The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-10-01
"a HeAE FOR NARY.
A California incident.

I
Some sHosyears sgo. thsse cam,
into my Office. one Jimmy 0'HallO
ran, born, be said. Gin cOur Clare
in OuId Ireland, and twas fo. he IS.
shuring Of his life he'd be aftbs.',
He was a 8e looking subject. anS
shsEeW vas no difficulty 10 granting
him policy for $1,000. in gold Jim
my believed in gold IL favor of HIS
wife Mary, then in New York
O'Halloran was a true, warm heart
ed Irishman, member Of Father
Mathew society, sinceps Catholic,
and hard working honest man. He
bad come here to make money and e
Sc for Mary; his simple unsel6sh
honesty towards her impelled him to
szare her that home, and his true
heart would allow no uncertainty as
to he provisions be intended for her
be had sworn to love, cherish end
protect. In my very soul l honored
that man, ignorant as he WAS. I will
refrain from contrasting the O'Hallc-
ran idea Of Quty with that of some
of our educated Americans, compar-
isons might be odious, t'is best there
fore to be silent. Somss onths pas
sed away, and I heard of my friend
Jimmy as being hard at work on the
Placer Mines of Calaveras he had
a claim and was doing we'll. At the
end of the year, he again made his
appearance in my Office, looking eV-
cry inch a miner, rough and honest;
he was in exhuberaut spirits, said
'' he had made almost money enough
to boy rancho. and, PLACE God, he'd
soon have home for Mary, but sure,
he would not neglect the insurance,
and the more so as" and here his
big eyes fairly danced, sure. "he
had g son, for Mary had writ him a
lether and named him Jimmy, afther
neself, good luck to the boy, and I'll
have me wife and child here, aud
thin, bedsd, I'll begin to live. -
Hearty Joy is contagious, aud warm
iy congratulated Jimmy on his pros
poets.
Time passed, and one day, some
eight months after, I again saw o.
Halloran in the city, but unlike the
Jimmy of year sgo, both 10 dress
and person ; he had on what be cal
led "store Clothes" and, in person,
be was faF-from being the strong, ro-
bust Jimmy of former days. "Surs,"
said, he, ''its trouble I've had me
psrdner in the claim jist killed him
self wid the drink, and he run US in
debt, and done the work for both of
Us, and at last l had bit of = sick
ness, and in thin times I often
thought of my INSURANCE, aud I was
glad, for I thought, shure, ave it
PLACED God to kill me wid the fever,
that me inshu rance would git home
for Mary all the same but I'm we'll
now, and Patrick, God rest his sowl,
he's dead, but I'm doing well now"
l hoped so, but I did not like his
looks, and told him to beware Of our
cold winds and evening fogs. Ilesrn-
ed from him that his object in visit
ing the city, was to meet Mary and
little Jimmy, whom he expected by
that day y's steamer fFomPanama, "fOr
sure" said he, 81 thought it's hap
pier we'd be togither, and thin we
could kape boarders and make a bit
that way in the Mines" I went
with Jimmie to the wharf, curious
to see the wife and child of this
coarse-no, this noble Irishman'-
There was, as usual, large crowd
on the dock, waiting for friends and
acquaintances on the incoming yes
sci once on the dock, and Jimmy
began to be like his old joyous self,
Mary and little Jimmy were all he
could talk about, ''snd it's like lady
she's come, in the cabin anyhow.
sure I'd have nothing less for her,
and tbin Il want 8 bit too good fol