YOL. 6.
THE V'EEKLY
Cartermvlllc ExprfM
I* published every D ' E&JI'JD
morning, in Cartersville, Bartow County, Ga.,
by
Smith & Milam,
Proprietors, at Thrm Dollars, per an
num, Btrictly in advance ; Two Dollar* for
Bix Months; Gne Dollar for Three Months.
Advertisements for one month, or less time
One Dollar per square, (of ten lines or less,)
for each insertionr; all other advertisement*
v 11 be charged Fifty per cent on old prices.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY ANO COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
CaRTEKSVILLE, ga.
W. H. PRITCHETT,
Attorney at Lavv.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA.
TARACTICES Law in all the courts of the
Cherokee circuit and counties adjoining
Bartow. Jrin<23 ’
THOMAS W. MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA.
Will at end promptly to business entrusted
to his care. Oct. 6 tviy
THOS. W. DODD,
Attorney at Law
AND COUNTY COURT SOLICITOR.
Kingston. Ga.
Will give particular attention to the
collection of claims. Oct 2(5.
joSi i» <1 • U ranson,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
KINGSTON, GA.
J'hR .NOTICES IAW in the several cottn
iie, of the Ohcrojtee Circuit. aNo, Folk,
uralso i aid Fioyi counties, Prompt at
tention given to business, Nov. 23. ly
(p",fe:i-iom.l cards $lO cosh p#annum.j
JOHN W. WOFFORD,
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Also. FIRE INSURANCE AGENT.
the best Northern ami
Southern Companies. Can be fouml
at the law office of Wofford &, I arrott
April 10, IBGG.
JO N E S & M A LT BI E,
attorneys at law.
Cnrtersvillc, Ga.
ITTIIJ, nttend promptly to till busi icss en
\V trusted to tiicir care. Will pract ce in
the Cvirts of law. tin ! equity n the Cherokee
Circuit. Hpecia! aUu-.tiun given to the codec
tion of claims. Jan. 1, 1806. l v
ohri .!• Jones. R- Mahhir.
JONES 4- MALTOSE.
RED. BIST ITU AGILVi'S,
CARTERSVILLE GA
*V* ; v n MiOi 'iTz' dt. I', anil have on band rev>■ ral
IT.ui i'll >1 U«t-, *o'l »I*<* uuineroil* bnildlon lot. in !h»
town us O-ite' ev.l c. Ahio wvttral.plxnlatl ns of var.
on* sir. *ln Hi tow cou tv. Pttitle* deortiiß mbu or
a.. I Mid' well t' «veui » call. AH «•_* «:. nn caaoi s
pr mp.iy nswn rd July 17 '>-“6.
tA nvg eo n n<l
riecbanical Dentist.
r pi IF. undersigned respeotfully oiler his pvo
| fcs-sional services to the c : tizcns of Cur
to svillr and vicinity. Dc is prepared
in dn all kinds ol i/rfv' wor '' belonging
to his profession. 1 setts ot
to - s " u
Gwrtorsvillc, Ft b. 13. Clu °
Dlt. T. F. JONES,
rffYENIIFR'S his professional services to the
| l iiizoiiß of KINGSTON and vicinity, and
respectfully solicits a pot tion ol their pationage.
June «.
OR. HUGH A. BLAIR,
l*hysician a»*il Surgeon,
G'i3 rtersville , Georgia.
-TX FSrECTFDLLY tenders hi* professional service* to
t h'« residence, on Main St., \*te resi
dence ot air. I*. Marsh. J,ine 21 ‘
Dn. O. PIXRERTOy.
Cartersville, Georg.a.
Tender* ids professions! ec vices to the c'tmoi sos
C»rter*vil e and sarroundius country, and "11 ate and
c» U»t all hour*. Office up-st-drs in l*r. Siniuel Usy-
Ws New Brick Building. May 10. lboi,*ly
Lanier House,
MARIETTA, GA.,
BY ELLISON A D3B3S, Proprietors
rpHIS House s located >u a few steps of ihe
J Railroad, where the car* stop. Passengers
take three meals a day here. Meals prepared
a all hours. july 24.
8. 11. Pa t till o,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
TT-111 attend promptly to the Chut- tr. Repair-’ «.*
Vv , PJC nod M kif»s Bov's and MeaV Glo htay.
Office in bict room of IJUIr & Bradshaw's i»tore.
Cartersville, Ga. ■
Dress Tailor.
a» IS prepared to execute all kinds
(fll of work in the Fashionable Tail- IsA
»1 f jng line, with neatners and in dn- JX.
rable style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store.
Cartersville. jan 25.
Tw- MAXWELL.
BRICK MASON.
Is p eparevl t > do all kind* of work in Iri k and
P'on* at eh rt notice. Has on hand a fire lot of newly
bnrned brick and i* prepared to do work upon the
m «»t reaeorabie term*.
Car’erevil'e Ga.. May 3rd. 1567.
Tito Cartersville Hotel.
DR. THOMAS MILAM having IW
charge of this House, would be H *
pleased tq accommodate a f tv Board s j * «
ars with BOARD, with oi without '
Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms
Cartersville, Jan 17.
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
CARTERSVILLE ADVERTISEMENTS, CARTERSVILLE ADVERTISEMENTS. CARTERSVILLE ADVERTISEMENTS.
ECLIPSE! VnJLV
Sftdde,
J. G. Stocks,
TANARUS) FBFKCTTBt.LY (he Pabl.c generally that
he he* J,i»t ,'iwnnwi hi* New Rnrt Commotli
oue LtVKKY AND SALE STABLE, and ha* It stock
ed w th good horses, bug.ies, Ao., and Is [ repared to
furnish iho*e traveling in‘o and across the c u try
w.th *ny kind <>f p lvate conveyance. Ue Is also
prepared to B ard .-‘tuck in any quantity with comfort
>,ble qua, ter* and bountiful fei-J at reasonable rite*.
Stock bought and sold at his stable*. His stock all
being fresh and equipage rew he slitter htni*elf with
theoeli-f that he car. f .rti h his customers with a*
iin’ and c rt pice an out fit as any iUe es'ah ifhment
ir. Upper Georst'. AI he ask* to est,b!l°h this fact Is
a trral CARI EUSVII LK, GA., March 2V, 1567.
We are requested by Co*’ J- G. Stocks to an
nounce to the public, that he has bought out
the Livery Stock of J. J. Jones Jr, and that the
two Stables will be consolidated, and that the
following list of prices will be strictly adhered
to.
Iloek horses, and driver per day 17,00
H rse, B rpiry and Driver “ “ ...15,00
Ho st A Hu**j “ u
- “ yi day *».60
Bidd-e horse pe *’ 50
•» o day $l5O
W. L. Kirkpatrick & Cos., Druggists,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
yrj iLL Veep constant on hand a well
seeded stock of pure
DRUGS AND- MEDICINES,
©la®
Patent Medicines’
Jones' Carriage Repository,
Jan 17.
~s B¥&&se hxiwi m
CASII'S
CA: SKETS.
Bv Erwin & Jones.
A SSORTED r : zos kept (>n hand. Also
XiL WOOD COFFINS made to order. A
good HEARSE r ady at all hours.
CARTERSVILLc. Feb 1, 18G7. wty
U H w • MOJSTC.tSTLE,
£^l> s « wc!,ps ' and Walch and
Yt/ Clock Kcpairer,
In the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s’ store*
Cartersville jan 25
James W. Strange,
Dealer in
STOVES.
GRATES,
IRON,
HARDWARE,
PLAIN AND JAPANNED TIN WARE, &C.
Clean Linen and Cotton Rags taken in ex
change for Goods. Repairing, Roofing and
Guttering done with neatness and dispatch.
Cartersville, Nov. I. tviy
J. E. Roberts
KF.TAILDEAI.EE IN
Corn,
Meal,
Flour,
Bacon,
Sugrar,
Coffee,
Tobacco,
&.C. &c.
At Skinner & Shepherd’s old stand, on Main
street, between Jones’ Carriage Shop and
Strange’s Tin Shop.
R. Hargis with J, E. RoßcnTS’
jc 1 1,— ts. Cartersville, Ga.
Samuel Clayton, R. A. Clayton.
S CLAYTON & SON,
DEALERS IN’
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
We k»ep a general stock and can fnrnlt.h you with
arytMny you w*ut. C me to see u« —we will sell ynu
Roed* a Mf. reason? ble price. Come and look at our
stock— No harm done if weeant'rade.
If friends favor us with cct.sigMn, nts or order*, we
will use our tv tty cue \ . tntci.v tof their Interests.
BUTTER, EGGS, DRIED BLACKBERIES
&c. taken at market rates for goods.
5000 LBS.
Clean CotUn and Linen
wanted. When ready sacked we will take them at 3
cent- per lb. for Bring them In anv quantity
§2@ri'.\lr. Uriah Siephens is *ith us—he invites alibis
frie: dsto call and see what he nan do for hem
Atlanta Quotations allowad for Gold Dust srd old
itanL B.iis. }€
CARTERSVILLE GA. JULY 5, 1807.
Saving Machine Oil ,
PBEPABED at the Baltimore Chemical Works, for
Bale by
B&K.
Sglf Slltisi*
* DEALERS IN
iliii,
Chemicals, Paints, &c., &c.
Proprietors of Kramer's Hair Restora
tive, Psoricus, Universal Bilters,
Nerve & Bone Liniment, &e.
Cartersville, Ga.
T'YTE beg leave to inform the citizens gen
\\ crally, and physicians particularly, that
we have on hand a large, well solected stocs
of Drugs and Medicines, and are
ready to till orders at the lowest prices.
Being aware of the great adulteration prac
ticed in preparing Medicines, we have made
arrangements to have this done under our own
supervision, and will warrant all our Medi
cines pure. As we buy in the best marsets in
the country, and buy entirely for cash, we can
supply our customers with goods as cheap ns
the- can possibly be bought elsewhere, We ,
will duplicate any bill ofg’oods bought south of
Louisville.
Respectfully soliciting your orders, we are
Yours verv respectfully,
Feb 8, 1867. BEST & KRAMER.
J. A. E BW " & cr
«//j e receiving their Stock of
SPRING AND
Jmtmmtr Coo&s,
COMPRISING every variety adapted to the wants of
the country, which they are determined to sell at
the Lowest Prices—
Cheaper
than the
Cheapest!
All are invited to
CALL, EXAMINE AND BUY
bargains.
Terms: Cash !
and our motto is
Small Profits,
Cartersville, ’G a., April 19, ISC7.
NEW STORE! NEW GOODS !
And New Arrangements.
The undersigned takes pleagnre in announcing to the
cU'tens of CsrtersTille and surrounding country that
he hns iust. opened out a most epleuded and iA.su-
ICNABLE Stock of
DRY GOODS?
adapted to the wants of the people, which he proposes
to sell at P:icei to SUIT the TIMES.
Ladies wi l find almost Everything pertaining to their
will find Material and Furnishing
Goods for ClothiDg.
Families will find all kinds of goods common for do-
MESTIC USE, so BOOTS, SHOES,
Hats, Bonnets,' Hoop Skirts,
Umbrellas &c &c.
Also will keep on hand a large lot of
PAOTOBT YAIE^IsfS
HE WOULD be hippy to receive calls at any time
His doors are thrown wide open, and the invitation
is to all. Come and examine his goods and prices.
t 0 A- A ‘ SkJ ‘ nDer & CO L a F^GU b B ON
1 1 Um " ’ J. T. STOCKS with Ferguson.
Cartersville, Ga., May 15t,1367.
“otjrTmotto
I.IVE, LET LIVE !!
Shall be demonstrated in all our dealings .
J. 11. SATTERFIELD # BBO„
Are now receiving their
Spring
fl/VMjL
SUMMER SUPPLIES
Os New and Beautiful Dry-
Goods, Clolliinff, Bats, Boots,
Slioes, and Notions, in the
prices ofany and all of which
we pledge ourselves to dupli
cate Atlanta bills.
We also have on hand a superb lot of
roccrics and J)roduce.
which we will sell equally as low ; but, remem
ber our terms are unequivocally
CASH AND CASH, 0-N-L-Y.
The citizens and public generally are earn
estly solicited to c*ll and examine our goods
and prices, and try and prove us and see if we
will not comply with our promise.
J. H'. SATTERFIELD & BRO
Cartersville, Ga., April i9, 1587
' CARRIAGE'
AND
I4»f
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
JfeiF Special attention given to Repair
lug.
HAVING opened business at my old
stand, I am prepared to do any and all
Kinds of work de-ired ill the Carriage Line,
at low figures for cash. I shall keep on hand
a illne assortment of
Buggies & Carriages
and can, at short notice, furnish any kind 01
a VEHICLE desired. Having connected
myself with
Messrs. Wyman & May,
Augusta, a »
a well known and reliable firm, I will sell
at Augusta freights added,
from the besl Factories at the North and
East. All of which will be warranted right.
Being well acquainted with the country ami
people, with long experience in the business,
I purpose to furnish the market with such
work as will give perfect satisfaction, I shall
be able to furnish the entire country, as m;
foci lilies are unlimited. Call and examine, if
shall cost you nothing. I feel assured that
the good people of this county will appreciate
the hanest efforts of one of their old citizens,
broke down by the war, R. H. JONES,
January 17. ’867 wlv
New Spring
and Summer
GOODS,
Hats,
Boots, Shoes,
and a thousand
and one things
too tedious to e
numerate, just
received and for
sale cheap for
cash , at
J. ELSAS’
Cheap, Cash Store,
Cartersville, Bartow co.
April 26th.
Hew
N. 6UREATH & SON,
now receiving a general stock of
SPRIIG AND SUM
consisting of
Ladies 7 Dress Goods
j£LJNT_D HATS.
GENTLEMENS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, and
Ready-made Clothing.
Also a wejl assorted etocKof
Hardware and Crockery*
Family Groceries,
which w&* selected by one nf the firm in person. We
ask purchasers to call and examip« our *ti>ck and pri
ces. We expect to sell low f r ca;h. GUe u* a call.
Cartersville, Gft, April 12, 1368. w2m
OLD DEBTS!!
old debts :::
All persons indebted to tho old Mercantile
firms of of HOWARD, STOKELY & CO..
and J. A & S. ERWIN, are respeclluliy urg
ed to make liberal payments on these debts out
of the present wheat crop. All who refuse to
respond to this call for only part payment will
be sued. 1 bese debts are from six to ten years
standing, and longer indulgence cannot be giv
en. Call at J. A. ERWIN & CO.’S store
where the claims are, and make liberal pay
ments and save suits.
Cartersville, Ga., June 18, 1867.
A MINOR'S LOVE STORY.
Nelly Glover was the prettiest lass
in the pit village. Her eves were of
the sweetest blue ; her cheeks were like
a rose ; and you might have thought
ner brown hair was the finest silk?—
Then she had a figure like a fairy, it
i was so trim ; and with a waist'you
could almost span. I loved Nelly, but
as for that, all the chaps of the village
were of the same mind, and she might
have had her pick of us ; the worst of ii
was, she treated us all alike, and
wouldn t look at one any more than
another. She had a smile for every
body,and was always good tempered,
but there it ended , and, somehow, none
ol us could screw up courage enough to
try her further. 1 don’t know how
olten I thought it over. It came into my
head the first thing in the morning, and
there it remained the last thing at night,
when it either kept me awake, or
haunted my dreams. At last it took
possession of me. No matter where I
was, digging, or blasting, or tunneling;
above ground, or down in the pit; my
thoughts turned on Nelly, and from
being the merriest fellow in the village,
I just came to be the dullest. One
morning there was no work in the pit
for my gang, beeaus the viewer wanted
that part of the seam shored up, and it
struck me, all at once, that I would
have it out with Nelly, so I made my
self smart, and set out, \jalkiug as
brisk as if it was a wager. Ynu may
tfiink it conceit in me, but I 0311 say
that I was then as clever a chap to look
at as you would often see and I knew
it! For all that, I began to walk a bit
slow when I caught sight of Mrs.
Glover's cottage, and I fell of my heart.
But I went on, and I just got up to the
cottage when who should come out but
Nelly herself. She never looked pret
tier than at that minute; but appearing
so suddenly, she dashed my spirit, and
I hadn’t a word to say to her.
“Why, Charley, what is the matter?”
she cried, in a frightened sort of way.
“Well, it is just this,” I said. Aiid
there l stopped.
“Is anything wrong with Jack?”
she cried, quickly.
“Jack?”
“Yes, he is down in the pit; they
say it is foul, which makes mother and
me uneasy. You havn’t heard any
thing? And she looked in my eyes as
if she would search me through.
“No, no,” I answered, steadying,
now that I thought I could comfort
her. “He is all right. You tnusn't
mind what the old women of the vil
lage say, or you’ll be looking for a
blow-up every day in the year, when
there is nothing more than common.
1 haven’t come to you about Jack,
Nelly ; it is about myself.”
She gave me another look, now ;
then her cheek flushed up like a flame,
and her eyes turned away.
“Do you know what I want to say,
Nelly?” I went on. “I wish you did,
for I can't tell it. It is more than 1
have got words for. How 1 love you,
how you are always belore me, how I
am crazed, and maci about you ! But
though I can’t say all I want to, here I
stand, and I wouldnrit change with a
king, if you’ll take me cs I am !”
“Ah, Charley ! you don't know how
you pain me,” she answered.
“Dont say that. Nelly. I doubted
about speaking to y ou’, but now that I
have d'»ne it, now that I can’t go on
deceiving myself, if you have any pity
in your heart, show it to me, and l
will cherish you to the day of mv
death.”
“It is no use,” she replied, “I can
never marry a pitman. I gave the
promise to mother and Jack, when wc
walked up the village at the funeral of
my father and brothers, all three killed
in the mine—our great sorrow', which
I can never think of without crying.”
And the tears, it is true, were
ning down her cheeks, though, for the
moment she seemed to me to be harder
than stone. And I seemed turned to
Btone myself. I had no recollection,
no feeling, and no sense, and I couldn’t
have moved a step to have saved mv
life. Then it all flashed upon me like
lightning. I took a last look at Nelly,
dropped my head upon my breast, and
without a word more, walked out of the
gate.
Our village seldom looked bright, no
matter how the sun shone and now 1
felt as if the sun would never shine
again for me, so, as my eye fell on the
line of cottages, w ith the clouds hang
ing down from above, and nothing
round but a waste, I thought I as
well be 111 my grave as continue to
live there. Besides. I should always
be meeting Nelly, perhaps lurking
about her mother’s cottage, and making
her as miserable as myself. YVhv
shouldn’t Igo away, to Yorkshire, or
Derbyshire, or to the diggings in Aus
tralia, for that matter? 'I he notion, if
it was good for nothing more, gave me
a little more spirit. It turned my
thoughts, and I stepped out quicker,
going straight home. 1 hadn’t much to
settle there, only to bid good'by to
the folks I lived with, and I came out,
pack cn back, and began my tramp.
I stopped at the moor, and looked
brek, remembering I might never see
the place again, and, dismal as I now
thought it, with its gaping walls and
shaken roofs encumbering the black
o ;eJ ground. 1 hail been happy there.
Not one el those cottages but would
open its door to me; not, one where I
wouldn't meet a friend. And there l
had been bojn ; it was the spot on
earth that, even in that hour of hitter'
ness, I loved best, and I didn’t turn
away without dashing my hand across
over my eyes.
I was walking on, when suddenly
the air rang with a crash that shook
the ground. 1 knew what it signified;
such sounds denote but one result in
the black country’, and throwing down
my pack, I Jutted oiT to the spot, with
the feelings that animate every miner
on such occasions,
It didn’t seem a minute before 1
came to the dust'heaps round the pit’s
mouth, but some were there before me,
and the off-men and the women were
rushing up from the village in a stream.
The smell from the pit almost knocked
me down as I came up, and I had to
get mv breath a little, when three or
four of us crept up to the mouth, and
looked down. The explosion had de
stroyed the cage, not leaving a stick of
it, but it had not injured the signal
rope ; hence a means ol communication
remained for any one immediately be
low. As soon as I saw this I set to
work to rig a cross bar, and presently
had it ready.
“Just lower me gently,” I said to
two banksmen. “[ may pick up one
or two, if there’s any near.”
“You can’t go down yet!” cried the
viewer. “How many are in the pit?”
“Hall an hour ago there were fifty,”
replied the time-keeper; “hut, I am
thankful to say, they all came up but
ten.”
“And they are all lost.” said the
viewer, “for there will be another ex
plosion directly.”
“I’ll go down anyhow,” I said dog
gedly ; “and if nobody will lower me,
i’ll jump down.”
A good many were on the heap now
men and women—some of the won
men crying and some praying; but
when I spoke out that way there was
a dead silence. Then two or three
called out, “(Jcod-by, Charly, God
bless you, brave lad.” The banksmen
lowered me down, and 1 same through
the pit’s mouth. A Davy lamp was
tim! around mv wi ist, and 1 held a rope
in my hand, so that I might signal to be
hoisted up if the air became too foul.
But I had no intention ol going back
till I hat! searched the pit, and seen if
any were alive. One thing I didn’t
care about, my life; and another, 1
would have been ashamed to lace the
o’ks above without doing something ;
so I felt impatient that they lowered'me
at such a snail’s pace, and I kept look
ing up and clown to measme the dis
tance yet to he traversed. The shalt
had never seemed so deep to me before.
I strained mv eyes into the darkness
below, and saw no bottom; 1 glanced
up, and the gleam of light grow small
er and smaller. I scanned the walls of
the shaft, and marked only their black
bound. But my progress was notified
by the increasing density of the air,
which began to aflect my breathing;
and, ns 1 went on, I had to shift my
face from side to side to make a little
curient. At last my feet touched the
ground. I locked around as I jumped
oil the straddle, and saw the furnace
was out, which put a stop to the ven
tilation of the mine, as far as it depen
ded on the brattices, and no air entered
but by the shaft. The stench was
overpowering, and from this and the
silence, I guessed the worst. It was
plain that tiie explosion had killed the
horses; for not a sound came from the
stable, which was close to the shaft ;
and what hope could there be for hu
man beings in a distant part of the pit?
You may be sure I didn’t stand to
make these refactions; they floated
across me and 1 was working forward,
before they got through my mind. I
knew the old mine blindfolded; hut
wh?.t with foul smell and the deep
gloom, I was some minutes scrambling
to the too of the incline, keeping my
arms stretched out as 1 went along, to
feel for anything in the way. And it
was lucky I did, or I should dash mv
head against some *mpty trucks, and in
the state I. was in, that would have
finished me. Thus I reached the first
gallery, which you could only enter
stooping. I pushed open the tr ip door,
and went on a few steps, though my
Davy lamp was what pitmen call ‘afire"’
the flame being all blue—and I knew
the air was so much gunpowder. But
I stumbled along; if I wasn't to save
any one, it didn’t matter what became
of mj self, and I pleased mvself v/ith
the thought that Nelly would hear I
had died in the attempt. And then,
a'.! at once, it came into rriy head what
she had said about her brother Jack
being in the pit. This gave my heart
such a turn that I staggered, and the
perspiration poured from my forehead
liky water. I rushed forward as if I
was mad ; my foot struck something ; I
bent down over what seemed to be a
corpse, and the gleam of the lamp fell
on its face. It was Jack Glover. 1
didn’t know whether he was alive or
dead, but I caught him in my arms, and
with the strength of a giant and the
speed of a deer—hardly conscious,
hardly breathing - l made a dash for
the shaft.
It was easier work going back, when
you were once in the main or horse
mad ; lor now the shall was before you,
instead of behind ; and, though _vou
wouldn’t think it, this made a wonder
ful dillerenee in the light. Dark ns
pitch it still was. though not to pit
men’s eyes, and I had found out that
Jack breathed when 1 reached the shat'*.
The discovery nerved me afresh, and I
kept all my senses at work without my
seeming to know it. I only felt there
s inn vr u and lie another explosion,
I placed Jack on the straddle, and
taking the rope from my Davy lamp,
tied him hand and foot, then pulled the
signal rope, and as the people above
hauled the tackle and lilted the straddle
front the ground, l hung on bv my
arms; thus we began to mount the
shaft.
It wasn’t till we had got twenty feet
up that I felt the strain of standing on
nothing, hut, from that moment, it be-,
came just terrible. My hands seemed
ready to snap; ihc ache in my arms
spread through every muscle; my lx Pil
spun around; my feet kicked about in
agony. I watched the mouth of thn
pit.till mv eyes swam, and as I reck
oned the space between, mv strength
waned and mv misery deepened, I
thought I must drop before I readied
the top. J'hen they began to hoist
faster. I mustered all iny strength ; I
tightened my gripoflhe straddle, though
mv fingers were growing numb; I
steadied my sees, and hardly trusted
myself to breathe. I could se the walls
ol the shall; I could feel the purer air;
1 heard voices ; and presently tlu?
tackle swung; strong arms Vaught mo
round, and i was landed on the bank.
They had Jack Glover oil the straddle
before you could look aiound, and ho
was carried away, w hile they raised
my head and poured a little brandy in
my mouth. I called out for the viewer.
“What is it, Charley Batson?” bo
asked, bending over me.
“Everybody away from the pit, sir,”
I said.
on are right,” he answered; it
will come in a minute cr two.
J hev got me to the top of the bank,
w-hen I heard a scream, and there wan
Nelly, trying to throw herself on her
biother Jack, but kept back by the
other women. She never gianeed
round at me ! I wished then that I had
stopped in the pit, or let myself drop
from the bar, as 1 came up, and so es
caped seeing her aga n. But I made up
my mind that I had looked on | a . r f„ r
the last time. I told my helpers that I
could walk now, and when they let go
my arms, I turned towards the" moor,
intending to pick up my pack, and drag
on at least to the next village.
But I could no more walk five miles
than i could fly. \\ j| Pn ] <. anie l 0 j| ie
pack I sank down by it ni:d felt that I
must give up. I was so heated, that I
thought there was now another explo
sion at the pit, as I had exje ted, and
though it shook the ground under me.
1 didn’t lilt my head. All I thought of
was stretching out my arms and legs
and lying quiet. IL,w long 1 lay there
1 never knew. But by degrees 1 recov
ered a little strength, and my thoughts
took more shape, when 1 decided to
return to my old lodging and have n
day s rest before I set out on my wan
derings.
Ihe day passed and the night, and
the next day, and I wai still in bed, the
good folks tending me like a child. My
limbs, which had been racked with
pain, now' felt easy’, and I was ready
for a start again. But I thought there
would he opposition, bo I got up very
quiet, and was putting on my things,
when the room door opened, and to my
wonder, in catne Jack Glover.
“Halloo, Charley, here we are,” he
cried, seizing mv hand and giving it *
hearty squeeze. “Who would have
thought of us two being alive to-dav?”
“Well, Jack,” I answered, “I am
glad for yon. but I siiouldu’t have cared
for myself.”
“How’s that?” he asked.
“Because I have something on mv
mind.” ° y
“You ! he said, laughingly, and
giving me a little push. -Here, eit
down and have a pipe, and it will all go
off like the smoke.”
“I don’t care if I never smoke a pipe
again,’ I said, savagely.
“Now, I’ll tell you what it is,” said
Jack ; “you have been having a tiff with
our Nelly.”
“I haven’t,” I answered, mv cheek
burning.
“Well, you know best about that,”
continued Jack ; -but it’s what I guess,
because you were seen talking with
her, and she had a crying fit directly
alter. And when pfte heard from me
that it was you that brought me tip
from the pit, she fell on my neck, a*d
fainted.”
“ Didn’t she know it before ?” I ask
ed, relenting.
“No.”
“Then, I’ll just tell you all about her
and me,” I said.
I was a long time telling it. but Jack
sat up as if he was listening to a play,
or a sermon, at chapel. I gave him a
description of Nelly that would have
done for the Hue and Cry; went into
all the feelings she- had raised in my
breast, told him how I had watched for
her, thought of her, and dreampt of her,
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