Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28
From the Chicago Republican
4 ROmanse In Chicago Real Life.

4 Romance In Chicago Real Life.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, an ell
DERBY, serious looking individual, well protected
from the inclemency Of the weather by sundry
layers of overcoats aud comforters, entered the
office Of the clerk of the Supreme Court in a me
tho1ical manner, and after spending about ten
minutes in unwrapping himself to a sufficient de-
gree 10 be able 10 articulate, expended about the
same period Of time in slowly looking around
him. After carefully investigating the surround
ings Of the highly ornamented Office, the old
gentleman's eye rested upon the bland features
Of one of the most gentlemanly and benevolent
of living deputy clerks.
Leaning toward him. he seriously enunciated
the important monosyllabe. Capt.
The person thus addressed called for further
particulars.
Cap" repeated the stranger, ''are you
given to unhitching folks here? Do you divorce
a lttle7''
The reply to this interrogatory was Of a some
what afiirmatory character, whereupon the ques
toner stated his grievance. after reluctantly ad-
mitting that his wife had not deserted him
neither had she been guilty of adultdry. cruelty,
drunkenness, or any Of the other little eccentric
tiles for which the law allows dissolution OF
Of the martial bonds.
- The cid woman, Cap, quoth he, "don't get
ge' aIous WIN ne que JAWS me ieiriul, anu Il
Iy ny ma '@n 9'',iiu -"ins ms niile ~ ~.
- ""i."s W. 'se,i' 'i'
tol '.is .5' 'iill'y l, 'nyle.ore; van -
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now, because its getting TO be cold weather, and
il will take good deal to winter her Can
get divorce here without anybody finding it out
Tor spet'
"My friend, " responded the cticial, suayely
ahI n, A'na'y' 7ee ye yonueV n5rA
me stranger IeP''e' lu ''ie al'' iIat'e-
~ you o''u1 ne'e III I'ON' que nOuI' you
WIZ see 'n'ee younE ulen Nuose ua'urAt Ie'ocI'y
- 'Po"4 "" 'N'i OouH '''n1eS, suing ,Hei1
'ose'ner' Ia moment they Will near tnat
su,s lor u'So'oe mas ueeh commenced lhey
"ii rush ior the papers Will orutaly assault
e''n other ior the nrat enance 10 see their con-
l'uls' anu lNen lney VIII "rl'e Ior Iour houIs
apiece. 4h'y are newspaper men, an' VIII
Hrie you up ioF puoh'auoh. ihey are pTooa-
oy now IN Inc next room, dong the same thing
lor someoody eiSe- Ihey VIII Wriie an article
about you win thirteen head lines, Iney VIII
PRINT All you An0" ABOUT yourself ana all that
any one else KNOWS, anu great deal that no one
knows II may o! course DO you good, uu' ot
ihat y9n VIII nave to Judge yourself l on can
Se' Ill oi 'heil' Tor 'Hey are AHleht anu moor
rupuole, ana 1t wont be Of any use TO Alll them,
Ior al tneT YIAoe7 they heep men great deai
worse llah tney are
N"p- slowly anu siLy aseet tue now
iIishtened sultor' Is tha' al true
Is ule' all oi IT, anu less than the
truth.
ihen' sad the OIL man with " melancholy
ar, a. he pr9crelei '' again envelope hun
sen ln his luIutudlnous "rapPngs ' guess
d winter the Ola woman alter aIL III come
back again next year, and then, perhaps, these
fellows VAL be dead.
And silently and sorroWiu'ly the disappointed
one pulled has nat over ms eyes ana quietly stole
aW-y-
Inc murderer lraupm4uu' WHO was con-
Victed az PARIS Oh The .lta uii- ot the wholesale
murder OF the hiuck family, betrayed NOT ihe
slightest sign Of feeling when the death sentence
vas pronounced upon him, but with a sueeriug
outright As the crowd slowly DISPERSED, the
condemned man, ip the most Indifferent manner,
-. ,s' .-e ,.l- anu '7osl.I '.L S''lIs
bv the keeper and Doctor Grgbon. Of the pri-
son. PassIg stiaiy and straight before these
persons Iraupinann met one 1i me oii;eIs Of
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