A ROMANTIC STORY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1588, 6 May 1887, Page 4

A ROMANTIC STORY.

No novel writer has imagined a more romantic story than that which has just come to light in the United States. During the Civil War a Federal officer, named Captain Livingstone, was a prisonerin a Confederate gaol in North Carolina. He managed to escape, and after many adventures was sheltered iD the dwelling of some people of the name of Austin, who lived in a thinly-populated district of that state. Livingstone was handsome'and unfortunate, and naturally an attachment sprang up between him and Miss Austin. An (mgigeiaeat took place, and, mainly by the girl's contriance.ihe managed to make his way through tbe Southern Status to rejain his friends. Two years afterwards, at the close of the war, Livingstone returned to claim his bride. During his absence, however, a young farmer living near the Austins, of the name of Bird, had fallen in love with Miss Austin, and she had transferred her affections to him. Shortly after arrival he suddenly disappeared, and the people in the neighbourhood naturally supposed that finding his love lady hadjbeen false to her troth, he had returned to the north. Bird and M.ss Austin were soon afterwards married, and matters went on as usual until the other day, when, after a quarrel with her husband, Mr s Bird ioformed her neighbours that Bird and two other men had murdered Livingstone and buried his body in tho woods near. The three men were arrested, aDd one of them, a negro, has confirmed Mrs Bird's s^ory.