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MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1880.
VOLUME NO—LV
EVENTIDE.
With ardent splendor
The sun was beaming,
O’er twilight streaming
And spnngtide flowers;
Its rays entangled
’Mid summer roses
As daylight closes
In evening hours.
While hues of crimson
The eve was blushing,
And softly hushing
The night begun.
O’er lovers straying,
Itself enshrining,
Was fast entwining
Two hearts in one.
As day and evening
Were slowly blending,
And stars attending
With silver beam,
Love’s potent sunbeams
Were also gleaming;
. Wo two were dreaming
Love’s fleeting dream.
Then gloomy shadows
■Came down and wedded,
In glass imbedded
And sombre hue.
As day and evening.
So we, twin-hearted,
Before we parted,
Were wedded too.
—John Anderson.
THE SECRET OF THE SEA. *
The story I am about to relate describes
an actual occurrence.
The recompense that came so speedily,
.and in such a singular manner, to the
principal actor in the events that are por
trayed, will no doubt suggest to san
guine temperaments a providential inter
ference. The real names of the persons
thus brought to the notice of the reader, I
have, of course, withheld.
Uncle Simon, as he was called, lived
on a small islaud in Casco hay, on the
coast of Maine. He was a simple-minded,
but hard-working fisherman, of great in
tegrity of character.
During the summer months, large
schools of hake frequent the muddy bot
tom of the bay, affording a rich harvest to
the fishermen along the coast. As these
fish take the hook best in the night, it is
the custom of the fishermen to go in their
small boats to the fishing-ground about
sunset, and fish till daybreak, or some
what late* - .
One forenoon in July, Uncle Simon was
returning to the shore from baking after a
successful night’s work. The light wind
was barely sufficient to give his heavily-
laden boat steerage-way, and, weary from
his toil, the old man was nodding at the
helm. Suddenly his half-closed eyes
caught sight of a dead body in the water,
just ahead of his boat.
So startling a sight roused Uncle Simon
thoroughly. He opened his eyes wide,
for just one moment, then lowered his
sail, and reaching out his boat-hook, drew
the dead body towards him.
It proved to he that of a man, floating
face downwards. The skirts of h<3 coat
were thrown up over his shoulders, and
from a deep inside pocket of the skirt pro
truded a large leathern pocket-book.
All that prevented this book from fall
ing out was the lining of the pocket, which
was of cotton cloth, and being saturated
by the water, held it. It at once attracted
Uncle Simon’s notice, and he drew it
forth aud placed it in the boat.
The body had been so long in. the water
that it could not be taken'into the boat,
but Uncle Simon; by means of a rope,
towed it to the island.
On examining the pocket-book he found
that it contained a laige amount of money
in bank bills, which were soaked with
water, but not otherwise injured.
Uncle Simon was a poor man. He had
nothing but poverty to look forward to in
his old age. This money was like a mine
of wealtli in his eyes. Men have been
murdered, and souls have been .lost, for a
smaller amount than tfyat pocket-book
contained. -
What was to hinder him from calling it
his own? No living creature was in five
or six miles of him. He was uttefly
alone. As he towed the body to the land
how easy it would have been to have kept
the book, and then to allow the voiceless,
ocean to swallow up the dead body. Who
would have known his guilty secret?
But it is the inward inclination that
gives force to temptation, and there was
nothing in the nature of this simple fisher
man that could so incline his upright mind
as to make it yield. He took the pocket-
book with him, and after reaching home
he dried the bills and carefully recounted
them. There were nine hundred and
fifty dollars,
From letters and bills in the book, he
ascertained that the body was that of a
Capt. Small, who some week3 before had
run his vessel on Half-way Rock (a dry
ledge midway between Cape Elizabeth
and Cape Small point) and had lost her.
He also ascertained that the vessel was
owned in North Yarmouth, a neighboring
town. At once he sent word to the owners,
one of whom came to the island. They
knew what freight-money the captain had
in his possession, for he had written them
from his last port of departure. On count
ing the money, it was found the right
amount to a dollar.
About a fortnight after this the old
man was going home in his boat from
Drunken Ledge, where he had been to
fish for r#ck-cod, when he came across
a raft of drift-wood. There was but
little wood on his island, and Uncle Si
mon, like most of his neighbors* was ob
liged to purchase his fuel.
He took in sail and set to work picking
up the wood. While thus occupied, he
saw something bobbing up and down in
the water that excited his curiosity, and
which proved to be the handle of a mal
let, the mallet itself being under water.
He drew it towards him, and after ex
amining it with some attention, said to
himself; “It’s master heavy. Some for
eign wood, I guess. It don’t look as if it
had been used any. I declare I wouldn’t
believe it could float if I hadn’t seen it
with my own eyes. It didn’t hut just
float, though. Anyhow, it’s a good mallet,
and it’ll come handy in the shop,”
Uncle Simon had a small ishep, where
he made lobster-traps and repaired* boats
in the winter when the weather was too
rough to fish. He put the mallet on the
bench among his tools, and thought no
more of it for months.
A common joiner’s mallet is about six
inches long by three in diameter at the
ends, with a swell in the middle, and is
usually made by being turned in a lathe.
This mallet was not round, but nearly
square, with the corners taken off. It
was seven inches long, and four inches by
five in thickness at the ends, being some
what larger in the middle.
As a piece of workmanship it was
handsomely made, and was finished per
fectly smooth. It certainly could Dot
have been a long time in the water, as
there were no barnacles or grass sticking
to it, and much of the varnish with which,
it had once been coated still remained.
One rainy day late in the fall, Uncle
•Simon was at work in the shop, when
Jake Kilgore, one of the neighbors’ boys,
entered, and seated himself on the work
bench. Soon after, Skipper Harding
■dropped in.
It was not long before the boy saw the
mallet.
“Uncle, where did yon get that big
mallet?” he asked.
• “Picked it up adrift,” was the brief
"ft
hile the old folks were chatting, the
bey kept his eyes on the mallet, it was
such a curious one, and kept turning it
over and over. At length he said, “Uncle
Simon, there’s a square piece fayed into
one end of this maliet; I can see the
seam.”
“I think it’s like enough; my eyes ain’t
as sharp as yourin, and yours won’t be as
sharp as they are now when you’ve fished
as many long nights as I have.”
The boy worked a long time trying to
dig out with the points of a pair of compas
ses the piece that had been inserted in the
mallet.
“Let me look at it,” said Uncle Simon;
“I’m afeared you’ll bend the points of my
compasses.”
Looking at the end of the mallet, he
said, “The man that fayed that piece in
was a workman. Better let it alone; I
doubt if it can be got out without boring.”
“Do try and get it out, Uncle Simon!”
said the boy. “It’s hollow, I know it is.
I don’t believe bat what there’s something
in there.”
“Hand the thing to me,” said Skipper
Harding; and after looking at it a mo
ment, he said, “The boy’s right, Uncle
Simon; that mallet is hollow; if it wasn’t
you’d never have .picked it up adrift, un
less it was in a boat or on a raft.”
“I certainly did take it out of the water
twenty fathoms deep, between Eagle Isl
and and Drunken Ledge; but why do you
say that.”
“Because that mallet’s made of linkum
ntee (lignum vitae). ’Twill sink In wa
ter like a stone if it is solid. It never
could have floated.”
“The handle’s white-ash. Wouldn’t
the handle float it?”
“No, it wouldn’t begin to.”
Uncle Simon put the mallet in a vise,
and with a chisel loosened andremovec.
the wedge-shaped piece that bad been so
nicely fitted in, when a large cavity ap
peared, stuffed with oakum.
After pulling out the oakum, he took
the mallet from the vise, and striking the
end on the bench, out came a large num
ber of gold coins, which rolled over the
bench and on to the floor.
“What be they? what he they?” shouted
John Kilgore—who had never seen a gold
coin—picking up one of them, at which he
gazed with dilating eyes, and then tried
his teeth on it.
“English sovereigns,” replied the skip
per.
“Be they real gold, like granny’s gold
beads ?”
“I reckon they are a great deal better
gold than your granny’s beads. At any
rate, every one of ’em is worth almost five
dollars.”
The coins were forty in number. On
examining the cavity it was evident that
they had occupied but a small part of it,
the rest being taken up with a piece of
clean new duck, which had been laid next
to the metal, and with oakum.
“No wonder it floated, with all that hol
low. That’s the way we fix our lobster
buoys when they get water-soaked.”
“Now, skipper, in your younger days
you’ve followed the sea, and been in for
eign parts, but I’ve been only a fisherman.
I want you to give me your candid opin
ion. Who did that gold belong to, and
what could possess any person that they
should put money in such a place as
that?”
Well, it’s my opinion that the money
belonged to some ship’s carpenter; most
likely, the carpenter of a man-of-war, be
cause merchant vessels don’t often carry a
carpenter. Most likely that was his mon
ey-box. He knew nobody would think of
looking in a mallet for his money, and
that piece was fayed in so neat that be
fore the varnish was washed oft; no per
son would be likely to observe it.
‘I knew an old Swede, a carpenter,-that
went for years in one vessel, and he had
a place mortised in a timber-head, where
he kept his money, and nobody knew it
till he got able to stay ashore, and then he
took it out. I expect the vessel this poor
fellow was in was lost, and he with her.
You’ll have to keep the money. You
can’t find any owner for' this, as you did
for the other.”
“I shall try; I shall put up a writing on
the school house and on the meeting
house, and tell the select men.”
“That mallet might have drifted across
the ocean; and by there being sovereigns
in it, I expect it belonged to some English
man-of-war’s man. It’s my belief and
udgment you’ll never find an owner for
t; though of course it’s your own duty
to try.”
'“Skipper Harding, it Uncle Simon tries
and don’t find any rightful owner for the
money whose will it be then?” asked the
boy.
“His; and when the rightful owner had
dono with it, it was for Simon, and it was
for no other person to find.”
“Couldn’t anybody else find it?”
“No; and what establishes me more in
that belief is that,though I never knew or
h£ard of his finding that mallei till I came
iii here this morning, I remember the time
very well, because we’d ’lotted to go to
gether rock-fishing that day to Drunken
Ledge; but I was called away to Small
Point to look at a vessel we thought of
buying.
“Coming back, I ran foal of that same
drift-stuff myself, and let the main sheet
fly, thinking I’d roll the sails up and get
part of it. Bnt I changed my mind,
trimmed the sheet down again and kept
on. I had been home about two hours,
when in came Uncle Simon with a part
of that stuff”
“That’s the very day I found the mallet
the day we set to go together and didn’t,
and I remember you said I’d got your
drift-stuff when 1 came in.”
“Had I gone to taking in the wood, I
should have found the mallet, but it was
notthns to be; it was for yon, Simon.
You wouldn’t take anything from the
North Yarmouth folks, ’cause you said
you didn’t want to be paid to do right,
and this time the ocean took the matter
in hand. It is my belief that the winds
and waves had their orders to whom to
carry that piece of wood.”
Skipper Harding never had occasion to
change the opinion so emphatically ex
pressed, as, after due notice given, no
person ever appeared to prove his lawful
claims to the money.—Youths’ Compan
ion.
Seymour Declines Again.—A Utica
dispatch of Friday evening quotes the Ob
server as saying: . “With reference to
Governor Seymour’s position th'ere is no
troth in the report that he has in. any way
changed or modified his position. He
says now, as he has said all the time, that
he is not and cannot be a candidate, and
that he could not accept a nomination,
even if one were offered to him.
He deems it immoral for any one to en
ter upon any public office when his health
is nneqnal to the performance of its la
bors. He alone can judge of this and can
not yield his decision to the opinions of
others. He has never anticipated the
possibility of his nomination, and has
only regarded the mention of his name as
one of the coincidents which always mark
political speculations before the meeting
of a convention. In reply to any compli
mentary allusions to himself, he has al
ways distinctly and clearly stated his pur
pose to withdraw from an active part in
public affairs, although he felt a deep in
terest in the success of the party to which
he was attached. In stating what he says
upon this point we only repeat his own
words, and we do so to meet his views
and not our own.
HOWTHES’. Y. SUN PUTS IT.
r ■ .
Schuyler Colfax and lu. A. Qarflcld.
In the summer of 1872, when the Sun
first made public the testimony of Colonel
Henry S. McComb in the Credit Mobilier
suit, Schuyler Colfax and James A. Gar
field were both conspicuous leaders of
the Republican party. Mr. Colfax was
Vice President of the United States; Gen.
Garfield was chairman of the House com
mittee on appropriations.
Writing to Col. McComb in 1868 in re
gard to Credit Mobilier stock set apart for
the pnrposc of corrupting legislators,
Oakes Ames had said: “I have used this
where it will produce most good to us, I
think.” Pencilled on the back of the
same letter was Oakes Ames’ memoran
dum list of Senators and congressmen
bribed. There were thirteen names in all.
Here are two of them:
S. Colfax, speaker . . . $2,000
Garfield, O 2,000
Most of the persons affected by this pre
liminary revelation hastened to deny
their guilt. The denials of Schnyler
Colfax and James A. Garfield were alike
explicit and impressive. Colfax went
from his desk in the Senate chamber be
fore a committee of the House of Repre
sentatives, and, having sworn in the name
of God to'tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, made this
statement:
“I state, explicitly, that no one ri$er
gave or offered to give me any shares of
slock in the Credit Mobilier or the Union
Pacific Railroad. I had never received,
nor had tendered to me, any dividends in
cash, stock or bonds accruing upon any
stock in either of said organizations. I
never received a dollar in bonds, stock, or
dividends.”
In the Senate chamber, Colfax shed
tears while protesting his innocence, and
appealed to the Eternal Tribunal of Jus
tice to establish the truth of his words.
Gen. James A. Garfield also swore in
the name of God to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth;
and having taken that solemn oath, he
said:
“Mr. Ames never gave nor offered to
give me any stock or“any other valuable
tiling as a gift. I once asked and ob
tained from him, and afterward repaid to
him, a loan of $300; that amount is the
only valuable thing I ever received from
or delivered to him. I never owned, re
ceived or agreed to receive any stock of
the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pa
cific Railroad, nor any dividends or profits
arising from either ol them.
“Q.—Were any dividends ever tendered
to you on the stock of the Credit Mobilier
upon the supposition that you were to he
a subscriber? A.—No, sir.
“Q.—The loan you have repaid, if I un
derstood you correctly? A—Yes, sir.”
Both Colfax’s and Garfield’s sworn de
nials were made under the pressure of the
emergency, and before it was known or
supposed that Oakes Arnes would ever be
witness to the truth. Circumstances
which it is not now necessary to recall,
brought Oakes Ames to the stand, with
his memorandum book. By the record of
his transactions with Colfax the account
stood:
“Colfax, twenty shares Credit Mobilier,
cost $2,000; interest for seven months aud
ten days, $80.72, making a total of $2,-
0S0. 72 less 80 per cent, bond dividend at
07,$1,552—$534.72.”
The same book showed that a 00 per
cent, cash dividend of $1,200 was paid by
him to Colfax. Gen. Garfield’s account
in the same memorandum book was as
follows:
“Garfield, ten shares Credit Mobilier,
$1,000; seven months and ten days’ inter-,
est, $43.40—$1,043.30; 80 per cent, bond
dividend at 97, $770—$207.30; interest,
Juno 20, $3.04; balance $271. Ten shares
Credit Mobilier stock, ten shares Union
Pacific stock.”
And in another place a geneial state
ment:
J. A. G. Dr.
1808.—To ten shares Credit Mobilierof
A. . . $1,000 00
Interest 47 00
June 19.—To cash 329 00
ment and showed it to him at' the
time. In one conversation he ad
mitted it, and said, as near as I can re
member, there was $2,400 due in stock
and bonds. He made a little memoran
dum of $1,000 and $1,400, and, ..as I rec
ollect, said there was $1,000 of Union
Pacific stock, $1,000 of Credit Mobilier
stock, and $400 of stock or bonds, I do not
recollect what.
“Q.—Have you the memorandum that
Mr. Garfield made? A.—I have the fig
ures that he made.”
Paper in Mr. Garfield’s handwriting was
shown to the committee, containing fig
ures as follows:
$1,000
1,400 „
1808.
$1,376 00
Dr.
By dividend bonds,
Union Pacific rail
road, $1,000, at SO
per cent., less S per
cent $777 00
June 17.—By dividend collected for your
account COO 00
i. $1,376 00
Schuyler Colfax swore that he had nev
er received the $1,200 which Ames
claimed to have paid him as dividend.
Oake3 Ame3 swore that he had paid it by
check on the sergeant-at-arms. Sergeant-
at-Arms Ordway produced the cancelled
check:
“Washington, June 20,1868.
‘Sergcant-at-Arms, U. S. House of
Representatives: Pay to 8. C. or bearer
$1,200, aud charge to my account
Oakes Ames.”
This check, which Colfax swore he had
never seen, was drawn Jane 20. The
books of the sergeant-at-arm3 showed
that it was paid June 21. The books of
the First National Bank of Washington,
where the Vice President kept a private
account, showed that on Jane 21 Schuyler
Colfax deposited there $1,200 in cash,
and the deposit ticket, in his own hand
writing, was produced. His perjury as
well as his bribe-taking was proved. His
closest friends ceased trying to defend
him. After one effort, pathetically absurd
in its weakness, he ceased to try to defend
himself.
James A. Garfield’s case was even
woise. To the evidence of his corruption
and peijury was added evidence of an at
tempt on bis part to suborn perjury. His
cash dividend, paid to him Jane ,19,1SGS,
by Oakes Ames, amounted to $329. After
the investigation had begun, he went to
Arnes and besought him to let this pay
ment “go as a loan,” and when Ames had
refused to peijure himself to save him, he
made figures to show that Ames still owed
him $2,400 of the bribe money!
Oakes Ames testified as follows:
: “Q.—You may state whether, in con
versation with you, Mr. Garfield claims,
as he claimed before us, that the only
transaction between you was borrowing
$300. A.—No, sir; he did not claim that
with me.
“Q.—State how he docs claim It with
you; what was said? State all that occur
red in conversation between you. A.—I
cannot remember half of it. I have had
two or three interviews with Mr. Gar
field. He wants to put it on the basis of a
loan.
“Q.—What did you say to him in ref
erence to that state of the case? A.—I
stated to him that he never asked me to
lend him any money; that I never knew
be wanted to borrow any. I did not know
he wasshort. I made a statement to him
showing the transaction and what there
was due on it; that deducting the bond
dividend and the cash dividend there was
$829 due him, for which I bad given him
a check; that he had never asked me to
loan him any money,'and I never loaned
him any.
, “Q.—After you made that statement,
what did he state in reply? A.—He
wanted to have it go as a loan.
“Q.—Did he claim that it was in fact a
loan? A.—No,sir; Ido not think he
did. No, he did not.
•A $2,400
“Q.—You say that these figures were
made by Mr. Garfield? A.—Yes, sir.”
“Q.—That was his idea of what was
coming to him? A.—Yes, sir.”
All this, be it remembered, occurred
after the investigation had begun—alter
James A. Garfield had sworn that he
“never owned, received or agreed to re
ceive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or
of the Union Pacific railroad nor any div
idends or profits arising from either of
them.”
And after Garfield had sworn to this
falsehood, a Republican committee of the
House of Representatives, made up of his
own political and personal friends, and
with Judge Poland, of Vermont, as its
chairman, branded him forever as a bribe
taker and a peijurer in these blasting
words:
“He (Garfield) agreed with Mr. Ames
to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier
stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr.
Ames received the eighty per cent, divi
dend in bonds, and sold them for ninety-
seven per cent, and also received the sixty
per cent, cash dividend, which, together
with the price of the stock and interest,
left a balance of $329. This s:m was
paid over to' Mr. Garfield by a check on
the sergeant-at-arms
The Credit Mobilier exposure shattered
a good many reputations; but it left no
character worse damaged than those of
Schuyler Colfax and James A. Garfield.
Schuyler Colfax, unnoticed, is living
out the last years of a dishonored life;
while, by a carious turn of a memorable
straggle in a nominating convention,
James A. Garfield, his fellow criminal, is
the Republican party’s candidate for Pres-,
ident of the United States!
CoL Thomas Hardeman in Fort Val
ley. . -
Fort Vallet, June 12,18S0.
Editors Telegraph arid Messenger: Col.
Thomas Hardeman, by request of many
friends, made an'address here this morn
ing to an audience of 400 or 450, consist
ing of ladies and gentlemen of Fort Val
ley and vicinity. He was introduced by
\Y. E. Collier, Esq., who, witli a few well
chosen words, portrayed to the audience
the man they came to hear. Amidst'the
applause the grand form of the true Dem
ocrat approached tho front of the stand,
where for an hour or more he poured forth,
in words of eloquence, sentiments of true
patriotism and “devotion to old Geor
gia.” Justics could not bo done to the
speech by attempting a synopsis. He was
truly grand when he made allusion to
Gov. Colquitt.
He said he would never be heard to
make war against a political opponent to
obtain office. Some had made a mistake
when they fought Colquitt on account of
his religious devotion. He gave way-once
for harmony and for Colquitt, when he
was urged by prominent men all over the
State to hold on and defeat Colquitt. His
reply was, he was for harmony, and he‘
carried enough delegates to give Colquitt
the two majority required to nominate.
Now, when tin re are about to be more
schisms, all this devotion to party and
harmony is forgotten by the friends of
Colquitt, aud they say, Hardeman must
give way again. He appealed to the peo
ple, in the name of justice and candor, if
it became a duty for any one of tho candi
dates to retire from the contest, who
should it be ? He closed with a burst of
pathos that doubtless made every one
present feel that he loved old Georgia
more than he ever did before.
When he took his seat, Col. Wallace, of
Butler, was called for, who took the stand
and replied that he did not wish to make
a speech in Col. H.’s presence, as he felt a
modesty in speaking before his face what
lie could say for him behind Ins back;
that he was with him in many positions of
trust, both in war and peace; had
known him for more than twenty years,
and had always found him true as steel,
and pure as gold. He said he had noticed
Colquitt’s speech, and the very thing he
wanted him to answer was left unan
swered—that was, “why he suffered men
under him in office to embezzle the State’s
money, when it was his duty to make a
searching examination of these officers
under oath every quarter, and also exam
ine their bocks.”
He said ho had never seen any war
made against Colquitt because he was a
Christian, but he had seen him charged
with neglect of "his duty due the State,
while he was off interested in religious
meetings, while the men in office were
revelling in corruption. He said Colquitt
claimed he merited muchfor the financial
condition of the State, when he had fought
every act of retrenchment introduced by
the financial committee oi the legislature,
to whom the honor was due.
Fort Valley.
Lee and Davis.—In a communication
from John W. Fairfax ia the Alexandria
(Va.) Gazette, the following occurs as a
revelation:
The seceded States lost life, liberty
and wealth for the want of nerve
in Mr. Davis to make peace with
President Lincoln. General K. E. Lee
told me the night before we left Appomat
tox for our homes, that he urged Mr. Da
vis, in the presence of the secretary of
war, when the commissioners went to
Fortress Monroe to make peace upon any
terms. Make peace; if you do not, as soon
as the spring opens to enable Gen. Grant
to move, he will break my lines at Pe
tersburg and take Richmond. Mr.
Davis said, “I am afraid of the people.”
In honor to the raeraoiy of Gen. B. E.
Leo, I here state what he further said, to
wit:"“I believe Mr. Lincoln would have
given ns all we asked, except secession
and slavery; but I believe he would have
agreed tojpay for the slaves at a fail* valua
tion. M. Davis never gave up the com
mand of the army to me to do as I pleased,
as was supposed; not until I wrote him
from Petersburg that my lines were bro
ken, then lie wrote me, ‘I will leave
Richmond to-night; you do the best
you can.’ That was the first time
he had given up the command to me to do
as I thought best, leaving me to be sacri
ficed whilst he fled to take care of him
self.” Here the good and great soldier
became overcome, and I left him alone in
his tent, where he had me called In, and
he reviewed to me his course from the
time be left the “old army” up to his sur
render. The fear ot the people cost the
lives and limbs of every one who was lost
from'the time of the meeting of the com
missioners at Fortress Monroe up to the
surrender of Gen.'Lee at Appomattox
Court House.
—Mr. Alfred Tennyson is mentioned as
Congnu.
Washington, June 14.—The House
met at 9:30 o’clock, in continuation of
Saturday’s session, and the Speaker an
nounced the pending question to be on
seconding the demand for the previous
qnestiwi on the electoral count resolution.
The Republicans resorted to filibustering
tactics, and after several roll calls the
House adjourned, and at 11 o’clock the
session! °f Monday began. The call of
States And morning hour having been dis
pensed, with, Mr. Herbert, of Alabama,
submitted a conference report on the
House .bill relating to public lands.
In the Senate, Mr. Beck reported that
the conference committee on the Senate
amendments to the snndiy civil appropria
tion hill had been unable to agree, the
principal point of difference being the
increased appropriation / for the na
tional board of health. Mr. Harris, chair
man of the committee on epidemic dis
eases, stated his belief, that it would be
better to abolish the board rather than
cripple it by withholding this appropria
tion,, which was necessary to enablo it to
perform its functions.
Oh mption of Mr. Beck, the Senate in
sisted on its amendments, and asked for a
farther conference.
Mr. Lamar from the committee on rail
roads, reported favorably on the Senate
bill to aid the Mississippi Valley and Ship
Island Railroad Company to construct a
line of railroad in Mississippi. Placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Jonas, from the same committee,
reported favorably on the Senate bill aid
ing tho construction of a military, com
mercial, and postal railway from military
headquarters at San Antonio to the Rio
Grande at or near Laredo, with an amend
ment in the nature of a substitute, the
committee adopting the bill introduced in
the House by Representative Upson, which
was placed on the calendar.
Tho House bill making an appropria
tion for the erection of a naval wharf at
Key West, was passed.
On motion of Mr. Garland, the Senate
concurred in the House amendment to the
bill regalating the pay and appointment
of deputy marshals. The bill now goes
to the IYosident.
Washington, June 14.—The Senate
proceeded to consider the calendar. On
motion Of Mr. Beck, in view off the late
stage of fthe session, only House bills fa
vorably reported by Senate committees
were considered. The House bill amend
ing section 3,244, of the revised statutes,
was passed. It adds a provision, that
dealers in leaf tobacco to an amount less
than twenty-five thousand pounds, in any
one special tax year, which they receive
directly from planters, shall only be re
quired to pay a special tax of five dollars,
instead twenty-live, as required from
dealers m leaf tobacco generally.
The House bill confirming to John H.
Peting and others titles to certain lands
in Louisiana was passed.
At the expiration of tho morning hour,
the Mexican pensions bill was informally
Ia’.d aside to allow Mr. Windom to speak
on the exodus committee’s report. At the
conclusion of his remarks the Senate in
sisted on its amendments to the general
deficiency bill, aud a committee of con
ference. was appointed thereon.
The bill removing the political disabili
ties of John C. Maury was passed.
Mr. Lamar then spoke at considerable
length in reply to the speech of Mr.
Windom upon the report of the exodus
committee
Mr. Hampton, from the committee on
military affairs, reported favorably on the
House bill to loan tcnt3 to the Gate City
Guards of Atlanta. Placed on the calen
dar. Adjourned.
In the House, the bill to confirm titles
to lands to persons being prosecuted for
trespassing thereon on payment of the
government price, as agreed to by tho con
ference committee, provides that when
any lands of the United States shall have
been entered and government price paid
therqfor in full, no criminal suit by or
in the name of the United States shall
thereafter he had or further maintained
for any trespass upon or on account of
material taken from said lands, and
tliat no civil salt shall be main
tained for any trespass upon or
material taken trom said lands intheordi-
nary clearing of land, in the working'of
mining claims, or for agricultural or do
mestic purposes, in maintaining improve
ments on lands of bona fide settlers, or on
account of Any material taken by any per
son without the knowledge of trespass or
without fraud or collusion, by any person
who, in good faith, has paid to officers of
the United States for the same; provided,
that the provisions of this section shall
apply only to trespasses committed prior
to March 1, 1879; and, provided further,
thjtt defendants in such suits shall exhibit
to the proper officers evidence of such
entry, and pay all accrued costs. After
some debate the report was agreed to:
yeas 133, nays 42.
Mr. Bicknell, of Indiana, demanded
the previous question on the electoral
count resolution, and the Republicans, re
suming their filibustering tactics, left the
House without a quorum. Mr. Bicknell
finally withdrew his demand, and on his
motion the resolution was made the spe
cial order for the first Monday in Decem
ber. , ■
The joint resolution to enforce the eight
hour law wa3, after some debate, passed—
yeas 130, nays 57.
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, then moved
to suspend the rules and pass the bill
known as the Carlisle sugar bill. The
opponents of the bill refused to vote, and
tbe House was left without a quorum, and
It therefore adjourned.
One of the provisions of tbe bill which
was passed in both houses to-day on the
report of the conference committee rela
tive to public lands restores the price of
land witbm six miles of railroads to $1.25'
per acre, where they were placed on the
market at $2.50 per acre prior -to ,1861.
This is understood to include lands along
the Mobile and Montgomery railway ana
many other Southern railways.
The conference committee have agreed
to retain in the sundry civil appropriation
bill Senator Jones’ provision for placing
the Pensacola navy yard in a state of effi
ciency, with an amendment fixing , the
amount of this year’s appropriation at
The Senate to-day confirmed by the de
cisive vote of 39 to 3 the nomination of
Janies Longstreet, of Geoigia, as minister
resident of tbe United States to Turkey.
Washington, June 14.—The Presi
dent sent the following nominations to the
Senate to-day: Jacob W. Helffincb, to be
commissioner in the United States mint
at New Orleans; Thomas J. Johnson,
collector of customs at Savannah; Charles
Pelham, of Alabama, associate justice of
the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
Washington, June 15.—In the Senate,
a bill relieving James Monroe Heskell
from the operation of exclusion in 1218
of the revised statutes,which prohibits the
appointment in the anny of ex-Confede-
rates, was passed by a party vote.
In the House, Mr. Cabell, of Virginia,
introduced a bill repealing so much of
section 3385 of the revised statutes as
fixes tbe export tax on manufactured to
bacco, snuff and’ cigars. Referred.
Mr. Blount, of Geotgia, submitted the
report of the conference committee on
the sundry civil appropriation bill. Tbe
statement which accompanies the report
sets forth the effect of the action of the
to $1,740,764, from which the Senate re
ceded to the amount of $772,540. The
hill, as agreed to by the conference com
mittee, appropriates $22,523,871. The
clause directing the secretary of the treas
ury to pay the money appropriated in sil
ver coin is stricken out, and a clause
added appropriating $10,000 for the expen
ses of the Indian commisson. The report
was adopted.
Mr. Dibreli, of Tennessee, submitted
the report of tho conference committee on
tho agricultural appropriation bill. The
bill, as agreed to, appropriates $251,000.
Agreed to.
•The morning hour having been dis
pensed witb, the Speaker announced the
pending question to be on seconding the
demand for a suspension of the rules for the
passage of Mr. Carlisle’s sugar bill, which
motion had been made yesterday by Mr;
McLane, of Maryland.
Tbe opponents of the Carlisle sugar bill,
led by Mr. Davis and other representa
tives, resorted -to filibustering, and, by
withholding their‘votes, left the House
without a quorum. A call of the House
was then ordered.
Washington, June 15 The House
bill granting a pension to Della Benner,
widow of Hiram H. Benner, of company
C., 18th iufantry, was passed. Benner
became famous for heroism during the
yellow fever epidemic at Grenada, Missis
sippi.
The House joint resolution lending the
Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, Ga., 400
government tents, was passed.
Mr. Eaton presented the report of the
conference committee on the deficiency
appropriation bill, and it was adopted.
The House joint resolution declaring'
eight hours to be a day’s work for govern
ment employes was, under objection from
Mr. Withers, laid on the table.
Mr. Morgan submitted the concurrent
resolution relative to the electoral count,
but, upon objection by Mr. Ingalls, it
went over under the rules. >
Mr. Beck presented the report of the
conference committee on the sundry
civil hill. Mr. Conkliug opposed its
adoption, but, after some further remarks,
the Senate adopted it.
Mr. Eaton introduced a bill creating a
joint commission for the settlement of cer
tain claims of citizens of the United
States and France against each other, ac
cording to provisions of the treaty of Jan
uary 15, 1830. The bill was read three
times and passed by unanimous consent.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, and Mr.
Whyte then spoke upon the report of the
select committee on the treasury books
and accounts. Messrs. Dawes and In
galls followed in reply.
The Senate then adopted the resolu
tions reported by the committee, directing
the secretaries of the departments to report
to Congress what changes can advanta
geously be made in the present system of
keeping accounts.
Mr. Hampton, from the committee on
military affairs, reported favorably the
House bill to pay Hiram Johnson and
others money collected on excessive mili
tary assessments. Placed on the calen
dar.
The call of the House showed the pres
ence of 206 members. After a sharp de
bate the question recurred on the second
ing of the demand to suspend the rules,
aud again no quorum voted. Pending
another call of the House, Mr. Cobb, of
Indiana, submitted the conference report
on the general deficiency bill, and, after as- rany-measure declaring -Uia. palicyof this
short debate, it was agreed to. government on international questiotfibo-
The Speaker laid before the House a
communication from B. B. Lewis, of Ala
bama, stating that he had tendered his
resignation as a member of Congress to
the governor of Alabama, to take effect
October 1st. I,aid on the table.
Mr. Atkiu3 of Tennessee, under instruc
tions from the committee on appropria
tions, introduced a bill creating a com
mission for the settlement of certain
French-American claims under treaty of
January 15, 1880, and appropriating $100,-
000 for salaries, etc. The bill was passed,
the Senate bill of some import har
ing been sent to committee of the
whole on the ground that the Senate could
not originate such a bill.' The House
then took a recess until to-morrow at 10
o’clock.
Washingt6n, June 15.—The Presi
dent sent a message to tbe Senate this
evening vetoing the Senate bill entitled
“An act to regulate the pay and appoint
ment of deputy marshals.”
The following are the principal South
ern controverted items In the sundry civil
appropriation bill a3 reported by the com
mittee and passed by ljptK houses to-day:
Military post at San Antonio, $75,000;
light at the mouth of Sampit river, $1,200;
lights at tho mouth of Red river, Louis
iana, $3,COO; for three new public build
ings, at Austin, Texas, Atlanta, Ga., and
Fall River, $130,000; for salaries and ex
penses of the national board of health,
and' to carry out the purposes of the vari
ous acts creating the board, $100,000;
for aid to local quarantine stations and
for aid to local and State boards of
health, to be used in case of epidemic,
$150,000. [The two preceding items
include $75,000 diverted by this bill from
the general appropriations of last year,
and made applicable .to the purposes
named.] For: improvement of the navy-
yard at Pensacola, Fla., $150,000; for com
pleting the work of the entomological
commission in a special investigation of
the locust and cotton worm, $25,000; re
pairs and furniture for the United States
court house at Charleston, $2,500. The
item, appropriating $20,000 for a light sta
tion at Punta Rossa, Fla., is omitted.
The Senate, in executive session to-day,
confirmed the nomination of James E.
Boyd to be United States attorney for tbe
western district of North Carolina, and
Peter F. Lawshe to be postmaster at
Gainesville, Ga.
Washington, June 15.—At a meeting
of tbe cabinet to-day it was decided to
demand an explanation from the Spanish
government of the reefeift firing upon an
American ship and the subsequent search
thereof by Spanish cruisers ofl* the Cuban
coast.
Washington, Jane 15. — President
Hayes returned to the Senate this morn
ing without his signature the bill to reg
ulate the appointment of deputy marshals,
together with a message stating the rea
sons why be felt it to be his duty to veto
it. After citing authorities now in force
upon the subject (sections 202t, 4028 and
5521 revised statutes), and quoting recent
opinions of the Supreme Court as to their
constitutionality, he says: “The bill pro
ceeds upon a construction ‘of the const it u-
The president then quotes the bill in full
and says: “This bill does not connect
the new officers which it creates w ith ex
isting laws relating to special deputy
marshals so as to invest the former with
the same power, or impose upon them the
same duties, or give them the same pro
tection by means of criminal laws as spe
cial deputy marshals have under the pres
ent statutes. The so-called deputy mar
shals provided for in this bill will have no
responsibility to any one, and no authority
to call a possecomHalua to their aid, if re
sisted,
“They are not protected by criminal
statutes in the performance of their duty.
They cannot keep the peace nor make ar
rests when crimes are committed iu their
presence. In all these respects this bill
makes a radical change between the pow
ers of tbe United States officers at nation
al elections and the powers uniformly
possessed and executed by State officers
at State elections. This discrimination
against the authority, oi the United States
is a departure from the usages of the gov
ernment, establishtd by precedents begin
ning witb the earliest statutes on the sub
ject, and violates tho true principles of the
constitution.”
In conclusion, the President says he
will make no objection to the appoint
ment by the courts of officers to act with
reference to elections, and he favors their
appointment without regard to party, but
the present bill, while recognizing the
power and duty of the United States to
provide officers to guide and scrutinize
congressional elections, fails to adapt its
provisions to existing laws, so as to secure
efficient supervision and protection.
Washington, June 16.—In the Senate,
there were only a half, dozen Senators
present at 9 o’clock. Speaker Raudall
came in aud stood conversing with Mr.
Thurman until about five minutes past 9,
when the chaplain appeared and'the pres
ident, pro tem, called the Senate to order.
The chaplain’s prayer contained allusions
to the approaching close of the session,
and he prayed for the guardianship of the
Senators during the vacation. Tho jour
nal was read as usual. ,
Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the com
mittee on naval affairs, reported, with
amendment, a joint resolution recently in
troduced by him instructing the secretary
of the navy to take necessary steps to se
cure adequate naval stations and harbors
forthe use of the naval forces of the United
States at proper points on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts of Central America and
the American isthmus. He asked its pres
ent consideration.
Mr. Cockrell asked what necessity there
was for its present consideration.
Mr. Jones said it was well known that
the policy of this government, as set forth
in the President’s message of March 8,
1889, was to exercise a single, undivided
protectorate and supervision over any
water way or ship canal across the isth
mus, and the secretary of the navy had, in
furtherance of that object, ordered vessels
of war to that locality. The secretary
thinks some authoritysbould be given him
to secure the necessary means to sustain
his vessels there in the future.
Mr. Burnside advocated a resolution
and preamble in solution of the policy of
the government as per the message referred
to.
Mr. Cockrell said that the message had
been before Congress several months
without beingsacted on, and he objected to
ing brought in at the last’two and'a half eratie members of the committee on elec
tion as to the power of the national gov- |
hours of the session.
Mr. Jones remarked that a liko resolu
tion had been approved by the House
naval committee, aud as the committed on
foreign affairs of the Senate had failed to
act oh this subject, his committee had
thought, it their duty to take some action
Resolution went on the calendar.
Mr. Anthony—There is a message from
the President on the table. Several Sen
ators on the Democratic side: “We will
take that up presently.”
At 9:40 Mr. Randolph moved to go into'
executive session.
Mr. Anthony—I hope the Senator will
withdraw that motion in order to proceed
to,tbe consideration of the message of the
President.
Mr. Randolph and others—That con be
done afterwards.
Mr. Anthony—Then I hope the motion
will he voted down.
The president, pro tem, said the motion
was uot debatable, and put the question.
The motion wa3 carried viva voce, Re
publicans apparently voting no and the
Democrats aye. The doors were then
closed.
When tho doors were opened at ten
o’clock, Mr. Harris moved to consider the
House bills on the calendar.
Mr. Anthony said it was discourteous
to the President not to consider his veto
message, .and demanded the yeas and
nays.
Mr. Harris said that it could he done
afterward. The motion was carried by a
party vote, except that Plumb, Booth and
Hill* of Colorado, voted yea, and Farlej
nay. |
Three or four House bills were there
upon passed.
Op Mr. Logan’s motion the eight hour
bill was taken up, but Mr. Withers ob
jected to its third reading, and it lies on
the table.
The bill for the relief of Ben Holladay
was made the special order for the first
Wednesday in December next.
The House joint resolution paying an
nual employes one month’s extra pay was
amended, on motion of Mr. Blaine, so as
include the Senate employes. Mr. Bailey
moved to include all the military, naval
and civil employes of the. government,
wishing, as he admitted, to kill the reso
lution, which thereupon was tabled.
On motion of Mr. Morgan, the usual
resolutions of thanks to> the Vice Presi
dent and president,pro tem.,were adopted.
On motion of Mr. Conkling, the bill
fixing the duty on barley and malt was
taken up. Pending debate, Mr. Garland
moved to take tip the President’s message,
which was tabled on his own motion last
night. • >. .
Mr. Conkling said he bad tried to have
the message read last night but now in
sisted on the regular order.
After farther debate, Mr. Garland
moved to postpone the malt bill until next
December and take up the President's
message.
Mt;. Conkling said malt evidently had
no chance against talk, therefore he would
not struggle against the judgment of the
eminent which is in direct conflict with
the judgmeut of the highest judicial tri
bunal or the country.”
The President then recapitulates in
detail the duties of deputy and special
deputy marshals, as prescribed in the ex-
Mr. Thurman read a clausa in the con
stitution which says that on the reception
of a veto message, the body “shall” enter
objections at large on the journal, and
proceed to reconsider the measures. He
said that seemed to be mandatory, but of
istinglaws, and says: “The functions of course the constitution did not provide
special deputy marshals being executive, when they should proceed to reconsider,
they are placed under The authority of ft hd that must be left to the discretion of
well-known chief executive officers of the 6* body. Hs saw no constitutional dtffi-
Ubited StaUs courts. They are in fact, culty in the Senate considering the veto
and not only in name, deputies of tbe message at the next session. It would be
marshal, and he and his bondsmen are * liule in day, but as there was no
responsible for them. A civil force for i-im® I® read the message, and as there
the executive of the law is thus constructed i *** executive business on the table, he
in accordance with a long established and would proceed to the consideration of ex-
famiitar usage which is simple and effect- ecutive business.
ive, and under a responsible head. ! Pending motion, the committee ap-
“The bill before me changes completely pointed to wait on tbe President reported
the present law by substituting for the that th$y had done so, and that he had
special deputy marshals of existing slat- nothing to communicate to Congress. The
utes new officials, hitherto unknown to Senate then, at 11:40, went into executive
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committee on the Senate amendments, j tbe law, who lack the power,responsibility session. At 42 o’clock tbe doors were re-
“Q.—State all you know in refereace receivirg $1,500 for “De Profnndis,” his and was read in full. .The bill, as it‘ and protection, which are essential to ena- opened, and the Senate very quietly ad- which her blood was poisoned.' Her
to it. A.—I told him he knew very well poem of sixty-five lines recently publish- passed the House, appropriated $21,566,-' ble them to act efficiently as exocut've journed. daughter Eila is not expected to live
it was a dividend. I made out a state- ed in the nineteenth century.
647. The Senate amendments amounted officers.”
When the House met at 10 o’clock in
continuation of Tuesday’s session, there
were but few indications that the time for
adjournment was rapidly approaching.
The galleries, though better filled than
usual, were by no means crowded, while
on the floor most of the members sat qui
etly at tbeir desks arranging their papers.
A number of members, however, gathered
iu the space in front of the speaker’s desk
seeking recognition.
On motion of Atkins, Seuate bill pro
viding certain laws relative to permanent
appropriations was made a special order
for the second Monday in December.
McLane of Maryland .said before he would
demand the regular order he would yield
to the gentleman from Ohio (Hnrd) to
make a motion. To this there was great
objection on all sides, members contend
ing that McLane could not withdraw his
cemand conditionally.
Mr. Cox, of New York, said that for
two months he had been trying to get up
the Irish relief bill, but had been unable
to do so, aud he requested Mr. McLane to
withdraw his sugar bill, so as to leave the
coast clear for other measures.
This Mr. McLane agreed to, and the
speaker recognized Mr. Hurd, upon whose
motion the Senate bill for the construc
tion of public buildings at Toledo, Ohio,
was taken up and passed.
Several resolutions relative to the pay
ofHouse employes were adopted, and the
demand for recognition increased into cla
mor, and members who herelofote had ta
ken no part In th8 proceedings, joined the
noisy assemblage in front of the speaker’s
desk, and added to tbe confusion.
Mr. Gox, finding it impossible for him
in the present state of the House to get up
his Irish relief bill; moved that the House
proceed to the business on the speaker’s
table. Rejected : yeas 71, nays 104.
The session of Tnesday here ended,
and, at 11 o’clock, the session of Wednes
day commenced. The journal not being
completed, its reading was necessarily dis
pensed with.
The President approved the sundiy civil
appropriation bill this morning, and, under
one of its provisions, sent to the Senate
the nomination of Cot. Albert J. Myer to
be chief signal officer, with the rank of
brigadier general.
The President and all his Cabinet are
now at the cnpitol.
Mr. Carlisle, of New York, chairman
oi the committee to inquire into charges of
alleged bribery in the contested election
case of Donnelly vs. Washbume, sub
mitted the report of that committee, and
asked that it, together with tbe minority
report, be printed and recommitted. So
ordered.
Mr. Keifer—-In what respect, if any, is
the committee unanimous in making this
report?
Mr. Carlisle—I am authorized to say
that the committee’s conclusion is that
the weight of testimony shows that the
anonymous letter was written and sent by
H. H. Finley. Beyond that I am not au
thorised to make auy statement, because,
after considering all the testimony given
by exports and others, there is a proba
bility of disagreement in the committee
as to other points.
In answer to questions by Messrs. Man- .
nmg and Baker, Mr. Carlisle stated that
the majority of the committee does’ not
find that Donnelly had any connection,
lersonal or otherwise, in sending or writ-
nk tho anonymous lotter.
Manning—With that vindication of Mr.
Donnelly 1 submit ray report.
- The report, signed by five Demo
tions, declares Wm. D. Washburn is not
entitled to the Seat and that Ignatius Don
nelly is. Mr. Manning stated that Mr.
Phister, of Kentucky, concurred in the
first part of the resolution,' bnt dissented
from the latter part.
Mr. Keifer submitted another report
from the commmittee on elections, declar
ing that Washburn is and Donnelly is not
entitled to the seat. He _ stated that the _
former part of the resolution met with the
concurrence of seven out of fifteen mem
bers of the committee, and the latter por
tion with the concurrency, of ten out of .
fifteen. Both reports were ordered print
ed and recommitted.
The speaker announced the appoint-*
ment of Messrs. Atkins, Ryan, of Pennsyl
vania, aud Keifer as a committee to wait
upon the President to state to him tliat if
he had no communication for the House
they were ready to adjourn. Subsequent
ly 1 the committee reported that the Presi
dent had no further communication to
make.
On motion of Mr. Singleton, of Missis
sippi, during the absence of Mr. Hooker,
the biil for the erection of public build
ings at Jackson, Miss., was passed.
Then came the final chance for recog
nition, and every member was on his feet,
gesticulating aud wildly waving his bill.
Nearly all were pressing public building
bills, which led Mr. Cox, of New York, to
remark that Peoria had its friends and
Rochester had its friends, but where was
the friend of the treasury.
The confcsion aud noise on the floor
was excessive and it was impossible to
hear what the members were saying,
though several were talking at the lop of
their voices.
A motion was made at 11:30 to take a
recess until 11:45, but no quorum voted,
and a call of the House was ordered. In
the midst of the call, the hour of 12 ar
rived, aud the speaker, commanding or
der, said: “The hour fixed by the resolu
tion for the final adjournment of the two
houses, has arrived, and now, with an
expression of goodwill towards every
member' and delegate on the floor, and
with the hope for their safe return to their .
homes, I declare this house in its second
session of the forty-sixth Congress, ad
journed without day.” [Applause.]
The sound ol the speakePa gavel, announc
ing adjournment, was the signal for a
general hand-shaking and leave-taking
among members on the floor, and soon
tbe hall was deserted and left only to the
care of the employes.
Washington, June 16.—The Senate in
executive session to-day, confirmed a large
number of army and navy nominations :
Commissioners to ratify the agreement
with the Ute Indians; J. W. Helffinch to
be coiner of the New Orleaus mint; Amos
Newton Kimball, receiver of public money
at Jackson, Mississippi; Chits. E. Robin
son, collector of tbe customs district of
Albermarle, North Carolina.
Col. Albert J. Myer, chief signal officer
United States army, to be chief signal offi
cer United States army with rank of
brigadier general, to date from July 16.
The Semite rejected tbe nomination of
Charles Pelham, of Alabama, to be asso
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of
New Mexico.
All the regular annual appropriation
bills were signed hy the President in time
to announce their approval before the
honr of adjournment, and consequently
all have become laws. A number of now-
nations failed to receive action and ex
pired at the close of the session—among
them that of John F. Hartranft as collec
tor of customs for Philadelphia, which re
mained in the possession of the committee,
of commerce without being reported back
to the Senate.
—In Titusville,' Vennaylrania, a few
days ago, Mrs. Joseph Bushnel! died
from the effect of kissing the dead body
of her father ten days ago, while attend
ing his fhneral in Pittsbugh. Her father
died of erysipelas, and at the time men
tioned she bad a sore on her lips,' through
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kissing her mother.