Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-04

ulations of their friends. was a great bower
of foliage aud blossoms, nearly as high as
the room, and large as an ordinary parl lor
itself, where bell of bridal flowers loaded
the air with odOrs. The very doors when
opened waited sweetness into the street,
the house was so full of flowers, tea roses,
Jasmine and baskets of violets hidden in
corners. The bride was dressed in silk.
trimmed with flowers, a wreath of orange
buds and half opened blossoms falling i'll
long spray on her shoulders {; a slender cor
don of pearly buds festoOned to the wrist
and caught to the cuff of the same flowers
that flushed the lace of her sleeve. The
bride had elegant presents in plenty, but
the cost of the flowers alone at her wedding
would be marriage portion for most of the
girls who read this.
THE END OF AN ACTOR.
! Poor George Fox, the great pantomimist
now in q lunatc asylum in StOckbridge,
| Mass, has been pronounced hOpelessIy in
sane, and in danger of dying any moment.
| Poor Fox He has delighted more people
| than any man living. and this is his. end
| He labored for the public all his life, aud
| he dies in an asylum, without a dollar, his
| family depending for their subsistence on
| the charity of the profession, the members
| Of which are generally almost as poor as
| himself. This is the regular ending of an
actor. A miserable, starved lite, and death
| in az alms-hOuse or ali asylum. Edward
( Eddy, an actor of as much reputation as
| Edwin Forest twenty years ago, was bu-
| ried last Sunday by the masons, and at
their expense. His family have not dol
| lar to live on and they are eating the bread
| of charity. 1t pays better to debauch the
! people than it does to either amuse or in
struct them. The actor dies poor, the
| teacher ,tarves on a salary Of $500 per
year, the author lives i'll garTet, but the
whiskey-seller, the gambler and the Keeper
of prostitutes roll in carriages. and are clad
in purple and fine linen. The times are
never too hard to support vice. When
times are close, men stop their newspapers
but were the times ever So hard as to com
pei them TO quit whiskey and tobacco
Not much. No matter what other bus-
ness languishes, the bars thrive,
DEFALCATION.
DcfalcatiOns are as common as paving
stones. WinSlow ran away from Boston
| with $500, 600 of other peoples money,
Babbitt's cashier steals $500 000 and now
young banker abscounds with all his GUS
toner's money. This last case is a little
! peculiar. The young man squandered it
all upon woman. but who do you suppose
that woman was? Why his own mother
She is very handsome widow, forty, who
has a passion for fashionable life The
young man, her son, is weak, good fel,
| low, who loves his mOther-as very few
sons do, and can refuse her nothing. When
into business for himself, she emerged from
the humble clearinghouse where they had
lived, and took an elegant house uptown,
and commenced living in the style of
wealthy people. She set up carriage
she had the house full of servauts.-she
gave elegant entertainments, she bought
diamonds, ana camel's hair shawls, and
in short, she lived at a rate that made all
her old friends turn green withenyy. The
son, all this time was furnishing Der with
the means for all this extravaganza, know
ing that the end was ruin, but his mother
liked it and he was too weak to say TO. She
probably knew that she was living beyond
his means, but the madness was on her,
and she could not stop. The end came
last week. The young man and his mother
sailed for Rotterdam, taking with them
every dollar that was in the concern and
all that could oe borrowed, begged or
stolen. 1tls supposed that the abscound-
ing, like all the rest OF it, was the inspira.
ton of the mother, for all who knew the
young man believe him to be honest, if
left to himself The loss to depositors will
foot up 5000, 900, and there is as much
more owing on notes on the street. This
vast sum Of money has been spent within
tive years, apd that it was spent their can
be no doubt, tor as near as can be ascer-
| tanned they had mighty little to take away
with them. The fine house was disman-
tied, though they had sold quietly, all that
they could without exciting suspicion.
Curious case Men have been ruined by
woman, times enough, but who ever heard
| be fore of that woman's being ones own
mother.
BUSINESS
Is looki ne up little, and appearances in
dlcate permanent improvement. Money
IS getting plentier at the West, and the
merchants arc hrvinO littIe mora fraalv