Morris tribune., 1883-01-25

How Mrs. Pigeon Became Mrs. La
bouchere-She Cost a Pretty Bunch
of S~Oyereigns a..

How Mrs. Pigeon Became Mrs. La
bouchere-She Cost a Pretty Bunch
of Sovereigns. &.
New York Letter in Philadelphia Times.
Incidentally, the name of Mrs. La
bouchere came up and some one of the
party referred to the fact that Mrs. La
beuchere, under her real name Mrs.
Pigeon, had begun what seemed to be
rather an anomalous divorce proceeding
against the male Pigeon in q Virginia
court. Whereupon my mercurial Eng
lish friend remarked: well, La
bouchere did the square thing at any
event. He met Mrs. Pigeon when she
was playing as Miss Hodgson in London
and became greatly interested in her.
He was then, as now, a nan of wit, of
political and professional status, worth
u pile of money and what
you would call in this country q
tor to see Pigeon, who was a lime man,
or what you call in this country a calso-
miner, working at two dollars and a half
a day, and the solicitor said to him,
''See here Pigeon, this wife of yours
won't live with you any longer, and Mr..
Labouchere is very much interested in
her and, If she could be turned owe free
to him without any embarrassment and
with the certainty that you would not
institute criminal proceedings or any
other calculated to involve her in dis
grace, he is willing to pay you Gl,00O."
Whereat the male Pigeon responded:
"Well, [ don't know so much about that;
she may not care to live with me, but |
prefer to live with her" ooh, WE'LL"
reioined the solicitor, ~ am sorry we
cannot come to terms; | am authorized
to hand you a thousand sovereigns and
viii! do So" "Well," said Pigeon, 81
don't care if 1 do" Whereupon the So
licitor handed him Mr.. Labouchere's
check for one thousand sovereigns and
took his leave. The next morning the
male Pigeon went to the bank and had
his check cashed and found himself, for
the first time in his life, in possession of
a large and glitterlng sum of money.
Hardly had he with delighted footsteps
retired, when Mr.. Labouchere appeared
and asked at the counter if a check of
his for a thousand sovereigns had been
presented that morning. He was told
that it had. He requested that the check
should be given to him, which it was.
Whereupon he departed to the home
of his beloved, and gayly foul ishing the
check before her adniring eyes, informed
her that he had her and there was
his receipt. From that time on the
male Pigeon has avoided his former
partner, who, by the way says she has
not even seen him in eight years, and
she has been recognized in such circles
as she can find entrance to as the wife of
the distinguished editor of London
Truth" By the by, l hear to-day from
trustworthy authority, that the divorce
proceedings in Virginia will probably be
quashed, and that some more open-han-
ded way of dealing with certain real es-
tate transactions in the vicinity of Rich
mond will be resorted to. 1t is evident
that there is no foundation for lima
tured scandal in reference to this Pig
con business in the Richmond court, it
being born in the desire of the Labou-
cheres to comply with a law of the state
without obeying which they cannot
transfer some property which they W
in that section.