The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-01-06
An Albanian Looks for Mules and Finds
Wife---A Story OF Mans Constancy and
WOmau's Devotion.

An Albanian Looks for Mules and Finds
Wife---A Story Of Mans Constancy and
Womau's Devotion.
The Charlotte (North Caroliua) Observe,
says:
A few days ago tall, fine looking speci-
men of the Alabama yeomanry, got of the
train at this place and repaired to hotel
His open, Ingenious and honest face forbade
the suspicion that he could act part, SC
when he gave out that he visited this section
for the purpose of purchasing mules and &C.
cnring farm hands to send to his plantation
in Alabama, no one suspected but what this
was really the object of his visit Several
parties offered to sell him mules, but be de-
ferred purchasing, and in his conversation
with the stock traders and his boarding-house
people they got clue to the real object oil
his search, and so did we, and we give it 70,
the benefit of the readers of the Observer
Several years ago, and before this "cruel war: .
our Alabama friend wooed and won the heart
Of a fair one of his own sunny cline. She
was an heiress, beautiful and accomplished
and her people sought for her more dis
tinguished connection than the simple farmer
who had won her affections. The youthful
lovers plead their cause, but the old folks re-
NAMED memorable, and our hero was forbid
the presence Of the young lady. But they
effected meeting, maybe in an orange
grove where the ''orange dispels its perfume, >
where they vowed eternal constancy, and de
ed to patiently wait for the consumma
tion of their happiness until he had acquired
wealth, the lack of which on his part was
now the only obstacle.
( sThe war came on and our hero enlisted
under the banner of the Lost Cause, and re-
manned in that service until the affair under
the Appomattex apple tree. He then return
ed to his native South, went into business
prospered-in word struck tie. He looked
round about him, and his fields were white
with the staple, and his cattle fed upon al
hundred hills. But in his heart there wal
an aching void. Where was she who hat
plighted her troth to him ten years ago2 Hat
she been constant, or was she now another's
The war bad swepted away her property ant
that of her friends, and she with them hae
refugeed to North Carolina, where she hae
some relatives, but recently, firing of eating
the "bitter bread of dependence" she went
to work with milliner Of this city, but mo-
showing any aptitude for that business she
lost her situation. She then became mem
Der of the family of sheriff White, OF this
place, who did everything in their power tt
make her happy, but her thoughts involunta
rily turned to her Alabama lover, Of whom
she had heard nothing, and her woman's mod
esty prevented her writing to inquire. He
in his turn knew nothing of her except
that during the war she had gone to North
Carolina, and never returned; but whether
she was married, rich or poor, dead or alive
he didn't know, but he was determined te
find out, and for that purpose he arrived here
few days ago, and he found the object Of
his search, surrounded by the circumstances
we have related. The rest Of the story is
told by the following announcement:
MARR1ED--1n this city, on Thursday the 18th
instant, at the residence Of Sheriff White, by
Rev. DR.. Miller, Mr.. S G.. Mclaughlin, of Ala
bama, to Miss Rowena Cannon, Of Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that 20 pit-a-pat.