The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-28
SPRAGUE VS.. CRAIG.
The End Not Yet-The Last Turn i'm the
100000 Breach of Promise Case.

The Chicago Tribune says:-
The irrepressible conflict between the .'2 harts
and soles" of Elisha c. Sprague and Amanda
Craig is not at an end. Nor is there a present
likelihood that it will be at an end till Amanda's
brown locks are as grey as those of her ancient
admirer. statement has recently been circu-
lated in the newspapers to the effect that Mr..
Sprague had acquiesced in the Judgment of the
court at Wheaton, and would Immediately come
down with the $40, 600, being the reduced value
of the affection he had withdrawn from the SEN
timental teacher of youth Mt Cincinnati But
this is not true. Mr.. Sprague has apparently
just awakened to the fact that this is the grand
event of his life, and he prefers litigation, how
ever expensive, to the endowment of an aban-
doned sweetheart So that Miss Amanda, in
stead of revelling in the enjoyment of $4,000
is still left pining and unconsOled, like the for
lorn maiden in the moated grange, who said:-
'"The night is dreary,,
He 0ometh not down, she said"
The unfortunate Sprague has been subjected
to ali kinds of unpleasant criticism since his
first appearance before the public. Like dog
with tiu-kettle tied to his tail, he has been
pelted with paragraphs all over the land. Edi-
torals CAV, grave lively and severe have been
hurled at his devoted head. He has been made
the standing joke of comedians; he has been
called an old dog, an old donkey, an old satyr
a miserable old wretch, dirty dog, and any
other dog, all of which is indirectly attributable
to the fact that he is an eccentric old gentle
men, whose education has been neglected, and
who spells the second name in the Trinity with
n small g. For two years he has been systema-
tically bled by attorneys, whose only object
make him bleed lively. And at last the gay
old LothariO has reused himself like giant re-
frcshed with slumber, and prepares to fight it
out with Amanda till he worries her into the yell
low leaf. Theindiscriminate abuse heaped upon
him by some journals seems to have braced him
up to the fight, and it is to be feared that the
disappointed fair one will at least gain some eX-
perence of the laws delay before the days of
her long trial are over.
That the statement of Spragues acquiescence
in the decree of the court is erroneous will be
seen from the following notice in the Ottawa
Statesman of July 20:-
STATE OF ILLINOIS SUPREME CoURT.-witbin and for
ElshS o. Sprague ys Amanda T. Craig 20 Du
ment obtained by said Amanda j. Craig against Elisha O.
Tcn said writ OF error is nov pending IN SAID supreme
issued herein returnable the first day of the
Of i9d Supreme Court to be held Pt Ottawa in said State
n@ NV in aha b & also u & dPpsas nreye Gy nnr % ON
| the said Amanda j. Craig is a nonresdent OF the
State OF Illinois and without the reach of the Of
| said supreme Court. Now, therefore, you the said
Amanda Craig the said defendant error whose
and appear before the justices Of said supreme Court
9e neoI Term OF sad Sou5t 20 oe nsa a OtIawa IN sad
the record and proceedings brought into said Supreme
end SaG snail se % further aas o and
what said Court shall Oroer in this behalf r,v,op
CLERK of the Supreme Court.
Dated the 18th day of July, A ID. 1863"
The case viii come before the Supreme Court
| mt the next September term
"Old Sprague" seems to have survived the
laughter of the world, and in these days he ap-
pears wonderfully brisk andE reiuVenated, In
| deed, since the days of the Wheaton trial so
spruce and airy does he walk abroad, that one
might well be skeptical as to whether the mo-
| tives of the fair Amanda were entirely mer-
cenary after all. Where are the traces of his
''arisplace, his issues his running sores which
made him so sad when he sat upon his pile of
| joice in the three story and invoked the blessing
| of Heaven? He has shaken them off as the lion
| shakes the dewdrops from his name. He looks
| forward to a stll longer courtship with his
Amanda, and feels confident that he will yet
sustain the charges he made against her.