Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-28

From the Chicago Tribune.l
There has been an "unpleasantness
in Cincinnati, in which Mr.. Bond in
dulged in few moments of livel,
hatchet-practicc upon the occiput o
the Rev. Mr.. Thompson, of Kansas, 70
kissing Mrs. Sallie Shingledecker. Sal
lie had been courted by Bond and con
verted by Thompson. Under the swa,
of Thompson, she had given her hear
to religion, and under the influence o
Bond, she had given the same article t
him. Though she was thus under dou
BILE bonds, she could not keep tn,
peace.
Mr.. Bond, for greater convenience il
pursuing his amatory addresses, haG
contracted, about three months before
for full board at the table of Mrs. Shing
ledecker If the renting of single lodg
ings by Mr. Pickwick from the sucepti.
BILE Widow Bardell proved his desire tc
lead that lady to the hymeneal altar, far
more did Mr.. Bonds engagement oI
full board with Mrs. Shingledecker warn
all lovers that he was deliberately be-
sieging the right and left ventricles oi
that fair widow. Mrs. Shingledecker
had at first warned Mr. Bond with af.
fectionste candor, that she would not
marry him SO long as there was any
chance of carrying her charms to a
higher market. This famed the tender
passion of Bond to fever heat.
Mr.. Bond says Though, after indulg-
ing in hatchet-practice, he is, of course,
lunatic, and wholly unreliable) that
of late his addresses had been success
full. Mrs. ShinglOdecker, being on the
sunny side of forty, became persuaded
that Bond would be her best hold, if not
her last grip. So she smiled upon
him, and he was happy. When we con-
slider how often Mrs. Shingledecker
lad the privilege of smiling on Bond,
we can arrive at a small part of the
data for computing his bliss. ~
In handing the Bond his coffee at
breakfast she could ask him modestly
if he would have it sweet and with
cream" and accompany the beverage
with smile full OF. the flavor of vanilla.
And as Saliie, in spite OF prudence, had
taste for osculatory enjoyments, it.
stands TO reason that she would not
allow him to sally forth in the morning
to his daily toll, which consisted in turn
ing of other peoples gas, without one
of those sallies Of amatory lip-practice
which are SO electric to the susceptible
lover. Into this little Eden Of connubial
bliss, now in full pinfeather enters the
Reverend and remorseless Thompson, of
Kansas. Mrs. Shingledecker had once
before, been fatally subjected TO his
attractive wiles under the most danger
Gus circumstances. Thompson had
preached the funeral sermon Of the late
lamented Shingledecker, her first. Next
10 the sexton who buries a man, the
who breaches his requiem stands
highest in the esteem of his mourning
reict. In this case, the relict kissed
Mr.. Thompson. or Thompson kissed the
relict, as thing Of course. The report
of the affair, in the Cincinnati papers,
assures us that " Il was not strange that
the minister should kiss the lady, as his
with her and her family were
Of the purest and most intimate charae-
ter, and, as she sought to bestow the kiss
upon him, there was nothing improper |
IN his accepting it" Certainly notl
Since the eccentricity Of Joseph, there |
s no recorded case wherein q gentleman
has been justified in refusing a favor
which lady might seek to bestow upon |
him. Clearly the Rev. Thompson was
bound in honor to kiss Mrs. Single