A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1134, 25 January 1884, Page 3

A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

A most extraordinary circumstance, a real minance in humble life, has I eon brought to light recently in Drogheda, giving a forcible illustration of the •fn told aphorism thai “tru'h is stranger than Motion.” By the s'canter Cnlle'n Haw , whielt loft for Liverpool, the re wont as a ■ok passenger a tifn nantu I Ed war* Fiiiegan, with Ins wife an eight other relatives, all bound f-»r America, Twentyeight yea s ag't Edward Ftiiegat, who w.3 then four years in itried, and u'aa ivirig in Drogheda, left It s y trig wife with two children, and wnt to Amer.ca He proneeded to the gold duglngs of Calif.irni , where, hy dint of hard wo k and indus rv, he amassed a considerable sum nf money During ad his years of wanderings he never once wrote to his wife, who in the o eantime was, day hy day an I mouth hy unm-h anxiously awaiting a letter from him. No letter came, however, and as year after year rolled hy she was at last induced t > believe that her husband was dead, Sh went to EnJainl, and worked there as a factory operative. In the course of time she received and' accepts! an ofiV of marriage, and became the bride of a wo ker iu it□ ware, who in a measure consoled her for the loss of No I.” Af'er a few years of wedded life the second husbau I died and was gathered to the hj me of bis fathers. 1 wenty-eight years had now p-ased sinco the departure of " No. 1,” when, a short time ago, a stranger of American appearance arrived in Dr ghe la, and particu'ar v inquired for the Mrs Finegni of 28 ye s ago. He wa- soon ti Id iter history by t e people of whom he inquired ; and then he accused himself, by his neglect and silence, of being the direct'cause of all the troii'de. He expres-ed a desire to see her and m ike amends, and her friends necoidingly wrote to her in England, apprising her ‘f tie sa ■ re inn of her supposed -‘dead husband,” and of his desire for their reunion She lot no time in responding to the call of love md duty, and r j due I him a few days afcerwaids. They ihen decided to leave •or America, and acc.-idini-ly, accompanied by all their lelitivcs. the ev- erne "f which passage M r F.neg.m defrayed, they left as be’or■ stated.