Show A STUPID DRIVER A driver in the employ of one of tile iho bis 9 dry goods gonda stores in fulton street was discharged last week under novel circumstances lie he had been for or over a year in the employ of 0 the firm A and n d was waa faithful all and honest and his dismissal astonished him one of the firms largest customers Is tho the wife ot of a retired wholesale liquor dealer living in washington avenue ifer her house Is a line fine one and stylo style and lavish display of wraith wealth are arc kept con at the front this woman the stoic on saturday and asked to see bee one of the proprietors the conversation which followed was in sub artance 1 I 1 want the driver of 0 wagon N no TO discharged at once and it if you dont him ill stop trading here why madam saad the lie astonished hed merchant it if he has insulted Ini you or been dishonest we certainly shall discharge bilm pray what has ha lie he done lie he dont give me all I 1 pay tor for snapped the fair complainant what impossible we will make good the logs loes at once said the merchant adding now mrs blank give mr me a memorandum ot or what lie he liar lias failed to lo deher oil oh I 1 got all if tile the goods I 1 ordered ald al she coloring but but well ell he be dont deliver the goods right or as a driver should and ive lost all patience with him and want N ant him disc discharged barged please explain madam sald said the perplexed storekeeper well raid the woman its just this way that driver has been in III the habit babit of 0 late of stopping mopping his liloree in III front of my next door neighbor a horrid stuck up thing and day before yesterday when he delivered dc that piano lamp and the carved bric a brac stand for which I 1 paid his wagon in front of imy house at tit all 1 but in front of tho the house next door when I 1 called that afternoon on oil mrs G across the street she said did you see sec the perfectly exquisite piano lamp and bric a brac table your neighbor mrs received today it me so I 1 almost cried continued the grieved woman and everyone on the street streel thinks it was mrs who spent tor for a brica bric a brac table and not me when I 1 spend my good money for goods I 1 inett that the wagon chich delivers them stops right in front of my door and why I 1 N want ant that dilver discharged discharge d I 1 its ts in my right and I 1 insist upon my rights the merchant merch ajit with difficulty kept from laughing outright but lie he simulated a 9 sympathy and indignation an and 1 I ordered the cilvers dil dl ivors vers discharge forthwith the womans comans wrath was appeased the poor driver will probably be reinstated and put on another de lively route N Y tribune |