Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-09

How Bachelor Lost his Intended Wife
A Romantic Episode Of TmmsEra-

/ Fgew a Bachelor Lost his Intended wife
a Romantic Episode Of TmmsEra'
ton.
Not many years ago there came TO Ten
nessee, from one Of the German States,
three brothers, all in moderate circumstan-
ces, bat men Of determined energy, and pos.
sessing all the money-making Characters.
tics Of their industrious and thriving race
They settled in different parts of the State
one Of them going into the drygOods bust
ness in an interior town. The dealer in
drygoods prospered, but what became of
the other two we never learned. Before
setting out from Fatherland, like prudent
man that he was, he made ample provision
for future contingencies, and among other
arrangements contaminated, was his be-
trOthal to young girl whom he had known
for long time, and who promised to share
with him the home he should make for
himself in the new world
The weeks, and months, and years went
rapidly by, but they seemed long enough
10 the patient, toiling immigrant, and when
The time came when be could count compe-
tence, he wrote to his intended wife that be
had prepared for her a beautiful home in
Tennessee, and that she must come at once
TO him. Business interests would not admit
Of his absence from this country, so he did
what he considered would be the next best
thing, and sent an agent in whom he
placed the utmost confidence, TO bring his
betrothed safely TO America and the South.
This agent was a young man of pre-
possessing appearance, and had been ele-
waited from obscurity to good position in
society through the influence of his en-
ployer.
Not without some misgivings as to the
responsibilities of 50 novel an undertaking,
the young man set out on the journey, and
and in a few days reached New York and
was soon aboard an ocean steamer revolv-
ing his chances OF ever again seeing land.
Arriving safely at his destination, how
ever, he proceeded at once to fulfill his
mission, and three days later was ready to
set sail in company with the intended bride
of his kind-hearted employer. The ocean
path was a long one, though, and the young
lady and her youthful guardian found few
congenial associates among the passengers.
This left them together much of the time,
and a strong friendship was very naturally
the result. But this was not the bad
feature of the case. To the con-
sternation of both, they soon found
themselves hopelessly entangled in the
snares of wicked Cupid, and their warm
friendship gave place to a stronger affection.
As the best means of fixing mp the matter,
they resolved that on their arrival in New
York they would see a clergyman, and
then going straight on to Tennessee, would
lay the whole affair before the injured
husband-that- to-have been. They mar
ried, came on to this State, and did exactly
az they had proposed. The horror and
establishment Of the intended bridegroom
on learning what had transpired was be-
yond expression. He at once dismissed
the unfaithful agent from his employ, and
refused TO recognize in any way the tickle
girl who had proved 30 faithless.
The story has pleasant sequel, never
theless. The young couple, unable to OBJ
tain forgiveness, quietly set up an establish
ment of their own, and live happy together
to this day. Quite recently there was a
reconciliation between the employer and
his former agent, and the little bouncing
responsibility" attendant upon the hither-
to unhallowed marriage bears the name of
of the injured bachelor, who has willed all
| his property to his little namesake, and
become again the friend of those whom he
at one time believed had forever destroyed
his earthly hopes.