New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-30
A Romance OF tho Kitchen,

| Heiressts found among servant girls art
so plentiful that no well regulated city
should be without one. In q majority o
cases. however. the pedigree is limited at sc
remotely and the Incidents handled sc
! &c lily az to leave doubts of the genuir (,
ness Of the article. Chicago has been har
boring an heiress among her domestice
whose claims are not mere conjecture, but q
| proven reality. and who is now on her way
| TO claim her inheritance. About twenty
one years ago young Creole, resident of
New Orleans, named George Martinez.
wooed, won and welded the daughter of a
we'll known minister OF one of the evangel-
ical churches. The. young couple, unless
portraits taken at the time deceive, were
possessed of much more than an average
amount of natural beauty, besides being
literally endowed mentally, and they
were welcome members of the elite of
New Orleans society. Possessed of a
liberal shars of wealth and goodly
stock of contentment, they lived hap
PLY and prOspered in many ways. and
the breaking ont of the rebellion found
them the parents of two children, Louisa. a
girl of five, and George boy of three, both
the children being named after their pa
rents. Mr.. Martinez was one Of those ferv
Spanish Louisianians who do first and re-
fleet afterWard, and when the war was de-
clared, scarcely waiting to bid his loved
ones good-by, ne joined the Confederate
army. Like large majority of the Con
federates, he confidently believed he was
going out simply to participate in one bril-
liant series Of victories, and in few weeks
or months at farthesA would return vic
torious warrior. and again clasp his wife
and babies in his loving arms. The weeks
speedily grew into months, and the months
had become long and weary, and the end
nd fn~ xub1n oh
S0utherners still hoped-seemed as as far
off as ever. In fact, to the young wife and
mother 1t was receding, and dangers i'm
mediately threatening New Orleans, from
the advance Of the federal troops, admonish.
ed her to seek q safer retreat for herself and
babies. In a short time an opportunity was
presented of reaching St. Louis, where her
father then resided. She had not heard
from her husband since his departure, as
he was in a branch OF the army from which
it was very difficult to get communications.
and she had doubts that he yet lived, but
did not give up all hope until death released
her from the trials and tribulations of this
world. Owing to the unsettled condition
of affairs in New Orleans, she was barely
able to obtain sufficient sum of money to
carry herself and children to her fathers
house in st. Louis. There for time she
resided, but her father, never having ap-
proved OF ner CHOICE OF husband, soon
made it anything but q pleasant home for
her, and che was compelled to seek shelter
elsewhere, and left, making neither effort |
to conceal from him nor apprise him of her |
whereabouts. She went to Wisconsin, and
by domestic labor, for which she was lily |
by training and nature, as her |
health was very delicate, she managed to |
support herself and children until just after |
he close Of the war, when the angel of |
1eath claimed her, and the children were
EFT orphans among strangers. They had
oeen given to understand that their
ather was dead, and knew of no rela-
i've to whom they could reasonably ap-
'ly for a home, consequently they were
placed in an orphan asylum, whence they
we're, however. soon removed, Louisa being
AIKEN charge Of by family in Delavan,
md George by kind gentleman in town
lear by. When the war closed Mr. Mar
inez sought his loved ones, but without
vail. Their neighbors in New Orleans
My knew that they had gone to st. Louis.
nd Mrs. Martinez's father knew, or pre-
ended to know, nothing of them. Later
he father informed Mr.. Martinez that his
rite was dead. but professed ignorance as
D the fate or whereabouts of the children,
It intervals since the war, whenever his
Of an extensive tobacco
ealer in Mobile-Would permit, tho father