Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-11-02

The Story Of an Unfortunate Young
Married Couple i'm New York.

Major Phillip Y Shotgun, we'll
known resident of the Fifteenth ward,
was last night seen carrying a car
pet-bag and wandering disconsolately
in the neighborhood OF Washington
square whats the matter, major?"
Sun reporter asked. Anything gone
wrong?"
~Wrongi" said the major, violently
slamming his carpet-bag upon one of
the benches in the park. Wrongl
Get out your blacklist pencill"
"For weeks as 1 walked Broadway
70 and from my place Of business. /
found great pleasure in gazing upon
the fresh and honest faces OF the
many centennial visitors who now
throng the town. To see the young
aud loving newly married couples,
the fond husband supporting doting
wife on one side and cheerfully strug-
Cling with an enormous valise on the
other, was a sight calculated to bring
to mind the fresh air of the open
country and tints of autumn leaves.
1 little thought that I should come to
1t myself, I mean the valise part of it.
so soon.
I'VE had saved little money, you
know, and hired fiat and gone to
keeping house. That effort cost us
every dollar we had. and left US in
debt, but we looked hopefully to the
future. But three weeks ago last
night when went to dinner found
our narrow hall choked full OF trav-
elers' luggage. My little daughter.
too young to know the extent of the
calamity that had befallen us, crowed
gleefully from the top of a man.
meth trunk. Mrs. Shotgun. wretch
ed and downcast, met me at the
door.
Lucy asked, whats up now|
Centennial visitors she said.
Many OF emp
Eight
Going to stay longT
~'About a week, they say
"They were friends of Lucy's,
whom she had not seen for years, and
had stopped to make US a visit on
their way home from the centennial.
They never meant any harm TO US,
but at every meal they ate could al
most hear Lucy groan, as she thought
of some longed-for article Of needed
furniture whose purchase must now
by deferred or given up.
~On the first day Mrs. Shotgun
told them how to reach Central Park.
and advised them to stay all day,
there was so much to see.' Just be-
fore they started saw my little
daughter silly tucking a wisp Of hay
into each visitors hat band.
why do you do that I asked.
They'll visit the menagerie, won't
they, papa?'
~'Of course they will, darling
Elephants like hay
II know they do, pet
@"The elephants1l grab at this hay
maybe they'll bite OF the folks
heads at the same time; mamma
says she wishes she could
But, alas the elephants were not
hungry. Along about z in the eve
ming two OF the visitors returned.
The others were lost. On Lucy's face
rested sympathetic cloud, though
think it was lined with about a ton
OF bullion; but about 10 o'clock the
lost ones found their way back. They
did not get lost anymore. They kept
together and were punctual and
powerful at meal times. And they
prolonged their stay until ruin stared
US out OF the countenance. / tried
to get Lucy to tell 'em to go, but she
said it wouldn't do-they'd tell such
stories about US when they got home.
So they stayed one, two. three weeks,
and the butchers bills were more
than my salary. On the very day
they went away deputy sheriff seiz-
ed our furniture for debt, and our
home was broken up. f.l.
Il must say" the major added
there is one slight Offset to our grief
l couldn't keep Mrs. Shotgun in the
city, and she has gone in the country,
intending visiting about three weeks
at the house OF each OF the friends
who have Just gone from:us; that will
tide us over till spring. and mean
while have got to live cheap and
pay the debts. Do you know said
the major, as he mourufully gathered
up the big carpet-bag, do you know
Of some place where can live cheap
through the winter?"