The uplift [serial] . A public weddingwas being performed by the mayorof the town, for which public at-traction the contracting parties wereto receive a set of handsome dining-room furniture. The boy and thedog watched the ceremony with agreat deal of interest. The dogsnarled at the man beside, recogniz-ing him as the one who had formerlymistreated him. The wedding ended and the crowdbegan to move. The weight andmovement of the people were toomuch for the strength of the was a crack and a crash, andthe bridge with its load was soonprecipitated into the running watersbelow. The peo
The uplift [serial] . A public weddingwas being performed by the mayorof the town, for which public at-traction the contracting parties wereto receive a set of handsome dining-room furniture. The boy and thedog watched the ceremony with agreat deal of interest. The dogsnarled at the man beside, recogniz-ing him as the one who had formerlymistreated him. The wedding ended and the crowdbegan to move. The weight andmovement of the people were toomuch for the strength of the was a crack and a crash, andthe bridge with its load was soonprecipitated into the running watersbelow. The people screamed andscrambled to escape. Some were THE UPLIFT pinned between the broken timbers,others were thrown into the water,and all of them were being thor-oughly drenched by a stream fromthe bursted water main. The ex-citement was intense. Rescuerswere on the banks, on the brokenbridge and in the water scrambled over each other,acting like wild beings in the process CAPT. M. S. PARKER,New London, N. In a few days, we understand,Capt. M. S. Parker, of New London,Stanly County, will start for hisninetieth birthday. He is active,cheerful, enjoys satisfying a super-ior appetite, plays his fiddle everynight, sleeps soundly and rises no one, and no one hates hospitality, his home is a real pal-ace. He looks scarcely older thaneither of his sons, Charlie and Will,of Charlotte. Capt. Parker is prob-ably the youngest old man in MorthCarolina. He can split rails, butdoesnt have to. of being drawn and dragged fromthe wreck. Many were seriouslyinjured; some were drowned, otherswere killed. The boy and the dog were theretoo; they were at the very bottomand in the very midst of that wildscramble. The boy was dog loosened him-self from themass, climbed over the man whohad kicked him two years beforethat terrible moment, and had re-peated the offence just before thecrash, growled at him, and passedon in search of his little master. Onfindi
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