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MARRIAGES GALORE.
MR. CONN’S GREAT BENEFIT TO THE
COLORED PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON.
Rev. Mr. Norris Employed by the Day.
Couples Joined In Batches —Great Rush
to Escape the Workhouse by Negligent
Negroes.
That portion of the African race resi
dent in Washington is in the grasp of
a great moral reform. A tidal wave of
wedlock is sweeping over it. There is a
law called the Edmunds law. It was
meant to mow the Mormons. But it has
been put into recent active operation in
the city of Washington, and thousands
of the colored race were caught within
its coils. A large portion of them have
never thought of getting a marriage li
cense or parading before a preacher at
all.
The whole population of the District
is declared by the police census to bo
about 270,000, of which 80,000 are of
African blood. The books-also declare
that while colored persons take out only
6 per cent of the marriage licenses they
furnish 40 per cent of the births.
The constabulary a month ago began
to arrest all who were found living to
gether without marriage. Colored cir
cles became profoundly agitated.
Not more than twoscore had been
sent to the workhouse when former
Representative Conn of Indiana, a mil
lionaire, heard of the crusade.
* ‘ Why not cure these evils with a dose
of marriage licenses?” asked Mr. Conn.
He negotiated for a few reams of
blank marriage licenses and started in.
He fitted up a big room in his building
and made a compact with the Rev. J.
W. Norris of one of the local colored
churches, by the terms of which the
Rev. Mr. Norris was to report for duty
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon during the
six working days of the week and mar
ry all comers.
The bureau has been running less
than a week, and the craze to “come
down town and be married” is preying
upon the colored population. There have
been 78 couples married during four
days.
Most of them said they had not been
married before; it cost too much. Some
of the applicants for a free wedding
were aged “uncles” and “aunties” who
had lived together ever “since de wah. ’’
“It am suttingly a grete privilege
which,” remarked the Rev. Mr. Norris,
“de moral sagashusness of Mistah Conn
unfol’s to de pore darkened colored sin
ners of Wash’nton an vicin’ty. ” The
Rev. Mr. Norris might have said more,
but 3 o’clock rung out; game was called
and he had to go to bat. His $8 and his
duty called.
Things had simmered to a system in
this business of marriage at wholesale.
The preliminary canter, as it were, con
sisted of a fashion of wedding march
when one after another each couple pa
raded before the preacher’s desk and re
plied to such queries as the law pre
scribes. They did this readily.
The first couple to score was John
Jones and Delia Merriman. John’s age
gained him this precedence. He was
wrinkled and bent, with wool as white
as cotton.
“Evah since Gin’rul Grant reviewed
his troops at de close ob de wah, ” ob
served John to me, “me and my ole De
lia has been a-liviu together. But I’m
gettin ole, an me an Delia allowed de
daybefo’yist’daydatef we hadn’t lived
married de least wnz we’d dia > »
Served in Two Wars.
THE GRIP ALMOST WON WHERE THE
BULLET FAILED.
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Or.r Sympathies Always Enlisted 1» the
Infirmities of the Veteran.
(From the Herald, Woodstock, Va.)
There is an old soldier in Woodstock, Va.,
who served in the war with Mexico and in
the war of the rebellion, Mr. Levi Mclnlurlf.
He passed through both these wars with
out a serious wound. The hardships, how
ever, told seriously on him, for when the
grip attacked him four years ago it nearly
killed him. Who can look on the infirmi
ties of a veteran without a feeling of the
deepest sympathy? His townspeople saw
him confined to his house so prostrated
with great nervousness that he could not
hold a knife and fork at the table, scarcely
able to walk too, and as he attempteddt, ho
often stumbled and fell. They saw him
treated by the best talent to be had —but still
he suffered on for four years, and gave up
finally in despair. One day, however, he
was struck by the account of a cure which
had been effected by the use of Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills. He immediately ordered
a box and commenced taking them. He
says he was greatly relieved within three
days time. The blood found its way to his
fingers and his hands which had been pal
sied assumed a natural color, and he was scon
enabled to use his knife and fork at the
table. He has recovered his strength to
such an extent that he is able to chop wood,
shock corn and do his regular work about
his home. He now says he can not only
walk to Woodstock, but can walk across the
mountains. He is able to lift up a fifty-two
pound weight with one hand and says he
does not khow what Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills have done for others, but knows that
they’ have done a great work for him.
He was in town last Monday, court day,
and was loud in his praises of the medicine
that had given him so great relief. He pur
chased another box and took it home with
him. Mr. Mclnturff is willing to make
affidavit to these facts.
The proprietors of Dr.Williams’ Pink Pills
state that they are not a patent medicine but
a prescription used for many years by an em
inent practitioner who produced the most
wonderful results with them,curing all forms
of weakness arising from a watery condition
of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful
causes of almost every ill to which flesh is
heir. The pills are also a specific for the
troubles peculiar to females, such as suppres
sions, all forms of wea chronic constipa-
tion, bearing down p etc., and in the case
of men will give spec lief and effect a per-
manent cure in all cas rising from mental
worry, overwork, or cesses of whatever
nature. They are ent ly harmless and can
be given to weak an sickly children with
the greatest good an without the slightest
danger. Pink Pills . sold by all dealers,
or will be sent post pal on receipt of price,
(50 cents a box, or six oxes for s2.so—they
are never sold in bulk or by’ the 100) by ad
dressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady, N. Y.
Alter the Jttev. Mr. Norris had asked
the questions he addressed the multi
tude briefly. It wae a labor saving ora
tion. He said:
“Nowef you all folkswill stan about
me in a semmysuokle I can marry seben
couple at a clatter an shorten de time. ”
Seven couples arranged themselves in
an arc in front of the Rev. Mr. Norris.
When the seven couples were arranged
the Rev. Mr. Norris cleared his throat,
opened his book and remarked:
“Stan facin each other an jine yo’
right han’s. ’ ’ They did it as if the move
ment had been rehearsed. There they
stood, these 14 black candidates for a
better life and a higher plane of morals,
looking for all the world as if they ex
pected the next order -would be “Grand
'right and left. ”
But it wasn’t. The Rev. Mr. Norris
marriqd the whole outfit in less than a
minute. Os those who werp wedded
that day all had been in need of the
ceremony from 4 to 80 years. At
least 70 children were rendered legiti
mate by that day’s charity of Mr. Conn.
A colored belle approached timidly
and said she and a young man named
Hill wanted to be made man and wife.
“Whar is he?” remarked the Rev.
Mr. Norris. “P’intde trifler out, an I’ll
marry you. ”
“Mistah Hill ain’t heah, ” she mur
mured, hanging her head. ‘ ‘ But if it
rains we will be down tomorrow at 3
o’clock. ”
“What’s de rain got to do wid it?”
demanded the Rev. Mr. Norris suspi
ciously.
“Why, Henry’s a bricklayer,” replied
the bride to be. “Es it’s sunshiny he’ll
be at work an we’ll have to put it off.
But es it rains we’ll come tomorrow
at 8. ”
“Delays is dangerous, honey,” said
the Rev. Mr. Norris. “Yo’bettah come
tomorrow.”
Mr. Conn is doing a great and serious
work. He stood looking on while the
Rev. Mr. Norris tied the knots, and his
face wore a smile of pleasure.—New
York Herald.
TRIAL TRIP TO HEAVEN.
A Young Girl Predicted Iler Own Death
Three Years Ahead.
On Thursday Miss Annie E. Bennett,
daughter of Rev. A. J. Bennett of Hin
ton, W. Va., died of‘consumption, aged
24 years. She was a member of the
Primitive Baptist church, of which her
father is pastor, and was a most devout
young lady. Three years ago, just as
it was becoming apparent that the dread
disease had fastened itself upon her, she
made the statement to several of her
fellow students at the Baptist academy
that she would die on May 23, 1895.
The statement was recorded by sev
eral of the girls as a joke, and that it
might not be effaced one of them
scratched it on the woodwork of the
room in which it was made at the
school. An examination shows the date
to be still quite plain and distinct. Miss
Bennett had stated to her friends that
she had been warned and given to know
the date of her death by a vision when
she was walking alone in the wood
near the school in broad daylight.
A few hours before death Miss Ben- ■
nett became apparently lifeless, the
breath leaving her body. After a short
time she regained consciousness and
stated that she had been to heaven and
had conversed with her brother, Arthur
Bennett, and her sister, Mrs. Lida
Lamb, both of whom have been dead for
several years. This conversation was
detailed, and a description of heaven
was given those about the bedside. She
died smiling, and the last words were
that she hoped those about her might
be allowegLto join her soon.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A WESTERN MAN.
Is General Schofield the Military Man Re
ferred to by Speaker Crisp?
Whom did Speaker Crisp have in
mind when lie said that in order to win
the Democrats must nominate “a west
ern man with a military record?” Per
haps Schofield. At any rate, Lieutenant
General Schofield, who will retire from
the army .next fall, exactly meets the
Crisp requirements. And he possesses
other qualifications.
Illinois will name the next president.
General Schofield is perhaps the most
celebrated living citizen of Illinois. The
next president must be acceptable to
Missouri as the meeting ground of west
and south. General Schofield has more
friends in Missouri on both sides than
any other Union officer.
Not the least of his merits is that he
has always been a stanch Democrat. He
•was Tilden’s choice for the nomination
of 1880, and if he had been nominated
would rarely have been elected. He
would certainly be elected in 1896 if
nominated on a straight out western
Democratic platform—declaring for the
free coinage of gold and silver.—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
ONE OF THE 600.
A Man Who Passed Through That Flory
Ordeal and Since Went to the Bad.
In the rogues’ gallery of the secret
service bureau of the treasury depart
ment is the card photograph of a once
famous counterfeiter who was arrested
by the treasury agents and made to serve
a long term in the penitentiary. The
face is that of a rather plain looking
man of about 45, with the sort of face
that impresses because of a look of fear
lessness unmingled with boldness.
The photograph is that of a German
who served in the British army as a
private and passed through one of the
most exciting events of the Crimean
war. He was a member of the famous
Light Dragoons, the immortal 600 that
rode into the valley of death in their
charge on the Russian position and one
of the few that survived that terrible
engagement. He was distinguished by
the British government, but went to the
bad, and even after his experience in the
United States committed a similar crime
in Germany and was again sentenced to
a long term of Imnrisonnimir.
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