A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1784, 24 January 1888, Page 2

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

The following aooount of a romantic marriage between Miss Ellen Arthur Potts, a niece of the late President irthur, and James Robertson Blsokle, of the well-known Glasgow publishing bouts* ippears In the "Brooklyn Eagle " :— 14 Miss Potts was a relative of his stepmother, and come as a sohoolglrl to Qlas« <ow to be educated, living m his father'i home. He fell m love with her promptly, and they were provisionally engaged owing r.o her youth. Upon her return to tha united States she was for some time tha devoted nurse of her dying grandfather, tnd after his death was attaoked with fever as a result of her fatigue. While still convalescent, the great earthquake hat shook Charleston to pieces oame to Savannah, and the shook and terror acting upon her enfeebled nerves entirely destroyed her sight. The specialists when consulted declared that the oase was hope* less, and she muat reslim herself to lifer g bllndnen . Upon this painful verdict •he wrote to her finances releasing bin from the engagement, and resigned her* ielf to darkness and loneliness for the rest of ber life. The manly jonng 8ootohm»n, however, refused to submit. He took the nsxt steamer for this oountry, and on arriving deolared that he loved and wonld marry her whether she ever regained her sight or not- Stimulated by this unexpected happiness, she at onoe began to mend, and with the restoration of her general health her eyes began to Improve, and now she has as bright a pair of brown ones as are to be seen anywhere, and no one can see further into a millstone than she. They were maraipd, and will return to Sootland some time In November.