Connecticut western news., 1873-03-14

completed his purchases, and was just about to get on the train with his one hundred and forty-four mouth organs, when telegram was handed him. It contained information to the effect that the auburn-haired Mrs. Potts had just had @ daughter, This induced the bishop to return to the city for the pur- pose of purchasing an additional organ.
 On the following Saturday he returned home. As he approached his house a swarm of young children flew out of the front gate, and ran toward him, shouting: "There's pa Here comes pa! Oh, pa, we're glad to see you Hurrah for pa !" etc. t*o -Fss The bishop looked at the children as they focked around him and clung to his legs and coat, and was astonished to pefeeive that they were neither his nor the late Browns. He said, " You youngsters have made mistake I am not your father ;;'' and he smiled good naturedly. h''',''' ... E''' A '1 70, yes, you are though p screamed the little ones in chorus. .Ts.e s -
 "But I say I am not, " said the bishop, severely and drowning; 'Fdon't you know where little story-tellers go? It is scandalous to violate the truth in this manner. My name is Potts. !" '7 l'-
 Yes, we know it is," exclaimed the children" we know it is, and so is ours that is our name now too since the wedding. .-.s-.. ..se -....,...r. ..
 ""Since what wedding ?" demanded the bishop, turning pale.
 "Why, mas wedding, of course. She was married yesterday to you by MT. Young, and we are all living at your house now with our new little brothers and sisters" ,...,., ....... .
 The bishop sat down on the pavement and wiped away tear: Then he asked
 "Who was your father ?'' +-- ''"- "Mr. Simpson" said the crowd, "and he died on Tuesday," '-1'
 '"And how many of his internal old widows-I mean how many of your mother are there ?' a .gesssatr.r .s.--
 B. Only twenty-seven, replied the children, tand 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 enthusiasm of the oceaaion. There appeared to be in certain sense, toe 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 1t, he rushed up to the house, and forty. eight of Mrs. Potts rushed up to him, and told him how the prophet had had another vision in which he was com. handed to seal Simpsons widow tc Potts. 'f" '' -.75.'' s5-@''
 Then the bishop stumbled around among the cradles to his writing desk where he felt among the gum rings and rattles for his writing paper, and the1 addressed a note to Brigham, asking hin as personal favor to keep awake unti after Christmas. "The man must take me fora founding hospital, , he said Then the bishop saw clearly enough that if he gave presents to the other children and not to the late Simpson the bride reict of Simpson would prob ably souse down on him, tumble among his hair and make it warm for him. So repacking his carpet bag, he started again for San Francisco for sixty-foul more mouth organs, 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 satis fled with screeching good-by at the tol of her voice. -@ ''"
 On his way home, after his last visi to San Francisco, the bishop sat in th' car by the side of 8. man who had lef Salt Lake the day before: The strange, was communicative. In the course O. the conversation he remarked to thu bishop: "That was lively little affail up there in the city on Monday"
 "What affair ?" asked Potts.
 s' Why, that Wedding McGrath'I widow, you know married by proxy.
 "You don't say," replied the bishop "I didn't know that McGrath wal dead" + - s.
 "Yes he died on Sunday, and tha night Brigham had vision in which h, was ordered to seal her to. the bishop
 "Bishopr' exclaimed Potts. "Bishop what bishop ?''" 7e' -7aTi.'1.a 2l-@
 lss We'll, you see there were fifteen o Mrs. McGrath and eighty-two children and they showed the whole lot off o, old Potts. Perhaps you don't knoy him p --... sla -a.,.eH s'a.
 The bishop gave 8 wild, unearthl, shriek, and went into 8 hysterical fit and writhed on the floor as if he hat l nydfOpAOD1a. when ne recovered, h l leaped from the train and walked bacl to San Francisco. He afterward tool the first steamer for Peru, where h entered monastery and became cell bate.
 His carpet bag was sent to his family It contained the balance of the mouth organs. On Christmas morning the, were distributed, and in less than tw hours the entire two hundred and eigh children were sick from sucking pain off them. A doctor was called, and h seemed so much interested in the fami ly that Brigham divorced the whole con cern from old Potts and annexed it t the doctor, who immediately lost hi reason and would have butchered tn entire family if the red haired woma and the oldest boy had not marched hi1 off to lunatic asylum, where he sper his time trying to arrive at an estimat of the numbe. of his children b cyphering with an impossible combins tion of the multiplication table and a gebra.-1far Adeler. ss
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