Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-06

never TtSdiUtu CONSCIOUSNESS, dHu lung oO
fore his arrival was gone softly down tc
the House of Silence, "unhousePd, una
nointed, unanneaPd," and carrying hel
secret with her. All it remained for him
to do was to name the infant, SO unto
wardly born into this troublesome world
and so quickly forsaken. They called hei
Graciosa, after the ship that had brought
her there, and whose name they had
found on piece of painted wreckage
Under the fostering care of the good
woman, into whose charge her dying
mother had been given, the little one
grew into fine, frolicsome chld, and
gave early promise of great beauty.
When no more than three years old, heI
foster mother, with her family and the
| little Garciosa, moved to Conisclife to
take charge of squalid farm belonging tc
Mr.. Jennison, of which generations Of
Founders, or their relatives, the Hunters
had been tenants time out of mind. Here
they managed to exist till the early days
OF the year 1746, VIXEN their homestead
was pillaged by some camp-followers in the
train of Marshal Wade, who, with his
al my, passed over Pierce Bridge, hurrying
north 20 Culloden.
After this they led hard, joyless life Of
penury and toll, still clinging with true
| conservative tenacity to the impoverished
acres, till May, 1749, when strange dis,
ease that broke suddenly out among horned
cattle in the County Palatine completed
their ruin.
Even so, it was with sorrow and many
"a longing, lingering look behind" they
wrenched themselves away from the mis-
cradle spot; the sons going as kinds to a
yeoman at Elstob, and Phoebe with her
young charged finding her way back by
wagon to Hartlepool poorer. woman than
the day she left it.
She now set up little shop in one Of
the narrow chares that lead out of the
High street seaward-in the self-same
house, in fact, she had quilted six years
before. The parish priest recommended
her to his flock, saying, 81 commend unto
you Phoebe, our sister, that We receive her
as becometh saints, and that We assist her
in whatsoever business she hath need OF
you," and being a decent, civil body, and,
moreover, native, she found excellent
custom among her neighbors and the sea-
faring men of the place, and years slipped
not altogether unprosperously by.
~ ~ ySoiio VI eSS NlidCiOSd Hdu sprung
up into tall and sprightly lass; good to
gaze on, with those dropping eyelids which
are SO irresistibly bewitching, and which |
verify believe have wrought more havoc
among mankind than every other female
grace and charm.
Her beauty, of course, was but in the
bud-her dlablerie and espieglerie in full
bloom. They were not of a sort that had
any great malignancy about them or be-
tokened badness of heart, but proceeded in
part from excess Of animal spirits and ex-
uberant health, and partly, no doubt, from
the unhappy fact that she had the grave
misfortune to run her little race before the
invention Of that crown and glory of our
own enlightened age-board schools.
Hence it happened that, except when
helping old Phoebe about the shop and
house, time lay pretty much at her own
disposal; and she spent more of it than
was meet on the seawall in gossip with
other girls in their teens O. in idle badin-
age with the fisher lads mending their
herring nets on the sandy beach below
These last stood her pert chaff' and pretty
pranks-the well-aimed pebble, the hurt
ling log, or dancing chip, the nut of ofense
and apple OF wanton proyocation-with
stolid good humor, in general way their
hearts pierced by the shafts of her ready
wit, and (lf truth must needs be told their
faces not unfrequently damaged by her
Amazcnian onslaughts. For she "set at
naught the frivolous bolt of Cupid" and il
any Of the lads were inclined to be saucy,
or essayed to carry his advances beyond a
decent bound, the girl stood, quickly on
the defensive-nay, did not scruple tc
engage in active hostilities, and carry the
warfare briskly into the enemy's camp.
| Her pert airs and arch ways notwith
standing, the girl was truly feminine and
| lovable; plump and soft, with tender
heart, and cherry lips waiting to be kissed
Not that she knew all this, nor ever once
| thought about herself and her charms
but SO it was, and the destined day wa.
not far distant when poor Graciosa was tc
understand it all and find her fate
Meanwhile, two more years of rollick-
ing life and hoydenish ways sped quickly
by, without much mark or record-hum-
BILE household duties dividing her care
with banter on the seawall and airy moon
light romps on the town moor. Tales O
smu gglerS served to beguile the tedium o.
| long winter evenings, and lent interest tc
an otherwise rather monotonous existence
In these years smuggling had risen tc
an alarming and unprecedented height
Troops of soldiers and sailors, set free by
the Peace Of Aix-la- Chapelle, secured
the kingdom, destitute-left by an I'M
grateful country to their hard fate. Very
| many Of them, from sheer lack of worthieI
employment, turning smugglers; and theil
! doings became terror to all peaceable
| and law-abiding citizens. Hanged they
were, no doubt, by scores, as any one may
see for himself, who cares to glance at the
newsletters of the day. But as fast al
they hanged one batch, another arose
more hardy and daring than the last.
And, moreover, the barbarous severity
of the law enlisted, ere long, the good viii
and sympathy of the multitude on behal
of these lawless men, so that they becam,
difficult to catch, and the aid of preventiy,
men and common informers was used t
entrap them. These informers had but
short shrift if they fell into the tolls o
the smugglers, nor did they stand high il
favor with the natives Of those ports AT
which their stations lay. In proof where
of, give ear to a corroborative inciden
that occurred in Hartlepool just at thi.
time.
\ gang of notorious smugglers, who had
long infested the Blackhall rocks, finding
in those desolate sea-washed cayerns con
venient stowage Of their contraband goods
had word sent them that preventive mar
was come down and on the lookout The
Captain of the smugglers was one Trollop
he, his son Jerry, and some of their mates
disguised as rustics, sailed out into the
town, and picking acquaintance with the
unsuspecting spy, piled him with drink a
a tavern. Pouncing on their prey wher
half seas over, they bound him hand and
foot, carried him down in broad daylight
to boat at the pierhead, and shipped
him aboard ketch bound for Helvoets
luys. The man was never more seen il
| Hartlenonl. and the feat OF the sm11rrler