The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-06
A Business Girl From South Car
ollna-

A few miles from Cheraw Maj. Mcneil
keeps n country store, and for some time
he has had in his employ as clerk a very
estimable young man of Chesterfield
county. This young man, however, was
lacking ia one virtue-courage. lie was
afraid of the women folks, and though
he had long been enamored of = certain
daughter of Chesterfield, still be procras-
tinated. He called aud called, and time
and again he dallied. aud though he APP
preached, yet he never touched the all
important subject.
Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick" and at last the poor girl grew des-
perate. Accordingly, on Thursday at
~ternoon, the 9th ult., she caused her
fathers horse aud buggy to be hitched
up. and drove off by herself none knew
whittier. She drove direct to Major Nc
| Neills store, where she found her lover
engaged in manipulating a sack OF -four.
| She took him apart from the crowd, -ano
coming direct to the point, said
Thomas, if you ever intend to marry
me you must do 50 now. Ii Is his uay
or never" !.
Thomas was more frightened than II
he had heard the rumbling Of subterra-
mean thunder beneath his feet, but the
| soothing accents Of his charmer restored
him and he stammered forth:
Dunno. but | reckon So
He dismissed the crowd, closed the
store. scrambled into the buggy aud the
two drove to Cheraw, just IN time TO meet
the up train. They boarded the train
aud came to Wadesboro, and in the Drake
Hotel at the depot they were that night
made man and wife.
In the morning they returned to Che
raw, and now Major Mcneil has two
clerks instead Of one. -Wadesboro Itet-
hgencer.
AS remarked last week, Cupid Is such
a ~cantankerous little cub you can't tell
where he will break out next The mar
riage of Miss Pitts to mulatto Fred is
followed by the suicide of a woman of so
| because her Leap Year proposal missed
fire. What a lucky escape Suppose
he had accepted Here, for instance, Is
a sample of domestic loneliness. 1t is a
standing advertisement. Offering a bid Of
81, 900 for the Kidnapping Of a couple of
kids:-
"Mrs. Emma d. Coolidge, of Kings
Mountain, n. e. offers a huge reward
''for the delivery to her of her two children
"Willie B.. Coolidge and Alfred G..
Coolidge, three and nine years of age.
The two children, one dark-eyed and
s'other blue eyed, are now living at
"Gastonia with their father, George E
Coolidge. She means business, has
the money. a thousand dollars or two. TOR
that object to any parties who will de-
''liyer to her the two children. She can
"deposit funds aud will pay all expenses.
"Her address is Kings Mountain n. c."
This is the lady whose house was sur
rounded by six men in ''rubber-over-
coats" from Spartanburg, who were ar
rested on a charge of attempting to steal
the children. The latter were atterward.
given by the Courts to her husband, the
sup't. Of Kings Mountain gold mine.
They are Northern people, we hear.
And now a gentle hint to the
chiyalry of the pantaiooned yeomanry Of
Martin County:
"WHsoNvILLE, n. G., Jan. %, 's4.
"Nr. Editor Il am a girl of eighteen,
land have just finished my schooling,
land want a position as hostess ; or, IL
other words, as a daughter-in-law IL
tsome good family. No drunkard heed
'apply. And all answering this will ad-
"dress-LEAP YEAR" at above p. o.