Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-11-25


AN INTERESTING FAMILY Ro.
mAECRs--The happiest household in the
city Of LouisyIlle, says the C0arier.
Journal. Is that which nightly gathsEs
about the Iamp-light at the residences
Of MF. p r. Baron, the well-known
stove nerchant, who lives on Green
Street. near WenzeI. Mr.. Baron's
esiimahle vile aud heFtwo sisters, Mrs.
Lizzie Gross, oi Sacramento. CAL, and
hlssS fEettie Lowe, % KOws: xgeTeunited
alter u separation Of nearly thirty years,
under circumstances so romantic and
unusual thal few ehaptPrs in fiction are
IS ENTERTAINERS The three ladies' ere
of EngiIsh pafentage. About forty years
ego tIieig father, MF. Joseph Powell, Of
Lnndpu England, accompanied by bis
wife end ehildren, sailed IOr Trinidad.
one 81 The British West India IsIands.
Ntr. Powell was wealthy, and had made
purchases OF land ia Trinidad from
agents. The children were small when
the voyage began. a lasted IoaF
months ia q sailing vessel, and conse.
quently they can stIll remember iL On
Feaching Trinidad, Mr. Powell discover.
ed that Il was impossible Tor an unaceIi.
mated foreigner 10 I've there. Disease
was rayaging The island. and. farther,
he discovered that in the purchase Of
The land he had been swindled out Of
large sum. They did not disembaFk.
but came on 20 the United States with
the remainder oi his shattered fortune.
He went TO Peoria, H.. aud settled
there, investingali his means IN properly.
He was swIndled again. and, 10 crown
the misfosiunes Of the family, the father
fell ill and died four months alter aFTlv-
ing. The family were len almost pen
niless in strange land. Ms. Powell
pined away and died Of = broken heart,
one month after her husband's death.
This great misfortune IeH four little
girls and boy at che mercy Of the
wosld. The Oldest was seven years
old, who ID now Mrs. BaT0m. The chill
dren secured homes with kindly people.
and lor two 0r three years saw each
other tFeqnehtlys Then came . sepaF.
alton. Mrs. Baron FemaiHed in Illinois,
Mrs. Lowe went 20 Iowa. and MFs.
Gross 60 California. The other brother
and sister died socn aller in Springfield,
go. The srpsration look place in 1882.
and HRS. Croes, then child Of nine OF
ten years, accompanied her bs0lhsF 70
California. where the gold lever was
raging. They made the passage o. the
plains IN wagon trains, and were as-
lacked BY Indians, narrowly escaping
annihiIaiion of ihe party. Her friends
went 20 Che mines. and the little girl
grew np IN the lmagie ehanges and rO-
nsansicj SURROUNDING Of the gold mines.
The eEsiIdFen lost sight Of each other,
bit I'D not forget. Years passed. and
IT, girls grew up to be intelligent and
educatrd young ladies'. They married
and sll married well. They then began
10 yearn for earh other, and after many
attempts discovered where each ether
lived, and correspondence began.
With h0hsehold duties and their chill
dfen 70 oceupy them, they eeuld not
meet 0n account Of ths distance whseh
separated them. Last spring Mrs.
Cross husband died. and Oome time
ago she came East. stopping for some
momtha with her sister, Mrs Lowe. IN
Ioma. Then both came 20 Louisville.
and several days ago the three long
aeparnted sisters were reunited happiIy.
Il happier group could NOT well be I'm
agined. They are all Eespectedpe0pse,
oecnpying high estimation with their
scaua;ntanees. There are romantic
threads underlying this brief outline