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GEN. AND MRS. LONGSTREET
TELL OF THEIR MARRIAGE
Interesting Story io Parallel Colnmns of The
New York Sunday Journal.
PROBABLY PAID HANDSOMELY FOR ARTICLE
Mrs. Longstreet Says She Married the
General Because She Loved Him.
Her Brave Struggle Won Him.
Gen. and Mrs. James Street in parallel columns told in the New York
Sunday Journal why they decided to become life partners.
It is more than probable that each was paid handsomely for their con
tributions, perhaps SIOO each, as New York journalism does not stop these
days at spending any sura necessary to secure articles that will attract atten
tion and readers.
Extracts from both Gen. and Mrs. Longstreets letters are printed here
with.
By Mrs. James Longstreet.
Vine Crest Cottage, near Gainesville,
Ga„ Sept, 11 —My friend ask why I, a
young woman, married General Long
street? Because I loved him, to be sure,
for no true woman would ever marry
a man whom she did not love, though
there are always envious persons ready
to draw conclusions and to ascribe mo
tives. |As a little child I had access to
the home of General Longtreet, a man
who impressed even my childish mind
witb a high sense of his honor and integ
rity, There were about him no repell
ing qualities,
I heard the folks talk of his achieve
ments, and they built for him a warm
place in my heart. In a word, General
Longstreet was not only a hero in war,
but a gentleman in peace, such a man
as wins confidence at once, and especi
ally the confidence of a woman, who
loves high ideals. All this byway of
pretace to the question as to why a
young woman should marry an old
man.
Do you know, Mr. Editor, that women
are born with ideals and ambitions just
as men are, but that our social condi
tion, while giving free vent to the one,
crushes down or restrains the other. I
could tell you of scores of women with
bright minds, laudable ambitions and
high hopes, who might have shown in
the world had they but the chance.
These young women, as soon as their
school days are over, understand that
marriage is the next step, and the one
which seals their fate forever. By cus
tom they are restricted to the company
of those of ’•.heir own age, and marry
young and undeveloped men, who after
ward prove to be nothing but the veriest,
clods of clay. Imagine a sensitive and
high-minded woman, as she awakes to
the realization that her husband is en
tirely dross.
“How many a young woman I know
who would have chosen older hus
bands, but for social tradition. In
such a marriage they could measure
quality for quality, and, though in
the natural order such a husband
might leave her a widow early, is it
not better to have been the wife of
one acceptable and companionable
man than to be the lifelong slave of
one whom her soul held in aversion.
A woman looking sensibly at such an
important event as marriage will
therefore look among such of her male
friends as have the qualities required.
While I had no special person in
view, my mind has always been firm
on one point, I would never marry a
simpering man who had no ideas in
his bead and who lacked the energy
to make a man of himself.
When, in the midst of all these ef
forts I became conscious of General
Longstreet’s admiration I but re
doubled my efforts, determined that
that I should be recognized for my
self, and that he should regard me as
a companion and helpmate, rather
than as a mere housekeeper. When
he asked my hand in marriage I
granted it. Knowing that I was en
trusting my life and happiness to one
of the noblest men God ever made.
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By General James Longstreeti
Vine Crest Cottage, near Gaines
ville, Ga., Sept. 11. —This is the third
day of our marriage and I feel today
as if God had made us for each other,
and there has existed an affinity,
which drew us together without seek
ing. The fact that my wife should
have chosen September 8 as the day
for marriage, without my knowledge
of the important part it played in my
life on the field of Molina del Rey,
fifty years before, when I won the
brevet of major, shows a current which
runs in unison.
What shall I say about my venture
in married life? That is a question
which men have been trying to an
swer for ages and it yet remains one
of the problems which sweetens, life
and sheds the glamour of romance
over all we do. What is good for
young men is equally good for old, if,
indeed there be any distinction, for
the longer a man lives the more he be
comes convinced that there is neither
youth nor age, and that we really live
in a great present, upon whose stage
we all play our parts until the finale
is reached when we again reappear in
memory and play as prominent a part
as ever.
For eight years I have lived alone in
this house, away out in the country,
where the loneliness often became op
pressive. I had in mind a little girl who
used to visit my children when going
to school. She was a bright and
piquant, and withal gifted with a won
derfully womanly sympathy for a child.
She would float in my imaginations as
a pretty picture, real and out of grasp,
for she had passed away from my cir
cle, and but I seldom met her.
I watched from afar the brave battle
which she was making for recognition
and my whole sympathy went out to
her, to such an extent that when she
reachedjthe pinnacle of her triumph I
joined my congratulations to the others,
and my heart throbbed when I noticed
how it made her face flush, land how
she seemed to treasure my words.
In making my choice I have, it is
true, married a ‘ lady greatly my
junior, but one who fully appreciates
my name and fame, and to whom I
am willing to leave my name when I
shall have passed from the stage of
action. ,
I have heard of nothing but com
pliments on my present happiness,
which is best illustrated Jby an event
which happened] here yesterday.
The people of Gainesville gave us a
reception at the Arlington Hotel at
tended by fully one thousand people.
A carriage drawn by two spirited
grays'was sent for us. Reaching the
edge of town we were met by the
Piedmont Rifles, consisting of eight
men, who came to a present arms un
til we passed through, and falling in
behind, escorted us to the hotel.
There a braes band received us with
the strains of “Dixie,” and we found
ourselves in the hands of friends loyal
and true, who gave us every assur
ance of hearty appreciation.
To Core a Cold in One Djy.
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NOMINATED for mayor
t.w Partner of Col. L. |A. Dean Will Ee
Mi xi Mayor of Chattanooga
Col. Ed Watkins was unanimously
nominated by the democrats of Chatta
nooga on Saturday as their candidate
for Mayor. He is a law partner of Col.
L. A. i ean in their Atlanta office.
I It was in that Col. Watkins
moved from Mississippi to Chattanooga
VHB ROME TRIBUNE. TUESUAYi. SEPTEMBER J 4. 18»7.
and he has been a leader in nearly all
the great business and manufacturing
enterprises of that city. It may be said
that he was the prime mover in the ef
forts made to develop the Lookout
mountain property. He was at one
time president of the Chattanooga and
Lookout Mountain railway,of the Look
out Mountain Land company and of the
Lookout Mountain Hotel company,
which owned the handsome Lookout
Inn. Col. Watkins was one of the lead
iug spirits in the East End Land com
pany, which boomed the property at
East End. He was the purchaser of the
Stanton house, which he acquired from
President Schiff, of the Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pacific railway. In
junction with Capt. Charles A. Lyerly
and Sam D. Divine, of this city, he con
structed the Chattanooga Electric Street
railway system. He was president of
the American Investment company,
which built the Richardson building,
and at the same time was one of the
largest stockholders.
He was prominently connected with
the Chattanooga National bank, having
been tbe heaviest stockholder in the
institution at one period. Besides these
public corporations in which Col. Wat
kins was interested, he was one of those
persons who took an active part in tbe
construction of tbe Chattanooga, Rome
and Columbus railway. It was Col.
Watkins, along with ten other citizens,
who guaranteed the eastern capitallists
who constructed-the road the right of
way into Chattanooga, at the same time
spending money on the movement. Out
side of these ventures Col. Watkins has
taken a prominent part in all public
matters of consequence to the people,
and has done much towards the build
ing up of Chattanooga since he took up
his abode here.
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Week End Rates by the Southern
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Tickets at above rates are sold for
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not good to return later than the follow
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C. A. Benscoter, T. C. Smith,
A. G. P, A. P. & T. A.
LEE TRAMMELL LIBERATED.
Adjudged Not Oui.ty of Killing a, Mg ,
<mnbeer, in t hatubera < muity.
Opelika, Ala., Sept. *l3.—Lee Tram
mell has been acquitted of the murder
of George Cumbeer, in Chambers court.
The killing occurred on the day follow
ing the state election last August. The
trouble grew out of politics and great
excitement prevailed. The defendant
was, alter a trial lasting more than a
week, adjudged not guilty. There were
three other parties indicted for the same
offense. . The state asked and was
granted a rehearing.
When the killing occurred feeling ran
high and the news reports indicated
that it was a clear case of conspiracy to
murder. Ou the trial the testimony, as
developed by the defendant’s attorney,
showed the killing to have been justifi
able.
It is the impression now that the
other cases will be nolprossed and that
things in Chambers politically will re
sume their normal condition.
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MERCHANTS OBJECT
The Free Tlck-ts Norh Hurts Their to
leresh, They hay.
BUSINESS MEN OF MACON COMPLAIN
8»y the Niw Y«»ik Met chant* arc Taking
away iTheir old Customers in
Bin a Iler Towns
The free tickets issued to business
men throughout the country to New
York and return are no doubt a good
thing for the business interests of the
Metropolis, the Macon Telegraph
but they are causing complaint here in
Macon and perhaps in other places.
Tbe tickets are issued by the Manu
facturers’ and Merchants’ Association
of New York and are mailed to every
business man in the country who has a
respectable rating with the commercial
agencies and who it is thought can b e
induced to buy his goods in New York.
The Metropolitan commercial houses,
who are in the association have called
in all of their traveling men to assist
ii: selling to the people who are brought
io New York on tbe free tickets, and
the hotel men find tbe usual number of
commercial men who travel the South
to be missing, greatly reducing the
number of daily arrivals. The local mer
chants, however, are the greatest losers.
The free tickets are not only sent to the
business men in the larger cities, but to
every merchant in the small towns who
it is thought can be induced to buy a
bill of goods.
The consequence is that the mer
chants in the small-towns who are ac
customed to trading with Macon mer
chants and tbe merchants of other
southern cities go to New York and
buy their stocks of goods instead of
getting them from Macon, as they feel
under obligations to the New York
merchants for the courtesies extended.
Many of the New York merchants
and manufacturers who are in the as
sociation sell to the leading mer
chants of Macon and other large cities
in the south, but in selling to mer
chants in the smaller towns they take
away the customers of their city mer
chants, thereby materially injuring
the latter’s business. In this way tbe
free ticket business is playing havoc
with the city merchants.
So far the city merchants have
taken no concerted action in regard
to the matter, because they have not
yet had time to feel tbe ill effects of
it to any great extent. This however,
is expected to come later on.
What might be cited as a proper case
for illustration of the way the plan
works is as follows: A merchant of
Cochran who has been purchasing all
of his stock from Macon houses gets a
circular letter, accompanied by a coupon
for a free ticket to New York and re
turn. The circular letter tells him that
he is invited to New York as the guest
of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’
Association, free of all cost and the op
portunity of a free trip to New York is
too great to lose, consequently he goes.
When he gets there he is taken in
charge by the business men, treated
royally, and before he leaves he has or
dered every dollar’s worth of goods that
he can pay for. Then when the drum
mer of the Macon house from whom he
has been buying goods calls on him he
cannot buy because he has already
bought all he needs in New York. This
reacts on the Macon house and it is the
loser. The plan, of course, is perfectly
legitimate for the New York mer
chants, and they are believed to have
shown fine business judgment in its in
auguration. but the Southern merchants
have no remedy, unless they should de
cide not to buy from any house deal
ing with their customers in the small
towns.
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