Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-06-28
A SPEECH BY ZACH CHANDLER.
How Eugene hale Serenaded Miss Chandler
and the Scene that Followed.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
~ don't reckon you ever heard
the story of Zach Chandler and Eu-
gene Hale" remarked Grandfather
Lickshingle yesterday evening.
The family said they had heard
1t number of times, and, as il the
recollection of 1t was too much for
them, laughed inordinately. Grand
father could not be choked off, how
ever, and went right ahead:
1.-THE scene is laid at the resi-
dence of Zachariah Chandler; time,
when Eugene Hale was counting
his daughter, the girl whom he
afterwards made his wife. Hale
was pretty far gone on Miss Chand-
Ter, and one evening induced two
amateur musicians, friends of his'n
to go around with him to Chand-
ler's house and serenade the girl.
The love.lorn Hale had q guitar
that he could pick in a doleful sort
OF manner, one of the other boys q
fiddle. another an accordion, and so
on. 1t was about midnight when
the serenadin' party arrived, and
sneakin' up in front of the house
they stood behind the lllacs and
struck up some soulful serenade or
other. They played along soft and
easy like for about five minutes,
when an upstairs window was
raised, and who should step gaily
forth upon the piazza but
old Zach himself. Hale told
me afterward that he fully
expected the old man to blaze away
at them with a shotgun, or at least
fire a bucket of Stops on their heads,
but he didn't do nothin' of the
kind. He hemmed and hawed q
while, an then, much to the aston
ishment of the boys, sailed in:
"Fellow citizens: or course you
do not desire speech from me at
this late hour, but 1 wish to thank
you from my heart for this testi-
monial of your kind appreciation
of my poor services.
'Here he paused for cheers" said
grandfather; tout there wasn't any,
and he went on:
"I have been laborin' not for
myself, but for my beloved constit.
uents, and it affords me unbounded
pleasure to know that"
"Well, Pll be cussedv ex-
claimed Hale to his compan.
ions, after he had recovered from
the shock. How the thunder and
Mars could the old man have made
This mistake? We amt no brass
band, are we? We hain't been
playin' "Hail Columbia" or cheer
in for anybody, have WEI"
"We've been playing THE Ven-
etisn Lovers Serenade,' ~ said the
man with the fiddle.n
"Well, that's what I thought
said Hale, mad as q wet hen.
"All this Time" continued Mr..
Lickshingle, "the old man was up
here in the moonlight, talkin'
about the sheep law, the dog law,
the duty of the Supervisors and that
sort of thing.
"sLet us open his rheumy old
eyes TO the real situation,' said
Hale, and with that he began to
pick Come Where My Love Lies
Dreaming The other boys Joined
in, but every note they struck only
seemed to enthuse the old man
more. After breakin' in on him
fifty or sixty times with snatches
of love songs and serenades, and all
to no purpose, Eugene shouldered
tns s Fuse bushes, followed by his
party, crawled over the fence an
left Mr.. Chandler standin' on the
piazza talkln' abont the star span
gled banner and picturin' the utter
ruin an desolation that would fol-
low the election of the opposition
ticket in October.n