Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1858 — A Romance in Heal Life. [ARTICLE]

A Romance in Heal Life.

The Bucyrus Journal says that a man living near there, lost his wife some years ago, in Homer, New York; that they had a little girl which he gave to a friend and left the country. He wag gone ten years and returned, but could find no trace of his child. She had two marks by which he might know her—one toe was gone and she had a scar on her arm. The man gave her up as*lost to him, and finally settled near Bucyrus and married. The rest we give from that paper: About two weeks ago he happened to pass by the room in his house occupied by a servant girl who had resided;with him for nearly two years, at a time when she was about to retire, and the door being opened, he saw her foot. He merely glanced at it, and happened to notice that the little toe of the right foot was missing. He thought nothing of it at the time, but alter retiring, the idea struck him that it might be the daughter he had searched for so long. At first he dismissed the thought as improbable, hut it still forced itself upon him, until finally he requested his wife to go to the room and ascertain whether there was or not, marks of a scald upon hpr right arm. She went, and to his immense delight reported that the mark was there. The poor man was so positive of her identity, that the girl was awakened, and in the middle of the night was questioned as to her origin. She could only tell that she did not know her parents, that her earliest recollections were that she had lived somewhere in the East with a family named—(naming the family she had been left with by the woman originally entrusted with her) and at their death she was taken charge of by the overseers of the poor, a place provided for her, and she had come to Bucyrus with a family, and had supported herself by doing housework since. This tallied so nearly with the ascertained facts in the case that next day the father started East with her, and visiting the different points named, ascertained, to his great joy, that she was in truth his daughter. She is an extremely beautiful girl, of great natural intelligence, and though totally uneducated is still interesting. She is now at Granville, Ohio receiving an education to lit her for the’ new station she has assumed in life.

Fined for Squeezing a Lady’s Hand.— A man in Pittsburg has been fined one dollar and sixty two and a half cents for squeezing a young lady’s hand. That’s outrageous. In this region it coats nothing—the girls like it.