The New Orleans crescent., 1869-01-17

A correspondent sends the Kankakee (III.)
Gazette the following lively sketch:
Everybody in Ksnkakee knows Mollie. To
those Of our readers who so unfortunately cir.
cumstanced as to be compelled to live away from
Kankakee, we will say that Mollie had no other
name. She never had father nor mother nor
brother nor sister, that anybody ever knew of.
She never had home outside the county iail She
was brought here in 1861 from New York. She
never knew what school was she never heard
q sermon she never was inside of church she
never heard of Sunday school; she never heard
kind word spoken she never was sober mo-
ment when she could get whisky, and she could
always get whisky when she could get out of jail !;
and she was always out of jail when she made
so much disturbance that the jailor could not
keep her in and she was slways in Jail when
she made so much disturbance out that she
could not be endured. She was Republican
by profession and Democrat by instinct
She swore the most terrific oaths with greater
volubility Of tongue than could be done by any
person who lived outside of Chicago. She talked
the viest, and sang the worss songs; she was
filthy as the lowest, and slept out doors more
nights, and IN doors fewer nights than other being
who ever lived. When 1t raned the fastest and
froze the deepest, Mollie would get the drunkest,
and was then the happiest She would have been
an excellent subject for the late Social Science
Convention to have operated the social evil out of
her, for she had great deal of it. The police
feared her; the police court detested her; the
they audited bills marked, I" Diet for MoIlie in
county JAIL" and these bills they audited at every
meeting and the jailor was known on several
occasions 10 make use of downright profane
language when he saw the police and the irrspres-
sbe Millie marching. arm IN arm, up to the jail
door. What she lived for nobody knew. That
she would not die, everybody knew.
$50 wicked, though young, Wondering away.
Like the dog IN the story, each dog has its day
kuppOsirg. no doubt, he bad killed her before"
-.saNn
ful instance Of the perversenees of woman re-
fusng TO do that which everybody thought she
ought 70 dO-die.
city. There was "Jlm," an aboriginal of Mo-
mence, of whom but little is known here but
unless nature lied in Jm's face, head and general
make up, he was worse, wickeder and lower than
Moe. he made the acquaintance Of Mollie in
jail, while confined on a charge of stealing nine
drinks of whisky from an alderman in Momencs.
That they cOurted, is true; whether they loved
or not is not known. She begged to be released
from Jail, and promised TO marry and emigrate to
Chey eBDe. The Common Council voted Molie a
new dress, and the happy couple sixty dollars to
pay their fare Oh their matrimonial trip.
They repaired to the office of the police court
The police magistrate has an original way of doing
things. They said they wished to be married
The magistrate, with uplifted hand. said:
Z" Jim, you do agree to take Mollie, and live
with her, and go 10 Cheyenne with her, and stay
with regardless of Law and consequences? +"
Yes"
"Mollie, you do agree to take jim, and live
with him, and go TO Cheyenne with him, and stay
with him, irregardless OF law and oonsequences?" ?"
'Yes.u
"Then give you these two railroad tickets,
and order you to stay there until the vigilance
committee doth hang you both. Amen"
AND Mollie and Jim took their departure.