The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-06-23
Tbs Romantic Marriage Of an Adopted
German (6tizeu.

GeTman UltlZens
I Nothing in fiction is more romantic
than the following leaf from the. pages
Of real life. Joseph Schmidt, OF Los
Angeles, Lower California, came to this
country from Germany some years AGO,
and was one Of those who profted By
the gold fever. The news OF his success
was carried to the old country with q
z letter from him to a friend Of bis boy
hood urging him to come over and find
a home under free flag. His friend
came and rented q house on Van Buren,
street, in Chicago, were be resumed
his trade as o locksmith. He was a
married man, and his business grew
until he became known as thrifty,
WeLl-to-dO citizen. Mr. Schmidt who
was in love with the beautiful scenery
Of Les Angeles, tried TO iuduee bis
Chicago friends to come and 1--we with
him, but businesswas 50 good tlsJ they
declined
Mr.. Schmidt pined for German socie-
ty, and so one day lie put few thou
sand dollars worth of gold dust into
his belt and took the Pacific express for
Chicago. Il have come, - he said, when
he entered the cosy home on Van Bu-
rem street, ito take you all back to
California The journey shall not cost
you a cent will pay all the bills, and
when we reach Los Angeles viii set
you up in business in true western
style" The husband and wife finally
assented, and Just as they were about
to start, the California man sighed loud
and long, and said there was only one
thing to make him happy. 4 want q
good, honest German wife. " 'Oh,"
replied the hostess, Il wish I knoWed
dot letle sooner. De pest girl in all
de vOrlt schust vent away to New York
to sail in de pig sheep for Chermany.
Dot cell sails in two days for her fodder
Iandt nit Cologne. The California
man sighed again, and when the lady
went on to say that the girl was very
rich and had been visiting her in the
very house they were then in, he
jumped from his chair. looked at his
watch, then at the railway time table.
"Wil she marry?" he asked breath /
lessly. "Yaw." ''WiI you 90 with
me to New York to find her before she |
sails?' "Yaw." That settles it. I |
don't care for her money. I can't |
spend what I have now, but want a /
wife. While We are gone you pack |
up" said he to her husband, and half |
an hour later the Californian and his /
friend wife were in a coach dashing \
through the streets to the depot. TheV .
barely caught the express, in a short /
time reached Jersey City. The steam |
er Gellert, Of the Hamburg line, was to |
sail at two o clock, so there was no time /
to lose They reached the pier in Ho- [
bOken, and one Of the first persons they |
saw on the ship was the young lady /
from Cologne, Miss Pauline Wahn. She /
was delighted to see her Chicago friend, /
but she did not understand why she had /
brought a stranger-and such a hand /
some, dark-haired man, in q piratical .
sOmbrerO. He was introduced, and |
the object of his mission elOquently /
told. The proposal somewhat stagger-
ed her wits, and she said she would &C
cept the hand of her miner lover. On /
" a couple Of hours remained before /
the steamer was to sail, and a hurried |
arrangement had to be made for the re- |
cOvery Of the baggage and also her |
money. That feature Of the programme |
being settled, the California man grew |
impatient. "Where is the ledge? I |
want q ledge, or a preacher, or q clergy
man, or some kind of q chap what can
splice us without any more delay
The constable then led the way to JUS
tics Strong's Oficein Washington street,
where the party which had been en-
larged by some witnesses, grouped
themselves around the man of law while
he listened to the constable's story, and
with the gravity and the necessary cere-
mOny made the two lovers husband and
wife. ''Putit dar, jedge," " said the man
from Los Angeles. ',yOY'e made me the
happiest man in the SO stars Of this ere
American Union" The marriage re-
gister showed him to be 80 years old,
and his wife, blooming German bride,
% summers. They started West by the
Erie road.