Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-23
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A sad Ohnriestom HE0nsYmo0n-Ad-
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comes.
The following stray bits of gossip are
from "Halstonn in the New York 7jRss
A touching story comes froia Charles
ton telling of one sorrow that came with
the earthquake of whinh NO newspaper
mention has been made. A letter to
Wall street man gives tho unhappy Incl
dent A couple of young folks living in
q country hamlet O hundred miles or SO
from Charleston were married about q
week before the earthquakes fury, and
they were enjoying the first days OF thoir
honeymoon in visit TO friends in
Charleston when the terrible disaster
came. The groom-whosa name is Cul-
breth--was hurt somewhat, not gravelS
but enough to add large mea-
sure Of personal anxiety TO the
fears of his brids, WHIP, naturally OF
frail constitution, became mentally
overwrought, and though the doctors
strove their utmost TO give her assistance,
oil efforts were vain, her condition grow
ing worse and worse, till within half n
week the beautiful girl had become, not
merely eInaciated and wreck phyhically,
but was ns well-so the doctors said
hopelessly insane, beyond all possibility
of recovery. The young husband bears
his sorrow in dazed sort of way that
promises ill, too, for Notwithstanding
scarce able to comprehend what really has
come TO pass. These young people had
! exceeding bright prospects; they had
money, intelligence, and happy diapo-
II atAsnt,a Aa1Hpts1 urala fflnnnn
| fallen on the blisBes of o honeymoon.
had letter from u lawyer in Denver,
l COL, n day or two ago, in tho course OF
| which he told me thnt legal business out
/ there was "better than for long time. y
The average lawyer east complains of just
the opposite state OF things up through
New England not a quarter of the ''prac
ticing" attorneys are making $1,000 Q
year, and the average in this city is de
clared by members of the profession tc
be little, il any, above that amount. Ny
Denver friend tells me that minera are
choice clients. One man who owns I
mine somewhere i'll Colorado in addition
10 the regular retainer has given Al
correspondent one-iifth interest III thu
property, ''jnst to make him interested,
I NttlN tItlS IN Nltth " Nt Nlulit Ahp buhthlA
with miner clients, who apparently hav,
the strange idea that lawyer will worl
for himself q little mora energetieAll,
and carefully than for AN ordinary client
Addison Oammack, the big spcculator
still fingers Mt Saratoga in the delights o
his honeymoon. II is declared that MIR
Cammack hasn't uttered gruH word +
anybody during all of this year he is til
most changed man in the universe, an
curious friends even aver that he is learr
ing TO sing tender little things-lullabie
and the like.
When Mr.. OammaclS got ready to b
! married there were few of his friends tim
placed much faith in tlio stories OF his il
tentions, and ono day last summer up
Saratoga some of the chief men of Wa
, street were ON tho piazza of the Unite
/ States Hotel discussing the gossip HboI
Mr.. Oammack, whom of sudden III
bear doomed up in poraon before then
, He wasn't alone. A handsome lady WI
by hin side. Bnt oven this innovation
Mr.. Gammack's promenading habit
didn't 60 fur toward convincing anybod
i that Addison was on the verge of being
, benedict till William IL. Vanderbilt, brini
q ing his easy chairs legs down with
thump, said thus;
"Cammack is going to I've married. I
wager 100 to on il. Do yon notice thu
he is carrying the lady's shawl on Ii
arm. That il sure sign, gentlemen, &
= unerring sign. When man gets that f
he's gone. I've noticed il n hundrt
times. II never fnils--nevor ~
= William Vanderbilt was an obscrv
: aud philosopher.