The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-11


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Keep your seat. z saisl /, as my ffiendros
I to 90, III cannot help repeating that d,
/ ], boomerang joke attempted to be played up
/ / on Cough BIZ everybody.s pet hunaorist
Mark Twain, and that Falstafflan jokist, th'
/ Fat Contributor. 1t has been told before
but should like 10 repeat it, stripping
from the faIsehoods by which II was former
| ly embel ellished' q
One evening Twain and Girls found them
selves together at the Sherman House, i
! Chicago, B. r., before the tfre.)
Drifting about ii search Of the picturesque
they followed the human stream, til. Il,
wear the metaphor threadbare1 they stranded
on q bar. Mr.. Cough was staying at Til,
time, and being urlwell, had retired early
a bright idea struck Twasa's restless mind
Let's send him up cocktail ~
Idea voted good and acted upon. Waite
arrived 1T Mr.. Coughs room: 9.Somc mis-
take, never touch liquor Waiter positive
/ Mr.. Cough more SO.
On the way down 1t occurred to the darky
lthat-it was q pity the cocktail should b
wasted, 50 he drank it, and reported tai
right at the bar. Twain and Girls. intense
" delighted, thought they had caught tht
lecturer mapping. Lets send him up an.
other said Girls. Same result cocktail re-
eeipted home by darky: Excitement at feve,
heat.
Give him a brandy, strong,s shouted
Twain.
Disappearance of darky-ditto cocktail
Report satisfactory, and the precious pair
put their heads together and were concoct-
ing plan to mix liquors on the temperance
man, when Mr.. Cough entered the .bar-room,
approached our heroes, and said
II am afraid you rest under nisappre-
hension. Seeing that I was being made the
victim Of some practical joke. followed the
waiter down, and saw him drink the liquor
that suppose you thought had used. You
will please refrain from sending any more
up as have not felt the need of such drinks
for years.
When the subject is brought up now to
Twain, he says the Fat Contributor .sretired
within himself like d creased telescope" but
further says that he rWain) was never in
Chicago; didn't know there was sherman
House, etc.
Well-talse careof yourself!
We clip the following from the Helena
Herald for the benefit Of the Good Templar
organization,- although we are inclined to
think that after BranhaIl's experience In
Bear Town and other places IN this Terri
tory in 1865 on account Of several nefarious
transactions i'll which he was the principal,
he will hardly venture TO impose himself on
the members Of that excellent fraternity Id
this region. Mrs. Bramhall, we are person.
ally aware TO be ali excellent and estimable
lady ..hut it is rs certainly known that the
man to whom she has the misfortune to be
allied IS a blk in every sense Of the word.
BRooKLYN. N. T., March 1s, 1872.
To tts Editor of the Herald
have for d long time time been thinking
of giving you few facts IN relation to the
true character of man by the name Of T. E..
Bramhall, who has figured in the cause of
in your Territory. Heis rascal
Of the first water. In 1s48 he was indicted
Oh four different counts for railway robberies..
victed for larceny and forgery and sentenced
to hard labor for term Of years, in Eng
and. At the expiration of his term. his
family hanished him to Cafiforna, never to
return In 1852 he was arrested again for
forgery, convicted and sentenced to hard
abor IN The Penetentiary Of that State for .
period of four years. which time he served.
One year later he appears in the role OF a
gentleman, well behaved, quiet in his de-
aleanor and courteous In his manners to a
legree He met and won the heart of a wo-
nan who knew nothing OF his antecedents,
deceived her and married her. One year
ater he was arrested for stealing. His wife |
hen learned for the first. tisne what thief
ind scoundrel he was, but the poor victim I
,ould not believe it, and refused to leave him.
,he stood BY him when all the world frowned, /
nd has never been willing to expose him to
lis enemies, and by her prayers and tears
,rought about q reform. She started him out |
ii his work Of Temperance and was quite /
appy. Through her correct Christian life,
he led him to be respected and useful IN the
temperance cause. She referred me to
.ishop Tuttle, Judge Lawrence, A. J. Davis,
'ornelIus Hedges, ard others Of Helena.
Now, would like to hare you, through
be Herald, say to the people Of Montana,
IDAHO and Oregon, that Bramhall has been
xpelleG from the Odd Fellows, Good Tenn
lars, Good Sanaritans, Sons Of Temperance
nd all other societies OF which he was
,ember, for the following offences: On tho
9th or July, 1871. he left his wife for the
urpose, as he said, of going to England.
Ie went to the house oi her brother and In
ueed her llleec, i girl Of Is years, to. accom-
any him en- his way. Before leaving he
btained 800 worth Of goods, which his
oor wife was obliged te pay for Or lose her
My means Of support. The girl is an only
aughfer, and her parents, as well as his
6andonnd wife, are nearly distracted.
ramhall ii well known III the far West,
here he is, Ill ill probability, now sojourn-
lg 10 prevent his victimizing the Odd
ellows and Temperance fraternities, I beg
OH will warn them against this hvpocri1e
nd sWintller.
Very Respectfully.
HENRY WENTWORTH.
#s
MoRE than sixteen hundred Of the ten
af,;lsaIad women who SIGNED the aYafi-W0mAIf