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Show 163 tickets for herself and children from one who styled himself an agent of the Railroad Company. After paying her money and taking seats in the cars, she found she had been' cheated by the counterfeit agent, her tickets were perfectly worthless; the kind-hearted conductor, in consequence, gave her free passage to St. Louis, at which place she embarked on board the steamboat for Independence, to join a caravan of immigrants, who were also on the way to the " Valley." At Independence she purchased two good horses and the wagon which was then at the door, together with all the necessary provisions and clothing for a five-months' journey. Her outfit cost her nearly all the money she had left; but not requiring to spend more before she got to the Valley, she made herself easy on that score. The continual state of excitement which she had been in from the time she sold out at Edinburgh, with her illness on board ship, superinduced by old age, etc., gave her the dropsy. Her daughters took it by turns to drive the team, and her kind fellow-travellers harnessed up the horses, and attended to the arduous duties of camp-travelling. Suffering in mind and body, the caravan arrived at " Fort Laramie," where they met some teamsters who were on their return to the States. Our old lady, whose anxiety to embrace her husband increased, the nearer she approached the place he was in, was induced to inquire of one of these teamsters if he knew Mr. Golightly, in Salt Lake City ? He answered, that he did, he had purchased his bread and crackers from him only a month ago. " Golightly and his wife were both well, and lix'-Dg very comfortably !" |