The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-09
METROPOLITAN NEWS,
From our Special Correspondent

From our Special Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 81, 1877.
Some years ago a certain property
was offered for sale, the stipulaticns
being entered into the deed that mo
nuisance should be permitted on the
premises" and among these were in
cluded rather heterogenously, ''houses
of ill-fame, public schools, Catholic
churches, glue factories and stables"
One lady in this city who has had the
temerity to consider stables a nuisance
and that the presence of such a build
ing deprecated her property, has been
perfectly overwhelmed With evidence
to the contrary, Nothing 90 healthy
and beneficial was ever known as that
peculiar aroma that arises from news
and as to the kicking of horses, 1t was
like songs of the seraphim when compa
red with the crying of q child, or the
incessant practicing of a beginner on a
piano forte, and no one thought of
those as real estate bears. No decision
has yet been rendered in the matter,
but it is one of decided importance to
those people who prefer the scent of
lilies of the valley or roses, to boquet
de cheval, especially at the morning
meal, and Vho are so terribly fastidious
that they do not enjoy it if accompani
ed by continual fight with the buzzy
blue bottle.
Mrs Lillian Adelaide, Juliet, Rosalind,
Imogen, etc. Neilson-Lee's divorce has
occasioned some inquiry into our di-
vorce laws, and certain overhauling
of old scandals connected with the Ia
dy's own case. "Prince" Birch's infat
uation for ''Brownie"Lee, which finally
ended iu plain Mrs. Birch, who never
was exalted to the dignity of a princess
obtaining a decree ''visi." has again
been detailed in all its folly, and the
decidedly contemplate part played by
her husband, Philip Lee, in the matter,
discussed. A gentleman by birth, he
seems to have been a cad by nature,
and was the butt of the actors. and
looked upon with contempt by journal
lists while in this country. 1t said, how
ever, that the reasons of his not respon
ding to the papers served upon him in
this suit, was simply because he had al
ready obtained divorce from Mrs Lee |
and she was therefore nothing to him. |
This was merely a counter suit to ena
BILE her to enter into new hymenial ties
which she wished to do, and now when (
she lays her shapely hand on the arm |
of the mature dramatic critic, he will |
simply have to reflect that only Mrs
Critic stands in the way of him making
"A lunatie of himself.
st. Johns Guild is to be invest ligsted
ihe Judges are said to be par
tiZans, whose returns are @ foregone
and who will not 60 Lehind
the record. However that may be, the
Rev Morgan Dix does not think the Rev
Alvah Wiswall proper person to have
charge Of SO widespread a charity, to
which immense sums are contributed.
The World published an account of bis
troubles with his wife, and there are
whispers of a suit for libel, while Trini
ty Parish, with the Rev. Dix at its head,
is accused by the Guildites of Jealousy
and personal spite against the Rev. AL
yah Wiswall.
While I am personally acquainted
with both gentlemen, my knowledge
Of the latter is not sufficiently extend
ed to permit me to form any opinion
of his character, or whether he has
any pet vices. He is not a specially
attractive looking man, but seems !
rather proud of a long beard which be