The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-01
are not Civil Service reformers; large
numbers of them have done the State

numbers of them have done the State
service in some of her public institutions.
The highest types of humanity in the
Ould Sixth Ward are the keepers of the
whiskey mills and the sluggers. In view
OF the revelations of the past few weeks
thinking men are seriously asking them
selves, is popular government failure?
One of the most instructive features
of the week was the issuance of an extra
with a full account of the fight between
Jack Dempsey and LIE Blanche the
Marine. To have gone into any of the
public places or hotels for several days
before the fight, one would have thought
that some great national affair was pend
ing, which was to decide the fate of an
entire people. Sporting men watched
and reporters were on the alert. Brokers
slipped off of change. Bankers got
excused by tho finance committee as they
had important business. Many mer'
chants had sudden calls to the country,
and not q few church professors were
anxious. The original subscription of
s2,25O was made up by thirty gentlemen
subscribers. Each paying S75 for the
privilege of seeing the fun. They sat up
two nights. They were chased by the
officers out of two States, and on the
night of the mill they were out most of
the night in miserable little tug boat
on the Sound, and then in the cold grey
of Winter morning they were landed
on q barren island and under an old
shed they saw The two brutcs pound each
other out of all human shape for nearly
an hour Glorious amusement! happy
country, fortunate people to possess such
redoubtable champions! 1t is no use
trying to deny it, Brooklyn, the city of
churches felt as proud as a peacock of
the performance of her distinguished
son. I have no doubt but if Jack Demp-
sey had been put up for an Alderman
within twenty-four hours after the fight,
he could have been triumphantly elected
in one half the wards in the city.
A pleasant young gentleman is now in
the hands of the law, and it promises to
be some time before he gets out. He is
good looking, only thirty'three years of
age, but he rejoices in the possession of
no less than four wives, and very differ
ent from most persons placed in similar
position, he does not attempt to deny it,
but seems to think that so many con-
quests were quite feather in his cap.
His first wife he married ten years ago.
Three years of welded bliss was all he
could stand-so one fine day he vanished,
taking the best of his wife's clothes, and
she never set eyes on him again till she
saw him behind the bars last Wednesday
morning. For seven years she had been
mourning the lost of her sealskin sacque
and fine silk dresses, and 10 the hour of
her desplation she swore that she would
pursue the rascal to the end of the earth'
and jump off after him till she caught
him. His next venture was with his
landlady, to whom be owed a board bill,
which he settled with marriage certifi-
cate, and after honeymoon of three
weeks vanished with the lady's finger
rings aud q fine gold watch. A year or
two after he met young dressmaker,
who by rigid economy for years had
saved the comfortable sum of $3.50, with
which she intended to start business she
went into partnership with this gay Lo.
thario; he got possession of her funds
and she saw him no more He then
found widow, and tried his delusive
arts on her; he forgot the advice Of the
elder Weller-"Samuel, beware OF the
widdcrs." This was the rock on which
he split. She had been there before.
Her '1orty.two summers had not been
wasted. If she had q house and lot, and
an account at the Savings Bank, she WAS
eminenliy qualified to take care of them.
Under pretcnce of buying some furniture,
however, he got possession of $3.50, and
be suddenly disappeared but Nemesis
was en- his track in the shape of a widow,
and she went for him. She hunted up the
other three wives-got all the proofs
together, and finally landed the gentle
man in limbo on Saturday last. Moral
Don't fool with widow.
Very truly yours,
BROADBRIM.