A ROMANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 139, 30 September 1876, Page 3

A ROMANCE.

t wilt E>a rjcajrn'jerjd, says the Larai Ijmtiiwtr tuat at the spring te~nn of ;rt, ia one of the divorce suits entitled mt v. Grout, the pbintitF nrged that i wiis entitled to a divorcj on the grounds it'Ctout didn't put her enough ; and But did n>t b*ss fie amotrnf 1 uvuotnoss into her ear, nor shed the (iiirod nitmber of beaming smites onto rwhich her clinging.fondnesssemed to man I ; and that th-ottt w;»s tuoroso, or, uthur words,, he was a sour Grout," and shu 3.'ourod on him.

til'*' '■%(('' h th<!? blooming of the cactus, itlio sighing of the mountain »jp yr, otiio true knight for which Mrs. Grout sighed. He was poor, but honest; ml lie hail a place in his heart for Mrs. Nt, and a raging hanger in his pocket tliu contributions of his friends. His

mo was Cameron. And according to i(ale of Cameron, some of the noblest wt of Scotland wirculated through his lilhries in tie proportion of eight parts jhlanil btood r to* ninety-two parts of ijfpoor whisky, or, to put it practically, ) twss blood of bonny Scotland was fcrnin' thro' the rye."

pit in an evd hour he skipped. His p» were broad :; lie could not brook the

row limits of Laramie. So one bright i)' morning he bounded tightly on to I train, and gently putting tus thumb »liis rubby nose as a parting salute to fends who had generously contributed Wit paying for bis has!* and whisky %hty, hied liiuisetf away to other h But after awhile he cum: back, lilidn't realty want to, but he took the •ico of the sheriif and came back. The Murk, the city marshal, 6'ie pros.-cnt-[.•vttoruoy, the sheiii', and rpiice a targe liber of citizens got up a grand meetfur him at the city halt. Hon. K. L. Irews made some very appropriate refks, and wm thtn followed by Hon. C. Bramet and others. Then the occasion ried to retpiiro t!iat Jtr. Cameron nlet make some acknowledgment of this ntion. He rose witli evident emotion I said— *" Jiot ttuilny." Although u-t f loiptaciotis, tie seemed to. fully appre--6 tiio kindness manifested toward i» mora especially when he btcame guest of Sheriff' Brophy for the minder of his stay in the city. iiit to out a long story short, Mr. C, & writ of' A<*/>c(M tfo/'pw, wnce- more belufcfreu American citizen, without a Hier-in-taiw. So he went with hts grief H».. Grout. And did Mrs. Grout look u liita coldly f Xot bj a bushel and a ■• The felter who took her to hj& a ICrout didn't know the party in t|tted-

Im mashed the oil' rint of tier nsw »!f hat on hi* ahoitltLr and cried till pftpur collar of Caiuts.ru r* hwnj arottnd took like a wet bandage- on a sore toe. W they planned that they wm t fo- They had buth hail nearly alt km„la "Speriancu, bat neither of taem had p eloped. So they ran away, and reJwuit at Bawlins a* John Cameron and fB - Tans these two, wtu> seemed tt> be J w for each other, were at last brought Mlier,. and ttved happy ever afterwards. gpaas waved, the mountain blast jj, the zephyr sighed through | a»s>baib r t!i»- lamb* wiiis&ed tlteir -'« tidjs, and Camuran auftly wMap^red we tw of Mrs. Croat.

[ A contemporary says that it is not ! generally known that the late Colom-l i liatneavvs was ctic of the m«>at accom--1 pished linguist* in the whole of the Ai«1 U-atian colonies. He Arabic, MatLa>. French, Italian, and tmder- , f.i.ood ami spoke, though L-.t j.. T :wc£ty, j tJreefc, CJerman, and Spanish. 1 The Mttwhrxtur VwH-kr is responsible for the following stt>ry i—lt is stated that Fish, the notorious Blackburn murderer, is of Italian origin, and that he is a des« ndeut of •*. Mardo Fi«schi, who, in 1833, attempted to. take the life of Loncs Philippe of France and afterwards made his escape to London, where he assisted in carrying out other murderous schemes. Fkscfus daughter married one of _these men, some- years after,, named Oraini, who subsequently left her. In London, she worked as seamstress, and aftewanls came to Lancashire, taking up her residence at Dacwt'tn. There sue had a son, and shortly afterwards died. The child was taken"to Blackburn Workhouse, and kept there in the ramtr "of Fish, hi* mother's name having been turned into Fish, until he was taken out by BramweH, the barber, with whom he was an apprentice for some years.