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most timely ami
^’T.Tria' tram the Atlanta
alitor
, ir o(!i'‘‘ e :l
W't 1,1 ,:, ftr ial tfom
, n . r ,o make some equitu-
i^ ,,r,, , tr ; claims of the pres-
iJf .• t |,o Western and Atlantic
the State of Georgia
u il:0: " ; f.,r the most important and
Ti,iil? luernoiv before this body,
.rf?’ in ® mbcrs owe it to the State
jiui I,!t ‘ " t i, u t they proceed to an
*1^ these differences in a
manner. This is one
deniacog«®ry can>t scttle *
ois'O „„ to be the easiest matter
for the Legislature to ar-
int'n' ; . 11M 1 equitable settlement,
rive
)i»■
dde all prejudice and
one business
l • ]i*»-ces a
iii^ 1 [ The contract is plain,
*» !i . ll, *" lbl ,een at a glance what prop-.
*"' !l he State is entitled to and in what
' r 'v,ion : t must be turned over to it.
,V " 1 'can thou estimate the additions in
f“'- l ' s{()L .^ !U id improvements that
have put upon the road.
rollin?
the laws of both Geor-
in which States the
for an
settlement seems to
take
^tciiuiine the laws of both
.uVand Tcmn-sec, .
;,,,! r miS and then their way
Amicable and just
Georgian desires to
"^advantage of these lessees, and
U !f rVme-entatives would misrepre-
their constituents if they attenipt-
to do so. Our people only want
justly and legally their own,
jf i he ,State owes the lessees anj*-
tim-Mhov are entirely willing to pay
' debt.
jj,;t even leaving justice out of the
urtke entirely, it is decidedly to
cst of the State to settle this
if it be at some financial
feel assured will
may pooIT, pooh it as mueh we w 11 but
»»3 nu*«t be
Ti! 5 “ eueial assembly should
J i r Ca ’ U,{? of t,J « fvad is one
thing, the delivery Of it to the incoming
lessees is quite auother. If the nres,-nr
lessees tender the property in the condi
tion that it was at the beginning of the
lease, they will have discharged their
duty under the eoutract, and if they are
prevented by any act of the state from
putting it in that condition, that means
a law suit. And it don’t require the
opening of the Georgia coui ts to bring
that law ^uit. Ihe state owns enough
property m letinessec to compensate
the lesees for twice the claim, and the
courts of iennessee—federal as well as
state—will be open to them for the en
forcement of their claims.
To say it is not to the interest of the
lessees to let the road run down, don’t be
gin to meet the question. They chanc
ed the gauge of the entire road in
twelve hours and may within forty-
man eight hours of the expiration of the lease
change the road from a first class steel
rail to an old iron—just such iron as
they found on the road when the lease
began. The railroad bevoiul Chatta
nooga with which the Western & Atlan
tic connects have plenty of old iron in
side tracks, which, can be exchanged
for the steel rail upon the road, at an
immense saving to the present lessees.
And the state would then have to pay
the incoming lessees the diflerence be-
twen the present condition of the road
less the natural wear and tear, and the
condition it is in as delivered by the old
lessees. The same may be said of the
twenty-four miles additional side tracks
put upon the road, and even of the iron
bridges, so that the Lord only k ows
where the trouble would end, and the
extent of the loss. It Is not business
THE
tiif
WIDOWS OP NORTHERN
SOLDIERS.
the niter
matter, even
sacrifice, which we
KOl lv demanded. Of this we can con
vince any reasonable man.
A> j, ;! well-known fact, the Louis
ville ami Nashville railroad owns a
l jr; r« majority of the lease stock in the
Siam Road. The House has already
jm-sed a l>iil authorizing the re-lease of
,1m road, and opening bids to the
world. It is not reasonable, then, to
suppose that if this trouble with the
old lessees is not adjusted that the L.
and X. will have a decided advantage
over all other bidders, and that the con
tinent loss to the State from this fact
will amount to far more than a settle
ment would cost? The L. and N. will
know exactly what it is bidding for; it
buys no lawsuits but their own, and
il-o can tell what amount of rolling
stock they will get and the condition of
tiio traek.
On t!ie other hand, all that the State
can legally guarantee to competitive
bidders are. two streaks of rust and a
right-of-way, with a few old-style and
dilapidated cars pud engines. The
new bidders see ahead of them a long
wid expensive legislation, that will
lake years to end. They do not know
whether the track will be laid with
steel rails or worn-out iron. The old
lessees may decide to run every wlieel-
on the road into Tennessee, and hold
this rolling stock as an offset for im
provements to the roadway in Geor
gia. To gain possession of this prop
erty the ease must be fought in the U.
b. Courts in Tennessee, which State is
•>f course in sympathy #ith the L. and
X.
1- it not’then reasonable to suppose
that a bidder for the new lease will
take into consideration the extraordi
nary risk and expenses that ho must
incur to gain possession of the proper
ty. and that he will reduce his offer
proportionately ?
If the Louisville and Nashville really
dedres to re-lease the State Road-\vliieh
n doubtless the ease—it seems to us
Grange that they will even consider the
question of settling their claims against
Georgia. They have certainly the long
end of the swingletrce, and what this
company will save in rental, if the road
“ 0l 'ered for lease without settling with
t.ieun, will more than balance what they
"ill receive for improvements. The
desire of the oflieers of this road to ad-
JUst U1:it ters with the State certainly
a? if they wanted to do the fair
hiing. We trust and believe that the
J ‘''-headed and business men in our
Jgislature will meet the lessees half
' and then investigate and talk over
1 e matter, and see if a settlement can-
1101 he made by which Georgia will be
•'^uied that the road and rolling stock
"k be turned over in the same splen-
u COl, dition that it is today, free from
cry incumbrance, and with no long
.uk expensive law-suit behind it.
. en " ’ll each and every competi-
1 ihe lease of the road he on an
J Ua footin g, and the property bring
!, ry Uollar >t is worth,
q ; is ‘ s l he business-like way to set-
J-1 m trouble, and we feel assured that
it r n 'P r esentative8 W H1 so look upon
The Constitution’s editorial is as fol
lows :
act M ha8 disposed of the least
Well -in 1 tae raain perfonned the work
mav'ten I 1 * I )eo P le ^>11 approve all thae
of thei! i . ward the proper protection
^mee of j rests in inviting the highest
WltifJ! s 8 ’ hut there is still another
lease of , In coniI0 ction with the new
tion tw a ramount importance—a ques
ts v a °V- ot and w ill not down at
tire boiiw ^‘dding of any man or legisla-
Presum! 7 aQ d that Is the claim of the
.. to
treat a business question with indiffer
ence—and not even try to find out
what difference is—and no legislator
who really wishes to protect the inter
est of the State and keep this magnifi
cent property out of trouble can afford
to sit down and risk the consequences
It may not suit us to acknowledge the
the justice of the lessees, and so far as
The Constitution is concerned, we
would like to see it ignored if that
would end the matter. But it ''«nnot
be ended in that way. It will not be
down at our bidding, and the issue
therefore must be fairly and squarely
met. The lessees are in possesion of
the property and will hold it to the end
of the lease. No human being can pre
vent them from doing with it as they
see fit, provided at the. end of the lease
they deliver it in as good condition as
it was in when delivered to them. We
cannot shut our eyes to this fact; the
contract is what the lessees are bound
by, and that contract also binds . the
state, and prevents the state from de
manding.more than the contract ealls
for. The legislator who lives in the
fond expectation that the present 7es
ees will turn the road over in its present
condition unless tvey are compensated
for doing so, is, we fear, is indulging in
a dream which will never be realized.
The lessees are men of business sense.
They claim to have put vast improve
ments upon the property, and however
much they would like to see the road
go the state in its present excellent
condition, they are riot likely to let sen
timent to control them in 'a business
transaction, especially if the legisla
ture should refuse to meet them half
way in an effort to reach an adjustment
We repeat again the consequences of a
refusal to fairly and honorably try and
settle this matter are of too grave* a na
ture to. be treated lightly, and that re
sults distrous to the state' are likely to
grow out of a failure to reach * just set
tlement, and if this general assembly
should fail to make the effort the people
will know where to place the resposi-
bility.
In a recent speech at a G. A. R. re
union, Commissioner Tanner urged
the pensioning of the widows of Union
soldiers even after they had married
again, stating that the$12.50 per month
received from the government induced
great many to lead immoral lives.
This is certainly a horrible confession,
arid speaks ill indeed for a certain elass
of females who are supported by pub
lic taxation.
It is a matter of pride and congrat
ulation, however, to the South that the
widows of our gallant Confederate sol
diers do not hold their virtue so cheap
as this paultry sum. They have not
received, and neither do they expect,
one dollar from the government, and
while many of them are forced to toil
like slaves for their daily bread, they
have preserved their honor as spotless
as the falling snow. They have suffer
ed privations and trials to which the
soluiers’widows of tlieNortli are strang
ers—they found not only the one upon
whom they leaned for support taken
away, but the wreck of their property
stolen or destroyed by the invading en
emy—their little children clinging to
their skirts and piteously begging
for bread that they had not to give
them; but never for one instant did a
Southern soldier’s widow consider .the
question of bartering her virtue for
food even to feed her starving children.
With a heroism as grand as manifested
by the husband on the field of battle
did these noble women meet the dark
and frowning .future with undaunted
energy afiil courage, and while protect
ing and preserving their honor and
virtue, managed to keep the wolf from
their door. These Southern widows do.
not sacrifice their virtue to be able to
become pensioners upon the charity of
the government and even were they
extended the same munificence as are
the soldier’s widows of the Federal
Army,and that pension was an hundred
times as large, they would preserve
untarnished their good name.
Commissioner 'Tanner has either
basely slandered, the soldiers’ widows
of the North, or there is certainly
very low state of morals among them.
Women who must be paid by the gov
ernment in order to preserve their vir
tue, are not deserving objects, and the
sooner they are dropped from the list
and permitted to pursue unsupported
their degraded and downward career,
the better for the honor of our govern
ment. While the people have uncom
plainingly contributed tQ the mainten
ance of the dependent relics of those
who fell battling for the victorious
side, they will enter their earnest pro
test againt being taxed to support a
great army of harlots.
For the honor of our eountiy we hope
that Pension Commissioner Tanner
has basely, knowingly! and wilfully
lied.
a desire to shrink his duties. We firm
ly believe that the guano sent him was
mixed, and that all the analyses made
were correct. To prove this, there was
a considerable diflerence in the tests
made by the two chemists selected by
Commissioner Henderson. While
Prof. White, like every prominent man,
has his opponents and his enemies, no
one has ever doubted his ability as a
chemist or his honor as a gentleman
and public officer. His name aftl his
character have ever been spotless.
Now that the spasm of public indig
nation has had time to cool, people are
awakening to the fact that a grave in
justice has been done a faithful State
officer and an honorable gentleman, and
at a time, too, when he was absent and
had no opportunity to defend himself.
Justice and fairness demanded that be
fore so grave a charge was made the
accused party should have been given
time and an opportunity to appear and
answer. Even this privilege is accorded
by our laws to the vilest criminal.
But here we see an honorable and
polished gentleman—a man who stands
at the head of his profession-and against
whom the first thought of suspicion has
never passed the mind—not only ar
raigned, but comdemned and his office
demanded of him, while he is in a dis
tant State. An attempt lias been made
to deprive Prof. White of that which
is of far more value to him than money
or anything that money can purchase—
his good name and his reputation in the
profession that he has chosen. But we
liredict that this ambush-attack will
BARRICADING THE
RIVER.
SAVANNAH
As we naturally expeeted, both of the
Augusta daily papers, backed by Mayor
Bob May and Major Garky, are ridi
culing and opposing the opening of a
way through the dam :,t that city for
the free passage of fish. The aguments
used are:
1. That there is already one of the
best fish ivays invented in the dam.
2. That the passage of fish is not ob
structed, for they can easily glide
through or over the dam.
3. That the scarcity of shad above
Augusta is not due to this obstruction,
but to muddying and filling up the
streams by freshets; and in proof of
this assertion these fish are very scarce
in the river below the dam.
4. That a legislative committee has
already investigated the dam, and ap
proved the fish-way now used.
Mayor May, after ridiculing the up I
country editors, kindly proposes to I
have a boat ready to take a committee j
from the legislature up to the Locks.
In answer to the first and ‘second as
sertions we will state that the fish-way
now used in the Augusta dam is utterly
worthless for the purpose for which it
was constructed. In proof of this, it is
only necessary to cite the fact that we
have not heard of a single shad being
caught above that city since it was put
n. Parties who have seen this so-
called fish-way tell us that the water
rushes through with so great a force
that it has actually lifted up great
boulders and heaped them in a pile. It
prove a boomerang to Prof. White’s ac- j is a matter utterly impossible for any
cusers, and that every stab made at him object, animate or inanimate, to pass
COL. CRENSHAW’S SPEECH.
THE DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST.
It seems that Harrison’s administra
tion is not-being indorsed by the new
states that expect soon to be added to
the Union of sisterhood.
Montana has been given up by the Re
publicans. It is Democratic beyond all
question—made so in no small measure
by the popular disgust with the Hakri-
soN-and-Baby-McKEE administration
s*nd the asinine antics of “Prince Rus
sell.’ ’
Washington Territory has been Dem
ocratic or Dan Voorhees’ son, Char
ley Voorhbes, could never have been
elected as its Delegate in Congress. The
new State of Washington is much more
likely to be Democratic and to send two
Democrats to the Senate than to be Re
publican and send two Senators of that
political faith.
And now even North Dakota seems
to have bucked under the* Administra
tion saddle, and has apparently over
thrown all Republican schemes and cal
culations.
In fact the Democracy is on a boom,
and while the star of hope shines bright
in the West, and the Solid South grows
stronger day by day, the work is steadi
ly going on in the North, and Demo
cratic clubs and organizations are active
and alive.
Every indication points to a change of
the scenes at the next campaign.
When the Georgia Midland is com
pleted to Athens, and the G., C. & N
is finished, and the Blue Bidge and At
lantic is extended to Knoxville, and the
C. & M. runs through cars fiver the
great Piedmont section, Athens will in
deed be a railroad center.
Ex-Collector Thos. C. Crhnshaw, Jr.
on retiring from office and being present
ed by his men with a handsome gold
watch, made a ringing democratic ad
dress that found an answering echo in
every true and loyal southern heart,
lie went for Buck and his crowd with
out gloves, and brought blood at every
las', of his eloquent tongue. He spoke
the truth, sherwhole truth and nothing
but the truth, and every Georgian
knows it.
We regret to see that several of Col.
Crenshaw s old employes—who have
been retained in office by the new Col
lector—signed a pretest against this fare
well address. These gentlemen must
certainly have signed that paper under
some strong pressure and without con
sidering what they were doing. Col
Crenshaw was at that time in his own
office, and had a perfect right to ex
press his sentiments. The Republi
cans present could not certainly expect
to hear honeyed words from so staunch
and loyal a democrat as the ex-Collec
tor. Even the signers must admit the
truth of all Col. Crenshaw said, and if
we mistake not they have loudly ap
plauded even stronger and harsher lan
guage delivered in the presence of Re
publicans when the star of Democracy
was in the ascendaney. We are glad to
see that while thatold unswerving demo
crat of Banks county, I. W. Alexander
is retained as Deputy Collector by the
new administration, that his name did
not appear on the list of dissenters
Northeast Georgia is to-day indeed
proud of Mr. Alexander. His party
will yet reward him.
STATE CHEMIST WHITE.
The great London strike is still on,
and serious fears are being entertained
that it will extend to every branch of
industry in Great Britain.
Mrs; Maybrick has recovered from
her extreme nervousness and accepts
her situation with as much grace as
she can command. The physicians say
that she will not live vory long, how
ever, if confined in prison.
Corporal Tanner, if he continues at
his past rate of emptying thejtreasury
the claim of the willnot want but a few weeks to bank-
for improvements. We 1 rnpt the country.
In the absence of this gentleman
The Banner desires to say something
in his defense. We belieye every word
that he has written in his letter to Col
Henderson to be* true, and feel assured
that no blame can be justly attached to
| him in the analysis of the fertilizer in
qnestion. Prof. White’s ability as
chemist is too well know and recognized
to leave any doubt as to his fitness for
the place that he occupies, while his
name and reputation are all the guar
antee needed to convince any reasoning
man that he would not make a false or
fraudulent analysis of an artiele sent
to him, either through yenal motives or
in the back will recoil upon them. He
stands too high in his profession—his
ability is too well known, and he is
too firmly entrenched in the confidence
and esteem of the people, to have his
ability or his integrity questioned by
men as ignorant of the principles of
chemistry as a Digger Indian, or who
are but amateurs compared to this
learned scholar. Such treatment to
ward Prof. White is a shame, and a
just and fair-minded public will so pro
nounce it.
We believe selfish motives prompted
this attack on Prof. White in his ab
sence tiiat will yet come to light, and
the true inwardness of the outrage—for
as an outrage every honest man must
pronounce it—will be unearthed.
We have always entertained a high
regard for Commissioner Henderson,
and are surprised at that gentleman
lending his name and countenance to
such a parody on justice. He is the last
man who should have given encourage
ment to such a grave wrong, for it cer
tainly lays him open to suspicion. It
will be remembered that Col. Hender
son’s official scalp was threatened, and
those who do not know his high charac
ter might suspect that he had intention-
illy raised this excitement about
Prof. White in order to direct the legis
lature’s attention from himself, and
give the members and the people
something else to think
and talk about than the contemplated
changes in the office of Agricultural
Commissioner. Of course we know that
Col. Henderson would not resort to
such dishonorble means to divert pub
lic attention from himself, as to seek to
make a scape-goat of Prof. White; but
the prominent stand that this gentle
man has taken in the matter lays him
self open to suspicion from those who
do not know him.
Again,it looks very much like a deep-
laid' and concocted scheme to transplant
the office of State Chemist from Athens
to Atlanta, and we believe this is one
motive at the bottom of the whole mat
ter. The conspirators iu this move
ment dared not make their fight openly,
and hence secured by indirect means
their object.
Then we believe that there is some
aspiring young mixologist in Atlanta
who has longing eyes cast upon Prof.
White’s chair, and well knowing that
he stood no showing tor the office in
honorable competition with the present
skilled incumbent, attempted to gain
his end by trying to first
dishonor and then displace
this officer. But to cast the
mantle of Prof. White around any
other chemist in Georgia would al
most be a repetition of Tittlebat Tit
mouse in the house of the noble An-
breys.
“Coming events cast their shadows
before,” and by patiently waiting and
watching we hope to be able to unearth
the real motive of this unholy war on a
faithful public officer and an honorable
gentleman.
Prof. White will soon return to
Georgia, when we feel no doubt in as
serting that he will entirely prove him
self in the right. We have the utmost
confidence in his skill ancl his integri
ty. His friends throughout the State and
the entire country are justly indignant
at the unholy war made upon this gen
tleman in his absence.
through this rush of angry waters un
less it is propelled by a force even greater
than the current. The few fish that
have made the attempt were hurled
back, and it is not unusual to find them
in the traps below the dam dead and
often broken to pieces.
In answer to the third statement, we
will ask the Augusta defenders of their
dam, if it does not stop the passage of
fish, why is it that some shad are still
each season caught below that obstruc
tion, while not a single £ a’e is ever
seen above it? If that fish-way worked
so nicely, it really seems reasonable that
there would certainly he a division of
fish in the upper and lower waters of
the Savannah. Muddy water and
freshets have but little to do with the
scarcity of shad in this stream. The
truth is, these fish have not the latitude
that they enjoyed before the Augusta
dam was built, and as a natural conse
quence the supply has diminished. Of
course 3 r ou cannot produce as many fish
in a mile of water as in ten miles.
ATHENS’ FUTUKE.
Taking into consideration the many
achievements that Athens has made
within the last few months, and with a
circumspective glance at the general
surroundings of our city to-day, who
can doubt but that its future is blit a
bright one?
Enumerating the achievements of our
town since July 1st, we find t:iat the ef
fort is a vain one. It is impossible to
calculate the progress made during even
this short period. To say that we have
obtained the G., C. & N. railroad; that
we have procured an excellent street
railway; that we have virtually ob
tained the Blue Ridge and Atlantic
Railroad extension, as well as the Geor
gia Midland; that we have gotton two
land improvement companies, and a
company to build a new hotel; that the
electric light question has been taken in
hand favorably by the city council, and
that the city park is in the hands of an
energetie committee from?the city coun-
j cii-—to say all this only gives a faint
idea of the progress \vc have made.
But it serves to illustrate the possibili
ties of the city,and to indicate us bright
and prosperous a future as any South
ern city can boast to-day.
The best part of it all i> that though
all this has' been done in two short
months, it cannot compare with future
achievements in a proportionate length
of time, for like a ball of snow after the
nucleus is formed it will' gather more
and more as it revolves.
It would take Yolumns to express the
bright features of Athens 5 promising
future. Railroads are coining, and
with them machine shops and manu
factories, alarge influx of population
and capital will follow in the wake, and
forth with a new-
Athens will spring
ness of life botn in the industrial arts
and under the refining influence of
scientific culture, will march forward to
take its stand at the lead of Georgia
cities.
WANTS TO SEE HER BA BY
There is no late news from the G., C.
& N. of special interest that we have
heard. It is said that there are about
one thousand hands at work grading
between Chester and Clinton, S. C.,and
that the surveyors are locating the
route as fast as possible on the other
side of the Savannah.—Elberton Ga
zette. _ .
But even for the sake of
argument admitting that
the number of shad has lessened from
some other cause thau obt :r Acting their
rua—does not these dam defenders in
Augusta well know, that the govern
ment is now artificially propagating
shad and all manner of the finny tribe,
and that it is both an easy matter and
entirely practicable - to plant them at
any point in a stream where they can
go to and return from salt water? But
Uncle Sam eould fill the Savannah
river with young shad from its mouth
to its ^source, and we venture the as
sertion that not one would ever be
found north of the Augusta dam and
its so-called fish-way.
In answer to the statement that a
legislative committee has already in
spected and approved that fish-way,we
have only to say that it was put in as an
experiment, and if any committee has
endorsed the same since that time, the
members must have been bliuded by
Augusta’s hospitality, and made their
report without properly investigating
the business they were appointed to
transact.
So far as Mayor May’s kind offer to
take the next committee up the canal as
guests of the city, we think that this
is one instance in which hospitality
ivill be misplaced and not acceptable.
These gentlemen ivill not go as guests
of Augusta, to be feasted, fondled and
caressed by the Mayor of the city and
other gentlemen interested in preserv
ing the dam as it is now built; but they
will be the representatives of a large
section of our State, whose people be
lieve a great wrong has been done them.
They will desire to pursue their re-
seaches and make investigations with
out outside interference, or the guid
ance of parties who are personally and
pecuniarily interested in leaving the
dam and fish-way unchanged. We
believe that such a committee will be
appointed, and that its members will
discharge their duty without fear,favor
or affection. They will visit Augusta
on important publie business, and will
neither ask, expect or receive courtesies
from parties directly interested in con
trolling their report.
We will state to Mayor Bob May that
no up-country editor either favors or
has suggested that the Augusta dam
be torn down. There will be no ne
cessity for such a step if a proper fish
way is placed therein. It may he ex
pensive, but since Augusta has seen
proper to obstruct the entire course of
this great river for her own benefit,that
city should eertainly he willing to go
to this cost.
We ask the Augusta papers, if they
see fit to reply to this article, to do as
the fairness to republish it entire, that
their readers may see the other side of
he question.
Mrs. Hamilton Appeal? in Vain—Her
Victim Nearly Well.
Special to the Banner.
Atlantic Cit,y. N. J., September 1.
—The day passed quietly at Noll Cot
tage. Outside, however, tbous nils of
curious people passed aud passed, look
ing for the scene of the HamBton-Don-
nell fracas, but as the signboards had
been removed’ their curiosity was un
rewarded. About ten o’clock this morn
ing, a telegram was received from Mrs.
Hamilton at May’s Landing jail, ex
pressing an urgent desire, to sec baby
Hamilton. Even had it been possible
to grant this request, there
were no trains to that point to [carry
the child to its mother. Mr. Hamilton
had net returned to Atlantic City lait
evening~as had been reported. Coun
sellor Perry left here on a late train for
the purpose it is said, of consulting with
New York attorneys engaged by Mr.
Hamilton. He will not return before
Tuesday. If bail for Mrs. Hamilton is
accepted, she will probably not be re
leased before Wednesday.
Dr. Crosby stated this evening that
Mrs. Donnelly continues to improve.
The stitches we.e removed from the
wound to-day aud it is heal
ing rapidly. If it is neces
sary to give a second certificate as to
the woman’s condition, the doetor as
serts that he can in less than forty-
eight hours pronounce his patient ab
solutely out of danger.
Making a Mockery of Marriage.
Special to the Banner.
Findlay, O., Sept. 3.—It was dis
covered yesterday that Louisa Lenby,
16 years old, had been made the victim
of a mock marriage about ten weeks ago.
Bert Early, a roaming mill employe,
was joined in an alleged marriage with
this girl by a man who signed his name
as “Justice of the Peace Lindsay.” A
certificate of marriage was written out
and signed by the pretended Justice
and giveri to the girl, who thought
every thing was in proper form.
A few , days ago Early deserted the
woman and left the city. When she
learned that she had been deserted
Louisa and her friend started an inves
tigation, whieh disclosed the fact that
the marriage was a fraud and void. The
records of the Probate J udge’s office
showed that no marriage license had
been issued to the parties sametd, nor
is there in this county a Justice of the
Peach named Lindsay. The man who
signed the pretended marriage certi
ficate as“Lindsay, J ustice of the Peace,’ 5
has not been located as yet, and his
identity is unknown. The girl is well
spoken of as an industrious, modest
person, who would not be guilty of
wrong, and is prostrated over the un-
liappy disclosures.
A Jack-the-Ripper Scare.
Special to The Banner
London, September 3.—An old man
stabbed two prostitutes in the central
part of the city to-day, for declining to
accompany him. A “Jack-the-Ripper”
scare prevails.
Counterfeiting Labels.
Special to the Bittner.
St. Louis, Sept. 3.—Circuit Judge
Thayer rendered a decision yesterday
that the counterfeiting of the union
label on cigars cannot he prevented or
punished.