Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — A Romance. [ARTICLE]

A Romance.

Rochester, Minn., has a romance. The story is that a young Bostonian, named Charlton Stanton, went to Minnesota for hia health in 1870, and at Rochester met, loved and became engaged to Mary Phillips, a worthy girl, unfortunately, however, StantoH was thrown from a sleigh a few months after, and fatally hurt by tire discharge of a revolver in his pocket His mother, then visiting at Chicago, reached him-m season to see him die; and then returned to Boston. The poor girl heard no more tin last summer, when she iZ eeired a letter from Mrs. Stanton, saying made her promise that $5,000, half his estate, should be given to

Miss Phillips; the mother had postponed the fulfillment of her promise, but web not content; her only remaining son had just died, and ahe assured the girl that she should soon have her money. Months phased, till, about Thanksgiving-time, another letter from Mrs. Blanton begged the girl to come to Boston, for she waslll. Miss Phillips went and was taken to a luxurious home, not too soon, however, for Mrs. Stanton died that night- But sho appears not to have forgotten her pledge, for within a few days Miss Phillips ass received, at her home, SB,OOO, the amount doe from her lover’s estate, with the news that Mrs. Stanton had willed her $35,000. —Springfield Republican.