The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-04-12
English Factory Girls for America

A most singular circumslanos occurred on
Monday last, which has created no little sens
alton among the citizens Of Wstch.cote and
FaIlsworth. An agent from America has bcen
10 the ueighborhood collecting young women
factory oporatives) to take over the broad
Atlantic, to work in the cotton mills Of that
country. The agent seems to have had no
difficulty in raising bis full compliment, for
largo numbers Of applicants have been refus-
ed. Not less than two hundred blooming
young lasses left Newton and Fallsworth on
Monday last, aud large concourse Of friends
aud relations were assembled on the roadside,
watching the merry gronps pass along to take
their departure from Victoria Station.
Among those who went TO take long faro
we'll Of her friends, was a Mrs. -. tho
beloved wifo Of blacksmith. Her husband
was working from home, near Audenshaw,
and having no children, she thought there was
no harm in leaving home for an hour or TWO,
to see her friends and companions take their
departure to the Far West. While walking
and chatting with the emigrants, she more
than once expressed deeire TO 60 with them.
At length, the American agent overheard
what che said, and seeing that she was a pro
missing, healthy looking young woman, he
tapped her on the shoulder, and proposed to
pay her passage along with the rest. She at
first hesitated on account Of having no change
Of clothing; but one female offered TO lend
her chemise, and another dress, IL she
thought proper to accompany them. The day
was far advanced, and she had little time to
consider, but at length she proposed to the
agent to return home, prepare her own outfit,
and be at the Victoria Station to 90 along
with the rest, if he would stand to his prom
ise. Having made the arrangement, she star.
ted off 10 the Watch cote, and summoned her
neighbors to attend the auction sale at her
own house at balf-past three that afternoon. /.
The novelty of the announcement drew large
concourse Of people at the appointed time,
she mounted the rostrum, and dispensed tho
goods and chattels at the fall of the hammer,
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So quick was she in the dispatch of business.
that she had the whole effects converted into
Manchester Whilst the sale was going on,
she dispatched messenger to the pawnshop
at Newton Heath, to pledge her husbands
best boots, and to redeem her best Sunday
dress with the money. This was done. and
she had surplus over. To show little sym
pathy to her husband, she left him a bed, a
three-leggcd stool, four mullins, and a ragged
bone, the remnant Of the last Sundays din
ner, and wooden skewer. She packed up
her apparel in rickety old trunk, which she
bound tight with the bed cord, and having
given the same in charge to Bob, the guard,
she took an insde fare, bowed her acknowl.
edgments to her numerous purchasers, and
bade farewell to the Wstch.cots. As the
wheels of the omnibus ratified over the pave.
mebt, she was cheered for her indomitable
spirit by the assembled multitude, and she
pulled off her ring and flung it into the street
with request that it might find its way back
to him no fret bestowed it at the marriage
shrine. She arrived in time at the Station
and most probably she is now gliding over the
bosom Of the Atlantic.
When the husband came home at night, be
was somewhat taken By surprise at beholding
the bare wall, and all the furniture 'mizzled,
except the three legged stool, upon which sal
bouncing young woman who had formerly
lodged with them. She had made q good
FIRE with the few Goals that were left, and af
ter detailing TO him the whole programme, 81 9
offered to wear the vacant ring and ascend the
vacant throne, if he would consent TO become
her loving consort. Poor Vulcan, however
considered that he had suffered enough by biz
false aud tickle Sarah, and that he ought tc
consult his father before accepting such pro
posal. Taking the advice Of his aged parent
he spurned the lovely nymph who aspired tl
become "Crink" the second, gathered up hi
mullins. and the mutated remains Of the Sun
days dinner. took up his bed, the stool apt
the tootbpick, and returned to the house Of hi
father, to re.enjoy, If possible, state Of sin
gle blesseduess.