The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-17

The Strange Story OF a New York
Girl Who Followed Her Lover.

The Strange Story Of q New York
Girl Who Followed Her Lover.
From thu rolsi. Journal
In 1861 Miss Matilda kibleli lived
with her parent. wcil-io-do people at
Albion. y. Y. She was about twenty.
Was progressing in appearance. rather
small in stature. with certain mus
culine appearance, though not Coarse.
which afterwards served her a good
purpose, Early in the summer selsoI,
she was. with party Of eXcursionists
ut Niagara Fails. and met accidentally
with Chaundey n. Niles, then OF
Cleveland. 1t was case of mutual IL
we'll is sudden infatuatiou. and result
ed in promises tn meet again. Niles
was q widower, with one child, u Lad,
who, since grown to manhood and
family. is now q locomotive engineer
Oh the Lake Shore Road. AMI lived a,
37j South street, this city. His name
il Rosalyi ID. Niles. The love-sick
Miles som went To Albion AMI aroused
BY his visit the serious displeasure Of
Miss Kibbell's relatives. They for
bade further attention to the young
lady, under penalty Of sending her
away To q convent. But neither was
dismayed or disheartened. They met
clandestinely and arranged IN elope-
meut. And 50. having given out to
friends of the family that he would
Weld to fate and lose his love. he
started hOmeward. with promise of
the cir! TO follow by train fourteen
hours after, t0 meet. not at Cleveland,
where Niles was known, but in Toledo.
Niles FASTENED On ut once to this city,
where, having staid a few hours. he
took mn Eastern train and met the
train bearing the faithful girl at Ere
mont. They found they were pursued,
AMI stepped of and were married at
once by a Justice If the Peace. The
next train through Fremont took
her brother to Toledo in pursuit. but
he could get no trace further than
that the couple took train for Toledo
at Cleveland. Both staid ut Fremont q
few days when Niles went to Toledo
and she followed, disguised in male
attire. He secured place in an en-
CINE shop. heated. he thinks now. on
Erie street, and she. in her boys dis
guiSe. went to peddling oranges and
cigars on the streets, and actually sold
some to her brother on one Of his trips
to the city in person.
As fall wore On they saw and heard
no more of the searching Of friends,
and had settled down to housekeeping,
throwing of disguise. though she went
out bnt little. The ''blast Of war" was
blowing strOngly-how fiercely many
a lonely heart still remembers well.
Advertisements from Cleveland were
sent for engineers To run Government
trains. Niles went there, made an
arrangement for himself and fireman.
and midwinter found him runnin:
Government engine on q Nashville
railroad, with his wife in her old dis
guise. as fireman. This lasted several
months. On Buell's famous retreat
TO Nashville. there were reports of
train being fired into by bu>hwhackers,
and a number Of persons killed on the
train, and many hurt. including the
brave engineer, who paid no heed to
ol.tructions IN the track. and nv
bravely pulling through saved the
Government a valuable train Of cot
ton. This was Niles. He was badly
wounded AMI ON being stopped at
Tullahon,a, where the road was
blockaie,l. was removed to Murfrees-
boro in an ambulance. and thence to a
Northern hospital. with his wife-Gre-
man for hospital nurse. In 1863. the
war was over, the couple found them
selves in Cleveland. Niles got the
gold fever. and leaving his wife in that
city. left for the West. He returned
ut the close of the season, however.
dishearicned with the wet, which had
made the mining season failure.
They lived at Cleveland, in Toledo
and Chicago alternately, both dung
what they could for support, living to-
sether last at the former city. In
1872. leaving her here, he went to
Chicago to attend to some business
connected with the demise Of his first
wife's brother. named Fits. On his
arrival he found telegram the his
wife in Cleveland was suddenly i'll
and might not live, though they would
inform him If she got worse. He staid
four days. and when he reached the
Cleveland boarding house was stricken
with the tidings Of her death and
burial. The landlord showed her
clothes and effects. and took him to
the grave, whose fresh covering was
too plain proof of his severe loss. lie
gathered up the keePsakes. gave up
his place, and has since lived here and
there. earning what he conld. Here |
in Toledo he NAV be remembered as a |
skillful letterer Of winnOws and painter
Of signs. But it is the denoument
which Is the strangest part Of his his
lory, which. il that he has within q
short time made the discovery that
his wife is not dead, but was discover
"a by her friends, and by the decite
reclaimed from her wanderings. and
IS now living at her old home with
The friends Of her youth. Niles. who
mas himself told these facts. declares
his intention Of claiming his lawful
wife, and is sure he will succeed in
Icing 50.
What Allied Him.
rom the Hos-klsnd Courier.
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