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A Romance of Slavery.

The Norfolk Virginian mentions a romantic incident in the life of a negro man named David Walke, who was sold and taken to New Orleans thirty-two years ago: At the time he was living as man and wife with a woman by the name of Nancy Gibbs. He remained in New Orleans until last year, when he paid a brief visit to this city and returned home. A few days since he packed up bag and baggage and came back to Norfolk to live. One of his first acts on arriving here was to procure a marriage license, and the next evening he and his former wife were legally united, he being eighty-three and she seventy years of age. Such constancy and indubitable evidence of affection outliving time and absence deserves notice. Both negroes were slaves of the old regime, and are both highly respected.