Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-24
THE MISTAKE OF a NAME,


How one MAN Lost q Bride that Am
other Mem W0n-AlI - Fair in Love
and war Fearful Wa rning
Against Two Persons Having she
Same Name.
From the Troy Times, Nov. 8.
Two years ago a young lady, who shall
be. like the pure ane radiant maiden
whom the angels named Len0re, nameless
here foreyermore, resided in the upper
part of the city. She had beyy of de-
voted admirers, who sought to gain her
favor. Not having much of the coqueste
in her composition, she did not give smile
for smile TO all, but chose one OF her adj
miners, ON whom she layished all her love.
OF course the fortunate male was happy
In the loveof one so beautiful In feature and
mind, and sought by every device known
to lovers to make himself more worthy
of his treasure. He was her constant at
tendant of all places of public resort, and
the gossip soon began to whisper that
they were engaged whisper to which
the coloring of fact was speedily given by
the appearance of ring on certain fin
ger of one of the lady's hands. Her
parents about this time, for business rea-
| sons, removed to the Western part of the
State, and the lovers were separated.
They parted with the usual number OF
assurances of everlasting fidelity to each,
which probably meant as much and no
more than those assurances generally
mean. They were 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. Accord
ing to the laws of etiquette the gen.
tleman wrote the first of these
| tender missiYes, and there the correspon-
dence 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 answered
it. But in directing it she forgot TO put
| the street and number of her lovers resi-
| dence upon the envelope, and by mis-
| take on the part of letter carrier, the
letter was delivered, not to the person for
whom it was intended, but to another
with the same name. This last mention
ed individual was nightly surprised at
| the receipt of the missive; but, as he
| rather liked the manner in which it was
written, he concluded to confiscate all
such communications as would be indited
n future by the young lady. So he
| wrote reply, in which he protested his
love in terms as strong as had the origi-
nal lover, and to guard against mistakes
| 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 requested the lady to d.
| rect her letters there, as he had reason to
believe that another person of the same
name was living in Troy. The correspond
ence was continued until few weeks ago,
| when the person who had received the
| letters intended for another, concluded to
visit the fair unknown Ito him at least)
and expose his acts. He did so, but, in
stead of the reproaches which he had half
expected, mild words of reproof were only
uttered, and but few of these. The lady
seemed to like him, and he undoubtedly
worshipped her. The upshot of the mat
ter was that the two were married some
| days ago. The first lover, it is said,
thinks of arrsigniDg the Postoffice De-
partment for ineficiency. We end the
recital in the customary manner. SIGH is
| life