Connecticut western news., 1880-10-20
A SOCIETY PORTRAIT.
A Picture of a New York Gentle
 mans Son.

There lives somewhere or another Ill New York, says the Hour of that city, a gentleman who many years ago used to be stage-driver in Connecticut. He wisely emigrated early in life and settled in the metropolis. It would be irksome, even if possible, to follow him through all the phases of career that has been, in most every sense, purely and char acteristically Yankee. He has, at times, passed for an immensely rich man and he has occasionally had to borrow five dollars to pay his cabman. He was one of the first dwellers uptown, when his success in the promotion of 0 railroad company that was to have connected Canada and New York directly war ranted such effusion. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that the railroad was never built and that the last of its pre- ferred stock was some time ago used to light a cigar. Shortly afterward this millionaire from Connecticut, in con- junction with some Boston capitalists of equal financial standing, started another company, which was to stimulate the manufacturing industries of New Yerk by lending vast sums of money to manu- lecturers on no collateral worth men, honing and at rate of interest which would have driven the gray hairs of Q Simpson with sorrow to the grave.
 Unfortunately for the success of this gigantic enterprise of Oriental philan- thropy, the bank from which it's pro- jectors borrowed the money to keep up their own appearances as millionaires came to the direst grief and the needy manufacturers they intended to benefit had to go elsewhere for pecuniary &C., commodation. Disguised at their fail ure to combine business with benevo- lence in New York, these worthy persons took up, with renewed zeal, @ project for relieving the s'solid South" of it's financial obligations. In strict spirit of charity, they bought up all the bonds and mortgages of the Southern States, so as to keep them out of the hands of the usu1ers. Of course, they were not above accepting subscriptions to enable them to carry out this admirable scheme, and no doubt any gentleman desirous of removing the last letter from Southern industry-at return of ten per cent. per annum-could have joined their prosperous and benevolent syndicate.
 But this, of course, is strictly in pa- renthesis. The quasi-millionaire from Connecticut had son, who was brought mp by his fond parents as if there were indeed bank balance of seven figures to the paternal credit. He was humored in every possible way and grew up to be an amiable young man of imperfect in- telligence, equally addicted to the piano and whisky-bottle. He had strange fondness for abandoning the paternal mansion in behalf of Harry Hills, where he delighted in playing for the dancers and getting rapidly and dismally in- toxicated.
 One blue Monday, on aged female per- son of the Irish race, accompanied by a rather good-looking young woman in tears, demanded with much vehemence glimpse of the pseudo-m millionaire. It took her about ten minutes to inform him that the good-looking young woman was her daughter; that they were laundresses by profession that the incorporate young pianist, his son, had dropped in one afternoon to get his collar washed and ironed; that, as 8 tribute to the young woman's manifest superiority as a washer and ironer, the intemperate young pianist had offered her marriage
 that his proposal had been accepted, and that, under an assumed name, so far as the scion of the pseudo millionaire was concerned, these twain had been made one flesh. Further, the bridegroom after four and twenty hours of honeyeG bliss, had suddenly vanished, and it hat taken his desolate wife and mother-in law three months to run him to his parental earth and establish his identity This certainly was step beyond Harry Hills but the person from Connection
 was too shrewd business man to waste time in sentimentality. Within thirty days house uptown was furnished iron top to bottom-on credit-and tht young couple once more began life to gether under the most fattering aus pices. Judicious reasoning and @ no altogether hypothetical money allow ance, by and bye persuaded the mother in-law to return to her own people ant resume her lavatory occupations at considerable distance from the famil,
 into which her daughter had been st
 strangely adopted.
 The married life of the young peopl
 went happily enough for some months
 The laundress's daughter had carriag
 and dressed richly. The pianist did hi
 drinking at home and possibly foun'
 that he could achieve the same degree o
 intoxication with less trouble. It is tru
 that in little while the house uptowl
 mellowed into sort of an amateu
 Harry Hills and that the ndighbors ha
 reasons to acutely desire change C tenants. But apart from this and hi minor passion for beating his wife, tn young mans habits really seemed to in prove. One day, after they had bee living together some six or seve months, the wife went to Saratoga for l week and the young man was left { home. On her return the wife foun , the house dramatically sealed, so { t speak. Affecting an entrance, she di covered that still gloomier fact awaite S her. The young pianist had during ht @ absence sold off every stick of furnitru h by auction and had levanted with u t proceeds. Of course, she flew to u