Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1874 — Golden Dreams. [ARTICLE]

Golden Dreams.

Hugh McCammon, of Colorado, is in luck. He haa found the whole world flowing with milk and honey, and life a golden dream. The Knoxville (Tenn.) papers tell a little story about him, which ought to encourage-all young men to go West. Twenty years ago he moved, with' his widowed mother and eight brothers and sisters, from Sweetwater, Tenn., to Missouri. lie was then eighteen years of age, and had formed a strong attachment for Mary Taylor, a schoolmate, then a girl of thirteen. The young lovers exchanged vows of eternal fidelity and sealed them up in thei£ hearts before parting. Hugh was poor and resolved that his wife should be rich. He would not return to claim and ask her to link her fate with his until he could shower gold upon her and strew her path with roses. Through the long years that followed, the lovers wrote letters full of hopes and dreamed dreams of coming bliss. The breaking out of the war interrupted the correspondence, but when the clouds cleared away they informed each other that they were alive and well and true as ever. Soon after this young McCammon went prospecting in Colorado. He pre-empted a tract of land and added to it by purchases until he had a large property. In company with two or three others he began to hunt for silver, and found lodes of it. They Opened the mine and wealth rolled out of the earth upon them. It was named Cariabon mine, and in the fall of 1873 they sold it to a company of Eastern capitalists for $3,000,000. McCammon’s lands became immensely valuable, too. His touch seemed to turn everything to gold. But in the flush of hil prosperity in Colorado his heart was (Still in safe keeping in Tennessee. He lately passed through Denveiwm j, his way South. The papers called him a “ CroJius.” Since that, the local -papa

of Sweetwater has announced that Mr. Hugh McCammon, of Colorado, was married to Miss Taylor, of that place, and the couple immediately left for Colorado. And those two had not met for twenty years before the day they were married. Each was worth the other’s waiting for. It is not often that school-boys and schoolgirls’loves pan out such abundance of fervor and faith. In this instance the yield was richer than the fabulous wealth of the Colorado mine.— St. Louie Republican.