The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-27
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.
How Man and Wife Met After Twenty
Years Experience.

One of those strange episodes in human life
which makes lis sometimes wonder at 'sthe
eternal fitness of things" occurred last night
at the Vallejo Junction. The tide being low,
on the Contra Costa, passengers for Vallejo
were compelled to make quite a descent from
the wharf to the boat, and the ladies required
the assistance of the gentlemen present. A
Mr.. g., a grain Spectator, was doing the
agreeable in this respect, and one of the last
ladies to descend was overburdened with IA
few bundles, which he took charge of, and &C
companied the lady to the cabin, where they
sat and engaged in conversation. The subject
finally touched upon the nativity of each,
when IL was found they were both from the
same town in Kentucky. This fact made
each more communicative, when he inquired
her name. which was given as Mrs. G.. In
mediately the gentleman grew pale and ex-
cited and asked:
you had a daughter, did you not %
Il did, she responded. ''Pray, how did you
know that ?:'
is that daughter livins?:"
''Shc is, and at present on Il visit to friends
at Vallejo, where | am : ing
"Merciful heavens!' he gasped. 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 you are my wife,"
Almost overpowered ut 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 separated
twenty years
1t seems the twain were married at Paris.
KY, in 1858, and thirteen months a~fterwartl
lie went to Liverpool On business. The YES
sci on which he took passage was wrecked,
and ali on board were supposed to have per-
islied. The news coming to the young wite's
ears, She was utterly Frustrated and was
ordered to California by her physicians. Ar
irving here she took up her residence in Los
Angeles.
The husband was picked up from the
wreck by q fishing smack and taken to some
remote foreign port, where he was thrown
upon a bed of sickness, which lasted some l.
months. In the mean time he had written
repeatedly to Lis wife, but received no ans
Wer. In his despair he concluded to risk IL
journey across the Atlantic. Feeble as he
was he shipped before The mast on a selling
vessel, and Ill due time arrived in New York.
From there he wrote thee times to his wife.
but received no answer. Almost frcnzied al
the thought that she might be dead, and being
without funds and 10 friends, he faced" his
fare clear to Kentucky, ana shortly after az
49, NS' iEINtiil tiitttAS,sioltt lllS
town assured him that his wife had disap-
peared a year or so before, no one knew
whittier. Some said she had gone in search of
him, otherst that she might be dead, and other
that she had 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 a year after his al
rival in Kentucky. He searched everywhere
for his absent wife, but without success and
finally gave her up as dead, and she also had
mourned for his death. Neither, however,
had married again, and last evening on 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 friends of the
lady she introduced her husband, from whom
she had been separated twenty years. But
imagine his unuttcrable surprise and JOY
when the mother led into the parlor a beaiIti.
tul young lady, his Owl daughter, whom he
had not seen since she was Il babe. Father,
mother and child Will leave tomorrow for
San Francisco, where Mr.. g., who is HOW Il
comparatively wealthy man, has his business.
and where they will hereafter reside.