The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-09
A WIDOWS GLASS EYE.
She Loses an Ardent Lover From Among
Her Long List by Showing it to
Him For Fun.
A Peculiar Method of Spsculation-The
Wickedest TOwn-Mrs.
ParnelTs Theory.

NEW YORK, March edward A. Condlt,
whose peculiar mode of speculation with
worthless checks was described some weeks
ago, was arrested by Detective Sergeants,
Sevin and Won Gerichten, of Inspector
Byrne's staff, in a house in the upper part of
the city, yesterday. Condit's manner of
doing business was to inquire by letter the
terms on which broker would deal in a
stock, and ordering him to buy or sell, giving
as margin in check on the Orange IN. j.
Savings bank.
Condit had only small amount on deposit
in that bank, but, owing to the time required
for the passage of the check through the clear
ing house and other delaying casues, several
days elapsed before its worthless character
was exposed, and he was enabled to reap the
benefit of the fluctuations in the price OF the
stock within the time required to collect the
check. II the stock moved to his advantage
he contrived to meet or intercept the check
and take the profit. If the transaction went
against him he allowed the check to be dis
honored, so it was the broker who lost.
lie is about IS years old, has pleasant add
ton. He gave the Inspector a short history
of his life, alter confessing his operations.
lie said he inherited small fortune in 1860,
which, in the course of the next two years, he
increased to SIoo,o 900. lie began to Specu-
late IN Wall street in 1872. At first he was
successful, but after the panic he began to
lose, and by 1876 he was beggar. Then il
was that he attempted to retrieve his losses
by the mode of doing business described
above.
WIDOW WITH A GLASS EYE.
The prettiest widow in all this great me-
troPolis is lemon and lily blonde, ranging
from five to eight inches in thickness, and
proportionately small in otherwise, with no
more than Is years to her age, and enough
of fortune to allow of doing just as she
pleases about marrying again. was in her
party at the Madison Square theatre the other
night, and we were weeping more or less
over the SORROWS. OF the play. Allowing for
the hearty dinner which knew the widow
had eaten there couldn't have been room in
her thin figure for great amount of emotion
and when | saw that tears were yelling up in
one of her eyes and not in the other | sur
missed that the dinner had got entirely on one
side of her midrff and the sympathy all on
t'other. But was wrong; and this is how l
young fellow, whose love was as profound as
his shallowness permitted. After pulling
himself over the dryness of one of her eyes,
while its mate was brimmier, he asked for an
explanation of the phenomenon.
''And which eye do you admire most ?" she
said.
"H-h-hard TO tell, " he Stammered. "The
one w-w-with the tears sort of mets fellow,
d-d-don't you know, and the one without
the tears sets h-h- him ablaze with its flashes.
"On the whole, now, which one do you pre-
fer?"
"Wa-wa-well, think the d. d-dry one"
al m so glad, Dolphy, to hear you say
that" and the widow beamed rapturously
into his face, because the eye is a glass
one, and Pm sometimes afraid it dis6gures
me-"
This revelation lost her lover, and don't
suppose she will miss him from the gang,
and she certainly had fun with him while he
lasted.
LEADvILLE THE WICKEDEST TOWN.
The Rev. Harvey Wood, of England, who
has Just returned from Leadville, after resign
ing the pastorate of the Leadvie Baptist
church, said at the Baptist ministers, meeting
yesterday: When you ask me to speak
about Leadville you give me big text.
Briefly, my experience as pastor was this
When was invited to accept the pastorate
in Leadville, was informed by letters that
there were 1870 members in the church, and
that the church building would seat 500 per-
sons, and that parsonage was ready for me.
The facts were, as | found out when | got
there, that the church seated 40 persons, that
there were 4o church members, and that the
parsonage had been sold and the church
society was 5000 in debt. AS to the standard
of Christianity in Leadyille, it is not exalted.
Gambling is licensed and so is rum. Last
year 500, 900 was paid for rum licenses, and
SIo a table in gambling hells. l did my
level best to got some Of my people to 20 into
some of these gambling places, but they were
afraid, for murder is an every day affair. l
went into many places, and | think Leadville
is the wickedest town on earth.
NOT THE REAL MURDERERS.
Mrs. Parnell, mother of the noted Irish
agitator, was interviewed last Thursday She
said ~ do not believe the real murderers
of Cavendsh and Burke have been captured.
There are discrepancies and absurdities in the
evidence of the informer, according to the ca
bed reports. Carey swore he knew Brennan
in 1862 in the Fenian directory. Now Bren-
nan is a young man, younger | believe than
my s. n! II that is so, the statement of the
Fl cures 1862 in the directory are absurd. In
my opinion the headquarters of the alleged
assassination society is not in Dublin but in
London. 1t is a sort OF yelled prophet a. the