The New York herald., 1869-06-10
An Extraordinary Breach Of Promise Case
Damages One Hundred Thousand Dollars.

An Extraordinary Breach Of Promise Case
Damages Ono Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Chicago has at last had o real sensation, q
magnificent sensation, hundred thousand
dollar sensation, q marble block sensation,
sensation hinging upon incidents which might
be woven into comedy that would throw
'London Assurance" and the splendid roue-
ism of Sir Harcourt Courtley completely in
the shade. Here is the plot:-Miss Amanda
j. Craig is the heroine and plaintiff; E. G.
Sprague is the wicked man and defendant.
marin, native of Cincinnati, of the ripe age
of thirty-fve, well developed and comely to
look upon. Sprague is Chicago millionaire,
and owner Of what is commercially known as
''Sprague's block"-a marble institution OF
the city of divorce and breach of promise
cases. The curtain rises upon law court in
suburb of Chicago. Present-judges, law
yers, sheriffs, witnesses, constables and q
promiscuous multitude of curious people.
''Craig versus Sprague." Damages, one hum
dred thousand dollars Miss Amanda puts in
her testimony. She was wooed and won by
the defendant, who after capturing the citadel
of her affections, cruelty proceeded to dis
mantle and demolish its ramparts. She
required q hundred thousand dollar monitor
10 avenge her wrongs, and fortified her posi-
ton by introducing testimony showing that
she was in every way maiden whose char
acter was as pure as the driven snow, and,
like Caesars wife, above suspicion. The
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here be observed that in this piece he appears
in two distinct characters, to wit I'm the
character Of suitor he Is a gay and festive
youth, of forty-five or so, you know. attired
in the height of fashion; hair and whiskers
carefully tricopherosed, teeth of matchless
whiteness, eyes Of piercing blackness, and in
form perfect, but alas perhaps, q padded
Adonis. In this bewitching makeup he very
naturally wins his way into the artless heart
of the innocent Amanda. But, shame on
inhuman Inconsistency! he finally casts her Off
for another--which incident will do very well
for the undcrplot-and poor and injured
Amanda raveth and teareth her lovely locks,
and biteth her sweet lips until the blood
oozes like nectar pressed from well ripened
grapes. Defeated and scandalized in the
Court Of Cupid, she appeals for justice In
law court in an Illinois village. And now
comes in the defendant in his second makeup.
Not liking the idea Of disgorging one-tenth
Of his fortune for his freak of super Juvenile
fancy in making q pretty girl love him, he
consuts his lawyer, who advises him to grub
out his front hair, plug out his eyes, Danish
his false teeth (the idea Of lawyer ever re-
commenting the gum gameD to attire himself
in Chatham street old clio, SOW pimples and
raise pups on his nose, and give himself up
generally to a course of malignant erysipelas,
or. in his own facetious photography, 'aris.
p,acc.p He also manufactured few "side
issues" which will do very well for by-play for
supes when the piece Is produced on the stage.
In this trausmogrled form he hoped TO inn
press the jury that poor Amanda was tempt
ress, fnan-catcher, q millionaire guta-
| peEcher, Potiphars wife without the pot Of
F, gold. But-ha ha Ia likeness of his former
self, when he was rich and ardent suer aud
his sweetheart only an honest sewer, when he