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nER RACE FOR MAYOR.
MRS. BECKWITH TELLS THE STORY
OF HER CAMPAIGN.
She Set Out to Reform Politics In
Brooklyn and Oot Something Less
Than 100 Votes—A Binging Plat
form and a Quick Canvass She
Hopes to "Get There” Soma Day Yet.
{Copyright 1889.)
New York, Nov. 16.—1 have been asked
to write a brief history of my campaign
for the mayoralty of Brooklyn, for the in
formation of the progressive women of
America and of those who love good gov
ernment everywhere. Well, there is really
nothing remarkable in the narrative, now
that the battle is over, yet I will endeavor
to explain how it all came about.
Since childhood I have always been a
friend to the under dog in a fight. My
mother has often caught me with my
sleeves rolled up. valiantly pitching into
some other girl who had been abusing a
child half her age. So, naturally as I grew
older, I became a champiou of women, and
any piece of injustice to our sex has always
rouse! my hottest indignation. It made no
difference what quality of dress the unpro
tected wore, or what station in life she
filled, if she needed my sympathy and help
it was given with a will. I have seen the
farmers of lowa driving their elegant
teams and Studebaker wagons, the men
sitting on the only seat while wives
and children lay on the springless bottom
of the wagons. I remember when the first
millinery store was opened in a town in
that state, how the farmers regarded the
milliner as a robber who had designs on
their pocketbooks, since she persuaded their
hardworking wives to provide themselves
with something more becoming than old
fashioned sunbonnets. They were so mean
—those farmers—that they finally drovo
the poor milliner out of town. Bhe was a
widow with five children to sun|>ort, while
some of the farmers who conspired to ruin
her were worth $250,000. I stood up for
the widow and she rewarded me by saving
my baby’s life.
Within the past ten years women have
proved their capacity for business in a won
derful way. They have gone extensively
♦nfo telegraphy, typewriting, stenography
and other lines heretofore confined to men.
I was one of the pioneer working women of
New York, although I am still under 40.
When I first was employed the consent of
the owner of the building had to be secured
before I could begin. I had to promise to
be good and not to demoralize the men en
gaged in the same building. My exper
iences at that period would fill a volume.
MRS. EMMA BECKWITH.
When I came to live in Brooklyn, my
sympathies were attracted to the large
numbers of working girls—from 13 to 30
years of age—who were kept cruelly under
the harrow of their employers. There was
one case in particular—a carpet factorv—
where the girls were fined by the foreman
or his assistants if they dared to refuse the
oft-repeated request for special favors tia
need not be described. Those less scrupu
lous were treated to half holidays, with full
pay and the like. To the lasting shame of
the people of Brooklyn these girls, and
twenty-five young men who sympathized
with them, were compelled to leave their
work and suffer.
Shortly after this I became acquainted
with Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the woman
candidate for President. I had grown tlrod
of so much talking with so little action
among the advocates of equal rights, and I
felt that this lady had struck the keynote
of the situatiou when she became a candi
date. When I saw her earnestness of pur
pose ray apibition was raised to the point
of emulation. It came to me gradually
that my purpose could lie best attained by
becoming a candidate for mayor, and last
spring I decided doing so. My im
mediate family bade me a heartv
“Godspeed.” During the summer I
formed my plans and received many
promises of support. Had it not been for
the enthusiasm of my friends, I think my
own fear of Mother Grundy would have
overruled my judgment in the matter.
With the formal nomination of the Equal
Right* party and the issuance of my letter
of acceptance, there ctrae a sense of relief
that one troublesome difficulty, at least, had
been surmounted. After that I had no
misgivings; it was all clear work ahead.
Right here I wish to say that I was not
misled for a moment as to the probabilities.
"Without expecting to be elected mayor, I
counted upon a moral triumph and a vin
dication of principle. Tho result shows
that I was right.
My canvass began ten days before elec
tion. It was not a bed of roses while it
lasted; yet there were many pleasant
episodes. I suppose I escaped those annoy
ances that fall to the lot of male candidates,
such as visits from political strikers, im
perative invitations to buy tickets to
“benefits” for people I never heard of, re
quests for money for workers, and the
like. We bad none of the methods and
machinery of the older organizations, yet
we were organized in almost every ward in
the city. My husband, who is a republican
and a G. A. R. man—had 17,000
ballots printed, and paid for them
himself. They were all in the form of
“pasters.” My most active supporters
during the canvass were Mrs.'Amelia
Morgan, E. St. John (a staunch republican)
and Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who spoke at
our two large meetings, where I also ad
dressed the audiences. I know that Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Au
thony were in sympathy, although there
wereßomeof the Women's Rights party
who made it a point to injure me as much
as possible. Will Carleton, the poet, came
to our meetings with his wife, and assured
me of his sympathetic support.
I passed election day quietly at home.
"We had no reception, no crowd, no excite
ment, but went about our vocations as
usual. The election inspectors had assured
me that my vote would be counted. We
were naturally a little anxious to know the
result of the experiment. Returns came in
very slowly in Brooklyn. Up to the present
time I have received returns from seven
wards incomplete, and from twelve scatter
ing election districts, in all of which the
figures show 14 votes for me. At this rate
I would have anyway from 50 to 100 in the
city entire.
Sow, I count thi6 a triumph. Had I had
the money necessary to a thorough organ
ization, my vote would have been from
1,000 to 2,000. Many promised to support
me who were doubtless afterward dis
suaded from doing so by their allegiance to
one or other of the older parties. Some
came here to my parlor and promised. I
recall one young man who pledged himself
to cast his maiden vote for me. and I have
wondered since whether he kept his word.
My total election expenses were some
thing less tnan SIOO, which was paid by ray
family. We had no campaiu fund. The
platform was, I think, clear enough for all
who read it to understand. It embraced
planks calling for ballot reform on the
Australian system: compulsory education;
high license and local option; the nationali
zation of nationalism*; equal wages for
equal work for both sexes; the ballot
for both sexes and compulsory voting.
1 believe that every one who is entitled
to the suffrage should be compelled
use it, and in this way respectable people,
who now stay away from the primaries an 1
the polls, leaving the whole machinery to
the control of the politicians, would be
made to take an active interest in elections.
Their indifference has helped to make politics
corrupt. Tammany is an illustration of the
corruption of a system that has been
allowed to undormineour politi -s. I don’t
think very much of either of tbe present
parties; one i just as bad as the ether.
Bome people affect to sneer at ■■ omen
who take an interest in politics and honest
government; but all the facts go to prove
that our sex is just as capable of adminis
tering business affairs as men are. Women
are daily showing more and more business
qualities. They can manage big estates,
postoffioes, barks, and, quite lately, I
read of oue lady who was the presi
dent of a surface railroad. When I saw
that, down in Ka n sas, there were several
towns entirely officered bv women, and
that?in these towns owing to the rigid
economy and honesty of the local adminis
tration, no taxes have been levied tnis
year, the surplus revenue of last year being
sufficient to meet all expenses, I asked
myself whether the vast am unt of money
annually raised i:i Brooklyn as taxes was
really all needed, I don’t believe it is. If I
had been cbmen mayor, I would have seen
to it that the city’s affairs were managed
so as to bring a* out the best result at the
lowest cost. I would have matrons
in tbe police stations; several
women police justices, for women alone can
try women properly; women to sweep the
street, for they can do it better than the
laborers ever do, and it is no more degrad
ing than cleaning out offi es and scouring
saloon floors, but it is better pay. I think,
too, that one-half of the aldermen should bo
women. There is the seat of all municipal
corruption. The presence of women In the
board would make bribery, corruption and
vicious legislation next to impossible. There
should be women on the Park board, too,
tor women have a finer eye for beauty than
men, and w >uld be better able to deal intel
ligently with the decor ition and improve
ment of our public parks.
No candidate was ever more kindly, or
even gallantly, treated thau I have been. I
was surprised by the number of congratu
lations received. Then the newspapers
spoke so kindly. Of course some little
levity was indulged in, as, for instance,
whore an editor jocosely suggested that my
ballots be printed on primrose pink paper,
or where another addressed me as “Whoa,
Emma!”, whic i exclamation, I must con
fess, has the same effect on me as the men
tion of a white hor- would have on a red
haired girl. But I took it all philosophi
cally, snutting my eyes and ears to every
thing. Incidentally, I may say that a
source of considerable amusement has been
the alleged portraits of myself printed in
the different newspapers, all of which were
unrecognizable.
This is a progressive world, and a more
than progressive age. We all learn by ex
perience, and I have learned much in my
late campaign that will bo valuable to me
should niv friends carry out their purpose
of organizing on an extensive scale, and
making another effort two years hence,
under a woman’s leadership, to scale the
parapet of municipal extravagance and
corruption, and make a fight to give our
city a better government, and its women,
at least, some of the rights they are now
denied. Emma Beckwith.
A DOCTOR’S PAINFUL DEATH.
Recent Sad Occurrence In a Hospital
at Vienna.
"A most distressing case has,” writes the
Vienna correspondent of the Daily News ,
“caused a wing of the general hospital to
be closed for a time, and the nurses to be
kept out of contact with any one not be
longing to the hospital. In the month of
August a man was brought to the hospit ,1
suffering from the terrible disease called
glanders, which tie had taken from a horse
similarly afflicted. He soon died, and a
military surgeon, Dr. Rowland, who has
spent many years examining bacill® of all
kinds, undertook to subject the dead body
to a close examination. This as in itself
a most dangerous piece of work.
“By the aid of the microscope he soon
succeeded in finding the bacillus, which ho
reared, to watch the manner of its growth
and its vitality. An ambitious young
physician, Dr. Hoffmann, expressed his
doubts as to whether the bacillus reared
artificially had still in it the power of in
fection. Dr. Rowaiski gave him one of his
families, and Dr, Hoffmann soon saw that
the poiso i still had the most deadly power.
All the animals he injected with it died of
the horribls malady. At the beginning of
October Dr. Hoffmann caught cold and felt
acute pains in his side. The pain increased,
aud Dr. Hoffmaun tried to cure it by in
jecting morphia. He did it with the syringe
which he had used for injecting the glanders
poison into the doomed animals.
“Although it had bean disinfected in
glowing heat, soma particles of tbe poism
must have still been iu it, for Dr. Hoffmann
grew worse every day, and last Monday his
friends took him to the hospital. His col
leagues ware horrified when they saw him —
the whole body being covered by terrible
ulcers, which, when they were examined,
proved to be tilled with the glanders poison.
The case touches the whole medical pro
fession to the heart; 200 doctors are busy
ing themselves with it, and all the great
professors visit the patient several times a
day. Until Oct. 23, Dr. Hoffmann was iu
groat pain, but he then happily lost all con
sciousness. He knew perfectly well what
as the matter with him, and gave a cool
account of what he had done, and what the
consequences were likely to be. Later in
the night Dr. Hoffmann died without re
gaining consciousness.”
Chinese Business Methods.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Not many people would think of going to
the Chinese for lessons in business methods,
yet such is the system pursued by their
merchants that even in the little Chinese
shops in Philadelphia suggestions might be
gathered that would not go amiss to our
own tradespeople. In the first place, every
sale, no matter if only 1 cent’s worth, is at
once recorded in an account book, and
while double entry book keeping is not
practiced or understood, each store has a
set of books, which are balauced to a nicetv
at frequent intervals aud the proportions of
profit or loss alioted to the several partners.
Co-operation is successfully carried on; one
half the customers, in fact, may have an
interest in the store, and the manager, who
is thus constantly supervised, is paid a
liberal salary and usually given an interest
in the p ofits. The merchandise is con
stantly being overhauled, and on days
when business is dull the clerks are
exp.cted to take down the more perishable
articles from the shelves in order that none
may be injured through neglect. Eggs,
melons, and vegetables generally are sold
by weight, as they should be, and the
weights and measures are arranged on a
decimal system which makes computation
easy. The abacus is everywhere employed
in the shops here, no Chinaman ever mak
ing the simplest mental computation with
out its assistance, or ever resorting to
pencil and paper to facilitate or confirm a
calculation. There is a common impression
among foreigners that a Chinese clerk can
add up a column of figures taster by means
of his abacus than the mos; experienced
bookkeeper can in the usual way. Experi
ment disproves this, but no sympathy need
be wasted on the Chinaman for adhering to
his old method. He is learning fast enough.
His skill as a merchant has made itself felt
on the Pacific coast, where he is becoming
as unpopular among the merchants he dis
places as with the unskilled laborers who
fear his patient, untiring industry.
The famous novelist tolstoi has just found
ed a society in Moscow with the intention of
“popularizing misery.”
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1889--TWELVE PAGES.
ANGRY ELEPHANT LOOSE.
EXCITING MARCH FROM HOBOKEN
TO JERSEY CITY.
Prince, Late of Glen Island, Eurls
One Man t gainst a Building and
Throws Another Down and Then
Walks Over Him, but Doesn't turt
Him—Frightened at Trains.
From the New York Sun.
An elephant raised a great rumpus in
Hoboken and Jersey Citf early yesterday
morning. Several days ago Mr. Hermann
Reicbe received an order from Messrs. An
derson & Wallace, of Peru, Ind., for a car
load of animals. Among the animal* or
dered was an elephant. Arrangement*
were made to ship all the animals to Indi
ana early yesterday morning. Mr. Reicbe
went to Hoboken on Sunday evening so as
to be ready to superintend the shipment in
the morning. He slept in his big house ad
joining his animal barn, and at a little be
fore 4 o’clock he arose and went to work.
There was no trouble with any of the ani
mals except Prince, the elephant. He is 10
years old, ands ands just o |o feet. He has
been accustomed to passing nis summers for
several years on Glen Island, and his
disposition was soured there by the atten
tions of mischievous boys. Since the close
of the season there he has been tied up iu
the Hobok u barn. This did not improve
his temper. He looked so vicious w hen the
men approached him yesterday morning
that they fastened hi3 feet together with
heavy chains. The chains ran from his hind
feet to his fore feet, and although they were
long enough to allow of his walking they
prevented his taking very long steps. Hav
ing thus slightly hampered Prince’s free
dom of movement, the men turned him
loose. Then two of them, Edward Thieler
and Robert Puck, approached Prince with
two little hooks, shaped just like boathooks,
aud persuaded him to follow them out iuto
the street. They inserted the hooks into
Prince’s ear aud into his lower lip. _a-jj
The street was silent and deserted, but
well Hah ted by the moon. As thev went
down Tenth street nothing could be heard
but the clanking of the captive’s chains as
he strode after Thieler and Puck. They
went to Bloomfield street aud on to Newark
avenue. They turned down Newark
avenue, and were going peaceably along
when right ahead of them at Railroad
street was the North Hudson County Ele
vated railroad. They had got to within
twenty yards of the structure when a train
came by. Prince didn’t like it. He gave
his big ears a couple of flaps, elevated his
trunk, gave a long and shrill trumpet blast,
turned on his shackled heels and fled.
Thieler and Puck were taken completely
by surprise, and their hooks flew out of
their hands. Before they could recover
them Prince was half a block away. He
was galloping as well as his chains would
permit, aud was trutnpe’ing like a whole
company of buglers. Several horses at
tached to milk wagons were in the street,
but they did not remain there. They all
started on a bee lino for the northern part
of the state. At the front of the procession
going down Newark avenue was George
Brown, Reiche’s colored c achman. Ho had
artned himself with a long elephant hook in
case an emergency should rise. When
Browii saw that Prince had escaped he ran
after him with his long hook in his hand.
He soon caught the elephant and rau up to
him to catch him with the hook. Prince
turned and let his trunk fly with such force
at the colored man’s stomach tuat the man
went flying over against the front of a
grocery, w here ho lay on the pavement un
conscious. •
As soon as Mr. Reiche saw his coachman
knocked out with a blow below the belt his
anger arose, and he determined to take an
active hand in the row. He picked up tbe
long hook which had fallen from Brown’s
hand a id b l lly charged at the elephant,
Mr. Reiche is so . ething of a swell, and, not
thinking that ho would be called upon to do
anything but superintend the shipping of
his animals, he had put on a pair of light
check trousers, a light overcoat, a silk hat,
and a pair of patent leather shoos. But the
thought that he might ruin his fine clothes
did not cause him to hesitate. He waded
th.ough the mud and grabbed Prince with
his hook. He caught biui in tho jaw, and
the elephant gave a howl of rage and pain
ai.d turned into an open lot, where
he proceeded to yank Mr. Reiche around
as it he was practicing anew tackle for a
college football match. Reiche clung to his
hook, and finally, with the assistance of
Thieler and Puck, succeeded in getting
Prince into a corner and keening him tnere.
The nextthiug done waste shorten Prince’s
chains, so that he would be still less free in
his movements. When this had bean ac
complished they drove and pulled the ele
phant out into the street again, and with a
good deal of trouble persuaded him to go
quietly under the and ended elevated road.
After passing this the party turned down
Henderson street, Reiche with his loug hook
in the elephant’s cheek, and Thieler and
Puck w.th their short ones in his ears.
The trumpeting of the elephant and the
shouts of the men made a tremendous
racket, and in every window along the
route was a head, in some instances sur
mounted by a nightcap. Hoboken was get
ting excited.
They had got to within a few yards of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad trestiework at Sixteenth street
when a train came rattling by. Again
Prince lifted his trunk and trumpeted, and
again he wheeled and started back the way
he had come. He easily wrenched himself
away from the hooks of Thieler and Puck,
but he had more difficulty with the long
one in Mr. Reiche’s hands. The animal im
porter held on, and away he and Priuce
went in a close race for Newark avenue.
They reached there, and then Prince
paused and devoted himself to Mr. Reiche
for a few- moments. He charged on him so
savagely that Mr. Reiche was forced to
drop the hook and flee for his life. Prince
kept close after him and drovo him upon
a porch iu front of a small frame house.
Wbeu the elephant found that he c mid not
catch Air. Reiche he caught hold of one of
the posts which held up the pored and tried
with all his strength to tear it do vn. He
shook the house so that Mr. Reiche was
glad to clamber over the railing at the end
of the porch and retire to a safe distance.
It was getting along toward 6 o’clock in
the morning now, and many workmen had
paused ou tnoir way to their work to see
the row. They all kept at a good distance
fro n the scene of hostilities, however.
“I’ll give $5 for a bale ho ik!” shouted
Mr. Reiche to the crowd. Somebody threw
one to him, a id be picked it up and pluckilv
tackled the enraged elephant again. This
time he caught the hook ou Prince’s lower
lip. The bale hook was very suarp, and it
went right through tho lip aud stuck out at
the lower side. The elephant bellowed
with rage and pain, and the blood spurted
in a great stream from his wound, and
painted Mr. Reiche’s light overcoat a
brill ant carmine. The blood ran down
Mr. Reic ie’s arm to tho shoulder. This
treatment was more than Prince had
bargained for, and, although he bellowed
with pain and frignt, ha did not attempt to
attack the man again.
The other men came up at this juncture,
and Mr. Reiche turned over his bale hook
to Thieler. Again they started down Hen
derson street. They succeeded in getting
Prince to go quietly under the Delaware,
lisekawanna and Western railroad trestle,
and began to think that they would have
no further trouble with him. But they
were mistaken. Princi was only taking a
breathing spell. He went peaceably along
until just before he arrived at the grade
crossing of the Erie railroad at Twelfth
street. He had been behaving himself so
well, and was in such evident pain
from the hook through his lower
lip, that Thieler had humanely re
moved it, and had instead taken a
gentle hold of Prince’s cheek. That was a
fatal mistake, for at the Erie railroad
crossing mentioned some of the engineers
were shunting freight cars. Prince did not
approve of this, and after looking at them
a moment he gave th . buele call for the re
treat once more. As he did so he wheeled
and started back for his Hoboken barn.
This time it was Thieler’s turn to be pulled
through the deep mud, and he underwent
the ordeal with great fortitude. He
flout dered along by the elephant's head for
about thirty yards, and then Prince turned
on him, and with a blow of his trunk sent
him spinning into the gutter.
There was a cry of horror from the other
men and from the big crowd which had
gathered, as they saw Thieler flung down
in front of the enraged monster, but to
their great s irpriso and relief Prince did
not continue his attack. Instead of doing
so he walked right over Thieler’s prostrate
body without touching him. Every one
has seen elephants walk over the bodies of
trainers at circuses, but it is a novelty for
an enraged elephant to go through the act
without training, especially when it is per
formed over the body of a man against
whom his anger is directed. Be this as it
may, Prince certainly did walk over
Thieier’s body without touching him at all.
Mr. Reiche said afterward that he thought
Thieler’s safety lay in the fact that he was
lying in the depression of the gutter,
aud the elephant naturally stepped over the
gutter to get on the sidewalk.
Thieler lost no time in getting on his feet
and out of the way as soon as Princs had
passed over him. The man bad been hurt
considerably by the blow from the trunk and
by the fall, but, with great pluck, he went
right at the elephant again, and helped to
recapture him. This time the men pursued
new tactics. They procured a long rope
and fastened it around the right foreleg of
Prince. Several of them took hold of the
rope and the others got good grips with
their hooks, or went behind and whipped
Prince along with sticks. In this way they
managed to get Prince over the Erie tracts
and on toward their destination.
By this time the neighborhood was
thoroughly aroused, and a great crowd fol
lowed at a safe distance or ran ahead and
helped on the rope. For several blocks
Prince was led a submissive captive, with
the big crowd shouting and yelling all
around him. Every one had a piece of ad
vice to offer.
As the procession approached the trestle
crossing at Sixth street those in immediate
charge of Prince got ready for some more
fun. It was well that they were on the
lookout, for just as they reached the cross
ing, sure enough, Prince made another bolt.
As soon as he started those who held the
rope ran to a telegraph pole and twisted
the rope about it.
Priuce could not break the rope, and it
was a comparatively easy thing to got him
to proceed on his journey once more. Mr.
Diizal, Air. Reiche’s bookkeeper and
cashier, went ahead and persuaded the
locomotive engineers to back away from
the crossing aud give a clear road. After
that Prince and his numerous retinue and
escort went placidly to the freight depot of
the Pennsylvania railroad. Priuce tried to
break away once more when he got out on
the ferry pier, but it was a very mild at
tempt compared with the others.
A cir was waiting in the Adams Express
Company’s shed, and all the other auimals
were loaded into it, Prince meansyhile being
tied to a post, The party had been just two
hours and three-quarters in making the trip
from the Hobokon farm to tho freight shed
As soon as all the other animals were safely
put away in tho car Prince was taken to it;
his shackles were removed, aud he was
forced to kneel so that he could enter the
low doorway. Who i after a great deal of
trouble, and many shrill protests from the
elephant, he was put into tue oar, his chains
were ret'astened to his legs and tne ends let
down through four holes in t..e bottom of
the car. Then the chains were fastened un
derneath, and Prince was safe, ready to
start for the west, where he will have a
chance to grow up with the country.
Edward Thieler, who had been so roughly
treated by Prince, and who was covered
from head to foot with mud and blood,
went into the car with Pritic9, and he will
travel all the way to Indiana with him and
the other animals. Mr. Reiche at once re
turned to Holioken to see how George Brown
was getting on. He found that Brown was
pretty badly shakeu up and bruised, but
not seriously hurt. T hen Mr. Reiche got
into a cab and went to the Westminster
hotel m this city, where he lives. He went
in the back way and discarded his ruined
clothes. He found that his right shirt
sleeve was soaked with Prince’s bipod all
the way to the shoulder.
BRUCE’S DUSKY BRIDE.
She la a Beautiful Indian Maiden and
He Has Had Work Getting He-
From the New York Sun.
Montreal, Nov. B.— Among the mem
bers of the six Indian tribes on the Indian
reservation at Brantford, a small village in
Ontario, is a family bearing the English
namo of Washburn. The family is a very
intelligent one and posseted of some wealth.
One of the family, Mrs. Washburn, is an
Indian songstress, who travels around the
country under the Iroquois name of Neos
kaleta. The only daughter of this lady,
Irene Washburn, is a beautiful girl about
16 years of age, and she has been in the
habit of accompanying her mother on her
tours. The girl’s rich Indian beauty won
her numerous admirers, but she declined
all offers until she met her fate a few davs
ago iu this city.
It came about in this way: Mrs. Wash
burn and Irene came to Montreal on a visit
soma weeks ago. While here they were in
troduced to a young Montrealer, W. L.
Bruce, whose family invited the Indian
songstress and her black-eyed daughter to
be their guests. Bruce is handsome, clever,
and well to do. The invitation was ac
cepted, and the visit lasted a week. During
this time young Bruce was devoted to the
fascinating Indian maiden an 1 she was as
fascinated by bis devotion, so that when the
parting came there was a tacit understand
ing that the friendship so quickly formed
should be continued by letter. Irene re
turned to her home on the Six Nations
reservation, where she resided with her
aunt, a Mrs. Powiess, and though she wrote
regularly to her lover, she did not always
get an answer. Believing something was
•wrong, she enlisted a bright young Indian
friend to assist her and act as a sort of dis
tributing poscoflice.
Every week came the letters, and faith
fully they were answered. Each one but
served to increase Bruco’s determination to
marry the daughter of Ne iskaieta, and
finally he wrote that he would meet her on
Sunday last, and that they would drive to a
minister, get married, and leave for
Montreal. Mrs. Powiess found it out, and
determined that I'-ene should not marry the
young man. Th >ugh she knew nothing of
the arrangements, there was something in
Irene’s actions that made her very sus
picious. Mrs. Powle s told certain of her
friends among the Indians to keep a sharp
lookout for the young paleface, and when
he put in an appearance to run him off the
reservation.
But Irene had her stanch Indian friends,
too, and they assisted to smooth the way.
On Sunday Bruce drove from B’-antford,
accompanied by a well-known young
Indian, through whom it is supposed the
correspondence was kept up. At a certain
spot the lovers met, but their meeting was
spoiled by the relatives appearing on the
scene. Irene was carried back to her home
and Bruce was put on a ferry and sent
across the river.
Irene’s friends arranged for another at
tempt at elopement on Monday. They mot,
drove rapidly to a church, were married
and had just started away when the girl
was again taken from him by her angry
relatives. Bruce could do nothing alone,
and, with a whisper of hope to her, drovo
to Brantford to institute legal proceedings
for the recovery of his wife. But while he
sat closeted with his lawyer Irene’s friends
were at work. During Monday night they
stole her from the house, brought her to
this city and delivered her up t.o her hus
band. The Montrealer aid his Indian
bride are now living happily together.
Marble Clock— What's the matter, Nickel?
You don't look well.
Nickel Plated—No; I’m all run down.
Marble Clock—Well, when are you going to
wind up?— Boston Herald.
NAMES OF COUNTIES.
HOW THEY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
IN THE STATE&
The Presidents, Revolutionary He
roes, Great Statesmen and English
Celebrities h emembered—A Curious
Analysis of the List of Names.
From the St. Louie Republic.
On July 31, 1889, the 38 states and eight
territoriei which compose the United States
of America were subdivided into 2,458
parts known as counties and parishes, each
a perfect republic within itself, distributed
among the states and territories as follows;
Alabama, 66; Arkansas, 75; California, 52;
Colorado, 42; Connecticut, 8; Delaware, 3;
Florida, 45; Georgia, 137; Illinois, 102;
Indiana, 92; lowa, 99; Kansas, 106; Ken
tucky; 118; Lousiana, 58; Maine, 16; Mary
land, 24; Massachusetts, 14; Michigan, 84;
Minnesota, 80; Mississippi, 74: Missouri, 124,
Nebraska, 81; Nevada, 14; New Hamp
shire, 10; New Jersey, 21; New York, 60;
North Carolina, 96; Ohio, 88; Oregon, 29;
Pennsylvania, 67; Rhode Island, 5; South
Carolina, 34; Tennessee, 96; Texas, 191;
Vermont, 14; Virginia, 101; West Virginia,
53; Wisconsin, 68: Arizona, 10; Dakota, 86;
Idaho. 16; Montana, 16; New Mexico, 14;
Utah, 24; Washington, 34; Wyoming, 10.
Total, 2,458.
Of these 2,458 names 97 begin with the
letter A; 179 with B; 317 with C; 109 with
D; 53 with E; 90 with F; 112 with G; 140
with H. lis used as the initial letter but
21 times; J 83, K 59, L 161, M 256, N 59,
O 68, P 144 and Q but 4, viz., Quitman
county, Georgia, Queen Anne’s county,
Maryland, Quitman again in Mississippi
and Queens in New York. R commences
the names of 90 counties, S 227, T 73, U 25,
V 22, W 69. X is left entirely out: Y comes
in 20 time and Z twice, both in Texas.
NAMED FOB PRESIDENTS.
Of the total number 205 are named for
presidents. The illustrious name of Wash
ington has been applied thirty times, each
of the following states having honored the
father of his country; Alabama, Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indi
ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island.
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wis
consin, Idaho, lowa and Utah.
The Adamses, father and son, were hardly
as popular as the first president if county
nomenclature is an index, there being but
nine Adams counties m the Union up to
date. Jefferson and Jackson are running a
pretty even race; the former has 23 and the
latter 21 counties named in his honor.
Madison, the fourth President, left a good
record for coming generations to peruse, and
his name to 18 counties in as many differe it
states. Monroe comes in a good second
with his name across 17 of our miniature
republics.
Van Buren, “Little Van,” must be con
tent for the present at least, with 4 counties
named in his honor in Arkansas, lowa,
Michigan and Tennessee.
Harrison, the grandfather of his grand
son, has had his name used 7 times, and no
doubt some of the new states will honor the
grandson by adding a few more Harrison
counties to the list. Nebraska named one
Blaine a few years ago. Tyler has only
struck the public pulse twice; Texas and
West Virginia named counties for him.
Taylor went him five better, and is remem
bered in the states of Florida, Georgia,
lowa, Kentucky, Texas, West Virginia and
Wisconsin.
Rather than see Fillmore left out entire
ly Minnesota and Nebraska named counties
for him. Pierce and Buchanan counties
are almost as scarce, each occurring but
three times, the former in the States of
Georgia, Nebraska and Wisconsin and the
latter in lowa, Missouri and Virginia.
The lincolns, the President and the old
hero of revolutionary times, have 16 coun
ties bearing their names. In this case the
honor is j intly bestowed, as it would be
next to impossible to toil for which the va
rious counties were named. In cases where
the name has been given to counties erected
since 1830 it is natural to suppose that they
were so called in honor of the President.
To look up each county separately and find
the date of its organization would involve
more research t an the fact would be worth
when proven.
Of Johnson counties there are 12, but as a
great many, half at least of them were or
ganized before Andrew Joh ison wa3 ever
heard tell of, it is safe to supppose that but
few of them were named to perpetuate the
memory of the ex-president.
There is an even dozen Grant counties,
about eight of which were bestowed in
honor of Gen. U. S. Grant.
Hayes’ name will go thundering down
the bowling alley of the great-to come
stretched across one little square on the map
of Nebraska.
Since the election and assassination of
Garfield, counties have been erected to his
memory in the States of Colorado, Kansas,
Nebraska and in the territories of Utah and
Washington.
Arthur is ihe only one of the Presidents
who has not had at least one county erected
and named in his memory.
Cleveland hai had a county named for
him in Arkansas. There is another Cleve
land county in North Carolina, but it was a
county years before the man of destiny
surpri ed the book-makers in the great free
for-sll of 1884.
One thousand one hundred and twenty
four or nearly one-haif of the whole num
ber of counties are named for statesmen
of a local, national or international reputa
tion.
Even in this matter of naming counties
one cannot help but notice the intense love
the southern people show for their couutry
and its great statesman.
Alabama named 47 counties in honor of
revolutionary heroes and local celebrities;
California and Massachusetts but one each;
Maine, five; New Hampshire, three; New
Jersey, four; and Michigan, 24.
Kentucky comes highest in this list with
116 county memorials; i'exas a good second
with 111; Georgia third with 93, and Ten
nessee fourth best with 88. The Califor
nians could find room and material for 52
counties, but could apply the name of but
one great man, that of Humboldt. New
York named 22 counties in memory of pa
triots, soldiers, statesmen and scholars;
North Caroiiana, 62; Oregon, 10; Virginia,
40;Connecticut, 2; Mississippi, 46, Vermont,
4; Rhode Island. 1; Pennsylvania, 27; Mis
souri, 73; lowa. 62; Illinois, 79; Indiana, 75,
and Minuesota, 35.
AFTER STATESMEN.
Of the great statesman who never be
came President, Franklin seems to have
been the most popular, and in conseauence
be has more counties named in his ‘honor
than any man, living or dead, except
Washington. On the date given in the
text of this article there were 22 Franklin
Counties in the United States, distributed
as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington.
Clay has remembered by 18 of the
states up to date. Ten of them keep Cal
houns memory green, while Webster, the
great “expounder,” gets but seven.
Thad Stevens’ eccentric ideas have been
remembered by county builders in Kansas,
Minnesota aud Washington.
Arkansas, Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, Mis
sissippi and Oregon have each done the
handsome by naming counties in honor of
Missouri’s favorite, Thomas Hart Benton.
Raudoiph of R >anoke is remembered in
seven states and Dallas in five. Blaine and
bis friend Dorsey are each units in county
lore.
Of revolutionary generals manv have
obtained recognition. Montgomery has had
18 counties named for him; Warren, 14;
Greene, 12, aud LaFayette, 5. Eleven
others may have partially recognizad him
by naming counties “Fayette.” Putnam,
the wolf-slaying general, has eight counties
to perpetuate his daring deeds, while E:han
Allen, the hero of Tioonderoga, lias but
four.
Starke, who said that MolUe would be a
widow if certain things did not turn out as
he predicted, has had bis name given four
counties, in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and
Dakota. On two of these the final "e” has
bten omitted, but there is little doubt that
they were originally intended as monuments
to the brave general.
Aside from LaFayette, De Kalb must
have been most popular of the foreign
generals who took the part of colonists in
t! e Revolutionary struggle. Six States,
Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mis
souri, and Tennessee, have each named
a county to his memory.
Europeans come to the United States
with the idea that all our states, counties
and towns have been given Indian names.
This opinion is all right as far as the
majority of the states and a great many of
the cities and towns are concerned, but
will not apply to the naming of coun
ties.
INDIAN NAMES.
Of the total 2,458 coun ies but 309, hard
ly one-eighth the whole number, have names
of Indian origin. Thes Indian named
counties are distributed throughout the
states and territories in the following pro
portions.
Alabama. 11; Arkansas, 3; California, 20;
Colorado, 5; Delaware, none; Florida, 6;
Georgia, 12; Illinois, 4; Indiana, 2; lowa,’ 15;
Kan-as, 13; Kentucky, 2; Louisana, none;
Maine, 5; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts
none; Michigan, 32; Minnesota, 13; Missis
sippi, 17; Missouri, 3; Nebraska. 5; Nevada,
2; New Hamrshire, 2; New Jersey, I; New
York, 15; North Carolina, 10; Ohio. 16;
Oregon, 10; Pensvlvania, 7; Rhode Island,
none; South Carolina, 2; Tennessee. 3; Texas,
14; Vermont, none; Virginia, 5; West Vir
ginia, 3; Wisconsin, 16; Arizona, 2; Dakota,
U Idaho, 9; Monta a, 2; New Mex co, none;
Utah, 4; Washington, 12, and Wyoming, 2.’
It will be noticed that Delaware, Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont do not
use Indian names for their counties. These
same four states use the names of but five
statesmen. The only reasons I can give for
this seeming disrespect for poor Lo and the
statesmen are these; They, the pioneers,
had established themselves among the In
dians much against the will of the abori
gines, who wore straining every nerve to re
sist the encroachment. This engendered
feuds which finally ended in bloodshed.
Numerom Indian wars had been waged be
fore the colonies were old enough to con
sider the advisability of local governments.
When divisions were made at last the In
dian name had ceased lo be musical to the
harassed settler, who could only remember
the blood-curdling war whoop. The mind
of the hardy pioneer often reverted to his
old home in the British Isles aud caused
him to christen his counties “Suffolk”
Hampden,” “Berkshire,” “Essex,” and
various other reminders of happier days,
at the expense of the statesman.
Twenty-eight of the states and territories
have counties with double names, some
only one, others as many as a dozen and a
half; the latter figures fit the state of
Louisiana. \ Taken altogether there are 140
counties which could not be content with a
single name. Arkansas has 3, California,
14, Colorado, 5, and Con
necticut. 2. Florida has 2; Delaware, 1;
Illinois, 2, and Indiana, 1. lowa has 6,
Louisiana 18, Maryland 4, Michigan 4,
Minnesota 8, Missouri 6, Nebraska 3 and
Nevada 1. New York has one county with
a double name, so have each of the states
Ohio and Tennessee. Wisconsin has 4, Da
kota 3, Idaho 2, Montana 3, New Mexico 5,
Utah 4 and Washington 2. The Texans,
with their 191 counties, were forced to every
conceivable expedient in order to find
names enough to go around. They named
counties for all local celebrities and
statesmen, for animals and insects,
for trees, plants and flowers. Some
have Indian, but a great many
more have Mexican or Spanish names. In
all, 14 double names have been applied to
counties in the Lone Star states. The one
which will strike the northern eye as being
the oddest perhaps, is Jeff Davis county,
erected last year- There are several Davis
counties in the United States, bat the
Texans did not want the name appplied in
a way so as to give a doubtful honor, there
fore they added “Jeff” as a special trade
mark, so that it could not be confounded
with others.
ENGLISH NAMES..
The leaning toward mother England is
quite apparent in the nomenclature of Vir
ginia counties, especially those with double
names. We find “King George,” “King
William,” “King and Queen,” “Prince
Edward,” “Prince George,” “Princess
Anne,” “Prince William,” and several
others which sound strange to the demo
cratic, monarchy-hating American of to
day.
Names of animals or parts of animals
have i.een applied 14 different times in
12 states and territories. Florida has a
county named Manatee, “which being
translated” means “sea cow.” Minnesota
has an Otter-Tail and Montana a Beaver-
Head. The other 11 are quite common dace
such as “Buffalo,” “Elk,” “Beaver,” etc.
That etheral creature of the air, “the
bird with downy wing,” is remembered by
but four of the states. Colorado named a
county Eagle, lowa calls one Blackhawk,
Kansas has a Rook and Minnesota a Crow
Wing.
Trees, flowers and vines have given
names to counties in the following states
and territories: Alabama, California,
Georgia, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska
New York North Carolina, Oregon, South
Carolina, Te messe?, Texas, Vermont, Vir
ginia, We t Virginia and Utah.
“Saint” is used before the name of 26
counties in 13 different States. It is used
nine times in Louisiana, sin Missouri and
twice in Michigan. In each of the 10 other
states one each. “San” and “Santa” used
before the names of c mnties, 21 times in
seven states and territories. Ten times in
California, three times in Texas, three times
in New Mexico, twice each in Colorado and
Utah and once each in Florida and Wash
ingion.
THE SMITHS.
“Smith” may have beeD a great man,
but lie has been remarkably tardy, in writ
ing his name across the blue, red and yellow
squares of the map. Iu the last 200 years
of county making ho hai come to the fore
but four times in the long list of counties.
Tne states having Smith counties ate;
Texas, Tennessee. Mississippi and Kansas.
“Liberty” and “Union” have run rather an
uneven race, there being but three counties
with the first name and 16 with the latter.
There are Orange counties in Florida,
Indiana, New York, North Carolina. Texas’,
Virmont and Virginia. South Carolina’
comes as near as possible, with a county
Darned Orangeburg.
The prefix “Me” is to be found before the
names of 23 countio . It is used five times
in Dakota, three times each in Texas and
Illinois, twice, in Kentucky, Tennessee aud
Georgia, and once in each of tne states of
Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Caro
lina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Ton of the states have lake counties.
Wisconsin has a Green Lake and Idaho a
Bear Lake county. The longest named
county in the Republic is Northumberland
county, Virginia; the shortest, the Lees,
Bells and Idas, of which there are many.
Scotland county, Missiuri, and Switzer
land county, Indiana, are the only two in
in the United Slates with names of foreign
counrties.
Missouri has fur counties with names of
other states, more than any other state can
boast of.
Popinjay—l understand that Rigsby, although
not a member, was present at your club banquet
th s other night.
Bioodgood—Yes, that's a fact.
Popinjay—ln what capacity, if I may ask?
Bioodgood—Oh, his usual capacity—about
nine quarts —Burlington Free Press.
S<jiiief.rs— Have you‘ever seen the “Black
Crook?”
Nickleby—Y'es; last night.
Squeers—Why. it isn't in the city.
Nickleby—Maybe he isn't now. But he was in
my chicken coop last night.—bun.
FOR THE LIFE OF LINCOLN.
The Authors of the Century Article.
Receives $1 50 a D*y.
From the Cincinnati Enqsmrer.
At the time we commenced this publics
tion, said Col. Hay, a great deal was
and printed about the large sum of.
we received for the manuscript. It is t ?
that the $59,000 we were paid between!!!
was probably the larges: sum that a swi.i
publication had paid for any series of ~T*
tnbulions, bat I made a computation a *1
days ago upon what had been paid for r. 7
time m preparing this book. We have Vl
coved $1 59 a day each and no more- tL.
rest has gone for expenses. I have’beT
compelled to buy hundreds of hooks
manuscr.pts, of which individual volume
have cost m< $25 apiece. Look here Cp
Hay showed me from a dozen to twenty
volumes of manuserips bound careful ly o^
“These,” said i.e, “are the original a-'-s
ive> and letters of Jefferson Davis, his cih”
net and the confederate government r
bought them from Cob Fifcxett. the
officer who sold to the United States t 9
$75,000 a similar set.” es f °r
“ Then you have not been getting f or
your original contributions aud comDnsi
tions upou this work of twenty-five yea
m.re than a laborer’s wages up at then!*
library buildmg by the capital building "
“Just that. Our partial papers lu th.
Century Magazine will e >me to an enf
next February, and will have occunili
three years in their publication. Everv
thing has been cut out of the tnagazi;'
chapters which did not directly bear noon
Lincoln here ih the east.
Dining Under Peculiar Circumstances.
Front the London Teleoraph.
An amusing story reaches us from Metz
of an adventure which has just b-f&]i 0 na
French family living in the neighborhood
of the frontier. These people have some
relatives residing in German-Lorraine who
invited them to luncheon a day or two ag >
Noon was the boar fixed, but the hosts'
after waiting for some time in vain, betook
themselves to the frontier to meet their
French kinsfolk. They fcund the family in
a carriage on the French side of the boun
dary line trying to persuade the guard to
let them pass; but as they had come unpro
vided with passports the official barred the
way obstinately. The French people, whose
appetites hud been sharpened by a long
drive, were in no humor to return home
with their hunger map ceased, so they sug
gested to their German relatives that they
should hurry back and fetch the
viands which they had provided for
them. Their perplexed hosts eagerly
caught at the idea, and soon reappeared
with a goodly stock of dishes and bottles
the contents of which they proceeded to
discuss in company. The French sat down
on their 6ide of the boundary aud the Ger
mans on theirs, and mirth aud jollity
crowned the at fresco repast. Meanwhile,
the official, completely checkmated, flitted
about in anything but an enviable frame of
mind. He could not appeal to any law or
regulation to put a stop to this outdoor
meal, and as the French and Germans were
each “chez eux,” he had no alternative but
to put the best face on the matter, and to
keep a sharp look out in the hope of catch
ing somebody tripping. He was not, how
over, allowed any opportunity of finding
fault, and when the friends had finished
their repast, they separated, both parties
returning to their respective homes iu the
best of humors, and highly delighted at
having won a victory over the stern sentry.
SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.
Coast Line Railroad
For Cathedral Cemetery, Bonaventure and
Thunderbolt. City Time. WEEK DAYS—
Trains leave Savannah 7:15 and 10 *. m.. S, 4:30
and 6:30 p. m. Leave Thunderbolt 6 and Ba.
12:30, 3:45. 5:45 p. ts.
Saturday night’s last train out 7:15 p. m.
3UNDAYK leave Savannah 8,9, 10 and II A.
a., 2,3, 4,5, 6 and 7p. m. Leave Thunder
bolt 7:10, 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 a. m.. 12:30,2:30,
3:30,4:30,5:30and 6:30 p. m. Trains forcityleave
Bonaventure five minutes after leaving Thun
derbolt.
Take Broughton street cars twenty (80) min
utes before leaving time of trains.
A. O. DRAKE, Supk
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY
ON ar.d after FRIDAY, Nov. 8, 1889, the fol
lowing schedule will be run on the outside
line:
LEAVE I ARRIVE LEAVE I LEAVE
CITY. j qiTY. ISLE OF HOPE. | MONTGOMERY
10:a5am| B:4oam | B:lsam j 7:soam
•7:oopm| 2:oopm | I:3spm | 1:10pm
Every Monday there will be a train fur Mont
gomery, leaving city at 6:50 a. m.
Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday a
train will be run out, leaving city at 4:25 P. M.
On Wednesday returning, leave Montgomery
4:40 p. m. and Isle of Hope 5:05 p. M.
On Saturdays and Sundays leave those points
at 5:20 p. m. and 5:60 p. h.
*This train leaves half hour later on Satur
day and will be ommltted on Sunday.
GEO. W. ALLEY Supt.
Savannah, Nov. 5,1889.
Savannah and Tyke Railroai
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS (Standard Time).
Leave Savannah daily 9:30 2:30
Returning, leave Tvbee 12:00 5:00
Saturday train will leave at 7 p. it.
Family excursions every Tuesday anJ Friday
at reduced price.
R. E. COBB. Supt.
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