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CINCINNATI’S SENSATION.
Rabbi Wise’s Daughter Mar
ries a Young Gentile.
It Was a Bunaway Match and Great
is the Talk Thereof.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
‘It was a runaway match, one of the good old*
fashioned kind, that ever since Love first laugh*
ed at locksmiths—and that was probably as
soon as the latter appeased on earth—have
been the hope and the refuge of maiden and
gallant who love wisely and well in their own
belief, but not so in that of the heads of their
respective households. The engagement was
of nearly four year’s standing, and the mutual
affection and intimacy of Miss Wise and her
husband, to-day began when the latter was the
daily and often the nightly guest of the Wise
mansion, welcomed there aB the bosom friend
and boon companion of one of the sons of the
rabbi. Two years ago, as is proved by the
card of Dr. Wise below, and it is said at the
suggestion of May, a son-in-law of the latter,
he (Mr. Molony) was forbidden the house. It
was too late, as the event proved. They had
met and they had loved. In vain were family
objections. As also were the barriers of sect or
creed. No father or brother can successfully
disparage to a girl her first lover. He is to her
a hero, and if he be equally constant the twain
will mate as surely as the robins build their
nest, unless sickness or death stalks between.
So it was the ‘old, old story,’ and they were
married, and this was how.
‘Not to be reported,’was the legend on the
register of the Marriage-license clerk, opposite
the entry, ‘James Molony and Helen Wise,’
and so, for a wonder, the issuing of the legal
leave for ‘this man and his woman’ to marry
escaped insertion in the ‘orange blossom’ list
in the Enquirer, and the curiosity of court
house reports and officials. And this was of
a part and parcel with the other well-laid
schemes of the lovers. On Tuesday at 11 o’clock
a. m. , Miss Wise bid adieu to her parental
roof, ostensibly to visit her cousins, the
Blochs, and with them, it is believed she spent
a portion of the day. Later in the evening she
joined her affianced—affianced not with the pub
lic ceremonial and rejoicing, customary among
her people, but in the secrecy of the whispered
and sacred vows of man to woman—and took
early tea. Then the couple quietly took a car
riage and were driven to the residence of Rev.
Chas. Wendte, No. 36G West Seventh street.
That gentleman was surprised, and says that
both were strangers to him. The license was
shown, however, and in the parlors of the lit
tle home of the pastor of the Unitarian Church,
comer of Sixth and Monroe streets, James Mo
lony and Helen Wise were made one. Half
an hour later the register of the Galt bore the
record, ‘James Molony and.wife, No. 6,’ and the
deed was done.
Yesterday morning Miss Wise herself went to
her house, in the absence of her father, who ed
its the Israelite, broke the news to her step
mother and requested her trunks, already pack
ed in anticipation. They were readily accorded
to her, and she left the home of her youth, per
haps forever. From this moment the news
spread rapidly from tongue to tongue, and
‘still the wonder grew.’ The relatives of Miss
Wise visited the license Clerk’s office and found
the record as we have given it. Dr. Wise wrote
to Dr. Wendte to know if he had performed the
ceremony, and received an affirmative reply,
accompanied by the assurance that he was una
ware that he was performing any ceremony out
of the ordinary. Indeed, Dr. Wendte stated to
an Enquirer reporter last evening, that the lady’s
cast of countenace seemed anything but strong
ly Jewish to him. He was reluctant in giving
information, but stated that the parties came
to him in walking costume at about 9 o’clock,
and that there were no witnesses to the rite
but himself.
Miss Helen Wise is the third daughter and
fifih child of Dr. Rabbi Wise, one of the most
learned and best beloved of the Hebrew clergy
in this country. She is of medium hight and
slight though full and graceful figure, and has
eyes that seemed to a casual observer a dark
blue in keeping with hair that marks her as nei
ther a decided brunette nor yet a blonde. Her
Hebrew type is not strongly marked, and yet
more so than that of her brothers, the family,be-
ing of a Bohemian origin, and handsome in the 1
broadest sense of that word. She is pretty if
not beautiful, and more than usually accomplish
ed, being a pianist of good attainment, and
speaking German and French, the former per
fectly and the latter fluently. Probably she
never looked better in her life than when seen
entering the dining-room of the Galt House last
evening. She wore a neat gray walking-dress,
with a close-fitting jacket; pearl pendents in her
ears, and a gold breast-pin, seemingly a college
badge, at her throat. This was her wedding
dress, and as a bride of twenty—she is just com
pleting her twentieth year—it became her well.
She has been a favorite in her home and an or
nament to her social circle, and any man might
be proud to call her wife. So seemed to be the
groom, who, sleek and like a bridegroom in
wedding garments, too, was a perfect picture of
manly beauty. Whatever Mr. Molony’s' enemies
may say of him in this episode of his life, they
all admit him to be a handsome fellow, well cal
culated to turn any girl’s head, and it may turn
out that, with this new departure to date from,
the runaway bride will have no cause to regret
the step taken, even though it causes temporary
estrangement from her family and that social
ostracism which sometimes among orthodox fam
ilies follows the course she has taken.
Up to last night Mr. Molony’s family, who
live in the country, were in ignorance of the
course he had taken. They had also objected to
his choice on grounds of sect, being, like him
self, of Episcopalian extractions and affiliations.
It is not likely that they will be obdurate, how
ever, and it is probable that after a week’s stay
at the Galt the honeymoon will be spent among
them. Certainly it will lapse in our xovely sub-
arbs.
Dr. Wise’s immediate family consists of his
second wife, whom he married some two years
ago, and infant child, and four sons and four
daughters by his first wife. One of these daugh
ters is married to Mr. Ben. May, and among the
latter connection the feeling against Mr. Molony
last night seemed quite bitter. The father,
found preparing his lecture for next Sabbath,
seemed loth to talk on the subject, but his feel
ing among those who know him can perhaps be
understood from the tone of the following
not that he is a Christain, but that he is not a
Christian ?' But ‘all is well that ends well,’ and
the public sympathy will ever go out to the
lovers in such cases. *God bless them’ will come
from many a heart, whether or not it finds an
echo in those of the parents. It was always so,
and will be until Youth and Love shall be no
more, and worse than chaos has come to a pas
sionless world.
Says the Gazette:
For a number of years the family of Rev,
Isaac M. Wise and that of Mr. Molony were
neighbors on College Hill. Rabbi Wise was a
widower, with a grown up daughter, Miss
Hellen, and two sons. The daughter is desorb
ed as a beautiful girl, of light complexion, in
telligent, accomplished, lovely in manners,
and loveable in disposition. Mr. Molony is
well known throughout the country as a young
attorny of considerable promise and praotice.
A few years ago he acted as Deputy Sheriff;
afterward as assistant to Mr. C. W. Baker, when
that gentleman was prosecuting Attorney, and
for the past two or three years has been engaed
in the praotice of law witn his brother. Two
years ago he wss a candidate for the State Legis
lature on the Democratic ticket. His father,
now dead, was Professor of English Literature
in Farmers College. He had been a Catholic
priest in Ireland, but renouncing that faith and
becoming a member of the Episcopal Church.
He was one of the founders of Farmers’ College.
While Mr. Malony is not regarded as a mem-
ber of any church, he has been a regular attend
ant at the services of both the Episcopal and
Presbyterian churches on College Hill. He is
a young man of fine personal appearance, tall,
light complexion, bright and rather brilliant in
conversation— on the whole, such a man as the
average young lady might be pardoned for fall
ing in love with. While living on College Hill
the two families were quite intimately associat
ed. Some of the boys of each were classmates
in college, and when a younger brother of Mr,
James Malony died a few days ago, a brother of
the present bride acted as one of the pall-bear
ers. A mutual attachment sprang up between
the two under discussion, which neither for a
time felt willing to acknowledge. It was dis
covered by Rabbi Wise almost before the young
people were themselves awere of its existence,
and naturally enough developed into an engage
ment.
Every effort was made to prevent it from going
further, but without avail. The young lady was
sent East for nearly a year, but a regular corres
pondence was kept up between herself aDd lov
er. On her return, the father, who realized sad
ly the terrors of the impending blow, argued,
pleaded, and used every possible effort to cause
a separation. The young lady hesitated, con
sented to separate, wavered, and finally, with
more determination than ever, decided to ad
here to her lover. It was a case of devotion on
each side, which resisted all pressure. A year
and a half ago Mr. Malony was forbidden the
Rabbi’s house, but the lovers engaged in a clan
destine correspondence, and had frequent inter
views. A day was set for their elopement, but
was postponed at the time for prudent reasons,
Marriages between Jew and Gentile are so rare,
even at this day, that few comprehend the seri
ousness of their nature to the family of the for
mer. While there are no canons ot the Jewish
Cnurch expressly forbidding intermarriages
with Gentiles, traditions of the old Mosaic pro
hibition of such marriages are strictly observed.
These are explicitly defined in Josephus, and
apply generally to all such intermarriages. The
offense is greater when committed by the daugh
ter of a Jewish priest, as expressed in the twelfth
verse of the twenty-second chapter of Leviticus,
as follows: ‘If the priest's daughter also be mar
ried unto a stranger, she may not eat of an of
fering of the holy things.’ She is excommuni
cated, debarred from all fellowship with her
people, and theoretically as well as practically
dead to her own family, except she be left a
widow, or separate from her husband and re
turn to her own people. Jews encourage social
intermingling with Christians, but adhere with
unchanging fidelity to their rules against inter
marriage.
The Old Southern and The
New Wesleyan Christian
Advocate,
A FEW FARTING WORDS.
Talks From Grandma Cult Irby.
CARD,
To the Editor of the Enquirer : Permit me to
state through the columns of your paper that
I had no knowledge whatever of the clandestine
marriage of Miss Helen Wise and Mr. James
Molony, solemnized by Rev. Mr. Wendte; that
the said Mr. Molony had been prohibited to
visit at the residence of Miss Wise, and for the
last two years had not been seen in those pre
mises; and that Rev. Mr. Wendte has solemniz
ed that clandestine marriage without any noti
fication to the parents of the young lady.
Isaac M. Wise.
It wonld, perhaps, be only justice to all par
ties to say that Dr. Wise is known to entertain
liberal views on all subjects, though discourg-
ing the intermarriage of all sects, and that his
views in the present issue may be perhaps ex
pressed 4 as it was well and wittily put by one of
fia hops last night : ‘The trouble with Jim is
'Roy Eldon:— Knowing how fond you are of
the chase I have concluded to throw by my us
ually dull epistolary style and invite you and
your friends to take a little geographical ram
ble with your dear old ‘ grandma ’ over the Old
Dominion, which will amuse and instruct more
than the common chit-chat of the day.
I see there is a little ‘ Puzzle Corner ’ in the
Sunny South, and I have been thinking that
the ‘ Thinking Club’ might sit beside it so nice
ly, or at any rate, permit an enigmatical corres
pondence from ‘The Old Folks at Home.’
Now I want ‘Roy Eldon,’ (my grandson) or
any of the young folks, to chase my flight to
the end of my journey, for, I shall not make a
wearisome trip at first, and I’m sure all will
like the change. You already know that the
Old Mother of our Commonwealth waves her
banner proudly over a picturesque and varied
scenery; sweeping from a grand bed of foaming
waters to a summit among her native hills,
where Time has held the moss-covered rooks in
his grasp long before your grandma Cuttleby
was born.
I know that you would love to climb over
these old gray stones, and peep at the great
Book of nature, so wonderfully bound by the
wild forest king, and see one of these mourn
tain sunsets, when the sun wrapping up for a
good-night among the rich folds of purple and
gold, beautifully throws the kiss-me-byes on the
lingering light of day.
Then to the east, and parallel with this gro
tesque chain, I will point you to a dreamy blue
stretched along the horizon, over which the
morning throws a rosy-tinted smile as the sun
beams dance on the rippling waters, widening,
narrowing and playing ‘Bo Peep’ around the
hills and valleys until hidden away in some far
away nook, overlooked by the queen of the tribe
who sees you safely over a little tributary stream,
which has run murmuringly away from the old
homestead and has made its way through a
grand arch-way of curious beauty, and awful
sublimity, where you can watch the water fall
ing from rock, to rock, down the channel. The
picture is too pretty to print with my pen, so
let me leave it to the flight of wild imagination,
and to the solution of kind readers. Some
writer has described it as ‘Springing from earth
and bathing its head in heaven,’ and indeed it
seems to look up to that great vault with an
earnest longing to kiss the soft blue of its sky,
with itsjpillows turned into an Autograph Album
where your name can live, long after you have
gone to rest. Many a familiar name greets your
sight—but one, for out shines them all. It is
the honored name that every American hugs
close to his breast, and will be green in the
memory of the world, when others who have
held the same office, have been swept into
oblivian—but, I promised not to weary you with
a long trip, and I will be good as my word. Now
I want you to talk to Grandma and tell all
about this trip, and do try to get others join the
Club, for the amusement of the readers of the
sunny south;’ and by and by we may take long
er trips and into other states, and if none of
you grow weary we may take passage for Europe
some day, and then get lost in some old castle;
so now goodbye, and don’t forget your
‘Gbandma Cuttteby.
We publish below the valedictory of Rev. F.
M. Kennedy, the retiring editor of the old
Southern Christian Advocate and the saluta
tory of Dr. Haygood, who takes charge of the
Wesleyan Advocate:
The alliance between the Conferences for the
publication cf the Southern Christian Advocate,
at Macon, Ga., terminated with the issue of a
week ago; and as there was no .opportunity in
that number, I am courteously accorded the
privilege of uttering my final words in the in
itial number of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
which begins its career with the identical con
stituency of its venerable predecessor.
Considerations deemed paramount, demand
ed the return of the old Southern back to its na
tive home within the territory of South Caroli
na; while the Conferences of Georgia and Flor
ida, from considerations equally controlling,
proceeded at once to provide for the publication
of an organ. These Conferences having con
tracted with the same Publishers, who for the
past twelve years have issued the Southern
Ceristian Advocate, they have agreed to fill out
its unexpired subscriptions with the Wesleyan,
and therefore, I can through this medium reach
all whom I have been addressing from week to
week, for the past six yearft- and more.
In taking leave—temporarily with many, fin
ally with most—of those who will read these
lines, I will be pardoned for saying, that while
I am far from retrospecting my labors with
complacency, and can see now that much might
have been better done; yet whatever of failure
may have marked the administration of the
Advocate during the last hall dozen years has
befallen it despite the honest and earnest ef
fort of its editor to keep it true to the grand
mission for which it was instituted. To the
ministry of the four Conferences served by the
paper, I have been indebted for the most uni
form consideration and kindness, and gladly
avail myself of this occasion to express my
grateful appreciation. The editorial chair is
unavoidably beset by numerous and weighty
trials, and no man can hope conscientiously to
perform its manifold and delicate duties with
out impigning against the sensibilities and per
haps incurring the enmity of some. Yet, the
writer has the satisfaction of feeling that he has
wantonly wronged or wounded no one with
whom his official position has brought him in
correspondence; and therefore, not without
reason, he indulges the hope that few, if any,
whom he has served, will feel that they have oc
casion to remember him unkindly.
The wisdom of the Georgia and Florida Con
ferences in calling Dr. Haygood to the editorial
management of the Wesleyan Advocate, will be
cordially endorsed by all who have grown fa
miliar with the productions of his fertile brain
and fluent pen through his weekly contribu
tions to the old paper. Superfluous as it may
seem, it is still a pleasure to commend him
most heartily, and to bespeak for the enterprise
over which he is called to preside, the largest
success.
The publication of the Southern Christian Ad-
vocate —to the continued editorship of which I
have been called by my Conference—will be re
sumed as soon as the necessary arrangements
are completed, of which due notice will be giv
en, and I shall hope to have the privilege of
communing through its columns with not a few
o* its long time readers.
M. Kennedy.
The Women.
There are five colored men on the Pennsyl
vania Republican State Committeee. It ought
to be borne in mind, however, that there is no
salary attached to this important position.
I\TR01>1( TORI',
In the course of events (£id, as I trust, in the
Providence of God, I enter upon the Editorial
management of the TVtskyan Christian Advo
cate. The circumstances leading to the pres
ent adjustment, are sufficiently set forth by the
Assistant Editor, and by the Editor-elect of the
Southern Christian Advocate.
For more than six years the readers of this
paper—in the ‘old Southern'—have followed my
long time and honored friend, the Rev. Dr. F.
M. Kennedy, who has served them ably and
faithfully. They will miss the weekly contri
butions to their edification which they have
been accustomed to receive from his graceful
and vigorous pen. The kind sentiments of his
parting words they will heartily reciprocate.
Only love and good wishes go with him to South
Carolina and wi’li the Southern Christian Advo
cate—which, in due time, will be announced.
In entering upon the duties of Editor-in-
chief of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, I have
not been unmindful of the delicacies and diffi
culties of my position. I am here not by per
sonal preference, but by the advice and urgen-
c v of those (speaking both for the paper and for
Emory College) whose opinion I could not dis
regard.
At this time it is only needful to say, in order
to forestall misapprehension, a few things quite
distinctly:
My editorial connection with this paper does
not affect my relation with Emory College any
more than did my former relation of ‘ Corres
ponding Editor ’ of the Southern Christian Ad
vocate. It will not involve the missing of a sin
gle recitation or the pretermitting of a single
duty at Emory College. For, in conducting
the paper, I have satisfactory help. Beside the
Assistant Editor, and the contributors provided
for in the arrangement between the publishers
and the patronizing Conferences, I have em
ployed at my own expense, competent assist
ance in the person of Mr. Lundy H. Harris,
who will be constantly in the office to do, as
office editor, many things necessary to the suc
cess of a first-class paper.
If difficulties—unanticipated—should arise
damaging either to the paper or tfa the College,
I will know how to solve them. And this is
well understood by the parties at interest. I
have no promises or pledges to make, except
that I purpose to do my best to meet my obli
gations.
Confidently asking the co-operation of my
brethren, and humbly praying the guidance
and blessing of God, I begin.
Atticus G. Haygood.
May 31, 1878.
The Three Sieves.
’0 mamma,’ cried little Blanoh Philpott, ‘ I
heard such a tale about Edith Howard ! I
did not think she could be so very naughty.
One ’
‘My dear, ’ interrupted Mrs. Philpott, 'before
yon continue, we will see if your story will pass
the three sieves. ’
'What does that mean, mamma ?' inquired
Blanche.
,1 will explain it In the first place, is\it
true ?’
'I suppose so; I got it from Miss White, and
she is a great friend of Edith’s.
‘And does she show her friendship by telling
tales of her ? In the next place, _ though you
can prove it to be true, is it kind ?’
'I did not mean to be unkind, but I am afraid
it was. I would not like Edith to speak of me
as I have of her.’
‘And, is it necessary ?’
‘No, of course, mamma; there was no need
for me to mention it at all.’
Then put a bridle on your tongue. If we
can’t speak well, speak not ta all.’—Good
Words,
The fact came out in a trial in San Francisco
the other day, that a woman had carried 2,4000
in greenbacks in her bustle for nearly six
months.
Mrs. Maud Giles, a choir singer in St. Mary’s
Catholic Church, Jersey City, accomplished the
novel undertaking of singing uninterruptedly
for three hours.
From America and England there are now
about 120 ladies laboring in zenanas in India,
and there must be therefore some thousands of
women in tne country positively under Chris
tian instruction.
A young widow of Newpot, R. I., having let
her chalet for the season, was asked what in
duced her to desert such a charming retreat.
‘Too much balcony and too little Romeo,’ was
her reply.
The Norristown Herald tells this true story
in two chapters: Chapter I. Mrs. Malton of Jer
sey City had a habit of smoking a pipe in bed.
Chapter II. The other night she changed that
habit for a shroud.
A Washington woman frightened a colored
burglar the other evening by aiming her pocket-
book at him, as if it were a pistol. The New
York Commercial thinks it is a wonder the
pocket-book didn’t go off. Bat perhaps it
wasn’t loaded.
_ A Flower Mission has been organized by a
number of ladies in the city of Louisville, for
the purpose of distributing flowers among the
sick poor. The Board of Managers: comprise
representives of the different denominations
and churches.
Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. McDonough, by the
will of Mr. OB'rien, are made the richest women
on the Pacific coast. Their share of the estate
from the Nevada bank alone is valued at nearly
$3,000,000, and from the remainder of the estate
it will be at least $10,000,000 more—Mrs. Mc
Donough’s three infant children inherit each
$300,000 more—Mrs. McDonough is the wife of
Thos, McDonough, a wood and coal merchant
on Market street. Young Coleman, who is one
of the executors and a $300,000 legatee, is a
quiet young man, upon whom his new honors
and wealth will sit easily.
The Men.
Senator Gordon was the man who, at Peters
burg, forbade his sharpshooters to fire on a Fed
eral officer who had walked out in front of the
rifle-pits to reconnoitre the grounds, declaring
that he could not see so brave a man shot down
in cold blood. General McAllister of New Jer
sey was the Federal soldier.
Two men, strangers to each other, got into a
dispute upon the highway. ‘I will let you know
sir, that 1 am Mr. Hodge, exclaimed one of them,
threateningly. ‘Oh well, lam equal to several
of you,’ said the other, ‘I am Mr. Ilodges.'
The Picayune says that regular old rounders
in New Orleans now carry canes with crooks for
handles. With such a handle the owner can
hang his cane on his arm while he works a lunoh
table.
Says the Free Press : ‘There is no doubt that
Mr, Bennett could have shot Mr. May right
through the upper lip if he had so desired, but
he didn’t care to. He didn’t want to spoil the
traffic In mint juleps.
You may remember the reply of Walter de
Montreal to the Italian noble, who exhibited
his crest, on which was inscribed the motto,
‘Faithful to DeStfi.’
‘I did not think,’ replied the Knight of St.
John, ‘that th-'U couid’st be faithful to anything,
and well I know that it could be to nothing
unless it were to Death, or to the Devil!’
Pope Led XIII. is said, by a correspondent
•of the Pilot, to be thin even to meagreness, and
tall. His fingers are almost fleshless, and his
whole figure and the outlines.of his face asce
tic to a degree. His hands are tremulous with
nervousness. His voice is clear and ringing;
his sentences are long but admirably arranged.
He has a noble head, crowned with snow-white
hair.
Major Pease, dismissed from the Fourth In
fantry in disgrace in 1871, is with Sitting Bull’s
band. He has their full confidence. John
O’Brien, taken prisoner at the Custer massacre,
is also with them, having married a squaw. He
is under surveilance to prevent escape.
Jefferson Davis has just received a judgment
in the Mississippi Court of Appeals in favor of
his claim to the plantation of Briers-field, in
that State. This is the estate to which his
wealthy elder brother invited him when he mar
ried the daughter of Gan. Taylor, and resigned
his commission in the army. He managed the
plantation so well that he acquired a compe
tence, and reimbursed his brother the full value
of the place. The decision will take all fear of
poverty from him.
Elam Potter is pushing a wheelbarrow from
Albany to San Francisco. He wears very long
hair and whiskers, and the wheelbarrow is gaud
ily painted, so that his arrival in a village caus
es excitemen. He goes to a hotel, as previous
ly arranged, and a crowd follows. Business at
the bar is brisk while he stays, and he gets a
share of the profits. Probably his journey will
terminate at the Western limit of civilization
and bar-rooms.
Edison’s wonderful inventions, the telephone
and phonograph, have been awarded the place
of honor at the Paris Exhibition.
Father Curci, who was expelled a few months
since f^om the Order of Jesuits by the late Pope,
because of the liberality of his views, has been
summoned to Rome, and, it is said, offered a po
sition of trust by Leo XIII.
New Hampshire has just sent a boy to the
penitentiary for fourteen months, for stealing
two postage stamps worth twelve cents.
Greenville Journal: Capt. W. B. Jones, of
Lick Creek, shipped four hundred sheep to Bal
timore and sent a drove of eight hundred to
Kentucky last week.
Ole Bull, the celebrated violinist, will give
thirty concerts in this country during the com
ing season.
TWO SNITZS IN THE FIELD,
ALL THE WORLD OVER.
TheHawkeye reports that a new house-painter
lias come to Burlington who announces himself as
“professor of fence decoration and director of kalso-
mine entertainments.’’
Nelson Handy, of Cincinnati, is fifty, married and
black. Alice, the chambermaid, is sweet eighteen,
and pretily white. They have eloped to Canada.
Two men at Bellefonte, Pa., drank by mistake from
a bottle of carbolic acid. One died and the other is
not expected to recover.
A boy baby, a month old. was left on the doorstep
of a Mr. Lord, of Cleveland, lately, with a note stat
ing that the mother of the child was going West,
and wished the Lord would take care of it.
■"Jesse Walker, convicted of the murder of Violet
Simmons, was hung at Farmerville, La. He denied
the crime and said he was prepared to die and would
be better off in the next world.
And it turns out that that wonderful story of the
rending asunder of Ball Mountain. North Carolina,
was a ball-faced no-such-thing. The mountain is
as yet in tact, although it is troubled with some in
testinal derangement.
Wheeler and Mrs. Hayes have been very Ruecess-
tui in their week's trout fishing, we are gravely in-
tormed by telegraph. The Vice-President appears
to be more successful in handling a hook and line
than in presiding over the Senate.
A furious and fatal cyclone prevailed in Wiscon
sin two or the days ago, as we learn from late dis
patches. Fifty persons are reported killed, and it
Is estimated that over two hundred are seriously in
jured. The loss of property will foot up several mil
lion dollars.
Nine Roman Catholic churches in Philadelphia
have been entered within a month by burglars.
whQiCarned off silver altar vessels, the contents of
poorboxes. and other things worth taking. In one
instance they fired the edifice, hut the flame was
discovered and extinguished.
A baby show was given in Waukega'Ill.. for the
benefit of a Baptist church. The most fashionable
mothers entered their offspring, the charitable ob
ject. overcoming their scrtioles. and overa hundred
were puton exhibition. One was black: and, when
the ten cent, ballot boxes were opened, that one was
found to have been voted the prize for beauty.
A new book on Constantinople says: “The trans
formation of Turkish society is not possible with
out the redemption of the woman. This is not prac
ticable without the fall of polygamy and polygamy
must fall. It is probable that no voice would bo
raised if a decree ofthe Sultan were to suppress it
to-morrow. The edifice is rotten, and must fall.
Temperance has a foothold in the extreme South.
A Key West papersays that, a noticeable change has
taken place in that city. Two years ago there were
flitv grog shops there: now there are but two. Then
coffee was soldom drank, except bv the Cubans;
now there are more than seventv-five coffee-shops'
and most oft.hem are well patronized by all classes
of people. The consumption of coffee is enormous.
One establishment alone roasts 10) pounds per
week. - a.
Si2fnBflibt e i^- if4SOU , ri KdUorial Convention held in
nniio-fi ,t V SS!Ud -never, in the history of these
cmJ. l ^ l JrT,‘i thei ln ?. s ln th,s s,at H has there been so
successful a meetinc:—never so brilliant a sralaxy of
great. nien and beautiful women assembled at. one
time and place. Springfield, with her most cultiva
te* citizens, led bv the chief executive ofthe State,
(tov. Phelps, outdid herself in the generous welcome
she extended to the press representatives,
r, piSmin t < £ e £ rar i H ’ HaU of Lhe-Savin"Station No.
, ’ mouth Harbor, rescued three men from drown
ing Sunday, under circumstances which render the
action heroic. A. sail-boat in which were three
onto Stru f k b y a s< l'iall, and its occupants only
, a ' 5d 'themselves by clinging to the wreck. Cap-
their peril with his glass and with his
eldest hoy started for the rescue in
work of rescue was long and difficult
were only restored to life, after being 1,
kind and assiduous care of Mrs. Hall
dory. The
and the men
landed, by the
It is understood that the Stewart Hotel for wo
men on Fourth avenue will soon he transformed in
to a general hotel on the American plan, for all
classes of persons, without, distinction of sex. It is
said that the institution has not paid running ex
penses, and that in consequence Judge Hilton has
determined to make the change, not feeling It his
duty to continue the venture at a great sacrifice. It
is said there are now only fifteen boarders at the ho
tel, while itcosts fully ?!liH)a day to run the concern.
I tie new hotel was to be opened about thelst of June
and a bar for the sale of liq uors is suUt to he already
in process of construction. Asa women’s hotel it
has proved a complete failure.
A LITTLE FUN.
WOMAN ALL OYER.
A Complicated Case.
Mrs. Snitzs, of Cherry Valley, Otsego county,
while at the point of death, as she believed,
made a last request that her sorrowing husband
should at once be united in marriage to her sis
ter, and, not to deny her this reqnest, a justice
of the peace was summoned and the nuptials
dnly celebrated. The accommodating Mormon
then awaited the crisis with most becoming res
ignation. Bnt it came in a form he least ex
pected. The prostrated woman rallied, grew
rapidly stronger,, and, as ’tis said, her voice
may now be heard a quarter of a mile threaten
ing to have Mr. Snitz arrested for bigamy jnst
as soon as her legs will carry her to a magistrate.
The miserable man is now howling for a * Con
gress,’ and corresponding with Bismarck to se
cure his intervention. Mrs. Snitz No. 2 has had
her hair shingled.
The lowing of the herd, the mosquito’s bloody
hum,
Is heard throughout the land, when the evening
shadows come.—Galveston News.
The buzzing of the bugs, when by lamplight we
would read,
lakes from ns all the patience we stored for
hoars of need.—Attakapas Register,
I gave her a rose, I gave her a ring.
And I asked her to marrv me then.
She.sent them all back—the insensible thing.
And said she’d no notion of men.
I told her I’d oceans of money and goods
Tried to frighten her then with a growl’
Butshe answered she wasn't brought up in the
woods
To he scared at the screech of an owl,
I called her a beggar and everything bad-
I sneered at her features and form, '
Till at last I succeeded in getting her mad,
And she raged like a sea in a storm:
And then, in a moment. I turned and smiled
And called her my angel and all;
And she fell in my arms like a wearied child
And said ‘ We will marry this fall.’ „ ^
How do you do?’’exclaimed agentleman seizin"
alady’s hand and squeezing it rather rudely. “Oh
I am suffering from thepreiiure, sir!” ’
“Will you stand my second ?” said a gentleman,
who proposed to fl^flit a duel. **^o indeed—for you
wouldn’t stand a second yourself.”
“Dad.you always act so strange.” “Why Billy’”
“Because whenever mam gets sick you always have
to fetch a baby to squall round and make a noise.”
'Hie Free Press thus sums up the East ern question-
“Nation’s don’t blow around for three months if
they mean fight.
The Hawkeye tells of a tramp who asked for a
loaf of bread, a plate of potatoes and a round of beef
to “fill a long-felt want.”
The Cincinnati Breakfast Table savs that In^er-
soll confesses that one thing is created to be eter
nally lost—an umbrella.
Even a mule seems to have rights that must be
respected in South Carolina. A colored doctor was
recently sentenced to the penitentiary for forty
years for stealing one.
Several Americans have been guillotined in Paris
for persisting in speaking the French language The
French Government justifies its course bv sayin"
the people of France can’t stand everything. °
Says the St. Louis Journal: The foolish man say-
eth unto the world and the people thereof, “Lo, I
am a candidate;” bnt the wise man dissembletli
within himself and declareth unto the folks, “Lo, I
am in the hands of my friends.”
An exchange discusses the old question, “What
shall we do with the tramps? That isn’t what wor
ries the people on this side of the Mississippi, says
the Hawkeye. We want to know “What will the
tramps do with us?”
Miss Long, a girl of quick and fearless wit, asked
Moses if he knew a certain yonngman. “Know him?
Oh yes! I ought to know him. I raised him from
a pup,” “Ah,” said Miss Sally, “I didn’t know you.
were so old a cur.” Moses wilted.
The Hawkeye says that they do these things more
promptly out? West. Only the other dav a few In
dians raided a couple of ranches in Montana, ran
offall the stock, got into a fight and got most of
themselves killed before England or Russia had
fired a shot. That’s business.
An actor in the course of a play, kissed the wife of
a brother actor once oftener than the authorized
version of the play required, and was thereupon
severely whipped by the outraged husband. Hav
ing been a “star” before, and now being provided
with the “stripes.” he thinks he is entitled to rep
resent the flag of his country.
Says the St. Louis Journal: When a man casually
sits down onalowly bumble bee’s nest, reason urges
him to sit there till he has squashed the animation
out of the vindictive occupant, but instinct warns
him to keep an important engagement elsewhere.
This Is one of those occasions when instinct inva
riably gets the better of reason.
A person went into one of our most fashionable
refreshment rooms not long since, and was much
surprised at seeing nothing on the table. In a*few
minutes the waiter came to him and said: “What
will you have ?” Jonathan stared at him like a
stuck pig, and replied: “Bun know.” “Would von
like a hill of fare?” Thank ye,” he replied, “I don’t
care if I do take a small piece.”
Col. A. A. Fnelkenson near Lynchburg, Va.
was attacked by a flook of a hundred swallows
this week and his face so mutilated that he will
lose his sight His nose was completely de
stroyed.
An immense water spout was witnessed aboat
fifteen miles west of Denver, Col., Tuesdav in
the mountains on Bear Creek. ;