Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-02-17
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A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.

EMNI1 OF thoSc strange episodes in human
- lie which make Us sometimes wonder at
''the eternal fitness of things" occurred last
night at Vallejo Junction. The tide being
low on the arriVel of the Contra Costa, pas
seu9ers for Vallejo were compelled to make
quite descent IRON the wharf to the boat.
aud the ladies required the assistance of the
gentlemen present. y Mr. G.. grain specu.
lator, was dung the agreeable in this re,
spect, and one of the last ladies to descend
was overburdened with few bundles which
he took charge of aud accompanied the lady
to the cabin, where they sat and engaged in
conversation. The subject finally touched
upon the nativity OF each, when it was found
that they were both from the same town in
Kentucky This fact made each uorc cons
mumicativc, when he Inquired her pane.
which was given as Mrs. g. Immediately
the gentlemen grew pale aud excited, aud
asked:
"Iou had a daughter. did you nct?''
Il did" she responded. Pray, how did
you know that?"
'Is that daughter Iving?"
''She is,and at rresept on visit to friends
at Vallejo, where l am now going"
"Alercirul heavens" he gas2cd. "My
chiId!'
Sir, said the lady, rising; what do you
,nean%'
"M ean!' he cr*z;ly replied "Meaa?
Why, mean that that daughter ia my own
child, aud that You my witc!"
Almost cverpowcred at this Confession, she
Piled him with questions, to every one Of
which he returned a currcct answer, when
she was Convinced that the man was really
| her husband, from whom she had been scpa
rated twenty years. II seems the twain were
married in Paris, Kentucky, in 1853, and
thirteen months aiterward ho went to Liver.
Eool on business. The vessel on which ho
took passage was wrecked, aud. all on board
were supposed to have persisted. Tho news
coming to the young wife's s cars, she was ut>
tcTly Frustrated, and was ordered to Galilor.
MIA by her physicians. Arriving here, she
took up her residence in Los Angeles. The
husband was picked up from the wreck by
fishing smack and taken to some remote for,
c'gn port, where he wos thrown upon bed
OF sickness, which lasted some fifteen mon tbs
In the meantime he had written repeatedly
to his wife, but received no answer In his
despair he concluded to risk journey across
the Atlantic. feeble as he was he shipped
| before the mast a smiling vessel, and in
due time arrived in New York. From til orc
he wrote three times to his wife, but received
no answer Almost fcuZied at the thought
that she might be dead and being without
funds aud no friends, he faced his fare clear
to Kentucky, and shortly after arrived at
Paris. Inquiries throughout the town rs.
sured him that his vile had disanpeared e
year or SO before, no one knew whittier.
Some seid she had goRe in scurch Of her hus-
baud. others that she might be dead, and
others that she had gone to California He
sought the old family physician, but he had
lett the town snHie time before Mr. G
then went to work at Louisville and made
enough to bring hi;n to California year
after his arrival in Kentucky. He searched
everywhere for his absent wife, but without
success, aud fnally gave her up as dead; and
she also had mourncd for ls death. Neither.
however, had married again, and last evening
on board the Contra Costa vas the irst iDti>
nation either had that the other was in cx-
istcrce.
The now happy couple arrived here last
night, and to the surprise Of tho friends Of
the lady, she introduced her husband, from
whom she had been separated twenty years
But imagine his unuiferable surprise and ioy
when the mother led into the parlor beau
| tIlul young lady-his own daughter, whom
ne had not seen sincs she was babe. Faith.
er, rcothcr and child will leave for San Fran
cisco, where Mr.. c., who is now compare
lively wealthy man, has his busincss, and
where they will hereafter reside.
TIE Law OF LEAP YEAR As this is
leap year. iG is well to know what the law oi
leap year is. This law, it is said, takes nc
notice OF parts Of days, and as to the goth ol
February, it takes no notice Of the whole
| day. The 28th aud 29th are computed as
one day. For example Suppose a note is
! dated on the 28th Of February, 1880, pay
| able one month from date. Ordinarily il
would be payable on the 4th of April and SO
| it is in leap year. and not on the Sd. Sec
r. S. of New York, p. Cos, 5. 3, which
provides that '.tho added day of leap year
and the day Immediately preceding, if they
shall occur in any period SO to be computed
! shall be rcckoDed together as one day
( This embraces statutes, deeds, verbal or writ
ten contracts, and all public OF private in
ts.--4Nany La'0 Journal
= a colored man entered the chamber of
an cstimabIe young lady at Stockton, Nd =,
| one night recently. for the purpose, as he
afterwards confessed of perpetrating an OUT
rage, but was foiIed by the young lady Civ
ing vigorous alarm. Tho rascal escaped for
the time, but was oaught few evenings af.
terwards aud taken by body OF disguised
men to an adjoining woods, tied up, and re-
ceived the worst horses whipping on record
After the crowd was satisfied that be Rad been
sufficiently punished, he was allowed to de,
part. with the Injunction never agsin to make
bis appearance in Worcester county.