Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-06-24
Romance in Real Life.
The Bucyrus Journal relates the follow

Romance i'm Real Life.
The Bucyrus Journal relates the follow
ing: ~ .i
There has been thousand Stories writ
ten, and tales told of lovers finding lovers
husbands discovering wives, and brothers
eneounteriug sisters, after years Of separ;.-
ton, so there will be nothing particularly
interesting to our readers in the following
circumstances, unless it derives interest
from the fact, that it is strictly true, and
that many of them know the parties. We
do not of course give the real names.
Fifteen years ago, there resided in Hom-
er, New York, man named S =, who
had wife and one child-a daughter
When the daughter was five years old, the
mother died, and the father iuconsolable
at the loss, determined to leave the scene
of his Affections. He sold his property,
converted his whole effects into ready mon
ey, and con6ding his daughter 10 the
charge of friend, left the country. ''-
For ten long years he was absent. In
that time he had visited all parts of the
globe. A restless, rowing disposition had
seized him, and remaining in ore spot was
impossible. Asia, Africa, Europe were
traversed, the burning suns of the Tropic
scorching his brow, and the icy blasts of
the Arctic, kissed his cheek. He delight
cd in adventure, and the wilder the excur-
sion and the more danger that accompani-
ed it the more it pleased him. He never
corresponded with his friends at home, and
all that time he had heard no tidings from
them. 49, $50
Finally, he fired of adventure and turn
ed his face homeward. He came, but alas
a new and terrible fate awaited him.
The friend TO whom he had confi,led his
child had died; his wife after his death
had placed the child into other hands,
they had moved westward and died, and
the child was lost sight of entirely. No
clue to guide the distressed parent could be
obtained. He hal no hopes of being able
to recognize her, for ten years had elapsed
since he had seen her, and in that time she
had grown from a child to woman, and
there were but two marks by which he
could identify her-while child an ak had
fallen and cut off the little toe of her right
foot; and on another occasion she had
been severely scaIded on the right arm near
the shoulder. He. made all the search
possible, but was finally forced to give il
up, and mourned his child as inevitably
lost. He finally settled near Bucyrus, and
married again. ;,
About six weeks ago, he happened to
pass by the room in his house occupied by
a servant girl who had resided with him
for nearly two years, at a time when she
was about to retire, and the door being
open he saw her foot, He merely glanced
at if, and happened to notice that The toe
of the right foot was missing. He thought
nothing of it at the time, but after retiring
the idea struck him that it might be the
daughter he had searched for so long. AT
first he dismissed the thought as inproba-
ble, but it still forced itself upon him, un-
til finally he requested his wife to 90 to
the room and ascertain whether there was
or not, marks of scald upon her right
arm. She went, and to his immense de-
light, reported the msrk there. The girl
was awakened-in the middle of the night
was questioned as to her origin. She
could only tell them that she DID not know
her parents, that her earliest recollections
were that she had lived somewhere in the
east with a family named (naming
the family she had been left with by the
woman originally entrusted with her; J that
at their death she was taken charge Of by
the ovcrseer of the poor, a place provided
for her, that she had come to Bucyrus with
a family, and supported herself by doing
housework since.
This tailed so nearly with the already
facts in the case, that the next
day the father started east with her, and
visited the different points she had named
to her great JOY, that she was
in truth his daughter. .1s.
She is an extremely beautiful girl, of
great natural. intelligence, and though to-
tally uneducated, is still interesting.
She is now at Granville, Ohio, receiving
an education, to fit her for the new station
she bas assumed in life. . .''