Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
How One Man Lost a Bride that An0th-
or Man Won.
From the Troy Times, 9th

Two years ago young lady who shall
be, like the pure and radiant maiden
whom the angels named Lenore, nameless
here forevermore, resided in the upper
part of the city. she had bevy of devoted
admirers who sought to gain her favor,
Not having much of the coquette in her
composition she did not give smile for
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 himself more
worthy of his treasure. He was her con.
s. ant attendant at all places CT public re-
sort, and the gossips soon began to whisp-
er that they were engaged-a whisper to
which the colorlng of fact was speedily
given by the appea r"ncs OF ring on GER
| tain finger on 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, 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 whal 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 olher 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 gen.
tieman wrote the first of these tender mis-
sives, and there the correspondence on his
part ceased, the now and why of which
viii 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 residence
upon the envelope, and by mistake or
the part of the letter carrier the letter wa,
delivered, not to the person for whom i
was intended, but to another with the same
name This last mentioned individD cal wa.
nightly surprised at the receipt of tht
missive. but rs he rather liked the manne
in which it was written, he concluded tt
confscate all such communications q
might be indited In future by the youns
lady. So he wrote reply, in which a.
protested hls~love IN ;erms as strong a
had the original lover, and to guard agains
mistakes he informed the fair correspond
emit that he had changed his residence. Ell
gave the name of the street and the nul..
Der of the house in which he liveo
and particularly requested the lad
to direct her letters there. as he had reaso
to believe that another person OF the sam
name was living in Troy. The correspond
enee was continued until a few weeks ago
when the person who had received the lei
ters intended-for another concluded to visi
the fair unknown Ito him at least) and ey
pose his acts. He did so, but instead c
reproacbes which he bad expected. mil
words of reproof were only uttered. an
but few of these. The lady seemed to Ink
him, and he undoubtedly worshipped he,
The upshot of the matter was that the tw
were married some days ago. The frs
lover, it is said, thinks of arraigning tn
postofice department for inef6ciency
We end this recital in the customary man
ner: SIGH is life