The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-26
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Corresr opdent.

METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Corresr opdent.
Bennett sailed for England in the
City of Richmond" and The streetsare
to be cleaned commencing with Broad
way" we're the two exciting announce
ments on Sunday morning. / hardl,.
know which attracted the most attention
or was received with the greatest feeling
of pleasure The Bennett business was
getting to be nuisance. In the dearth
of other news the papers had published
all they could hear or dared to invent
on the subject with leading editorials OF
the matter until the whole became n
decided bore. The rumors about town
we're many of them prepos:erous in the
extreme, and the final story was that the
whole thing; horsewhipping, duel ant
all, was an immense joke of Larr
Jeromes to attract attention from the
Bennett-May marriage; which some 81.
has taken place, and others only pro
phesy that it will be. That Bennett
has departed for Europe accompanied
by Mr. Robbins and probably by NJ
Carroll Livingston is now looked upon
as a fact; and also that Miss Jennie len
nett was on Board the steamer, and
others state that Mrs G. Bennett, nee
May, was in her company. Friedrich
May is thought TO be seriously wounded
and there is genuine TEMPEST in a tea
pot here, about the duel.
If the children do not exactly cry for
it, they at least have heard enough
to try and initiate it. Two little si>
year olds were discovered the other da,
armed with pop guns, one Of them say
ing Now, Fred, you must be May
cause your names is Fred; and | am to
be Mr. Bennett, and Totsie. Ia four year
old sister, must say one, two, three fire,
Neither party killed and no investiga-
ton dermed necessary in this case.
We are rejoicing in the fact tina.
between now and next August, there is
possibility of the beautiful snow
being carted out of our streets The
sleighing is nearly month old, and yei
hose who enjoy it seem to enter as
heartily into the matter as when they
first started out behind their fast trotters.
There have been many unique turn-outs
and world of handsome equines on the
boulevards. Snme of these have come to
serious grief, however, especially while
racing. The absence of Commodore
Vanderbilt was commented on BY those
who have been in the habit Of seeing
him tehind pair ofhandsoms flyers, or
with a single horse, keeping up with the
fastest.
By the way, the Grape which was
placed on the door knob, a new and
elegant streamer which was charged in
bill at $25 was stolen, and the reason
assigned, was that some one had dene it
because he thought so much of the dead
Commodore, and wanted it to remember
him by.
The Vanderbilt feud over the will will
probably he settled. by additional lega
cies from the chief inheritor. He thinks
it will be cheaper than to stand q suit
Il is said that William H is not as smar;
a man as his father was, but that his son
is TO be, Cornelius I'd, King of Central.
when William II dies or abdicates it.
Ifhe starts with SIS 600 OOO and increases
it in the same ratio as his grandfather
did his ferry boat earnings, We shall
all be the most humble subjects of King
Cornelius in two or three decades, and
the country will no longer be America
but Plutocrata. Some of the bellies are anx
iously inquiring after the health of the
wife of the coming king, for sad to sa,
he is married.
We abbor scandal here as, witness the
Bennett-May case, and so it seems
strange that all last week the early train
should have carried so many people
Bridgeport way. That they could have
had the least desire to have heard the
disgraceful evidence in the Nichols d.
vorce case, is not possible, although the
Nicholsis ard Mr. Lyman were all well
known here especially among the wealth
idlers, who make catching a summer
amusement. Accompanied by her
mother, and a daughter about eighteen
years old. Mrs Nichol. sits in court and
listens seemingly undisturbed, to evi
dence which it seems might make an
innocent, modest woman die of shame
especially with mother and daughter
by to hear it. 1t seems TO be he old
story ola cross and even brutal husband
dissatisfied, unhappy wifeanOther mar
TO offer the attention the husband nc
longer cared to, with the final result OF
terrible imprudence if not absolute
crime. The Newell suit bids fair to
be another bonnie bouche for the scandal
mongers-
It is said that when Peter B Sween,
returns he will not be accompanied b,
Mrs Sweeny She was the divorced
wife of the sculptor Page and was sup
ported in elegant style by Sweeny until
just prior to the ring exposure. whes
he married her and transferred all his
property to her.
Mrs Brooks, the Butter Bust woman
no longer wastes her talents On a West
ern farm. She is here in New York
with her Sleeping Iolanthe. and will
model in butter FOR the benefit of those
who wish to see her, and for the lining
Of her purse.
Ice catching is now a fvorite past
time. and every day sees large parties
starring for some place up the Hudson,
where the ice is strong enough for thist !