The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, September 02, 1887, Page 5, Image 5

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THE FEMALE STRANGER. ONE OP THE INTERESTING LE GENDS OF OLD ALEX.ANDBIA. Xhe Strang© Couple Who Came From Unknown Lands The'.r Secluded Life and the Death of the Wife-Her Tomb Still Decorated With Flowers by Unknown Hands Alexandria, (Fa.) Letter in the Cincinnati Com mercial-Gazette. The story of the "Female Stranger" is one of the most mysterious and fascinating things I ever encountered. This tale is confused by contradictory re ports and accounts, and surrounded by le gend with a thousand differing stories. Every person born and reared in or near Alexandria has heard the story told, with all sorts of enlargements and embroideries, by mothers and nurses and the old gossips of the public inns and places where spirits are retailed. Between the long sermon and the short sermon for over seventy year's, the women folks, on Sabbath day, in old Christ church, have talked about the “Female Stranger,” and nobody thinks of leaving Alexandria without visiting her grave. Every man, woman, and child in Alex andria knows all about the history and the legends of the "Female Stranger,” and can point you the way to her grave and add to your store of "knowledge” about the sad fated, beautiful, and mysterious stranger. Under the cedars and oaks, in the old St. Paul church yard of Alexandria, is the grave of the “Female Stranger." Relic hunters have made sad inroads upon the ornamentations, and the iron railing that once inclosed the tomb has entirely disap peared. Lately the city has taken in charge the care of this famous tomb, and it is now well kept and guarded. The tombstone is an Bxs marble tablet, laid horizontally upon six elaborately carved while marble pillars. Upon the tablet is the inscription: TO THE MEMORY OF A FEMALE STRANGER, Whose mortal sufferings terminated on the 4th day of October, 1816, aged 23 years and 8 months. This stone is erected by her disconsolate husband, in whose arms she breathed out her last sigh, and who. under God, did his utmost to soothe the cold, dull ear of death. “How loved, how honored once avails thee not. To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, "fisall thou art, and all the proud shall be.” When I \v the tomb a bouquet of fresh flowers was lyl . g upou it, aud I learned that nearly every day this occurs, and the tomb is seldom without its tribute of flowers, ex cept in the extreme wintry months. Manv of these offerings are wild flowers—hearts ease, golden rod, clover, and daisies—but occasionally bouquets are placed upon the tomb which are specimens of the finest and costliest work of the florists, and made ud of the rarest and most delicate flowers from the conservatories. Choice exotics and beautiful flowers from the conservatories of Washington have been placed on this mys terious grave in mid-winter. There is no man or woman. Alexandria born, who will not readily recount to you the legend of the “Female Stranger,” but they differ essentially in minor details, and, indeed, in some of the principal points. One thing is sure—the woman who was buried there was unknown in Alexandria, as was the man who claimed to be her husband. They came to Alexandria upon a foreign vessel, and took quarters at the leading hotel. Some say it was the City Hotel, or the Indian Queen Hotel, and that it is now the old Braddock House, of which I wrote. She was a beautiful young girl, and he a handsome and distinguished-looking man. They bad one servant, and gave every evi dence of being people of high rank and great wealth. The old legends of Alexan dria are still full of the stories, dimmed by distance in time, of her beauty, her jewels, and her magnificent wardrobe. The two had the best quarters in the hotel; nothing that money could buy did they de ny themselves, but they absolutely refused to make any acquaintances, or give any clew to their Identity, and all inducements to tho valet who accompanied them were in vain. He would never speak, and nothing could lie gathered about them, beyond the belief that they were English in blood and noble in rank. The ship they came in had sailed away, and her people knew as little about her as the Alexandria folks did, and with her departure all clew to them was lost. Oue gentleman tells me that his mother often told him the story of the beautiful "Female Stranger,” and he had heard it told hundreds of times. His mother and grandmother united in declaring her a very beautiful young womun, kind and gracious —evidently a bom lady. They say she and the gentleman with her were English in ap pearance. She was above medium height, With full, voluptuous figure, #hd masses of fclonde hair. Her eyes were large and ex pressive, her mouth particularly small and sweet. Her manner, while dignified, was condescending and pleasant, and as she drove about Alexandria no person ever ap pealed to her in vain for charity. To the charities and charitable organizations she gave liberally, but refused to attend any meeting or receive any visitors. Her husband, for so he declares himself upon the tombstone, behaved much after the same manner. He was handsome, state ly, and dignified, but charmed all those he came in contact with by his manners and wit and good breeding. All the meeting there was between them and the peoplo of Alexandria was such as came by chance, and could not be avoided. Five mouths after they came to Alexan dria, the young wife became ill with one of those low fevers peculiar to a newly-settled country, and died. This appears to be the general opinion, but there are those who have it that she died in child-birth. The weight of evideuce, however, is against the latter idea, and the physician who attended her, so his descendants say, denied the truth of the story about, her dying in child-birth or from any such cause. Whenever the, physician was present, either the husband or the valet was also present. She was never allowed to be alone with any person except those accompany ing her, and when sho died she lay in the arms of her husband, with his lips pressed to hers. Only he and the valet were present to bury her. He sought the pleasant spot where tho tomb now standi, upon high ground, and already taken tor a cemetery oy St. Paul’s church. He and the valet were the only mourners. He staid long enough to order and see completed and placed over the grave the elaborate and handsome tnlilet as it now stands, left a sum of money to keep it in repair for a term of years, with tho promise that ho would come again or send money, when that, was cx js'iidod, took ship, ami sailed away, and "as never hoard of after. Ttmt is tho straight history of the “Fe nialo Stiangor,” as near ns it can lie given imni legend, flies of papers, anti general re port. There aro persons who assort that persona who saw the gentleman in Alexan dria, afterward saw him in New Orleans, nnd some eveu say that he came to Alexan dria years afterwards, and visited the grave of his wife. Another story, pretty well believed in, and coming down from reliable authority, is that one evening a Vessel, evidently a foreign inan-01-wur. anchored just lielow Alexandria. During the night the com mander and two boats’ craws cams off and went to the grave of the “Female Stranger," exhumed tho remifins, took them to the "b'P. nnd, at daybreak, dropped down the •"iver, and disappeared. Many believe this slory to be true, nn<l that if the grave were opened an empty vault would lw found, for the coffin, according to account, wiu placed in a solidly-constructed stone vault, six feet beneath the surface. Half a dozen different novels and stories have been constructed upon or woven in with all that is known of the history of the 'Female Stranger,” and so much fiction and imagination have still further served to confuse and obscure the real facte. A WILD ENGLISHMAN’S PRANKS. How He Enjoyed a Funeral with Him self as the Corpse. FVota the Omaha World. There died at Leavenworth, Kas., about seven yean? ago, one of the most remarka ble Englishmen that ever crossed the At lantic. He was the scion, or at least seemed to be, of a wealthy family, for he re ceived large sums of money from England quarterly, but further than this his past was a sealed book. He was known by the name of Green, and in general appearance was a typical Briton. He was very eccen tric. withal a very jovial companion and much sought by a certain element, especial ly about the time of the month he received his allowance, aud it was never very long after that event before the whole towu knew it. He was sure to engage in some absurd and unheard-of freak that would at tract the attention of the whole country. The only thing he was ever known to do while he re sided ;it Leavenworth was to devise and execute novel schemes for getting rid of Iris money. It usually took him only four or five days to run out of funds, but how he did make the quiet city on the banks of the Missouri howl during that, brief period! At these times he threw money right and left aud bought everything that struck his fancy, no matter whether it happened to be a thrashing-machine or a peanut roaster, a necktie or a silk dress. Everything went with him. After spending every cent he would retire to comparative seclusion, sel dom appearing on the streets until another installment arrived, when he would repeat the previous performance with elaborate va riations. On one occasion Green hired a hack, rounded up a few of his friends, and pro ceeded to do the town. The hackman knew him well and humored him in every whim until along toward morning, when he ordered him to drive to the fort, about a mile and a half north of the city. This the hackman refused to do, and Green became very indignant. “What’s your (hie) bloody old rig (hie) worth?” he blurted. "Eight hundred dollars,” replied the dri ver. Directing the hackman to drive to a neigh boring lamp-post Green fumbled around his clothes for awhile, and finally brought forth a Check-book. Then he with great difficulty tilled out a check for SBOO aud handed it to the driver. “There, confound you (hie), I'm boss of the sheebang (hie); drive to fort.” The driver informed him that he no longer owned the team and carriage, and would therefore quit handling the reins right then and there. Finally Green succeeded in hir ing him for the trip, paying S2O in gold for his services. On returning to the city Green presented the turnout to the driver and that individ ual was just SB2O richer than he was before the party got into the hack. About the worst eccentricity the wild En glishman ever committed occurred three months after the hack incident. Ho mado very elaborate arrangements for a funeral procession and spent money freely in doing it. He secured a brass band, all the car riages in the city, and the finest hearse to be had, all covered with black plumes. He tilled the hacks with women of the town, gamblers, loafers, and everybody eise that he could induce with money to take a ride. When everything was in readiness ho went into the undertaking establishment, in front of which the hearse and carriages were sta statioued, and, donning a shroud, crawled into a magnificent eoflhi and had himself carried out and deposited in the hearse. Preceded by the baud playing a funernl march, the procession moved down the street in tho most solemn manner. It was was early in the afternoon of a lovely day, and the sidewalks were crowded with peo ple. Nothing unusual occured until the cortege reached the corner of Delaware and Fourth streets, right in the centre of the city. Then, suddenly, without warning, Green kicked the lid off the coffin, sprang up, and wjth an unearthy yell went head first through the glass sides of the hearse. The scene that followed the appearance of this apparition can not be described. Wom en fainted dead away, children were terror stricken, and men turned pale. Confusion reigned, nnd it seemed for a time that every body had gone crazy. The police finally put in an appearance and arrested Green. When the crowd learned that they had not seen a ghost, and that nobody had risen from the dead, that it was all one of the wild Eng lishman’s capers, their indignation knew no bounds, and the police had great difficulty in preventing them from lynching him. Ho was heavily fined in Police Court the next morniqg, besides receiving a scathing lec ture from Judge Vaughn. This little affair cost Green thousands of dollars, but he had bushels of fun out of it, at least so he said. He kept up his periodical tears until a year or two before he died, when the remit tances failed to materialize longer, and ho seemed to be in a bad fix indeed, broken down, penniless, friendless, and utterly un able to take care of himself, but the hack man of whom he bought the team and car riage, long before, remembered his bene factor. He hunted up Green, took him to his home, and cared for him until he died, and then gave his remains decent burial, but the mystery that surrounded him was never cleared up. A Stenographer’s Remarkable Feat. Detroit Special to the Netc York Times. Mr. Fred J. Ireland, a court stenogra pher of this city, has just returned from at tending tho convention of the New York State stenographers at Alexandria Bay, This trip was the result of a controversy that has been in progress for the last two years be tween the short hand men of the Bast and the West, growing out of some correspon dence between Mr. Ireland and the New York association, in which the former tetok the lto sition that a high rate of speed was fre quently essential to accurate court reporting, and that there were court reporters in Michi gan who could write 250 words per min ute and maintain it for several consecutive minutes. Finally Mr. A. F. Little, a Roches ter stenographer, offered to pay SSO to see that rate Kept up for five minutes. Accord ingly Mr. Ireland and Mr. Isaac 8. Dement, a former Michigan writer, hut now of Chi cago, drop; ted in on their Now York breth ren at Alexandria Bay. Mr. Little then placed his offer in a different form, to tho effect that I,'JGO words must be consecutively written, without an error of a single wonl or the division of a sentence, and there must be no deviation from the printed copy, which he claimed tho privilege of selecting. After some controversy this was finally accepted, and the select matter turned over to the Western men. Mr. Ireland read the s dection and Mr. Dement did tho writing. After a few preliminary trials ho wrote l.iflfcj words in five consecutive minutes, and read the matter back to the convention, while a committee consisting of E. D. Easton, the famous reporter of theGuiteau trial; George R. Bishop, official reporter of the New York Stock Exchange, and George Thornton, an official reporter of Buffalo, compared the notes with the original. This was an average <tf 258 words per minute. In the 1,292 words read back there was but a single deviation from the text which the committee considered material. More than 250 words were correctly written in each of the live minutes. The President of the asso ciation, CoL E. B. Dickinson, or N'tw York city, said tbit In more than twenty-five yours of active experience a* a stenographer It was the most remarkable piece of writing that he had ever smi done, and tliat he hail never dreamed that such a rate of speed i mill Ims attained. This was done by the Graham lyztcm. which is the oue chiefly used in Micuigau. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1887. FLY STORMS. A Painter Elucidates His Theory of Their Occurrence In Summer. From the New York Evening Sun. “You never heard of a fly storm, did you?” an old house painter asked. The reporter hadn’t. “Well. I reckon it will be anew thing for most people to hear of, But one comes near ly every year at this season. The storm be gan about June 1. It lasted a week. This part of the country was stocked with flies. I’ve studied fly storms for forty years. It’s mighty hard to tell when one is coming. On general principles you can say that it will follow close on the first warm wave. When the weather comes to stay, then we have a fly storm. Sometimes it is a little previous, but not often. When the first fly storm is at hand, a gardener can safely set out his his most delicate plants and seeds. There will be no chilly weather after that. “When a fly storm is at hand you feel the air moving as if a funnel with a bellows at tachment was pointed at you. The atmos phere grows suddenly thick. Heaven help a newly painted house when that happens, especially if the house is white. The storm tattooes it completely with wriggling black specks. They are young flies. Most of them are no larger than pin heads. They can’t get away from a coat of fresh paint. If 1 had a dollar for every fly that sticks to the side of a freshiy painted house exposed to one of these storms, and right in its Une, I would almost lit- ready to match my pile against Jay Gould s. In about two seconds they will mark a house so that one would think it could never be cleaned.” “Does a fly storm worry housekeepers?” “Well, I should say so. Many a little woman sits down and has a good cry after a fly storm. It seems at first as if there was nothing left to do but paint the house again. But like many things that worry |>eople, it seems a groat sight worse than it is. The rest go with the first good breeze or rain, leaving the house perfectly clean." “How do you account for fly storms?” “Well, flies probably come just as bees do. They find warm places to winter aud in the spring turn their broods loose to the wind, which carries them in clouds to northern alighting places. They say that a queen bee lays J,OOO eggs a day. It looks as though something like this must happen with this kind of fly. If that is so, a few families starting together on a southerly breeze a month after the breeding season begins would make quite a cloud. A fly storm always comes from the south. 1 huve seen houses after a storm with their sides exposed to the souths black, and with not a speck on any other side. A n yb°dy who is curious to know what a fly storm is like can see for himself almost any day just now when there is a warm breeze if he watches a newly painted, light-colored surface for a little while about sunset. That is the time of day the storm usually conies, when tho sun doesn’t scorch the air." TALE OF A THOUGHTFUL RAT. How She Looked Out for the Safety of Her Young Ones. From the American Naturalist. On a very warm day in early summer I happened to be standing near a chicken coop in a back yard, when I noticed the head of a very gray and grizzled rat thrust from a neighboring rat hole, and concluded to watch the movements of the veteran. After a careful survey of the surroundings, our old rodent seemed to be satisfied that all was right, and made a cautious exit from the home retreat. A fresh pan of water had been recently placed before the chicken coop, and the water looked a friendly invi tation to the thirsty old rat, which immedi ately started toward it. Tne rat had not reached the pan before five half-grown young ones rushed ahead and tried to be the 11 ret at the water. The old rat thereupon made a leap like a kanga roo, and was at the edge of the dish in ad vance of the foremost of her litter. Then ensued a most remarkable occurrence. The mother rat raised herself on her haunches, and hit aud scratched her offspring so se verely whenever they attempted to reach the water that they all finally scudded away, evidently very much astonished and frightened at the strange and unaccount able behavior of their mother. When the little ones were at a safe distance the rea sons for her extraordinary behavior began to be revealed at once in th 9 intelligent ac tion of the old mother rat. She first wetted her whiskers in the water, looked suspiciously about her, then very cautiously and carefully took a dainty little sip of tne liquid. She tasted it as tenta tively and critically as a professional tea taster, and when she was satisfied that it contained no poisonous or other deleterious matter, she gave a couple of squeaks, which quickly brought heir young and thirsty brood to her side, and all fearlessly drank their fill. Now, this old mother rat was ex oerienced —had evidently learned her lesson in that school thoroughly—and so she would not allow her young and untaught litter to taste water which might have contained rat poison, or what not, until sho had satisfied herself that the liquid was harmless. I*AIN KILLER. Jmoler&Morbus |T* ramps |*o lie FTpirhoe^ f^ummer complaints I |YSentery kWU Cured by# teaspoon fu[ of Perr/j)avis?m Ciller in a little /rfilCor Sugar and date/? 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Odds and ends in Silk Cloves for Ladies and Misses at surprising reductions. 25 dozen Ladies' 4 ply clerical shape Linen Collars with cape, our former 20c. collars, re duced now to 10c. All those Igulies' extreme high Collars, with straight and turn edges, formerly 25c , now at 15c. 50 dozen of the finest modeled Corsets, ex travagant silk stitching. bone filled and extra long, reduced to 50c. from 87c.; all sixes. 10b dozen Ijidies'broad rim and high crown rough and ready Straw Hats, in white and black, only 250 ; worth 50c. 80 dozen I-adies' rough ami ready Straw Sail ors, in white and black, at 25c. Cir-pon't Delay for the old rule holds good, FIRST COME, Etc. Grand Catches in Every Department. - a UAS FIXTURES, IIOSE, ETC. JOHNIICOLSON, Jr. DEALER IN Gas Fixtures, GLOBES & SHADES. PLUMBERS’, MACHINISTS’ AND • Mi 11 Supplies, ENGINE TRIMMINGS, Steam Tracking, SHEET GUM, Hydrant, Steam and Soctioa HOSE. IRON PIPES AND * FITTINGS, Lift and Force Pumps. 30 and 32 PFavton St. ci.o rnwo. CAUTION! Unscrupulous dealers in woolen fabrics, seeking to take advantage of the Ever-Increasing Popularity OF OUR SANITARY Woolen Underwear, ARE putting upon the market spuriouS articles, manufactured in Imitation of IfcJ JAJCOEft'B Goods and Brand. All persons **,' therefore, warned against, purchasing any of these goods unless stain,sal with our TRADE MARK as exhibited ou every garment manu factured by ua. with Ur. Jaeger's i’hotogranb and tar simile Signature. A complete line of our goods can always b* hud of our Agents. A. Falk & Son, SOLE AGENTS FOR DR. JAEGER'S SANITARY WtJOLEN 00* I "."11. '•■1,11 nail Ia iwmpii— FRUIT AND GROCERIES. rEi^om Cabbages, Potatoes, Onions. 30,000 busliels CORN. 18,000 bushels OATS, HAY. BRAN, GRITS. MEAL, STOCK FEED. Grain and Hay in carload a siiecialty. COW f*EAB, all varieties. RUST PROOF OATS. Our STOCK FEED ta prepared with great care and is just the thing for Horses and Mules in this weather. Try It. T. P. BOND & CO., inn Hay Street. APPLES Northern Apples, Cabbage, Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions, Lemons, Lemons, Eastern Hay, Western Hay, Corn, Oats, Bran, Eyes, Feed Meal, Field Seed, Feed and Table Peh Get our carload prtcee ou GRAIN awl HAY. 169 BAY ST, W.D.SIMKINS&O^ 5