The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF La GRIPPE.
How the Epidemic Indirectly Broke
Up Home.
From The San Francisco Examiner.

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From the San Francisco Examiner
John Gilroy and his wife, Mary GiIroy,
both well advanced in years, are involved
in warfare of litigation at which the
angels weep and the lawyers laugh. The
trouble all came about by an attack of la
grippe, which seized NJ. Gilroy on the I'M
lucky 18th of last month. He had been
residing an Nevada, working in the mines
OF Virginia City for two years and when he
came home on visit the rains and fogs
were too much for him. Not knowing what
medical course to pursue, Mr.. Gilroy asked
| advice OF his daughter, who prescribed an
external application OF turpentine and ASA
| fptida to the chest He retired early and
was beginning to feel better, when his wife
| got ready to go to bed. AS she entered the
| chamber, however, she was dismayed by
the odor of the chemical compound which
assailed her olfactories.
You'll get used to it soon, dear, and it
won't bother you," said Mr.. Gilroy gently,
seeking to reassure her. But try as she
would. Mrs. Gilroy could not sleep. After
tossing about for couple of hours and not
| getting wink of repose, she declared that
| she could endure it no longer.
"Oh, bs patient, wife, be patient! It's
rougher on me than it is on you" urged the
afflicted man, vainly endeavoring TO stem
That doesn't keep me from getting
sick" she groaned. "One of US has got to
| get out of this bed Or"
"Oh, I'll get up" he roared. ''I'll get
| up! And III sit in chair all night VITA
out any clothes on and catch my death of
cold and die You see if don't! Do you
| hear what l say9 I'll catch cold and die. "
The contemplation of such contingency
appeared to bother Mrs. Gilroy less than the
scent of the malodorous medicine, SO she
went to sleep. Mr.. Gilroy kept his word by
| sitting up, protected from the damp night
air only by his red flannel under garments.
AT the first peep of dawn he dressed him
self and begaa.tos take some of the pictures
| from the walls.
| "What are you going to doT' asked Mrs.
| Gliroy, aroused from pleasant dreams of
land where the penetrating odor Of drugs is
| unknown
Going to take my pictures away with
me, he replied, doggedly.
"No, you're not, sir; I'll have you re.
member that l bought those frames,
audn-
That's SO; the frames are yours, but the
pictures are niue, and Pm bound to have
| 'em."
Ripping out the backs of the frames Mr..
| Giiroy rolled up the pictures, tucked them
under his arm and left. Notwithstanding
his long, cold vigil he got better instead of
worse, the heat of passion probably aiding
has ill-smeling lotion, and at osce sued his
wife for possession of the community estate,
asserting his right under the law to the con
troll of this property. His first attempt was
to get his hands on 5000, which hs says
his wife has on deposit in the Hibernia
Bank. He declares he saw the bank book
and knows the amount to a nickel
| This is denied by Mrs Gilroy, who AYERS
that beggarly 500 is all the cash she has
in the bank, and SAYS, furthermore, that
this was earned by her own individual labor
while her husband was absent from the
state.
| In reply. Mr.. Gilrov presents express
company receipts showing that in the two
years last past he sent her $40 from Vir-
| ginia City, and says that he gave her nearly
as much more during one of his visits He
will begin suit to establish his interest in
| $1,000 worth of houses and lots which mis-
wife has bought within the past year.
| In the meantime Mrs. Gilroy has not been
idle in a legal way. She has obtained let
ters of sole leadership, aud with the bank
book and deeds in her hands snaps her flu
ger and bids defiance to the beleaguerer of
the citadel