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. VOL. Vl* NO. 1.991
A CLEAN SWEEP
*
The Old Land Marks are all
wiped out.
A NEW ADMINISTRATION
Halstead Smith Clerk, Shrop
shler Marshal, M’guire Wa
ter Works—Given.
It was a dean sweep and the old land
' ma ks in the city government are all
gone. New and untried hands take the
pt ship from helm to rigging, and it re
mains to be seen how the craft will
weather the storm.
The new administration wasinaugu
' rated with a plain senasible speech by
■■the new mayor and after a recess of
Wtve minutes,the body went into the eleo
tion of city offices, with results given
■ below: Mayor protem, W. J. Neel;
clerk and city attorney, Halstead Smith,
salary <1,300.
Treasurer, John M. Quinn, salary
|BOO. » ‘
K Recorder, J. H. Spullock, <3O.
City physician,Dr. C. S. Harris, <OO.
Marshal J. B Shropshire, <9OO, bond
I <1,500.
Depirjy marshal,W. Guice, <720.
Policemen at <SO a month: R. J. Mui.
ky, Tom Moore, J. O. Sharpe, C. Alex
ander, J. H. Huffman, W. D. Jones, H.
H. Wimpee, J. A. Collier, R. H - Cope,
land and D. S. Cooper.
■5 J. W. Stroud was kept on the force at
<3oq per annum and T. L. Talbott was
M|r made a supernumerary.
Lr • Waterworks Superintendent James
K McGuire, <7oo,bond <,500.
f Waterworks Engineer James McCaff-
■ rey<6oo.
I Street overseer, <6OO, bond <5Oo, H.
B Given.
■ Sexton <4O per month P. D. Ross.
f Reservoir Keeper, J. B. Lumpkin <3O
I per month, with <lO additional to pay
house rent which house to be erected
■ by the city.
r City Electrician, C. E. Woodruff,
I <2OO.
I City Time keeper, J. K. Wiliam son,
■ SIOO.
■ Janitor, S. C. Pearson,<s per week. *
| . The salary of the waterworks collect-
■ or was fixed at <3O per month and J.
I M.O’rear and Albert Hine applied for
I No one was elected.
I City printing, Hustler <240. *
E The council adjourned to meet next
■ Monday at 9 o’clock.
■ At the night meeting of the old council
■ the annual reports were read. The fol-
M lowing is a synopsis of the showing made
for the public business.
H The financial statement shows about
Sg<2s left of the appropriations.
n the city’s income.
■ 'The clerks report of total receipts for
■’l the fiscal year shows the following in-
come:
Registration license 18,397 35
■ Real and personal tax, 1892 125 00
K Street tax, 1892 8 00
Street tax, 1893 2,795 00
V Real and personal tax, 1893 58,842 86
Police fines and costs 2,246 55
Hi Sale of cemetery lots 323 50
■ '■'Digging graves 129 00
Storage of powder 65 05
collections 7,435 86
of City Hall 4 00
|Hcity school fund 1,065 33
Establishing grade 5 00
State school fund 4,647 47
Sale of fire hose 166 66
Total <96,356 63
THE EXPENDITURES.
QH The clerk’s report shows the total ex-
to be as follows:
Bsiifl
H The clerk reports a bonded debt as
at the begining of the fiscal year
BM1894:
Graded bonds 8 per cent, due July 1,
Water works bonds 6 per cent die
■Mulyl, 1909, 84,600
Five per cent bonds duo July 1,1912,
Total 294,400
gSgßTht■ original amount of the bonded debt
:eil by the compromise twenty years
• 'v;is <387,100, but <42,700, has been
t;> to the begiunig of the past fls
•<i\Bil year. The interest on the debt is
BHByable semi annually iu January and
IIHKIy. No bonds have been retired the
HH
THE ROME TRIBUNE
past year, but <4,500 has been placed
in the treasury for that purpose as re
quired by law.
THE SCHOOL FUND.
The clerk makes an interesting re
view of the city school fund since 1882,
the year the system was established.
For the 11 years the total from the state
and the city treasuries has been <lll,-
842.94.
The total amount paid out to date is
<109,785.45. The receipts for the past
year were State, 4,647; city appropri
ation <6,000; pupils <1,065.33.
Promptly at 8 o’clock the new council
assembled with the old and ex-Mayor
King administered thfe oath of office to
Mayor Moore, who in turn administer
ed it to the councilmen elect.
Immediately on the adjournment of
the old council Mayor Moore took the
seat vacated by ex-Mayor King and ad
dressed the council as follows:
MAYOR MOORE’S SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Council:—ln enter
ing upon the duties of the incoming mu
nicipal year it is incumbent upon us to
look the situation clearly and thorough
ly in the face ; and, at the same time
with the fearlessness born of determina
tion to do our full duty to our city and
its citizens. Unfortunately for us, we
begin our term in a time of great finan
cial depression. This condition will re
qiure us to exercise the most careful
judgment in meeting the demands of
the year. A short sketch of such infor
mation as I have been able to gather
will not be amiss at this time; and will
give somb idea of the, difficulties before
us: I learn that the estimated gross rev
enue of the city for last year was <102,-
000.
Os this amount only <92,000 was real
ized. The shortage being due to the in
come of <2,000 less from police courtfines
than was expected; to between <2,500
and 8,000 uncollected] water rent, and
the balance from a failure to receive a
tax on railroads; and also some other
uncollected taxes that was expected.
The estimate of income for this year will
of necessity, be less than for the year
just gone. I learn that the assessment
of real estate is considerably less than
last year, the difference in round num
bers between the two being <
The returns of personal property will
be. much less. Stocks of goods are light
er, the values of specific articles are less
, and from the two causes, we must ex
pect a material decrease here. The loss
from liquor licenses will be <2,000, that
from street tax and other licenses, about
<1,500. These licenses and the street tax
were fixed by the council whose term has
just expired. And while of course I
cast no reflection upon the wisdom of
their action, I deem it my duty to call
your attention to the conditions that
we must meet. Therefore it is necessary,
gentlemen, that yon should consider the
question of current expenses and income
with great care and prudence.
There are some things that we will
be compelled to do. The interest upon
our bonds, and the sinking fund must
be met. Our streets must be worked.
And, I would suggest, if possible, that
a general plan be matured which will
look to the steady and permanent im
provement of our streets —a plan that
can be carried out in part each year,
and will so recommend itself to coming
'councils that it will be followed by
| them, and our stree ts will become a
I credit to our city. No small item in the
prosperity of a city is its health. When
ever large numbers’of people arejgathered
:in cities, it is essential to healthfulness
I that cleanliness should be .'enforced. The
larger our city grows, the more necessa
ry it is to enforce the ordinances upon
this subject.
Our fire department is an institution
that must be kept up to a good state of
efficiency. Upon its prompt and effect
ive action depends to a large extent,
the cost of fire insurance. So that in
payment for this arm of our city gov
ernment the tax payer receives a direct
return. It is unnecessary for me to
' praise the self sacrificing conduct of our
noble firemen, as that is too well known
I here for comment. I only call your at-
I tention to a department that requires our
most fostering care. The new system of
i waterworks just completed promises to
, be a credit to our city, and it should be
one aim, with the abundant supply of
' i water that is now at our command, to
furnish it at as low a price as possible
to manufacturing interests,so as to build
them up and increase them. Every such
interest brings new population and
greater taxable values and if the item
of water at cost to us will encourage
them, I suggest that such a course will
be worth your consideration.
, Having made these few suggestions,
!st, gentlemen, that our work to- i
r will be harmonious, and earnest. I
lot doubt that it will be faithful,
[ trust that in all things for the in
of our city,we will have the hear-1
operation of our citizens.
myself, I can only promise that 1 1
ise my best efforts to advance our
interest ;to place her in the van of ,
ess, and to join with each and all
i in fulfilling to the best of my I
y the duties which we have taken
ourselves.
REVIVAL SERVICES
’rotractsd Meeting at the Presby
lan Church Closed—Baptiste next
3 protracted meeting of the Presby
i church, which began two weeks
ago, closed Saturday. The services from
1 first to last were well attended and
the interest grew from day to day. The
meeting was helpful to the church and
' the community and fourteen members
( were added at its session on Friday
night.
Dr. R. B Headden preached Sunday
morning and evening at the First Baptist
church and his sermons were prepirtory
; to the protracted meeting which it is
i proposed to begin next Monday
Will Reece, having finished the ootton
season, offers his services as an expe
rienced gardener. Orders may be left
with Mr. Berry Slaton at the Howel
Cotton Company’s Office.
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ROME, ttA.. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3,
VETERANS’ REUNION
At Birmingham, April >6 and 26—Im
portant business to eome up.
General John B. Gordon, command
ing the United Confederate Veterans,
has sent out notice of the reunion to be
held at Birmingham on Wednesday and
Thursday April the 25th and 26th. Ad
jutant General Moorman’s letter gives
the following synopsis of the business to
come up:
Business of the greatest importance
will demand careful consideration dur
ing the Fourth Annual Convention—
such as the best Methods of securing im
partial history, and to enlist each State
In the compilation and preservation of
the history of her Citizen soldierly; the
benevolent care through State aid or
otherwise of disabled, destitute or aged
Veterans and the widows and orphans
of our fallen brothers-in-ampp; the care
of the graves of our known and unknown
dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort Warren,
Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas, Oak
land Cemetery, at Chicago, Johnson’s
1 Island, Cairo, and at all other points, to
see that they are annually decorated, the
headstones preserved and protected, and
complete lists of the names of our dead
heroes with the location of their last
resting places furnished to their friends
and relatives through the medium of
our camps, thus rescuing their names
from oblivion and handing them down
in history; the consideration of the dif
ferent movements, plans and means to
1 erect a monument to the memory of
Jefferson Davis, President of the Con
federate States of America, also to aid
in building monuments to other great
leadens, soldiers and sailors of the South;
to aid in securing a pension from the
States lately composing the Confederate
State for Mrs. Jefferson Davis; to make
such changes in the constitution and
by-laws as experience may suggest, and
other matters of general interest.
Total number of camps now admitted
470, with applications in for nearly one
hundred more. Following list of camps
by States: N. E. Texas Division, 58;
West Texas Division, 29; S. E. Texas
Division, 19; N. W. Texas Division, 18;
S. W. Texas Division, 12; total Texas,
131; Alabama, 72; Mississippi, 47; Louis
iana; 34; Arkansas, 81; Kentucky, 27;
1 South Carolina, 27; Florida 26; Georgia,
21; Tennessee, 17; North Carolina, 14;
Virginia, 10; Oklahoma, 4; Missouri, 8;
Indian Territory, 2; Illinois. 8; District
of Columbia, 1; West Virginia, 1.
FOUR DEATHS.
Mr. Charles Smith, Mr. P.W. Morgan
Mrs. M, Ayeoek and an Infant.
The infant child of Mr. Oscar Harris
died Sunday morning at 4:30 o’clock.
The child has been sick for some time
with Tonsilitis, and its death has been
momentarily Expected. The funeral took
place Sunday morning.
Mrs. Melbourne Aycock died Saturday
afternoon at one o’clock at her residence
on East Second street. The funeral ser
vices took place yesterday morning at
the residence, after which the remains
were carried to North Rome for inter
ment.
Mr. [P. N. Morgan, who has for 35
years been a resident of Armuchee, died
at his home Sunday. He has been quite
sick for some time, and his death was
not a surprise to his friends. Mr. Mor
gan was about 60 years of age. He was
buried yesterday morning at 10 o’clock.
Mr. Charles Smith passed away yeter
day morning at one o’clock. For the past
thirteen years he had been employed in
the machine shops of first, Bowie &
George, Bowie, George & Terhune, and
for the past three years he has had charge
of the machine shops for J. A. George.
He was well known to all the people of
this section as a high toned gentleman.
He was taken sick about the 15th of
November, 1893, and has borne his suf
ferings patiently until he was relieved
by death this morning at one o’clock-
The funeral Services will take place
this morning at the first Presbyterian
church at eleven o’clock.
The following gentlemen will, act as
pall bearers: Messrs. Park Bowie, W. S.
McHenry, W. H. Steele, H. S, Lansdell,
E. E. Bawsell, Allen Neely, Junius
George and C. E. McLin. They are re
quested to meet at W. A. Rhudy’s fur
niture store, at 10 o’clock.
THE LIGHT GUARDS
Keeelve an Invitation to Visit Atlanta on
Memorial Day.
• The Rome Light Guards are fast mak.
ing a name for themselves. Yesterday
Captain Patton received an invitation
' from Chief Marshal John Milledge, to
take part in the military parade attend
i ing the exercises on Memorial Day in
Atlanta on April 26th.
I v The company will hold a meeting to
night for the purpose of accepting or
refusing the invitation.
COURT HOUSE REJECTED.
The Commissioners object to certain de
fects in the interior finish.
Yesterday’s session of the countyjboard
had one result which will be a surprise
, to the public. The commissioners re
fused to accept the court house and pass
ed an order requiring contractor Patton
to make certain changes, and in the
event of his failure to do so, they pro
-1 vided that the work should be done by
i the county at the expense of the con-
L tractors.
This action was taken on account of
defects in parts of the interior finish.
I For instance, the newel posts in the bar
i railing are split.
The board of commissioners met yester
day morning at 9:80 o’clock and the pe
titions of Messrs. Joe Barnes, R. E.
■ Wood, Alfred Hamilton, F. M. Autrey
; and Mrs. Ezzell to be incorporated in
' the Ca ve Springs district were granted.
The following petitions weie received
i and will b« acted upon at the next meet
ing: Petitions of Messrs. Harvey Wash
ington, M. F. Caldwell, John Burge,
i Harvey Cook, Alfred White and Mrs.
Mollie White. The folownig persons
; were declared paupers, and will be al
lowed <2.50 per month: Mrs. Lou Mil
ler, Mrs. DeLoath, Mrs. Martha Bannis
ter and R. H. Brown.
W. E. GLADSTONE
Life Sketch of the “Grand Old
Man” of Merry England.
A MARVELOUS CAREER.
His Character a Paradox—Con
sistent Inconsistency a’Feat
urs-In Early Life a Tory
The name “Gladstone” was for many
years one of power in all the English speak
ing world. Not only has the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland felt the
impress of his genius in every part of her
government, but Canada and Australia,
the Cape Colony and other self governing
dependencies have molded their institu
tions largely according to his ideas, while
in the United States he has had as many
devoted admirers as in his native island.
“Grand Old Man” was bis title hare as well
as in English lands, and here it was even
more freely accorded than there.
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HON. W. E. GLADSTONE.
And yet his character presents a paradox.
No other politician of modern times, none
probably of any time, has changed posi
tions so often or so radically, and it is
scarcely possible to find any defined prin
ciple advocated by him during his later
years that; he had not at some time in the
past assailed with vituperative eloquence.
Yet there was always a certain consistency
even in changes. Contrary to an almost
universal \rttlc among students of society
and government, be steadily grew more
radical as.he grew older, less cautions as he
grewjihysicaliy weaker and less tolerant
of criticism as his course raised greater
armies
His supporters claimed consistency on
his part by one plea: He declared and was
often af&ato show that, wbiln sound rw
soning on the facts then known sustained
his first position, later experience taught
sensible men the true view, and hence that
an advocacy which was once only a mistake
was later the outcome of mere obstinacy in
opposition to justice and truth. He entered
parliament as a Tory of the 18th century
sort, grew into a mild Conservative, held
office as an advanced Whig and then led
the opposition to victory in 1892 as a
Liberal so very radical that many English
radicals abandoned him, and even Irish
radicals had sometimes to restrain him.
Sometimes Inconsistent; Always Earnest.
He took office as a protectionist, but aided
in establishing free trade; launched into
literature with a plea for the union of
church and state so extreme that even the
Tories repudiated it and ended by destroy
ing the Irish establishment, and though his
first public utterance to be generally no
ticed in America was a eulogy on Jefferson
Davis and the southern confederacy and
his next a savage criticism on the Irish
party he lived to be the most popular of
Englishmen to Americans and the very
ideal of statesmen to Irishmen. Surely the
career of such a man deserves close study.
It teaches many valuable lessons, but chief
ly these two —that in this'Jentury new
measures and the science of government
have developed so rapidly that the man of
action and talent appears for a time the
most inconsistent, and that the people in
stinctively approve of an inconsistent ad
vance far more than of a consistent stand
still or retrogression.
One may go over hundreds of pages of
his speeches or writings without finding a
single essay at wit, and though many pas
sages show geniality it would be hard to
find one that is distinctly humorous. In
the case of any other man, or of the same
man in any other country, especially in the
United States, this very uniformity of se
riousness and awful dignity would have
made him the subject of satire. Dozens of
names would have been invented for him.
But let him take what position lie might,
Englishmen have unanimously credited
him with being terribly in earnest. In fact,
if they had thought him less earnest his
opponents would have thought him much
less dangerous.
Whatever his position might be at a
given time, he really believed in it. It be
came a part of his religion. And it so hap
pened that nearly all the great issues of his
time have been closely connected with re
ligious tenets. To have men of such un
yielding convictions is well, but that they
are not a majority among the public mep
of any countryJs also well.
Americans And no difficulty in under
standing why Mr. Gladstone has been so
fiercely hated or so cordially liked by dif
ferent factions in England, for the contro
versy there bears an unpleasantly close re
semblance to that in the United States Im-
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HAWARDEN CASTLE.
mediately following the civil war. It is,
however, a little strange that the most
fanatic attacks should have come from
ipuch a scientist as Huxley, the most venom
ous assaults from the poet Swinburne and
the keenest thrusts from the philosophic
i thn historian Fronde.
His conservative You tn.
His father, John Gladstone, was a prom
inent merchant, and his mother was of
Scotch royal descent. The family was of
| the old conservative kind, and the father
held office as a Tory at Liverpool, where
William Ewart Gladstone was born Dec.
29, 1809. After the usual course at Eton
he entered at Christ’s Church, Oxford, and
apparently absorbed all the conservatism of
that intensely conservative old Tory strong
hold. He passed through the excitement
then prevailing on church affairs—it soon
after produced the so called “Tractarian
movement" and the conversion of John
Henry Newman, late cardinal—and was
not even shaken; he witnessed the frantic
war against Sir Robert Peel, member for
Oxford, on account of his advocacy of Cath
olic emancipation, and yet was not moved
to liberal views; he listened to the elo
quence of the young reformers and as far
as can be judged regarded it with contempt.
In short, the youth was almost unnaturally
conservative.
Gladstone and the United States.
As is well known, Mr. Gladstone’s sym
pathies were with the south during the
civil war. During the later years of his life
his views concerning America, like his views
on almost everything but Homer, under
went a decided change, and for many years
he was an ardent admirer of the United
States, its people and its government.
“America has a magnificent future,” he
once said to an American friend, “if the
people are only true to their possibilities.
Before the close of the 20th century the
vast continent embraced within the limits
of the United S r tates, stretching from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf
of Mexico to the great lakes of the north,
will be the home of 300,000,000 of freemen,
representing every nation upon earth, vaster
in extent and population than the Roman
empire in its palmiest dayi< but -tree from *
the danger that attended the extension of
that empire among barbarous peoples, which
was the primary and potent cause of the
decline and fall of the greatness of Rome.
Every true Englishman should be proud of
the progress of the United States, for the
Americans are our kith and kin, having
the same literature, the same language
and the same sturdy love of political inde
pendence. The wresting of Magna Charta
from King John prepared the way for the
battle of Bunker Hill and the Declaration
*f Independence.”
His Political Career Summarized.
In 1831 he was graduated with a brilliant
triumph, and the next year entered parlia
ment in the good old Tory way—"acceptr
ing the seat for Newark by the grace of the
Duke of Newcastle.” Hecontinued to rep
resent that borough till 1846, but as Glad
stone then showed signs of becoming lib
eral the duke gave the scat to another,
claiming, as he said, “the right to do what
he would with his own.” In 1834 Glad
stone first “took office” as under secretary
for the colonies. Sir Robert. Peel being pre
mier. Being “thrown out,” as the English
phrase is, by the defeat of Peel in 1835, he
employed his leisure in literary work and
published the once celebrated—perhaps one
should say notorious —“Church and State.”
It is now remembered chiefly becau* of
Macaulay’s savage criticism of it in the
Edinburgh Review.
In 1840 he put forth another peculiar work
on church affairs. In 1841 lie again took a
place in the cabinet and soon became emi
nent as a financier. In 1845 he resigned be
cause the government favored the Catholic
college in Ireland, but soon came in again.
In 1847 lie was chosen to represent Oxford,
and then, for the first time, began to advo
cate liberal measures, the first being the
bill for removing the disabilities of the
Jews, which he had opposed in 1841. In
1851-2 he became a leader of the Liberals
and entered on that long contest with Dis
raeli, which continued without truce till
1876, when Disraeli became Beaconsfield
and entered the house of lords.
Mr. Gladstone was four times prime min
ister of England, first taking office in 18G8.
In 1873 his ministry was defeated by a coali
tion of Tories and home rulers on the edu
cation question, but as the opposition con’ 1
not organize he was restored only to be
again defeated the next year. Six years
later, in 1880, having during his retirement
conducted a vigorous campaign against the
government both on the platform and by
means of pamphlets, directing his attacks
mainly against the policy which resulted
in the treaty of Berlin, under which the
Turks were left rulers of millions of op
pressed Christians, he was again raised to
power. This time his ministry endured
until 1885 by a combination of Tories and
Parnellites on the budget. In 1886 he re
gained the reins, but held them for a shor t
time only, the home rule problem proving
fatal to his continuance in power. Lori
Salisbury wan then chosen prime ministe;
and Gladstone was out until 1892, when,
after an exciting general election, parlia
ment showed a majority of 40 against the
Conservative government.
The Mobbing of Gladstone.
“Gladstone in danger from a mob. He
takes refuge in a hallwayl”
To Americans who read it now this
statement will seem incredible. Yet it was
a fact, and so late as 1878. The English peo
ple had on one of their periodical war
fevers, and were consequently insane. It
is not too strong an expression. The war
fever often rises to a sort of insanity, and
even in the tolerant United States it has
twice happened that the veterans of one
war were mobbed for not being sufficiently
zealous in the next.
In the autumn of 1878 the party of Mr.
Gladstone had apparently sunk to the low
est depth it ever reached. Lord Beacons
field (Disraeli) had returned from the Ber
lin conference bringing, as he said, “Peace
with honor,” and ail the men who opposed
the pro-Turkish policy of the government
were stigmatized as “friends of Russia” —
consequently traitors. The masses took up
that false and foolish cry, so often heard
when war is thought near at hand —that
the opponents of war were only such be
cause they favored the hostile country as
against their own. London was almost
unanimous for sustaining Turkey at all
hazards against Russia, and the music
halls rang every night with war songs, the
favorite refrain being—
VVe-flo not want to fight; but, by jingo, if we do.
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve
got the money too.
So the war party came to be called the
“Jingoes.” The Turks had perpetrates
most atrocious massacres in Bulgaria, and
Russia had marched her armiee toward
Constantinople. Beaconsfield prime
minister ordered the British fleet to that
city and began to concentrate troops at ;
Cyprus, while Mr. Gladstone denounced i
the Turks and declared that the time was I
past when England could honorably bub
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PRICE hIVE CENTS.
lar hatred against Russia and carried the
day. The Russians were restrained when
within sight of Constantinople, and on the
invitation of Bismarck the powers con
vened at Berlin and patched up an arrange
ment which gave Turkey a little longer
lease of life.
The people were pleased to see England
appear once more as a sort of dictator in
European affairs. \AII the morning papers
of London excqpt The News took part with
Beaconsfield and denounced Gladstone in
no measured terms. The “peace men”
were occasionally hissed or otherwise in
sulted in public places, and at length Mr.
Gladstone and his wife were “hustled,” as
the phrase goes, in the public street. As
the event produced much indignation, the
London papers were not anxious to give
publicity to the details, and byway of
apology it was stated that “a little mob of
patriots returning from a Jingo carnival”
created the disturbance.
The fact remains. The statesman who
had served England so long and well was
while walking with his wife pressed upon,
derided and insulted till, the danger of as
sault seeming to them imminent, they took
refuge in the hall of the nearest house
arid that’s all the London papers admit.
But a reaction was at hand. When all the
particulars of the Berlin settlement came
out, the people were disgusted. The Tory
party was completely overthrown at the
next election, and iu 1880 Gladstone be
came for the second time prime minister.
Gladstone's Victory In 1892.
The scene in the house of commons ac
companying the overthrow of Lord Salis
bury’s government Aug. 12, 1892, though
perhaps less dramatic than that attending
the downfall of Mr. Gladstone’s govern
ment in 1885, was full of exciting episodes.
Mr. Asquith bad moved a vote of “no con
fidence." The house was full, 10 mem
bers only abstaining fyoni voting. A sin
gularly brilliant and caustic piece of rhet
oric from Mr. Chamberlain was followed
by extemporaneous remarks by Mr. Chap
lin, who, because one or two members of
the ministerial minority were late, spoke
-largely against time. He was frequently
interrupted by indignant Irish members
with groans, cries of "Videl Videl” loud
laughter and much talking. Dr. Tanner,
a privileged jester, even we»t so far as to
march solemnly up to Mr* Chaplin’s side
with a glass of water, but the orator kept
on despite interruptions until noon, when
the tardy ones arrived, and be vat down,
while the house called for the division. It
took fully 20 nrinutes to count the votes.
Mr. Gladstone was among the very lastko
return from the lobbies byway of the bar,
and he was received with vociferous cheer
ing. First the Irish members and then the
regular opposition rose en masse anti
shouted and waved hats until their chief
had seated himself. Mr. Balfour received
a similar ovation from the ministerial
minority when he took his place behind
the chair
Then Mr. Majoribanks. the government’s
new chief whip, entered with the figures cf
the majority, which lie whispered to J' r.
Gladstone before be took his place in front
of the table and to the right of the speaker,
always reserved for the successful tellers.
The whole house was so noisy and excited
that it was a long time before silence for
the reading of the figures could be secured.
There was more wild cheering when the
figures were g ven out, and cries of "Evict
ed,” “Remember Mitchelstown,” “Down
with coercion,” arose from the Irish mem
bers. Mr. Balfour moved adjournment,
and in 10 minutes the house was cleared.
Mr. Gladstone bad a great reception from
the crowd outside as he drove away tjith
Mrs. Gladstone, who had watched the
scene fr om her usual corner in the ladies’
gallery.
His Marriage and Els Homo.
Mr. Gladstone was married July 25, 1838,
to Miss Margaret Glynne, of a Welsh fam
ily, who brought to him a considerable prop
erty, which included famous Hawarden cas
tle. She inherited it.through a long line of
descent from one Sergeant Glynne and his
son, the Baronet William Glynne. They ole
tained it at the close of the gfeat civil war,
and the former owner, James, earl of Derby,
had lost his head. Os course it has a his
tory, like all the old places iu treat. Brit-
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MRS. GLADSTONE.
ain. The old castle, whose ruins still in
terest the visitor, was one of the posts by
which the English first held the conquered
Welsh in subjection, and its Welsh name
(of which Hawarden is a modified form*
means “fort on the bridge." Prince Llew
ellyn at one time lived there.
It was dismantled in !<►!.', and the pres
ent mansion was built early i:i the 18th
century. The old castle ruin and adjacent
park are open to the public, and in any part
of the wood where ancient or decaying trees
needed clearing away the visitor might tut
very long ago have seen evidences of the
work of Gladstone, the woodchopper. The
last day be spent at hits favorite exercise
was just after a great storm, which had
played'havoc with the trees. The air wan
damp and chilly; the sight of so much debris
stimulated him to unusual exertion, a se
vere cold and illness resulted, and Iris old
time exercise was abandoned.
The Gladstone Family.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Gladstone. One daughter died in infancy,
two daughter, are married, and Helen, still
single, holds the honorable place of vice
principal of Newnhain college at Cam-
I ridge. She ranks high among the educat
11* worn, n of the world, and the institution
| <>u r which site presides is noted for its po
sitiowon the advanced education of women.