The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-04-09
The True Story of Eneas and Dido
BY HARRIET scREEcHER BLowE.

The reading public of America has been presented with book which does not sell very rapidly, nor is it liable to meet with universal favor, except as a study for school boys. This work, written by Roman (not the San Francisco bookseller), named Pub. Virgil Marc, who is generally known by his middle name, contains Statements so garbled that l am constrained to interpose my own feeble efforts in the cause of truth
 In 1851, l was travelling in Egypt. One day, while meditating upon the solitary gran deur of the Sphinx, l was startled by long drawn sigh. Near me stood a dragoman clad in turban and burnous, with pistols and ataghan in his belt. He spoke not word, but kept splitting necessarily, habit unusual Tn those parts. He wore pair of gold spec tacles, which was another uncommon accom- plishment. On questioning him, found out that his name was Yusef Badra, which freely translated into English means Ross Browne. He entered into conversation with me and finally offered to make me the repository of a great secret, which l was not to diyulge dur ing the lifetime of two prominent American statesmen, Susan B. Anthony and Reddy, the Blacksmith. It is substantially as follows:
 Kneas was Trojan by birth, and served his time in old Andrew Mencely's bell shop at West Troy. His father was a Mohawk Dutchman, named Ance Keyser, whom Mir.
 Virgil calls Anehisis for short. His mother was Venus, who used to part her hair on the side, and rode Mazeppa in Jack Wilson's cir GUS. So, you see, he was no great shakes, anyhow. From his first marriage. Kneas had numerous descendants among them a negro minstrel named Nelson Kneass. who wrote Nelly was a lady.n Rneas was a fighter for rondo game, but when the cee- brated Trojan war broke out, he turned out bounty jumper, and was Spotted" by the police. One night in Troy he got unusually hostile, and Hon. John Morrissey was reluc- tantly compelled to "put head" on him. He then got two Whitehall boats and took a voyage up the Mohawk, intending to stop at Auburn and ask Seward the best way to Alaska. His pilot got drunk and tumbled overheard, and as Bneas didn't know the river very well, he took the wrong chute and landed his boat in White Pine. Here he met Red Wheeler, who was teaching Sunday School, and who, on being applied to for the loan of twenty, told him to go to Carthage and marry Queen Dido for her coin. Red put up this job to get even on Dido because she had dismissed him from her Cabinet and appointed Hannibal Secretary of War in his stead. Hannibal was a negro preacher, of the Punic faith, and used to have great reyi- yals on the Barbary Coast
 Dido was pretty woman, or else they don't make them. She had a temper of her own, and used to throw things around loose when she got on her beer. She was born a Princess of Tyre, but soon got tired of living there Besides, she was afraid of her own brother, Pygmalion, who owned hog ranch fu lirnif . ba gJl- accordingly got up and dusted her dimity for the coast of Egypt, where she arrived sound in limb and wind. The first break she made was to oust old King Pharoah, the King who got broke playing against bank. This done. she declared herself Queen, and squatted on the throne.
 One day, a reliable contraband came in and told her that a man with red shirt and a plug hat, was awaiting outside of the palace gates. She ordered him to be shown up When he entered she was reclining on A bed Of swaDsdown, having just taken a bath of champagne. The air was loaded with rare perfumes, enough to bewilder the senses, as the Trojan seated himself beside the lovely octoroon. He braile6 up his eyebrows, threw out his chest, and exclaimed
 "fair lady, have come to offer thee my hand and heart"
 " hat dye take me for" asked Dido. For better or worse, for richer or poorer" he replied. .f The beautiful Tyrian sank her head upon hls shoulder, and murmured in tones of deli cious langour: "That suits Crooks 2,
 It wasa plain case of love at first sight. SO they were privately married the next day' at he Roman Consulate, by Pierre Hyacinthe. md Frank McCoppin gave away inc hr;da But the course of true love didn't run slick. Eneas was fond of draw poker, and used to 'et up hls soap, like the WatsOns, on two 1air. This kept him out late at night, and ne old woman got an attack of the "green 'yed lobster" because she thought he was Iiter the lager beer girls. One night he walked home drunk, inside of flour barrel, laying bucked off all his good store clothes