The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-31
The Romance of q Newsboy.

The Boston correspondent of the Chicago
Journal tells the following:
Years ago, about the time the war broke out,
one of the shrewdest newsboys that ever sung
the song of the bulletin board or peddled the
extra, managed to go down into Virginia with
q Massachusetts, regiment, and finally controlled
the exclusive sale Of New York and Boston pa
pers in the wake of sutler. lie was fifteen
years old at that time, but he had the business
capacity of a merchants clerk. All he needed
was opportunity Brains was his capital, for
the most part. In the course of year the boy
had accumulated 5000, which he invested in
tobacco and cigars, and smokers goods gcner-
ally. Being clever, accommodating boy, he
made friends with everybody, and consequently
thriving business. After while he got out
of the tobacco business, and went to Washing
ington, where he hung out his shingle as gro
Ger, in a small way, and having an extensive
acquaintance among the Massachusetts, soldiers,
and knowing almost every officer of note, he es-
tablished large trade in the way of furnishing
luxuries, etc., for officers and their friends, and
finally his place became sort OF headquarters
for the outfit for suffers. When the war closed,
and after Grant and Lee held that memorable
confalJ under a certain apple tree, our newsboy
found himself good for $50, 900 or 900, But
he did not leave Washington with the return OF
peace He fingered there until profits were
small and trade was on the wane, and when he
did leave for Boston he brought home with him
the heart of young heiress, which he had the
year before attacked, and which had capitulated
to him. The events which had rendered the
young Lady an heiress were fraught with sor-
row. When she was but a helpless, waifing
baby, her mother fled her home and child and
was divorced. Her only brother wild but
I ~ tbor' 'c
conduct, put to sea in merchant vessel en-
gagged in the China trade. The vessel persisted,
and the crew were never more heard OF. Her
father, whose sole heiress she now was, sent the
young lady to a fashionable boarding school
lit was the year the rebellion commenced J
where she remained until the completion of her
eighteenth year. She had learned to sing,
dance, play, and dress fashonably, and was
we'll acquainted with the names or natures OF
patriotism, beneliccncc, social duty or moral
responsibility and life seemed to her a gorge
Gus banquet. She went to Washington with
friends, hoping to captivate some young and
brave, afiluent and noble man, in the career OF
fashionable life, when she was met by the per-
ambulating Boston newsboy, who proved him
self as shrewd in love matters as he had been
in business affairs 1t is unnecessary to add
that the intelligent glances of pair of the
handsomest hazel eyes in the universe reached
down into the palpitating heart of the heiress,
and after q while, to make long story short,
the cpistolary correspondence conveyed by I'm
Gle Sans mail bags between a certain quiet
town in Maryland and the Boston post office was
increased, nor was it diminished until the two
souls with but single thought, two hearts that
beat as one" we're made man and wife. The
happy event occurred on Washington's birth
day, in this city. The Young maa. says he owes
his success in life thus far to n diligent atten.
tion to business, honesty, goaheadativcness and
a polite treatment to both friends and strangers