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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. t 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. 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