
pointed and disheartened, and left New
York for the West, where he remained for
two years. Meantime a person to suit the
tastes of the parents turned up-a man of
considerable means, but old enough to be
the young girls father, and a match was
arranged, after long persuasion, between
Emma and this man, and she welded him
at last.
Three years subsequent the young man
found himself in New England where he
settled and took a wife also, and some doz-
en- years passed away, with their thousand
and one changes of place, of circumstances,
and of fortune. From the time of their
separation the original lovers had never
met.
The young man become the father of
three little ones and then lost two of those,
which bereavement was soon after followed
by the death of his wife. Time few by-he
had been fortunate in his business, and re-
sided few miles out of Boston, in cottage
surrounded by the comforts of life, and in
the enjoyment of the society of his dear lit
tie daughter.
One day he was returning home in the
afternoon, and upon entering the cars he
found them to be full. He sought a seat,
and found one occupied by a lady about
thirty years of age, beside whom he sat
down, and the cars soon moved out of the
depot. As they entered into the light, he
suddenly turned to the lady, and exclaimed,
MADAME Emma! is this you :"
He didn't know exactly what he said but
it was a fact that he was on the seat with
the girl whom he had really loved, and
whom he had never seen since the cruel
separation.
A mutual explanation quickly succeeded.
Our widowed friend ascertained that his
former intended was now on her way to the
North, upon visit; that she had been mar
ried nearly eleven years, had but one child
living, and her husband had been dead over
two years.
He pointed out his pretty cottage as the
cars passed on-but did not leave the train
He proceeded forward, renewed his &C
quaintance, found the lady her own mis-
tress, proposed to her again-and we record
the fact with no ordinary degree of pleasure
that within three weeks the lovers were ac-
tually united in marriage in the city of
Boston.
THE WHEAT CROP.-We learn that the
wheat crop in this and the surrounding
counties looks well as general thing, though
in some localities it is being injured by the
chinch bug. The crop put in is larger than
that of any previous year.
The late warm aud copious rains which
we have had in this section, have impaired
new life to vegetation of all kinds.-Ral. /