Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-07-02
A Strange Romance.

VIC SoPy Iue loilOWlng from q
recent letter of Evelyn" the New
Orleans correspondent Of the Mo-
bile Sunday Times:
have before said that romance
in real life is more common than
people suppose, and have remark
ed that few notice romances and
plots unless set out and adorned
by the skill of a romantic writer.
A plot for novel, or a study for
a story, has recently come under
my own observation. Something
like two years ago young M,
the son of one of the wealthiest
men in Louisiana, fell deeply in
love with a young lady of a neigh
boring parish. His love was re-
turned with warmth, and they
were engaged. But now an OBJ
stacle came in their way. Ms
father opposed the match. For
some time he kept this secret
from his fa'ace, and meanwhile
she was making preparations for
her marriage. She was an or
Iphan, but had been left a small
property which, valuable before
the war, brought her but little
over $4,000. This she expended
upon her trousseau, feeling that,
as her intended husband was rich,
she had no necessity for saving,
and that she should make her APP
pearance worthy of their station.
AS the time drew near when they
were to be united, NJ seemed
to change towards her, and grew
cool and serious. In vain she tried,
with all the arts which love could
suggest, to learn the secret of the
change, but he did not confide in
her, and she could only wait and
wonder. At last the time fixed
for the ceremony came, and NJ
was forced to make a confession.
He said that his father forbade
the match, that he had supposed
her an heiress when he engaged
himself to her, and now he could
not marry her against his fathers
will.
The shock which this gave the
young girl can be imagined. Nat
urally one will say that she should
have despised him, and felt her
self fortunate in making her es-
cape; but, on the contrary, it was
then only that she felt how she
loved him. She had given herself
without reserve, and as far as she
was concerned, she was his forever.
For the next year and half she
was in a convent, entirely exclu-
tded from the world; but some two
months ago she was persua-
ded to come to this city, and re-
main here for some two or three
weeks. One day she received a
letter which seemed to disturb
her, and on going to her room la
ter, a friend found her ON her
knees, praying for the man who
had deserted her. He was very
|sick in the country, and begged
her to come to him. On that
very day Ms father died, and
the funeral notice was handed to
her and she stepped in the car
riage to 60 to the cars. For a
week nothing was heard from her,
but soon we got the finale of the
romance. The girl had gone inn
mediately to Ms bedside,
and found him, very i'll, attended
by his two sisters. He told her
that he was dying, and, now that
his father was gone, wished to
make her his wife. They were
married. A will was made by him
giving her one-half of his large
fortune, the other half to his two
sisters, and the next day he fol-
lowed his father from earth. Con-
trary to the advice of her friends,
the young mafden-widow announ-
ces her intention of retiring to the
convent for life.
Mayor Burgess, of Petersburg,
Va, one day last week assaulted
a man who had charged him with