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ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1888.
OF TWEED.
F THE SKA CAPTAIN WHO AS
SISTED HIM.
th Told at Last—Taken From Coney
Island to St. Jago—HI. Arrest, Fol
lowed by His Flight to Spain.
An Interesting Story.
A typical American seaman is Capt. Jaa.
Bryan, of the West India and New York
trading fleet. Not far from fifty years of
ago, he has led a very busy and adventur
ous life and shows the effect of his pursuits
upon bis scar rod and weather-beaten face.
It will surprise most of his friends and ac
quaintances to learn that he played an im
portant part in the escape of William M.
Tweed, who was convicted of the most
audacious wholesale robbery the country
has ever seen.
To a reporter Capt. Bryan said : “ I
have never spoken of the matter before,
unless to my family, for fear that I might
be arrested and imprisoned for assisting
criminals to escape.
“In the early part of the seventies, I was
captain of the trading schooner Joe Kelly,
whose agents were Cameron & Co., of this
city. I believe they were also the owners,
alth ough the only ones who claimed an in
terest in the vessel were Frank Cameron,
of the firm, and Mike Murray, a gentleman
whom I understood to be largely interest
ed in Coney Island real estate, and in a
very stylish gambling establishment up
town. The schooner was a neat, well-
equipped and seaworthy boat, ana for a
long time was very successful in commerce.
We ran between New York and the West
Indies, going sometimes to Porto Rico and
often to the minor islands of the Antilles.
“On the Saturday after Tweed’s escape
from his keepers, I arrived in New York
with a cargo of but little value, and re
ported early to my owners. As we usually
lay in |>ort about a week, I was surprised
when they notified me to proceed to sea
immediately. I suggested, naturally, that
I needed fresh stores for myself and crew,
a few supplies for the vessel, and some
clean clothes and linen for myself. They
had apparently anticipated this answer, as
they replied that all the stores and sup
plies bad been bought and were ready to
go on board. I found next day that they
had told the truth, and had de
livered almost a cargo of stuff of
various kinds. As for my clothes and linen,
they gave me a check for a handsome
amount and told me to buy whatever I
needed, but to waste no time in pricing or
‘with the boys.’ I got a few things to put
my men in a good humor and prevent
their going off and leaving me in the
lurch, and was on board early in the after
noon. Here I found Mr. Michael Murray,
one of the owners, nervously awaiting me.
Within a few minutes we were dropping
down the bay. On the passage down Mr.
Murray said he had two friends, gentlemen
and good fellows, who were in great trou
ble, and who wished him to help them es
cape to the West Indies; that he would
have been willing to do so as a matter of
friendship, but that they were well fixed
and had put up enough money to make it
an interest for all of us concerned. He
then showed me my ship’s papers, which
made Port Maria, Jamaica, my point of
destination, with the right to stop at in
termediate ports at my discretion, and
then said that these intermediates would
be desigu ted by bis two friends.
“We sailed through the Narrows, I ex
pecting to be overtaken, or met by some
tug or Doat with the fugitives. Off Nor
ton’s point, on Coney Island, Mr. Murray
ordered the anchor dropped. It was still
daylight, and we lav there until it grew
dark, probably 7 o’clock in the evening.
Then a yellow light was shown cn the
pier, and waved three times. Mr. Murray
ordered the small boat out, and I rowed
him ashore. When we reached the wharf,
there were two men on It, but there was
so little light, that all I could see was that
one was large and stout, and the other
medium-sized, slender and nervous. They
shook hands warmly with Mr. Murray,and
ap peared very happy and grateful at his
appearance.
“The larger man was introduced to me
as Uncle John Decker and the smaller as
Bam Smith. After introducing them Mr.
Murray wished them a pleasant voyage,
told them that I would obey their orders
the same as they were the owners, to
which I assented, and shaking hands all
round, walked back toward the hotel. The
two entered the boat and I rowed them to
tho schooner. We went on board and
were shortly under way. When the
course had been set, and everything made
snag for the night, I went down into the
little cabin to entertain my passengers. As
I entered the room, the elder man was
sitting nnder the lamp and the younger
one was walking nervously to and fro.
and then gave me $3000 in cash aa a mark
of bis personal gratitude. In the morn
ing, aa the water boats which supply the
city left the ran, we hailed them
ana asked them to carry two passen
gen to the city. Every one refused
to carry what they called ‘suspects.’
Finally one, a poor and miserable speci
men ora boat, consented to carry them
for an exorbitant figure, |300 in gold, if I
remember aright. They went on board
the water-carrier and I followed them at
leisure. On arriving my predictions were
verified. They were arrested a half hour
after they touched ground, and were
locked up by the police as suspected fili
busters. They were examined by a magis
trate and released on parole.
“At this point Hunt made a more seri
ous mistake. Tweed wished to remain.
He had began to make friends, and the
climate suited him. By waiting, the pa
role would finally be canceled and both of
them released from its operation. Noth
ing had been heard of the affair in Havana,
and mnch less in the United States, and
they were as good as lost forever. Hunt,
restless against the slight restraint im
posed by law, broke his parole, a very
serious offense in Spanish countries, and
slyly took passage with Tweed on one
of the small steamers that ran between
the West Indies and Spain. The Dews
spread, and a guard-boat and a steamer
were sent after the fugitives, bat withont
avail. The authorities notified their chief
at Havana, and an order to arrest them
waa telegraphed via New York, to the
home government at Madrid, to arrest
both men, who. ia the meantime, had
been adjudged guilty of contumaciam.
“The rest of the story you know as well
as I do. I forgot one thing. One day, in
speaking of his escape, Tweed remarked
in a jocular but quiet way: ‘I might have
bought this boat, aDd fitted her ud for a
sea voyage, and made a handsome profit
on what I did pay its owners.’ ’’—Philadel
phia Times.
SLEEPY WASHINGTON IRVING.
He Used to Nod at the Dinner Table and
Often Fell Asleep.
The following description of Washing
ton Irving’s visit to Baltimore and Wash
ington in 1S11 is taken from a lecture
written by Ur. John Morris and delivered
at Loyola college on Monday night:
“T remained.’’ he writes, “two d
'I remained,' 7 he writes, “two days in
Baltimore, where I was very well treated,
and was just getting into very agreeable
society, when the desire to get to Wash
ington Induced me to set off abruptly, de
ferring all enjoyment of Baltimore until
my return. While there I dined with
honest Coolek, the book seller. At
his table I found Jarvis, who is in
great vogue in Baltimore, painting all
the people of note and fashion,
and universally passing for a great wit—a
fall/Mir ftf inof • in Qhnpf. ‘t.hft nifTPP-
fellow of infinite jest j in short, ‘the agree
able rattle.’ I was like,
ji had never seen Tweed personally, bnt
11m and see
had heard so much aoout him and seen so
many portraits and caricatures that I knew
him the moment my eyes fell on him. For
an Instant I thought of the reward which
must be offered, and of the terrible risk 1
was taking myself in aiding the escape of
so great a criminal, but the sight of the
old man sitting there with bloodless face
and the anxious look of a hunted rat, made
me determined to help him in his trouble
so far as I could. The conversation be
tween us three lasted an hour, when we
ail went on dock, where Tweed and
his companion, whom 1 soon
learned to be ‘Sammy Hunt,’ talked
until a late hour. The next
morning when Tweed was below, I said to
Hunt, *1 know your friend. Its Boss
Tweed.’ He seemed aunoyed, bnt after a
pause said: ‘Yes, you’re right. He is
easily recognized. You’re not going to
give us away though, are you T He’s got
something left out of the rain, at least a
couple of millions co!d, and he’ll make it
square with you.’ I didn’t like the answer
aud only said, ‘I don’t want your money
or his. I engaged to deliver you sale
Where you want to go, and I’ll keep my
word.’ Hunt waa pleased and told the re
mark to Tweed, who was very friendly
ever after.
“The voyage was uneventful, the
Weather and sea being as good as I ever
saw there. Tweed was a model passen
ger. He never drank or smoked; was a
alight eater, a poor talker and passed most
of his time reading, thinking and talking
nowand then. He would sit in an easy
chair on the deck, under an awning or in
the shade or else in the cabin. From first
to last he seemed terribly broken np by
* inf he
disgrace and flight. Once only dii_
show any signs of uneasiness and that was
when we sighted a steamer and thought
it was a revenue cutter or a man-of-war.
But even here he braced up quickly and
was soon calm and self-possessed. When
he did talk it was about his past and his
family, and was quite interesting. A few
times he spoke of the treachery of poli
ticians, whom he made rich and powerful,
and especially of some political lawyers
Who had betrayed him. He named many,
but I knew nothing of politics and poli
ticians and soon forgot the names. Sammy,
as we called Hunt, was Tweed’s exact op
posite, and was the Queasiest and moat
nervous man I ever saw on shipboard. He
was talking, walking, smoking and drink
ing without a stop, until we all wondered
how he kept alive.
“After we had been ont two days we dis
cussed the system of eeeape. I knew the
part of the world we were going to, and
they didn’t, and so I gave my advice first.
They never took it and so got caught. If
they had they could have disappeared and
never been fonnd again.
“My plan was to go to Port Maria,
Jamaica, and there charter or buy a small
trading schooner, load her with any cheap
or trashy cargo, to disarm suspicion, and
get the legal papers for clearing, and then
run over to St. Jago or some other insigni
ficant trading port. With the bogus pass
ports both had secured in New York from
a corrupt lawyer and notary, this would
give them identity, or false identity, which
would be difficult to break.
“Hunt’s plan was to approach St. Jago
in the night time, land on the shore or
else intercept some small vessel which
would carry them to the town and there
disembark as travelers. I opposed him
as strong as I knew how ana said that
strange™ landing in such a way would
be arreoted and tried as buccaneers or
filibusters, and might be shot, and cer
tainly would be imprisoned for a long
period. In neither case could they
get redress by appealing to the United
states authorities, unless they disclosed
themselves, when they would be delivered
up. Tweed, during the discussion, strongly
favored my views, and I thought my opin
ions had won. Hunt, however. Seemed
to have some power over the old man’s
mind and did with him as he pleased, and
closed the discussion by saying
likewise waited on by
Mr. Zezier, the French gentleman who has
translated my history of New York. He
is a gentlemanly fellow, and we were very
civil to each other, as you may suppose.
He tells me he has sent his translation to
Paris, where I suspect they will under
stand and relish it abont as much as they
would a Scotch hoggin and a singed
sheepsbead.” He thus described his visit
to Mrs. Madison’s drawing-room, the cen
ter of fashion and gentility at that day:
“Here I was most graciously received;
found a collection of great and little men,
of ugly old women and beautiful young
ones, and in ten minutes was hand and-
glove with half the people in the assem
blage. Mrs. Madison is a fine, portly,
buxom dame, who has a smile and pleasant
word for everybody. Her sisters, Mrs.
Cutts and Mrs. Washington, are like two
merry wives of Windsor. But, as to
Jemmy Madison—ah ! poor Jemmy—he is
but a withered little apple John.’’ ThiB
extract shows the strong federal prejudices
of that day, from which Mi*. Irving, with
all his liberality of opinion on political
subjects, was not entirely free. It is true,
he was then a very young man, and it was
the fashion of the time to speak of Presi
dent Madison as Jemmy, and to ridicule
his personal traits for the purpose of bring
ing him into contempt.
Mr. Irving’s habit of nodding at the din
ner table was well known to his many
friends in society. Disraeli mentions this
propensity in “Vivian Grey,” where the
waspiat and cynical Vivian writes: “Poor
Washington! poor Washington! I knew
him well in London. He always slept at
dinner. One day he was dining at Mr.
Hallam’s; they took him when asleep to
Lady Jersey’s rout and to see Sienr _ Geof
frey, and when he opened his eyes in the
illuminated saloon it was really quite ad
mirable quite an Arabian tale.’’ Another
anecdote, confirmatory of this habit of
nodding, I have from the lips of our
venerable townsman, John H. B.
Latrobe. Mr. Latrobe cherishes a
great many collections of Irving.
He (Irving) was a welcome and honored
S eat at Latrobe’s father’s house in Wash-
jton, during Mr. Madison’s administra
tion. Mr. Latrobe tells me that in 1832
Mr. Irving paid a visit to Balimore, and
was the guest of the Hon Louis McLane,
the father of the present minister to
France. Mr. Latrobe arranged a dinner
in honor of Mr. Irving. He invited the
elite of the city to meet the distinguished
authors. Among those Invited were such
well-known people of the day ae John P.
Kennedy, Charles Feno Hoffman, both
authors; Christopher Hughes (Kit Hughes),
Charles Carroll, father or ex-Gov. Carroll:
Mr. Bonaparte, Dr. Richard S. Stewart,and
many well-known ladies of that time. Mr.
Irving led Mrs. Latrobe into the dining
room and sat on her right. Mrs. Latrobe
was a very beautiful woman, and Mr. Irv
ing, np to a certain point, appeared to be
charmed with her beauty and grace.
However, her grace and beauty must have
palled, for before the dinner was over Mr.
Irving went fast asleep. The members
of the dinner party, who. of course kept
their eyes fixed on Mr. Irving, discovered
simultaneously that their hero was nod
ding—a sincere, earnest, heavy nod. A
general smile passed around among the as
sembled guests. There were routs in those
days, bnt our people were too polite to
carry off the Sienr Geoffrey in the midst of
his slumbers to the Adelphi, the fashion-
resort at that day.
Mr. Latrobe tells me that Irv ing had a
wonderful memory; that be remembered
all the military anecdotes related to him,
and that in his “Life ot Washington” he
had utilized all the frets that he had
stowed away.
Mr. Latrobe wrote him a letter on the
appearance of the “Life of Washington,
HOUSE-HCNTING WOES.
TALE OF A LOVING
SORROWFUL
YOUNG COUPLE
Who Seenrad a Flat After Long Search,
Had Their Rent Raised, Lost Their
Furniture, and Then Returned
To a Boarding House.
“No, I shall not move this year,” said
my friend Andrew Spangenberg. “Yon
know Maud and I were married last year
—just twelve months ago. It was gener
ally understood that we went south on an
extended wedding tour, but that was
mistake. We went west. We did not
take a special vestibule train, as was an
nounced; we took a Garfield park car, and
when we reached a point about two blocks
west of California avenue we alighted and
went into a decidedly second rate board
ing house, where we spent our honey
moon in disguise. We preferred to bask
among the alligators ana orange groves of
Florida, but owing the scarcity of free
transportation we dispensed with the bask.
Our principal occupation daring these
halcyon days was making a still-bunt for
a flat or something in which to settle
down after our alleged retorn from the
south. Two days of this exhilarating pas
time taught us many things about the
apartment houses, the cottages, the pri
vate hotels, and other accommodations for
a young conple just beginning married
life. We visited between nine and ten
thousand of them. After we had just
looked over the three grand divisions of
the oity casually, as it were. I resigned and
let Mand go alone. I told herin loving
accents that I didn’t want to bias her de
cision. bat desired to leave the choice
entirely with her. She tried it ior three
days without result, but on the fouith she
came home radiant.
“I found snch a nice flat.” she said
“Rooms all light; steam heater in every
room; no children in the house; a splendid
view from the windows and everything
just too lovely.”
“Does it satisfy your mad passion for
closets?” I inquired.
* “There are nineteen, I think,” she re-
F lled. “Hardly as many as I wanted, but
can make them do.”
“What floor is it on?”
“1 declare I forgot to ask him,
“Forgot to ask whom?” I gasped, while
an awful doubt tore my soul.
Why, the agent of the building,” said
Maud. “He didn’t have time to go up to
the place, so 1 just sat down and let him
tell me all about it, and I signed the lease
r^ght there because the agent said that
complimenting him on the accuracy of his
description of West
Point, where Mr. Lat
robe had been a cadet. He replied to ilr.
Latrobe, stating that he had gleaned all
his facts from conversations with military
men, which he remembered.—Baltimore
American.
i by saying: ‘You
U aa I have said.’ I
looked at Tweed expecting to hear hia
views, but he merelybowed assent to hia
friend’s curt command.
“I followed their Instructions and bent
eer course toward St. Jago, uoming to an
chor at the month or a little river Just
cast of the town. At early morn Tweed
S3* «* WM delighted at the
hands, thank
. Wi was asusswa as
He oante over So me, ebook
id me over and over again.
He Wanted an Explanation.
An intelligent American and an ignorant
Briton sat together in the senate gallery
at Washington on Tuesday of last week,
and the American was explaining to the
Briton the workings of our enlightened
system of government. Senator Ingalls
of Kansas, was making a few remarks.
“Thd nomination aud election of Grover
Cleveland,” said he, “have made the pre
tensions of any American citizen to the
presidency respectable. There is no man
in this country whose ignorance is so pro
found, whose obscurity Is so impenetrable,
and whose antecedents are so degraded
that he may not justifiably aspire to a
presidential nomination by the democratic
party.”
“Who,” inquired the Briton, “is that—
er— gentleman?”
“Ingalls of Kansas,” replied the Ameri
can. “Don’t yon think it warm in here?
You haven’t seen the statue of—”
“Isn’t he speaking about the president?”
forther inquired the Briton, uninterested
in the statue.
“Yes,” said the American. “The ro
tunda is worth ”
“But I thought you people elected your
president by popular vote,” went on the
Briton.
“Bo we da”
“Bat do your people like to hear your
president talked about in that way?”
“Why, no,” said the American, some
what uneasily; “I don’t suppose so.”
“Then why does be do it?”
“Ah, well, it’s only Ingalls—nobody
minds Ingalls.”
“But isn’t he one of your senators?”
“Why, yes, he’s a senator.”
“Did the Kansas people elect him?”
“No, the legislature elected him.”
“Bni why do they elect him if he does
such things ?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the American
unguardedly. “I guess the Kansas legisla
ture Is a pretty tough lot.”
Then waa a pause in the conversation
before the ignorant Briton spoke again.
Armour was after the place for one of
his sons, and if I didn’t grab it quick be
would get ahead of me. What are you
looking like that for? Are you sick?”
“No, dear,” I replied, “this expression
which yon mistake for hydrophobia is in
tended for a smile of heavenly resignation.
Did it occur to you in the course of the
conversation that the gentlemanly agent
might be lying?”
It takes the fine intuition of a woman to
discover the connection between a ro
mantic moustache and a reputation for
veracity. I made this observation and it
affected Maud to tears, whereat I begged
a thousand pardons and asked ior a copy
of the lease. It was an interesting docu
ment, calculated to give points to a man
who had never seen anything more tena
cious than a bear trap. It was designed to
hold a man after everything else on earth
had let go. There was no help for it; we
were obliged to take the flat.
When we moved in I discovered certain
things which did not appear to have
been in the contract.
Look here,” said 1 to the agent, “1
thought you said these rooms were all
light, and there are only two windows -In
the whole blamed flat.”
“My dear sir,” he exclaimed “there’s a
gas jet in every room. All you’ve got to
do is to turn the stuff on, strike a match,
and the rooms are all light.”
It was undeniable. I also discovered
that while there was a steam heater in
every room, the place was as cold as a
barn.
“It’s all right,” said the agent. “We’ve
got everything in but the boiler, and we
expect that by the 1st of May. I didn’t
swear to anything but the heaters.”
It was useless to argue with such a logi
cian. We began housekeeping at once.
The v ew from the window was hardly as
splendid as it had been represented to be.
There was a nine-story brick wail abont
ten feet away, and all that was visible was
an advertisement for pills painted on it in
letters ten feet bigb. The agent explained
that the view was all there, only we
couldn’t see it.
The rooms were all in a straight line,
with the kitchen at one end and the din
ing room at the other. When the servant
brought in the dinner she had to walk
over two beds and the center table in the
parlor. One bed room was situated be
tween the kitchen and the parlor, while
the servant had to sleep on a shelf in the
china closet. One room was too small to
allow of anything but a mantel bed, and
when we let it down it covered the entire
floor. It was a beautiful but affecting
spectacle to see me making my toilet with
one foot on the head-board, the other on
the back of a chair, while I performed my
ablutions in s bowl that was suspended
from the gas jet.
We got our furniture from the man who
had previously occupied the flat. The
agent said that this man had been there
for two years, and would not have left if
he had not been oalled away from the city.
After living there three days we decided
that he had probably been called to a
brighter and a happier sphere. How he
oould have lived two years in snch a place
was too mnch of a problem for ns.
We had a little company at onr flat one
day, and had spread the table for dinner
in tne parlor when there came a ring at
the bell. When the door was opened it
revealed a round, fat woman with an um
brella, a red face aDd an air of proprietor
ship. The hallway was not built to admit
anything above a forty-two-inch waist,
but with the help of a rope we pulled her
into the parlor and asked her to state her
business. She planted her umbrella in the
soup tnreen, spread her other possessions
about the table, and said:
“Say, yon folks I I’ve bonght this flat.
My name is Mistress Ellen J. Bender, and
my husband keeps the saloon on the
corner.”
“Won’t yon ait down, Mrs. Bender,”
said Mand.
“I haven’t the time. I just called to say
that the rent of yer place will be |125 a
month from this out, instead of $95; that is
if I find you are decent, respectable peo
ple. Does any of you know anything
against them ?’’ she continued, addressing
the guests. I’ve heard bad stories about
Mr. Spangenbergen, and I’d like to know
the truth.”
I could have furnished the desired cor
roboration, but I restrained my desire to
do so, and simply inquired how long we
could have to think it over.
“I’ll give you a week,” said Mrs. Bender.
Then she intimated her readiness to de
part, and I took a bed slat and pried her
out through the hall. The dinner party
was not s success after that. In the suc
ceeding week, while Maude and I were
thinking over Mrs. Bender’s offer, we
received a cal] from some genial gentlemen
who informed us that the previous tenant
had bought his furniture and carpet of
them on the iostallraentplan, and that he
was a month overdue. The next day they
came and carted away the whole lot of it.
After they were gone Maude sat down on
the bare floor and wept. When Mrs.
Bender r turned to inquire about our
moral character and financial ability we
were not there. We had returned to onr
boarding house, where we now are. No,
I shall not move this spring.”—Chicago
Herald.
educating boys for the professions ot law,
medicine or ministerial
We have been led to the expression of
these opinions from reading an able ad
dress by President J. W. Chamberlain of
the Iowa Agricultural college, at an agri
cultural institute at Madison, Wisconsin.
It is all good reading, and embodies the
truest sentiments for the redemption and
upbuilding of the interests of American
boys in the mechanic arts. Under the
present degrading and exclusive rules of
mechanic unions, there is apparently
no help for the best and greatest
number of our worthy boys. Un
less legislatures purge the shops
of such illiberal domineering or
provide for them in industrial schools. It
is one of the great questions of political
economy of the age. We annex a para
graph ot the positive words of President
Chamberlain on this subject:
Now since the apprenticeships are a
thing of the past, ana the trade and labor
unions, from mistaken hopes of controlling
competition, are closing, as far as possible,
the chances for boys to learn the useful
trades of skill, I see no resource left bnt
for the state to teach these trades, or, at
least, the general knowledge and skill
that underlie success in all trades.
The state already gives all its
children literary and mathematic
al knowledge. Many states carry
all who wish through high school, college,
medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, law, engi
neering and the like. But until lately in
America, our state and municipal govern
ments have taught skill of hand and eye
only to the unfortunate and criminal
classes: in the deaf and dumb, the blind
and tne imbecile asylums, the reform
schools and farms and in the peniten
tiaries. Even the name industrial school
is degraded and insulted by being applied
to penal schools, in which boys, too dull
to learn or too vicious to be controlled by
teachers and parents, are sent and taught
a useful trade of skill as a punishment.
What can be the logical conclusion, but
that skilled industry is irksome and dis
graceful ?
Do you wonder, then, that onr Ameri
can boys are not flocking into the trades
of skill, when the only avenues of ap
proach until lately have seemed through
the reform schools or the penitentiary,
and when all the respectable schools and
colleges have been fitting men for the
clerical employments and for commerce?
the state would teach these trades of skill
more in the schools outside, it wou.d have
fewer men and boys to teach inside the
reform schools and penitentiaries.
Do you say the state cannot afford to
teach the rudiments of skill along with
the rudiments of abstract knowledge ? Is
not this to say the state cannot afford to
give the skill that creates wealth, while it
can and does afford to give the knowledge
that distributes and enjoys wealth? Is
not that an evident absurdity in econo
mics ?—Iowa State Register.
TEETH SET IN DIAMONDS.
The Latest Orase Among the Women of
Chicago.
FOLLOWERS OF THE BRIDE OF JESUS.
Something Abont the Strange Sect Whose
King Lives Near Rockford,
Rockford, 111., March 30.—The Beek-
manite sect was founded in 1887 by a wo
man calling herself Dora Beekman. She
was a native of Maine, and after having
married and reared a family of children,
it was then in her mature age that she
astonished the people in this region by
claiming to be the Bride of Jesus Christ.
This was Dot at all pleasing to her hus
band, and much trouble ensued. Becom
ing more and more impressed with
her fanatical notions, she traveled
about the country, and gave readings and
lectures. In this manner she secured a
large number of converts. Societies of
Beekmanites were formed in Chicago,
Alpena, Micnigan: Plumb River, Kansas
City, St. Charles, Buena Vista, Kingston,
Michigan: Paw Paw, Illinois, and Minne
apolis. The members all believed that
their leader was the wife of Christ, not
withstanding she had a living husband.
Since her death in 1883, they believe that
she has returned to them in spirit, and
conducts the meetings which they hold.
Some agitation about this sect is stirred
np over the publication of a letter here, in
which it is stated that the king of the
Beekmanites, George Schweinfurth, went
to Kentucky a short time ago and held
meetings, in which he induced two re
spectable married women and members of
the church to leave their husbands and
come to this city to join the sect. The
king says this is not so; that the women
came to see him of their own free will and
accord, and returned home this week, but
not until after this newspaper agitation
was started.
Schweinfurth is of German extraction.
He is thirty-five years of age, was born in
Marion, Ohio, and educated at Albion col
lege and the Northwestern university.
Has a pleasant and engaging address, is
about five feet four inches in height, with
fiery red hair and beard, aDd light-gra;
eyes. When seen by a reporter he
neatly attired in a gray, checked, cuta-
coat. He readily stated his belief to
interviewer, and remarked: “The;
have never used me fairly. They have
lied about me and onr sect persistently
and knowingly, and I don’t see that there
is any use of talking to them.”
Mr. Schweinfurth was a Methodist min
ister in Alpena concty, Michigan, in 1878,
being then 21 * years old. He was not a
full-fledged minister, but was on trial, and
had preached two years. Mrs. Beekman
went there, he heard of her belief, saw
her, and became a follower of her. He
lived in Chicago for two years and then
moved to Byron, and has since lived in
that vicinity. The sect claim that Mrs.
Beekman was the purest and best woman
who ever lived. She was absolutely pure
and holy.
Schweinfbrth came here several years
ago and was as poor as Job’s turkey. A
few days ago the Irish farmer Waldon,
who is a strong believer in this strange
religion, deeded property to the king val
ued at about $30,000. The transfer was
made legally and filed for record here.
Other developments are soon expected.—
Iowa State Register.
If Chicago is not really the originator
of the new fads she at least is first in the
field to follow suit if the fad prove worthy
of imitation. Reports from New York
speak of the fashion having changed there
in regard to teeth, and it is now claimed
that pearly is no longer applied to a set of
teeth aa a term of highest praise, being a
trifle too low in the grade of jewels, bat
that diamond teeth have obtained a pre
cedence and are at present the proper
caper. A fashionable New York lady has
set the pace by having her dentist fix a
tooth for her with a genuine diamond im
bedded in it, but in the clumsy manner
they have of doing things down there he
sawed off a good sound front tooth, and
forming a tenant of the stamp, made a
false duplicate in which the precious
stone was placed, and set it in plaoe of
the original. Not to be outdone by New
York belles a Dearborn avenue miss de
termined to have a diamond in her tooth,
and called upon Dr. George M. Cameron,
to whom she was recommended, and after
a consultation he decided to try the exper
iment. Doctor Cameron is something of
an inventive genius, and he began to cast
about for some plan of operation. This
being the first case of the kind in Chicago,
he had nothing but the New York prece
dent to guide him, and as the youDg wo
man had a superb set of front teeth it
wrung his heart to think of destroying
one, either by cutting it off and capping
the stump with a false tooth, as was done
by the eastern dentist, or by boring an ex
cavation and inserting the precious stone
in a sound tooth, which would rain it be
yond all repair. The applicant was bound
to have the diamond inserted if it de
stroyed every tooth in her head, and,
spurred by her persistence, the doctor lay
awake nights planning how he might ac
complish the desirtd result. At last he
struck it; and the next time his patient
called he made her happy by telling her
that ha would be able to do what sbe
wished, and more than that, he would not
be obliged to injure or touch a single
tooth. Taking a mold of her front set he
devised a plan of setting the jewel in a
frame first, as in a ring, adding to it a pair
of bent prongs like a sort of inverted pa
renthesis sign joined in the cente *, which,
being made of spring gold, could be
pushed up between the teeth to the gum,
where, finding an opening, it spread apart
and remained fastened, bat so arranged as
to swerve to one side enough to give it the
appearance of being set in neary the cen
ter of the tooth. The deception is per
fect and the young lady, delighted at her
success, experimented time and again un
til she succeeded in taking out and replac
ing the sparkling stone with but little
trouble, and having once acquired the
knack she fairly danced with delight, ex
hibiting so much satisfaction and such
glee that the doctor felt almost inclined to
double the size of his bill. Dr. Cameron
does not seem elated over what may be
sidered an invention of some impor
tance, for if the fancy becomes popular
to decorate one’s teeth in the above fash
ion the method he adopted will certainly
prove more acceptable than that of de
stroying a tooth. The doctor was asked
if he had any reason for thinking the fad
would have a run in Chicago and he re
plied: “I have reason to think so from
what I know of human nature generally
and from what I have seen and heard of
fancies equally as novel. There will be un
doubtedly a number of ladies who will
feel as though they were out of the world
until they have a diamond tooth, and per
haps there will be men likewise afflicted,
hut it is hardly possible so ultra a fancy
can be widespread,for one reason—because
it is rather expensive.”
“What does such an operation cost, doc
tor?”
“Well, this is the first trial I have bad at
it, and should dislike to do the work over
again for the same money, put I should
say from $30 to $50 according to the size
aud quality of the stone.”
“Have you received any further orders
yet?”
“No actual orders; several young ladies
oi the same set as my pretty client who
have called with her while I have been on
the work, have all declared their inten
tion of falling into line, and, no doubt,
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they will: if they do it will not be long be-
' ‘ e South Side, follows Bait, as she is
fore the
jealous already, bnt it can hardly be ex
pected that the West Side will join the
ranks, at least until she gets a cable. At
S resent she is in disgrace, and gets the
ead cut from the aristocratic North and
South towns.”
The fantasies of the wealthy are ever a
source of profit to the inventive genius,
and should this fad become popular the
method originated by Dr. Cameron of ac
complishing the desired result without in
jury to the teeth, with the power of re
moval and replacing, as he has done in
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A struggle for life. Breathing room only at C P. GRAY
& CO.’s last week, when we had only a part of our great
Bankrupt stock in.
What will we say to you this week ? Our great iron horse,
Spot Cash, is now fired up, and we are compelled lo open our
safety valves for a moment to ponder. *• Let her go, Gal
lagher!” cries the vast multitude of delighted and over
pleased bargain hunters. The way our Great Iron Horse last
week rushed hissingly into high-priced houses was a sight in
itself. But cast your optics on the figures below and come in
time. We name a few leaders, as a detailed description of
our stock is impossible. Our greatest efforts to the front for
this week. It has been truthfully said we had Ginger on the
Moon last week, sure enough, judging from the looks of some
of our competitors. “ Look out.’* Our Iron Horse having
been fed oil red pepper last week, you must expect him to
make it more lively this week.
We always lead, and will not accept second position. The
Great Bankrupt Sale continues. Your attention is called to
the following
Bargains for This Week:
100 Pieces 38 inch Whalebone Dress Goods at 20 cents, value 35 cents.
97 Pieces Lupin’s 38-inch Sponge-taced Cashmere at 22} cents, value, 37} cents.
39 Pieces Lupin’s All-Wool Dyed Black Cashmere at 25 cents (a great leader), value,
45 cents.
24 Pieces Lupin’s All-Wool Dyed Black Cashmere at. 35 cents, value, 60 cents.
64 Pieces Mohairs, Mixtures and Fancy Weaves, at 25 cents, value, 40 cents.
2 Cases Wool Dress Goods at tjn cents, value, 15 cents.
FINE DltESS GOODS.
62-inch All-Wool Cashmere, New Shades, at 50 cents, value, 90 cents.
(Seven yards makes a full dress. None can do this but Gray.)
The handsomest line of Fine Black Goods in the city,
evening shades, Veilings, Albatrosses and Cashmeres.
All
WHITE GOODS EXTRAORDINARY.
2,000 yards 8horter P. K.’s at 3} cents, value, 7 cents.
2.600 yards Scott-spun Wide Plaid Nainsook at 5 cents, value, 8 cents.
3.600 yards Clarky Bros.’ Pin Check Nainsook at 5 cents, value, 8 cents.
1,700 yards Pinnacle Top Emb. Mull Plaid at 10 cents, value, 15 cents.
2.500 yards Vaughtrom White Lawn (sheer) at 5 cents, value, 10 cents. (Yard wide.)
4.600 yards Large Plaid Dress Nainsook at 12} cents, value, 20 cents.
3,750 yards Large Plaid Dress Nainsook at 15 cents, value, 22} cents.
2.600 yards Large Plaid Drevs Nainsook at 20 cents, value, 25 cents.
1.500 yards Large Plaid, Lace, Stripe and Plaid Nainsook at 25 cents, value, 35 cents.
A Waterloo! A Murrell! The Wreck Complete!
2,000 yards Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Samples Rem
nants Persian Lawns, and Linen D’lndia at 10 cents per
yard. Short ends, from two to seven yards. We guarantee
this lot will match any 25 cent White Goods in the city.
Now is your chance. As many yards as you want.
“I fancy you’re right,” he said
‘‘Wouldn’t you like to go and see the
••womanyou uke to go
Washington monument ?” asked the In
telligent American.
“Why,certainljr,” replied the Briton,
“is the Washington monument particular
ly interesting?”
“Well,” said the American meditative]v
“it doesn’t talk.”-Pu9k/
Industrial Education.
The state spends many thousands every
year to educate young men— many of
them the eons of rich men—for the profes
sion of law, medicine, and the ministry,
and yet makes but little provision for the
great mass of our worthy boys in educating
them in the mechanic arts. In the pro
fessions there are do unjast and arbitrary
anions which exclude any yonng man
from studying law or medicine, bnt in the
mechanic arts only a very limited number
of apprentices are allowed to learn
trades, and so ungenerous and
oppressive are the rules and wages
of journeymen towards apprentices
in making them the body servants and
errand boys, that boys of spirit refuse to
serve an apprenticeship under such tyra-
ny. Aa a consequence* foreign workmen
are monopolizing most of tne beat posi
tions in our mechanical and artistic indus
try, and our bods, put ont of employment,
are allowed to drift into vagabondage,
who might under other circumstances be
useful men, creditable to their families
and ornaments to their professions. Hence,
the state, either by law should forbid tho
exclusion and oppression of apprentices in
all of the mechanics arts, or it should at
The Countryman at the Theater.
What funny things a man in the box
office sees. The other day I was in the
treasury department of a theater for
while. It was a matinee day. Among the
people in the line was a chap whose make
up indicated that he was in the city to see
the sights.
“I would like to have one of your best
seats,” he said, as he looked in at the
window just as a chicken in a coop looks
ont at a grain of corn which he can’t
reach.
“Dollar and a half,” was the reply.
“Got any cheaper?”
“Oh, yes; got ’em for $1, 75, 50 and 25
cents.
“Gimme a 50-cent ticket.”
“All right; there you are.”
“Has the show began yet?”
“Not yet.”
“How long before it will begin?”
“Just as soon as yon get seated,” said the
treasurer, in a way that was matter-of-
fact. ‘“Ve have been wailing for yon.”
“Hey?” said the countryman.
“I say we have been waiting for yon. I
was afraid yon wouldn’t come. Please
step in so qs not to keep the company
waiting.”
The countryman looked at the treasurer
for a half minute, and then asked, “How
did you know I was cornin’?”—Chicago
Mail.
It Won’t Do.
A Connecticutt statesman, who calls
himself a democrat, writes a letter to Ben
Butler’s organ, in which he says that the
sooner the democratic party places itself
on aplatform “emphatically in favor of a
tariff of protection for the sake of protec
tion, the better its prospects of future suc
cess.” That is the republican platform.
It is not, and never was, a democratic
platform. The idea of winning “success"
EVERY NIGHT I SCRATCHED,
Until tbe Shin was Raw- Body Cov
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tar—Cured by the Cuticura Reme
dies.
I am going to te>l you of the extraordinary
change your Cuticura Remedies performed on
me. About the 1st of April last, I noticed some
all over my body.
red pimples like coming out _
but thought nothing of it until some time later
on, when it began to look like spots of mortar
spotted on, and whf
ich rame off in laj era. accom
panied with itching. I would sc atch every
night until I was raw. then the next night the
Five Cases New Spring Calicoes at 4 cents. Remnants.
Seven Cases New Spring Calicoes at 4} cents. All you want.
Six Cases Large Plaid Dress Ginghams at 5 cents. All you want.
Seven Cases Colored Lawn at 3 cents. All you want.
Two Cases Large Linen Towels at 5 cents. All you want.
Five Cases Brass Pins at 1 cent. All you want.
One Case Misses’ Hose at 3 cents. All you want.
Two Cases Silk Ribbon at 5 cents. All you want.
Two Cases Silk Ribbon at 2 cents. All you want.
Best Needles at 2} cents. All you want.
1,000 yards Linen Crash at 3 cents. All you want.
1,000 pairs Ladies Hose, large size, at 3 cents. All you want.
all hopes of recovery I happened to see an
tisement in the newspaper about your Cuticura
Remedies, anc purchased them from my drug-
st, and obtained almost ime ediate relief. I
E ist, and obtained almost ime ediate reiier. i
»gan to potice that the scaly eruptions gradu-
and have been fullv cured. I had the disease
thirteen months befo»e I began taking tbe
Cuticura Remedies, at d in four or five weeks
was entirely cured. My disease was eczema and
psoriasis. I recommended the Cuticura Reme
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l ave babes with scaly eruptions on their heads
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thanks to you for what the Cuticura Remedies
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Now my skin is as nice and clear as a baby’s.
GEORGE COTEY, Merrill, Wis.
Sept 21, 1887.
Feb 7,188*.—Not a trace whatsoever of the dis
ease fro a. which I suffered has shown itself since
my cure. GEORGE COTEY.
Laces from one cent to five cents in our Bargain Lace
Boxes. Cost some one double.
Spreads from 75 cents to $3.00. Worth double.
We will, for Monday and Tuesday, offer all our fine Linen
Table Damask, Towels, Napkins, etc., at positively New York
cost. (We mean what we say.)
A visit to Gray’s Lace room will repay you for your trouble.
Linen Torchons in all the new makes at any price you can
mention. Our stock is very large, and comprises all kinds
and prices. Our Embroideries likewise.
New Ruchings, Mull Ties and Moire Ribbons in all Spring
Shades.
For the best brands of Bleachings and Sea Islands, at the
proper prices, fail not to think of C. P. Gray & Co. When a
cut in the prices can be made, Gray never fails to do it. The
Trade has found this out.
Worth Your Attention.
We cannot do justice to the esteem in which
Cuticura, the great SktnlCure, and Cuticura Soap,
Skin Beautifier, prepared from it.
are held by the thousands upon thou> ands whose
been made happy by the cure of ago
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nizing. hu il ating. itching, scaly and pimply
diseases of tte (kin, scalp and blood, with loss
of hair.
by going over to the other side is a novel
i. Thi
one. There has never been a time when
the democrats conld not have “succeeded”
in this way. That is the way Jonah car
ried off the whale.—New York World.
Keeping His Dintance.
A Germantown lady, who Is clever, past
thirty, and fond of amateur theatricals and
compliments alike, was speaking after tbe
performance to a Diant bnt popular man
of society. “You acted admirably,” be
said. “Thanks,” she said, “but I did not
look the part, for she should be young and
handsome.” “Quite the contrary,” re
plied the gentleman; “the effect was per
fect from the end of the room—distance
supplied the youth and beanty.” “Ah,”
exclaimed the lady, turning upon her heel,
“in that case suppose you keep at a dis
tance hereafter.’’
Three weeks ago tbe protectionists felt
sore that the Mills bill would be ignomin-
iooaly knocked In the head as soon as its
bead came iairly into view in congress.
Now they are very much afraid it will
pass. They have noted the increase in
the country, and especially in the north
west, among the farmers, of the tariff re
sold everywhere. Price: Cuticura, 50c: Soap,
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GUANO! GUANO!
A delayed cargo having just ar
rived, we are able to furnish a mod
erate quantity of Guano for
IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT.
We have courted comparison of samples and prices from
Northern Cities with ours, until customers have convinced
themselves that they can save money by buying at home.
The most skeptical, we think, will agree with us that we are
right in supporting home industry. We do not ask or expect
a single cent that could be spent to better advantage else
where. One favor only we ask : A careful comparison ol
goods and prices. It has won for us many a great victory in
the past, and we cheerfully and confidently welcome a con
tinuance of this supreme test.
We have never countenanced nor permitted misrepresenta
tion ; we appeal to reason, intelligence and good judgment;
have but one price for all, and that price the lowest possible
margin of profit after our goods are bought from the most re
liable manufacturers and importers, on the best discount—
saving terms that can be obtained by any house in America.
Respectfully submitted by the live, wide-awake, low-priced
men of this city.
C. P. Gray & Co
least make a liberal provision for teaching form sentiment, and they are very much
oer i>oys the mechanic tuts, as they do fof »oi
worrM OYW it—Detroit Free Frees,
Telegraphic orders received be
fore 2 o’clock shipped same day.
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