Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-18
MORAL Rrrnrorross.-THE SHAW FAML,


-MRs. SHAW ELoPEs TWICE HAND-kUNNISG.-
Had DAs'L E SICKLEs handed in bis checks
and abandoned the great game OF life one
month. one week. or even one day, before be
demanded that act at the hands of P. BARToN
KEY. the Genius of Morality in these Unit
States would have gained, it is believed,
many times the value of his services to the
country by the transaction. Since the tragedy
at Washington, in which he played his part
with such fearful and bloody emphasis, it
really does seem that every twentieth man in
the Union is either making way with his own
wife or running away with somebody else's-
The newspaprrs-the northern newspapers
particularly full of snch things.
Our R porter would hesitate to declare, no
matter how urgently requested to do so, that
the SHAW family is the most unfortunate set
of people in the world; for there are quite
number of sets of people in the world who
are very unfortunate, iDdeed but he would
not hest ate to say. whether requested to do
so or not that some of the SHAws have been
more unfortunate than several people he
could name. Which. however, he dors'nt in
tend to do or course not Our R porter
would not hesitate to say this, because be has
seen from the papers that one of the SHAws
came near having to dsburse 500 900 tor
making love to a girl in st. Louis. thai
another has lost bis wife in Indiana a. the
Gallatin confectioner lost his, and that third
has lost his wife t,clce in the same way. This
last is the case about which our Reporter ill.,
tends to tell you.
Mr.. GEORGE T. SHAW is endorsed by the
Louisville Democrat. as "higbly estimable
Photographic" of that city. The Democrat
al.o endorses Mrs. SHAW, wife OF the said
GEORGE T.. as being possessed of "considera-
BILE p .rsonal charms" Among the reliable
individuals coinciding with the Democrat afore-
said, with reference to the considerable per-
sonal charms'' of the said Mrs. SHAW, wife Of
the aforesaid GEORGE T., was Mr.. VIM. A.
LLOYD, formerly of Louisville. but more re-
gently of Philadelp ia, thriving village in
the Eastern end of Pennsylvania. Unforun-
ately for Mr.. SHAW, the personal charms" OF
Mrs. SHAW are much more considerable
than her sense of morality and virtuous dis
erection. AS much our Reporter admire
and adores the sex, (for both his ADM aud ado
ration for the last, best gift may be called
sublime, } candor cOmpels him to confess tina,
he cannot wholly descredit the popular belief
that there is still in existence class of mis-
guided matrons
Who give their lords more heirs at love than law"
OF this class Mrs. SHAW, our Reporter fears.
must have been a type-ffteen-line Doubl.
Plea. Mr.. VIM. A. LLOYD must also have en-
tertained a similar fear, or he never would
have requested Mrs. SHAW to do him the kind
ness to elope with him. Under the influence
of some such fear Mr.. LLOYD did prefer such
a request; and to that request Mrs. SHAW, not
very reluctantly it is presumed, consented to
yield.
Mr.. GEORGE T. SHAW, as a means of in
creasing his business and the comforts of Mrs.
SHAW has frequently ADVISED the citizens OF
Louisville to
''secure the shadow ere the substance fade;'
and it is hoped that he secured the shadow of
Mrs. SHAW, for her substance faded from hi
premises very suddenly the other night. The
same phenomena at the same time.
In plain English, Mrs. SHAW eloped with
Mr. LLOYD The services of a police officer
were Immediately chartered by Mr. SHAW
and the clipping parties were pursued. They
were overtaken at Shelbyvilie. KY. and tn
truant wife consented to return home, con
fessed to a vast deal of fearful repentance,
stancy for the future.
Mr.. SHAW carried his wife home to Louis
Vile He had faith in her tears, confidence
in her repentance, and relied upon her pro-
misses. But
"Fraity, thy name s-Krs. SaGo"
Her repentance was but slippery-elm pou'-
tice TO molify aud ailay the fever of hi
wrath; her promises bat a dose of morphine
a verbal anodyne-to lull bis doubts and dis
trust TO sleep and her tears but gentl,
shower to freshen and invigorate his scared
and dropping confidence. Tears, promises,
and pretended repentance having accom-
plished their mission, Mrs. SHAW SEIZED n
favorable opportunity, and in three days
from her first start, was off againl
Mr.. SHAW again gave chase, and succeeded |
In capturing the baggage of the absquai ula- |
ting party at L. xington; but the birds had |
flown Eastward, and, when our indefatigable |
Reporter left the ground, had not been heard |
from.
When Mr.. LLOYD stole Mr.. SHAws wife the |
first time, Mr.. SHAW. il must be confessed, |
had some cause to doubt his friendship. When |
he stole her the second time, it was nearly |
time for Mr.. SHAw's confidence to become
shaken. and it is g morally believed that il
was. But let him be patient, aud in less
than six months he can steal his wife back
again without any sort of opposition on the
part of Mr.. LLOYD.