The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-08-26

maxim love to an old woman more n twice
as old as you be, just because she's got a
little money! What do you take me for,
hey? Don't stand staring there Walk
ou, of the room, quick or Iii throw the big
dictionary at your head! No. no, no
Now you have got your answer plain
enough! | wouldn't marry you if there
wasn't another man in the whole Of the
town ?" r~-
Harry Grover was little appalled, a,
this charge of horse and foot, but he stood
MS ground maniully. not even quailed at the
big dictionary!
But, Miss Browne-wiil you hear me q
momeuts don't want you to marry me
What has put this strange fancy into your
! head :" ,
/ "Vou don't want to marry me- Then
what the mischief does this letter mean, Id
like to know"
"May look at it!'
i Harry took the letter, and glanced at it
lis contents threw a new light Oh The un.
accountable state of affairs.
GOOD Cupid what blockhead, ,-whai
an unmitigated, unexcusable, Incompatible
donkey | have been! What could | hav.
been thinking about:"
Hey :" demanded the puzzled spin
ster.
| Excuse me, ma'am. but there has beeG
a mistake-a-"
ARd without stopping to complete his
lragmentary sentence. he rushed out of the
room TO the.little bay window parlor, where
Ariel usually sat.
"Well, neverw exclaimed Miss Eype'
rience, as the door banged uuceremOnious
ly in her face.
Ariel Miss Brownew -..- .. .-.
/ But Ariel turned haughtily from tn
pleading ewes OF her lover.
" Your letter is quite sufficient, sir; neet
no further exponent Of your meaning"
"Ariel-darling--here has been an alb
surd mistake this is the letter that was in
tended for you. The other was written I,
your aunt on business, and, by some unac
countable blunder, got into the wrong ell
veiope! | have been fool, blockhead
but love you. dearest, with all INV heart
Ariel you will not send me away !"
Nu-Ariel did not send him away for the
shy smiles and the rosy bloom were begin
Mug to come back to her face as she rest
the letter.
"But. Harry - she said, with roguist
dimple at the corner Of her mouth, you mos
confess that Aunt Experiences note had
\ rather an unpleasant style"
81 was a careless reprobate," said Harry
frankly. "but you see Judge Cornell was
watching he, and"
And that was the end of all misunder.
standing between Harry Grover and Arie
Browne, thenceforth, forever more.
Miss Experience was rather disappoint'
ed 10 tw" lhings. She would like to have
sold the school house corner lot" ant
she would like to have said that once in the
course other ffty years Of life, she had ar
offer Of ariiage. ,
However," said Miss Experience,
Ariel is very happy, and may be thing:
are best as they are"
BLAcKBERRIEs.- learn the house o
E A. vogler, ESD. Of this place, has ship
ped thus FAR, one thousand barrels of dried
Blackberries. worth about s50,0O0.
The dried fruit trade will be rather limi.
ted.-not near as large as last year,-ow.
ing to partial failure Of the fruit crop.
| Sakem Press.
A homesick dog lately Travelled alone
and doubtless on loot, from Kentucky to
Missouri. 900 miles. and reached his Ole
kennel BY instinct.
The Queen of England is on a visit tS
Switzerland and Italy. She was at Paris
on the 5th. aud lodged at the Tuilleries
at the invitation o! the Empress Eugenie
During this month no fewer than twelv,
policemen have been maimed or murdere,
n New York. 49,. e@-..
Cotton is grown in thirteen Of the Unitet
States and one Territory.