The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-20
a c.,,rsrv,a Romance.
now MAN AND WIFE MET AFTER TWENTY
YEARS SEPARATION.

ivsicjo chroaicle, December 3otb.I
One of those strange episodes In human
life which make us sometimes wonder a!
| stbe eternal fitness OF things" occurred
| last night at the Vallejo junction. The tide
being low on the arrival OF the Contra
Costa, passengers for Vallejo were compel.
| led TO make quite a descent from the wharf
| 10 tho boat, and the ladies' required the as
sIstancc OF the gentlemen present. MT. W.
grain Spectator, was doing the agreeable
In this respect, and one OF the last ladies' 10
descend was oyerburdened with Few pun
pIcs, which be took charge OF and accompa-
MED the lady to the cabin, where they sat
and engaged In conversation. The subject
finally touched upon the nativity OF eacb,
when it was found that they were both
from The same town In Kentucky. ms
fact made each more communicative. when
be inquired her name, which was given as
Mrs. G.. Immediately the gentleman grew
pale and exc ted, and asked:
"You had daughter, did you not?"
al did," she responded. "Pray, how
did you know that ?"
lis that daughter lvinct"
."Shc il, ard at present on visit to
friends at Vallejo, where am now going"
"Merciiul beavens!" he gasped. My
chiIdi"
"Sirl" said the lady. rising; "what do
You meanf'
"Mcan?" he crafty replied. "Mean
Why, mean that that daughter Is my own
child and that you are my wife
Almost oyerpowere at this confession, she
piled him with questions. TO every one OF
which he returned a correct answer, when
she was convinced that the man was really
her husband. from whom she had been sepa-
rated twenty years. 1t seems the twain were
married in Paris. KY, in 1858, and thirteen
months aflerward he went to Liverpool on
business. The vessel on which he took
passage was wrecked, and all on board
were supposed to have persisted. The
news coming to the young wife's ears,
she was utterly Frustrated, and was
ordered TO California by her physl-
clans. Arriving here, she took up her resi-
dence in Los Angeles. The husband was
picked up from the eek by fishing smack
and taken TO some remote foreign port,
where he was thrown upon bed OF SICK
ness, which lasted some fifteen months. In
the mean time be 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 on sailing vessel,
and in due time arrived in New YORK.
From there be wrote three times TO his
wife, bat received no answer. Almost
frenzied at the thought that she might be
dead, and being without funds and no
friends, he faced" his fare clear 10 Ken
lucky, and shortly after arrived at Paris.
Inquiries throughout the town assured
him that his wife had disappeared year or
so before, no one knew whittier. Some said
she had gone In search OF her husband,
others that she might be dead, and others
that she bad gone TO California. tie sought
the old family physician, but he bad lett
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. He searched every
where for his absent wife, but without sue
cess, and finally gave her up as dead; and
she also had mouIned for his death. Nei-
Their, however, had married again. and last
evening On board the Contra Costa was the
first intimation either had that the other was
IN existence.
The now happy couple arrived here last
night, and to the surprise OF the frlends 01
the lady, she introduced her husband, from
whom she had been separated twenty years.
But imagine bis unuterable surprise and
jov whcn the mother led into the parlOr a
beautiful youug lady-his own daughter,
whom he had not seen since she was
babe. Father, mother, and child VIII leave
tomorrow for San Francisco, where Mr.. e.,
who is now comparatively wealthy man.
has his business, and where they will here
after reside.