The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-09-25
MOTHERS VOICE.
HOW A WOMAN, FOUND HER LONG 10

HOW A WOMAN, FOUND HER LONG LOST
CH1DREN.s RI
Since the prevailing Indian troubles com
menced an Indian camp was captured, to-
gether with. a number Of prisoners. includ-
ing squ,lws and some half dozen white.
captiyes, boys and girls, from five to twelve
years of age. Word was sent throughout
the country, inviting those who had lost
children to come to the camp and identify,
if possible, their children, as none of them
could give any account who their parents
were, or where they were taken from, so
young were they when taken captive by the
Indians Numbers went: to the CAMP.
many more than were. children-an of
course many returned with heavy hearts at
being unable to find theirlost ones .i9@2
Among the number who went hundreds
of miles to the camp was a, mother who lost
two children boy and girl, one three and
the other five years of ageyears ago
Efforts were made to pursuade her not to
90, and so long a time had elapsed it was
certain she could not identify her children:
even if they stood before her. But she
could not rest-she must go, and 60 she did.
On arriving at the encampment, she found
the captives ranged in a line for inspection.
She looked at them first from distance
her anxious heart bounding in her BOSOM
But she did not see her children-at least
she saw nothing in the group that bore the
slightest resemblance to her baby hoy and
/ girl as they looked when playing about her
door step. She drew nearer and peered
deep into the eyes of each, who only return
ed her look with stony gaze, yet anxious
one-they too hoping to see something in
her that would tell them she was their
mother She looked long and steadily at
them, as her heart began to sink and grow
heavy in her bosom. At last, with tears
and sobs, she withdrew, and when some
PAGES off she stopped and turned about
quickly, as, apparently. thought had oc-
CURED to her. Drying her eyes, she broke
forth in sweet hymn she had been wont to
sing to her children as lullaby. Scarce
line had been uttered when two of the cap
tives-a boy and girl-rushed from the line,
exclaiming, "Mamma-mamma! r. The
mother went home perfectly satisfied she
had found her long-lost children. a,.. !,
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RAILRoAD-SOdEv VERY STEALTHY OPERA
TIoNs SoMEwHERE.-We have just been
shown letter from prominent official of the
North Carolina Railroad Company, which
contains the following sentence: "While
in Charlotte called on many of the mer-
chants and gave them the points in regard
to shipping ola Goldsboro' found none
of them had ordered their goods ola Raleigh,
but some had been received and marked
consentn Italics are ours ~
Another-A few days ago a lot of Pork,
purchased in Baltimore ny the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Company, came here
stencil marked oia Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad, and it was done after they left the
store of the seller. These facts need no
comment. The public will judge of the
morality Of such operations.
| We submit the first months figures, show
ing the receipts by the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad Company and the North
Carolina Railroad Company on freight that
passed Ella Godsboro' in the month Of
August, the first alter the new route was in
operation q liFa4isisja
w. W. R. R. Co. proportions. 81 $40 %
N. C.. r. R. Co. l.. 3,093 so
Total increase to the State Rail-
roads u. .......... ...... 1888 70
more than would have been received by
these roads had the new arrangement not
been inaugurated, and at almost no addir
tionalc ost to these companies. Had the or
| der of the Stockholders been fully carried
out this sum would probably have reached
nine thousand dollars. The people Of North
Carolina will watch these operations with
some interest," Wilmington journal.
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