Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-15

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gt'Bridget, how could you mortify me
so?" ejsculated Miss. f., bursting into
soshone! now 10 Y don't be spilin' ). !, err
butiful eyes with salt tears-whist now,
will ye? Shure, and l did it for yer
good didn't ye tell me that the cook
in was toAbe so eginomerkel as could
be not a single putaty must ! be Of
Their waisting-och, no, not putaty it is
that / names, not a dhrop Of shugar
was to be used too much, and didn't ye
say I was to make the lemonade of
shugar and wather, and didn't l think
it q burning sin to waste so much ille-
CANT shugar when there wasn't any
more flies to be ketched. So, SEE I to
myself, Biddy, O'Flanagan, did ye
know ye cum into the wurld to do good
to yer Teller mortails ? Shure, SEE l.,
| Of coorse ! do, and in minnit l
| Thought Of how much / could save ye
in the shugar, and didn't I Spite me
ould brown veil intirely a-strainin' out
the dead fies-poor sinners !! and a
scoldin' is all the pay I gets for it -
sob, horrible I! horrible ~ was all
the reply Florence could make. "
| y Mrs. sFarnton was one of those esti-
mable persons who think it is no use
to cry over split milk, so she did not
censure Biddy, but like prosecuting
attorney in district court, proceeded
to the next item.
"Well, what about the large cake?
Why did you fill the middle full Of
eggs :"
"Full of eggs? Well, now, asking
yer ladyship's pardin, and didn't the
young Teddy tell me to, sure. Sorra q
bit Of an egg would l hev been afthel
putin in at all, if I'd a known ye
i couldn't afford it %
cit is not the eggs We are complain
about, but the manner in which they
were used. Why didn't you beat Them
"Shure, now, and how should know
YOU'D have me bate UNI ? Faith, and il
lPd had Mike Donnoyan's shillaleh, l'e
bate them mighty quick, Pm thinking
but haven't ye alters tould me niver t
break the eggs, at all - .
After considerable parleying, 81
much, that we feared "Graham" woulc
knit up his eyebrows, and his printer
/ would be inclined to the Know Nothing
belief, (if he is not already, } shoulc
we write it out, the matte- was salts.
factorily explained to this scion Of thu
house Of O'Flanagan, and she took hel
way home, calculating, "shure, ane
Ameriky is wonderful country !"
! A good nights sleep did much to.
ward quoting Miss Florence's excitec
nerves, and at eleven o'clock the next
morning CD she arose refreshed boil
in body and mind.
Evening brought MIR. Birmir gwell-
Miss Florence entertained him in 3
loose white muslin, and blue ribbons in
her hair, and whether they were con.
versing of the contretemps Of the pre-
vious evening, or the signs Of the
weather, Or the prospect Of rise il
stocks, deponent ayeth not but we dc
happ n to know that The honorable sem
ator remained longer than the custom
airy time allotted fer a ''genteel CALL
Days grew into weeks, and weeks
came very near being months, and still
! MIR. Birmingwell fingered in D., and
people said (people are apt to NEEDLE
with tlat which does not concern
them, that the bloom on Florence
lFarnton's cheek, and the lustre Of her
eye, grew brighter every day.
One morning, about two months af-
ter the party which We have SO long
been harping upon, these same "peo-
pie" were electrified by the following
notice, which appeared in the Morn
ans, Z'ranscript:~
married, last evening, at the resi-
dence Of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Parker,
Hon. Frank Birmingwell of Charleston,
S. c., and Miss Florence, daughter OF
the late Ralph Farnton, of this city.
The happy pair left for Washington
this morning, accompanied by the
mother Of the bride, where Mr.. Bir-
mingwell holds the office Of senator -
Suffice it for us to say that neither
Florence nor her distinguished husband
ever hady cause to regrettheir union,
and as all indifferent persons are gener-
ally de lrop with the people in the h on-
eymoon, we will withdraw
b. "A NOTABLE uYDgoGRAPHICAL FACT.
The Mississippi River is at the pres
ent moment four feet lower than it was
ever known before in the memory Of
the oldest inhabitant. It is SO low Tat