Orleans County Monitor

TWEED'S FAITHFUL WIFE.-They were married when the man was a chair-maker, and they might have had a happy career had the former remained honest. They lived in a plain manner, mingled with mechanics' society, and were the parents of two boys and two girls, good-looking and healthy children. The era of meretricious splendor has come and gone like a dream. The girls are married. Each had a diamond wedding and each has sunk into obscurity and poverty. The two sons once held fine appointments in the service of the ring, but they are now only lounging around the city hall. The mother is in widow's desolation. The ill-gotten wealth is almost all gone. A million and a half has passed into the hands of her lawyers, and her husband is still a prisoner. A seedy and corpulent old man, inhabiting a pair of rooms in Ludlow street jail, is all that is left of one who has been alderman, chair-maker and lawyer, commissioner of parks, public buildings and docks, state senator, and for seven years the autocrat of this city. The only redeeming feature is the faithful wife, who is reducing herself to poverty in hope of obtaining her husband's release.-N. Y. Letter.