The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-07
REAL LIFE ROMANCE.
The Sequel TO Long Story Found
in Detroit.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
''Next" shouted a barber in one of the
barber shops in this city yesterday after
noon, and in response the chair was occu-
pied by a tall, fair-looking, middle-aged
man who remarked Us he sat down:
F'This job over and | will be ready to
complete the work of lifetimer'
The traditional man who talks is the bar
ber who naturally asked what was the work
of the aforesaid lifetime, and during the
next half hour, while the customer was
treated to a shave, shampoo and hair cut
the following romance was related:
twenty-five years ago, or in the spring
of 1854, Enos Dalrymple was clerk in a
general store near the corner of Jefferson
avenue and Bates street Dalrymple had
then been over from England about one
year, and during his ocean voyage had made
the acquaintance of Miss Louisa Merkham
With their parents they came to this city,
and were thus enabled to continue an ac-
quaintance which soon changed to love,
and the consequent engagement resulted.
Louisa's parents being pretty well supplied
with this worlds goods were much opposed
to Dalrymple as a son-in-law, chiefly be-
cause he worked for living but their OPP
position was useless, The young couple
met in secret and carried ona correspondence
unknown to any one but themselves. Too
| poor to get married, young Dalrymple, as
| soon as he reached his majority started
| West in search of his fortune. He had not
been absent many months when Miss Merk-
| hams parents discovering that their daugh-
ter was still corresponding with Dalrymple,
| sent her to Quebec to be educated, ostensi-
! bly,, but really to wean her from the object
of her affection.
''For eight years." said Dalrymple, 81
heard not a word from Louisa, during
which time l moved to Melbourne, Austria
liza. and established myself as an attorney
and counsellor-at-law At last. on the Goth
| of August, 1866, | was surprised at the re-
| ceipt of letter bearing the Liverpool post
mark and the signature of my lost sweet
| heart. In the letter she stated that she had
| long thought me dead, but seeing my name
| in an Australian paper her old love had
prompted her to write to me, something
| telling her that the Australian attorney
was the Detroit clerk of 81.
II answered the letter promptly and with
the old feeling of affection, but waited for a
repIv in vain. until at last | made up my
| mind that either had been imposed upon
or that death had claimed my sweetheart.
''Still bachelor, toiled at my profession
and accumulated wealth, and last January,
/ filled with desire to revisit Detroit and my
! old home III England, also intending to
/ visit the worlds fair at Philadelphia, took
| passage on the steamer Calcutta for San
/
| February Without delay l started east,
and since that time have travelled across the
| continent three times.
! al asst Tuesday evening was at Chicago,
and to pass away the time l visited one OF
the theatres What the play was do not
recollect, save that there was reunion Of
/ the two principal characters after a long
separation, and, as usual, the audience was
| dismissed in high spirits. Especially was
IL IN bn
| ladv who assumed the part ola kind, mat
| ronIv old woman | fancied that recognized
the voice and features of the love OF my
| vonth. and try as | would | could not dis
| miss the fancy. So deeply was 1t impressed
upon nay mind that after going to my hotel
I examined the play-bill and after long con
sideration resolved to call upon the olc
woman" The next day carried OUT nay
resolution and there occurred mutuai re
cognition, which, had you seen it, yor
/ could never forget.
seThe result is that after nearly ten years
| of Efe.on the stage, Louisa has left 1T FOL
4 GOOD. and together we will visit Phlladel
s,hia and old England, after which we vii
return to Melbourne TO end our days II
peace and happiness, as hope -,
4 reporter of the Free Press, who had
overheard the remarks of the man IN tbs
chair, introduced himself, and was not only
received cordially, but was asked TO come
M to the Howard House at o'clock and
you'll see the sequel." ;.L
Having accepted the invitation WITH
thanks, the reporter was on hand and WIZ III
four or five invited guests witnessed Ins
marriage of the Australian lawyer anu ene
actress acstr from Chicago, and soon after saw
the old man, with shining face and steady
hand. inscribe with extra flourish in the no
tel register: "Enos DalrymPle and VIE
Melbourne, Australia,