St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-01-19
Love IL q Snowdrift.

The hali,,,- City 7Gmc, rccoun,- ia,
romantic termination Of i very Iomau-
tie young lady'S rimhles. \ ymm. and
pretty girl n;uned Miss AlcIneda Cos
grove, residing at san Diego, last sum
mcr responded 10 an advertisement il
the WaveIley Magazine for a corrcspon-
dCncc. with Il view to enjoy - fun and
amusement. and perhaps matrimony"
The new correspondent OF the Young la
di resided al Wathcna. Kansas, and
represented himself to bc a merchant.
Young, wealthy, honest. and i'll want oi
Wife. \ long and loving cOrrespon-
dt nee cn>ucd between Jerome Markham
and Miss CosgroVc. Photographs welc
exchanged. and Mis-, Cosgr0vc was de
lighted To find her unseen lover Il good
looking youth. diSttHJuc i'll appearance
and decidedly handsome. Finally She
consented to become Mrs. Markham, and
tor economy : .,ikc consented To core.
to W"thcnI In he married. Two week.
ago she started tnT Kansas. All went
well until Shc got Oh the Denver Pacific.
After leaving Cheyenne the train struck
Il drift alid became horclc~~ly stuck fast.
While snow bound near Crow Greek.
Colorado. Miss CoSgrONc attracted the
attention ut Mr. Julius Emmett, Il com
mission merchant of Kansas City, who,
prrctiN Ing the young lady seated alone.
and evidently unproyid for such Az
emergency, ycIy gillunily rendered such
a>~Stm, us was III his power 10 give.
which was 4 valiSc full of cold food and
two huitil" robe. The Young couple
we've soon on friendly. social tcInIs.-
Mis-. C"sgr"Nc very naivcly recited heI
adventures. and was rewarded hv En-
nett informing her thai he was single.
etc. They parted with regret II Wa
thena. when the voting lady turned 1"
meet tor the til>t time him She was L.
call her husband. She had hu Il mo-
lmrmt to wait before i rough. rahi>h-
lookim. individual. AT least ~ lraIs al
age. made himself known aS her core
pendent and cNprctant husband. Mis-
CoSgrovc. iiHdin. she had been deceived
turned without Il word aud entered the
car and Went /" Kansas city. \ trN
days aftclward the lady married hrI
friend Emmett. aud ~he will no duuht
often wonder ar the strange termination
of 4 Irritation lit - >nnw-driii uu Ia.
Denver Pacific.
An elderly @rntlrmnr Va~ recent,
''runfidcncrd" on i train running int"
kc">uh. h> >hlrpci>. wh" indurcd him
t" huy Il hi.ii tNoItLly~~J an Buffalo
f"i ~lH 10. hr paving them TWO >ln0
bills. and th"} paving him = + 10 -
chAnmr The conductor "n the trliu
t"nl> tie inst "pp"itunity qnicIy 4"
suggest IL the imm"rcmt old grntlcmuI
that he, VIZ afraid the draft Wa~ It fraud.
.'Wrll." Wa the bland rt~pna>c "t The.
impcrtu'ahl" gIrcmt III il i~any hi"gri
fraud than my tw" one huudrcd dollar
notes were, thea | am not t"ItN-thrrc
dollars ahead which | think am. |
am not III HE habit %: dcalin" in c"um
tclicit currency but | always keep i lit
tie OF that sort of stutf' al out M in rl.,.
benefit nf that -oi: of customers.
\ G"op I.l~~u>. ! New Orleans
paper tells of Il printer who. when hi
fellow -w"rkmcn went out to drink.
during the working hours. pat i'll the
bank the enact amount which he would
have spent if he had gone out 10 drink
He kept to this resolution for five ycAIs
He then examined his bank account
and found thar b., had un deposit S52l.
81. In the five Years he had not lost a.
dal from i'll health Three out of five
of Iii fellow wuIl,mcn had III the mcaI-
time. hrcomc druuEard$, were worthless
as Worlsmcm and were discharged. The
water drinkrr then bought ont the
printing office, rnlug,d the business.
and in twenty yca:> from that time Ee
began To pnt by his money was worth
one hundred thousand dollars.
Pillows. though not belonging to the
human species. come under the head OF
rational beings.