Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-03-06
ACaIiCornia Romance.
now MAN AND wIFFNiEr AFTER INVENT
YEARS SEPARATION.


HOW NAN AND wIrFNEr AFTER TWENTY
YEARS SEPARATION.
Vallejo Chronicle, December 30th.1
One of those strange episodes in hu-
man life which makes us sometimes
wonder at 1.-The eternal fitness Of things"
occurred last night at the Vallejo June
ton. The tide being low on the arri-
val of the Contra Costa, passengers for
Vallejo were compelled to make quite q
descent from the wharf to the boat, and
the ladies' required the assistance of the
gentlemen present. A Mr.. g., grain
speculator, was doing the agreeable in
this respect, and one OF the last ladies
TO descend was overburdened with
few bundles, which be took charge OF
and accompanied the lady to the cabin,
where they sal and engaged in conver-
sation. The subject finally touched up
on the nativity of each, when il was
found that they were both from tho
same town III Kentucky. This fact
made each more communicative, when
he inquired her name, which was given
rs Mrs. G. Immediately the gentleman
grew pale and excited, and asked:
"You had a daughter, did you not
- did," she responded. "Pray, how
did you know that :"
sis that daughter living Z
''She is, aud at present on visit TO
friends at Vallejo, where am now go
ing"
"Merciful heavens = he gaspcd. "My
child"
"Sir !" said the lady, rising: "what do
you mean :"
"Mean?" he crafty replied. "Mean
Why mean that that daughter is my
own child, and that you are my wi'e!'
Almost overpowered At this confess.
ion, she piled him with questions, TO ev-
cry one Of which he returned correct
answer, when she was Convinced that
the man was really her husband, from
whom she had been separated twenty
years. 1t seems the twain was married
| in Paris, Ky, in 1853, ard thirteen
/ months afterwards he wen, TO Liverpool
on business. The vessel on which no
took passage was wrecked, and all on
board were supposed to have perished.
! The news coming TO the young witcs
ears, she was utterly prostra,td, and
was ordered to California by herphysi-
clans. Arriving here, she took up her
residence in Los Angeles. The husband
was picked up from the wreck by fish
ing smack aud taken 10 some remote
foreign port, where he was thrown upon
bed of sickness, which lasted soma
fifteen months In the mean time bo
had written repeatedly to his wife, but
received no answer. In has despair he
concluded to risk journey across the
! Atlantic. Feeble as he was he shipped
before the mast on n sailing vessel, and
i'm due timearrived in New York. From
there he wrote three times 10 his wife,
but received no answer. Almost iren-
zied at the thought that sue might loo
dead, and being without funds and no
friends, be ''faced' his fare clear 10 Ken
lucky and shortly after arrived at Paris.
Inquiries throughout the town assured
him that his wife had disappeared q year
or so before, no one knew whittier.
Some said she had gone in search ot
her husband, others that she might bc
dead, and others that she bad gone to
California. He sought the old family
physician, but he had left the town
some time before. Mr.. G.. then went
TO work at Louisville and made enough
TO bring him to California year after
his arrival in Kentucky. lie searched
everywhere for his absent wife, but
without success, and finally gave her up
ms dead; aud she also had mourned for
his death. Neither, however, had mar
ried again, and last evening on board
the Contra Costa was the first in;ima-
ton either had that the other was in ex-
| istence.
The now happy couple arrived hero
last night, and 10 the surprise Of the
friends of the lady, she introduced her
husband, from whom she had been sep
ara,ed twenty years. Bat imagine bis
unutterable surprise and Joy when tho
mother led into the parlor beautiful
young lady--h;s own daughter, whom
he nad not seen since she was babe.
Father, mother and child will leave to-
morrow for San Francisco, where Mr..
G., who is now comparatively wealthy
man, has his business. and where they
will hereafter reside.