Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — An Egg Romance. [ARTICLE]

An Egg Romance.

New York Sun. “Yes, it is true,” said James Lynch yesterday, as he stood in front of his produce market at 152 Grand street, Williamsburgh. “An egg was the cause of it all, and it is the first time I guess that an egg ever acted as a matoh-maker. I don’t mind telling you the circumstances,hut I prefer not giving the name of either the girl or her: Intended, for , I know that they Would not like it, and tne facts are just as-interesting without them, “It was bn Eatunday night, I 1 think, •$& who,is very hand], cache down stairs !to help us in ■ the store. * She often did thlsj fcfr th'e upstairs work, which she -is bmployed to do is not very heavy, and qn most evenings she is at leisure. Well,* that 1 day I had bought five barrels oft eggs from a commission house on Duane street, near Greenwich, N. Yr They had come from Tennessee. (One barrelwas- Used up when the girl came down, and 1 had just opened ahbther. Bhe began to sell from this barrel. About five minutes Jater T heard her laughing,and sawfher holding an egg to the light. She looked at it so intently that I drew near and asked her if it Was bad. * “Oh, no,” she answered. “It Is too good. “She handed me the egg pointing, to some words written within it in a clear, busines-like hand. They were as follows: u

“Will the young-lady in whose hands this egg may fall open correspondence with county. Tennessee? “I. read it aloud, and a lady who chanced to be pi esent said, 'How romantic!’ I thought so, too, and we all had a good laugh over it Afte* the shutters had been put up I told the *girl just for the fun of the thing, to comply with the request on the egg, and send a letter to Tennessee. Before going to bed she did so. She is well educated and writes an excellent letter. She was brought up in a convent in Ireland: She said she had' no idea that she would get an answer, but I guess she anxiously watched for the postman during the following week. At the end of five days a letter came

directed to her and postmarked Tennessee. - It didn’t take her long to open it, and I’m pretty sure she read its contents as quickly. A reply was sent and other letters came and went. Photographs 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 about her correspondent. Well, to make a long story short, he proposed by letter and was accepted. On Tuesday he arrived from Tennessee and saw her the first time. They were mutually pleased and the wedding day was set tor sometime in the middle of August. It is a good match and I hope they will be happy together.” “Is our friend from Tennessee in good circumstances?” asked the repewter. * “Oh, yes,” replied Mr. Lynch. “I forgot to tell you. He owns considerable laud and Tis quits well to do. He is also a large shipper of produce and just out of fun he wrote the message on the fatal * egg. He knew the eggs would be shipped tq New York, but they* might have been shipped from this city, to-Europe or anywhere else. Hfe was so pleased with the answer to hjg message tbht he made up his mind to marry'tb e girl who had written it, if her appearance pleased him. ' It Would have been strange if it had not, for she

He fat* fine looking man about thirty yeam.of age and they make a handsome couple, I can tell you.” •’ '' r “Yetf’anfrklM'irffl remain with us until the wedding 1 Vakw plum whi