The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-01-31
Dame Fortune.

twenty-five years ago I was a guest
IN Cincinnati of one of the most extern
slVe and prosperous pork-packers in
the West, and that was when a boar's
head was the accepted insignia of Gin
cinnati, and the appellation of Pork
opolis' more proudly boosted than the
present effete title of "Paris of Amer1-
ca" The gentleman had branch es-
adjustments in Louisville and other
cities, and the brand of his cured meat
was OF worldwide reputation. He had
just married in neighboring village
now prosperous manufacturing CITY
a young lady acknowledged to be the
handsomest woman in Ohio, and who
disputed with Sallie Ward, the then
famous Kentucky belle. the palm of
loneliness when both were visitors in
your city. / well remember the we'd
ding, as it was famous one, The
beauty and popularity of the bride
drew an immense eoncourse of people
to the church. Fully thousand per
sons who failed to gain admission
blocked the street for a square. and on
the approach of the bridal party. and
on its exit from the church the bride
was greeted with all the earnest mani
testatlons which q devoted people
would extend to a queen.
During his engagement the merchant
had purchased beautiful grounds and
built what was then considered the
most elegant house in the city and fur
nlshed it without regard to expense.
This was his wedding gift to his wife
and was valued at 100000. For DAYS
previous to its occupancy steady
stream OF visitors poured through the
sumptuous rooms, and all were lavish
ID their praise. After returning from
an extensive bridal tour, they settled in
their luxurious home and entered into
a season of gayety. Elegant parties
were made for them and they enter
tanned royalty. But the great pork
crash came-what year [ do not re-
member-and carried down everybody
engaged in the business, our merchant
among the rest. He struggled lono
afterward in an embarrassed wav fo7.
several years, his wife mortpagino her
home to furnish him the limited means
but at last was unable to compete with
the fresh blood and capital invested in
the business, and he succumbed entire |
Iy. Having some genius for mechanics
he made number of futile attempts in
the direction of invention, wasting the |
little remnant of his wifes resources.
Ills last attempt was to win the prize |
offered by the State of New York for \ |
motive power for a.. canal boat that |
would not wash the banks. His health |
had been breaking for long time, and
this failure Frustrated all his energies.
lie died few years ago, leaving his
wife and three children in The last de-
gree flmpoverishment. The son, now
a young man, had steady employment
for awhile, but through protracted
spell of sickness, lost it. The eldest
daughter has destroyed her health in
one of the presses in the Treas
ury Department. and the mother, whose
glorious beauty and noble qualities en-
tranced all eyes and won all hearts.
With her invalid children, her own
rame racked with rheumatism, struo-
rles out of a year of sorrow into one
Without hope.
The incidents related came to me
freshly few days since on receiving q
'equest from the son to aid him to Oh
ain situation which he has not vet
,.een able to secure, = Cincinnati News.
Journal.