Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — A Romance in Real Life. [ARTICLE]

A Romance in Real Life.

A Cleveland paper contains the following romantic story: A traveling artist from Cleveland made the acquaintance of the daughter of a prominent lawyer of Chillicothe, and formed an ardent attachment for her, which was fully reciprocated. When the lover proposed to the father to address his daughter he was kicked down a flight of stairs. Attempting to carry his point via. the mother, he was treated to a dipperful of scalding water. The daughter was held a prisoner in her chamber; but managed to get a note to her lover informing him that all communications appearing in the personal column of a Cincinnati paper addressed to “Jeannette” and signed “Jean” would receive attention. Correspondence was carried on in this way for sometime, when the girl was permitted to make a prolonged visit to Cleveland. Meeting her lover there they were married, and resided at the groom's father’s tor four months without the marriage being discovered. Returning home, the wife, after a time, found herself about to become a mother,but had not the courage to divulge the secret. She gained her parents' consent to go to school at Cincinnati. Arrived in that city, she, in a few days, informed her husband, through the old channel, that he was a father,and the happy parent hastened to her side. At a noisy meeting of 150 Iriehnfbn in New York, Sunday, called to arrange for a reception to Parnell, resolutions were adopted denouncing Parnell's peace policy, and declaring dynamite the policy of the future. H