The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-05-05
A Reporters Vengeance,

n difficulty uFOSc DetNeel OlicUSO
reporter md native If sunny lt'ly who
kept pGrunt stand in tl:nt city Of big
fires anil keen enterprise. One day the
reporter, with the daughter OF mil
lionaire hanging on his arm, passed the
stand of the marcliese, when the latter
exclaimed: "Hi-a, Gully, wheu-a yOu-a
pay ME zosc wife cents, hem?' What
Unopened after TINT the Chicago Tribune
relates MS follows: Tho reporter went to
the office and took m cath on the Hs-
signment book to be avengetl-to be
fearfully avenged; then he wrote little
item headed "a City Romance" in
which he stated that the marchese was
IN eccentric Roman prince who had given
NIL his estates to the Church i'll penitence
for numbering his brother, who was his
rival in the affections OF beautiful
countess, and TINT by economy, poker
dice and speculation in suburban lots he
Ind accumulated fortune OF nearly
$500, 900 in Chicago. Then he smiled a
tiendish smile, and induced the city edi-
tor to give it n big display head, and
went on his way rejoicing. That poor
italian never knew what ruined him.
When he got TO his accustomed station
next morning there we're Rbont two hun
dred men waiting for him, to borrow
money from him on ample security Mt ten
per cent. month; to get him TO become
partner with $3.50 in well established
business that would pay $4,000 year
il the additional capital could only be
secured; to sell him some Calumet real
estate; to sell him trotting horse that
could show 2:64 every day in the week
(prico $3.50, and for various other pur-
poses. His knowledge Of English was
very imperfect, md he was an cxcltable
man, and when the eleventh speculator
came up aud asked him to lend him Sl5,-
600 to stnrt an oleomargarine quarry lie
blacked his eye, and in the confusion
that arose his portable stove wns sacked
and the peanuts scattered to the winds
Of heaven. The police restored order,
md then he was notified that il he per-
sisted in collecting such crowds around
him and becoming public nuisance, his
license would lie revoked. Then the col
lectors for various societies began to be-
siege him, md while he was driving.
them away with n club his Last lot of
peanuts burned. Then delegation from
the Chicago Commune visited him, and
when le refused to divide, according to
the principles OF liberty, fraternity and
equality, fell upon him rs trNitor, md
mashed him ms fiat ns several pancakes.
After the police surgeon had sewcd OH
his ear, and stitched his nose together,
tile marchese started for home, wheeling
his cart, which lad only half shaft and
one wheel left and surrounded by bevy
OF anxious mothers who wanted to secure
him ind his title and his $500, 900 for
their daughters. Attera while he placed
himself under the protection Of the
police, and about ten o'clock the coast
was sufficiently clear for him to venture
out. When he Ind nearly reached home
he was sand-bagged aud gone through
by lighwayman, who Ind tracked him
all day, and who, when lie only found
two nickels and door.key on the mar
chcse, saud.bagged him till he was black.
anl-blue and sore NIL over. After lying
senseless IL while ho managed to crawl to
his lonely hovel, md found that gang
OF cnterprising burglars Ind already
been there and torn up the floors, aud
ripped up the bed, and smashed up the
furniture aud ding out the chimney with
pickaxes. looking for his 100000. The
poor Italian had merely strength enough
10 crawl to the river anil pitch himself in,
and AS the reporter wTls going home
about two A. II. and saw the splinterel
pCanut-cArt lie knew that his vengeance
WIS complete, and, hurrying back to the
Office, put little item in the "Per-
sonals " to say that the italian marrhcse
and millionaire, whose wealth had been
described the day before. had purchased
u palNtial residence at Naples, aud left
Chicago the evening before to occupy it
and spend the remnant of his days in
opulence. Such was the reporters ven-
geancc.