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, THU MORNING NEWS, i . ESTABLISHED I(*0 INCORPORATED 1888. V J. H. fiSTILL, President. ) SHELBY’S GUNS UNMASKED. Ilie Defease Opens a Hot Fire on the Plaintiff. They Will Attempt to Prove Intimacy With Other Men Than the Defendant. The Congressman to Plead a Species of Blackmail to Which He Yielded Rather Than Face Exposure of His Relations With the So-Called School Girl—A Denial That He Ever In tended to Marry Her—He Also Denies Seduction. Washington, March 21.—There were no exciting scenes, either tragic or comic, during to-day's hearing of the trial of Madeline V. Pollard's suit against Repre sentative W. C. P. Breckinridge for breach of promise of marriage. The in terest centered in the disclosure of the line of defense to be pursued. The de fendant’s case was opened by Maj. Shelby, his law partner. He outlined the defense very fully, telling that Col. Breckinridge expected to prove and how he would prove it. Maj. Shelby made known that the principal point of the defense would be the production of proof that Col. Breckinridge submitted to the demands of the plaintiff through intimidation and to avoid scan dal. and that it was under these condi tions that he stated to Mrs. Blackburn that the plaintiff and himself were en gaged to be married when there was no such agreement between them, and he cause Miss Pollard had agreed, this be ing done, to get away and pass out of his life. Maj. Shelby acknowledged that Col Breckinridge and Miss Pollard had maintained illicit relations, but ha made the fiat statement, which, ho said, would be supported by testimony, that Miss Pollard made the advances and told the defendant that Rhodes, her old lover, had been unduly intimate with her—thus placing her in the position of being the betrayer of Col. Breckinridge. INTIMATE WITU OTHER MEN. Defendant’s counsel promised that testi mony would be produced to show that Maucline Pollard had maintained crimi nal relations with other men, and Maj. Shelb.v asked the jury to take into con sideration his character for purity when they were preparing to render a verdict. The defense, it was said, would also claim that Miss Pollard made three at tempts to kill Col. Breckinridge, and would establish that he did not main tain illicit relations with her after the time he became engaged to Mrs. Wing, and certainly not after his marriage. After Mr. Shelb.v closed his opening address, the rest of the day until adjournment was taken up by reading the depus.tion of Sister Agnes Regina Brown of St. JnseplPs Foundling Asylum, at Nor wood. near Cincinnati, with reference to Miss Pollard's claim that she gave birth to a child at the asylum in 1885. MISS POLLARD’S ENTRY. Miss Pollard did not show any traces of her collapse of yesterday afternoon when she entered the circuit room this mora ine with her elderly corripaniou. Miss Ellis. She was early and with her coun sel speut tho time until the arrival of Judge Bradley in examining a number of letters which Judge Wilson had brought with him. The court had been called to order when Col. Breckinridge and his son Desha entered. The defendant was not as smiling anfl debonair as he has l ten. and his features had a trace of gravity strange to him. Maj. Butter worth and Mr. Stoll were tardy and busi ness was suspended until they Arrived. At a word from Mr. Carlisle Miss Pol lard took the stand. She was cool, but not so strong looking as yesterday mora ine when site began the ordeal that ended with a series of sensational scenes. Maj. Butterworth, Mr. Stoll and Maj. Shelby had a conference for a few minutes, the result of which was that Mr. Butter worth's first question was whether Miss Pollard had the contract with Rhodes by which he agreed to pay for her education on condition that she should marry him or pay him back. No, [ have not; I gave it to Mr. Rhodes.” "The contract was settled then?” asked Mr. Butterworth. "Oh, no sir. It was never settled. Mr. Rhodes did not pay nearly so much money for me as he said he would pay, but what 'lid pay. about $2,500, I was never able to pay back.” Did you pay him any of it?” No sir, I never did have any money to j’tty anybody anything,” said Miss Pol lard in a voice of plaintive dejection. her meekness vanishes. Hie meekness of the witness vanished with the next question, and she showed some of her old time vivacity in the answer. _ 'Mrs. Logan (formerly Dr. Mary btreet. i of Cincinnati, did not recognize .'■hi when h< r deposition was taken, did Lc Miss Pollard?” was tho question. • ot when I was introduced to her,” J' 1 "' Miss Pollard, ‘ but she would have • •” so if she had had an opportunity on 'H;' redirect examination, and she cer hh ! ' was ready to say that the picture ,i ‘ ,l Breckinridge was the picture of ■” !I an who called to soe ine in 1885, at imr house, and”— : on. Miss Pollard.”cried Mr. But *l "'" th and Judge Wilson at oneo. “You v j'- 1 toll anything but what I ask jou Mr. Butterworth added. v :, 'w more insignificant questions were ’ ® K, ‘ < v and then Mr. Butterworth created •-irprise by saying abruptly: “That’s all, Miss Pollard.’’ j S: ’ bollard looked astonished. She ■ a.""'! to leave the stand, but was called b.v Mr. Carlisle. lie did notask her questions, however, but caused an- T suprise by saying: “If you please, j” ;• honor, the plaintiff rests her case 1 he sentence was hardlv ended before ,; ss I’°l lard and Miss Cl Us had disup vi, through the jurors’ door. ' ' ■ Butterworth asked for a few min v s lo confer, and ho. Col. Breckinridge, Shelby, Mr. Stoll and Col. Thompson muu out of the court room. Shelby’s ofe.viso statement. Iho conferences lasted over twenty utiutes, and when the defendant and his auo'ne.vs returned, Maj. Shelby, Col. 1 ' kiundge's law partner, began the '1 lung Statement of the defense to the A which had boon reserved when the u >al opened. M U i, ile ‘b's-CMc technically rests," said I. „ . "on the charge of breach of “nuse of marriage, other considerations ... 1 1,1 it and effect it strongly.” am authorized by the defendant to *t "ill be supported by his testi- 1 w itness stand on his solemn i ‘, h: ;V ie <ild not seduce the plaintiff, u that he never knew, until it was tes- 1 The morning News. tided by I)r. Parsons on the stand, that any living child had been born to her: and furthermore that the plaintiff never did have any idea that the defendant would marry her; that he never intended to make or carry out such a contract with her. The defendant does not desire to condone any offense of which he may be guilty, but he docs wish to be judged by the facts, and not through other things.” HIS MEETING WITH TUE PLAINTIFF. Maj. Shelby then told what he said was the true story of the meeting between Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge. The defendant saw Miss Pollard on a train when he was looking for his over coat preparatory to leaving “Good morning. Col. Breckinridge.” she said. Col. Breckinridge supposed it was some person he had met, but he could not place her. so he said: “I suppose I ougut to know you, but Ido not.” Then she in troduced herself, saying that her father was a grbat admirer of John C. Breckinridge, and had put ‘’Breckinridge” in her name. After a few' more words they separated. “Sev eral months later, in 1884, tke defendant,” said Maj. Shelby, “received a letter from the plaintiff asking him tocome to Cincin nati and assist her by his advice, and we propose to show by this letter—a second letter—in which she urged him to come to the Wesleyn college to see her.” "Hold on,” said Judge Wilson, “don't read that letter.” ”1 won’t read it,” said Maj. Shelby. THE VISIT TO THE COLLEGE. Then be went on to sketch the other points in the defense. In this second let ter, he said, Miss Pollard had told him the nature of her business with him in reply to one from him saying that ho could not come at that time. But about ten days later he had business in Coving ton with Gov. Stevenson, and while there he thought of the request of this young girl and decided to go to Wesleyan college, and did go over to Cincinnati for that purpose on Aug. 1,1884. Maj. Shelby then referred to Miss Pol lard's age at the time Col. Breckinridge met her and he claimed that she was then not IT, but between 20 and 21 years old, and lie said he would show the jury by the testimony of Dr. Williams that when her sister was born in 1860, the plaintiff was a little girl running about the house. She was born, he sAid, in 1863, instead of 1866. THE CARRIAGE RIDE. Maj. Shelby told of the first conversa tion between Miss Pollard and Col. Breck inridge about the Rhodes case, and be contended that Miss Pollard admitted that stie had submitted her person to Mr. Rhodes. Col. Breckinridge advised carry ing out the arrangement with Rhodes, and in tho course of the conservation, she. not he, suggested that they go out in a close carriage that night, and ho consented. “I am authorised to state,” said Maj. Shelby, "that there was no such remark by the de fendant about a weak throat which caused him to bring a closed carriage, nor about a headache which compelled him to forego the concert and suggest that they ride instead. It was she who sug gested that they ride instead of going to the concert, and during the course of that ride illicit arrangements were established between them without objection, but with willingness on her part. They did not drive until 12 o’clock that night, but were back at the college at 10 o’clock. There was no meeting at the public library next day to arrange the Rhodes ease; no arrangement for going to Lex ington; no bogus telegram sent by the de fendant as an excuse for her request that she be allowed to go home,” THE TRIE TO LEXINGTON. “When he took the train,” continued Maj. Shelby, “he found the plaintiff on it. They traveled to Lexington together, and she, not he, suggested that ho take her to the assignation house of Sarah Guest. He was surprised that she knew about such a place, and she said she knew where it was located. They stayed there from that Saturday until the following Monday, when she returned to Cincin nati, their arrangement having been com pleted. Maj. Shelby said he was also authorized to state that there were no suggestions made by the defendant that the plaintiff go to Lexington, but that she went there and entered the Sayre Institute without his knowledge, and he should never have known that she was in Lexington until he met her on the street. The illi- it rela tions were continued for several months thereafter. The defendant had never visited her at Miss Hoyt's, her boarding place, but every meeting was at'the house of Sarah Guest. The defendant did not know when she went to Cincinnati in February, 1885, to give birth to a child: he did not know she was in Cincinnati. He did not try to trace her up, and “I am author ized to deny absolutely,” counsel con tinued, “and we will show that thero was no such arrangement made by the defendant to conceal the plaintiff's condi tion, or that he knew anything about her being in the city of Cincinnati.” A liIBTH TO BE DENIED. Maj. Shelby said the defense was pre pared to show, and would show, that tho claim of the plaintiff that she gave birth to a child at the Norwood Foundling asylum iu 1885 was false. Miss Pollard, he continued, returned to Lexington in the fall of 1880 and fell in with the plaintiff again. He had just been elected to con gress and was arranging with the speaker (Maj. Shelby) to take charge of all of bis law business. Just before ho came to Washington, he received a note from the plaintiff asking him to come to see her, arid as a consequence their relations were resumed in a meas ure. Maj. Shelby claimed that during the visits of Col. Beckinridgo to Lexington during his tlrst term in congress he had nothing to do with the plaintiff. After the session ended on March 4, 1887, he re turned to Lexington and his family being away and not liking hotel life, lie took board at Miss Hoyt’s, where the plaintiff was stopping, but there was no sugges tion that their relations be resumed, and it was not until after she had a horse hack accident in 1887 that there was a re sumption, and then only after she had been to his office several times to see him. HEK REMOVAL TO WASHINGTON. That the defendant was responsible for Miss Pollard’s coming to Washington Maj. Shelby denied, and said that on the contrary tho defendant advised her not to come. Maj. Shelby asked the jury to carefully consider the statement he had made that the plaintiff and the defendant had main tained no relations for eighteen months prior to February 18S8, when she claimed she had given birth toaehild. Maj. Shelby claimed that during Miss Pollard’s resi- i denee in Washington she came frequently ] to Col. Breckinridge for assist- | ance, rand that in her statement j that sho had been pregnant by him i and had suffered a miscarriage, he i acceded to her demands Maj. Shelby.did not condone or excuse the fault oL tho de -fendant. but said many men had done the same thing atul been forgiven. The plain tiff had it in her power to do him injury: she knew she had him more or less in her power and she used that iu getting money SAVANNAH, GA„ THURSDAY. MARCH 22,1834. from him and in continuing their rela tions. HER INTRODUCTION INTO SOCIETY. Then Maj. Shelby went on to tell of the continuance of the relations between Miss Pollard and his client until tlie winter of 1890-31, when, he contended. Miss Pollard, through her power over him, tried to make him introduce her into the houses of people she wanted to know, and to give her money which he could iil-afford to give. He did not introduce her to private iinuses. She made his life a burden for him, and he tried to get her to go away, to take advantage of opportunities for the development of her talents, and he offered to pay her expenses for such education, as little as he could afford to do so. This state of afljnrs continued until Mrs. Breckinridge died in 1892. WANTED TO PASS AS Ills WIFE. The plaintiff in the fall of that year met the defendant while he was on a business trip in New York, and proposed to him that she should go abroad to Berlin with Mrs. Willard and stay two years at Mrs. Willard's school, on condition that she went as his affianced wife. This proposi tion Col. Breckinridge refused. He would not listen to anything concerning mar riage, but through consideration for his family in the event of a scandal, he proposed that she go abroad and that he would allow her 8125 a month, which no man in Washington could less afford to do at that time than Col. Breckinridge. This offer, said Maj. Shelby, was refused by the plaintiff because she could not go with his permission to tell Mrs. Willard that she was Col. Breckinridge’s affianced wife. After this time the improper rela tions were resumed. Maj. Shelby then told, of what he contended, was the cir cumstances in the case last spring, when the alleged engagement existed. He had previously denied Miss Pollard's state ment that Col. Breckinridge had asked her to lie his wife in August, 1802. MISS POLLARD AND SIRS, li! VOKBI KN. Miss Pollard meanwhile had become ac quainted with Mrs. L. Blackburn,'Gov. Blackburn’s widow: had been to her house, and had assisted at one of her re ceptions. Mrs. Blackburn began to sus pect something about the relations be tween Col. Breckinridge and Miss Pol lard. and had asked Miss Pollard about it. Miss Pollard told Col. Breckinridge that when Mrs. Blackburn had questioned her about the matter she had herself told Mrs. Blackburn that she and Col. Breckinridge were engaged. The defendant was angry and said lie would go to Mrs. Blackburn to make a frank avowal of tlie illicit re lations between them and deny the en gagement. “The plaintiff begged him not to so expose her,” said Maj. Shelby. "She begged him to give her another chance. He finally suggested as a way out of the difficulty that she should goto New York, or somewhere, and gradually drop out of his life, lie paying her ex penses, and that in time what she had told Mrs. Blackburn would be forgotton. There was nothing done about what Mrs. Blackburn had been been told, so he dallied with the matter. Then Miss Pollard told him that Mrs. Blackburn wanted to see him. and he went to see her. Ho told her thnt Miss Pollard was a foolish girl, given to making foolish statements and to doing foolish things. Soon after that Miss Pollard tried to shoot him in Mrs. Thomas' house, but being stronger, ho disarmed her. HIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AN ENGAGEMENT. Concerning the visit to Mr.-. Blackburn, in which the defendant acknowledged that he was engaged to Miss l’ollard. Maj. Shelby said the plaintiff had induced him, by that influence which 3ueli women have over men, to fall into her plan and to go to Mrs. Blackburn and acknowledge that they were engaged. She held a ter rorizing influence over him. She had once attempted to kill him.but worse than that, she had it in her power to ruin him completely by an exposition of their rela tions, and. like many another good man, he was weak enough to fall into the trap. Between March 81. when Miss Pollard and Col. Breckinridge called oa Mrs. Blackburn together, and April 12, 1833, when Col. Breckinridge went to Ken tucky, he saw Mrs. Blackburn twice on private business, and not in connection with Miss Pollard. Ills ENGAGEMENT TO MRS. WING. He remained away until April 27, and during that time Col. Breckinridge be i ame engaged to his cousin, Mrs. Wing, for whom he had an admiration and affec tion, and whom he had known for many years. “And 1 want to say here,” said Maj. Shelby, "that the intimation that Col. Breckinridge sustained improper re lations with the plaintiff after the time he became engaged to Mrs. Wing is abso lutely false, and is a piece of barbarity that should not be in troduced here. It is an unnecessary, a wanton attack on a pure and defenseless lady. Maj. Shelby told tho reason that induced Col. Breckinridge to marry Mrs. Wing, on April 23, the date of the secret marriage in New York. She was going east; ho was going west. These were the reasons that induced them to wish lo con summate their engagement in marriage at this lime. She had been ill and he wished to make her nearer to him before they parted. It was a mistake to keep it a secret, but Col. Breckinridge wanted his wife to get in the affection of his chil dren before they knew that lie had mar ried her. They were, married then by Dr. Paxton and the fact of the marriage was communicated to three intimate friends of Mrs. Wing. (UIB PAYMENT TO DR. PARSONS. Maj. Shelby denied that Col. Breckin ridge, when ho paid Dr. Parsons for at tending Miss Pollard, knew that tho plaintiff had been delivered of a child, but had supposed there was a miscar riage. The plaintiff, he said, was in tho habit of annoying Col. Breckinridge in various ways, coming to his rooms when he was there and when ho was not. She looked over his private papers and looked into private receptacles and took things away that did not belong to her. As to the little basket owned by the late Mrs. Breckinridge, which Miss Pollard testified Col. Breckinridge had given her, Maj. Shelby said that basket was taken from his rooms and he had not seen it, nor did lie know what had become of it until it was produced in court. THE HOFFMAN HOUSE INCIDENT. As to the visit to New York, during which Col. Breckinridge was married, Maj. Shelby said that Col. Breckinridge on the Monday two days after his mar riage went to the Hoffman house, where he had registered, to get some clothes. He found on arriving there that Miss Pollard had registered at the hotel as his daughter, and had secured a room com municating with his. When he entered iiis room, the plaintiff advanced from the adjoining room with a pistol in her hand pointed at him and attempted to shoot him. He saved his life by shutting the door quickly, and Miss Pollard threatened to shoot through the door. Col. Breckinridge asked her to lay the pistol down in the entry and go back into her room or he would have hor arrested. He heard her lay the pistol down, and he said he W'ould ring for a bell hoy to get it. ijho went back into tier room and ho then opened tho door and secured the pistol. Maj. Shelby said he would show that this was the same pistol with which Miss 1 Pollard threatened his life in Washing- I ton. “WILLIE, COME OVT OF THAT.” 1 After telling how penitent Miss Pollard was, and her willingness to agree to his proposition to go out of Iris life, and aliout a conversation with Mrs. Blackburn in New York about Miss Pol lard. Maj. Shelby gave the defendant’s version of the incident told yesterday on the stand by Miss Pollard how she had gone to the house of Mrs. Wing to see Col. Breckinridge, and that Colonel and Mrs. Brockinridgo had attempted to hide from her behind some curtains, when she said. "Willie, come out of that--, come with me.” Maj. Shelby said Miss Pollard forced herself into Mrs. Wing’s house and demanded that Col. Breckinridge come with her to attend to some important business. Maj. Shelby admitted that Col. Breckinridge obeyed. He referred to the visit to tho chief of jiolice and to the alleged attempt Miss Pollard made on the defendant’s life at the house of Mrs. Thomas, when Col. Breckinridge took tho pistol from the frenzied young woman. Maj. Shelby acknowledged that Col. Breckinridge went to Dr. Lincoln's and ask him to do what tie could to make Miss Pollard comfortable Ho tried to do what he could for her comfort, under her claim that she was pregnant by him, and if she had a child he intended to pro vide for that child. PUBLISHED AN UNO AG EM ENT. She went to New York in accordance with her promise to go out of his life under the arrangement proposed, but she came back to Washington, and it was at this time that Col. Breckinridge wrote tho letters about sending her to a san itarium or to some place where she might be comfortable for the summer. It was at this time that, the desperate woman, said Maj. Sholby, took further means to force him to marry her by causing the publication of an announcement of their engagement. "Now, gentlemen of the jury, I have shown you the relations of this plaintiff and tliis defendant, without attempting to excuse or to condone,” said Maj. Shelby, "and 1 have been frank and we will be frank in all we have to do here aud on the stand. We wish to conceal nothing and wiil not do so.” HER MORAL CHARACTER. There was another aspecwif this case, said Maj. Shelby. No matter what sort of action this plaintiff had instituted, the question of the plaintiff's moral character should be taken into consideration. She claimed she had never been int imate with any one but the defendant, hut it would be shown that such was not the ease. He sketched various events that would bo testified to. The plaintiff had denied that she went through the form of a mock marriage with Aleck Julian, and that she had ever wanted to go to Chicago with Mr. Resell. Depositions from these persons would be introduced to show the contrary. It would also be shown thnt she had visited assignation houses with other persons than defendant, and that she maintained some sort of Jntlmite relations with Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Rosell and Prof. Obermoyer. It would be shown that she was not a young innocent school girl of 17, but an experienced woman of 20 or 22. Judge Wilson o re ted to a reference of Maj, Shelby to what had been dis closed by Miss Pollard’s testimony, sat ing Maj. Shelby was going beyond the bounds of an opening statement, and Judge Bradley told ivlaj. Shelby to keep what he expected to show. REVENGE HER OBJECT. Continuing, Maj. Shelby said this action had not been brought for any other reason but the plaintiff's expressly announced purpose of breaking t own this man, of destroying his character and influence, and of disgracing his family, and all be cause she had failed fo force Him to com pliance with her scheme to make him marry her. Maj. Shelb.v maintained that mere words did not constitute a contract when the parties to it knew there was to be no compliance with that contract, and this he claimed to be the case concerning Col. Breckinridge and Miss Pollard. There was in point of fact no contract of mar riage between them, but merely a sem blance of an engagement in order that Miss Pollard couid go away and in time allow Mrs. Blackburn to have diverted his suspicions concerning the plaintiff and the defendant. On this state of facts, said Maj. Shelby, tho defendant submit ted his case. A SISTFJi'S DEPOSITION. There was a buzz when Maj, Shelby sat down, and then, after a consultation, Maj. Stoll for the defense offered iu evi dence the deposition of Sister Agnes Kegina Brown, of the St. Joseph Found ling asylum, at Norwood near Cincinnati. Sister Agnes discredits all of Miss Pol lard’s statements concerning the asylum, and asserts that Miss Pollard had never been at the asylum until she came to secure testimony in her behalf. She deposed that during April, May and June, 1885, when Miss Pollard claims she was there, there were no pa tients whom she did not know, and that none of the patients wore veils all the time, as Miss Pollard testified that she did. Sister Agnes deposed that Miss Pollard said she had been in the hospital under the name of l-ouise Wilson, but that no person of that name had been in the hospital at tho time stated. It was Sister Agnes who suggested that "Miss Burgoyne might have been Miss Pol lard's alias, and Miss Pollard promptly claimed the name. In regard to the four volumes of Wash ington Irving in the library, one contain ing a Christinas card, there was much in Sister Agnes' testimony brought out by Mr. Stoll, when he took her deposi tion, intended to connect Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Johnson amt Miss Pollard with hav ing placed tho card In tho book while they were in the library. * THE LITTLE LECTURE. Sister Agnes described what Miss Pol lard termed “a little lecture” Sister Agnes had delivered to the plaintiff. Miss Pollard had told Sister Agnes that she did not expect to get money from Col. I Breckinridge because ho had uone. hut i she did expect to disgrace him. Sister I Agnes then said “When this is over, he 1 will still he Mr. Breckinridge and will hold up his head aiuoiif' his friends, while you will ho disgraced forever.” She said: “Yea, but lie will not address any more young ladies’ semlnuries nor open any more prayer meetings.” Sister Agnes deposed that sho had never seen Miss Pollard until she came with Messrs. Carlisle and Johnson. Miss Pollard bore no resemblance to Miss Burgoyne. Miss Pollard described things in the asylum that had no existence, and some of the events Miss Pollard mentioned had never occurred. BACKED lir A RICH WIDOW. Lexington, Kv., March 21.—Maj. Hor ace Means, who is one of tho leaders of Col. Breckinridge's political opponents here, declares that a wealthy widow re siding iu Washington went to Mr. Wilson at the time Miss Pollard was begging him to take her suit and told him to go ahead with the case and that she would bin k Miss Pollard to the amount of $6,000. “I will not call the lady's name," said Maj. Means,” but Miss Pollard has been introduced to her at a summer re sort by Mrs. Blackburn and she took quite a fancy to tlu> young woman. When theseandal came up she wrote Miss Pollard, telling her to call, and assured her that financial assistance would be given her.” Maj. Means could not be pur suaded to disclose the name of the woman tie referred to, but was confident that this was tho source of Miss Pollard’s funds. Many here have wondered where the money was coming from with which this suit was being pushed. SESSION OF THE SENATE. Senator Colquitt’s Recovery Prayed For- Several Bills Passed. Washington, March 21. The very seri ous illness of Senator Colquitt, of Geor gia, from a second attack of paralysis yes terday, at his residence in this city, was referred to in Chaplain Milburn’s opening prayer in the Senate this morning. "Hearken to our earnest cry, O Lord 1" he prayed, “in behalf of our beloved friend and brother, the senator from Georgia. Stretch fortli Thy hand and draw him back to the duties of the life of this world, so that he may once more take his place in this chamber and rejoice ttie hearts of all who know and lovehitn.” There was very little routine Morning business, and after it was disposed of the bills unobjected to on tho calendar were taken up. Among those passed were the following: Tho Senate bill appropriating SIO,OOO for the improvement of tho road to tho na tional cemetery near Pensacola, Fla. The Senate bill for the restoration of the books of the Beaufort library society, of Beaufort, S. C. 111 provides for tho duplication front the library of congress of books equivalent in number and value to replace those taken by a United States officer in 1862, and subsequently destroyed by Are). The Senate bill appropriating $40,000 for equestrian statute to Francis Marion, of the revolutionary army, in Columbia, S. C. Twenty-five bills in all were passed and at 2 p. in., the unfinished business was taken up, being the Senate bill to sim plify the form of deeds of conveyance, trust and release of land in the district of Columbia. No action was reached on the bill, which still remains the unfinished business; and after a short executive ses sion the Senate at 3:! 0 o'clock adjourned until to-morrow. NEW JERSEY’S SENATE. Chief Justioe Beasley Decides in Fa vor of the Republicans. Trenton, N. J., March 21. In the sena torial case. Chief Justice Benslc.v decides that the Senate is not a continuous body, and that Adrian is not entitled to be president. He says Rogers’ title is valid. This is a victory for the republicans. The democrats have almost entirely capitu lated. Gov. Wert gave State Controller elect Hancock and State Treasurer-elect Swain their commissions as soon as the decision of the supreme court was ren der id, and they are already in possession of their offices. The democratic members of the Senate will probably join their re publican colleagues tomorrow morning. The governor has filed all the hills passed by the legislature, and they are now laws. A SCHOOL IN FLAKES. Six Panic Stricken Pupils Leap From Third and Fourth Storv Windows. Chicago. March 21.—The four-story public school building in South Evanston, thirteen miles north of this city, caught fire from some mysterious cause shortly before noon to-day and was completely destroyed. Six of the panic stricken I Ujiils. surrounded b.v smoke aud fire, took the desperate chances of jumping from third and fourth story windows to escape what seemed to bo certain death, and were severely, but probably not fatally, injured. The remainder of tho children retained enough composure to listen to tho pleadiugs of their teachers and the firemen, and were marched through tho thickening smoke to fresh air and safety. Tho loss on ttio building is $50,000. HUNGARY'S DEAD PATRIOT. Turin Offers to Provide a Tomb to Receive His Remains. Turin. March 21. —The municipal conn ed has offered to provide a suitable tomb for the burial of Louis Kossuth in in this city, and accompany tho inter ment with apporpriate honors. The family of the patriot have replied that they cannot accept tho offer until they have learned tho wishes of the Hungar ian party as to what honors that body is disposed to pay Kossuth's memory. The question will lie taken up in Pesth to day and a decision will be given this afternoon. Wayne MacVeagh, the American am bassador to Italy, has intimated to the family of Kossuth, that the United States will tie officially represented at the funeral. MOURNING AT BODA-PESTH. Buda-l’esth, March 21.- The mourning for Kossuth is general in this city. Every man has crape on his hat. Women wear only black garments, Black flags hang over the fronts of the houses of parlia ment, the banks, the university buildings and the clubs. Many provincial towns have gone into mourning as deeply as has the city. A dispatch from Vienna says that the police there have forbidden the Hungarian club to display the black Hag. A GODDESS OF LIBERTY. Coxey Wants to Dross His Daughter in the Stars and Stripes. Canton, 0., March 21.—“ Mrs. Caroline Coxey,” was an entry on the Hurrford register to-day. She is the divorced wife of "(lood Hoads” Coxey. She has a 17- year-old daughter of whom she was given the custody when divorced from her hus band. “The father," said Mrs. Coxey, “had my child meet him at a hotel in Massilon yesterday. Lieut. Browne was with Coxey when the girl arrived. They pro posed to dress her in the stars and stripes, mount her on a white horse and have her ride to Washington ahead of the army of peace. He presented the project in such glowing terms that the girl was en chanted with the plan and promised to go if her mother would consent, but 1 put a damper ou that plan aud told them if tiie child was induced to go I would have both Coxey aud Browne arrested for kid napping.” CALL IN HIS WAR PAINT. He Will Make a Big Fight Against the Florida Appointments. Washington, March 21. To-morrow's executive session of the Senate gives promise of causing some vigorous argu ment behind closed doors, it will be held iu accordance with Senator Call’s notice, it being liis intention to make a tight against the appointments for tho state of Florida at large. These nominations are: George VV. Wilson, collector of internal revenue for the district of Florida Will iam 11. Milton, Jr., surveyor general; Henry W. Long, register of the lund office, and Newman D. Wainwright, re ceiver of public moneys. All these nomi nations were tiinile in opposition to Sena tor Call’s protests and in the face of his recommendations of other applicants. It is said that Senator Call takes this as a declaration of war. and lias arrayed his forces for the contest in the Senate. At all events the battle is to he fought out to-morrow. NEW YORK POSTMASTERSHIPS. Forty-Eight Nominations Unaoted Upon by the Senate Committee. Washington, March 21. Since tho be ginning of the present session of congress only eight nominations of Now York post masters have been confirmed by tho Sen ate. There are now pending boforo the committee to which they were referred, forty-eight nominations, ten of which were sent to the Senate on the as sembling of congress. For this rea son Postmaster General Bissell has been unwilling iu many instances to recom mend nominations to offices in New York state on the expiration of the commis sions held by republican postmasters, un til he lias some intimation of the fate of those already sent in. Neither of the New York senators ever visits tho post office department or recommends the ap pointment of any candidate, notwith standing the fact that the department lias invited them to make known their wishes regarding postoftico appointments. Confirmed by the Senate. Washington, March 21. The Senate has confirmed tho following nominations: George M. Adams, ponsion agent at Louisville, Ky. James (1 Mulligan, of Kentucky, consul general at Apia, Samoa. Postmaster Alabama: Albert Stcln hart, Greenville. Postmasters Nominated. Washington, March 21.—President Clove.and to-day sent to the Senate tho following nominations of postmasters: W. T. Cheatham, Jr., at Henderson, N. U.; W. P. Anderson, at Palatka, Fla. POISONED BY A LOVER. A Rejected Mexican Suitor Kills Two Others aud Himself. Durango, Mox., March 21. —Thero is much excitement among the people of tho little town of Caeararia. situutod about sixty miles nortli of here, over a terrible tragedy that lias just been enacted there. The perpetrator of the deed was a well known man of the town named Uuf.vl l-opez. Ho was engaged to marry Miss Forina, the pretty daughter of Martin Pnrnn/.a, a wealthy ranchero, of that section. Having recently heard reports very derogatory to tho character of Lopez the young lady wrote him a letter breaking their engagement. Shortly after he received the letter Lopes called upon her and pleaded to be reinstated into her affections, but she refused. The father of tho Kiri, with true Spanish hospitality, invited the discarded lover to remain for dinner and the invita tion was accepted. The throe sat down to eat, and Lopoz, in a secret manner, put poison iu several dishes of food and then partook of the fatal mixtures. In a few minutes all three wore taken deathly ill and all died before a physician could be summoned. TEN KILLED BY DYNAMITE. Santander tho Scene of Another Ter rible Explosion. Santander, March 21. —Another fatal accident occurred hero to-day, caused by an explosion of dynamite. Kver since tho awful disaster that occurred In this city on the night of Nov. 8 last, when the Spanish steamer Cabo Machiehaco was blown up by tho explosion of part of tho largo consignment of dynamite aboard of her, the wrecked hull of the vessel has been lying at the bottom of the bay. It was discovered by divers who went down in search of tho bodies of some of those who were killed at the time that a considerable quantity of dynamite was still in the wreck. This was considered a menace to shipping and the authorities determined to have it removed. To-day while a number of men were engaged in the work of taking the dynamite out of the hull, an explosion oc curred and ten of tho workingmen were killed and thirty injured. ASA OUERNEY ACQUITTED. He Was Accused of Stealing $22,500 From an Express Company. New Orleans, March 21.—The case of tho American Express Company, or the State vs. Asa Gurney, charged with em bezzling $22,600 of tho company’s money, which has occupied the attention of the superior court for tho last seven days, was concluded this evening. The exami nation of witnesses occupied several days, but not a siutilla of evidence elicited against the accused- The Jury made short work of the matter by returning a verdict of not guilty, and when it was read by tho clerk a great shout went up from the hundreds of spectators who were gathered in the building. Gurney thanked the Jury for the attention, which they had given the case and the judge of the court also re turned thanks for tho manner, in which they had treated the matter. The case has attracted as much interest as any every tried in this city. THREE KILLED IN A DUEL. Two Desperadoes and a Sheriff Shot Dead In Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., March 21.—This afternoon about 3 o'clock one of theblood iest street duels that has taken place in Alabama for years took place at Eutaw, in Green county, in which three men were killed and one wounded. Sheriff Ilcrmagiti had a warrant for two destier ate characters named Reid and Russel, who were wanted for safe cracking. The sheriff went to arrest these two char acters, who resisted. They began firing at the officers, who returned the fire. Twelve or fifteen shots were exchanged, and when the smoke cleared away It was found that the sheriff and the two men for whom he had warrants, had been in stantly killed, and a bystander badly wounded. I DAILY, $lO AYE AH, 1 ' 5 CENI 3 A i ’fV. > I WEKKLY, il A YEAR. I EVANS MEETS ATKINSON. A Joint Debate at Griffin Heard by a Big Crowd. Atkinson's Opening Largely Devoted to an Attempt to Show That Evans Has Never Done Anything for His Party—He Explains His Indorse ment of the Ocala Platform and His Voto Against the Soldiers' Home. Gen. Evans Declares His Candidacy a Response to a Popular Demand. His War Record Known to Every Veteran of Georgia. Griffin, Ga., March 21.—This has been one of the greatest days in Griffin’s his tory, although the crowd was not half as large us was exported. Atlanta sent down 100 men, Newnan 200. the Georgia Mid land 150 and tho Macon train 100. A poU of these trains showed the voters largely for Atkinson on the average. Tho crowd present at the speaking has been gener ally estimated at 2,000, and it is acknowl edged by Ordinary Calhoun, of Atlauta, and other Evans men that it was strongly for Atkinson. There is no doubt that the Evans strength in this section has beta weakened by the debate. Mr. Atkinson opened tho debate with the statement that it was a somewhat noteworthy coincidence that tho first of the series of debates should bo Held in tha city of Griffin, where as a wagon boy ha made his first dollar hauling cotton, and stopped at tho ware house of tho gentleman who now presided over tho meeting, while ho had becomo a candidate for gov ernor. He urged ttiat tho utmost good fooling should prevail in this campaign between two democrats and that all who at tend should determine to stand by tho old party and support tho nominee, who ever ho might bo. In tho field of politics every man loft his every (lay calling be hind, himself as well as his competitor, and mot on a fair and equal field. Every issue that belongs to legislation is to ha made in these Joint debates, and all should bo fairly met. NOT TO INDULGE IN AGRIMONY. “If any man had como expecting to hear acrimonous and bitter discussion, ha will be disappointed.” Ho recognized tha lvigii character of his opponent and would do and say nothing harsh or unjust. “Wo aro here for more than personal reasons, here to strengthen the whole Democratio party.” He reviewed briefly the work of the democratic congress, and said tha# wliilo it had not dorm all that was ox expected, it had done much. As demo crats there was much in which wo might be disappointed, but nothing to make us hang our heads in shamo. TUB TARIFF. On tho main question, that of the tariff, the House, Senate ami President bad worked hand in hand and battled for low taxes The House had passed tho tariff bill and the income tax. The seigniorage bill bail passed both houses and is wait ing the signature of the President, and the idle silver will soon bo in the pockets of the people. The election laws have been repealed. He demanded that very plank, and requirement of the platform should be carried out, and thoughfrevery body out to stand by the old party. It some go wrong let us repudiate them, bua lot us stand by the principles of tho party. HIS OWN PI.ATFOKM, But It is not enough for a man to say that lie stands on tho party platform; ha must say what lie understands by it and lay down a speeitie iwlicy. As for him self ho was in favorof a tariff for revenue only, witli the highest tax on luxuries the lowest on necessities, taking taxes from the shoulders of tho producers and placing it on thoso of the millionaires. I , am as much in favor of sound money as any man, and want every dollar of equal value. But Ido not belong to that class who believe that gold is the only honestk dollar, but believe that the government! can float gold and silver side by side amV free of charge for mintage. FAVOIIS A STATU CURRENCY. The repeal of the Shorman law an increase of tho currency necessary, and we should return to the right of thd state to issue its own money and repeal the state bank tax. More than that, £ am in favor of not waiting for an inter national agreement; It is too remote, but gi vo us free coinage on a parity at once, and make gold and silver tho money of final payment. lam in favor of bi metals ism, not simply as a theory, but somo* thing we want right now. STATE AFFAIRS. In state affairs, Mr. Atkinson declared in favor of the enforcement of the law, keeping up the military for the preserva tion of peace, the maintenance of the rails road commission, but to see that personal property iu railroads is not wrecked! while the people are protected from ex* orbitant rates. Knforce tho contract with the lessees of tho convicts and see that convict labor does not come in competition with free labor. I'reserve tho common schools and foster and encourage their growth. No farmer should have the excuse that ho must move to town to educate bis child ren. He would encourage tho building of public roads, economic and low taxation. We should look to the future and move on a practical line, guided by wise and broad statemanship to develope our mines, in crease our factories and double the yield ing capacity of our farms. HIS VOTE AGAINST THE HOMS. Coming down to personal matters, tlio speaker defended his vote upon the Con federate Soldiers' Home, and expressed himself in favor of pension*. Ho asked his opponent whether ho indorsed the at tack upou his (Atkinson’s) vote on the soldiers' home. Ho had not made, it an issue, hut since it had become one, he wanted each candidate to take his stand. THE OCALA PLATFOHM. S' It was charged tbut he voted for tho Ocala resolution, Resolved, That our sen ators and representatives in congress bq and uru requested to use their inllueneo and votes to secure legislation which will correct the evils complained of by the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union in convention in Ocala, Fla., and the evils complained of by the Democratic party, especially those that relate to tho present financial and taxation jxilicy of the government.” He voted for it because he was in favor of correcting every one of the evils complained of, and ho chal lenged his opponent to say where he stood on the matter, let him either avoid the change or slap his friends in tho face who made it. HIS WOBK FOR HIS PARTT. The speaker wanted to know, if this people is ready to say that a man who serves his parly is to be placed at a dis advantage. if Cleveland had applied this