The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-17
DAME FORTUNE.
Her FickleneSs Illustrated in the Cas-
OF a Once Prosperous Gin
Cinnati Family.

Twenty-Five years ago was the guest
in Cincinnati of one of the most extern
sive and prosperous pork packers in
the West, and that was when boar's
head was the accepted insignia of Gin
cinnati, and the appellation of Pork
opolis" more proudly boasted than the
present effete title of paris of Amer
lea. !" The gentleman had branch es-
Establishments at Louisville and other
cities. and the brand of his cured meats
was of world reputation. He had just
married in neighboring village-now
prosperous manufacturing village-a
young lady acknowledged to be the
handsomest woman in Ohio, and who
disputed with Sallie Ward, the then ia
nous Kentucky belle, the palm for
loveliness, when they were both visitors
to your city. well remember the we'd
ding as it was a famous one. The beau
ty and popularity of the bride drew an
immense concourse of people to the
church. Fully thousand people who
failed to gain admission blocked the
street for a square, and on the ap-
proach of the bridal party, and on its
exit, the bride was greeted with all the
earnest manifestations which devoted
people would extend to 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
nished 1t without regard to expense.
This was his wedding gift to his wife
and was valued at $100,000 For days
previous to its occupancy steady
stream of visitors poured through the
sumptuous rooms, and all were lavish
in their praise. After returning from
an extended 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 along in
an embarrassed manner for several
years afterwards, his wife mortgaging
her home to furnish him the limited
means, but at last was unable to COM
pete with the fresh blood and capital
invested in the business, and he sue
cumbed entirely. Having some genius
for mechanics, he made q number of fu-
tile attempts in the direction of inven-
ton, wasting the little remnant of his
wife, resources. His 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 pros
trated all his energies. He died few
years ago leaving his wife and three
children in the last degree of impover-
ishment. The son, now young man, had
steady employment for a while, but
through protracted spell of sickness,
lost it. The eldest daughter had ruined
her health in running one of the presses
in the Treasury Department, and the
mother, whose glorious beauty and no.
BILE qualities had entranced all eyes
and won all hearts, with her invalid
children, ner own frame racked with
rheumatism, struggles out of year of
sorrow into one without hope.
The incidents related came to me
freshly few days since on receiving a
request from the son to aid him to OBJ
tain situation which he has not vet
been able to secure.-Cor Cincinnati
NeaOS Journal.