Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-27
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Winter DOingS Of Two Million
Busy peOpl6,
A Trio of

wv 'H'> 'hhf " w NAh"h AhN'AN
10 no moro slCiybing at present, bu
While the roads were coed tho people
made the most of 1t. There were a
number of very striking turnouts on
tho road, among them none prettieI
then the cutter of Miss Pussy Brs,z,
Breeze is a veal ny young lady
Of fa,hton, who up 10 the present
tmo has had no thoughts of getting
married, but 10 sec that her engage.
mont to Mr.. Willie Potter is just m.
nouncod. Mr. Potter belongs to the
ubqitcus Potter family, ard | believe
has no money, but Mes Breeze has
about $50 0U0 \ year in her " right,
with proppscts of three or four times
that. Every day while the snow
lasted they were to be seer on the
avenue, Miss Breeze holding the
reins, and passing almost every.
body who ventured to race with her
1t is singular what ~stor'c7 are told
about men as SOC as 1t .nnourc ed
that they arc engaged. 90 not now
refer to the engagement jest spoken
OF, but to another one in fashionab!g
society that l have In my mind. The
young man engaged was no worse
than a great many other young men.
He had probably sown his Wild OATS -
not very wild ones-and had
sottl'd down for some time
past; but as 1t was an.
nounced that he was engaged
to be married some vol. meaning poo.
pie went to the bride.elect and told
her what n very bad mar he was; how
he had done this and that and the
other, and how he probably would 90
doing this and that and the other,
oil # which abe listened to with great
p.tiepce. When they had fnished
they thought, of course, they had car
rjed conviction with their statements,
and asked her what she was going TO
do, to which sho replied that abs had
made up her mind TO marry that very
bad man. Not that / would advise
young ladies to marry very bad men,
bat L think that stories grow In the
telling, and ono must allow for a great
deal of shrir kaye i'll these anecdotes Of
tho 6scapades of young New Yolh
bachelors.
The verdict for $40 900 gi7en to
Mia Alice Livingstone in hsr suit
against MIR, Fleming for breach of
promise, Ia Il that has given general
satit faction. The yong lady is rich
in her " right, b<iongs to an aristo.
cratic family, and, II Maynard, Ger.
tsinly deserves protection against the
Wholesale defamation of her character.
M. FJemin2's charge of blackmsi
WIN hardly seem reasonable under thl
circumstances, mud the new evidenc,
90 Suddenly discovered the day afte
the verdict was rendered, and 8,
promptly put in print and sent t,
newspaper otfioes tho next day, |
such ia might only double the amour
OF damages before q sympathetic jur!
At the SANE time there 10 no doub
that blaokmail as q fine art i, practice,
prohtabiy in this city of millionairer
Not lor.g since an eminent Broadwa
lawyer: was waited upon by a wei
dressed nan OF middle age, who dc
sired to consult him privately. TIL
proposed client opened his budget b
ccnfessing frankly that he was
blackmsiler by profession and foun
the calling a paying one. As hi
story went, he had met a handsom
widow In al uptown boarding house
and proposed that, without any req
intimacy between them, but as a coo
matter of business, they should form
u partnership for making money. III
was to pick out the victims; she wa
to entrap them, and then, when cir
cumstances warranted the resentin
of a seeming insult, he was to appea
in the arena and play the part OF a
injured husband. In order to max
the scheme hold water 1t was nece,
sary to secure the services of q Law
yer, who should write to the intende,
victim aud inform him, with all tn
majestic circumlocution of the Law
that he had been instructed to brln,
quit for damages, and that it might b
advisable to call upon the lawyer a
his ttfi;e. This had been done. I
a years time forty such suits had bee
begun on paper-and had been sol
tied or dropped, according as the viz
Tins showed fight. The blackmailers, {
course, never intended to appear
the courts, as publicity would spo
their game and prevent failure ASSESS
ments. But trouble had arisen. TIL
man said he had reason to believe tha
his lawyer was cheating him, and tbs
mary cases had been compromised fo
money and no returns made to hin
under the excuse that tho victim
showed fight, and said they would pre-
fer a trial 10 an enforced levy. F.
this reason he de1ired TO change hI
legal adviser, and he had come to tht
Broadway lawyer to ask him to VI
dertake his buslness. The mBn WI
put off with an excuse, as tho gentle
man WIS DESTROYS Of getting at tn
fict1 in regard to the matter, with III
intention Of bringing the case btf I
the bar association. BY a strange CT
incidoroe, within another hour
young lawyer came into til
Broadway sanotum, saying thG
he was compelled to leave town, an
desired the Broadway lawyer to a
tend to a matchmaking case which ha
bsen put In his hands. 1t proved t
DO one Of the cases mentioned by tn
professional blackmailer. One Of tn
state eli ,ers of Connecticut ger
tleman elected to a ve,y high positio
had fallen a victim to the woman
charms, and had been served with
notice to pay damages or undergo ],
gal torture. This was an opportunit
not to be unused, and the Broad Wa
lawyer resolved to push matte