Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-04-04
From the Missouri Republican
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
LIMA PossKLLI.

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age, was born in Rome, and received
the above name. Her father was prob
ably an organist of thewandering class
and her mother may have been a fish
woman. There is no doubt her parents
were poor, and they may have beer
honest. Lima very early conceived s
out to make her fortune. She was
and ftaly's skies shone in her eyes.
She got away from home at fourteen.
and threw herself upon the underworld
with that dangerous companion a beau
tiful face. She drifted to New York
and soon became noted as "pretty
flower girl" She did not stand on the
corner with her blooming BASKET, but
carried it around infashionale avenues,
sions seated thereon. Her fresh stock
of flowers every morning., and her
bright eyes and the roses on her cheeks
and the perfect picture Of beauty
she made, harmonized with the aristo-
cratic locality she loved to frequent
She always sold out and then ghded
away into the solitudes of the great
city, no one knew whittier. Her swift
curiosity-and then q sensation. David
chant, saw her and became one of her
ing to her on his marble steps, and
afterwards with posy in his button
hole. Then Mr.. Simmons tried to find
out where the beautiful vision van
ished when the basket was empty, and
greatly distressed. Mr.. Simmons was
was married, and she and her husband
livedwith theold man in his house. The
daughter saw the beautiful italian
girl and did not like her. She objected
to her father making an old Ounce of
himself, and the quantity of flowers
which old Mr.. Simmons bought every
day was something astonishing.
The more his daughter scolded the
more he filed his room with flowers,
and the more he displayed the choicest
and rnrest of them, in his various but
ton-holes. He was a walking conserya-
tory and hot house, though he could
not be called green house. His white
hairs too nearly resembled dead leaves.
His daughter and her husband made
an effort to get his property taken out
of his hands, but failed to establish a
case of insanity. This nngered him,
and when it was all over he ordered
entirely, and they went sorrowing
away. The old man then turned all
the property he possessed into money
and disappeared from New York. The
beautiful fower-girl disappeared at the
co.. ha
tune. The old man and his Italian
character went by sea to Savannah.
Georgia, where they were duly and
properly married.
David Simmons ON the same day ex-
ecuted an instrument whereby ali his
money and bonds were left t. his wife.
which injured his spinal cord, aud he
lay down and died Nothing was
heard in New York of the fate of Sim
mons for some months, and, in the
the girl had left the coun-
try, and was safely back in her own
sunny land. The only thing left that
told of David Simmons was his empty
trunk, which was found in New
Orleans hotel.
Lima Posselli has been heard from.
who, like old Simmons, had been in
with the bare-legged flower
girl of New York. It was at the car
nival last spring. During the last
days of this fantastic saturnalia he
saw a gorgeously apparelled wo-
man IL an elegant open carriage,
who attracted almost universal
and commanded the
plaudits of the throng that beset
her carriage. 1t was Lima Possei.-
Her form was nearly lost amid the
banks of roses and exquisite flowers
that surrounded her. Her face was
in smiles as sAe pelted with
the occupants of the car
riaee next in front or next behind her
in the procession. Her eyes danced
and laughed and sparkled like light in
water. Her whole being was in con-
dition of bewitching madness and tu-
multuous merriment-the very into1i-
cation of ecstatic enjoyment. She had
made her fortune. The fairy dream
of her childhood was realized. She is
and rich aud beautiful, and
in her native Italy. A fortune for
prince-perhaps q future queen of the
opera. What connection has Lima
Posselli henceforth with the pretty
of New York, or the old
empty trunk in New Orleans?