ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 111, 15 November 1879, Page 3

ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

~'_.-' A Bvbokville telegram of July 8 says : —"A letter from lady residing in California recalls a romantic opisodo connected with the writer. The lady, a school teacher in this country, estimable and well educated, who had-passed out of her twenties,, but was of a very romantio and imaginative disposition, about two years ago, while on a visit to Franlin, l'onn., formed the acquaintance of a lady who hid a brother has written to his tistor to procure hiin a lady correspondent in the East. The sister showed this letter to Miss S., and after some persuasion and warm praise of the absent brother, obtained her promise that if he would write to her she would reply. Soon after her return homo she received a lottor, and this was tho beginning of quite an animated correspondence. Photographs were exchanged, and finally the gentleman proposed and was accepted by the lady. But now came the startling proposition for her to join him in San Francisco, where they would be married. To this tho lady demurred, but after a good doal of pleading upon his part, and tho plea that his business interests would not allow him to come East for some time, she consented, and he sent her money to defray the expenses of the journey, and about a year after the correspondence began she set out alone to . meet her unseen lover.. After a pleasant trip she arrived in San Francisco, where Mr. C. met her. It was a case of mutual love at first sight, and neither had any wish to secedo from tho contract A carriage was procured, and they wore driven to the residence of a relative, •where they were speedily united, and at once proceeded to Mr. C. s residence, about twenty miles'frora San Francisco, whero he had a home' prepared for bis bride. And now, after tuo lapse of a year, the' incident is revived by tho letter referred to, in which the lady writes that she has had no reason to regret that Blie throw up tho ferule in Jotl'crson country and set out toward the setting sun to seek her fortune She speaks in glowing terins of her lovely, luxuriant home on tho Pacifio slope, nnd culogisies in-fond terms him who she says is " tho best husbaud in tho world."— Corr. Philadelphia Pross. :;