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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1886,-TWELVE PAGES.
the national capital.
HI’IKK SESSIONS OK BOTH HOUSKS
B OK CONGRESS,
Con , oq aonc« of the Death of Represen-
' u tlvo Hahn, of I.ooUI»n»— Rogers
ContluaeH HU Story of tho
Pan-Electric Scheme.
WashixonoN, March 15.—In the Senate,
iMmund* offered a reaolution to appoint
tLv J G Batter, D. D. (rector of the Luth-
“.n Memorial Church, Washington.) to be
chaplain of the Senate, in place of Rev. Dr.
Huntley "hose resignation takes effect to-
V,., In offering the resolution, Edmunds
ai'd he was sure he expressed the feeling of
,11 the Senators in giving voice to their
best wishes for the retiring chaplain, and
Lntcssing the hope that his future might
I* as successful as his past had been. The
resolution was agreed to.
Ingalls submitted a proposed amendment
to the constitution, providing that the pres
ent Presidential term and the second ses-
aion of the Fiftieth Congress shall termi
nate on April 3d, 1883, and that succeeding
Presidential and Congressional terms shall
begin on that date,being the one hundredth
anniversary of the inauguration of the first
President of the United States.
' Roar called up the electoral count bill,
tint yielded to VanWyck, who desired the
pension-increase bill taken up,
\fter brief discussion, the widows' pension
bill went over till to-morrow.
A message from the House notified the
Senate ut the death of Representative Hahn,
of Louisiana, and, on motion of Eustis, out
of respec t to the memory of the deceased,
House of Representatives,
Washington, March 15.—In the House,
after the reading of the journal, Mr. St.
Martin, of Louisiana briefly announced the
death o! his colleague, Michael llnhn, and
othrul a resolution expressive of the regret
vith tthioh the House has heard the intelli
gent of Hahu’s death, providing for the
appointment of a select joint committee
consisting of seven members and three
Senators to take order for conducting the
funeral ceremonies and to escort the re
mains to tho place of burial, and adjourn
ing the House as a further mark of respect
to the memory of the deceased.
IVuiling this, lllaod, of Missouri, asked
upnnimons consent that to-morrow be de
voted to the consideration of the same class
of business that would have been in order
to-day. There were some indications of
objections to this order, but unanimous
consent was finally given.
St. Martin’s resolution was then adopted,
unanimously, ami the House accordingly,
al 12.20 p. in., adjourned.
Hutltlot Death «f Congressman Hahn.
Washington, March 15.—Ex-Governor
Hahn, Representative to Congress from the
Second district of Louisiana, died sudden
ly this morning at Willard's Hotel of hem-
orrhai'e of the lungs.
An autopsy shows that death resulted
from a rupture of » blood vessel near the
heart, produced, it is believed, by excessive
counting. The remains will leave here at f
o’clock to-morrow afternoon for New Or
le\ns. Representatives Bfc. Martin, Irion,
ElUbnry, Snyder, Dorsey and McComb
halt been selected to attend the funeral.
clou to the manner of their disappearance
or »s to the cnuse of the (stenographer s
sudden distraction. 1
POISON IN THE SALT CELLAR.
A Former New York Policeman Charged
With Trying to Kill HI. Wife.
Hoiukt, N. Y., March 14.-A. F. Hoops
was arrested here Friday morning, on sus
picion of attempting to poison liis wife,
Airs. Hoops, while eating an egg tho pre-
vious F’riday, was struck by its
peculiar taste. She drew the atten
tion of another lady to it, and they
traced the peculiag flavor to the salt used
upon, it, and the salt-cellar before Mrs.
Hoop s plate was found to contain some
thing mixed with the salt. It was emptied and
failed again with salt mixed with powdered
crackers to make it look like the other mix
ture and set before Mr. Hoop’s plate. The
latter, it $s charged, when he came to the
table pushed away the salt cellar and help
ed himself from the fresh one which had
been set before his wife’s plate. The sus
picions mixture was sent to a chemist for
analysis.
At the partial examination Saturday Dr.
Odell testified that he and his partner, Dr.
McNaught, tested the salt and found it
mixed with cyanide of potassium. Five or
six grains, he said, would kill a man, or
one drjp in a liquid form (prussic acid,)
and there was probably enough in the salt
cellar to kill ten persons.
After this discovery a whole week was
allowed to elapse before any steps were
taken to secure the suspected man. Hoops,
the prisoner, is about thirty-five years old,
and was on the New York police force for
some time, it is said. He has been living
in this village about two years. His motive
for poisoning his wife, if he is guilty, is
not Known.
The Cntton States Agricultural Contest*
Jackson, Miss., March 10.—The Legis
lature to-day utiAniinously passed resolu
tions commending tho Cotton States Agri
cultural Contest to be held in 1H87 to the
people of Mississippi and all tho cotton
States as worthy of their most cordial
support. This contest has been in
augurated by tho National Cot
ton Planters’ Association, through
whose efforts and under whose auspices the
World’s Exposition of New Orleans was or
ganized. Nearly $200,000 is offered by the
association in premiums for plans of farm
residences, gin houses, stables, agricultural
implements ot all kinds, and for the great
est acreage yield of cotton, grain and grass
crops. President Moorehead, of the asso
ciation, who is here, says that enough
money hAs been raised to insure success.
The contest will be held in that city iu the
cotton States offering in money and other
considerations the greatest inducements.
THE LOSS OF THE OREGON.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
DISASTER.
The Schooner Which Cause, the Collision
Sink* In.tantlj, Without Leaving
Any Clue to Her Identity, and
Alt Her Crew Perish.
Personal Point.-
Wasiiixotos, March 16.—Tho President
to day, speaking of the nominations of
Treiiliolu to be Comptroller of the Cur
rency uni Lyman and Oberly to be Civil
Service Commissioners, said they had all
keen selected without recommendations
and solely on bis own, personal knowledge
ot their character and eapaeity. All of them
are now in the public service,
and all have, by their perform
ance of duty, attracted his attention
and furnished him personal evidence of
their element fitness for the dntiea of the
offices for whicli they are named, and what
he regards aa all-important—their apprecia
tion of the needs of th* public service. J.
H. Oberley was a Democratic member of
•m Illinois Legislature of 1873-74, and was
prominent in securing the railroad legisla
tion of that State. Senator Cnilom was then
Speaker ot the House, and in 1876, when
he became Governor, be, remember
ing the prominent part taken by Oberley,
; >n railroad legislation, appointed him one
I of the railroad commissioners of that State
He held that position four years, during
which time many questions affeotiug rail-
road legislation were settled. In May,
1*15, ha was appointed by Prefident Cleve-
I ■*? to be Indian School Superintendent, a
I w ' , * c ** he made a good record,
hberly is an editor by profesaion.
Federal Favorites,
p AsmsuTow, March 16. —Tho President
»ent the following nominations to the 8eu-
J. to-day: William L. Trenhohu of Sonth
I ni>w Civil Service Commissioner,
| , ”? Comptroller of the Currency, in place
IJ* Henry W. Cannon, resigned; John II.
I Hberly, 0 f Illinois, to be Civil Service Corn-
| ““"loner, in place of William L Tren-
I Charles l.ynian, of Connecticut, now
I Examiner of the Civil Service Com-
I misaiot., to he Civil Service Commissioner,
I j, f 1 ® of Dorman B. Eaton, reaigued;
I, “ «• McDonnell, collector of customs
the district of 8L Mark's, Fla.
The CliiucM Problem.
I PA • III!,(,To *» It!.—'The House
■ onjtmtbe on foreign affairs to-day, by a
IP c . 86 v °te, 7 to tt, postponed the cou-
I JJjfefiRion of the Morrow Chinese hill, and
I hi, instead, take up the President’s mes-
I l »*! ,ei ‘° i ,u ® t ‘bdiug the payment of indeui-
Itv for outrages perpetrated on
■ ninem, Htihjectg in this country. The
I v^ ,ru ! iin ^ e,u »ont), who cast the deciding
I declared himself opposed to the Mor-
|a: * the ground of its being a viola-
| a of treaty ohligutious.
| Ti!K ISLAS L) TRAIN HOHBKHY*
J A tta(Kn^ rn)an Arrcit«r| on Sospldon of
lk*lng thn Murilerer amt Kubber.
Iwk?" 1 "' 1 - ^*rch 15.— Baggageman Watts,
l.v!-' .'"^upied the car next to the one iu
lim'd . Express Messenger Nichols was
|,L “under arrest on suspicion of being
Ct® “lurderer. lie.professes to have been
“V a gun in the band* of a man
bn. ,"atened his life if he made any de
nitration whatever, while the murder
robbery was in progress. Another
*7 »a» developed in this
• w atta was closed crosaexam-
r? yesterday by express officials
aeteettees, an ,i notes of this exam na-
**• t: *ken by Superintendent Wright's
mry. The secretary started from the
in. ,"1* t>w examination was held to the
J. l> ® c « to write out his notes, and has
I w n seen or heard of. No per-
i w 'th the examination will
1 ; “« disappearance of the stenogra-
.,the manner of the officials leads to
f ,i lt *t something definite has been
wL*!" March 15.- McDoUnd, the *x-
unpany a musing stenographer,
rjy • 0 ’ n M?hJ, in ademeuted eondi-
n”* 1 °* og tn a distant part of
or.t Ji give no eoharent ae-
‘“^•t.sndhianouaoe the bsg-
‘tetewxent of th* robh«ry and
| we not to b* found. Thar* to do
Mrs. Cool Idee Pleads Guilty.
Rostov, March 16.—In tho Supreme
Criminal Court to-day District Attorney
Stevens called the case of Anna D. Ccol-
idge, charged with conspiracy to mnrdcr.
Mrs. Coolidge came to the liar and in a low
voice pleaded guilty. She then sank into a
chair, sobbing violently. District
Attorney Stevens said this ploa would
take tho case off the list of cases
to be tried and that he would not move for
sentence at once. MrH. Coolidge was then
removed from the court room. The indict-
ment was not read, as it contained the
names of persons from whom the govern
ment wish to concent the tact that they
have been indicted. It is thought that
Mrs. Coolidge'* sentence will not lie a se
vere one, on account of her plea, which
will materially aid tho government in the
prosecution of the other conspirators,
DeWItt's Body Recovered.
Locktobt, N. Y., March 16.—The body
of L. G. DeWitt, who fell from the ice
mount at Niagara Falls a week ago Sunday
and lodged on the ice below, was secured
this morning, after several days’
labor in entting though the
ice. DeWitt was a drummer for
Thompson A Co., liqnor dealers, of New
Y’ork city. The body haa been clearly visi
ble for two dsys and haa been watched by
crowds. The head wss crushed and the
brains had ooxed out. There were found
on the body $1,950 and a watch which bad
atopped at 6:17, although the accident hap
pened at 9 o'clock.
Death or the Captain of the Shenandoah.
Avnapous, Hd., March 16.—Captain
James J. Waddell, commander of the Mary
land fishery force, died last night at bia
home, in this eity, of congestion of the
bruin. He was a native of North Carolina,
aged 62 years. Gaptoin Waddell graduated
at the Naval Academy in 1849, having pre
viously served at Vera Cruz, against the
Mexicans. He served in the United States
navy nntil the ‘•rebellion" broke out, when
he resigned and entered the Confederate
navy, being placed in command of the fa
mous Shenandoah, with which he waged
war against vessels in the Arctic seas, de
stroying much valuable commerce.
Nk v Yoiik, March 15.—Capt. Cottier, of
tho steamship Oregon, reports 186 cabin,
66 intermediate and 239 steerage passengers
on board. The weather was clear at 4:30
o'clock Sunday morning, with o fresh
breeze, when suduenlv a sailing vessel
loomed np. She showed no light nntil
too close to sheer off, when she
showed a white light When the schooner
was looked for, shortly after tho collision,
she was not in sight; she had gone down so
quickly that no person and no wreckage
could be found to give clue to her identity.
One of the National Line steamers passed
close at hand soon after tho accident, but
did not stop.
The Oregon floated abont eight hours after
being struck. The transfer of her passengers
to Pilot Boat No. 11 and tho schooner Fan
nie A. Gorham was made by the steamer's
boats. All the passengers were out of the
stenmer by It o'clock. An hour later the
steamer Fulda came along and took the
wrecked people from the smaller vessels.
Some of the passengers say the schooner
was visible ten miles away and had boen
seen long before she struck. No one at
tempted to account for the accident except
on theories. The steamer's men offer
neither theory nor explanation.
Passengers say tho firemen and coal pass
ers made a great deal of trouble when the
passengers were being transferred from the
vessel. They endeavored to got off first,
and one was knocked down by a steamer’s
officer to get him out of the way of the wo
men. It was only by the hard fighting and
great nerve of the officers that these
men were prevented from running
away with the boats and leaving
the passengers to their fate. Some of tho
boats with members to tho steamer's crew
were picked up by vcsseiB some distance
from the wreck. One boat, containing the
first officer and four men, came to the city
to-day. They had boon picked up to-day
after being twenty-four hours in the boot.
Another pilot boat was reported off Sandy
Hook this afternoon, having in tow five or
six large boats, supposed to be part of the
Oregon’s boats, of which the steamer had
ten.
The passengers wore driven from their
beds, and some of them were taken on
board the Fulda scarcely half clad. All of
them lost everything they possessed except
what was on their backs.
The steamer was valued at a million and
a quarter and the cargo at a quarter of a
million. Ail the insurance npon the vessel
or the cargo was placed on the other side of
A GREAT RACE ON BICYCLF.8.
Schock Defeats lYoodslde and Breaks the
Six Day Record.
MrasEiror.ts, Mins., March 14.—In tho
six day bicycle race for tho long distnuco
chnmpiooship of tho United States, which
closed ob Saturday night, Albert Schoek de
feated William Woodaide. Schoek has
broken all previous records aud accom
plished the wondortnl performance of rid
ing 1,009 miles 3 laps in the six days.
During tiro first four days he rode twelve
hours continuously. He took his meals
while riding, and ate every tiling hit appe
tite craved. He consumed an enoruious
number of icicles, crunching them in his
teeth ns he rode. During tho first day
Woodaide did some remarkable riding, cov-
ering 181 miles in twelve hours. He broke
the records from 52 to 100 miles as follows:
Fifty-two miles, 3h. 5m. 15s.; 60 miles, 3h.
30m. 3s.; 70 miles, 4h. 14m. 56s.; 80 miles,
4h. 53m. 17s.; 90 miles, 3h. 32m. 33s., anil
100 miles, 6b. 11m. 26s.
On Tuesday afternoon Woodsi le’s knee
began to hurt him, and from that time he
lost ground, although ho tundo some won
dortnl spurts. Schock passed him iu
the fortieth hour at 569 miles, and from
that moment Woodaide was heartbroken
and gave up. Ho acknowledges that
Schock is the better man, aud says his en
durance is the most remarkable ever
known in n race of this kind. When
Schock stopped riding Friday night he hail
rode over 817 miles, and was fresh aud
nervy. He walked off with a quick step
and plunged into a bath-tub. Woodsido
bad to be helped to his room. Ho started
yesterday morniug, hut was com
pelled to leave the track at 3
o'clock, when Schock was sixty-two miles
ahead. Schock kept on ridiug in gr«at
form to the finish He was oonfident of
breaking tho record, and so took matters
easy. Woodaide was off and on all day.
Iio had no show of winning, and only kept
in the race to help make it interesting.
Schock covered 161 miles 2 laps on the last
day, making his total score 1,109 miles 3
laps, or 1 mile and 4 laps more than the
previous best record—1,1X17 miles 7 laps,
made by F. T. Lees at Middlesborough,
England, Outober 2, 1880. Woodside's
score was 935 miles.
Woodaide held the championship of tho
United States nntil January last, wlnn
Schock defeated him. Tho present i ace
grew out of that defeat and was for the
championship anil $1,1X0.
AN UNFINISHED WEDDING.
Why did Lord Verriner wander in strange
anil tropical climes, explore Japan andTim-
buetoo and attempt to cross the Himalayas?
The nohle Fail only tried to get married
once, and in the story of tliat wedding is
confide ed the reason for his becoming such
a distinguished traveler and growing sueha
very long heard.
Lord Verriner' hail been going the pace
ever since lie oamo into his title and got
hold id liis property, and, at the time of
which l am speaking, though the former
necessarily remained intact, the latter
was practioally non-existent. lie had
borrowed from his hoot-maker, his tailor
and his jewelers, after having pre
viously exhausted the patience and
generosity of the Jews. Gambling,
racing and women had, iu fact, ruined him.
But stilt his title and position had a market
able value, for his was one of the oldest
and most distinguished families of England,
lint this marketable valuo was now only of
one kind. The Jews and bootmakers would
no longer listen to him, even though he was
tbo handsomest man of his day, with tho
most perfect manners, and one of tho pets
of that small circle of society which sits up
aloft like a party of cherubs, regarding
scornfully tho morals and manners of the
respectable folks below. But in spite of
the lost credit of Lonl Verriner among the
money lenders, he was still a spoiled darling
among the women. And it occurred to him
S AM JONES.
Diamonds 8av«l From the Oregon.
N*w Yobx, March 16.—The master and
inner of the steamer Fnlila to-day filed a
ibel in the United State* District Court
against the ownen (at present unknown) of
seven cases and one package of diamonds,
Iwbich were token off the steamer Oregon
when she sank off Fire Island. The libel
states the vaine of the diamonds at $200,901).
Tbo purser of the Oregon brought them
ashore, having taken them from the steam-
Ur’s safe.
■Diven report the Oregon broken ux two
amidahips.
The Texas Way.
Gai.vestosi, March 15.—A Copperas Cave
speuial says: Between 12 and 1 o’clock lABt
night a band of eight masked men called ut
the Loose of T. O. Folk and inquired
for Thomas Walter. As Folk opened the
door the moti seized him, curried him
into the yard, knocked him insensible with
a heavy club, dragged his body, feet fore-
most, through the brush, aud then carried
it half a mile and hung it to a tree, where
it was found this morning. Polk’s neighliers
suspected him of belonging to a band of |
horse thieve*.
The Express Murder and Robbery.
Ciiicaoo, March 16,—The United States I
Express Compsny to-day settled all out
standing claims involved bv the robbery of
their safe on the Rock Island road, and
paid over $21,100 in cash. “That is exactly
the amount of money thatwaa taken," saiil
Wygart. “The jewelry did not amount to
much; its vaine to hardly worth talking|
shout."
Death of “Old SorwL" |
WararaoTon, March 16.-A dtopafa* froml
Richmond announces that Stonewall Jack-
bou’k old charger died at the Confederate
Soldiers' Home at Richmond this morning
of old age. It to the intention of the gov-
eruors of the Confederate Soldiers Home
to have a east made of the home and have
his skin staffed and hi* skeleton mounted.
Canada Admit* a Negro Lawyer.
Toaomro, Owramo, March W-—» tjto
Legislature to day a bill admitting D. W.
Dari*, colored, M a b*m.Ur wa. r~d >he
third time. Davis peeeed cramhMboiL
but oonid get no lawyer to tohe tonm
articled student. Henea he wajeomj^tod
to seek relief at the hand* of the Legisla
ture.
the Atlantic. The vessel lies upright in
twenty-two fathoms of water, and her top
masts are visible above tho water. Not
much hope exists of her being raised.
Several of the Oregon's passengers have
been interviewed. One is J. V. Farewell, a
Chicago merchant. There is a concurrence
of opinion among these that the Oregon’s
equipment of boats would not have saved
one-half the people on board if the accident
hail occurred in mid-ocean ox where that
they would have been the sole dependence.
Capt. Cottier, on the other hand, says that
his boats would have saved everybody.
The fact remains that the pilot boat
and schooner were both so crowded that
it was next to impossible for them to take
more on board had it been necessary, and
had not the steamer Fulda hnppencd along
the Oregon’s people would have been
obliged to remain on the open decks
of the two sailing vessels, with a
scanty allowance of food and clothing,
until they reached Sandy Hook. The pai-
sengers award high praise to the officers
and crew ot the steamer for their courage
and coolness, aud they concnr in describ
ing the cowardly conduct of some of the
■token and a few steerage passenger*.
Some of the latter jumped from the deck
of the vessel upon the heads of women and
children, who crowded one boat, just as it
was about to push off.
First Officer Mathews, who won'in charge
of the vessel, says himself and four other*
were on watch at the time. All saw the
white light of the schooner on tho port bow,
bnt supposed it to be a pilot boat, and
Mathews ordered the course ot the vessel
ehanged slightly, so as to pass, as he
supposed, further away from the ap
proaching vessel, as the Oregon did not
went a pilot. Ho says tho woather was
slightly lmzy and that he could make ont
nothing of tue course of the strange vessel
from the light she showed. Muthews
thinks the light he saw was merely a
lantern shown from the deck in the hands
of one of the orew. Up to the moment of
the contuct of the vessels, Matthews had no
idea of a collision.
Farewell, in his interview, says that two
large steamers passed close to the Oregon
after she wss disabled, but gave no sign
that they hail noticed the distress signals.
He says also, that the cannon used for sig
nalling on the steamer was too small
nothing bnt a pop-gun m fact—and that the
rockets sent up were also too small, and of
poor quality.
Postmaster Pearson states that tho Ore
gon had 698 ba« of moiL Abont 113 were
closed bang containing 260 bsgs of letter
mail for the United States and Canada, the
balance being made up of aliout 470 bags of
newspaper mail, two dispatch bags, a
number of bags inclnding empty sacks re
turned, and sixty-six heavy registered mail
bags, estimated ns containing about 2,4oO
letters and packuges. Only a portion of
the French, Italian, Sweedisb and Russian
mail, 91 pieces in all, was secured,
the British and German registered mail
being all lost. Tbe British, German, Swiss,
Hweedish, Belgian, Portugese and Cape
Town money order fists from Ismdm,
Basle, Malta, Antwerp, Lisbon and Cape
Town, respectively, and French mom-y
order advices Were all lost, the Itatiun
alone being saved. Dujdicatu fists will lie
called for immediately.
the little heroine of “The Mikado,” who
says: “We’re very wide awoke, the moon
and L”
Certainly Bhe was late, and it waa very
shocking, considering vrhat an august
throgg awaited her; bnt it could not bo
helped, and she thought Verriner valued
hor greenbacks sufficiently to bear the trial
in patience.
But by the time the bride and her mother
reached the church Verriner had lost his
head. He read the thing simply as an in
sult put upon himself, anil that before the
only audience in the world he cured a straw
for. He began to feel like a home with tho
bit between his teeth when sharp spurs are
struck in by an ignorant rider. Broadlands,
who knew his temper, looked at his face and
wondered what be would do. They were
waiting in ambush in the vestry. At last
there was a faint mnrmur; the bride had
arrived. Verriner hurried around and
reached the church door just in time to
meet her as she stepped into the porch.
“How dare yout put such an insult upon
me?” he hissed into her car—“you, tho
daughter of a dirty oil merchant! By God,
I’ll make you pay for this when we get
away!"
Hetty looked straight into the face of this
furious man, a face hideous with rage. No
lady had ever seen such a look on his face
before. But he thought this girl was abso
lutely in his power now. No one heard
what he said but herself, and it was all over
in an instant. Broadlands seized his arm
and led him awaw; and the bride was taken
possession of by a stately looking American
one day that here was his market. Ho must (like Ue tty's father, he, loo, had'Btruek Be)
which „i 1( , i.„.
ilew His Expenses Are Paid During His
Revival Meetings.
Chicago News.
The Rev. Sam Jones’s means of snpport
is unlike that of.most revivalists. Tho
practice of nearly all of them is to charge
a stipulated urnount per week for their serv
ices. This is agreed upon in advance, and
is often a good round sum. For in
stance, Harrison, the boy preacher,
gets from $150 to $300 a week, aud makes
nearly as much more from the sules
of his song books, his autobiography, and
several otheT books. Sam Jones adopts a
different plan. It is not generally known
that he is a novice in conducting meetings
such as are now in progress. This is the
fourth or fifth place in which he has at
tempted .such a thing. At St. Louis, as he
himself admits, he made a comparative fail
ure. Ho undertook to conduct meetings
there with only one pastor and a single
church behind him in the way of moral
support. Tho other churches withheld ac
tive co-operation, anil many pastors and
laymen criticised him severely. Then he
tried it in another church there with little
better success.
After a brief rest he v.-ent to Cincinnati,
where his success was almost phenomenal.
He beguQ moderately, but with quite gen
eral support from the churches, and before
he got through even the great Music Hall
was too small to hold the throngs that
flocked to hear him. For some time before
going to St. Louto bis practice wa* to hold
his meetings iu a large tent which ho car
ried about with him. He relied upon col
lections for support, and these, after the
people had been aroused to great religious
enthusiasm, not infrequently brought him
from $500 to $1,000 a week.
In Chicago Sam Jones is not, or at least
wifi not be, entirely dependent on volun
tary contributions for the snpport of him
self and family. The Western Methodist
Book Concern ut Cincinnati has acquired a
copyright on his sermons and the exclusive
privilege of publishing them in book form
for the next three years. How much was
paid for tho copyright wa* not learned. It
la said that the sum waa not lane, hut the
firm agreea to pay Jones a royally on each
book sold. It to the Intention when his
engagement ends, or perbapa More to take
up u collection for him. It is expected that
alter the people have been stirred np more
and the moral support of the churches has
become more united anil pronounced there
will be no trouble iu collecting $1,000 or
more for that purpose.
Sam Small, it is said, came here under
E remise of a definite sum, the negotiation
eing made through Air. llcvell, ot the Chi
cago Avenue Church. Ho wifi coutiuuo to
assist Siuu Junes next week on tbe south
aide, and it to probable that a collection
will lie token up for him also.
At Ciucinuati a collection was taken for
Sam Junes in the Music Hall, which gave
him $8o0. How much he received in addi
tion to that, if anything, wus not learned.
At St. Louis lie spoke evenings for a week
or ten days iu the Exposition Hall, which
seated 4 500 people amt for which a rent -1
of $2aO a night bail to bo paid.
Tbe collections never amounted to more
than $100 a night. This was found to be
loo expensive, aud the meetings were
thereafter held in various churches. The
night before he left a collection of $750
was taken up for him. He held meetings
there for about tout weeks. At NwaUville
it is said that he received from collections
and several munificent gifts nearly $1,01*1.
A five-thomanii dnllar house was offered
him if he would occupy it, fiut he declined.
It to reported thel he received $800 at
Knoxville and Ciiultouooga and $1,000 at
Birmingham. From his earnings he has
bought a fine farm for bis family near
CartersviUe, Ua.
do tbo usual thing; marry money
wanted a title in exchange.
Thinking the thing over, he saw that
most of his fellows who had succeeded in
getting out of a similar predicament by
tbeso meaua had married American girls.
This, ho thought, would he a tolerably easy
thing to do. English women appeared to
him to require more attention, and to 1>e
less' business like and more sentimental in
tboir matrimonial affairs. Ho decided to
look out for an American. Verriner be
lieved he understood women thoroughly,
Ho was an excellent actor, and could cloak
himself with a languid and profoundly
bored manner which was a great
success among the women of his
own social status. He preserved
this intense languor always when in
society, except in the smoking-room, for, ns
he well knew, it was Bate. It prevented his
ever getting into hot water. Underneath
this quiet surface a volcano blazed, and a
veryiunpleasant volcano, too. Verriner had
the most frightful temper, which he was
accustomed to let loose npon his lady
friends, his servants, his horses and dogs.
The two fltst left him: the two last showed
their resentment in different ways, lie
wus never safe from a bite in his own
stables, and his dogs kept ont of his sight.
This was the man who, n month or two
aftor bo had made up bis mind to do it,
had discovered a new American beauty,
just over from the Bfiitrs for tho Locdou
season, with dollars aud greenbacks enough
to reinstate any ruined Lord. Verriner
thought her ri-ulfy very tolerable, and was
much amused by her independent and live
ly manner, which contrasted well with the
profound languor ho always maintoinod in
her presenoo. His handsome face, his in
tense quiet auil repose, aud the posi
tion he could givo her, all pleased
Hetty Leigh, for they had for her
tho charm of novelty. She could
not resist so big a catch as thia;itwnB worth
all her greenbacks to enter the Marlbor
ough House set under tho wing of thin quiet,
handsome fellow, Aud so when Ve rriner
lazily but respectfully proposed, Hetty
Leigh accepted nim with open and nndis-
;uised delight. Iu fact, ah* clapped her
mnds ns soon as the thing was done, and
said, “My! wfcn't the girls at home atarel"
Mrs. Leigh nearly fainted—os nearly as a
wiry, middle-nged American lady can—
when she heard the good news. She had
eomo over with ono object: to marry her
Hetty to a Lord. And it wua all “fixed up”
beforo the season was fairly begun. And
Hetty's husband was such a handsome,
quiet man; aud Hetty's wedding would
be tbe grandest event of the London sea
son.
It waa all settled, and everything went
merrily. Hetty and her mother were asked
to all the best houses; tbe girl who was to
be Lady Verriner must be royally enter
tained by everybody, even though many of
the women would nave been glad to throw
vitriol in her pretty, piquant face. How
Hetty dressed 1 Her toilets alone were
enough to make any woman hate her, even
if she had not the additional and unpardon
able privilege of being rieb enongb to pay
for Lord Verriner to be always carry ing her
cloak and fun, and keeping out of tbe way
other train.
Well, the time came for tbe weliding. It
waa at the very height of the season, and,
as Mrs. Leigh had foreseen, it was to be
one of its events. More than one great
personage had promised to bo present, in
cluding that |very great personago who
gives the tone to £i
DASTARDLY OUTRAGES
Perpetrated by Ktrklng Knight's of Labor
—Terrors of tbo Boycott.
Fort Wobtu, Texas, March 16.—The
Knights of Labor have the upper hand
here. Boarding-houses and hotel* which
ecccommodule men who take tbe places of
the strikers are boycotted. Even the
butchers retuse to sell them meat. Yet the
sentiment of the people to against the
strikers, but business men are
afraid of the boycott. John
Tagart, a boarding-house keeper,
way boycotted yesterday. The waterman
from whom he haa been purchasing hi*
supply of drinking water, refused to sell to
him and he has to go two miles to secure
water. Hie land lord, one ot th*
richest citizen* of Fort Worth,
ordered him to vacate hi* boose.
Yesterday poison wan thrown into Tagart’*
wa-er bonei, and on* married woman and
two little girls ware potoooed, and now lie
Novel Milk-Maul Gloves.
Ofilcsgo New*.
The latlieH who bail charge of Ihe dairy
maids' festival hail some queer experiences
in properly dressing th* young ladies. Half
of the dear young tiling" hadn't the re
motest idea of a dairy-maid's tout ensem
ble. Mrs. Cbsitners, the superintendent,
wes surprised last week by two jouDg4a.be*
who called in the family carriage, tbe horaee
looking ea though the coachman bad sent
them along at a desperate jog. When Mrs.
Chaimtra entered the parlor to welcome bet
young friends they instantly arose and
rushed towards her, exclaiming:
“How will these do? You know you
didn't tell us, and no we bought buff nnd
terra-cotta. Which do you like Hie best?"
gives the tone to English society. The
noble ones of thn land were hidden to meet
them. Tho wedding presents were n sight
indeed, and the fiat of them in the papers
made the mouths of burglars water with
longing. The trousseau was a wonder, too,
and made sad tho hearts of many great
ladies.
Verriner was well content. If ho had to
be married at all everything must be good
form. And 11 promised to be so. lie hud
taken thn trouble to secure the pren-nce of
tbe great personages and tho peopl- whom
they cored to meet. No other wedding of
the season could hold a candle to bis; he
felt quite satisfied abont that, lie knew
himself to he a superb creature, and he was
E loaned with Dame Fortune fur showing
er appreciation of the fact
The morning came, and when Verriner
rose he felt nervous for the first time in his
fife. There certainly is something very
trying about a wedding morning, even to
the most hardened. He ate no breakfast,
but begun at champagne before he dressed,
and went on with it during the process. HU
best man, tho young Marquis of Broad-
lauds, came in to look after him. He found
Verriner trembling; he had never done this
on the morning of a duel, or after a night
over the cards, «>r tho moment before a race
was run on which hU all was staked.
“What'* the matter, Verriner ?" inquired
the young Marquis, in much amazement,
“Suppose the Prince shouldn't come!’’
“Ob, nonscnsel He always keeps his
word. Moke haste, or we ahull be late at
the church.”
Verriner drank another glass of cham
pagne, and they started.
the church was already beginning to fill
e* a church only does fill on such occasion*
as this, with the cresm of the upper tea
thousand. Verriner wss pleased, for in bto
heart thin nppnrent cynic wan a* vain aa e
school girt. Boon after he arrived the
Prince came; aud at bit “every on*" waa
there except the bride.
Tho wedding-dress did not oome home til)
th* vary last minute, and then it waa found
that tbs white silk too* with which th*
Mrs. Chalmers looked and to! th* young I fastened bad
misses held kovtral pair* of new kid glove*
inthiir hands. Wten ah* “
■«sgs*5±»-j'zrzi
lovely little
in the hurry,
in a hansom to th*
aU right, and the
bride of
too.
Drettu«t trd Uriah ten t-evtd
ver not fevered or UurrieA
who was to give her away.
Bride and bridegroom met again at the
altnr. Hetty looked quite cool, but her
gray eyes were very pale; Verriner, by a
tremendous histrionic effort had recovered
himself, aud wore his usual Boft languor.
The ceremony went on, and everybody as
sumed the right expression. The bride
groom was asked whether he would toko
this womnu, eto.; he answered quietly, but
clearly, “I will.” When, however, the
dignitary who officiated turned to Hetty
and asked her the same question an awful
thing happened. Quite coolly, wi-.hout
nppnrent emotion, she replied* “I wilt
not”
Hor high-pitched American voice pene
trated right through tbe church, and every
body heard the appalling words. Tho
whole assemblage stood still aa it petrified,
for a moment; and. then Mrs Leigh broke
tiie silence by rushing to her daughter end
seizing her arm.
“Are yon mail?” she whispered.
“No,''answered Hetty, quietly, but in
those fearfully audible high-pitched tones,
“I'm sune. I ain't gotog to marry a man,
who, the moment he thinks he's got hold of
me, tolkB to me as if I were a nigger. Ho
called my pupa n dirty oil merchant. No,
thank yon sir,” turning to Verriner, “toko
your titlo and the reat of it, and sell ’em to
a meeker sort than I am. To know ell the
best people don't make up for being
bullied at home. It ain't good enough.
Besides, when I do marry I mean to marry
gentleman."
Every word of this speech was hoard by
everybody. Having finished it Hetty
ooortesied to Verriner and then swept down
tho central aisle, followed by her discomfited
bridesmaids and her now weeping mother.
People looked at her us sho passed with
mingled feelings; wonder admiration, hor
ror, awe.
“What a devil of a girl!" said Broadlands
to himself. “I'd like to marry her, I de
clarer
Bnt hi* attention waa distracted by Ver-
rineor, who, having caat an agonized planeo
around, uw that the people were hiding
their faces in their prayer books end hand
kerchiefs, and that their shoulder* shook.
He fled through the vestry, Broadlands fol
lowing him.
What a murmur of talking and bughter
rose from that dbtinguiahed congregation
aa it left the church and got into the long
stnng ot carriages which waited outside!
'Chore was no wedding breakfast, bnt there
were Ihe moat delightful afternoon teas that
day, for everybody who had been present
bad to relate the story to innummerabb
friend*.
Verriner left town by the first train to
Dover, and when he was next heard of bail
been living for some time in a very distant
and very warm country. He wa* among
savages, and his ferocity had earned him
an envbhledlatinotion in tbo most elevated
circles.
A* for Hetty ahe braved her mother's
team and her friends' reproaches without
dismay. She wa* quite convinced she had
done the right thing. And *o were her
friends when, in the first snow* of winter,
they were bidden to a grand country wed
ding, which mode this “devil of a girl” tho
Marchioness of Broadlands.
TWO AMERICAN BkLlES.
How Four Persona From the Land of th*
Fmo Dined by a Frlner’a Private Dill.
Margery Deans In ths Boston Budget.
Just a* Newport thought it might expeet
Miss Jennie Chamberbn here next scaaon,
she announces that she goes back to Lon
don for the season there. It waa here that
she held her first court. I have seen her
at the Casino with twenty men abont her.
I remember her os she looked ono morning
there, in royal pnriile velvet, fitting like a
riding habit; a velvet toque, of the same
color, on her head; her only ornament a
cluster of pink roses at her waist. She
alweys looked the young woman
of fashion, and ahe certainty
was vory handsome. She wo* even
more to when I saw her in Paris two yean
ago. In this, ahe b a marked contrast to
last Summer's belle, Miss Adeb Grant, who
is very lovely and picturesque, but whose
clothes seem to be a second thought with
her and to those who took at her. Mies
Chamberlain ia the woman of the world,
MiHsGrantasweet, fresh flower. In July, she
wifi, it is said, become Lady Cairns. I remem
ber her as a little candy-loving mischiev-
inus, tender-hearted, loving child, who was
often in my house, and tho*e{who know her
best now say that adulation has not spoiled
her in the least. But it takes a very level little
head and honest heart to carry an American
belie in her teens through a season at Can
nes and in London and not chango her.
I will confess to something that a party
of Americana in Paris once did. It was in
all the French papers that Ihe Prince of
Wales had given to the American beanty,
Miss Chamberlain, a dinner at a certain
cafe. The item, by the way, waa not writ
ten always in as respectful French as it
might have been. Since this party had to
dine somewhere, it was suggested that the
Prince’s dinner be duplicated in every mi
nute particular, the room, service, courses,
wines, flowers—everything tbe same. This
was done. It wss a very good dinner. It
was not nearly so extravagant aa dinners
given at Delmenico's every day in the win
ter. I don't think it wa* as dainty a din
ner u an American Prince, who pnt his
mind to it, would have given to a young
girl, and then was nothing remarkable
abont it in any way. Bnt some of us had
on* curiosity satisfied, and know now just
bow ths future King of KngUnd dine,
young American
them in Paris.
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