Year: 1869

The Lynn gossps have been quite busy OF late
over romantic love chase and capture OF
boy In blue by Southern beiress. 1t ap-
pears that during the rebellion, while Massa-
chusetts battery with portion of the Union army
was encamped for a few days in certain town
in a Southern State, of the drivers was in
the habit OF evadirg the pickets and doing lit
tie foragiug on his own account. While on one
OF bis daily visits to the plantations in the vicin-
ity of his camp be was sumptuously entertained
by beautiful and wealthy young lady Being
fond of adventure be made several calls upon his
new acquaintance, but was considerably startled
as he once approached the house for the purpose
of enjoying another tete-a-tete with his romantic
friend, by her rushing out to meet and inform
him that several rebels skulking near by
and that his safety depended on hasty return to
his comrades During their short acquaintance,
the lady had learned her gallant's Christian name
and that he enlisted from Massachusetts, but
further than this his history was to her blank.
A change of base by the Union force prevented
further meeting of this romantic couple, which,
according to the lady's own statement, caused
her much sorrow and many sleepess nights, for
she had learned to love the 'boy in blue " with
her whole soul. Almost frenzied at her loss,
she cut her hair short, assumed male attire,
made her way to the Union lines and enlisted as
quartermaster clerk. She served until her
regiment was mustered ont of service, but failed
to get any tiding of her blue-eyed soldier.


She returned home and found that during her
absence her parents had died, leaving her alone
and heiress to n large amount of real estate and
personal property. Having no home ties she


Immediately started for Massachusetts, and for
the past two years she has wandered from city
to city and town 10 town, sometimes guest at
the best hotels and frequently transient inmate
of ordinary but respectable boarding-houses
AS seen in the cars or the Streets she is a
tall, superbly dressed, graceful and exceedingly
handsome lady, about eighteen years OF age, who
attracted considerable attention on account of a
habit which she had of scrutinizing closely the
face of every good-lookiug brown haired and
! blue-eyed gentleman whom she met.


The g boy in blue " is resident of Lynn, and
! is worthy and industrious mechanic Happen
ing 10 call few days since at boarding house,
he mentioned while there that he about to
visit Boston, at which the lady of the house re-
marked that young lady, stranger, who was
stopping at her house, was desirous of visiting
that city, and that he would confer a favor by
acting as escort The young lady, upon being
summoned to the parlor, Immediately complied,
glanced at the gentleman, uttered his Christian
name and fell to the floor in swoon. Restora-
tives applied and she soon recovered, when
mutual explanations followed and she soon
learned that while she was in search of her &C boy
in blue he had become husband father and
a wdower. But loving him the less for
that, and seeing cupid in his eyes, she fell upon
his shoulder and wept tears of joy. sensa-
tional wedding is likely to occur soon.