The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08
A Street Arab Rises to Afiuence.

Every old resident of Kansas City re-
members "Limpey," the pale-faced,
emaciated little vagabond of two Or three
years ago: Four years ago Limpey"
slept in hay-lofts, in cellars and empty
freight-cars, and when he was not out
on the lay" either BACKED boots or
begged for food. Limpey" was under
the ban of the police in this city, and
had it not been for his crippled condi-
ton and consumptive appearance he
would have been sent to the workhouse
as vagrant. While he was resident
of this city he was a great pest to the
police, as he was the leader of most in
corrgible gang of young hoodlums, who
infested the fall fairs in the West and
defed the detection of detectives or the
efforts of the police to break up the gang.
Limpey" went away in June, 1876,
and was lost to sight and memory both
until yesterday, when he reappeared
among his old acquaintance a man
among men and married to the girl of
his choice. Limpey," or, as he styles
himself, Dennis Garrighan, came to this
city among party of little boys from
the House of Refuge in New York, and
was distributed with the rest to those
who desired to adopt children. Limp
ey," being thin and lame, met with poor
treatment, and was soon again a waif
upon the streets. In June, 1876, Limp
ey" made his way to Denver, and from
thence to Deadwood, in the Black Hills,
where he became interested with party
of mountain miners-Joe and Aleck Cos
grove and Sanderson Miller-with whom
he engaged as cook, becoming part
owner in all of their discoveries. They
were remarkably lucky last summer,
realizing between $4,000 and $4,000,
of which Limpey" received about &c.
600, besides shares in various lodes To-
Gated by his partners. He returned to
Kansas City last Wednesday to pay a
debt of gratitude to friend of the days
of his poverty, an old woman who kept i
den in the old Globe House, on the levee,
and afterward eked out a miserable ex-
istence with her little daughter in the
old Buttertield building, on Grand ave-
nue., who had been a mother to the refu-
gee. He had never appealed to the old
woman in vain when he wanted either
concealment from the police or shelter
from the weather. In his prosperity
Dennis did not forget old Mrs. Stein and
her daughter. More than one letter had
reached them within the past year,
bringing money and comfort. They
changed their home from the squalid,
poverty stricken rooms on Grand avenue
to small but respectable house on Oak
near Fourteenth street, where they re-
manned a while, but removed to rooms on
South Main street. To cut the story
short, Limpey" came back last week
we'll "heeled," and so changed in ap-
pearance that his old friends did not
know him. His lameness has almost en-
tirely left him and he weighs twice as
much as when he left here. He was
married on Friday night to Miss Mary
Stein in the presence of a select party of
friends. "Limpey" proposes to return
to Deadwood with his young wife and
his mother-in-law. He is as modest with
his wealth as he was saucy and trouble
some in his poverty. There is one feat
ure about Limpey's" actions which
commends itself to notice-he did not
forget the friends he found in the days
of his adversity.-Kansas City Times.