The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-25
LIMA POSELLT.
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

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es the following: 4 poor girl, now
about nineteen years of age, was born
in Rome and received the above name.
Her father was probably an organist
of the wandering jew class. and her
mother may have been fish woman.
There Is no doubt her parents were
/ poor, and they may have been hon
est. Lima very early conceived a dis
taste for life in Rome. and started
out to make her fortune She was
| pretty sun burned in her
| veins, and Italy's skies shone in her
eyes. She got away from home at
| fourteen, and threw herself upon the
wide world with that dangerous com
panion, a beautiful face She drifted
| to New \ Ork and soon became noted
as a pretty flower girl She did
not stand on the corner with her
blooming basket, but carried it around
| in fashionable avenues. and to the
brown stone mansions seated thereon.
! Her fresh stock of flowers every morn
ing, and her bright eyes and the roses
on her cheeks, and the perfect picture
of beauty she made, harmonized with
the aristocratic locality she loved to
! frequent. She always sold out and
then giided away into the solitude Of
| the great city, no one knew whittier.
| Her swift foot dc1ied followers.
She became curiosity-and then
| sensation. David Simmons, an Old.
! rich, retired merchant, saw her and
became one Of her daily patrons. He
was often seen talking to her on his
marble steps, and afterwards with a
! D0sv in his button-hOIe Then sir.
Simmons tried to find out where the
beautiful vision vanished when the
! basket was empty, and because he
could not became greatly distressed.
! Mr.. Simmons was widower. but he
| had daughter VINO was married. and
! she and her husband lived with the
| Olu man in the house The daughter
saw the beautiful Italian girl. and did
not like her She objected to her
| father making an old Ounce Of him
self, and the quantity Of flowers which
old Mr.. Simmons bought every day
/ was something astonishing.
The more his daughter scolded. th4
more he filled his room with flowers,
and the more he displayed the choicest
! and rarest OF them in his various but
ton-holes. He was walking cOnsc.-
! vat0ry and hOt-hOuse. though lie could
not be called Il green house. His
| white hairs too nearly resemhled dead
leaves. His daughter and her hus-
band made an effort to get his proper
| tv taken out of his hands, but failed
to establish case Of insanity This
/ angered him. and when it was MI over
! he ordered his cOvetoUs children to
/ leave his house entirely, and thew went
sorrowing away. The old man then
turned all the property he possessed
into money and disappeared from New
York. The beautiful flower GIRL dis
| appeared at the same time. She had
made her fortune. The old man and
his Italian charmcr went by sea to
Savannah, Georgia where they were
duly and properly married
David Simmons on the same day
executed an Instrument whereby all
his money and bonds were Ief5 TO his
wife. In few days he met with an
accident which injured his spinal cord,
and he laid down and died Nothing
was heard in New York Of the fate oi
| Simmons for six months. and, in the
meantime, the girl had left the coun-
try. and was safely back in her own
sunny land. The only thing left to
tell Of David Simmons was an empty
trunk, which Was found in 4 New Or
leans hotel.
Lima Poselli has been heard from.
She had been seen in Rome by one
who, like old Simmons, had been in
fatuaJed with the bare legged flower
@irl of New \ Ork 1t was at the car
niYal last spring. During the last
DAYS of this fantastic satIrnalia. he
saw a gOrgeously apparalIcd woman
in an elegant open carriage who at
tracted universal attention. and com
manded the pIaudits of the thron@ that
besct her carriage.
1t was Lima Poselli Her form was
nearly lost amid the banks of roses
and exquisite flowers that surrounded
her Her face was wreathed in smiles
size peltcd with sugar pIums the oc
cuPants of the carriage next in front
or next behind her in the procession
! Her eyes danced and sparklud Tx,
light in water Her whole being va.
in q condition Of bewi,chcd madness
and tumultuous merrimcnt-the very
! iEtoNication Of ec9tat:c en.oyInent-
Size had mace her fortune The cair,
dream OF her childhood was realizcd
she Is nineteen and rich and heau-i
ful, and native Of Italy. \ fortune
for prince-perhaps future queen
of the opera. What connection has
Lima POseIli henceforth with the prct-
ty flower girl Of New York. or the
old empty trunk in New Orleans!
BARNUM is going to make his ami