Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-08-11
Az Egg tIat natehsf 4 q Meddlnr.


"Yos, it is true, -said Mr.. Janes
Lynch, yesterday, As he stood in front
of his produce market at 152 Grand
street, Williamsbuegh IAN egg was
the cause OF 1t all, audit the first time,
| guess, that an egg ever acted as a
matchmaker. donlt mind telling You
the CIRCUMSTANCES hht prefer not Civ
ing the naInc- OF Ell. the girl or her
intended. foc / kdov ~ ay would not
like IL, and the facts are iust ms inter-
esting without them.
:" II was on Saturday night, / think,
about two months ago. There was
great rush Of customers, and our girl,
who is very handy, came down stairs to
help MS in the store. She often did this,
for the upstairs work, which she is em-
ployed to do, is not very heavy, and on
most evenings she is at leisure. Well,
that day / had bought five barrels of
eggs from a commission house on Duane
street, New York. They had come
from Tennessee. One barrel was used
up when the girl came down, and had
just opened another She began TO sell
from this barrel. About five minutes
later heard her laughing, and saw her
hOANttbE Xxx W CHO lpOhto
at it so intently that 1 drew near and
asked her if il was bad
"'Oh, no. she answered IT'S too
good
"She handed me the egg, pointing to
some words written upon it in clear,
business-like hand. They were as fol-
lows,
viii the young lady in whose hands this
egg may fau open correspondence with ---
-, - County, Tenne5see2
81 read it aloud, and lady who
Glanced to be present said, How ro-
mantic!' thought so. too, and we all
had good laugh over it. After the
shutters had been put up, told the
girl, just for the fun of the thing. to
comply with the request ON the egg and
send letter to Tennessee. Before
going to bed she did so. She is well
educated, and writes an excellent letter.
She was brought up in convent in
Ireland, She said she had no idea that
she could get an answer, but guess
that she anxiously watched forthe post
man during the following week. At
the end Of five days s letter came di-
rected to her and postmarked Tcnnes-
see. II didn't take her long to open it,
and Pm pretty sure she read its contents
as quickly. A reply was sent, and
other letters came and went. Photo
graphs were exchanged before three
weeks had expired. The girl after this
refused to show any more Of her letters,
and we began to imagine that matters
were becoming serious and teased her
n great deal about her correspondent.
Well, TO make long story short, he
proposed by letter, and was accepted.
On Thursday last he arrived from Ten
nessee and saw her for the first time.
They were mutually pleased, and the
wedding day was set for some time in
the middle of August. 1t is a good
match, and ! hope they will be happy
together"
"Is our friend from Tennessee in
good circumstances? asked the re-
porter.
"Oh, yes" replied Mr.. Lynch. II
forgot 10 tell you. He owns considera-
BILE land and is quite well-to-do. He is
also large shipper of produce, and
just out OF fun he wrote the message on
the fatal egg. He knew the eggs would
be shipped to New York, but they might
have been sent from this city to Europe,
or anywhere else. He was so pleased
with the answer TO his message that he
made up his mind to marry the girl who
had written it, if her appearance pleased
him. II would have been strange if it
had not, for she is a remarkably hand
some girl, not vet twenty years old,
with fine complexion, large brown
eyes and graceful figure. She is also
as amiable as she is pretty. He is a
fine-looking man about thirty years of
age, aud chey make handsome couple,
can tell you.
is the girl still living at your
house?" the reporter inquired.
Yes, and she will remain with us
until the wedding takes place, when she
will go to Tennessee with her husband,
probably over the same road that
brought the egg through which she got
her lover. ~ y San.