The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-01-31
A Touching Incident.

ABOUT three yeais ago there cap.
to this city from the old country a
young immigrant named Christian
Noting He landed at Milwaukee,
with little money in his pocket, but
with heart full Of energy and
determination. Being 4 very good
machinist, he very soon found employ
ment.in one of the works in the South
Side, and, of saving disposition, he
sool found that he was on 4 fair way
TO open bank account of his own.
Out of his first earnings he purchased
a small lot In the eighth ward, and
this spring had completed thereon a
small house, his employer, admiring
his steady and industrious habits,
assisting him materially.
Before leaving the old country,
Christian had ''plighted his troth''
with fair haired girl, and they had
parted, when he set sail, with the as
surance on his part that as soon as
circumstances would permit he would
return or send for her, that their des-
tinies might be united in this new
world.
During the last season, Christian
finding himself in position to full
fill his vows, sent draft to the girl
and letter, promising to meet her
in New York, and that there they
would be married, and she be escort
ed to her new home.
From the letter which the young
girl wrote in reply, it was evident
she was overjoyed at the good news.
She soon made the necessary prepar-
ations, and with light heart set sail.
She arrived in due season at New
York, but, contrary to expectation,
found no Christian in waiting for
her. The funds remitted to her had
been little more than enough to en-
able her to reach New York, and
she found herself in that great city,
nearly pennies ; speaking no Eng
lish, and OF timid disposition.
How she ever passed through the
gauntlet of runners, hack drivers and
thieves, who like gaunt species
haunt the foreign boats, is mystery
which the girl cannot explain, but
after a long and weary but fruitless
search for Christian, she found a
temporary home, where her labor
would pay her board. She wrote to
this city, and although she waited
patiently and hopefully, she heard
nothing-not syllable of or from
him she loved so much.
In fit of desperation she deter
mined to come west, and going out
one morning she pawned her ward
robe, even down to the simple be
trothal ring, to raise the necessary
money to come to Milwaukee. On
Saturday last she landed at the Union
depot in much poorer condition
and less hopeful than when she land
ed in New York, and with mind
filed with doubts and misgivlngs.
AT the depot Officer Strong saw
her standing on the platform, and
knowing not which way to move
Securing an interpreter, he soon
learned her story, and learned that
Christian boarded at the house of n
German in the Fifth Ward. The girl
looked so sweetly and sOrrowtul that
the officer took carriage and took
her to the house which the girl enter
ed with strange feelings.
The lady of the house was a kind
hearted, motherly woman, Who had
a fearful task to perform, and she
told the girl as tenderly as she could
that Christian had looked to the day
when he should set out for New York
to meet his bride, with all the anx
iety of child. He made every pre-
paration to 60. The very night be-
fore he was to 90 he was taken sick.
and never left his bed until he was
taken to the cemetery. 1t was a sad
stroke to the poor girl, after her hopes
and expectations, to be crushed by
such q blow. All that night she
wept and mourned and would not be
comforted:- All the efforts OF those
would-b be friends to soothe her were
unavailing.
On Sunday morning, with lady
of the house, she went to the GENE
terry and was shown the grave OF him
whom she had so loved, and throw
ing herself upon it, she wept, and
wept as if it would seem her very
heart would break. She desired to
be left alone in that city Of the dead,
promising to return home soon, but
not returning after dinner, the lady
again visited the cemetery. She found
the nearly broken hearted girl still
PROSTATE upon the grave, paying no
heed to the cold, and chanting in low
and sad tones lament.
1t required force to drag her away
from the grave, and with eyes filled
with tears the poor girl begged and
pleaded that she might remain and
die thus near to him, so low in the
grave, whose memory she loved.
1t is fortunate the poor girl found
friends who will care for her, else
hers would be hard lot, indeed,
after such sorrows She will be
taken care of and no effort be spared
to divert her mind from the-sad OBJ
ject upon which it would seem now
so irreyocably fixed, and to bring
her back to the real life and cares of