The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-11-20
FANNY MOORE. The FEMALE HUN.
TER OF THE WEST.

The father Of The singular heroine we
are abonl TO sAeich. was a Kentucky
back woodsman. Her mother died while
she was an infant. and when she arrived
al the age of fifteen. her father also died,
leaving her poor, friendless orphan. II
is not surprising. then, al this tender age,
she married Missouri hunter. (an ac.
quainlance Of her deceased fsher.) double
her years as 10 age. hul just her equal in
poverty. Her whole fortune was CON-
posed Of one COW, an old feather bed. a
rusty frying pan, broken set Of ieacups
and sal,cers, dslto Of knives and forks.
with horn handles. two large pewter
plates, and wooden bowl Of Indian manu-
faciure. Such was the legacy bequearhed
by her surviving parent. Her husband s
wealth might mate well enough with
such portion brought into matrimonial
partnership by his wife. A biack. bob.
tailed pony, large wolfdog. a long. heavy
rifle, constituted the sum total OF his goods
and chailels. So far. The nup.ia contract
might seem fair, without exuavagant odds
on either side. There were other consi-
Jeralions. however. which made the bar.
gain, one nigh, say, fraudulenlIy unequal.
She was pretty, iosy checked. ruby-lip-
ped. healthy lass, with sky-bue eyes.
golden ringleis, and a CHEEKY iaugh;, slen-
der in frame, bun Of wiry elasticity. and
constitution Of the most tenacious vitality.
He, on the contrary. was a pale. lean,
hungry looking hypochondriac, who nigh,
be supposed. from the wry faces he dis.
played when forced to any exerlion Of his
limbs in profitable labor. TO regard work
as unparlonable sin. The enlrealies and
example Of his young wife, II is true, did
for while, stimulate. him 10 Just suffi.
cient effort, in the way Of deer hunting, 10
keep them from starving. The couple
then lived in Western Missouri. Fanny,
with her own delicate white hands, clear
ed out, anil cultivated small field, aud
managed her domestic economy with so
much thrift. thai. notwithstanding The la.
ziness Of Tom. they managed 10 accumu-
laie slowly.
But an event occurred, in The sixth
year of her marriage. that changed The pre-
sent current Of affairs, and startled her in
her wild schemes. A "greai revival"
under The guidance of the . Cumberland
Presbylerians," swep, over the West.
II seems that one Sunday the Cumber-
lander discussed the passage ofScripture.
. Take no lhought Of Tomorrow" etc.
Tom swallowed the text, but rejected The !
comment. and. misinierpreting the sen-
lence, literally came to the deliberate con.
clusion, /" that i was SINFUL 10 provide for
the wants of the wicked body" and re.
solved TO act accordingly.
II was in vain the industrious wife de.
ba,ed the theological question with her
infatuated spouse. Her tears, ar
gunenls. aud remonstrances all ended
alike in his usual spasm Of jerking; but as
10 any other sort Of exerlion, he would
moi bulge peg.
a"Hl StdSc was INV CithSdi W. wv
for. strange 10 say, she still low
ID her husband with love that, in spite
If every imaginary damper. continued 10
'urn ardenly in her affecionaie heart, till
ieath. Hence she could not make up
Ter mind 10 leave him. Besides, they had
low five children. and it was absolutely
mp"ssihle to support family on the pro-
luce Of their paliry. stony farm. In This
that week woman suddenly
developed an energy and invincibility Of
ofiy purpose which The annals of the
world cannot surpass.
Wi h interchangeable patience, she pracii.
J, d and learned TO shoot, till no marksman
u all Missouri was her match, and then,