The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-02-14

tive peanut and fruit business on 4 street
corner until they accumulated sufficient
capital TO open 4 little bar-room. Here
The madame conducted the business sue
cessfully, made her sample-room a IA
yorite resort for good class Of custo-
mers, and finally. after accommodating
considerable property, moved into =
more fashionable quarter Of the city and
opened an elegant establishment, and
madame vincent's" became known far
and wide.
MEANWHILE daughter who had grown
up into womanhood returned from the
boarding-school she had been attending
Tor some years, and her rare beauty and
accomplishments rendered her very At
tractive. Mime. Vincent was, notwith-
standing her vocation, much respected.
and her husband, Vincent Baccigalupo.
was, not very long since, prominently
mentioned in the Memphis papers as 4
proper person to fill the Office Of Chief
Magistrate Of the city. II is not sur
prising, then. that Miss Baccigslnpo.
young, rich, beautiful, and cultured a.
she was, should number in her train
many suitors, some Of them such as
might be accounted very attractive TO
an ambitious, matchmaking mamma.
But, before we proceed further, an
other character Ia the drama we are re-
hearsing should be introduced. Mr..
james Brizzolari, brother Of Nine. Vim
cent. young lawyer Of fine talent, was
coming into notice. He had already
risen 70 the dignity Of place on the
Democratic Executive Committee, and
was believed 70 have good prospects for
a seat in the Lower House Of the Ten
nessee Legislature. He was tall, hand
some, and spirited, and carried himself
ike q chevalier. His rapid rise to
prominence gave promise OF brilliant
future, when, in consequence Of a news
paper article which he construed as re-
fleeing upon him, he challenged the au-
thor, fellow of the legal profession,
and duel ensued, in which he-Brizzo-
lari-was wounded. The duel was con-
Quoted with great eclat, the combatants
sailing down the river in separate crafts.
and saluting each other IS they passed
in true chivalric style. While the pub
lie mind was still somewhat excited over
the ''meeting," and public curiosity
about Blizzolari giving place 10 sympa-
thy for the wounded hero, the announce
ment fell upon the public ear that this
brilliant and promising young man had
eloped with his niece, the beautiful
and accomplished Miss Baccigalupo.
The parents were deeply grieved and
mortified that daughter and nephew
should have so disgraced their family
name, but time, which heals all ills, soon
blotted out this little episode from the
memory Of the public, If not from the
minds OF those most closely identified,
and when the elopement was almost for
gotten Brizzolari was heard from-a So
loon-keeper IN Fort Smith, Ark.-his
niece, his wife no longer, living alone in
Little Rock.
Another actor in the drama. albeit he
might have been introduced sooner.
though he only igures in these draaasss
persona in the last act Of the play, is An
gelo Marie. Like the hero Of the story,
Marie was tall, well formed, muscular
man, Of fine physique. and enjoyed
reputation that his associates considered
enyiable. lie owned lucrative BUSH
ness, was popular and enjoyed consid-
cradle local political influence. Early
one bright sunny morning it was dis
covered that the Office Of the Memphis
Chief Of Police, the very headquarters
Of the thief catchers, had been burgla-
riously entered, the safe broken open
and robbed, and the public was surprised
70 lsarn that Marie had been arrested
on suspicion OF completely in the bur
glary. Marie was indicted, tried, and
to long term in the Peniten-
tiary. After serving some three years
be was pardoned BY the Governor in
of good conduct, and.
passing BY his old home, be went to
Little Rock, where he met the late Mrs.
Brizzolari (nee Miss Buccigalupo) and
married her. They lived together until
whsn the tickle woman left the
pardoned convict suddenly, and return
ID to her husband, her uncle Brizzolari.
Again we 90 back to Nine. Vincent.
The yellow fever epidemic in Memphis
ast summer carried of Nine. Vincent
Ind her husband, Vincent Baccigalupo.
both dying suddenly and intestate, and
eaying an estate valued at 100000.
The later husband Of Miss Baccigalupo,
Who had been 50 long absent from his
I'D home, returned TO the Bluff City,
md, asserting that he had reformed his
Ways since his discharge from the Peni-
entiary, with an earnest desire to again
walk in the paths Of rectitude and be-
'ome an honest and respected citizen,
lent petition 10 the Governor asking
% be restored TO citizenship. The rec
were such that the petit
ion was granted, and shortly after the
Governor had forwarded the papers =
elegram was received in Memphis from
5rizzolari asking that the petition Of
Marie for restoration TO citizenship be
lot granted until he, Brizzolari, could
g heard from. But it was too late.