The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-16
Fishing Amid the BiIioWs Of Life
for Beautiful Bed-FeIiows.


The freak of marrying, 'slght-un-
seem as the boys swap marbles, seems
to be on the increase. Two affairs o.
the kind have recently occurred and
as one resulted happily, the other con.
frariwise. we give them both.
The WadesbOro Iateligencer has q
LONG account Of "eCol."J. G. Carraway's
CAPTURE of a wife in Baltimore. The
colonel is. we hear, a s~ix-footer stall.
vart Republican, widower, with n red
head. and much masculine vigor. he
inserted a card in a Baltimore paper.
EXPRESSING his desire to domesticate.
4 lady responded brightly and the
..e became a seriosity. Col. c. re-
ua red 10 b.; aud as you know widow
9rs rarely fail. lie brought home his
bride and the half OF Arson county
turned out to welcome them. The In
t.I;yencer saws. several weeks after the
event. the people of Polkton agree that
il was an excellent match all around.
The other caee did not end SO fortu-
na,ely.
Prom the Atlantis GA Constitution
A robust and rather good looking
New York lady yesterday returned
home without Il husband. and III COM
pany with her mother and brother, Who
had accompanied her ON a wild goose
chase IN search Of a men. A reporter
saw the trio at the depot. The coun-
tenance Of the young female seemed to
say that she was deeply distressed,
willie her mother appeared to DC taking
thugs easily. Her brother wa, al,o
troubled. He stated to a bystauder that
he vas a id fool for having come south
Wit. his mother and sister aud spending
nearly " hundr i dollars in attempting
to get a husband for his sister. lhIs
kind of conversation was not rejected
but rather encouraged by those who
stood near and he gradually turned the
whole story loose to his audience.
IL seems that several month. since his
sister inserted the following notice IN the
New York Herald:
Wanted, a husband would like to
marry a gentleman OF comfortable cir
cumstauces residing in the south. ). T..
H., Herdtd uptown otics.
Shortly after VI IS Redmond received
a letter from a gentleman postmarked at
iiaw k~insyIile, ga, which states that he
had read her notice and desired to open
up a correspondence.
The lady wrote numerous letters, Civ
ing her age and size, and stated that she
was a brunette also stated that she was
quite an accomplished pianist and vocal
LIST in short she thought that she could
make her correspondent a good wife, and
would try ana make him happy, if they
should become united IN marriage. Her
correspondent wrote that he was a ar
mer of middle age, situated In comfort
able circumstances, that he had quite a
large farm about fourteen miles from
HawkinSvIlle and had a plenty of every
thing for both.
A few weeks since Miss Redmond
wrote to the effect that she thought the
time had come Tor action, aud that 1t he
would marry her lie would come to him
at once. She received an answer TO
come at once, that he would be rsady t.
receive her with open arms and make
nor his wife. This letter she received
with true delight, and kissed the sigma
ture a score of times.
Delay was not to be thought of under
any circumstances. \ trip south was
planned IN a most hasty amer. The
other two members of the family said
that they would 20 with her and see the
affair done up IN the best Of style.
HawkInsvllle was reached without ac-
cjdent, aud the parry OF three persons
~dlsembarked. Upon enquiry 1t was as
ccrtalned hat the farmer lived about
fourteen miles from Hawkinsviile. and
the stage would not go until the follow
ing day. This of course caused no small
disappointment. But it only brought
about a greater determination upon the
part of the lady TO get to the man whom
she had learned to love on paper. The
services Of a stage We're procured at an
advanced price and the journey was con-
tinued. After riding many hours ever a
rough road and through a perfectly bar
rem waste country, the stage pulled up In
front OF a log cabin. lie was midnight.
Alter knocking for some time, an old
gray-headed man looked out and enquir-
ed, who was there ?" The rcsponse
was friends, and a mOmen after the
situation was fully explained. The old
msu dressed himself and asked the party
in. The surprise of the young lady
when she saw chat her lover was an old
wreck of humanity rather than a young
and handsome S%outherner can only be
imagined. She turned away with a
shudder and a feeling of great disap-
pointment. The mother became wrstty,
ami the brother let fly a few not very
comp imeutary remarks with reference to
the old cuss. An InvitatioI to the
parry to remain until morning was in
d~ig0autiy refused, aud the young lady.
much depressed in spirits, accompanied
by her wrathy and Indignant mother. en-
tered the stage and w,re soon on their
say 20 Hawkinsvitie-
Meeting an old negro upon their ar
rival there, they a>ked him how the man
stood fsom a financial standpoint The
old negro looked up and remarked 8:
w by. M.ssus, dat man hair't got a
cent. aud his farm Is So po' dat a ground
mole would stdrve to def on it."
The 1rst train that left Ha SkiUsville
fer Atlarta brought the disappointed
THO away from the scene that mad prom
ised to be such a bright one to at least
one member of the party, ard ere now
the wouldbe emigrants are on their re-
turn to New Yors city. The young lady
should try it again. Probably she would
have better luck. If at first you don't
sue, eed. etc.