The morning times., 1895-07-24
POINTS ABOUT PILGRIMS.

IA very curious case was recently trleu
in England" said George Donaldson, at
the Ebbitt House last evening. ut con-
cerned girl TO whom some property had
been lcIt on condition that she should re-
main single few years after coming
into possession of the estate she came to
America. Here, as luck would have 1t,
she met O long-lost cousin, who welded
her after a brief courtship. The attorneys
sought to regain the fortune. There was
stopped payment of the revenue accruing
from the property Immediately upon re-
ceiving the news of the marriage.
.'The couple returned to England and
sought to regain the fortune. There was
a great legal fight between an array of
learned counsel representing the lady and
some charitable institutions to which the
money would revert in case the heiress
failed 10 comply with the prescribed con-
ditions. Under the British law, cousins
could not marry, and thus one side claimed
that in the eyes OF the court the mar
rage was illegal and the girl still single.
The other parties put In the plea that
If not married the two were liable to
criminal prosecution for living together
as man and wife.
For years the cause dragged on, and
a world famed jurist, who sits in one OF
the highest English courts, decided that
they were married, and the fortune-at
least, what was left of Invent toward
founding an orphan asylum"
Charles d. Chreighton of Knoxville, Tenn,
who is stopping at the National Hotel tells
the following story about hearty, hale
old Gov. Buchanan. The guv 'neT was
going to be inaugurated and he invited q
delegation of pupils from girls seminary
to attend the inaugural exercises:
1--WE would like to very much" simpered
a pretty little maid, "but we haven't any
chaperone."
"If that's all you want" was the read,
response, IN send down to the livery
stables and get the best chaperone intown.
"You people in the East have littl
brass ;" observed John I. Donahan, at th'
Raleigh, last evening, but If you wan
to see men who have an adamantine cheek
somewhere in their anatomies you must g
to the wild and woody west
"Some few years ago, l kept drui
store in Carson City / didn't have very
lucrative trade ana every cent counted
For two days hadn't had customer ana
therefore, hadn't had anything 10 eat
but orris root and licorice. One cold
| bluStry night, / went supperless 10 Deu
and. in fact, dinnerlcSs and breakfastles!
also, for that matter / slept soundiy
! however, and dreamed of banquets an'
/ feaSts.
About O'Clock l was awakened by
| terrific knocking on the door. Not stop
ming TO dress l ran and unlocked the store
! door in order not 10 loose the customer
! Two plainsmen came in and walked up tc
| the soda fountain.
- Lend us two cups, pard,' said one o.
! the bronco breakers. That's 1t. Now
! little sugar All the while l stood II
my scanty night robes while the blas'
rushed in the door, chilling me to th
| bones.
Two spoons I had TO go up stair'
| to get them, all the while wondering Wha
! n large sum / would charge the couple
! When / returned with the spoons one o
| the fellows took a little capsule filled wit.
! lemon juice from his pockets, emptied /
! into the sweetened water and proceeded u
drink their lemonade.
Overcome by the audaclty fthe proceed
! ing | stammered out from between M.
frozen lips that l would be pleased to mak
the drink a little sweeter. But they wouldn.
! have il that way. The reason they dldn
| drink at fountains was because the lemon
| ade was too sweet. After another drln
they bade me a curt good night and rod
! off in the darkness.
THAT was the coolest, Cucumberes
! piece of work l ever heard Of"