Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-18
Two Girls by Express from Brazil.

A local correspondent sends us the
following interesting account of the
wanderings OF two little girls from their
places Of nativity in Brazil to their new
home in Mississippi: ga few mornings
since, coming South, I had taken my
seat in the car beyond Selma, Ala, and
was engaged in reading. While thus
interested | was gently tapped upon the
shoulder, and, upon raising my eyes.
discerned a gentleman near me in the
aisle, holding by the hand two bright
looking little girls. His request, which
was quickly complied with, was that 1
should allow his little charges to occupy
a part Of my seat. We had not gone
very far when l spoke to the child near
est me, pointing out some objects Of in
terest as we rode along. Receiving no
reply from either. l concluded the little
ones were too timid to onver with a
stranger. After repeated efforts tohave
them chat with me, l was surprised to
lind they could not speak q word of En-
glish, and then, noticing that their
dress and complexion indicated that
they were from u foreign cline, [ left
my seat and went in search of the gen
tleman with whom [ had first seen them
in charge.
"From him Learned that he was Mr..
Walker, route agent of the Southern
Express Company, and that the two
children were Georgia Emma and Edith
l.. Schotield, two little orphan girls, be-
ing shipped by express from Brazil to
Summit, MISS, to Mr.. Gracey, South
ern Express Agent at that point. The
way-bill, which l was permitted to see,
read: Two little orphan girls, Georgia
Emma and Edith L. Scotield, Rockville,
S. G.. to Summit, Miss, Free A roll OF
accompanying manuscript was COM
posed of kilograms, letters, ETC., from
which l compiled the history of this
novel freight in the kind care Of the ex.
press company. 1t appears the chill.
dren are the daughters of an engineer,
who left Mississippi and went to Brazi.
many years ago, and while there mar.
ried a native lady of the country. The
mother died some time since, and the
father recently finding that he, too, was
dying of consumption, and would never
be able to return to his native home
with his dear children, disposed of all
his little possessions, and bought tickets
lOT tlclu Oh VcsScl DOuuu lOi " pOrG IN
South Carolina, where they arrived
about ten days ago. Letters had been
received there from an aged grandfather
living near Summit, the Rev. l.. SEQ.
field, who, being too feeble to 90 after
the children. forwarded money to the
Masonic lodge which had kindly taken
care of the little ones upon their arrival,
their father himself being a Mason.
There were also among the list of pa.
pers which Route Agent Walker showed
me several letters from the Masonic
lodge Of Mississippi to the lodge Of Rock
Hill, both from Masters and Grand Mas.
tiers, SO the little girls were sent care O
the Southern Express Company, with.
out charge, and they have no doubt
reached their destination ere this. The
children in their appearance suggested
a strong resemblance to their foreign
mother, and as 1 said before could
speak no English, and, indeed, theil
Spanish was far from being perfect, al.
though it was as correct as could be ex.
pected, perhaps, of children nine and
eleven years of sage."-M. O. Times
Democrat.