New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-12
Wants n Situation.

"A few months since q merchant. vel
known in New Orleans. thin king to better
his fortunes, transferred his business TO an
other city. 1.-THE judge" ss he was fami
Harry called. "a account o: his grave looks
and diXnitied manner. is a bit of a wag, and
sometimes drops into poetry" and Occa-
sionaDy sits down TO prose. From time to
| time reports have reached US that ''the
judge was making money and doing we'll.
These reports are evidently untrue. for in a
late number of the st. Louis Republican,
writing over the signature of !. Y. Peck.
he appears as an applicant for situation
as an obituary editor, and gives sample of
of his abilities. He says:
Our parents were wealthy bu: honest.
and OF course we are now Door; but we can
live on very little, because Mary Ann and
have made ourselves into a grange and
buy at retail at wholesale prices
May be you have full corpse to do YOUR
funny writing, SO if you will engage me |
will do anything in the obituarian line; it
will suit our feelings better, for Mary Ann
and l have been in atfliction lately. Great
grandmother Peck died last week, aged
CA!A. She died once before, when she was
ninety six, but just after she was laid out
she seemed to remember somehow that she
had forgotten to finish footing stocking for
her youngest boy, who was only seventy
four years of age, SO she came to again;
anu as winter was coming on, and SO much
knitting to be done, she concluded to keep
Cd tor twenty years or so. The doctor
thinks If she amt disturbed she is gone
for good this time. Me and Mary Ann sat
up with her to the last, and she was checked
on into the full truition of her faculties. |
couldn't help moralizing as sat by her bed. |
SIDE now lean person can get and vet con. |
sumo SO much gruel-she beat anything all |
hollow that ever saw. Poor old soul, she |
was SO lean that the mosquitoes had ceased |
to be burden; they used to light on her
and hammer on her skull with their bills till |
the room sounded like telegraph office:
then they would scratch their heads with
their hind legs and sail out of the win.
dow, worn out. She seemed to gain q little |
desh after we came here from Chicago and
got new spirits; but somebody told her that |
ler name was accidentally left out of Ed
wards Directory, and she fell off again She
hadn't walked any to speak OF for the last
Wenty two years, and it used to console her
o think how much size had saved on Shoes
When look at the old calico cushion with
Is faded roses that she sat embowered in |
NICE she was lOi, 1 heave sigh at the |
transformers OF all sublunarian comfort. |
Ter eyes got 80 weak that she wore seven
airs OF glasses for spell. but they warn't
trong enough for her to get the sense out of
er scriptures, so we had pair of opera |
lasses mounted, SO she could wear them on
Ter nose. She sat up the heftiest par. of
he day before she snutfed out. and told me |
lany things contidentiallT. Sne remem.
cred distinctly when General Washin gton
OF the check cashed that Cakes Ames
ave him tor signing the Pacific railroad $
iii and she was quite Dig girl when ,
y'us Field and Hendrix Hudson brung (
ie Atlantic cable over in the Mayiiower l
hat IS home without a great-granI. =
is gone. let her r l. L. :