Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-03
Romance in Real Life.

The Bucyrus Jow nal relates the follow
ing:
There has been a thousand stories writ
ten, and tales told of lovers finding lovers,
husbands discovering wives, and brothers
encounterirg sisters, after years of sepsra-
tion, SO there will be nothing particularly
interesting to our readers in the following
Circumstance, 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 real names.
Fifteen years ago, there resided in Ho-
mer, New York, man named S., who
had a wife and one child-a daughter r-l
When the daughter was five years old, the
mother died, and the father inconsolable at
at the loss, determined to leave the scene
of his affections. He sold his property,
converted his whole effects into ready
money, and confiling his daughter to 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 one spot was
impossible. Asia, Africa, Europe were
trsveIsed, the burning suns of the Tropic
scorched his brow, and the icy blasts OF the
Arctic kissed his cheek. He delighted in
adventure, and the wilder the excursion and
the more danger that accompanied it the
more it pleased him. He never correspond
cd with his friends at home and all that
time he had heard no tdngs from them.
Finally. he tired of adventure and turned
his face homew ard. He came, but alas! a
new and terrible fate awaited him. The
friend TO whom he had confided his child
had died his wife after his death had placed
the child in 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 oLtlined. He
had no hope Of being able to recognize her,
for ten years had elapsed since be 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 anoth.
er occasion she had been severely scalded
on the right arm near the shoulder. He
made all the search possible, but was finally
forced to give it up, and mourned his chilt
as irrecoveraly lest. He finally settled neal
Bucyrus, and married again.
About six weeks ago, he happened tc
pass by the room in his house occupied by q
servant girl WHIP had resided with him fol
nearly two years, at time when she sswa:
about to retire, and the door being open, be
saw her foot. He merely glanced at it, ant
happened to notice that the little toe of tn
right foot .oas missing. He thought nolh-
ing of it at the time, out after retiring, the
idea struck him that it might be the Gaugh.
ter he had searched for So long. At frs
he dismissed the thought as improbable, 5u
it still forced itself upon him, until finall,
he requested his wife to 60 to the room ami
ascertain whether there was or not, mark.
Of scald upon her righ; arm. She went
and to bis immense delight reported tha
the mark was there. The poor man was 81
positive of her identity, that The girl wa,
awakened, and in the middle of the nigh
was questioned as to her origin.
She could only tell them that she did no
know her parents, that her earliest recollec
tions were that she had lived somewhere in
in the east with family named -
(naming the family she had been left will
by the woman originally entrusted with her
that at their death she was taken charge ol
by the overseers of the poor, place pro.
vided for her, that she had come tc Bucyrus
with family, and had supported herself b.
doinp houseWork since
This Tailed so nearly with the alread,
nscertained facts in the case, that the mex
day the father started east with her, an,
visiting the different points she had named
ascerta:ned to his great joy. that she wa
in truth bis daughter.
She is an extremely beautiful girl, of grea
natural intelligence, and though totally un
educated, is still interesting.
She is now at Granville: Ohio, receiv;n.
an education TO fit her for the new station
she has assumed in life.