Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-25

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Why AUNT SALLY NEVER GOT MARRIED.
"Now Aunt Sally, do please tell US why you
never got married. You know that you once
said that when you were girl you were engag.
ed to minister, and promised you would tell
us all about it. Now, aunt, please do.
well. if ever did see such girls in my born
days." It's tease, tease from morning till night;
you must know all about everything you have
no business to know anything about. Such TO-
auisitive pestiterous critters as you are. When
was young, girls were different; they minded
their own business, and didn't 60 around with
whole string OF beaux, getting their heads
filled with all sorts of nonsense. / never dared
to ask any OF my aunts. either married or single,
cot into if had. When they offered to tell
anything Of their own accord, kept my mouth
shut aud listened. Everything is different now
a-days: young folks have no respect Tor their
elders. But as | see [ am not going to have
any peace until l tell you, why, just listen, and
don't let me hear word out of your mouths
till get through"
'That's right Aunt Sally, 20 hight ahead
please do, and we II keep perfectly STILL
Well, you see | was about seventeen years
old, and | was living in Utica, in the State OF
New York. Though [ say it myself was quite
a good looking girl, then, and had several
bcaux. The one that to, k my fancy most was
young minister, very promising young man,
remarkably pious and steady. lie thought q
great deal OF me and l took a fancy to him,
and things went on till we were engaged. One
evening he camc to mel remember it as plain
as if it was yesterday, when he came into the
parior where was alone, hc came up to me
but, now, pshaw girls don't like 20 tell the
rest"
"Oh, Aunt Sally, for mere, : sake, don't
stop tell us what be did,"
"Wel as | said, he came up to me, aud put
his arms around me, and rather hugecd ME,
when | got excited it was long time ago,
and don't know but what might have hug
ged him back little. Then felt but just
now-clear out every one OF you, shall not
tell you any more.
"Goodness gracious do, Auut Sally. Tell
US how you felt. Didn't you feel good ? And
what did he do next ?"
Oh such tormcnts IS you sre was like
any other girl, and pretty soon pretended 10
tie mad about il. and pushed him away, though
| wasn't bit. You must know that the house
where lived was on the back streets Of the
town. There was glass doors in the parlor,
which opened right out over the street, and no
balcony nor anything OF the kind in the front
of the house. As it was in the summer season,
these doors were oren and the shutters drawn
to. | stepped back Iit,lc trom hin, and
when be edged up close | pushed him back
again. l pushed harder than intended to-
and don't you think, girls, the poor fellow lost
his balance and fell through one ct the doors
into the street? Yes, it's So. AS he fell
gave a scream and caught him-tut declare
won't tell any more. | am going to leave
the room.'
mo, no, Aunt Sally. How did you catch
him Did it hurt him much 2
Well, if must, must. He fell, head first,
and as he was gong caught him by the trou'
sers legs. | held on for minute and tried to
pull him back, but his suspenders gave way. and
the poor young man fell clear out of his panta-
looms into parcel of ladies and gentlemen
passing along the street
cob, Aunty, Aunty, Lordy, llordy II
"Tbere, that's right, squall and glgp!e as
much as you: want to. Girls that can't hear
little thing like that without tearing about the
room, ard he being in such way, don't know
enough to come home when it rains. A nice
time man who marries ono Of you will have,
won't he? Catch me telling you anything
again."
but Aunt Sally, what became of him2 Did
you evel see him again p
mo: the moment be touched the ground he
got up and lett in terrible hurry. tell you
it was a sight to be remembered, to See bow
that man did run. Father happened to be
coming up the street at the time and he said he
never saw anything to equal it in his whole lite.
heard others say he did the fastest running
ever known in that part OF the country, and
that he never stopped or looked behind until
he was two miles out OF town.
He sent me note few days afterwards.
saying that the engagement must be broken OF,
as he could never look me in the face again
after what had happened. lie went out West,
and believe he is preaching out in Illinois. -
But he never married. He was very modest
and suppose so badly frightened at that time,
never dared to trust himself near woman
again. That, girls, is the reason | never mar
ried. | felt very bad about 1t tor long time,
Tor he was real good man, and have often
thought to myself that we should have always
been happy-if the suspenders hadn't give
way"
CAMELs IN NEyADA-On q ranchc on the
Carson river, eight miles below the mouth OF
six mile cannon, and about seventeen miles
east OF the city, Is to be seen heard OF twenty
Elk camcls, all but two Of which we're born and
raised in this state But two of the older herd
OF nine or ten brought here some years ago arc
now living. 1t would scem that the original
Nv Aoi' iuto tHc ianuS OF .neSlCa0S VINO tTe8teu
them very badly, overlooking aod abusing
them, The men who now have them are
frenchmen,and men, it seems, who had former
lysome experience with camels in Europe. They
tiod no difficulty ia rearing them, and can now
show twenty four fno healthy animals all of
Wssboe growth. The camel may now be said
to be thoroughly accimated in this state. The
owners OF the herd find it no more difficult to
breed and rear them than would be experieno
ed with the same number OF goats or donkeys,
The rancho upon which they are kept is sandy
and sterile in the extreme, yet the animals
least and grow fat on such pricky shrubs and
bitter weeds as no other animal would touch.
When left to themselves their great delight,
alter filling .hemselves with the coarse herbagc
of the desert. is to lie and roll In the hot sand.
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