The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-03
TABOR'S SPLURGE.
How Mr.. Doe 'and Mrs. Tabor Were
Bought OF.

you knew the bride. then, beforep'
asked the reporter of a prominent of
fetal
Lord, yes-and her whole family.
-And a. nice. plain, respectable family
Old Peter McCourt, the father, is a French
Irishman, and he has, been around Osh
kosh foraaauy years. He'sSa tailor by
trade, and of late years he has been run
ming tailor shop In Oshkosh and sup
porting 4he family. There are four child
rem in ais 1.-Two sons and twDs daughters,
Fhe sons are promising young men. The
eldest daughter is nicely married. Lizzie,
whom Tabor has gone wild over, is the
youngest of the family Prettyf No,
not exactly hut SIZE lis very voluptneus-
fodRihe, very fond Of admiration, and
smarter than steel-trap She has only
made one blunder IN life, so far, viewed
from a worldly sense and that was when
she married young Doe.s~He-wasn.t any
account. and they didn't get on very wen
together, He was Jealous aeef aer-not
altogether without caals sc, guess, FOR she
was always seeking admieation Doe
vas the son of an Old Oshkosh nan, who
afterwsinl got sdewp Il tie world
a4ahe Docs = went to Denver three
years ago, and it was there that
the fair Lizzies met Tabor, who was Just
then beginning to get rich. There isn't
any use dwelling en- what followed 1t is
Enough to say that Pabor's7inffuence and
1'abors MONEY procured divorce for the
lady as fast as stern justice in Colorado
could see lts way clear. Tthink,Doe,>tSo.
was pensioned off in a mild kind of way
given fat job in LeadvilIe or somel
where ia 1oaAe eff TFabofs hIlAes From
IL al
family have improved old, Peter has
shut up tlae tailor shop ana folks say that
we'll no matter what they say. Peter
would have been better all AROUND If the
ex senator an alis bride conld have called
in thepriest before. but the former Mrs
Tabor was kind of stumbling block
She wouldn't consent to divorce, nor
didn't, until the Tabor sack" welded
something like $780, 600 The old lady
had got 500. 900 before, and she would
not have objected, only she knew about
the Lizzie Doe business, and she swore
that if Tabor wanted the Oshkosh beauty
he must pay bigmOney to her Mrs t.
fdr the PRIV ileges She got it, for if there
was an infatuated old rake it was Tabor. :"
Did | understand you were at the we'd
ding?' asked the reporter.
Yes. WAS there--~-The--Ma Washington
newspapers got onto it pretty well, but
il took man who knows the antecedents
Of thesparty to appreciate Che fun. 1t
was great sportto see how ia at ease the
president was: and how he seemed to
realize that he had got ints a snap. 1t
was Tom Bowen who got him to 20 and
! shouldn wondersif that very thing will
max the atmosphere little cool for
Tom around The White House during the
remainder of Arthur's term. 1t was
Of Bowen for he knew all
about the real inwardness of the Tabor
Doe affair. and has known. i1-~fsr two
years, and he ought not to have got the
president into such q position
Yes continued tile gen1ieman,
'Lizzie5did pretty well< financiaHys /
guess. They say he settled $200,000 on
her, and fixed the McCourt family hand
somely besides II
What do you think of the st. Louis
marriage months ago?"
Il believe it. Oh. for that matter, they
might as wen have been married two
years ago. The Washington ceremony
was got up as a mere, spiurge to try and
force themselves into society That it /
proved failure Tabor has got nobody to
blame but himself .
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