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GRASS VALLEY UNION SEPTEMBER 5 & 6, 1872 201
MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.—The Nevada Transcript gives the following:
On Monday evening Justice Rolfe married L. D. Wells to Agatha Gibbs. The parties were
married some twenty-five years ago in the East, and after a year and a half the husband
came to California where he has since been “drifting about.” The wife obtained a divorce
and in course of time was married to another man. After some years her husband died and
she became a widow. A short time since a correspondence was commenced, the old flame
of love, which had slumbered for more than twenty-three years, was rekindled and resulted
finally in an offer of marriage which was accepted by the lady, and she came to California.
Nearly a quarter of a century after their first vows were given the ceremony was again
performed on Monday night, as above stated. Another example that the reality of this life is
frequently stranger than romance.
CORRECTION.—We are in receipt of the subjoined communication which explains itself:
GRASS VALLEY, Sept. 4th, 1872.
EDITOR UNION: In your issue of yesterday appears a letter taken from a Marysville paper,
purporting to have been written by M. H. Funston, in which it is stated that Ben Taylor, of
this city, is indebted to Funston. Such statement is not in accord with facts. As attorney for
the ”Forest Hill and Turnpike Company,” of which Taylor is Superintendent, I instituted
three suits before Funston, J.P. Those suits are still pending, Funston’s fees being about
six dollars. At the commencement of those suits Mr. Funston had in his possession money
collected for the company in excess of his fees. Aside from those suits Mr. Taylor had no
dealings with Mr. Funston. These are matters within my knowledge.
CORNELIUS TAYLOR.
NOT HEARD FROM.—The Marysville Standard of yesterday says: “nothing has been heard
of the supposed suicide, Matthew H. Funston, who may have thrown himself into the Yuba river or
he may have taken this mode to ascertain how much his friends thought of him.” We are inclined
to believe that Funston has committed suicide, since his made a desperate attempt to do so several
months ago in Sacramento.
SPARRING MATCH.—There will be a sparring match at Hamilton Hall next Saturday evening.
The sparrers are renowned professors of the fistic art. They should have a large audience, because
the “manly art of self defense” should be cultivated in these days.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1872
BORN. At Grass Valley, Sept. 5th, 1872, to P, LALLEY and Wife, a Son.
MARRIED. At San Francisco, Aug. 21st, 1872 at the residence of C. C. Leavitt, by Rev. D. D.
Chapin, Miss FLORENCE EDWARDS of Nevada City, to W. W. CROSS, Esq., of Visalia.
TRANSFER OF STAGING INTERESTS,—The interest heretofore held and owned by Mr.
William Hamilton, in the Telegraph Stage Company’s business, has been transferred to Mr. E.
Wellington. Mr. Hamilton will remove to Sacramento or San Francisco with his family, and Mr.
Wellington and family will reside in Grass Valley. Mr. Wellington is an experienced stage man and
the Telegraph Company’s line will retain its present great popularity. Every one in Grass Valley will
regret that Bill Hamilton is to leave the place. He is a man of that active large heartedness which
makes it difficult to let him go.
OFF FOR SOUTH AMERICA.—J. H. Lawrence and E. H. Murphy leave this morning for New
Grenada, in South America. They go to join Cal. R. Clarke who is superintending hydraulic gold
mines for an English company, in that country. The departing gentlemen are experienced miners and