Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-07-31

she gained her end byit One night my
good old lawyer and two other men were.
shut up in the pantry with Peggy's mas
ter, aud she dressed in hcribest, and wait
ing for Mark Hullser. 81
"That night she had promised Mark to
take his pin, and if he proved he had the
money he Dragged of, to promise to marry
him, and Mark came rs merry as could
be, and a little the worse for liquor. rs
CHOW, lass said he, "a promise is u.
promise. There's the money to count and
the watch to look at and the pin to wear.
Now you'll have mcY
"And just then the pantry door opened
behind him, and IL hand came down on
his shoulder.
"'We'll have you, my fine fellow said
a voice, end there and then they arrested
linn; for the money and the watch and
the pin were old masters; and one,3who.;
his son James, WAS there with the detce.s
tivcs.
Gle gave up all hope from that minute
and confesse everything. How lie had
made up his mind to rob master that
evening before he was dismissed. How
he had seen inc climb out of the window,
and so dressed in clothes like mine, and
made his plans to throw suspicion upon
| me.
"My Peggy brought me the good news
first; brought it into my cell, and threw
herself, weeping, into my arms. crying
out, You're free, darling; free and clear,
thank heaven
..sIheY did not hang Mark; i fore master,
after awhile, got better, and, in the end,
quite we'll. But they punished him for
the robbery and for somcthiog he had
done of the same kind before ever came
to masters.
"And ~ for the old man, when he was
well, he wa 50 sorry for the charge he
had made against me, though he had
honestly believed me guilty, as / well
knew, that he made me present of II
little farm, and stocked it for me. And
the wife gave Peggy her outfit; and here
we are MS happy as the sheep i'll the
| meadow yontlcr, or the bees i'll the hive
hard by. And when we hear talk of
books and plays, Peggy says to mc:Jacks
if they only knew our story, they'd
make one OF it, I'm very sure and as
they say you're writer, why tell it to
you, sir
N'ooRuEEs CONCLUDES aD Go 10
Gl.oEl.-A :,cntlman in this city sent
word to VOORHEES, that "all his old
friends were getting into the Grcclv
boat; that he was too good fellow to
leave behind, ard h. had letter com
along too, before thay showed off,
VOORHEES, received the message, and
sent this back: He was pretty much in
the condition, he wrote, of Tie boy at
camp meeting, wherc nearly all the pcp
pie had gone toward on the anxious ben
chcs, and he was left blooming nlono.
At last the minister saw him and came
up. "My young brCtl;cr," said the
preacher, why do You sit here alone?
Why not come to glory"
".Nll them gals goin to glory?' asked
tn: boy.
"strnto as shingc." the preacher
! replied.
"No switch off nor nuthin?"
Through by daylight" answered the
minister
"Wcll, parson," said the boy, if all
them gals is goin' to glory, don't see
MS its much Use ONE w.,ttl' here I'll 90
long too Louis Dispatch.
Boys VINO SMOKE. The Davenport
DEMOCRAT has All editorial in recent
issue i'll which it says:
"A physician of this city has invcsti-
gated the effect of smoking on SO boys,
between the ages of nine and fifteen, ;,d-
dictcd to the habit. Twcnty-scvcn pre-
sented distinct symptoms of nicotine POI
SON. In -, there were serious disorders
of the circulation, Indigestion, dullness
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