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2 PASCO PUT IN THE RACE. HE STARTS OUT NECK AND NECK WITH THE GOVERNORS. Five Ballots Taken in the Caucus With out Breaking the Deadlock The jVote in the Legislature Divided Among Thirty-five Men—The Work of the Session. Tallahassee, Fla., April 21.—1n the Senate to-day the bill incorporating the Palatka Savings Bank and Trust Company Came up and on motion to indefinitely post pone it arose the legal question of the legality of all the special laws passed at this session. Under the provision of the new constitution, requiring sixty days notice for all local or special legislation, there is no method of giving the notice prescribed, so 'several Senators claimed that all local and special legislation passed at this session re gardless of notice would l>e constitutional because the provision requiring notice is not operative unless the kind and manner of notice is prescribed. The point was reserved for consideration to-morrow. At noon both Houses met in joint session and without nominations took the following ballot for United States Senator: Costa 6 Latham l> Judge (S Van Fleet ti Miller 0 Goodrich 3 J. F. White 3 J. W. Ewan 3 William Ives 4 * 8. F. Oliveros 8 J. E. Yonge 8 Col. Gullcrammer 8 B. R. Mallory 8 J. N. Coombs 1 H. C. Hicks 1 J. L. Gaskins 1 E. A. Perry 1 J. L. Eiclielberger 1 G. P. Fowler 1 J. L. Crawford 1 W. F. Orman * 1 E. J. Vann 1 W.H.T. Bynum 1 C. H. Boardman. 1 E. 0. Weeks 1 E. C. Love 1 J. H McClellan 1 F. D. “oossr. .: 1 John Smith 1 Tom Smith 1 L. D. Ball 1 John Smith, Jr 1 The second ballot resulted: Goodrich 13 Judge 13 Latham 13 Costa 11 Van Fleet 0 The two houses separated and then ad journed until to-morrow. BOTH SIDES DETERMINED. The Senatorial muddle in the Florida Legislature seems to have resolved itself into this state of affairs: The friends and sup porters of both Perry and Bloxham are about equal in numbers and believe it to be a religious duty that they persevere until their choice is made, as they fear concession or surrender would be construed into a partial acknowledgment of the charges and counter charges that, have been brought against their respective candidates. Gov. Perry has in Ills gift a number of very im- Fortant, appointments, including Circuit udges, District Attorneys, etc., and as he has not yet selected any of the appointees or intimated what his action will lx*, Bloxham’a supixirters think the delay is in the interest of Perry’s Senatorial aspira tions, and they demand that the appoint ments now due lx* made so that both candi 'dates will stand, as near as may be, on the same Exiting. Bloxham lias no patronage, and his friends insist tliut he shall not lx* in jured by that at the disposal of his competi tor. Bloxham\s friehds believe him to be choice of the people of the State, and |Bink the appointments now withheld are him an injury, so they ask a fair test strength without hope of reward, i ONE OF THE LEADERS TO WIN. ■ While there are a good many level headed politicians who say the contest is to result in a dark horse being ■oscn Senator, the indications now are the choice must he either Bloxham or as the people expect one of them to Senator. It may be safely said, judging the present situation, that Bloxham's will hold out until they think a Sir test has been given their real strength. Perry men will endeavor to maintain present advantage, and this will con- until it is shown beyond controversy of the two lias the largest number of Then the other will withdraw and leading candidate lie nominated and elected accordingly. The promise to remain true to their to tlie bitter end. ■Notwithstanding the unusual excitement the Senatorial election, considerable has been accomplished. The ■Fnato has passes 1 several important hills 1 has quit.' a number on second reading ■hich are lx*ing considered at length daily. Tp.e House has indefinitely postponed over •W enty useless and unwholesome measures, ■id summarily tabled many others. This done, the work of the session will ■rogri'ss more evenly, while the committees Sill kill off useless measures proposed after m s, so as to save the time of elaborate con sideration in open session. ■ The committees appointed to visit the va ■K<nts.State institutions will begin their ex aninations and investigations early next ■reek if nothing intervenes. h * V v.vuiuiwwwa u] 'pviuwu w loiu um: a ■kinsNtate institutions will begin their ex ■nunations ;uul investigations early next week if nothing intervenes. PASCO TO THE FRONT. K Tallahassee. Fla., April 21, 11 p. m.— joint caucus of Democrats was held again To-night. Dr. Pelot spoke of the uselessness of voting continually for two men of equal strength and then nominated Samuel Pasco, of Jefferson county. The nomination was ably seconded by Mr. Washington, of St. Augustine, and Mr. Mpear, of Gadsden. The first ballot stood: Bloxhaui . ..85 Perry 82 Pasco 22 The second ballot resulted: Bloxham 88 Perry 80 l’asco 2.', The third ballot was: Bloxham 32 Perry 21 fiasco 2.) The fourth Ixtllot stood: Bloxham 33 retry 2; Pasco ut The fifth ballot resulted: Bloxham. ..81 Perry 21) Pasco 80 Kix more ballots were taken for Senator with no material change in the result. The caucus adjourned to o’clock to-morrow night. The latest sensational gossip fix>m reliable sources is that, in a certain contingency the friends of both Govs. Perry and Bloxham will unite on Col. John A. Henderson, of Leon county, as the most suitable person of all yet named for United Htutos Senator. COLUMBUS CHAPTERS. A Fugitive Voluntarily Returns and Surrenders Himself. Coli mbi s, (la., April 21.—L0 1 Oglotree, the young man who stock a fellow work mau lit the Kaglo and Phctiix dye works over the head with a heavy iron pljie about three muntlis ago and uemjy killed him, I'vtiiriu-I here to day fuel voluntarily eurnuidered totheHheritT Hln<s> be fieri he lias Itnen 111 Peimsylvotlia. He wu* requinsl to give s.'mu hail pi answer a charge of assault with intent to murder. A negro named Major lJowilell, who Imr glanred several sPS'ie in H'umlUm, plead guilty to tier < hwye in Harris Count v Rupertor ( Kurt yesienUy and was wn Isanisst b) twisity yearn in tlw> pilllhtlUsrv Itw I'M* o. building, which has l u usml *2 ■ ttw as a hu-tory (mooting I,on*. will lw AIM up with maclimoiy atom! la Uss waaufa< lui < of cotton H‘*>J Is OVER THE ORANGE BELT. Improvements Along the Line—Oak land’s Opportunity. Oakland, Fla., April 21.—A Morning News representative made a hasty trip over the Orange Belt road —now the “liaiidsome narrow gauge” of South Florida—on Friday last, and was greatly surprised at the many new improvements visible along its line and at Oakland, its present terminus. Your correspondent came over on tho first train, at the formal opening of the road in November last, and the difference between then and now is certainly surprising, and doubtless very encouraging, to the mana cTxof the Orange Belt and the people of this section. (Starting at Monroe, at the head of lake Monroe, where this road joins the Jackson ville, Tampa and Key West railway, we soon reach Sylvan Like, the first town on the line. A handsome depot attracts the attention first, and a look around shows neat and nice appearing dwelling houses, a fine and commodious church, two stores, thrifty groves, etc. Next comes Fuola with its large acreage of beautiful orange groves, the residences showing here and there amidst the green leaves. The Orange Belt railway here crosses the Sanford and Lake Eustis railroad. I'aola thus lias the advan tages of two roads, and is a growing and thrifty place. In succession come Island Lake, Glen Ethel, Altamonte, Forest City, Toronto, Lakeville, Clarkona, Mount Miller, Crown Point and Oakland. The settlements all along the road show many signs of im provement, many new clearings and scores of new housos being visible. At Oakland a number of fine dwellings are in course of erection, while several al ready finished show off the place to great advantage. The stores display fine stocks and have a good trade. Among the larger firms are: Livery and Feed Stable —Roper & Letson. Drugs —Millhoiland & Harris. General Merchandise—Speer & Sadler, and Gilkerson & Child. Gents’ Furnishing (foods—John Davies. Mr. J. R. Wise is the genial Postmaster and also agent for tho Morning News. After a hearty meal at the Dak House, which, by the way, is one of the best coun try hotels in that section, your correspond ent accepted an invitation extended by Mr. J. H. Sadler to take a ride up the lake and through some of the fine truck gardens, for which this region is famous. The hum mocks along the edge of the lake are very rich and produce large crops with no fertil izing. In the ease of early crops of beans, jxas, tomatoes, etc., some fertilizer is used to force them ahead to catch the early mar kets. There were magnificent patches of lx>uus, peas, cucumbers, celery, strawberries, tomatoes, etc., and the growers were well pleased with the prices so far obtained. For instance. Mr. George Bowen was just finish ing picking from a half acre of golden wax beans. He used $8 worth of commercial fertilizer, and did most of the work himself, two boys helping him to pick and ship. He has shipped ninety-five crates a! ready, and expects to ship fully ton to fifteen more. Returns so far have netted him 70 to #3 25 per crate. Not hail for the time and work given. The returns on twenty-five crates of tomatoes were S7B 11 net. Mr. J. H. Sadler planted a crop of ixas, marketing them in January at $5 to $5 50 gross per crate; in February he planted tomatoes, and from their present thrifty appearance he feels sanguine of a large crop—l,ooo to 1,500 crates from five acres. Tin sc instances could be multiplied. After passing through these fine hummock lands for several miles, we turned up into the high pine section and visited a number of their fine groves, most of them grown without the aid of commercial fertilizers. They all were looking well, the trees healthy and growing vigorously. In a few years an enormous quantity of oranges will be shipped from along the line of this road. Late in the evening we drove out west of the place, passing the fine place and resi dence of Mr. Daniel Foley on Lake John, and calling at Killarney, anew town three miles from Oakland. It is located between Lakes John and Apopka, and has a fine site. Burdett & Kelly have a store here, carrying a good stock of general merchandise. They have just built anew store and will move in soon. A post office will lie established here shortly. Beyond this place are Minneola, Claremont and several other thriving towns which the railroad will open up to tho world at large. Oakland is certainly well located, and doubtless will increase in population at a rapid rate the coming year. St. Clair Abrams’ new road is pushing through here, touching one side of Oakland, and is graded for several miles beyond this point. The Orange Belt railroad is graded ten miles westward, and a largo force is engaged extending it to the Gulf. This road is the pioneer one in this section and certainly has done much in promoting immigration. President Denial's ami his copartners in the enterprise, Messrs. Taylor and Sweetapple, are workers, and believing in this section of the State have shown it by their works. The company has put up a nice dejxit here, a tine hotel, a large block for their offices, and display a good deal of enterprise in pushing ahead their line. A largo amount of iron is now en route for the extension, and by fall the entire line will tie finished and trains running from Lake Monroe to Tarpon Springs and Point Pinellas on the Gulf. It runs through a fertile belt of Flor ida, and settlers will follow soon in its wake. THOMAS VILLE’S BURGLARS. Wilson Palmer Convicted and Sure to Get a Long Term Thomasville, Ga., April 21.— Wilson Palmer, who has been under arrest here as one of the recent burglars, was tried in the Superior Court to-day, and the jury brought in a verdict to-uight of guilty. There are three indictments against him. He will probably plead guilty to the other two and get about fifteen years in the penitentiary on each indictment. Thomas Dempsey. who was arrested at the same time, w ill probably share the same fate, as the proof Is the same in each case. A six-room frame dwelling on Lower Broad street, owned by Maj. B. K. Hawk ins. was totally destroyed by the late last night. Tito house was unoccupied, unit the lire was clearly the work of mi incendiary. The house was worth about <?l,sUouml war insured for $1,200. Bartow Briefs. Boston, Ga., April 21. —A scries of enter tainments will lx- given soon by the young folks for the lx.nent of the library. There will lie 10.000 casks of rosin and 800 cars of lumber shipped from here this sea son. The business men of this place have pe titioned the Mavannah, Florida and Western railway to survey the route from Boston to Mouticello, Kitt., for a railroad. They think it the cheajxwt route that can lie built from the (Savannah, Florida and Western to that point. Boston is to have another cotton ware house this season, ulso several brick stores A Colored Irishman from Cork fVina the Sew York World. Among the motley crowd of foreigners who cliiulsyl the long county court house stairs up to Judge Bonkstaver yesterday, to Isssiiue naturalized citizens of this enlight ened republic, wm a lug. dusky, Individual, whose color would ivrtainly proclaim him a child of Africa, but who tola the .1 uilge with u broad grin, that In- was an Irishman. "An Inshitiau!" echoed Judge HooUstuvcr in miuizcmeiit; "how can that lief" " Iks-iiiiiic,your honor, (and tliegrin broad ••nodi, "I was Isirn in Ireland.” "In wliut part of Irclaiidt” quurlwl Judge Book stover.” "In Cork, your honor " "But how did that iiappe’if "Well, Judge, land the grin le-sjns r-av enioiis/, “you si*-, my father was ix*#k on haul a veswd, I Iml s bow it liap|<eiui "I 111 I" replied tic Judge 'J lit>dl|*kv Hull wrote I low Iha nails a Edwin bud wiw mulJi-J io.au mmm- - THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1887. SLEW SEVEN DESPERADOS. Outmatched by a Princeton Graduate's Pluck and Nerve. From the iVete York World. There was recently published a dispatch from Galveston, Tex., stating that Walter Ridgely, of Texarkana, had, between March 3 and April 8, killed seven men, all members of a family namixl Murphy. The simple statement of thus fact might suggest that Ridgely was a desperado, eager to imbrue his hands in blood. On the contrary, he is a gentleman of culture and education, whose life has won him the respect and esteem of all who know him, who is too brave to seek a quarrel when it can be avoided, and who holds life too sacred to wantonly slied blood. The lives he was com pelled to take were those of men who sought to kill him, and only his dauntless courage and almost uuequaled coolness prevented them from succeeding. The grudge that urged the Murphys to kill Mr. Ridgely arose from the fact that his chivalric nature and love of fair play prevented him from standing idly by and seeing a helpless stranger browbeaten and robbed by a pair of ruffians. Walter Ridgely owns a large ranch ad - joining the Indian Territory. An estimate of the value of his possessions places it in the neighborhood of $200,000. The greater portion of this property was inherited from his father, Col. John H. Ridgely, a native of New Jersey, who settled in Texas years ago, and served as an officer in the Confed erate army. Walter was born in Texas thirty-four years ago. He was sent to Princeton College and graduated there in 1873. After leaving college he returned to Texas, hut after a snort stay on his father’s ranch ho went West, and in 1875 was serv ing as a scout under Gen. Custer. He re mained in the wild Western country until 1882, when his father died and he returned to Texas, whore he has since lived. The house in which he lives is a spacious mansion, standing in the centre of a rich lawn brightened by parterres of flowers. Within it is handsomely furnished and books and pictures attest the cultivated tastes of its owner. On March 3 last Mr. Ridgely went to Ropemeyer’s store, about eight miles from his ranch and plantation. He was in con versation there with some of the neighbor ing ranch-owners when two brothers, Joe and Robert Murphy, entered, followed by a stranger. From the conversation that took place between the three, those present learned that on the preceding day the stranger, who was a traveling salesman, had crossed the river to the Indian Nation on the ferry kept by the Murphys paying 50c. for his ferriage. On his return that morning the Murphys again ferried him over, but demanded $5 as payment. This tlie stranger refused to pay, and they had taken his sample case from him. When Mr. Ridgely heard what had taken place he told the Murphys that they should not try to impose on a stranger in such a manner. The brothers turned on him with abusive epithets and finally both sprang at him. Although the two brothers were stal wart men and noted as desperadoes, they had met a man whom their united attack did not terrify. Mr. Ridgely is 5 feet 11 inches in height, with a well-built frame, made strong and active by the out-door life he had led, and in his keen, dark eyes and determined countenance his assailants might have read a warning had they not reued upon the odds they presented against him. Ridgely did not retreat when attacked, but, promptly striking out, sent one of the men to the floor with a well-di rected blow. Tho other at once drew his pistol; but before ho had time to aim it Ridgely had drawn his own and sent a bul let through his heart. The other had mean while regained his feet and drawn his own revolver. Quick as a flash Ridgely turned upon him and a second bullet gave him a mortal wound from which he <Ued the fol lowing day. The testimony of all who had witnessed the tragedy showed that Ridge ly’s act had been necessary to preserve his own life, and that the two brothers owed their fate to themselves. John Murphy, a brother of the two men killed, and Thomas, their uncle, hastened to Texarkana upon hearing of the death of their relatives, and were loud in their threats that they would avenge them by slaying Ridgely. The latter heard of these threats and sought to avoid further bloodshed by remaining on his ranch except when actual ly obliged to leave it on business. On March 22 ho was thus obliged to go to the farm of a neighbor two miles dis tant. It was dark when he mounted his horse to return. When but little more than half the homeward road had been traversed two pistol shots suddenly rang oat from behind trees bordering the road. The horse fell to the ground dead, and with him fell its rider. John and Thomas Mur phy emerged from behind the trees that had concealed them, confident they had done their work well. They had advanced to within a few paces of the prostrate man when he suddenly sprang to his feet, revol ver in each liand, and lief ore either of the amazed assassins had time to recover his presence of mind each had fallen with a mortal wound. But even yet Ridgely’s life was not safe. There still remained two more brothers of the Murphy family and another uncle. The three, who'were in the Indian Territory, at once loft for Texarkana, vowing that they would kill Ridgely. The ranchman’s friends urged him to leave the place for a time, but lie refused to do so. He would remain upon his ranch, he said. Ho would take every precaution to avoid the Murphys. He was as anxious as man could be to shun further bloodshed, but he would not fiy from them. For some days no attack was made upon the man whoso friends, knowing the characters of his enemies, be lieved to be doomed. This quietude, however, proved but the prelude to a still more sanguinary tragedy. At 2 o’clock on the morning of April Han uproar among the boms and cattle in the stables and barn aroused Ridgtly from sleep. Hastily put ting on some clothes he hurried out to see what was the matter. As he left the lions., he told some of his men who slept in the house to follow hint While he was walk ing towj'-ds the bam a inmi sprang front behind a wagon with drawn revolver and kired upon lum. The bullet passed through Hiclgely's hat, but did not oven graze his skill. Though unhurt lie dropjKxi to his knees and, draw ing one of the two revolvers he always carried, fired almost at haphazard in the darkness. A veil and an oath told that the bullet had found a mirk. Then Ridgely sprung to his feet and ran toward the wagon. Before he had reached it two more figures sprang up and run toward him, firing as they ran. One of their bullets struck Rijjely in the left unn and disabled it. With Ills right hnnd, though, he li ed, and one of his assailants fell. After he hail fallen, though, he retained sufficient stn iigt h to raise himself on his left side and lire at Ridgely, striking him in the breast. The brave rauchuian was stricken t 6 the ground, but almost us .*>ot as he had touch id it he turned toward the third man, who was running toward him, and sent a deadly bullet through his body. When Riilgely's men reached the s|it, to which they humid •>n lieunug tin- pistol shots, the battle was over. Two of the Murphys were dea l and the third died within an hour. But from this last struggle Ridgel\ had come far from scatheless, tin had one Ml li t wound in his arm, another under his left shoulder-blade and a third in his breast, lie was cHrriid to the house, when* it was found that Ids wounds, though serious, were not necessarily fatal. Since then their dan •rerun* diameter has almost, und he is now I sdlevixl to Is* on the road to complete re t-overy, Among Hldgcly’s iiAlghltors, ami, in fwt, among ranchmen for miles distant, his I’ouruge, i-isiihiws mill skill receive I lm warm •-st praise. The men who were killed had long been know’ll by their ibL as ruffians j whom (lie community eotlkl well s|sire, Witltoi lUdg<-|y t lie graduate of the Eastern 1 ••ullage and the Wester# plain, lias 1 aru.si j for liiiiimOl reputation Hint bids fair to pi.-sei ve (mu from future annoyance by iiem of Us "tamp of tie— wle~ lluist fur kbiil nun Usi ini tin ir own FIVE NOTABLE MEN. The Manners and Appearances of the Interstate Commissioners. From Washington Letter to the Philadelphia Press. The Interstate Commerce Commissioners show as many radical differences in appear ance as any five men who could have been selected. They vary in height all the way from the giant Walker, of Vermont, down to the five foot six or seven inches of Judge Cooley, and in girth again from the com fortable proportions of Mr. Walker's waist band all the way to the narrow chest and stomach that the Judge’s small waistcoat always covers too much. The Judge, as a matter of fact, is the disappointing figure in the commission. The popular impression about him, gained very likely from the artistic woodcuts that take the place of reading matter in the Western newspapers, has been that he was stout, solid and somewhere about GO. His face was sup posed to bo round and jolly, his lieard shaved off a little for convenience in getting at his mouth, and his weight, which seemed in the pictures to be one of his principal features, amply sufficient to keep up his judicial dig nity. To get at the truth about his appear ance you have to picture exactly the oppo site kind of a man. He is slender, anxious looking and, for so aggressive a man, very modest in speech anil manner. He talks with his head bowed down as if thinking carefully over what was said, and in mere formal matters is courte ous, polite and considerate to a very pleasant degree. On matters of business his manner to a close observer is changed. He is as polite as before and just as considerate, but something about him in dicates that he has made up his mind, and, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must carry his decision out. He is evidently not the kind of a man to say "No” roughly, but if he says it even in his most uncertain and de precatory way there is something about it that would evidently make argument worse than useless. His thin gray liair and the lines in his face show the traces of long wrestling with hard problems, and his high forehead gives some measure of his ability. Altogether he is not unlike a clergyman in appearance, and his deferential way of standing up for his principles does not do anything to lessen the likeness. A WELL-KNOWN MEMBER. Mr. Morrison, the second member of the board, is the most talked of and least un derstood man in public life in the country. A great many people offer the explanation for the difficulty in understanding him that there is nothing in him to understand, and it is a very serious question often whether tliey are not more than half right. Mi-. Morrison is accessible always, and in his way courteous, but nobody comes away from his room knowing more than when he went in. For telling what won’t be done he has very few superiors, but when it comes down to a matter of either information or opinion there is nothing to be got from him. On the tariff question, which has been his chief stock in trade, there is a very well defined opinion here that his clerk knows a great deal more than he does. He never gave away any of his information at any rate, and probably was right in not reduc cing the stock. In the commission so far he has had very little to say, nominating Mr. Cooley for chairman because it was one bf the arrange ments between himself, Mr. Carlisle and the President that he should do so, and then set tling back to a little ordinary committee work in arranging about rooms and a place of business. He will hardly be as promi nent on the commission as in the House, and especially will not shine while Carlisle and the Breckinridges are away. Morrison’s figure is familiar. His plain blue or black coats, his narrow trousers, with their tendency to climb up his boots, and his shiny hat have been described for years in letters from Washington. His manners, however, are indescribable. He is witty, ugly, good-humored and irascible in the same minute, and the man who thinks himself snubbed in one instance will find himself laughing at his good humor in the next. His friends say he is kind-hearted, but he is too dogmatic and careless about other people’s feelings to ever be popular socially. COMMISSIONER BRAGG. Commissioner Bragg is the typical South ern man. He is big, rough, careless about formalities and very vigorous in talk. In his dress he evidently takes Attorney Gen eral Garland for a model. He wears a big hat with a stiff, flat brim and a top like an inverted stew-pan, and an overcoat which usually has to hold on by the top buttons. His hair it dark and pretty closely cropped, and his beard is mostly on his chin. He wears overgaiters, but they are not of the light shade that dudish swells like to show* on Chestnut street, and even in the South can hardly be considered a good fit. It is about even guessing that he will divide the honor with Attorney General Oarland next winter of being the only man in Wash ington who won't wear a dress suit. Since his appearance here he has been living at one of the hotels, talking very little and giving no one a chance to got anything but an outside impression of what he win do. He is very little known except among peo ple from liis own State, and even from them the only definite information to be gamed was that he was a good railroad commis sioner. The probability is that he will be pretty clear-heade 1 in his opinions and very jlecided in sticking to 111 -ir. He will hardly follow Judge Cooley everywhere. NEW YORK’S REPRESENTATIVE. Mr. Schoonmaker, of New York, has the air of a conservative business man. He don’t look excitable or easily worried, anil has been regarding the flood of callers and letters with praiseworthy serenity. His ap pearance is something like that of James G. Blaine. His hair and lull beenl ai-o gray-, his nose prominent, his eyes large and his color goinl, and in a profile view especially he shows very many of Mr. Blaine's charac teristics. His eyes, with the heavy surges underneath them, mark the resemblance strongly. Mr. Sohoon maker talks very little. He goes at it conservatively, comfortably and slowly, as if he would just as soon talk as not. and lie given the impression that, while he is willing to discuss ordinary matters, authoritative promises and statements can’t lx- made until ne is certain about them, ilis place on the commission is a little difficult to indicate, but he is certainly is it near so likely to push his own (dansas Bragg, I’o*.- sibly he will supply the balance wheel which the concern very badly needs. MR. EDMUNDS’ FRIEND. Mr. Walker, the friend of Mr. Edmunds, has as powerful a frame as the Senator must have hud in Ids younger days. Ho is over six feet tall, oromt-shouluered ami full chestod. and just stout enough to round out u gixK 1 figure. He luisa large head, a short, ■full bemii int i wliioh the gray has not yet L'ltan to come, and hair that for want of a 1 letter name might Is l called brown. He looks like u thoroughly competent business man tuid in uppearonce ought to be the head of tin- commission. The work of the commission so far has Iss-ii chiefly preliminary. They are coops! up in two or three small third-story rooms on either side of a hallway, anil they are under the necessity of meeting, examining their mall and nfitf personal friends nil piaetically in the me larger room. When one of them wnntu n s|xcial chat with a caller lie leads him across tip* hallway, hut in must rnnA there have Im-cii uiore persons in the room they cumo to than in the one they left. The mull is gutliering on the tables, in the corners, on the mantelpieces mid on the llisir, until there will not lie room Pi conn, in in it week, ami then new rooms will luive to be secured. The pros|ss-tH for any intelligent uctiiili oil important quc ttotui until some tiup after the law has gone Into iifis-t is very pi sir lu< lel. HORttFORDS ACID PHOSPHATE The Bant Restorer. Dr T. ('. Hiiiltli, Char lotto, N. C,, says: "It i an hi 1 aluable nerve tunic, and the bet iiston-i w Hen Uie energn ■ flag uiei tlie smuts drtsm." WHOSE WIFE IS SHE? A Case Involving the Marriage and Divorce Laws of Three Countries. From the New York Sun. Kingston, N. Y., April 18.—A compli cated case of matrimonial alliance has been brought to light through a hearing before Judge Parker in Supreme Court Chambers, on Saturday last. The case came up in an action for divorce brought by William H. Stewart against Annie Stewart. It in volves many line points as to the marriage and divorce laws of three countries —Eng- land, Canada and the United States. The facts are as follows: On Feb. 18, 1876, Annie Towel’S, a buxom English maiden of 20, was married to Charles Tate at the parish church in the parish of St. John’s, Middleborough, county of York, Eng. In 1878 Mrs. Tate brought an action for divorce against her husband on tlie ground of adultery. On May 5, 1879, an order was entered, stipulating, among other things, “that the marriage be dissolved unless sufficient cause be shown to the court why the said decree should not be made absolute within six months from the making thereof.” Before the expiration of the six months the plaintiff came to the United States, and drifted to this city, where she was slightly acquainted. Here she became acquainted with Stewart, and they were married,on July 2, 1879. Before the marriage she informed him of her marital relations in England and the divorce proceedings. Both at that time were under the impression that the Tate marriage was dissolved. A final order m the English divorce was entered in January, 1880. After Stewart lived with the woman for two years and two children were born to them, some doubt arose as to tfie English divorce proceeding. She requested Stewart to have the marriage ceremony performed over, but this he refused to do. They then separated, and have not lived together since. Soon after the separation Mrs. Stewart went to the province of Ontario, Can., and on Sept. 20, 1884, she married one Isaac Aves at Southampton in that province, and has since lived with him. Her Canadian hus band at preseijt lives in Stratford, Ont., and is a wealthy stock raiser. He also was made aware of her peculiar matrimonial alliances. Stewart has brought his action for divorce in the Supreme Court of this State for adul tery on account of the defendant’s relations with Aves in Canada. The defendant in her answer admits all the facts as regards the marriage and divorce proceedings in Englnnd, but alleges that she had not in fact been divorced from Tate at the time of her marriage to Stewart, and that at the time she married Stewart she was the wife of Charles Tate, who was still living. She therefore denies any adultery with Aves, and asks for a dismissal of the complaint and that judgment enfer declaring her mar riage contract with Stewart void. The leading question submitted to the court to determine is wffiether the second or der entered in the English court dissolved the marriage on Sept. 5, 1879, which was six months after the first order was entered, or whether the second order simply gave effect to the first order, and the marriage was dissolved when the first order was en tered. At all events it places the fair de fendant in a very peculiar position. She is the wife of somebody, and who is it? 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