Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1869 — Romantic Episode. [ARTICLE]

Romantic Episode.

bvniNu the storm of yesterday "there. qccnrted, -in this oiiw y one of three opisodea in human-life, the circumstances andvpartlcntars of which make it seem mofo-llke a stage production than living reality—the SKSW past a resident of one of our mos fashion * able thorcmghfhrca, and the wife of a succerefid and,respectable bus|ness.nitu).; the Sttnnurrrted,and for some ywsbast.a witi»ereed,tya number; of passers-Uy, who, seeing the lady in., silks, satins an* zQljs,pp>BtaU ie, with one whose bonnet was old and tattered, whose shawl krai fiiddd, -whose drefls was tnwelsoiled, and wte® Mio6s illy protected ner tired feet from the snow that lay btehgath them, pahsett to observe the (tt> them) strange spectacle. The fattsj ris • liflftily gleancd fi-qm.rtie porter and an intimate friend or the family, are as follows: * Years ago, the wife of whom we speak tXEdwith he® parents in the State-, of New York,.wftiqp Aha F-*b cemtgd and wop, blit m opposition to-4hp wiU of. her parerits. w thCYnairWho iff"now.nar fiuh- ■ band. iiiae tba-nwriaig* ? wus de-, laycdj.uj. the hope that her relatives would finally give, thefr coMent 'but the hope .sfesssaaw f forward no tidings of her parents, brothers <ordiiaUir r /w«Mre.*e¥er- eloping sas arffianfisars idustry, and economy,.* ntoa> competence was accumulated, and a few years ago this city was selected as thflir filture apd permanent home.. ~ : Aftpr ..tlta elopcmentcamc the war, and -the two brothers, responding toAheir‘country’s call,-Went forth-to return to jeame to' the father, mother, and only child —a daughter—and with sicknets and disease, ertndt ' talßfortnries that ekrt ifo the substance and' estate of the parent and; Svith ’a fibbb to teedver, in some jh'easure, [their tost eorhpetdide, they johted k colony that ’vprs organizing for settlement on isonfri of tTio.toibUtarfes of the Republican River in Kansas. The fate of that colony 5s well kn*ffn to those who’ ifre fkmiiiar with the numerous Indian massacres on daughter was left without home or sliel-tej-sfW -Uhl knowledge of the existenoc/of a relation weht of her place.of birth, .andto her friends tker*she determlnetl to appeal liar, a. home. Latter- after letter was Written, but no reply ever came to greether expdCtAht: ytekrnlng.- aad; Some months of waiting, she determined to* attempt the journey and make her wayg« retumifig famity, started bn her joitrncy.- Their iflehns were scafity,’’ by the time they reached Che State at Kabaas City, they were lift' penni, |ctei The 7 fcmily ”'4rith whom she was ney to a tennlnatiqii. JDXit’of mofic/ ttiffl" destitute, she frarikly made known her Bion8 ion and the circumstances attending leqkaredlifQt'OiWftloncl Sam.'Lowe, State Lfnfc'ifouSe, afid tnafgentlewitli hi# well known chivalry and htiirtednrts', prbvldetl "hbr with f the funds k<> defray her passage to ty. On Sunday afternoon last, she angle dollar, and no Clothes but those she wore l IVc s[W Tn scukfav rilojM,WW mendation, and She was turnedfrom every door at Which , she applied for tbc moaiH df earning a subsistence. Where shp, heated on Monday night is not tonowri tb qe, but yesterday nforiiirig* the wandered rriiflk the Storm and ■ Snow, with, as may be supposed, a heavy heart,, and a -cdd .andeiifibring.bQdy as welL tn her nieanl dierings she chanced tb pause in front of tlte j»lacft,pf fashion already indicated, and is she paused she sobbed and wept, and who similarly situatud, would niitei l While weeping and sobhfogf*/ ctnerging from the <m;a, happened to see User her sobs, iind.'pe’Twp’vsdme oidincWorywas awaklened, and,, though her* Carriage was in Waiting, she turned lisidc ahd’engaged the shttA.W at>d canard; at\d. ih .few the gaily attired ana fashionable woman reand, 'tabtwlufttaiil. J.hd gaze ninumirafl Ifreely hiingltd h* MwtfWt bthose of Tier bister. The denouement may easily imagined. The eamagc was and tjw twowtirters entered, and, •agirhi elfesjdnr each other W rtsfrrlyAffec „ tipw,wt-re ffrTvrti away toalmnfe Mc< Mort rttiii Affluew*- ’ fhd itoetihf’W to