Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — A Toledo Romance. [ARTICLE]

A Toledo Romance.

Yesterday occurred the happy ending of a long and weary waiting on the part of a lady who was once the fairest of the fair daughters of Toledo. Eleven years ago she was betrothed, with her parents" consent, to a young man of line character, but without what is considered the most desirable of possessions next to that, namely, money. Hesitating to take his beloved from her pleasant homo to subject her to the trials that poverty entails, he bade her farewell, to go West to seek his fortune. She had letters from him full of hope and cheerful expectation until he reached Omaha, when they suddenly ceased. The days wore into weeks, the weeks into months and then into years, but still no word from the absent one to the expectant girl who waited and watched all in vain. His friends gave him up for dead, but she, with woman's persistency, refused to think so and declared her belief thaJt he would some time return to claim his. bride. Suitors came and went, the light of her eyes became dim from weeping, the roses faded from her cheek, and gradually withdrawing from the scenes she had graced with her presence, her very existence was almost forgotten by society. Two weeks since, while sitting alone in her quiet patlor, the bell rang, and iii a moment more the door opened and a gentleman entered the room. The bronzed and bearded man had littlc resemblance to the slender youth to whom she had plighted her troth so many long years before, but the eye of love could not be deceived, and in a moment more she was clasped in the arms of him for whom, she had so long watched and waited. His story was soon told. Leaving Omaha with an emigrant train for the Pacific coast, it. was attacked by the Indians, and he was taken prisoner and carried away into the far interior. Every effort to escape was futile, and he was passed from one tribe to another, getting farther and farther away from civilization as the months rolled on. At last, by fortunate chance, he managed to deceive his jailers, and, after incredible hardships, reached SaqJTrancisco three years from the time bjfa left Omaha. Here he encountered an old acquaintance from Toledo, whoi in answer to his inquiries about the dear ones there told him that his betrothed was the wife of another. Stunned and heartbroken. he made no attempt to coiliipiinicate with auyone here, and was

not undeceived until a few weeks when on a visit to San Francisco from his home, he had again received tidings thrhugh an old neighbor that sent him homeward as fast aa the ears eoold bring him hither. The, denouement was what might be expected, and this morning the happy pair started for their Western home. whiCber the good wishes of their friend?, including those of tho Blade, will follow them. —Toledo Blade.