Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-04-11
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that the authenticated Mrs Potts had Just
had daughter. This induced the bishop
to return to the city for the purpose o
purchas ng an additional organ.
On the following Saturday he returned
home. As he approached his house 9
swarm of young children few out Of the
front gate and ran towards him shouting:
There's pa +! Here comes pa Oh. pa
we're glad to see you Hurrah for pa =
etc.
The bishop looked at the children as
they focked around him and elung to bis
legs and coat, and was astonished to see
that they we're neither his nor the late
Browns He said. "You youngsters have
made mistake am not your father -
and he smiled good-paturedly
80, yes, you are thong b! screamed the
| little ones 10 chorus
But say am not said the bishop.
severely. and frownipg ''don't you know
( where little sory-teliers go? 1t is scanda
lous to violate the truth 10 that manner.-
My pane is Potts"
Yes, we know it is" exclaimed the
chrildren I'VE know it is, and so is ours !;
thst is our name now too since the we'd
ding"
''Since what wedding p demanded the
bishop, turning pale.
"Why, mas wedding, Of course. She
was married yesterday to you by Mr..
Young, and We are al living at your house
now with our new little brothers and SIS
ters"
The bishop sat down on the pavement
and wiped away tear. Then be asked
Who was your father ?"
''Mr. Simpson," said the crowd, land he
died on Tuesday,
''And how many of his internal old
widows Il mean how many of your mother
are there ?"
"Ooly twenty -seven,' replied the chill
dren. "aud there are only sixty four of us
and We are awful glad you have come"
The bishop did not seem unusually glad;
somehow, he failed to enter into the enthu-
siasm of the occasion There appeared to
be in certain sense, too much sameness
about these surprises. So he sat there with
his hat pulled over his eyes and considered
the situation
Finally seeing there was no help for it,
be rushed up to the house, and forty-eight
Mrs. Potts rushed up to him and told him
how the prophet bad had another vision 10
which he was commanded to seal Simpsons
widow to Potts.
Then the bishop stumbled around among
the cradles to his writing desk where he felt
among the gum rings ard rattles for bis
writing paper and then addressed note to
Brigham. asking him as personal favor
to keep away until after Christmas. "The
man must take me for founding hospital"
he said. Then the bishop saw clearly enough
that if he gave presents to the other CHILDREN
aud not to the late Simpsons the bride re lct
Of Simpson woulj probably souse down on
him, fumtle among his hair and make it
warm for him So repackng his carpet
bag, be started again for San Francisco for
sixly.four more mouthorgans, while Mrs.
Potts gradually took leave Of him in the
entry--all but the red.haired woman, who
was upstairs, and who had to be satisfied with
screeching good-by at the top of her voice.
On his way home, after his last visit to
San Francisco, the bishop sat in the car by
the side of man who hal left Salt Lake
the day before The stranger was commu-
n,cative. Ia the course of the conversation
he remarked to the bishop:
That was lively little affair up there
in the city on Monday"
What affair 2" asked Potts.
"Why, that wedding McGr ath's wild
ow, you know, married by proxy"
''You don't eay,' replied the bishop. II
didn't know that MeGrath was dead"
Eyes he died on Sunday. and that
night Brigham had vision in which he was
ordered to seal her to the bishop"
Bishop exclaimed Potts. Bishop +!
what bishop 2"
well. you see there were fifteen Of
Mrs. McGrath and eighty-two children, and
they showed the whole lot off on old Potts.
Perhaps you don't know him p
The bishop gave a wild, uneartbly shrek.
and went into hysterical fit and writhed
on the floor as if be had hydrophobia -
When he recovered, he leaped from the
train and walked back to San Francisco
He afterward took the first steamer for Pc
ru, where be entered monastery and be-
came celibate
His carpet-bag was sent to his family
It contained the balance of the mouth-or-
gans On Christmas morning they were
distributed, and in less than two hours the
entire two hundred and eighty children we're
sick from sucking paint off them. A doc
tor was called, and he seemed SO much in.
terested in the family that Brigham divorced
the Whole conce, n from old Potts and an
nexed it to the doct r.; who Immediately
lost his reason and would have butchered the
entire family if the red-baired woman and
the oldest boy had not marched him off to
lunatic asylum, where he spent his time trying
to arrive at an estimate of the number of his
children by cyphering with impossible COM
binatons Of the multiplication table and al
zebra Mao Adeler
Commodore Farraud, who had command
at one time during the war of the important
defence of Drewrys Bluff, the key by way
of James River to Richmond died at his