Georgia Historic Newspapers

    VOL. XXVIII—NO.
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yesterday s proceedings in the
HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
11,„ Hoii.r Fns,.,, 1In- Miirkcrcl Kill RKrln*-
iiout II,m I’l-ii'lon Ulll» Arc I’iiv><><1—A
|'ro|ii:'cil Aiiicnilmciit to the timstltutlmi
Auulnst I’oljuumi.
Washington, May 21. -Herbert, of Ala-
1, aunt, from the committee on naval affairs,
reported the naval appropriation bill. Ke-
fi-rreJ to the committee of the whole.
The house then resumed consideration
of the bill for the protection of mackerel
during spawning season.
After a long debate and slight amend
ment the bill was passed yeas 120, nays SO.
A- oasseil the bill prohibits for a period of
ii ,-e rears from the first of March, 1887, the
importation into the United States or land
ing upon its shores of mackerel except
Spanish mackerel) caught between the first
of March and the first of .tune of each
ve ar. The penalty proscribed fora violation
of the act is a forfeiture of the mackerel
imported or landed, and if the vessel vio
lating the act be a United States vessel,
the forfeiture of its license. Nothing,
however, in the act is to he held to apply
to mackerel caught oft the shore with
] - ok and line from open rowboats of less
t han twenty feet keel and landed in said
boats.
On motion of Morrison-the order setting
apart Saturday for general debate was re-
■ aided, this action to take effect after to
morrow.
The consideration of private bills was
then proceeded with and Several bills re
ported to-day and on previous Fridays
front the committee or l he whole were
passed. Among the bills passed was one
removing the charge of desertion from the
record of Franklin Thompson, alias Seeley,
'fir’s is the case of a woman who for two
years served in a Michigan regiment as a
soldier without disclosing her identity.)
The house then at 5 o’clock took a re
cess until 7:30, the evening session to lie
fur the consideration of pension bills.
The house at its evening session passed
thirty pension bills, and at 10 p. nr. ad
journed until to-morrow.
SUN ATK.
In tlie senate Hampton at his own re
quest, owing to illness in his family, was
excused from service as one of the'West
Point visitors. The president, pro tempore
appointed Gibson in place of Hampton.
liuldleberger offered a resolution provid
ing for the printing of ail papers relating
to the nomination of Matthews, recorder
of deeds of the Districtof Columbia. Hoar,
Edmunds and Miller and others, objected
to the reception of the resolution as being
executive business, and it was declared not
now in order.
Dolpii endeavored to secure the setting
of a day for the consideration of the bill re
pealing the pre-emption und timber cul
ture act. Objections were made by sever
al senators, among them bexvell, who said
tic would object to further special orderH
till the Fitz-John Porter Hill was taken up
and dispersed off; that lie would ask the
senate to take up that bill when the bank-
i uptcy bill should have bean disposed of.
Oil motion ofj Hoar the senate look up
the bill providing for the settlement of the
the business of the court of Alabama
chums.
Ti’C reports of the majority and minority
of the committee were read. The majority
report maintains that the difference in
vaiuo between coin and currency at the
time of the Geneva award and afterward at
the sale of the Geneva award bonds was,
and Is the property of the United States
treasury and should not form any part of
the sum out of which the judgments of
Courts should be paid. The minority con
tends on the contrary, that the United
States occupied the position of trustee for
tiic claimants and could not seil the bonds
named and credit itself with the difference
between gold and currency values.
A number of amendments were reported.
When the bill was about to come to a vote
in the precise form in which it came from
the House, George stated his understanding
of it to be that it provided for the payment
of e.v, tiy the amount of money received
by the United .States from Great Britain,
erring to the claimant the benefit of the
) .'thniuni made on the sale of gold for
g; pen backs, iu which part of the former
eiaimi.nts were paid. He also un-
< iMtood the hill to pay all
i.'lonst vli.'i h ti:c Unitad States had
agr-i (i to pay from the time of the recept
' the money ill ISTo up to 1877, when the
money was convoyed into tile treasury.
G.orgt said that that understanding was
exactly correct, or, in other words, the
United States gains nothing and loses
nothing by this transaction. It pays out
foe money il gut from threat Britain and
' io:n it invests the mniiev in certain socii-
fiie- : and sells them again it pays out tue
money it gels and does not make a simjcu-
lmion of the train,.iciion.
Been ash d whi ther wo were not, thus
paying these people a premium on tile le-
thougli tie could rot give the details with
out ref. lenee to the repott. He lull! not
reported to the senate a single case that ne
had not believed to be just.
Beck mentioned the bill that had been
vetoed because it gave a pension to the
wrong- man.
Rlair said the only effect ofj passing that
'•ill would have been that nobody would
get the pension, and the bill would have
to be reintroduced with the right name.
Hawley, referring to the president’s
statenn nt that the pension office had re
jected a large number of cases for which
congress had passed these bills, admitted
the statement was true. It was remem-.
| bered. he said, that 30,1)00 cases were
| granted in the pension office every
year and a large number rejected.
The commissioner of pensions was obliged
j to go according to positive law, which
j could not reach all equitable eases, and ft
i must be seen, therefore, that he was
obliged to reject many cases in which the
commissioner himself and everybody about
. him, and every impartial person could me
; that the applicant was honestly entitli i to
: the pension. It was simply an illustration
I of the elementary principle of Blackstone,
i that there should lie somewhere a court of
equity, for “equity supplies that wherein
I the law by reason of its
i universality is deficient.” If the pension
j office had 50,iXHl coses a year to examine,
was it unreasonable to expect that 1000 or
1200 cases should come before congress as a
review mg court of equity ? But the presi
dent iias suggested that if the present law
were not sufficient to afford relief under all
equities oft in case congress should amend
the law. Well, every lawyer knew that
tlie more you amended or extended a law
the more likely it was that there would lie
; exceptional casts that the law could not
i reach. There would, therefore, always
be a considerable number of eases that
would come before congress. It was not
impossible to suppose that there might be
two thousand cases a year coming there--
cases that every man would say were per
fectly honest and just cases, and that was a
small number in comparison with a mil
lion and a quarter soldiers now living and
many hundreds of thousands who died
leaving widows. There were many points
. of tlm president’s veto, Hawley added,
i that could he readily answered
if the press had taken the trouble
to answer them. Tlie press had given out
the idea tiiat wo passed pension bills by
i tnc- wholesale and that the pension office
I could have settled everything il it had
wanted to. It was not so, and such .state
ments did great injustice to the senate.
Hawley hoped that some formal explana-
, lion of the matter would lie made by either
I the house or the senate,
j After an exchange of compliments be
tween Blair und Riridleberger, the senate
at 5:10 went into executive session and at
! 5:50 p. ni., adjourned until Monday.
Autdnst I'ulvuniM).
Washington, May 21. The house com
mittee of judiciary has instructed Chair
man Tucker to report favorably the
amendment of the constitution declaring
polygamy unlawful. There was but one
member of the committee who did not
agree to the action of the committee, and
he only desired further time to consider it.
The following is the full text of the amend
ment as it will be reported :
| Resolved, etc., That it is deemed lieces-
i sary by the two houses of congress to pro-
1 pose an amendment to the constitution
[ which shall he valid to all intents and pur
poses as a part of the constitution wlien
, ratified as hereby proposed by the legisla
tures of three-fourths of the states, the
proposed amendment to be numbered and
, to read as follows, to-wit:
ARTICLE XV.
First—Marriage relation by contract, or
in fact bv one person of either sex or more
than one person of either sex, shall be
deemed polygamy. Neither polygamy nor
i any polygamous association or cohabita-
; tion between the sexes shall exist or be
lawful in aiij place within jurisdiction of
' the United Slates or any of the states.
Second—The United States shall not, nor
I shall any state make or enforce any law
1 which shall allow polygamy or any polyg
amous association or cohabitation between
the sexes, hut the United Slates and every
state prohibit the same by law within
! their respective jurisdiction.
Third -Tlie judicial power of the United
: Stares siia.il extend to the prosecution of
the crimes of polygamy and of polygamous
association or c ihabitation between the
sexes under this article, and congress shall
have tlie power to declare by law and pun
ishment Hierefor.
| Fourth -Nothing in the constitution nor
! in this article slinil be construed lodeuy to
| any state exclusion power subject to the
provisions of t ins article, to make and en-
marrluge ami di-
lion, or to vest in
over representing
THE DEMURRER OVERRULED AND HIS
TRIAt. FIXED FOR MONDAY.
Mart 111 Irons 1',nv,,,i to l.-nn- M. I.oiik Huril
KuHIm.* Imoiu III,* sf-i.,-- Mnl,I* it
I ii'lc r Komi Or it, OY.' ><•*. - 1!,, si! „., 11, n.
Jacksonville, Fi.a., May 21. Careful
inquiry a.s to the ailt-ged presence ofn:,-
aivhist Parsons in (Ins state h is disclosed
nothing to indicate that he is here. The
report was probably d.ie to a canard pub
lished here a lew ifu.vs i;j;u. bused on the
reecl.pt by the chief of police of Persons'
portrait.
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New York, May 21.—Recorder Snjytke
heard arguments to-day on the demurrer
entered by Herr Most i counsel to certain
counts of the indictment against his
client, but finally overruled the demurrer.
Most was then arraigned find pleaded not
guilty. Wednesday next was fixed ,•■..= tlie
liav' for his trial.
Tuesday morning closed last nighi. The
total rainfall w is eight inches Bicakiiii
the Air IJne mad, i„ tv on I'harlotte and
Atlanta, hav- been repaired. Three breaks
occurred u the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta r* ad, l uttii, ,' were is pairb yes
terday end only slight deiuv w cai'a. >'
in the running of trains Tlie lliohniond
uud L'amilie line siiffVr-d sever-iy l„ twv, ii
Charlotte and Greensboro, the trestle over
Coddle creek being washed aw iy and one
span of the bridge. , ,e feel long. rthe
\adkin river destroyed. This caused the
stopping of travel. The break at Coddle ,
creek has been repaired nr.d transfer will j
be effected nt Yadkin river on Monday i
next, at which time Havel on ibis roll'd
will l>" resinned. TT.„ Western North
Carolina road was only slightly damaged.
The destruction of crops is immense and
no est’mate can be ir.nde of tlie loss in
flicted on the fanning ( onunuiiLy.
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.'HE GROWTH AND BEAUTY OF THE
VIRGINIA CAPITAL.
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'’HlLAliEi.viliA. P.\ , May 21. —A hearing
was given to-da.\ by Magi.sil’.'.i.o Lennon
John Herzug, .Severn Afili -r, Eberhnrdt
Millenberger, Gustave Korbinski, Henry S.
Sehech'.ing, Martin llammerschtyiidt and
Kdwur.l L. Beck, charged on oath of
Chen, v ’villiurii, of file llale and Iviltnn-i;
manufacturing eonin.iny, witli conspiracy
to prevent the eompii iy from currying on
its business by preventing persons from
working at the establishment bv means of
intimidation and threats. All the defend
ants were formerly in til, employ
of (lie Hale and Kilbuvn inariu-
I factoring company, and are now on
strike. They struck: oil I lie hist of April
because of tlie refusal of the company to
comply with their demands as to hours of
iabor. Her/ag, Millenberger, Schliehting,
Kerbinski and Iluininerschmidt are- not
citizens and are all natives of Germany.
t Beck is the only one of tlie lot who was
I born in this country. The testimony shows
that the strikers endeavored to prevent by
intimidation and threats anyone working
in their places. Tlie magistrate held Mil-
i ler in a $1000 bail to answer the charges of
1 aggravated assault and battery, fiiOO to
; keep the peace and $800 for conspiracy.
! Ail tile other defendants were held ill $800
bail upon the single charge of conspiracy.
If,lilts to Other IMucrs.
Reaping, Pa., May 21.— Cigar makers
. are leaving the city in large numbers to
! find employment in Philadelphia and New
j York. Both the cigar makers and manu
facturers agree that the present strike, if
it continues, will drive trade away from
Reading to other pieces. Tlie eoniraetsof
one establishment employing nearly 200
hands have all been transferred to other
cities. Tlie labor situation summed up
shows that over 2000 employes of hat fac
tories and 1000 workers in cigars are locked
out in this district, with the prospects of
being out of employment all the summer.
UcMimiiu; Work.
Detroit, Mich,, May 21.—Two hundred
more Michigan ear company strikers re
sumed work this morning and the shops
are now running in all the departments, |
although not with a full force. It is prob- j
able all the men will go back to work,
such decision having been reached by the I
strikers in a mass meeting this afternoon. !
The old terms continue.
force all
vorce within its ju
the United States'll)
the same wil bin the
Rumors of Crookediiokn,
St. Louis, May 21.—A special from Se-
dalia, Mo., says J. H. Delay, of Little Rock,
member of district assembly No. 101,
Knights of Labor, is in the city for the
purpose of investigating the charges made
by the strikers that relief funds sent to
this city bud been improperly disbursed.
He will check up the books to-morrow,
and if there has been any crooked transac
tion they will be brought to light.
Marlin Irons Loaves 1 lie City.
St. Loris, May 2J. -Martin Irons, it is
claimed, had a narrow escape from a mob
of strikers last night or early this morning.
Tin men arc very bitter toward him, and
it i'- asserted that they visited his residence
for the purpose of warning him to leave
the city, lie must have received an inkling
tiiat he would be called upon, os be passed
(benight at the house of i friend and
boarded the soiiili-boimu Missouri, Kansas
and Tijii! train early t iii.-, morning for
parts unknown.
TURF NEWS.
t.i.st II.) if ,it til,- I’illliltt) till,'US,
Balt I more, May 21. Ti.is was the fe.nrt h
day and dt.videriiy tht hes* meting. Tlie
weather was pleasant andtiic track heavy, j
but not muddy.
First race, J’atapsoo stakes for two-year-
olds, five furlongs, Young Luke won, The 1
Queen 2d, Bracken id ; time, 1:(XU.
.Second race, dasli one and niu-.slxttenth
miles, for non-winners, Pasha won, Lord
Bcaco.islieid 2d, Farewell 3d ; time, 1:6S.
Third rare, Freak ness stakes for colls
and fillies three-year-old, one and one-half
miles. The Bard, won, Earns 2d, Kikwood
3d : time, 2:45.
Fourth race, free handicap sweep stakes,
one and three-eights mile. Ten Booker
won. Enigma 2d, Joe Mitchell 3d; time,
2:311.
Fifth race, selling race, one mile. Edge-
field won, Huron 2d. Error 3d, time, lets;.
Tin* Louisville Raws.
Louisville, May 21.—The weather was
warm, the truck slow, and tlie attendance
good.
First race, 5 miles; Dnnnyhrook won, 1
Margy 2d, Jubilee 3d: time 1;'05.
Second race, mile bents; Sovereign Pat
and Tom Black started, tlie former won in
straight; time 1:48j and 1:411.
Third race, an -cl out’s stakes, 1! miles; !
Modesty won. (day Pule 2d, Billy Gilmore I
3d; time l:59y.
Fourth race, j) mile; Dnhmo won, Duke
of Bourbon 2d, Jennie T. 3d; time 1:15}. I
Mutuals paid field $8.
'Hi,' I'n-sItyh-rLui (ini,‘rid A shc in lily.
Augusta, Ga., May 21. The second '
day’s session of the Presbyterian general ]
assembly was commenced by leading tlie
committee report on education. The re
port showed a falling off in contributions |
and nn increase in the number of candi- ,
dates to lie educated for tlie ministry. The j
receipts for mission work were $57,753, a
a much larger amount than usual. The re- |
ceipts for suhutatiou show a falling off. |
Five thousand dollars were spent to huji- j
f iort evangelists. Asset* of $E4,86li over the |
labilities were shown by tlie publication
committee. The committee on the train- ]
ing of colored'ministers reported, showing
progress. The committee especially a|e
pointed to examine the question ol' evolu
tion is headed by Dr. Armstrong, of Vir
ginia, and is organized against Dr. Wood
row’s peculiar theories.
tliuiiumi Kjiisriijiiil ('iiiivi-iitliin.
Anniston, Ala., May 21.—The Episco
pal Convention of Alabamu has declined
to adopt the changes in the prayer book
recoil)'” .'icd by the last convention. It |
memorialized the convention to organize a
court of appeal to hoar appeal, of the cler
gymen from the diocesan convention on
the eiiange of name from diocesan con
vention to diocesan council. Tlie dele"
gates elect to the general convention are :
clerical. Revs. H. Stringfuilow, J. M. Ban
nister, J. L. Tucker and J. T. Beard: lay- I
men, J. H. Pitts, It. M. Nelson, A. H. Tyler
and J. B. Bond.
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St. Louis. May 21. r l
which lias been in sc ic
Mo., for the past nine d.iv
ialior.s yesterday. Their
almost ;.iv( n up to tin
charges of conspiracy a^a
riuid .strikers, lifty-nim- -
dieted. Many of ihem
warrants could ho sc *••. «*(
only loin have hev.i aivc si
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Nrw York, May 21. To-<lay was an
other day of encouragement for the advo
cates ot higher prices. Everything to
night shows substantial gains over last
night's closing. Ai the same time St.
Paul was undoubtedly lower, by which
most of the market was moved. The buy
ing of Bt. Paul seemed to he entirely for
western account. The market, opened
linn, although Vanderbilts’ w- re down “
and Pacific mail There w;is active
trading in the. first, hair hour at slight ad
vances. The market later, However, be
came dull and steady, m mainjng so until
in the afternoon when a movement was
•darted in Lake Shoiv, followed (jnicklv by
-*t. ‘Paul, which continu 'd unt i! I he close.
.Althougli the whole a<1ive iist is higher
to-night, St Paul is tin only slock on I lie
usually acli\e list, showing an advance of
more than 1. Sales 28A 000 sliart •.
1 iu.i i bur sin,il* fn « s in tin* strc*is Tin* I iuhous
<ii*uii|i ni'si||!imr> in 1 i»|»itol Si|inu*(* Miii,;iiiu
for ronh'di niti* f.iiaiiiimi Iih I In* i Jimme*
h roiiulil since Im'.g I ort> fiiousHinl (iiiocs,
(’in **|w.ndenA* Npw8 und Courier.
Richmond. \ a., May 11. The spring
hi re is considerably later than in Charles
ton. 1 see wistarias now coming into
bloom. The roses are still in small, tin-
opening buds. The neoniss are just com
ing in, and so is the lily of the \ alley. The
tulip trees are covered with beautiful vari
colored flowers. This tree l consider one
of the greatest ornaments of this much
favored city; nnd although there are a
great many of them in the streets here, 1
never pass One without notice and admira
tion. The horse chestnut, another street
tree, with heavy umbrageous foliage, is
also now in bloom, and I often think how
nice it would he if we in Charles
ton had such trees in our streets.
There are many other line trees
here, notably the lindens, maples and
elms, which all look finer, richer, health
ier than you will see them elsewhere. To
the tourist there is certainly an eiuharras
de richesse here as regards trees. Now. in
the matter of flowers. 1 think Charleston
is ahead. 1 see few flower gardens here,
and comparatively few roses. 1 presume
the winters here are too severe for out
door growths. Oli, hut the green grass—
the grass on Capitol square looks to ine of
the richest green and of such rapid and
exuberant growth. By the time the lawn-
mowers gel through saving it they have to
start right back and do it over again.
Some of your readers may have heard of
the Washington monument on Capitol
Square. An equestrian statue of Washing
ton is surrounded by figures of heroic size
of Chief Justice Marshall, Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson. George Mason, Governor
Thomas Nelson, jr., and Andrew Lewis;
and these six figures are again skirted by
another six, emblematic of Finance, Colo
nial Times, Justice, Revolution. Inde
pendence and the Bill of Rights. Most of
these figures were designed and modeled
by Crawford. Whdn Air. Crawford died
in 1857 the unfinished work*- statues of
Nelson and Lewis and the allegorical fig
ures was executed by Randolph Rogers.
The entire cost of the monument, includ
ing statuary, was $260,000. So says the
guide book.
The people of Richmond are very proud
of their statuary all of bronze, 1 forgot, to
mention above, and east at the royal foun
dry in Munich, in Germany. And a finer
work of the sculptor's art, 1 ween, it would
be difficult to find anywhere than this
group. It is very grotesque to see the im
prudent sparrow, who nos adopted the
Capitol square as nis domicil, 1 uilding his
nest under the sword of Washington, he-
I tween the scabbard and the thigh, and
then another nest under Thomas Jeffer
son's arm. I notice wire netting over the
caps of the columns fronting Bt. Paul’s
church, doubtless to keep sparrows and
swallows off; and to all appearance, a guard
will have to be* placed some kind
of scarecrow'-to protect flu* statuary, or
else these heroic figures will have to be
veiled. Thus it will ever he; protection
calls for more protection. Richmond pro-
! tects her sparrow's, and now she has to
protect her statuary.
There is much here to admire, but I am
sorry I cannot join in the pteans of the* nu
tives in the praises of their sweet .James
; river water. They hate two large, we.il-
i built reservoirs to supply the people with
; drinking water, but the water is turbid,
i looks much like the must, (or is il most ?i
the newly pressed wine, ere
it clears. But you will not gel a
native to acknowledge anything amis:,
in his delightful drinking water. Now. an
outsider cannot see why a corporation tii.it
spends’millions in its water works, anq has
already two large reservoirs, cannot lmu
a system of filtering that will fwt nish ejenr
water. This has always been a puzzle to
me. When the river rises, and tin* Jam. s
has a trick of rising upon th; Might• -.1
provocation, the sweet drinking v n* i\
(1 rawm from tlie street maim ••• muduy.
But the people here, with a I*»,•:< 1 *y v lecli
I cannot but admire, insist that it i** Ho
liest water to be bad nnyvIuTi , and «I■ r.•»
its color somet lines a d**«*pera eg<• male w
no difference.
The evconfederate who revisits Bit t.
mond now for tin* first time •do*- |v * r -bids
it difficult to lx lieve that tw« ntv <» .* \* •'*•
can effort the changes bo sees all ..r*»*i'i«*
li : m. The war sears are. all < bar. <1. it 1
only niter much starch that he find . ;i:-y
traces <»1 the numerous and u-nii.- able
be borne in mind, also, that the high rater
« f'< ‘ Inn d deat hs In-re is largely due to tho
fin’ that wo have two hospitals tr>
which the friendless colored peo~
l 1 " of Maryland and Virginia come in
! her last illness to die, and this district geta
ep'dited \* itli llieir deaths in those statis
tics. Fight cities where the records arts
known to be accurate ar<* given, and the*-
deatli rate for the four years followingtha
year in which the. last census was taken
1 18S0 makes the following creditable show
ing for Washington :
j'dies. Mean Death Rate.
Washington 23.30 per 1(100 per annum-
Boston 21.12 per looo perannuiik
.28.00 per 1000 per annum
...23.90 per looo per annum:
.... 37.40 per 1000 per anuum
30.30 per 10Q0 per annum
3S.ll per looo per annum
28.55 per 1000 per anuunv
Brooklyn
Riehmoiul.
Norfolk
(’harleston....
N■*\v Orleans..
MARY HAMILTON’S ROMANCE.
S.'.'rptly MurrU.f1. ncMTlnl, Almost u lUu,imist r
Dlvomol, Miirrii‘,1 Auuiii.
Towanda, May 18.—In a local paper
printed ill one of the northern counties of
I Ilia state appeared on Thursday the fol-
lowiiiff aunounccnient:
Dl VORCKD—MARRI ED.
Mrs. Mary W. Gage ohtaiued a divorce
from her hushand, Lyinaii Gage, on Mon
day, on tin ground of desertion and non-
support. On Monday evening the Rev
William l’ellet married Mrs. Gage to Bid-
low Utter, the young railroad contractor
The local paper gives no further par
ticulars, hut there is a curious story con
nected with the divorce and marriage..
In the spring of 1882, William Hamilton, a
well-known farmer living in the northern
oil field, invested$3000in oil land inWarrei.
county, and in a few days sold the property
at an advance of $10,000. This rapid mak
ing of money turned his head, and he in
vested the $13,000, and as much more a*
he could raise iiy mortgaging his
farm in an oil speculation. The
following August came the memo
rable decline in the oil market,
caused by tlie sodden failure of the Cherry
Grove field in Warren county. Hamiltou
was ruined. He took to drink, and died iit
a few months, leaving a daughter twenty
years of age penniless. This daughter,
whose name was Mary, had been keeping,
company for a year or more with Lyman
Gage, the son of a well-to-do farmer of Hie
neighborhood. Gage and Hamilton had
been bitter enemies, nnd the former carried
his enmity so far that he opposed his son
in ids attentions to Hamilton's daughter,
and more especially after Hamilton lost
his money. Not long after the death
of the girl’s father her lover had
a quarrel with his father, and he left
home and went u'est. For some time Mias
Hamilton received letters from him, but
they finally ceased coming. She support
ed herself ns a seamstress nnd by working
at times as a domestic. In the spring of
1883 old Mr. Gaffe received a letter signed
by a person giving the name of George
Gray. The letter was from Chicago. It.
said that Lyman Gage had been drowned
in Lake Michigan by the capsizing of a
bout, and that his body had not iaien re
covered. Farmer Gage went to Chicago,
lint could learn nothing further iu regard
to his son’s death.
After a thorough investigation of several
days tlie farmer returned home, and was
astounded to hear that Miss Hamilton
claimed to he the widow of his son. She
produced n marriage certificate setting
forth that she and Lyman Gage had been
married at Bulamaneii in July, 1882. The
certificate was proved to be genuine, und
tlier -upon her father-in-law provided for
her support. Tn the winter of 1885 Bidlow
I ’tier, a young man who had a contract in
tiic neighborhood, begun paying his atten
tions to young Mrs. Gage, and they were
tn he married lust Christmas. AH the ar
rangements had been made for u
big wedding, when, thy Sunday
before Christmas, the supposod dead
man, Lyman Gage, put in an appearance,
ainl. refusing h* give any explanation or
his reported dunth. claimed his w ife. She
refused to receive him, in which refill d sho
wns supported by farm, r Gage. Tiic long-
missin.? husband said he hud come hack u>
take ids wife west wiiIi Him. Hi remained
at ills fat her’- a few days, anil tin n disap
peared again. The wedding was -oeessa-
rilv postponed, nod Mrs. Gage begun pro-
r< ,siing e,r a divorce, wlooli lias just heel.
0-11,1 ted and was followed by tie. quiet.
■ of
i*d Bidlow Utter.
A BIG DEAL.
•up
y Allison IV,
nations, it
1‘lumij n:o\
S i iie.-hdmc
d'lrinu l he summer. Tii
t H-.MK* BlcNvtUl. |»l l
■••j Hu:--- ,-(v Hint-;;
m 'llJ>|>!-( s*s it, mid
\ Kolilicr It till Dunn.
MKy.Pins, May 21. On the
ti i> -r 1S, 1870, A. B. M’;!!;-r, a jcvulur of
this city, was robix-fi by hi. 1 »Jerk. I*'r« <1
Miiier. The jeweler and his family wrr
a'.’ht ill riuiinfi tin* evening aial li.td fill the
key wit Ii Fred, a trusted e:n| !o' «-. Tin-
xi inurnii'if Muller .iisc-o-.c r. d llud
i-.oiicy and jewelry aiuuuntiii^ to :I0,0()0
r( luissiiiD; so was it's eonliat nli .; i-lcik
wlio iutd made j^ood his csenpe ulM; I hi
ixi..iy. i'm rcJ)herv laid iln'o.-i h(ijif.,r-
iuttci:, \* !i( ii this mondiij/ Ci.ief I 'av:*; r<
• lei*-aran; li in !*« l‘:i$ i. 'i'i ;• r .
t;i» iri*_• Hint M:iier was h* i.'ur i.*-id : !e i a.*»
;» - 'Oil i|S ( | !•«•)’••)• : .*:■ tan
\ '.,.i ii iit *1.
. A.. :- s * Mas 21. A v jx ' i;il t*. t hr-
i isi - J )is| ial c 11 says Lee Bi.rms \ ;r-> han,e<-d
mu.-li IuItov By the !>ovs in '
i.,- -nr*’ lie I’adiiu; landrnaii;
li< n . ( Oiinhoraz*) is a i)ds;»ital i
mm « '!mnl)(»razo park. f.ilifi
now lieiilv terraced and r*-j* i< *
a j)j ' Ihit; ,<i of Mai shall | .-»* k.
I lint t in* Lee nionmin-'il !•> 1
in Marsiiail park. Mane .,f i ' ; -
ual ii'ipr*
If
I seep.
d its
i * * i.l () (■ iii )»)i i • I 1x0 ■( < • ,, .f.A l *iMi»ii 11 ii ••
M V«* D" O’ -n-c I ijU u;i|. ,.( fhe
ns Nia.v r.l. 'Phe cotton-seed oiJ
h;r.i*een much wrought uji for
.•ek.N «.\( r a j unior that the Stand -
unpiiny. ll.rou^h Mr. Levvvtv. nro-
.Llin^; up ii.!! the principi»> mills in
iy,i-nd 11.11> estahlisl ingu ni'iiiop-
\ 'd i»rt ;.k down all eomp^til/on.
• d*'jr was inti unified to-day
nu:-« r eriija-o « urr» ik y tiiat the
i ■|' , 'i-i company had 5 s-
ii* ndU’cn di.liars iri certificates
ireJi.i«»* of f iii entile inten-.-ts of
sistinjf of n
Rock,
o 111
! said
)!»i)ied
It- the
•ice of.
. i)ina-
•t was
i. who
utitied
y that
i w nr
o.»l. Bet ll
, will not
. in Litt
Jins, and f
purehmse o
x- a in tidy
a ti. n!!y set!
iitorc I he pi
In- Leu is ( «
ix. An etinr
a! L, r . ntlemi i
linently id.-i
v. d! oldv sa
in
MORMON
•IV
>t l!
\\ i
Th-:
st-mil*.- ih*
IIl
rti.'j
XplA
andinj; oi! the ci
p- ssa^e oi a number
fi-h'fe-'-stLd tiiat once in s
t n.es or so. it. be
cnijiinittee report of tin
r \ ' just to show tflU s
^ f * Ht the case. Tl^
ine third time and pass
\ - ififoi'ination. Wu haii had two
vetoes and several suggestions tiia
knew aiiNthiinj” about what wi
done. He Bee!:; cert-odly did n
a * iCl did not believ-- any iiiC.:ila
s yi*ate did.
Bijir replied that there \vi>. ji
varc-fully printed report on tlie fil
showing Ine facts of c.
;1 been there a ii"
wa11led i11for?nation
L 1 all i.‘*<
ings i»t t,
i igton t
TsnriMi, i'a..
irizctt** s Fey
Seven M(>r!
Y-ilh-v'
('it s
('online!
•d o"'
•iLiiator,
facts hi
it.
.arked t.i ;
»f prose. Vt ojg JM ** t-
»)ol la--is, . in \Vafth-
filaco. la.-t Sunday. Their me* tings w**r •
largely attemle*!. and tin y l*.iptiz.ed several
enlivens. Tin* ci; i/ens b* earn*- iiaiignant
and demamied tnat the siiiool ixaise i>e
closed against tiicm, but it wa-. not done.
Last night the house \vn* crowded,
and at the eonelusi »n of the
services Parker Claybough. justice of the
peace, arose and dt.nouficd M(*rn , .onism in
a speech of halfun hour i». icngtii. lie pro-
dec.-1 a glass of ookit'on of arsenic and
challenged tlie preacher to drink it, wliicii
he, t):e preat.her , had stated in his .ser
mon that ho could do ’without liarni. Tiv:
preacher refused. Cluybaagh branded him
with a great tumult du.
.stones and other missile
missionaries, f iiey ik-d
n.-» foru*-t ami oer- < «•!.*.* d '•••.;
•o ip them, a.s they are m*\vu.vs
help you "
fiu'-i.1 v*• Lehman. r J'h«- nai): i->
l)V tin autiioi-iJ ies as .)!’»• eapai>K < d'wvin
ii’apoii.int iaforn.al loit l ■ **;*». LI. . tii
if!, nl.lv of Lie bomb th. ov. ..!*. "t !;*• d*
ti .«•'succeeded in arr.**,)ine ).« i...
an ean.N hour tins morning, in his po-
cupic hi at. tiic time of iii- a 1 : *.*'1 • -- ‘'»• in•
L.r round d t \ namite i>om!»s (-xhcIIv .-imi
lar to that used at the 1 k- • rioi
caps. twoVoiis of 'iynlim.'t.* l'i,Vy‘ and’' • w'
i)r».vc:s of dynamite !: »t n;ad-. into i.* .mo- *' *. su .
w* r■■ also found. Th*- bomb.-, h; d id f ia. •'C u i g* *. .i^ I
attached and seemed r« ady for imim-di *.t».-
s id', inan. John ( olliiis a:.d I;m,h I
i • s*.:i aided Barnes in tm- nmni* : ( *,i-
j»V 4 '' 'i11:j»)• : s«»i»..i< * L and \Val-on will ll.
icd a. !!<• »,« yl n ran oi . ourt. 'J I,* m*
•re -ill ..ft I;. • -.-.me kil.e, gfiinlih r eul-
roals. ih-: man. Ii**\v* v*-r, iiad a*-. i,n... -
cl • .it. - n.oia-.v ami i.mper>. w ! L i,
s a*- i i«i 1 * *- ../»'• led. Barms pinne. d
. 11111r <— sr»d roho* ry. wind h < obi,is
ni W’.-.i • ! r« . oily ai(i* *! in carrying out.
tf.-s ■ r e.ftc i vietioii.
imi tin elm re
* ft t li<-ii■ wln i
:y. c.\e< pi i
el.im-li. wide
up t(.\\ n. 'I in-
id* s in d.-' * ff.ii-i
( v. 't oil ha \ e
' I .in I.- K*.rk.
A *- pec ial fro
I .it t L
d 11
p:
, j<;.
**. • • ll-.. If/hi.
BrrK.\i/>. i t * r i.o’.iisOtio, ilu:
wifi mi -«!• 1 . ■' a- 1 : J d ;,t 0;]0 ' I of !•:
t ii is ne ti : . < »li ■ '• a> a rin.i.kt i. (i-’oly
Ids \\ in* of iser < an.b.j- al L:e wa.-,li tub.
Hi! ciiiiit’ iii’im: (iririih me ■ ’av. fonmi J:• • r
• it work al la r tub :ird siiot Jier in tlie
.-a,.*k iiu times v ii iio .1 jaa \ioii>i.\ utL iing
a 'Vf*ni. No palii: 1 ing *-ireums1 arn-escould
pin
beautiful l.i v
.and prosperous <■:: e
fair grourni is now .' I
re'/ioiis beyond, wli
Camp Jackson lio^pj.
'• m.w being laid on:
tii miles of youne .-•
Here is tl.<- n
brok*
which
use.
II-.uiiiiL'iie.' f ri »,n is.
Charleston, s. C., May 2" -Tfi
iteavy frnsliet'* lhrougaout nope’* L'a
Via Bed,;.- river stands thirty lx ie* ;
rii are a total jo- .. Th* '« •
'l liis afternoon
pm-iriy
N. C .. M-
hang* c lit. ’llendersfmviHe for
■ »*’ M-d ■ i< I i jaa.-i’Mu , a di ^reputublt
vmi.uij, ia-»t f-i!i.
V ;.-| \V. ,-f hi
i*-.*it ar;d inviting cottages of the
'oi fi fL rate soldiers’ holm*. Tin- Ki< ii-
ii •ml J ■ i pt ist college is an < 1* gart stria*-
iir*-. gaudy almost with its ornate mansard
ooling, not looking one bit like its former,
imc! humbler self.
I have-aid nothing of t Im gr*-d g-.rdens
vli. r« s!e* p tin. dead. I visifi d H.dly-
'.'oo*l. of course, and Makwood, Imt so
unity sad memories cluster around tlmse.
pots that I have not tin* heart to describe
in m. Just thii.k of tin- resurr. d ion
in,rn. w hen these vast armies some io,*JOO
Wamid
'I'.,wn-*-m
ON, Ma
out in
of the
Health Olfic-r
! to j.rov*-that
ol tl.ii' e.j \ wen- kept busy (iurii g til*'
eni-!;. Ii-a;: - oi y-i.rduy morning extin-
gai'iiin ;..• *ui* 1 iai \ in* s, four oi which
oi•< i. ; i. *(iii• -i‘t nt parts of tlie city at
tin • v !:-• ’im*. I !■*• tires occurred in re-
1,, j a; I - • .f I in city; ami three of them
it :• iioiis.-s, the fourth being 111 a
j.-iA. i* r-.V -mi . Ail v.ere extinguished
\* it!.o<11 .i-rious loss, ll is supposed tiiat.
I!:* tin*- we»'e liglded in order to draw the
* h b * :.s ’ hi' !i. r iV'un ll.cir dwellings, thus
oil. ring a chance for the miscreants to add
t-i the crime of incendiarism robbery.
Tiny fail'd of their object, however,
owing to the prompt and effective work of
t lie lire department.
A U**sm < hiir«-Ii n.mtrilaition.
f.im’N c \vi*'k .(ia.. May 1!) -Christ cliurcli,
i-'n deriek, on tin- site where John Wesley
preached, has had the biggest contribution
of any church in the south during the past
year. This was caused by a bequest of
*111 .MM) ! \ t Iu wifi- of Rev. Mr. Dodge,who-
di* d in India on her wedding tour. Her
hii'haml hart jiiil. turned it into the treasu
ry. Of that sum, ? 10,000 has been put in
tiiKtasan emlowinent of the missionary
l». iitli-.f Hr. Lewis.
. N. V.. May 21.—Dr. Dio
author and reformer, died at
t< tills morning from cry^ipe-
i illness of two or three days*