The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-23
A Life Romance.

3; A Life Romance.
now 4 LOST NEPHEW WAS FoUSD-THE STORY
TOLD ABOUT A wELL-ENowN CITIZEN OF
prTTspURGH-A FORTUNATE TELEGRAPHIC
DISPATCH AND IT'S STRANGE RESULTS.
Ipittsburg Telegraph
There are few men who have not met
pc;th some romantic or. unusual experience
in the course OF their lives, and fewer still
who have not at some period or other been
shown that the French proverb, :" Nothing
ever happens but the Impossible ana uneX-
pected," has "a great deal OF truth IN II.
The even tenor Of the way OF some OF US IS
invaded in the most ruthless manner: every
now and then by some event which was not
only totally unlocked for, but was regarded
nc out of the limit Of possibilities. Il good
example Of these freaks or destiny was told
the TELEGRAPH a short time ago by Mr. John
w. Haney, the welEknown transportation
man and shipper and handler Of freight.
About twenty-three years ago Mr.. Haney
lived in Ohio. His wife died while he re-
Sided there, and he came to Pittsburgh
shortly afterward. He went into business
here, and gradually began to build up the
fine business which he now controls. Not
long after his departure from Ohio his pro-
Their died, and his widow came to Pitts
burgh to visit some relatives, leaving her
son, boy four or five years old, with some
friends in the Buckeye State. She had not
been in the city long before she be-
came i'll, and died rather suddenly.
Mr., Haney at once went after his nephew,
and on arriving at the little village
where the family. had lived in whose care
the boy had been left, he found. to his con-
sternation, that they had sold out all their
things and gone further west. "Gone
west" in those days meant very different
thing from what it does now; and, rs no.
body knew where the family had gone,
search for them was like looking for FIVE
cent piece that had dropped in the Atlantic
ocean. In spite Of all discouragements, Mr..
Hanev spent considerable time and money
in irving to discover the boy. and
did not give it up entirely until seve-
raj wears had elapsed. Not q single
trace could be found Of the little fellow,
and au last lie was almost forgotten and
became rs one who had long been dead,
as far as Mr.. Haney was concerned. About
q month ago merchant in Cairo, ILL.,, order
ed large consignment OF axes in the East,
and instructed Mr.. Haney not to send them
through unless he could get special rates of
freight. The river began going down and
freight advanced, so number OF kilograms
passed between the gentleman in Cairo and
Mr.. Haney. One day after these kilograms
had been sent dispatch was received from
a telegraph operator in Cincinnati asking.
"Who is John w. Haney?" and adding that
he 1.-THE operator) had an uncle Of that name
here, whom he had not seen for great
many years. The dispatch was shown to
Mr.. Haney, and investigation disclosed the
fact that the lost nephew had been found at
l,ct Tho how had ioSt all recollection of
his Pittsburgh relatives except his uncle's
name, and when it passed through his office
it revived the latent memories, and the dis
coyery followed. The nephew is night
manager OF the Cincinnati telegraph office,
and about month ago he came to Pitts
burgh to visit his uncle, who naturally was
delighted with the singular result OF his tele-
grams in regard to that consignment OF axes.