The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-22
A Romantic IaeIdent in New York.
A Mother ReeOvers Her Long Lost
.T. Daughter. u,s.a o

A Mother ReeOVeEs Her Long Lost
Daughter. ri,s.s.l
Nt4p York Correspondence Of PhHa. Telegraph
A romantic incident, which Is moi
generally known, has occurred within
the last feY days in this city. The
romantic-mfhded peripatetic along
Broadway and Fifth avenue-but par
I4ticularly along Broad oadWRy--Will remem-
F'ber an italian family or wandering g
minstrels, consisting of q man, his
wife, and child. The man played the
violin, the woman brandished tam
BORNE, the child sang aud accompanied
herself on the harp. There were some
points remarkable about the child. One
was the total absence OF resemblance to
his parents.a They were dark and
with the genuine1talianb blood. He was
blonde-of the Niblo's Garden style
with yellow hair and broad, light
blue eyes, cheeks like finest satin,
and, lips like rosebuds transmitted
into flesh, in answer to some Pyg-
'mafon~l like, prayer. He was apps.
rently about fifteen. His clothes were
torn, his hair was tangled, and his
ensemble was tattered; but through his
rags and his wretchedness there ahone
forth,the royalty of,beantyS His voice;
too, was almost phenomenal. have
often seen him Surrounded by e crowd
OF men, women and children, who
greeted his performances with snch a
shout as some unapplaudedP PT'insG don
ma might be glad to awaken Not only
pennies but greenbacks fell into the
hat which his father carried around.
Contrary to the popular ,delusio1 In
regard to street. singers, he was tre6ted
extremely we'll by his father and
mother. No blows, ne threats, but
kisses from his mother, encourage
ment from his father; kindness from
many days ago, wealthy but eccen-
trio lady, whom the sequel proved to
have laid her plans WE'LL beckoned to
him from her carriage window as he
was passing up Fifth Avenue. AT that
moment he was alone. 1t was one of
those rare times when his parents hav-
ing gone home. he was LETT to wander
in the streets without their pro-
tection. He saw the Iady's signal,
at her solicitation he entered the car
riage, with .his harp, and before he
knew what was to be done with him
the carriage drove off. Night came on,
aud his distracted parents were driven
Of kidnapping have lately occurred
within metropolitan precincts, that 1t
is no wonder they felt alarmed. They
have since been treasured and Fecom-
pensed, however, for what they were
made to suffer. On getting the. boy
home with her, the lady had him shown
to a bathroom, and provided With
AM; sham booming, and sdiessing him
selfin the attire'ofa young gentleman,
which she had provided for him, he
was shown into the lady's presence,
and requested to play upon the harp
anything he knew jPhe strapgeness of
the adventnre.the noveltyIof his new
position, at first embarrassed him sol
greatly that he broke down in every
thing he attempted. Possessing native
refinement, however, he aucceeded in
regaining his tranquility, and when
he had well-nigh exhausted his
stock Of melodies, hit upon a simple
English air, which produced the strang-
est effect upon the lady, The blood
lefs her greeks as shSngh 1t had bssn
eyes, and without heistating a moment
longer she rushed to the ottoman where
theSyoung harpist was seated, and put
ting. her arms. around him. pressed her
hands with an Investigating motion
upon his breast. He moved as II sud-
denly alarmed, and as though to repel
her, but his motion frightened her en-
brace and only hastened the discovery
she was making: That virginia. expan-
sion of bosom which her woman's
touch had detected told a too truthful
tale, and revealed that the young Sing-
or was, not a youth, but q person of her
own sex. The anticipative reader will
guess the rest, and make long story
short by stating the simple fact that the
lady proved to ba a mother. who, in the
artless countenance of the street-singer
her "long-lost chee-yild"
TabEeGu! Embrace. and explana-,
tlons all round, The two wick
ed Italians are forgiven and pen-
stoned off !: identity proved by thesim
pie song to which the blonde beauty
was sung to sleep in earlier years.: The
only mysterious point. that remained
was, why did the girl assume q boys
disgnIsef 2 This point she clears up by
gthat she could mott bear the
COARSE looks and words which saluted
her from men when she appeared at.
tired in the garments of. her sex. She
therefore .persuaded her pseudo-pafent
10 allow her ito4adopt male garments,
hoping thereby to elude the insult that
Ii born, of ID coarse admiration Of
one!a phystltte.s THE lady had much
difficulty in persuading the young girl
and her "parents" to separates; but the
VaS- effected at last, and
by the real mother and her
daughter sailing for Europe In
q recent steamer! Truth is stranger
than fctiohAa not nearly so proba-
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