Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Didn’t Like His Looks. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Like His Looks.

By means of a matrimonial advertisement published in an eastern newspaper, a Massachusetts lady and a Nevada farmer became engaged to be married. The agriculturist who resides near Tuscarora, sold a yoke of cattle, and with the proceeds purchased for his betrothed a ticket to Elko, Nevada, at which point he met her a few days since. The lady was an attractive creature, and the sage-busher’s heart beat with fond anticipation. But he found his love-making in person not so favorably received as had been his proposal through the newspaper. His rough appearance was not satisfactory to the cultured lady, and she rejected him point-blank. He sadly mourns the loss of his expected wife, but more bitterly the loss of his cattle.— San Francisco Chronicle. More than half of the farms in the six states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, and Deleware, or 281,795 out of an aggregate of 494,974, are worked by their owners, who are probably white for the most part, while the remaining 218,189 are rented, chiefly, as is presumed by colored tenants. - .