Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — The Fortunes of a Street Arab. [ARTICLE]

The Fortunes of a Street Arab.

Every old resident of Kansas City remembers “ Limpey,” the pale-faced, emaciated little vagabond of two or three years ago. Four years ago “ Limpey” slept in hay-lofts, in cellars and empty freight cars, and when he was not “ out On the lay” either blacked boots or begged for food. “ Limpey” was under the ban of the police in this city, and had it not been for his crippled condition and con sumptive appearance he would have been sent to the Work-House as a vagrant. While be was a resident in this city he was a great pest to the police, as he was the leader of a most incorrigible gang of young hoodlums, who infested the fall fairs in the West and defied the detection of detectives or the efforts of the police to break up their gang. “ Limpey” went away in June, 1876. and was lost to sight and memory both until yesterday when he reappeared among his old acquaintances a man among men. and married to the girl of his choice “ Limpey,” or, as he now styles himself, Dennis Garrigban, came to this city among a party of little boys from the House of Refuge in New York, and was distributed with the rest to those who desired to adopt children. "Limpey,” being thin and lame, met with poor treatment, and was soon again a waif upon the streets. In June, 1876, “ Llmpejr” made his way to Denver, and from thence to Dead wood in the Black Hills, where he became interested with a party of the mountain miners, Joe and Aleck Cosgrove and Sanderson Miller, with whom he engaged as cook, becoming part owner in all their discoveries. they were remarkably lucky lasi summer, realizing between SBO,OOO and $40,000. of which "Limpey” received about $6,000, beside shares in various lodes located by Bis partners. He returned to Kansas City last Wednesday, to pay a debt of gratitude to a friend of the days of his poverty, an old woman who kept a den in the old Globe House on the levee, and afterward eked out a miserable existence with her little daughter in the old Butterfield Building on Grand avenue, who had been a mother to the refugee. He had never appealed to the old woman in

Vain whan he wanted either concealment from the police or shelter from the weather. In his prosperity Dennis did not for get old Mrs. Bteln ana her daughter, Mora than one loUer has reached them within the pastyear, bringing money and comfort. They changed their home from the sqnalid, poverty stricken rooms on Grand avenue to a small but respectable house on Oak, near Fourteenth street, where they remained a while, bat removed to rooms on South Main street. To cut the story short, " Limpey” came beck lest week well “ heeled,” and so changed In appearance that his old friends aid not know him. His lameness baa almoet entirely left him, and be weighs twice m much as when he left hero. He was married on Friday night to Miss Mary Stein, in the presence of a select party of friends. “Limpey” proposes to return to Deadwood with his yonng wife and bis moth-er-in-law. He is as modest with bis wealth as he was sadCy and troublesome in bis poverty. There is one feature about “ Limpey’s” actions which commends itself to notice—he did not forget tbetriend he found in the days of his adversity.— Kan tat City (Mo.) Tima. The San Francisco Chronicle tells some strange stories concerning the dishonest management of some of the mines in that State, which, though yielding largely of gold, are continually running behind. The thievery is prevalent In every department of the management, and seems to surpass anything before known in the history of such affairs. London increases in population at the rate of 48,000 a year.