The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-10-11
man and a Simon Pure Republican,
it looks us though we might, out of
the lot, get quite a passable Governor.

the lot, get quite passable Governor
It would scarcely do however, to taxi
the opinion that each gives of til,
other; for if we did that, we nigh
naturally suppose that, instead of be
ing candidates for residence at AL
bany, their proper place was til,
State Prison of Auburn or Sing Sing
Another romance is stirring til,
city of Brooklyn. A few years ago
there lived in one of the most aristo
cratic streets in the city, wealthy
Quaker with a wife and daughter
The member of the Society Of Friend!
was we'll to do in this worlds goods
and his daughter was regarded as {
plumb-tl'at is to say, with the din
prospective of dead mans shoes
SHE was good some day for llandreG
Thousand dollars.
Young Broadbrim, Orthodox apd
Hicksite came wooing, but they
made no impression on the heart OF
the fair young Quakeress, till at last
it began to be whispered abroad that
she had cast an eye on the profane,
and in short, that the DEVILS people
had undermined the teachings of John
Knox, and in brief, that she was going
to the bad. Year after year, however,
wore Oh, the blythe maiden of eigh-
teen became a woman of thirty, and
in due time, ten years more were
added to the score still she wrote
Miss before her name, and when
brought right down to the point, the
gossips could not lay their finger on
the man who had ever galIanted her
to picnic or waited on her at a
yeally meeting. Nature must pay
her debts, avoid it as we will, and at
last her old father whose trusty cud-
gel had kept suitors off his door. step,
was called upon to settle his account.
At this time Miss Phoebe had turned
forty-two, but still she might have
hung sometime upon the bush and
still be worth the picking. A lawyer
was sent for to draw up the old mans
will he was spruce old buck, just
turned sixty, with a first -class gossa-
mer wig, and magnificent pair of
dyed whiskers, a straight wasted
clerical coat, aud an immaculate
white choaker. The will was finished,
the old man died, and it was noticed
after the funeral that Phoebe and her
mother must havea great deal of legal
business, fc: Lawyer Waggles' buggy
might be seen opposite the door two
Or three hours every day. To make a
long story short, in less than montl,
Lawyer Waggles moved his carpet
sack and slippers to the house Of the
fair Quakeress, and neighboring
was called in to make the
matter legal. The ceremony was ex-
ceedingly quiet, and that evening the
happy pair started on IL wedding tour.
They took 10 Chicago, Niagra Falls
and Detroit. Lake George and the
Thousand Islands were duly inspect
ed, and they finally reached Saratoga.
The next morning after their arrival,
the guests Of a certain fashionable
hotel were startled by a woman's
and rushing up stairs to 367
they found Lawyer Waggles with an
open razor in his hand, aud Mrs. Wag-
giles defending herself viii, pair Of
curling-irons and boot jack. The
officers were called in, the aid of the
law implorel. Lawyer Waggles was
bound over to keep the peace, and
Mrs. W. CANE back to Brooklyn alone.
The lawyer, however, was not so cas-
lily got rid of, and he made it so warm
for his late spouse, that to buy him
off, she gave him a settlement of forty
thousand dollars. A few days after
he sent young lady about twenty
years old, around to the house Of his
wife Introducing her as long lost
of whom Mrs. W. was sup
posed to have known something about
many years before; be that as it may
the young lady is now installed in the
house with her mother, aud is looked
upon as her prospective heir, though
report says that the last time she saw
her previous to her late visit, was
wrapped up iu basket on a door
step.
Mining stocks took a firt-up, early
in the week, and there was the usual
rush of flats who desire to get sudden-
ly rich. l noticed large numbers OF
clerical looking gentlemen on Wall
street all anxious to take little dasl
in stocks. l look upon these little
side stock operations as sort Of cier-
ical draw-poker-the more you put
down the less you take up. Cautiof
the people about Leadville and Col
orado, regular raid is being made
all through. the country districts, anf
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