The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-18
A Singular Story,
A BROTHER JUST ESCAPES MARRYING HIS
,e SISTER.

aS strlctly true ny Behtleinah "uo
arrived at New York on tho steam-
ship Rotterdam, of the Rotterdam
and Antwerp line, a short time ago.
The vessel left Rotterdam August
9Th, and among the passengers in the
cabin were a man apparently thirty
Eve years Of age, named James N.
Van Seller, and young lady, ap-
parently fifteen years younger, named
Maria Reuter-. From the time of
leaving port the two mentioned at,
tracted much attention, the man for
his graceful bearing and handsome
looks, and the young lady for her
beauty, of such tyre that the gems
tlemen, in talking about her, styled
her the "Mandona."
The ship had not skinned over
the dark blue waters more than two
days. when the conduct of the two
excited the curiosity of the passon,
gers to still greater degree. They
sat separate at the table, and never
while ut meals evinced by look or
word that they were ever acquainted.
But in the morning, even before the
sun had reared its crest out of the
bosom of the ocean, and long after
he had sunk beneath the waves, the
object of 80 much curiosity could be
seen engaged in conversation in such
ananner as left no doubt Of their
being man and wife, or lovers shortly
TO be. married.
But why the necessity of acting so
strangely toward each other when
IN companya The female occupants
eEithe cabin were on nettles, and de~
termined to solve the mystery. Ru-
Inors prejudicial to the fame of 'the
Nadona" were whispered from ear
to.ear, and they soon reached the ears
Of the young man.
He was indignant, but spared the
lady the recital, and, in order to save
them from future annoyance, he told
the writer's informant that he was
engaged to be married, and that his
intended bride thought there would
be something so romantic about q
marriage in mid ocean that he ac-
coded to her wish. Their acting as
they did in tho cabin was go that
when the time arrived for their mars
riage, they all, as his intended said,
might enjoy o general surprise.
The sixth day out from the port
was set down as the time for the aus>
piciohs event, and the ladies in the
cabin were wild with excitement
On the evening preceding the mar
riaga, as the sun was dipping it's
lower edge in the western horizon,
the passengers on deck were startled
by aloud shrek from the after part
of the hurricane deck, rushed to the
spot from whence the sound proceed
ed, and saw Miss Reuter- stretched
on the floor, while at a short distance
her lover leaned against the gune
vale, his face ashy pale, while upon
it's every lineament was depicted an
agony that a man can feel but once
in his lifetime.
What dire discovery lod to such q
sublimation of sorrow2 What upas
tree, with it's malignant breath, had
poisoned the atmosphere of love that
they but few brief moments before
had breathed. There stood the groom
of to morrow, speochloss and motion
less, and tho head of lis intended not
in his arms, lay where it had fallen
upon the deck.
The passengers, on sooing the sad
and strange sight, were amazed, and
wondered that her lover whose agony
was so apparent, did not approach
the PROSTATE form. But the reason
would be made apparent soon en-
ough, and their hearts would bleed
for n Urief that ho6 no homo for a