Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-03-03
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A TRUE STORY OF SOCIAL LIFE IN LoUIsviLI

termed in those days fashionable party. It
was given by man in honor OF his beauti-
fu daughter, who had just graduated at one
OF the best seminsries in the State. He was
then the owner of handsome mansion, ele-
gantly furnished, before the door OF which
stood every afternoon an elegant carriage,
drawn by dashing pair of bays and driven
by yellow boy in livery. He was doing. a
good business, making fortune then in
Government contracts.
AT the party were the tOn-the upper
crust of society. The man and wife were
happy in seeing such attentions shown their
favored child by the young &C coxcombs' and
6 fortune hunters" who were there. All was
gaety and fashion. All that heart could de-
sire for the welfare OF happInes and pleasure
in this world or all that money could buy
was to be found under that mans roof. The
parlors in which were congregated the gay
''lads and lassies," were furnished in ele-
gance. A grand piano, velvet carpets, lace
curtains, rosewood furniture, costly paint
ings, massive chandeliers-all splendor, and
their handsome daughter, like beautiful
fairy, was the "observed Of all observers"
The party was over, and time flew on,
during which she was courted and flattcred
by A'Swellheads' and visited by the repre-
sentatives of ''Shoddyism." But one day a
crash came. There was failure. Away
went fortune, home, hors:s, carriage, "cOx-
combs" aud 'sheddy." 1t was terrible
shock to them. Society had no use for
them. Those who knew them at the party,
knew them no more. The young fortune
hunter" who had robbed the girl Of her af-
fections for the sake of her fathers g0td,
deserted her when her father failed, and she
was left to sampathze with her parents and
forget the man or fellow who had treated
her so heaItlessly
To be brief, we will sum up this bit of his
tory by stating that the father died two
years ago while travelling in the South. The
mother lives in the lower part OF the city in
little brick cottage, the rent of which she
pays by sewing. The young man TO whom
the daughter was engaged is nothing more or
less than ''dead beat upon his parens-a
common loafer, who has been in the work
house once or twice, and in the stat on-houses
no less than twenty times for getting drunk.
The noble girl Where is she !? you would
ask. She did not go to ruin, as is generally
the case? Oh, mol she has been U0rking
for a living, and helping to support her wild
owed mother We saw her yesterday on
her way to work with a shining bucket in
| her hand. She looked beautiful. There was
| pleasant smile upon her fair face, bloom
upon her cheek, and a brightness in her eyes
that all the wealth and aristocracy in Louis
vile could not put there or rob her of. She
| looked more handsome in our eyes than she
did at her first grand reception, surrounded
by luxury and courted by flattery. We
made bold to inquire show she was getting
along in life ?" Her reply was: lam taking
in my life" We parted. May she live a
| life of labor and love, and die as she has
| lived-a Chrstan-s our best wish for
her who 'takes care of mother, and was
never happier in her life, ,"-Louispitte Sun.
THE OLDEST VESSEL AFLoAT BUILT IN
PHILADELPHIA The old whaling ship True
love, now haiing from Hull, England, was
built for the merchant trade, in Philadeiphia
in the year 1864, and has reached the patri-
archal age of LOG years. The Truelove was
employed during the revolutionary war as
privateer, but was unfortunately captured
by British cruiser, and in the year $50 sh'
was purchased from the British government
by parties in HULL. She was then employed
in the wine trade, between Uporto anu nun
In 1884, she was transformed into whaler
and in this trade she was singularly success
full. In 1880 the Truelove formed one o
the fleet in Melville Bay, when twent,
staunch and strong vessels were totally los
and twelve others were seriously damaged
by the ice. The Truelovc, when exposed
To Il heavy squeeze amongst the ice hoes
would quietly rise up on the surface a. AM
rest there until the danger was passed. Thi
peculiarity was due to the remarkable an,
almost unique model of the old ship whicl
modern builders might, in some points, d
well to copy. As late as lsG2 she was agaii
among the ice foes, as tough as ever, Will
, several ships around her were wrecked, an
/ on another occasion she lay for SIX week
: upon the ice in Melville Bay. This remark
/ able vessel has made eighty voyages I
/ Greenland and Davis Strait. Since 1867 sh
= has been employed in carrying ice from MOI
i way To the English market During the Ion
( career of the Truelove in the whaling trad
! she has carried oil from between three an
g four hundred whales, besides seals and oti
@ er products of the Arctic seas. The True
+ love is still as tight as bottle, ready to d
G her duty, and continue to reflect credit
our shipbuilders.