Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-11-22
From the Troy Times, Nov '->'
The Mistake of a Name How One Man
s Lost Bride that Another Man Won

b Two years ago young lady, who shall be
like the pure and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore, nameless here forever
more, resided in the upper part of the city
She had a bevy of devoted admirers who
sought her favor. Not having much of the
coquerte in her conn position she did not give
smile to ALL but chose one of her admirers on
whom she lavished all her love OF course the
fortunate male was happy in the love of one
so beautiful in feature and mind, and sought
by every device known to lovers to make him-
self more worthy of his treasure He was her
constant attendant at all places of public re-
sort, and the gossips soon began to whisper
that they were engaged-a whisper to which
the colorlng of fact was speedily given by the
appearance OF ring on a certain finger of one
Of the lady's hands Her parents about this
time for business reasons) removed to the
western part of the State and the lovers were
separated They parted with the -u~ual num-
ber of assurances OF everlasting fidelity to each,
which probably meant as much and no more
than those assurances generally mean. They
we're lovers, engaged to be married. and those
who have been In that condition can easily
imagine what was said. Those who have not
yet been in love- and parted with the idols of
their hearts, ought not to know what occurred
at the parting. Each pledged the other to
write frequent letters, and thus by means of
the facilities afforded by our obliging Uncle
Samuel they hoped to keep alive their love for
each other. According to the laws of etiquette
the gentleman wrote the first of these tender
missives, and there the correspondence on his
part ceased, the how and why of which will be
more fully detailed below. The young lady in
due course of time received the letter and an
swered it. But in directing it she forgot to
put the street and number of her lovers resi-
IL H.,
the part of a letter carrier the letter was de-
livered, not to the person for whom it was in
tended, but to another with the same name
This aforementioned individual was nightly
surprised at the receipt of the missive but,
as he rather liked the manner in which it was
written, be concluded to conf~cate all such
communications as might be indicted in future
by the young lady So he wrote a reply, in
which he protested his love In terms as strong
as had the original lover, and to guard against
mi i>takes, he informed the fair correspondent
that he had changed his residence He gave
the name of the street and number of the
house IN which he lived, and particularly re-
quested the lady to direct her letters there, as
he had reason to believe that another person Of
the same name was living in Troy. The cor
respondence was continued until few weeks
ago, when the person who bad received the
letters intended for another concluded to visit
the fair unknown TO hin as least( and expose
his acts H. did 80, but insieai Of the, re-
proaches which he had expected, mild word-
of reproof were only tered, and but few Of
,hese The lady seemed TO like him and he
undoubtedly worshipped her The upshot Of
the matter Was that the two were married sone
days ago. The first lover, it is said, thinks Of
arraignlng the Post-office Depart ment for lnef6-
cheney, We end this recital In the customary
uau.-Sich is life