Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-28
SEvApb.s SENATOR
The Domestic Life OF the Sage Brush
statesman

San Francisco, April 7.h-The excite
ment OF yesterday over the reported at
tempt of young Jimmy Fair to lay hi
senatorial pa out IN the cold embrace O
death has somewhat subsidized. To. cay
Colonel Fair denies that the boy is IL
town, and says that he has been at Past
Robes Springs, $50 miles south of here
for a week. Mrs. Fair confirms this. bui
declines to say ANYTHING further about the
difficulties in the Fair family. The scan.
dals thus let loose are not new BY apy
means, and until the sensation of yester.
day were not openly talked OF, but it il
known that the Senator and his family
have been more or less at loeeerheads fol-
couple of years past. The trouble con.
slsts chiefly in the somewhat open way that
Slippery Jim Of the millions violates
the teachings Of the seventh commandment.
While the 5 ;nator was runBicg the bonanzs
mines and lived in Virginia City, Nsv.. these
shortcomings were to degree concealed.
but since he has come out in the world,
and especially since he went to Washing.
ton, the Senator is alleged to have dis.
played the cloven. foot in all its moral hid.
eousness. Coupled with countless infidel.
tiles. the burly Senator is said to be
especially abusive and neglectful of his
wife, who is a most estimable lady, but
one who does not show a disposition to
suffer il silence. She is a portly lady.
with flashing black eyes, and will of con-
siderable horse power, and when the Sem
stor gets caught 10 some new peccadillo
she has a way of sultrifying the air about
his head that leads to sulphurous remarks.
On occasions like this the Senator himself
turns accuser, and charges the good lady
with unseemliness of conduct, which all
who know her believe to be false. When
the Senator gets very wroth, and very
reckless of speech, he even ihtimates that
John Mackay has more influence about his
Fairs house than he has himself. On
one occasion, just after the Senator had
taken his seat in Congress, Mrs. Fair went
to Washington unexpectedly. and there
found, it is alleged, that the Senator had
set up little establishment, which, though
small, might have been The envy of Ismail
Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt. All it
needed was a nalf-dozsn eunuchs and chi.
bouk or two to make It harem complete.
This was the occasion on which the gossips
say the excellent lady rose equal to the
emergency. She didn't say anything to
the Colonel just then, but she laid her
plans, and in few days, with the aid of a
trusty friend and several pounds of moral
dynamite, she invaded the seraglio, and the
inmates fed to New York with the feet.
ness of wild young gazelles of the plains.
The tierceness of the explosion broke the
Colonel all up, but he fell back on his an
cient privilege of abuse, and adopted new
course, too. He shut down on madaue's
base of supplies. The lady wanted to re-
turn to San Francisco and plaster up her
Iacerated feelings. The Colonel swore he
wouldn't give her cent, and he didn't.
Then she said he needn't; she would Dor.
row all she wanted from his friends. She
had some money, and with that she started
with her children and servants. Her money
took her to some point in Nevada. There
she tackled the first friend of her husband
she met, and got money to bring her home.
With such relations existing between the
parents, it is not surprising that the son,
James, Jr., should be little hard to man.
age. OF course. boy like, he stands by his
mother, and he has before shown DISPOSE
lion to espouse her cause in muscular
HoJ. LIE 10 q WIN JouASetcIy duu seculS
to aim at the distinction of being known as
4 terror. :" Some time ago his father to
separate him from some evil companions of
the female persuasion James is a chip off
the old block, sent him on tour around
the world, with one Joe Marks as tutor
and campagnon du voyage. Now Joe him.
self ia chap that forgot to go to bed years
. 20. He knows how to line a stomach with
, icken livers and champagne better than
can line an oven and as for
the fair sex, he can scent the bouquet of
millefeurs clear across the Alps. The boys
laughed when Joe set sail with young Fair,
as chaperone and moral instructor. But
little is known here of the tour. The sold
mar" drew checks till even he got tired,
and then called the boy and his " tooter
home. Since then young Jim has kept his
excuses pretty well out of sight of the
public, but unless change for the better
comes, he will hardly reflect credit upon
his illustrious sire, or take very good care
IF the fortune that awaits him.
The Colonel and Mrs. Fair are now sepa-
rated. The lady, with her family, resides
IN the San Francisco mansion, and the
Senator has taken up quarters at the Occi.
dental Hotel.5Chicago Herald,