Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-01

pose things VIII rectify themselves IN que
time. A the old western philosopher
never get much better. but when they're
darned bad they just cut loose and better
themselves"
FOB BREACH or PROMISE.
Miss Georgine Wolters, who has Just re-
covered verdict Of $4,000 for q breach
OF promise TO marry, bids fair to be the
heroine of a famous American precedent.
| Juris,s and counsellors for q generation
| will no doubt be talking about the verdict
in the case of Nolters o.. Shultz-that IS.
| il the Court Of Appeals allows the verdict
to stand. and n legal authority VINO has
followed the case pretty closely tells me
that the record Will, IN ms opinion, snow
no error grave enough 70 warrant re-
versal. Bardell Us. Pickwick has. since
the immortal Pickwick Papers" hrst made
/ their appearance. been the bes,-known
/ Dreach-of- promise case. The plalntih
there, too. got her damages. But she was no
such looking woman as Miss Wolters. And
as this estimable young lady, Will she mil
/ she, is to become a character IN the legal
| history and literature OF the country.
/ something about herself and her family
and the lawsuit they compelled her 10
| bring will be interesting. The VOTERS
| cIcar-shop is well known 10 men about
| town. but the fair plaintiff has only been
| identified with il for ashort time. IL 10 on
| Sixth avenue. Just below the Eighteenth
/ street elevated station, and is owned and
managed by bIr. Wolters. Sr. When his
son. VINO used 20 ASSIST HIM IN the
shoD, got married and set up IN
business for himself Mr.. Wolters
got his daughter Georgine to come
| down from the living apartments upstairs
and assist him behind the counters.
Wolters. ST., is a figure IN German life in
| New York. He belongs 10 number OF
associations and is president of several
clubs aud organizations OF his country
men. When his fellOw-meinbers began
| telling him TO look out for Schultz" and
the defendants friends began telling
Schultz 10 look ont for old man Wolters
| the elderly and highly-respectabl tobac-
conist INQUIRED into ms daughters
love affair and got the impression that
all was well, and that his daughter,
as Is by no means unusual in German
circles. was, although poor IN tins
! worlds goods. about to marry q very
rich man, who thought none the less of
her for working in her fathers shop.
Louis Schultz, the gay bachelor OF 40,
seems TO have been not unlike BABY
Bunting" Arbuckie, the rich Brooklyn
bachelor of 40, who mas also been the un
successful defendant IN & celebrated action
for damaged heart. There must be some
thing in the mental atmosphere OF bache-
lor OF 80 which inspires him to scoh at the
pleadings of susceptible female affections.
Mr. schultz chose 70 scOn. " Pooh he ~
said to have exclaimed when he was warn
ed that the Wolters family would call HIM
toaccount for his triiiing. Pooh Old VOL
tiers has no money. l can buy him of for
thousand dollars" But Sir. Schultz
didn't reckon on the sturdy respectaolilty
which is 40 eminently characteristic OF the
middle-class German nlendge. The VOL
tiers, father and brother. compelled Miss
Georgine to bring this breach-of-proEnlse
suit, although sho shrank from the noto-
riety involved, and the verdict of $4,000
in her favor already causes MIR. Schultz TO
sing a very different tune. Miss G9orglne
VOTERS is an attTactlYe-l looking woman OF
about 81 years oil age, tall, dark. handsomely
proportional, and thoroughly well quail
fed to make good man good wife.
GUsTER IN OPERA now.
/ am pleased 10 know that Mr.. Archi-
bald Clayering Gunter has scored sue
cess with his new opera of Polly Mid
dies" The rise of Mr.. Gunter in the world
Of literature has been one of the marYeis
of our times. We have all heard of his adj
vent IN New York and his unapprecIated
career of nearly ten years as playwright
and author. He came here from Califor-
MIA. 1t was only when he had begun puo-
fishing his own stories that money began
| to roll III upon him. and now he Is radiant
| liz independent. HIS opera. he tod me,
was pet fad which he had che
| rished for seven or eight years. Inc
| stories of his tribulatIons III ind
ing man who could write melodious
music are very amusing. The discourage
ments which he met with at the hands OF
children Of musical genius were enough 10
drive man insane. But he held 70 tho
idea that sooner or Later he would put
Polly MIddleS" on the stage. one OF
his pet theories was that IN many OF the
vast failures of operate compositions
there must be considerable valuable mat
ter. and SO he went proving around New
York for several years in old secondhand
book and musiC-stores, looking for forgot
ten and discarded scores. He pur-
chased every Old volume OF ope-
ratio music that he could lay hands
on and carried 1t of 10 his musician
| TO be sifted and selected from. One old
volume struck him as containing great
| deal of fat. and when his musician began
to play some of its airs on the piano lie
was reminded very forcibly OF Der trei-
schuetz." This mystihed him considera-
| bly. When he began 10 investigate the
matter he found that the old opera IN his
possession had been written by Weber
and had failed. ana that no afteTWaru
wrote Der Freischuetz," introducing
much of the music OF his discarded opera.
and had achieved lasting success. MIR.
| Gunter. believe. is of English extraction:
He il a stout, stOckiy- built man. fond
of conversation and good company. pos
| sessing enormous capacity for work,
and gifted with that auallty which
alone can make industry yaluable-per
slstency. He Is most companlonable
man. and while he has a very modest esti-
nation OF himself he believes implicitly
| in his resources. / have watched his evo-
| luton with considerable interest. When
| | first heard of him he was known as A. c..
| Gunter. When | came 10 know him his
friends called bim Archie Guntcr. Then l
| observed later that his name on his looks
was elongated to Archibald g. Gunter.
| Now We all know him professionally as
Archibald Clayoring Gunter. He has well
earned. and well deserves, all the success
that has come 10 him, and We're 1T not for
the inconvenience l would be glad TO see
him add at least tLreo more FONTS to his
name as well as the title OF Bachelor Of
Arts