The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-01-16
A California Romance.

How a husband and wife met 10y the ueresi
chance after twenty years separation is thus
related by he Vallejo Chronicle Of Dec. 3Oth;
One Of those strange episodes in human life
which makes u. sometimes wonder al the ctsr-
nai ntnsss OF thlhgs, occurred IasL hlsht ~ The
Vallejo junction. The tide being lor on the AZ
rival Of the Contra Costa, passengers TOR Vallejo
were compelled 10 make quite descent nom the
wharf Of The host and the ladies required the as
sistsnce Of the gentlemen present. A -Ir o.. /.
gram sPecu!aipr. WEs loilS Lhe akreeabie n THIS
respect. sui one Of the last ladies 70 descend
was OyerbUrtcucd with ieW bundles, which Ec
TOOK charge "t, snI accompanied The iSdy 10 tLc
cabin, where they sat and engaged IN couversl-
ton. The subject finally touched upon the na-
ttvity OF each whom It was found they we're both
from tn. same town in Kentucky. This fact made
each more communicative, when he inquired her
name, which was given as Mrs, g. lmmedia tely
the gentleman grew pale and excited. aDd asked
You had daughter, did you not?'
Il did" she responded. "Prsy. ho~ did you
is that daughter living 90
''She is, aud s.; present on a visit to friends a;
''Mercitul heavens - he gasVsd. My child !''
sir" said the lady, rising what do you
s'Mean - be eraxily replied Mean Why. I
mean that that daughter Is my own child and you
Almost overpowersd a. this confession she piled
him with questions, TO every one Of which he re-
turned a correct answer, wien she was convinced
that the man was really her husband. from whom
she had been separated twenty years. Il seems
the twain married at Paris. Nv, in 1SSs.
and thirteen months aftervard he went to Liver
pool on business. The vessel on which he took
posed to have Verished. The news coming to the
young wife's ears, she was utterly Frustrated and
ordered to California by her physicians. Ar
riviug here she took up her residence in Los An
geles. The husband was pickeS up from the
wreck by o fishing smack and taken 10 some re-
mote foreign port, where he thrown upon a
bed OF sickness which la astcd some fifteen
In the time he had written repeatedly 10
his wife, but received no answer. In his despair
he concluded to risk journey across the Atlantis,
Feeble a. ne he shipped before the msst on
sailing vessel, ard IN due ti'Ce arrived in New
York. From there he wrote three times 10 his
wife, but received no answer. Almost frenzied at
without funds and no friends. he faced" his fare
clear to Kentucky. and shortly after arrived At
Paris. Inquiries thTuuSIO the town assured
him thst hs wife hsd disappeared a year OF be
fore, no one knew whittier. Some said she had
gone IN search Of her husband, others that she
N light be dead. and others that she had gone TO
CalifoTnis. He sought the old family physician.
G. then went to work at Louisville and made
enough TO bring him to California year aftcr his
arrival iD kentucky. He searched everywhere
!oT his absent vile, but ithout success and lly
gave her up as dead. and she also hnd mourucd
for HIS death. Neither, however. had married
again and last evening on board the CoEtrs Cos
IA was the FIRST :Etimatiou either has hat the
other existence.
The now happy couple arrived here last night,
and 70 the surprise OF the friends OF the lady she
introduced her husband. from whom she had been
separated twenty years. But imagine his unut-
terable surprise and JOY when the mother led into
the parlOr beautiful young LADY, his own
babe. Father, mother and child Will leave to-
morrow ior San Francisco. where Asr. = who IS
now a comparatively wealthy man, has his busl-
ness and where they will hereafter reside.