San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-29
The oldest Kind Of a Lawsuit.

Tho oldest Kind OF q Lawsuit.
Only the keenest sense of injured JUS
tice or severe financial straits, it would
seem, could induce afond uncle to sue
bis favorite niece's grandmother for the
cost Of her wedding trousseau, now laid
away in lavender these four years back.
But this Is what Uncle Dick Morgan of
Bloomington, ILL.,, whose niece Ella is
the wife Of q son Of ex-Gov. Beveridge,
has done in the court at Poughkeepsie,
N. r., the grandmother in the case be-
ing Mrs. Rutxer, a resident Of Kingston,
who is also Mr.. Morgan's mother-in-
law. Ella, while yet in her teens, went
to live with Uncle Dick, and he seems
to have been kind and she dutiful. She
was also handsome, and, during the
heyday bloom Of her IS years, while rid
ing ON the cars one day, she attracted
the attention Of ardent young Philo
Beveridge. Although Ella was poor and
Philo was duly warned Of the fact, he
laudably asserted that it was only Elias
own sweet self that he wanted. Mu-
tual love throve apace, the course
thereof was unmarried by serious rip
pies, and four years ago golden bells
chimed their sweetest for the marriage
ceremony. II Ella was poor girl, I'm.
Gle Dick and Grandmother Rutzer VOW
ed that she should have swell wedding,
any how, and they all went on to New
York together to buy the outfit. Uncle
Dick agreed to pay the wedding-day
expenses il Grandmother Rutzsr would
buy the garments, and this arrangement
was apparently agreed to. On arriving
at Stewards, however, Mrs. Rutzer
found that, owing to the Black
Friday panic, the cautious Scotch
merchant was refusing all his
customers credit, and, not hay
ing the needful money with her, she
borrowed of her son-in-law, giving in
part payment a note for 81, 900. Then
Mr.. Morgan went off on business trip
to- Boston, and the ladies reveled in the
purchase of the endless feminine "trip
peries and general unsubstantials that
Ego to- make up fashionable bridal
trousseari. The dressmaker's bill alone
footed up 5000, and altogether $4,000
were melted down in that days
shopping. The grandmother had truly
been1 generous, andl Uncle Dick was
equally kind and lavish in the details
of the wedding ceremony itself. This
was conducted at Bloomington in the
most elegant manner; over 600 guests
were present and royalty entertained,
both at Mr. Morgan's private residence
and at the hotel, which was thrown
open to their exclusive use. And now,
four years after, when she was made a
bride with so much eclat has presumably
settled down into the demure wife, with
babies at her knee, this unpleasant
ness of the wedding trousseau pops out
Of the family skeleton closet, to the
amusement Of the public and the vexa-
ton Of the parties Immediately con-
cerned. Grandmother Rutzer stoutly
declares that she "disremembers' any
agreement to pay for her grand
daughters wedding fixings, says she
never had any such intention, and that
Uncle Dick alone is responsible for the
bills. The latter, provoked past endur-
anee with the old lady, enters suit to re-
cover, and meanwhile gossip-loving
public revels in the sweet morsel afford
ed it.-Sprinqfeld (Mass.) Republican.
A Horrible Death.