True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-05-26


W The Bucyrus Journal, famous
for romantic stories, publishes one which
we condense:
Fifteen years ago, there resided ir
Homer, New York, a man named s.
who had wife and one child-a daueh,
ter When the daughter was five years
old, the mother died, and the father, in.
consolable at the loss, sold his property,
converted his whole effects into ready
money, and ccnfding his daughter to the
charge of a friend, left the country. Fo,
ten long years he was absent. In thai
time he had visited all parts of the globe
lie delighted in adventure, and the wide,
the excursion, and the more danger thai
accompanied it, the more it pleased him
tie never ,corresponded with his friends
at home, and all that time he had heard
no tidings from them. Finally he tired
OF adventure. and turned his thoughts
homeward. He came, but alas (! a new
and terrible misfortune awaited him. The
friend to whom he had confded his child
had died-his wife after his death had
placed the child in other hands, they had
moved westward and died, and the chile
was lost sight of entirely. He had nc
hope OF being able to recognize her, for
ten years had elapsed since he had seen
her, and in that time she had grown from
child to woman, and there were but
two marks by which he could identify
her--while child an axe had fallen and
cut off the little toe of the right foot, and
on another occasion she had been severely
scalded on the right arm near the shoulder.
Tie made all the search possible, but was
finally forced to give it up, and mourned
his child as irreyocably 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 servant girl, who had resided with
him for nearly two years, at time when
she was about to retire, and the door
being open, he saw her foot. He merely
glanced at it, and happened TO notice that
the little 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 improbable, but it still forced
! itself upon him, until faally he requested
his wife to 60 to the room and ascertain
whether there were or not marks of
scald upon her right arm. She went,
and to his immense delight reported that
the mark was there. The poor man was
80 far positive of her identity, that the
girl was awakened, and in the middle
Of the night was questioned as 10 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 fam
ny named -; that at their death she
was taken charge of by the ovorseers of
me poor, a place provided for her, that
'he had come to Bucyrus with family
md had supported herself by doing
lousework since. This tailed so nearly
With the already ascerIained facts in the
'ase, that the next day the father started
last with her, and visiting The different
POINTS she had named, ascertained 10 his
,reat joy, that she was in truth his
laughter. She is now at Granville, Ohio,
ecelvlng an education to fit her for the
lew station she has assumed in life.
The story is not badly told, but to
'ur apprehension, the inconsolable husband
vas not very tender father, or he could
lot have neglected his poor child, SO far
s not even to inquire after her during
On years. His subsequent anxious
earch for her smells fshy.-TPius. Dis.