Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-14
A BRAVE LITTLE LADY.

A correspondent from the upper lndlan
country sends US the following item of inter
est A young boy, 1S years of age, a mem
Der of the Eighteenth Infantry band, and q
son of the leader of the band, became enam
ored of young lady earl last winter while
the band was posted at Atlanta, Ga. The
young lady was sweet sixteen, and it was o
case Of love at first sight. After a brief en-.
gagement they were married. Soon after
the regiment was ordered to Fort Assini
boine, Montana. The soldiers got ready to
depart, and the young lady also prepared to
accompany them, and not until the last mo-
ment did the young married couple learn that
no provisions had been made for taking the
lady along She had to remain behind, in
spite of protestations and tesfs, and to the
infinite disgust of the boy husband. 1t was
then arranged that he should send for her
Just as soon as he got fairly settled in his new
quarters.
But the little lady had her intentions. She
didn't propose to rest on downy couches in
Georgia while her new-found husband was
/ blowing horn away out in the wilds of Mon
tana Not any. So as soon as the regiment
departed, she procured pass to Cincinnati.
There she succeeded in getting one to Chica-
20. At Chicago she presented herself to Gen.
R. Ingalls,, Quartermaster-General, and sta
ted her case to him, and at once aroused his
sympathies. He gave her letter to railroad
officials, by which she got pass to St. Paul.
There she interviewed the officials of the
Northern Pacific and captured pass to Bis
marck. At Bismarck she paid her respects
to the managers of the Coulson Line and se'
cured passage to Coal Banks, and from thence
by wagon to Fort Assiniboine, and, without
warning or notification, dropped down upon
her boy husband at the fort.
Wasn't it a nice meeting? Well, now, you
can we'll imagine that it was better than straw.
berries and ice cream. And wasn't she a
Jewel of baby wife-for pluck, endurance,
determination and love2 She is described as
being very pretty lady of medium size, with
dark hair and eyes, a good talker, but with
all a modest, well-behaved little lady, who
made the trip, 1000 miles, without danger, al:
though not without fear-Siour City Journal
@ Horace Greely's estate seems full of
surprises. Such property as he thought val
liable has, thus far, proved valueless, while
that which he had mentally charged off to
profit and loss, having no expectation of get
ting a penny from it, has come out hand
somely. Only few months ago Cornelius
j. Vanderbilt, to whom Mr.. Greeley had lent
thousands of dollars without any security
beyond his word, paid every dollar of the
debt, with interest. This would have amazed
the lender, had he been alive, more than any
body else in the community. Now another
windfall, it is understood, has come, or is
about to come, to the heirs Of the late editor
of the Tribune. Some years before his death
he had been induced, very injudiciously, it
was then believed, to buy tract of wild
land in West Virginia. for which he paid
$4,000 or $4,000, or more, and which he
subsequently decided to be literally a perma:
nent investment. 1t is now said that the land
has so improved of late that Mr.. Greeley's
daughters have just been offered $4,000 for
it, and that they may get much more. Mean.
while the Tribune shares, which Mr.. Greeley
left to his children, and which he considered
almost the only productive part of his es-
tate-and very justly, for he had for years de-
rived a steady income from them-are with.
out any available worth, not having paid
cent of dividend for nearly eight years.