The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-05-25
Il New Swing for Ladies.

a smart Illinois boy, named Sloane in
vented trap on the principle Of those used
III Africa for trapping gamc--tnat is to say,
he constructed slip-no0sc of thongs, and
attached it to the top of stout snpiing,
which he bent down by the aid Of hoist
ing tackle, and fastened it to the ground.
Now Master Sloane had Il sister, young
lady of great worth and of very decided
character. Other girls who were cnvious
OF her beauty, said she was an ill-tcmpercd,
red-haircd thing, but this was probably
mere calumny. At all events 80 thought
the young minister who was settled over
The Seventeenth Congregational Church,
and who was generally believed to be Miss
Sloane's accepted lover. That he went to
sec Miss Sloane on tho very evening when
the reckless boy set his Central Africa trap
was not strange, for he usually spent three
or -Four evenings every week at the Sloane
mansion, but is was coincidence that on
that precise evening he proposed walk,
and led Miss Sloane toward the identical
lane whore the trap was waiting for victims.
How it happened that neither the young
minister nor Miss Sloane noticed the bent
sapllng or tho rope, no one can understand,
unless they were 80 deeply engaged in the
discussion of theological questions that they
were oblivious to all earthly things. Still
more difficult Is it to comprehend how they
could both have stepped within the moose,
not mole than foot in diameter. IT. is
plain, however, that the lady was reading
ahymnbook and that her companion had
approached extremely close to her in order
10 see IL the hymn was correctly printed.
However this may be, the fact remains
That Miss Sloane and the minister were
just within the nocsa when the
trap aprung, and the elastic saplinp
suddenly lifted them twenty feet in the
air, where they remained hanging like two
cherries on single stem, and expressing in
lively tones their suspicion that something
unusual had happened. lIalf an hour later
the Clinton and Iolmcs,ille Stage passed
that way, and the driver and his passcn-
gers were as,onished beyond measure.
For some time it was supposed that some
new and curiously complicated animal
was swinging from the top of the saphng;
but just rs one OF the passengers was about
to fire at it, the driver recognized the min
lister, though he was not able to recognize
his fellow prisoner. The latter's voice was
muflled, but she was distinctly
heard to revile the minister, and to assert
that she never would forgive him. no mat
ter how he might try to excuse himself.
six strong men finally bent down the sap
ling, released the victims. Fortunately,
neither Of Master Sloanc's victims were scr
iously injured, and were both able to walk
home Oh opposite sides of tho street. The
result OF this affair were numerous. Miss
Sloane left town the next day on visit to the
East, and has not since returned. The
minister was tried for indiscreetly banging
from the tops of trees with young ladies',
and thereby bringing rcproach upon his
profession, but was acquitted by Il close
vote. AS for Master Sloane, is is believed
and hoped that his father has killed kim.
AT any rate, he has not been seen, and the
rumor that he has been sent to the uousc
OF Refuge in Chicago is not generally be-
loved