Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-04-20
A Romantic Marriage.

0 Some sixteen years since, 9
D young gentleman in New York
0 city contrived for awhile to pay
Q his addresses to a beautiful
. young girl there, the daughter
of a worthy but obstinate mer-
. . chant, who was opposed to the
) young mans visiting his daugh-
, ter. He persisted in his endeav-
ors to win the young lady, and
} at last was forbidden to enter
, the old mans house.
Still the lovers, contrived. to
meet occasionally afterWard, ,and
at the expiration Of six weeks
matters having been previously
arranged, the girl consented to
marry the youth who loved her,
and for whom he would at any
time have periled his life, SO
deeply rooted was his affection
for her. He did not seek her
fortune, for he was in the en-
joyment of a handsome salary
as principal book-keeper in all
extensive jobbing house, and his
prospects pecuniarily, were very
fair. But the parent was obdu-
rate and he was driven from
the house. MRM
AS we have limited, at the end
of a few weeks they agreed to
be married, and all the reqrli-
site arrangements were made;
the evening was fixed upon,
even the chaplain had been en-
gagged, but on tho morning of
the day proposed secretly for
the nuptials, the whole plan was
discovered, and the match was
broken off peremptorily, by the
absolute authority of the par
ents.
Time passed on. The daugh-
ter was sent to a distant part
of the country for awhile, and
the young man disappointed
and disheartened, left N. York
for the West.
Meanwhile, a person to suit
the taste Of the parents turned
up-a man of considerable
means, but old enough to be-
the young girls father and a
match arranged, after long per-
suasion, between Emma and
this man, and she welded him
at last.
Three years subsequently the |
young man found himself in
New England, where he settled
and took wife also, finding it
not good to dwell alone; and
some dozen years or SO passed
away, with their thousand and
one changes of place, of cir
cumstance, and of fortune. Il
From the time of their separa-
ton, the original lovers had new
er met.
The young man became the
father of three little ones, and
then lost two of these, which,
bereavement was soon followed
by the death of his wife. Time
flew by. He had been a wido-I /
wer some years, and his oldest
daughter had got to be quite a
miss. He had been fortunate
in his business, and resided a
few miles out of the city, in a
sweet little cottage, unclouded I
by sorrow, for the day of his
fortune had long since gone by:I
and he cndeavored to be con-tr
tented and happy; surrounded
as he was by the comforts of
life, and in the enjoyment of
the society of his dear little
daughter.
One day he was returning
home in the afternoon, and up
on entering the cars he found
them all full. He sought seat,
and found one occupied by a Ia
dy, beside whom he sat down,
and the cars moved out of the
depot. AS they emerged into
the light, he suddenly turned tot,
the lady, and exclaimed:
"Madame! Emma! is this
you?"
He didn't know exactly what
he said, but it was a fact that
he was on a seat with a girl tol.
whom he was once engaged to
be married, whom he had really
loved, and whom he had never
seen since the day of their cru
ell separation. A mutual expla-
nation quickly succeeded. Our
widowed friend ascertained that
his former intended was on her
way to the North, upon visit
to her friends; that she had
been married nearly eleven
years, had but one child living,
and her husband had been dead