The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-03
CAME FROM SCOTLAND TO WE'D.
A Pretty Girl Travels to Atlanta to
Join an Old Sweetheart.

Atlanta, Ga, May q A stylishly-
| dressed, handsome faced and gracefully
built young woman tripped lightly from
! the Richmond and Danville vestibule
| train a minute after it came to a stand
! still in the union depot this after
/ noon. The young woman looked about
/ her for moment in state
of bewilderment; for moment she stood
uncertain and puzzled. The next minute
| her sweet face burst into radiant smile
OF recognition and love. She advanced
! step toward a gentleman in u plug hat
and natty new suit, who reached
out both hands to receive her.
There were ordinations of Joy, a
few low words to each other, and then
three gentlemen who had been standing
in the background came forward and
stood politely waiting to be noticed. In
Productions followed and then a scene re
markable for the union depot took place
One of the gentlemen, a large and
good-lOOking ScOtchman, John Kinnear,
held a magnificent bouquet in his hand
which he managed carefully through the
crush on the arrival of the train. Mr.
kinnear elevated the bouquet to a hight
where it commanded the center of atten-
ton and then in a few graceful words
presented the flowers TO the young woman
The other two gentleman were Donald
Dingwall and Alexander Hamilton. This
scene is the end of a delightful romance
such as is ia ely seen outside of the pages
of fiction. The young lady was Miss
Mary Donaldson of St. An
drcws, Scotland, few miles
out from Edinburgh She had
come all alone the distance of 5000
miles, from her home to Atlanta to wed
the old sweetheart of her young child
hood. The happy lover was John POrteOus,
l1A i TOD mill,
Insurance Company Mr.. Porteous was
reared in Edinburgh and lived
there with his people until he was 20
years old. His love was Mary Donald
SON. and it was the dream of the young
lovers that some day they would wed. 1t
was a rude shock, therefore, when the
sturdy Scot left his native heath for
America to make his fortune. Pretty
Mary Donaldson often sighed after that
and dreamed of the day her young lover
would come back to her side. All that
was twenty years ago and many changes
came. POrteOus found a home in Kala-
mazoO Mich, engaged in the
tobacco business and prospered.
Another maidens smiles charmed the
heart of Mary Donaldson's old lover and
in due time he forgot his early romance
and married an American girl. For sew
eral years he lived with his wife, but
three years ago she died, leaving him
a widower Mary Donaldson,
still true to her first love
never married, and when in last
January her old lover returned once more
free, she saw in his return a recompense
for all her years of waiting and trust.
Porteous saw and loved again the sweet
heart of his boyhood. The upshot of it
was that when Porteous re-
turned to America it was with
the understanding that Miss Donaldson
would come to him on May l. On the
way home Porteous came within an ace
of being thrown overheard, and three
men who rushed to his rescue were
drowned. His left arm and three ribs were
broken. April 20 Miss Donaldson sailed
from Glasgow. Saturday she arrived at
the port of New York and proceeded
at once southwark, reaching here this
afternoon. She was driven to Mr.. Por-
teous' boarding house, where she re
manned until o'clock, when she was
driven to the residence of Rev. W p
Pattillo and married to her old lover.
The ceremony was very quiet, only three
or four persons being present.