Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-17
California Romance.
HOW NAN AND WIPE MET AFTER TWENTY YEARS
SEPARATION.

SkPAkAIlUS.
One of those strange episodes in human life
which makes us sometimes wonder at 1.-The eter-
nal ntneSS OF things" occurred last night at the
Vallejo junction. The tide being low on the ar
were compelled to make quite 1 descent from
the wharf to the boat, and the ladies required
the assistance OF the gentlemen present. Mr..
g.. grain SPECTATOR, was doing the agreeable
In this respect, and of the last ladies to de-
scend was oyerburdened with a few bundles,
which he took charge Of and accompanied the
lady to the cabin, where they sat and engaged
in conversation. The subject finally toucaei
upon the nativity of each when IL was found
they We're both from the same town in Ken
lucky. This fact made each more communi-
catfve. when he inquired her name, which
was given as Mrs. G. Immediately the gen
tleman grew pale and excited, and asked
You had daughter, did you nn?"
Il did" she responded. Pray, how did you
know that?T
rs that daughter livinge"
''She is and at present on visit to friends at
Vallejo where l am now going"
"Merciful heavens!" he gaSped. my chili."
sir said the lady, rising; what do you
"Mean?" he crafty replied. ''Mean? Why. I
mean that that daughter is my own child and
Almost overpowered at this confession she
plled MIN with questions, to every one of which
ne returned a correct answer, when she was
convinced that the man was really her hus-
OaEd, from whom she had been separated
twenty years. II seems the twain were married
at Paris, KY, In 1858, and thirteen months after
ward 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 wifes ears. she
was utterly Frustrated and was ordered to Cali
fornia by her physicians. Arriving here she
took up her residence IN Los Angeles. The huS-
band was picked up from the wreck by a 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
received no answer. In his despair he con-
cluded to risk a 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 he wrote three times to his
wife, but received no answer. Almost frenZied
at the thought that she might be dead, and be-
ing without funds and no friends, he faced" his
fare clear to Kentucky, and shortly after arrived
at Paris. Inquiries throughout the town as
sured him that his wife had disappeared a year
or so before, no one knew whittier. Some said
she had gone In search of her husband, Others
gone to California. He sought the old family
physician, but he had left the town some time
before. MI. g. then went to work at Louisville
and made enough to bring him to California
year after his arrival in Kentucky. He seached
everywhere for his absent wife, but without
success and finally gave her up as dead, and she
also had mourned for his death. Neither, how
ever, had married again, and last evening
on board the Contra Costa was the first intima-
ton either had that the other was in exist
ence
The now happy couple arrived here last
night, and to the surprise of the friends of the
lady she introduced her husband, from whom
she had been separated twenty years. But
imagine his unutterable surprise and joy when
the mother led into the parlor beautiful young
lady, his own daughter, whom he had not seen
since she was babe. Father, mother and
child will leave tomorrow for San Franc SEQ,
where MIR. g., who Is now a comparatively
wealthy man, has his business and where they
VIII hereafter remain.-IFdNejo Chronicle, De
C17n0eT 80.