The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-17
Il CALIFORNIA RO1rlNCE.
How Man aud Wife Met Aftor Twenty Yenrs
Separation.
VclleJo Chronicle, December, sc,

f~'' NA"is "uo "iie met Itor twenty Years
Separation.
VclleJo Chronicle, December 81,
one OF those strange episodes in hui
man life, which makes us sometimes
wonder at "thc eternal fitness OF
things" occurred last night at the Val
lcjo junction. The tide being low on
the arrival of the Contra Costa passcl,-
gers for. Vallejo were compelled to
make quite descent from the wharf to
the boat, and the ladies required the
assistance of the gentlemen present.
a MY. e., grain spccuator, was do
ing tho agrecable in this res pcct, and
one of The last ladies TO descend was
ovcrbnrdcncd with few bundles.
winch nc took charge of, and uccompu-
hicd the lady to the cabin, where they
sat and engaged in conversation. The
subject finally touched upon the nativi-
ty OF each, when it was found they
were both from the sa ne town in
Kentucky. This fact matlc each more
communicative, when he inquired her
name, which was given as Mrs. G..
immediately the gentleman grow pale
and excited, and asked:
You had daughter, did YOU
not.?" WV
81 did," she responded. "pray, how
did you know that?
''is that daughter living?"
"Shc is, and ut present on visit TO
trends at Vallejo, where am going. ."
chid!o
"sir," said the lady, rising; "what
do you mcan?'
"McanT he crazily replied. "Mcan? ?
why, | mean that that daughter is my
own shild and you arc my wifc!"
Almost ovcrpowcrcd at this confess
sion she piled him with questions, to
every one of which lc returned y cor
rect answer, whcnshc convinced that
the man was really her husband, fixa..
whom she had been separated twenty
years. 1t seems the twain were mar
ricd at Paris. Ky, in 1858, and thir-
teen months aflrrward he went to
Liverpool on business. The vessel on
"hich nc took passage was wrecked
ana all on board were supposed to have
perlslled. Tho news coming to the
young Wlic's oars, the was utterly
proslatcd and was ordered to Califor-
ma by her physicians. Arriving here
SIC took up hcr residence in Los An
gclcs. Tic husband was picked up
from the wreck by fishing smack and
taken TO some remote foreign port.
where he was thrown upon a bed Of
sickness, which lasted some fifteen
months. In the mean time he had
written repeatedly to his wife, but re-
cclVcd no answer. III his despair he
concluded to risk a journey across the
Atlantic. Feeble as he was he ship
pcu before tho mast on 4 sailing vessel,
ana III due time arrived in New York,
from there he wrote three times to his
wife. but received no answer. Almost
frcnzicd the thought that she might be
dcad, and being without funds and no
friends, he "faccd" his fare clear to
kentucky, and shortly after arrived at
Iarls. Inquiries throughout the town
assured him that his wife had disap-
pcared 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 had gone to California. lie sought
the OLD family physician, but lie had
lcft tho town some time before. Mr..
u. then went to work at Louisville
and made enough to bring him to Cali
1ornla year after his arrival in Ken-
tuck%. lie searched everywhere for
his absent wife, but without success
and finally gave her up as dead, and
Shc nad also mourncd for his death.
-'clthcr, however, had married again,
and last evening on board the Contra
Costa was the first intimation either
had that the other was in existence.
Ihc now happy couple arrived here
last night, ard to the surprise of the
friends ofthc lady, she introduced her
husband, from whom she had been
separated twenty years. But imagine
his unuttcrable surprise and JOY When
thc mother led into the parlor a bcauti
ful young lady, his own daughter,
whom he had not seen since she was a
babe. Father. mother and child will
leave tomorrow for S; Fr. n isc,
where Mr.. G., who is now compara-
tNc'y wealthy man, has bis business
ana where they will hereafter reside.
Light uroN a FIENDIsII Acr.-Wil-
nam Sanders, colorcd, was arrested
and placed III Jail several weeks AGO.