Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-11-28
AVA Nj COURIER.
A REMARMA1s.E sToRY.


A singular story is going the roundl
of the Eastern press, the main feature
of which are embodied in the follow
ing narrative: There lived in Portland
Maine, in IS49, John and George Har
his, brothers. John tbs elder, wa.
steady and rich. George, the younger
was dissipated and poor. John re
manned single, but George married
and was the father of 1--WE children. A
poor mans luck! While John was
pulling up the dollars, George was al
ways in debt, and so when the gold
fever broke out, George took it in the
natural way and set out to seek his
fortune among the miners Of Califor-
mia, leaving his family to the care OF
his brother John.
Two years in the diggings brought
George Harris Indifferent success. He
occasionally forwarded to his family
driblets spared from his rolfcking life,
end in 1851, having saved enough to
pay his passage, he sailed for home.
It was then the practice for the steamer
from Aspinwall to take coal at Kings
ton, in Jamaica, and George Harris,
With other passengers, went on shore
20 see the lions OF the city.
On the plaza the wealth and fashion
of Kingston were abroad in force, and
everybody felt 50 very jolly when her
Aajesty's band began to play. Phryne
r was there also in her stdashing turn
out" very beautiful and very queenly,
and she saw George Harris, the Cali
forria miner, demoralized in pocket,
but magnificent in physique, and the
strong passion of the vOluptuous cour-
texan coveted him for a new toy. In
less than five minutes, Phryne and the
modern Ulysses were talking together
like old friends, away from the ruck Of
the crowd. George Harris did not go
to New York, but remained in Kings
ton with Carrie Lesieur, the proprietor
OF maison de joie, and he remained
with her until he tired of her, and I'M
til 1T Of yirtuous consideration Cor
the wife and children away off in Port
land came over him, and that was in
five years. He wrote to friend in
Portland, and that friend replied that
his wife was dead, and his brother
John was dead, and that the whole of
his dead brothers estate was left to
him and his heirs forever. Carrie Lesi-
eur who had loved George HARRISON
that was his Kingston name-very de-
Notwithstanding her other
character of Phryne, cried bitterly ;
when he informed her of the financial
change in his condition and of his de-
termination to return to the States.
A girl had been born to them, whose !.
name was Flora, and when George !
Dade the mother and child good bye !,
IN the Kingston wharf, he promised !
o keep their memories green within ?
lis heart so long as he lived.
Fifteen years have rolled off the reel
# time since George Harrison left n
Jamaica. He has correspondent IRE |,
Iuentiy with Carrie Lesieur, but at !,
asst, a Kingston paperrsachsd him, to
oil him that poor, fond, forsaken !,
phryne, once the "queen Of the plaza"
mt long since faded, is dead. Flora
9 his first thought! Fearing the worst
or her, George addresses letters and t;
emittancss to the Kingston police for q
her use, but never receives any but 3
,vasiye replies. What George Harris
ioes not know, however, is known!
Flora had married distiller. One
morning the distiller is found dead i'm
mis- bed from poison, from his own
land, and Flora il left comparatively
,oor. Now, Flora has time to think of
he wealthy man in the United States
# whom she has heard so much, and
he determines to go from Jamaica to 4
Ind him if she can. .
In the spring of 1871 Madame Flora .
Snowdon arrives at the fremont in +
Boston. She inquiries of the hotel II
Jerk about Portland in Maine-its 8
hip owners, ETC., and that gorgeous :,
reature refers her to dashing young :"
elbow who enters at the moment. as !"
o one who knows all about Portland, ~
nd introduces him as Mr.. Thomas G.
iarris, of a commercial firm in the j,
1Odern Athens. Mr.. Tom Harris has q
ever been made aware of the fact I'll
hat George Harris-for he is that in
entleman's sOn--was ever in Kings cl
on, and as the inquiries are after W
arty by the name of Harrison and hp,
OF Harris, he has no satisfactory in
to offer. If he had known
Q was talking to his half sister at =