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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
1 KIRKS AND COACHMAN
/hat New York and Much of the Seat
f the Country Are Talklnar About.
A recent dispatch from New York
ays: All Wall street was talkingto-
I a y aboat the elopement ofthe daqgh
| er of G. I*. Merosiui with her fa
| pier's coachman.
Mr. Morusini is a partner in the
I arm of W. E. Conner & Cos. George
Gould is a third partner and Jay
Gould# silent partner. The firm han
\’es the stock transactions of Jay
!ould. The firm is very wealthy,
id Mr. llorosini is said to he worth
■om half a million to a million dol
irs. He lives *t Yonkers. He went
do the employ of Jay Gould, made
money, lie lias three
taughters, the eldest of whom is Yic
jpria, and a beautiful girl of
“Wour.
i true coachman's lovk-makino.
i A fortnight or so ago Mr. Morosini
. noticed that Miss Victoria seemed to
enjoy the society or the eoachman.
wholiad given his name a* Ernest J.
Shelling. This is not hjs real name
Ind a romantic story was going tlie
founds to-day iliat he is a nobleman
disguise. Mr. Morosini was teld
by members of bis family that Shel
ling was apparently making lore to
the girl. Ho watched them and one
day discovered the pair walking to
gether. Shelling’s arm was around
the girl's waist. The father is said to
r hnvcmadean awful scene. He dis-
I charged the coachman on the spot,
but the later hung about the house
fwithout the old man’s konwlcdge.
He had one or two meetings with bis
sweetheart and tlis elopement was
planned. East evening Mr. Morosini
lushed into the police headquarters
in Yonkers and startled Chief Mangin
with the exclamation, “She's gone!”
"Who’s gone ?” asked the Chief.
“My daughter, Victoria. She’s
tfloped yvith my eorchniaii,” and then
■o>r #H4|aaF£WoHt£dfyrn jnd cried
. iViteouiy,*- and begged’tlL Chief lo
#avo liis daughter. “Iflcancatcli the
f Viliian.’’ ho said, between the sobs.
I J'he will have to answer to me. I am
an old man, but he will have to ac
count tome formy poor child. I will
have bit blood. Oh! I appeal to you
sir save her l'rout him and from her
self.”
The New York police were notified
and went to work on the case. Mr.
MorO'ini called at headquarters early
this morning. Inspector Byrnes told
him that lie had notified every police
station and the captains had inquired
lof every clergyman in the city about
tiie marriage. It was explained to
Mr. Morosini that if his daughter
was married when found tho police
could touch neither her nor liar hus
band. The grief-burdened father
bowed his head in silence and went
down lawn to his office. At noon the
Inspector telegraphed to t he banker
, from headquarters that his daughter
was married and had been in the city
during tbe night with her husband.
The police plan had been successful
as far as tracing tiie fugitives was
concerned. The detectives learned
that they came from Yonkers lo this
city, evidently by preconcerted ar
rangement, and had been married by
the minister whose church they found
first after leaving the Grand Central
depot.
HOW SHF. LBFT HOME.
Sirfve the elopement it has trans
pired that Miss Morosini had not been
allowed to have yeung gentlemen
visitors and that the coachman Shel
ling, or Huiskamp, as he called him
self at the marriage, was about the
only young man she had really got
acquainted with. She acted as the
head of her father’s household, as
suming the duties of that position
rather than her mother,“because she
could speak English better, bhe
had access to tlio cash of the family
and as the elopement was unquestion
ably premeditated jt is thought prob
able that she had saved up a little in
anticipation of it. On the afternoon
of theelopemcnt, it being a very hot
day, she was in neglige dress and she
went outin the yard and talked witli
Shelling over the fence. Her mother
called her in and gave Tier a scolding.
She went up stairs, threw a bonnet
and dress out of the window, put on
a pair of button-shoes and going
down stairs put the dress on over
her wrapper, donned her bonnet,
sailed out of the rear garden gate and
met Shelling. Together they walked
down the railroad track to the station.
WASHING TOIST, GA. ; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 184.
Everybody there knew them, and she
held her handkerchief over her
mouth, as though suffering front
toothache. The inference of tlir
spectators was that she was going to
the city with the coachman to visit a
dentist. They came to Xew York,
went at once to the house of the min
ister, who was not acquainted with
them, and were married, and then
went to tlio Clarendon Hotel. They
left the hotel after breakfast this
morning and since then no trace of
I hem has been found. Miss Morisi
ni bad#2o,ooo or $30,030 wort li ofdia
momls.but they were locked up in a
safe at home, of which she did not
have the combination. . She wore,
however, a line set of diamonds.
MOROSINI WITH A RIFLI.
A dispatch of the 19ih from Xew
York says: The news that a recon
ciliation hud been effected between
the couple and the family spread
throughout Yonkers,and a large lium-
I her of idlers hovered about tiic en
trance to the grounds. As the crowd
increased after nightfall, they climbed
the stone fence and trees and trampled
on the shrubbery within the inoles
ure. There were calls for the “hap
py family’’and for refreshments. It
was about nine o'clock and the man
sion was brilliantly illuminated
while shadows ot forms flitted hither
and thither. The throng made such
exclamations as, “Oh there lie conies.
Xow we’re in for it. Throe cheers for
‘Vic, and her shilling.”
Just then the door leading on lo the
piazza flew open and “bang, bang,"
nine times in rapid succession rang
out upon the stillness of the night.
“Great God,” was the only exclama
tion that was uttered by the astonish
ed and frightened natives, and in
another moment Riverdale avenue in
the direction of Yonkers was one leng
cloud of dust and the) tramping of
those,in retreat could bo heard a long
distance.
Mr. Morosini wsts On the piazza,
halless and in his shirt sleeves, a AVin
ehes:#r repeating rift; in hand
Other members of ttie family ap
peared on the scene and the old gen
tleman exclaimed: “I can’t stand
this anv longer. The hoodlums over
ran my place and destroyed my shrub
bery. I had to do it for self protec
tion. I shall uot remain here another
day.” He said lie tired into the air to
frighten the mob.
Shortly aftor the occurrence the
Morosini family left their home, being
driven away in a dose carriage.
A SOUND BANK.
(Wall Street News.)
An Eastern man who was in Wis
consin a few dayß ago, stepped into
a bank In a small town to get a s.*>o
bill changed. The cashier counted
onl S6O and then spoke to the book
keeper. Tbe latter spoke to the jani
tor, and this individual put on his
hat and crossed tiie street and return
ed in company with a man who turned
out to be President and chief stock
holder. This person stepped around
to the safe, and by tiie aid of tiie book
keeperopened it and handed the cash
ier about $75, and charged it to him
on a day-book. Later in the day, as
he met tiie Eastern man on the street,
he explained: “Perhaps that trans
action looked queer to you, but live
years ago I made up my mind that if
my cashier took a notion to skip he’d
have to pawn his boots to get bevond
Chicago, The bookkeeper watches
tho cashier, tho janitor watch
es the bookkeeper, and I keep
such a watch on all three that
depositors are paid 5 per cent, inter
est, and not a game of poker or faro
has ever been played in this town.”
Covington Enterprise: From re
liable authority we lean, the jail fees
in Clayton county heretofore were
from $250 to SSOO for six months,
from one court to another. During
the last six months they amounted
to only $lO. That shows how prohi
bition works.
The Eastman Journal reports this
bad condition of affairs : “The col
ored vote in our county, in conse
quence of there being no Republican
ticket out, appears considerably split
between the Legislative aspirants.
The race seems to have gotten in that
position that the successful candi
date will be placed under som? obli
gations to the Republican vole. —
Take a peep at the picture.
OUR GIRLS.
(Wesleyan Christian Advocate.)
Doctor, it hurts me to sec a grow
ing tendency to wildness among our
girls herein Mississippi.
Some mothers arc in a great hur
ry to get their girls out in id society
and havo them receive the attention
of young men. The fact is, wc have
few girls now, atm I am sorry for it,
tor I always loved girls. We have
children and voting men and young
Indies. They have about done away
with boys and—The “frying size”
among young folks. Those boys that
would lie young men are the biggest
“ct ot “gooses” I ever saw, except the
girls who would bo young ladies.
Those girls, Doctor, I am sorry (o
say it, hiit they permit the boys to
to take too many liberties with them —
liberties not suited to tlrst cousins,
and hardly suitable for brothers and
sisters.
The way they take on would do
pretty well fora newly marriod coup
le, provided they were at 'home in a
private room where no one would see
them.
Now, Doctor,you needn’t say “pooh!
pooh! nonsense!" or something of
that kind, fori (ell you it is so. If
this thing isn’t stopped trouble is go
ing to come of it as sure as you arc
born. Trouble of the worst kind lias
already come of it herein Mississippi,
but the giris keep on the same way,
and the silly mothers say “Well Mrs.
Jones’ girls may do wrong and dis
grace themselves, but my girls won’t
do so.” Borne folks feaget that hu
man nature is pretty much the same
all over the world.
I n|ay bo wrong, but ssmehow I
keep a thinking that we arc too loose
in in our family government these
times indeed I might say wc have no
family government.
The girls arc to loose, too “slack
twisted,” and too bold m their asso
ciations with tho boys tlicso days.
They may not mean any harrtl at tho
start, but barm will come of it in
most cases as sure as you live. Why,
Doctor, I know of a good inuny girls
now whoso good name and character
are mightily smirched ; andtlia girls
have exposed themselves to all that has
boon said. I don’t know that they
have done real bad things, but they
have skimmed along so dose to tho
edge of sin that their garments have
been fouled. Doctor, it my wife were
to die I don’t know what T would do
for another wife. I don’t want lo
marry an old ugly woman, and I
wouldn’t have one of these fast girls.
I’m aflraid they are not as clean evev
way as a man’s wife ought to be.
When Ido meet a real modest, nice,
prudent girl I can’t help loving her.
She is so pure and sweet that I don’t
see how any one could keep from lov
ing her. The foolish boys and the
Dad boys always pay the most atten
tion to the fastest girls until (hey get
too far along and then tho boys quit
waiting on them in company. The
limid, modest, prudent giris always
marry first, and they get the best
husbands too. I do hops, Doctor, that
there is not as much looseness in tho
associations of the young folks in
Georgia as there is here in Mississ
ippi. If there is lam sorry"for the
Georgia that is to bethhty or forty
years from this time.
Somebody ought to talk plainly to
our girls. Tiioy are mightily to
blame for those things, A boy will
inch along and take every liberty a
girl will pemit him to lake. Ifo will
stand off at arm’s length and admire
a girl and almost worship her if she
wants it that way ; but if she permits
lmn to come too close and take un
due liberties ho wiil despise hcrin his
soul when away from her.
Mothers ought to talk to their gills
about those things —they onghtto nip
forwardness and fastness in (lie bud.
11'need be, cure your girl or kill liar—
nearly. Don’t let iier be a brazen
faced fast woman—for Cod’s sake,
don’t. A moonlight walk, a Sunday
afternoon ride, soda wafer, champagne
cigarettes and fast driving and fast
ways, and all of that, may bo very
romantic, but it is a mighty good way
to bring disgrace on your family and
to send your daughter- down to
hell.
I sec signs in public place-; among
the girls and boys that nearly choke
mo to death with- sorrow at my
heart.
"We must pvft oil the breaks end
slow up a littfc, or else vx mils I blow
out the lights and drive down tod- ith
and darkness. GildbbOjt.
in —ijjjjii Dfe"...
A CHIME THAT MUST BE CHB^IED
Savannah Xotva: The arrest ef l col
ored man in Albany,- Georgia—tvho.
up to tho date of bis arreit, had .’torne
a respectablccharaetcr—charged with
being at the head of a secret sieioty,
the members of which were engaged
in wrecking tho train that was-aking
the Albany military to Dawson on
August 341 h, is an event of nitre than
passing importance. \ Tln.-<'.j)iilitarv
were moving under orderin' ,eGov
ernor to insure tho t of the
law in the casoof cxecntii' | \|ja crim
inal. The crime for whicijlbe crim
inal' wasto suffer death the
most heinous known: Insjoul of as
sisting tlio authoritiT-s i l ' Inferring
the law, these coloredpetfp /attempt
ed to tnurdor those who tp re sent to
assist in enforcing the lnv*‘
Tho press ofthe couhtrr > 'pntai ns al
most daily accounts ofl- ( '|ndisli as
sault# upon white weme/i and girls,
and probably but a and \ number of
tho attempts to comnilt jdiia crime is
given to the pubife. ’fhe sufferers
and their friends prefer lo hide the
nameless shame. In mliiy instances
one crime is followed by another.
Tho helpless anil rmn#l victims are
not permitted to live the horri
ble story of their,wrotigs. The South
is tlie scene of m<>4 cases of ibis
crime, but the North and West are al
sq sufferers. The ui yd cry of the mu
tilated body of beautiful Kttie Watson,
which was for weeks the horror of
New Jersey, has beetl solved hv the
confession ot her negro murderer.
The latest outrage of this kind was
in Florida, and resulted in tho death
ot tho lady and th# hanging of her
murderer. Georgia;seems to lead the
States in tlifi frequency which the
crime of rape is Committed within
tier borders. Twenty-four cases of
this crime are known to have oocuVrod
sinco January last. It is impossible
to estimate how piany Imre been con
cealed. The fearful penalty- of tho
law does noMociu to jbo any; protec
tion against the mktfyt negre brains.
In several instances when arrested
these criminals havo v not only con
fessed the crime with which they
wore charged, but others which, until
then, had been unknown except to
those who were the sufferers. It is
almost too much to expect,of human
nature to try such brutes iu the cold
and formal way demanded by law
and the rules of court. A short rope
and no mercy is tho natural inclina
tion of those who capture such crimi
nals or who are sufferers by theiracts.
Tho popular rordict is for their
prompt execution. The people of
Georgia, however, in the 24 cases
referred to, except in two instances,
have quletiy allowed justice to take
its course instead of taking the law
into (heir own linnds. Every decent
while anil colored man is interested
in upholding the laws, but if tho pun
ishment of such crimes is to be inter
fered with by niigro societies and ne
gro mobs, there will soon he a condi
tion of affairs that will permit very lit
tle mercy lobe shown to those charged
with the crime of rape. Lynch law,
as much as it is deprecated by every
civilized community, will supersede
the law administered by court and
jury, oven though the innocent may
sometimes suffer for the deeds of tiie
guilty.
HER LOVER’S RATAL JEST.
An Broken in Fun Causes
an Ohio Girl’s Death.
The death yesterday of Miss Alice
McCiban, says a Cadiz, Ohio, special,
discloses a strange and sad affair.
The girl, who was young, intelligent
and a great favorite, but exceedingly
nervous, died after an illness of thir
ty-six hours, during the whole of
which time she was unconscious,
three men being required to hold her
at times. Miss McCiban was engaged
(o a young gentleman named Nash, a
resident of the neighborhood, and a
highly esteemed gentleman. Satur
day evening lie called on Miss McCi
ban and remained some time. When
taking bis departure; in jest, he said
to her that iic had concluded to sever
their relations, and that there could
bo nothing between them but friend
ship. Tlio girl was so affected that
she went into spasms, which contin
ued until her deatli. Evory effort
was made to restore her to conoious
ne- , yimvaiUtigly. Nash, who was
frantic Willi grief, was constantly in
aft-ink. ice, but his presence had no
effr- t' iip.bn the young lady. It is
thought ho will Laconic insane.
WHAT BLAINE SHOULD CONSIDEB.
Mr. Blaine is about to tako the
stump. 1$ is not called by that name
lint that is what is meant by the an
nouncement that lie will visit Now
York this week, go thence through
Pennsylvania to Ohio, where ha will
siak at Youngstown, Cleveland,
Toledo and Cincinnati, and then ap
poar in Indiana.
Mr. Blaine might do well to consid
er before ho starts'that every Presi
dential candidate of tho past who
took the stump was defeated- Until
1862 no Presidental candidate ever ap
peared actively in tho contest. Gener
al Scott then leaped tho bars of his
advisers and took to the stump in al
most the identical cities of Ohio to be
addressed by Mr. Blaine. Seott, like
Blaine, thought ho had the Irish vote,
and ho had much of it until
about voting-time. Again like
Blaine, Seott wanted too add
tho Germans to the Irish and
Scott’s Ohio compliments to the “rich
Irish brogue,” and the “sweet Ger
man accent are memorable in p liii
eai history. Scott carried four States
and Piorce carried the others.
In 1800, Mr. Douglas made Scott’s
blunder of 1852 comparatively respec
table by taking the stump as a Presi
dental candidate. ’ Heoscapod Scott’s
oratorical tomfoolery, as Douglas was
one of the ablest and most adroit
stumpers of his day; bul lie lost both
respect and votes by his stnmp
speeches, and lie figures fn the electo
ral vo'e about as “scattering.” Lin
coln, then justly regarded as the
ablest popular disputant that
Douglas had ever met, remained
quietly at Jiis home iu Springfield
and was elected.
In 1864, Lincoln scrupulously main
kmied his dignified retirement during
the contest and McClelland as soru
pulottsly imitated it; but iu 1868,
when Horatio Seymour was pitted
against the Silent Man, Grant, Sey
mour took Hie stump, to revive ami
steady the hopes of the party after the
October elections. Seymour Speke
with exceptional ability and elo
quence as lie always does, but ho lost
both respect and voitorby his resortto
the hustings and Was defeated by an
overwhelming majority. In 1872,
Horace Greeley bounced himself over
the counsels of his advisers and took
to the slump on his own account while
the Silent Man sat in tho White Mouse.
Greeley agreeably disappointed his
friends and challenged fhc respect of
his foes by the dignity, ability and
grace of his speeches, but then, as now
and over in tlio past, stump speeches by
Presidential candidates were regarded
as tho dying throes of an expiring
party, and C/reelcy was distanced in
tiie race.
Since 1872, no Presidental cannidatc
has ventured to imitate tho diastrous
slump campaign of Scott, Douglas.
Seymour and Greeley. Tilden, than
wham none could speak or act moro
wisuly, was stubbornly silent during
his memorable campaign of 1876, mid
Hayes, with feebler ability, had sense
enough to imitate him. In 1880,
Garfield inclined to air himself oti the
stump, but lie was suppressed early in
the contest after a misrenture at
Chafauqua.and thenceforth lie was as
silent as Hancock, the gallant soldier
who fell in llic conflict. Blaine is
now about to add another to the list
of Presidentaljunfortiinates who insist
upon singing theirjown political re
quiem from tiie stump. lie lias great
skill, ability and eloquence as a cam
paigner, but lie will only multiply his
own already great complication hi flic
Western Stutes’bz his appearance as
a party operator and unless all past 1
experience is at fault, his campaign
on the liUHtingsl'-vill be tbe harbinger
of liis defeat.—Philadelphia Times.
—
The New South says the Eiberton
correspondent ofthe Atlanta consti
tution is “badly mistaken” when lie
says that “Judge Pottle is decidedly
the choice of a large majority of the
people of Elbert county for Judge.”
The New South guilds: “There are
a considerable Lumber of people who
prefer Pottle to the other two candi
dates for Judge, hut if some other
men were in the’.fidd we believe that
at least fonr-fifills of the people would
be against Pottle. As it is, the upper
portion of this county is against him,
and this comprises a majority of the
vote of tho county.”
Gen. Butler is the only down-right
workingman in the country who lias
an income of SIOO,OOO annually.
NO. 89
NEARLY ATRAGEDY.
ANegTO Tries to Brighten His Quarrel
some Wife and Hangs Himeelf.
(Fort Gain©# Tribune.)
Some time since West Gordon, a ne
gro who lived a quarrelsome life with
his wife, came to the conclusion that
she did not care anything for him.
Therefore lie decided ho wo#ld test
her faithfulness. In imitation of tho
white man, he secured a plow line,
which lie fastened around his neck-
Sceiug it did not wring her heart
strings to any great extent, lie went
out near the house and pulled down
a stout sapling, to which ho tiod the
rope. Westsaid in auswer to a ques
tion from our reporter: “Boss, I had
no notion er oommittin’ suercide, but
den. while I was lookin’ to see whut
tlio old ’onian was gwinter do,aiy holt
on the tree gin way, and dar I wus,
with my tongue out and my neck
twisted all one side an’ most chockin’
me to death. I thought the ole fuss
bug was gwinter leave me bangin’
that-, but she, after what seemed ai
wavs to me, come outen do liouso wkl
de axe, and lookin’ at me said, ‘You
old fool, I'se got er good mintcr let
yer hang right dar. My, how do
sweat rolled outen me. She then
commenced cuttin’, and powerful slow
she wus, I tell yer. When I got down
I made up hit min’ ter stay down
and fuss it out wid her. It was Hire*
days afore I could git my neck straight
I mout cr known do ole woman
would er took her timo ’bout cuttin’
me do>. n as she. alius wus slow.
Mars Tom, I’se learnt some sense and
am gwinter fuss, an’ fuss avid her
afore I’ll make out Ise gwinter hang
myself again.”
Someone calling our reporter, ho
left West muttering, “Yer won’ kotch
dis nigger foolin' wid cr sapling an*
er plow lino no mo.”
KINO HUMBERT'S HEROISM.
King Humbert is making himself
heroic in tho eyes of the whole civil
ized world, and evory true man joins
witli the panic-stricken people of Na
ples in the hope that that divinity
which “doth hedge a king” tnay not
forsake this fine specimen of modem
royalty.
At thisdisfance, in cities compara
tive safe and free from unusual eala
mity.it is difficult to realize the heart
break and region of terror that must
have seized upon the inhabitants of
the old city of Naples, where moro
than two thousand people have died
of cholera during the last twenty-livo
days.
Many brave men and women aro
engaged in fighting this despair and
death. Naturally in such cases it falls
to tiie lot of physicians, Sisters of char
tv, priests and people who have given
themselves to something else than
mere lust and money-making to stand
up in the face of deatli and ofFer their
own lives as sacrifices. And these
are all found at their posts in Naples
as many times before in other places.
But it is most unusual for tiie King
of any nation to leave the safety and
luxury of palace and throne to make
of himselfa nurse or a- consoler of the
r ink and dying.
It is no wonder tlio common people
ofNaples arc tnanyof them forget
ting their fright and going wild with
enthusiasm over tiie conduct of their
King.
In Harris county, Filman Swcef,
colored, died from wounds inflicted
by his wife. She is in jail at Hamil
ton. After their marriage a few
months ago all ran smoothly till tho
wife became suspiciously frisky and
her husband proportionately jealous.
One day ho thrashed her. She left
the house swearing vengeance. On
Monday of last week lie was en
gaged in cutting hay for a neighbor,
and at dinner time he lay down in
the corner of tho fence to rest, and
dropped off to sleep. His first inti
mation of danger was a cut that took
one car off. This was lollowed by an
other that crossed ftnc of his eyes,
and as lie rose the knifo was driven
to the hilt in his breast and the blade
broken off, leaving the handle in the
hand of his Infuriated wife, who hail
crent upon him while asleep to exe
cute her horrible threat, piceding
from every wound he finally reached
the-lore of Mr. J. 11. Bit is, where
his woumls were dressed by Dr.
Stanford. ■" ' it was thought ho
would get v, ’ i • woman is held
to a charge of murder at the next
term of the uperior Court.