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.rTION ' KKN TO KEFUTBRUMORS
AUliwi p i NT j MU )ATION.
o Steps to Correct the Erroneous
Tliey ewlon That, May Hava tioue
tbro«t^4Talk.\VUh Captain
ltarronAbou the Trial.
oording to an appointment marts and
onuced in Friday's TtuoupH the
voUolk jnry met yesterday noon at W.
Price's warehouse, where they drew up
Je following piper, which all present on
ioned and a copy tf whioh they furnished
the TataoaAPH tor publication:
.■Our attention baa been oalled to oertain
lulervie** with Woojfolk’a attorneys in
T bicb some siatemente were made that the
, nr y consider unjust to them, as they do
not represent them correctly. Soma of the
jnry present do not think it advisable to
even take any aotion in the mutter, ea they
were conscientiously in the dbchatge of
their doty, while other* think differently,
"We dosty that when we were sworn into
that trial snd answered the quee' ions put
b, the solicitor-general that we did so
tratbfnlly and conscientiously, and that
the statement that we did not, la in itself
untrue. Nor is it trne that any of us h ,ve
said that we dared not aeqait the defend
ant, for there was nothing to make us
afraid to acquit, and we believed on our
oaths that there was nothing in the law or
endes oe that would afford us
>a opportunity to acquit.
Thus was nothing that we know or have
reason to believe would have made it un
safe to have acquitted Woolfoik, the de
fendant. Nor had we any reason to fear
that we would be mobbed if we had re
turned a verdict of acquittal. We saw no
mob nor anything Use it in the court
honse duriog the trial, only the two intoxi
cated men at different times exclaiming
"Hang him 1" whom the judge promptly
required the sheriff to remove from the
co irt house whioh was done at once. And
the only notice taken of Ibis by the jury
was their intoxieated condition. And any
thing contrary to this statement suob as
the tuterview as published in the Conatitu
lion of the 20th, also of the Iilxobapb of
the 21st ingt.”
; This statement was endorsed by all the
members of the jury present sod ft was be
lieved that without a shadow of a
doubt, the two or three men who wore
not then would unhesitatingly have signed
it bad they been able to attend. Mr.
Asher Ayers is absent in Tennessee on bis
bridal tour, and two others of the jury were
also unable to make arrangements to be
present. This meeting was an informal
one, and no discussion was entered into on
any of the point* brought up. The meet
lug was harmonious, and only lasttd about
twenty-live minutes.
Capt. It. H. Barron, whom nearly
ev.-ry reader of tho Telegbaph
will remember os one of the famous
twelve, said to the Tzlkguapzi that
he was perfectly aaiu&od with
the entire aff tir bo far as bis oouneotion
with it was concerned. But that if he ever
thought there was a chance of his being
pulled into another yuiy he would take the
first warning and ride a hundred mites into
the woods of a distant oonntry it necessary
to eso^pe. He said tho case was now by
gone, bnt the next one be would look ont
lot with an evasive eye. He also expressed
himself as perfectly satisfied that
tho people of Bibb oounty were
fully convinced of the integrity and coosci-
ontiouino sot the jnry and their verdict and
that every juror felt the same wav, but that
in order to havo a counter to the rumors
that had gooo abroad tut to mob intimida
tion and the ilka they had thought it proper
to give expression to their sentiments as
above.
In conversation with Captain Barron
little piece of freeh news
oame ont, whioh, although late,
in tho day w aa looked op with tho jury at
the time and hones "nn-get-at-eble."
On bnnday morning tho disconsolate
THE ffpeFOLK JURY TALK gUSTy-rat- u .-ja
SBWS-vteSS
fiih.uTi ck mako lt bnrn - One of those
Syfry «itt» to too liberal libations
Md iubSTJ* * he th " B 8 h ‘ Umt It haa oied
semTl!l 0t . k ® < ' P niUl1 lhls "lends can bs
summoned from afar to give it a decent
mouth was open, and the capillary
£“T‘ h 6bo »» lh» base Of bis long neck pro
eoied out from under the collar of P hle
hickory ehtrt as a sort of sample of the nn-
deibrosn that aderned his manly bosom. A*
UoVre “ alor 8 *»d came near a ala-
■ffS.ftl»pproaohed the sleeper,
S h 3 8n<1 "H: 'Hey, tLi, t. your Mai
The farmer started up in a nervous
manner and nude a frantic eff jrt to pnll on
bis boots. They did not o,me on with
ease, and he bad pulled on only one of
Wtem when the train stopped at the station,
the farmer made one last bnt futile on-
deavor to puli on the other boot, but sa the
tram began to move he seized it in one
hand, ml strove with the other to pull the
oar pet-tag down from its perch. It took
uom« tun« to dislodge it
"Finally he got it, aoi with one boot
and the earpet-bsg in one band, and the
demijohn in another, he dashed out on
the pisiform of the car and made a flying
jamp. He l&ndtd in a violent manner in
8 .f“^.-b«nk, and ploughed np the earth
with bn nose. '1 he oork flaw ont of the
demijohn, and its oontents moistens I the
virgin soilin a wasteful manner. The boot
fell solidiy in an adjoining lot The oon-
duotor ran back to the seat which he had
occupied, aeizjd his gtooeiiea and kindly
threw them out Hd sowed sugar, tea,
salt and other articles broadcast along the
road for a mile. The condnotor. who
meant well, looked hack and saw the farmer
in the dim, muddy distance.
“He had regained an erect attitude, and
was standi g in the sand bank, gazing in a
dazed manner at the tec dug train. The
o nduotor walked down through the aisle of
the ear to see if there were any more grocer
ies belonging to the farmer and bis eye fell
cn tho check that had been on the nufortu-
nste man's person as an indication of his
point of destination. As the oondnetor ex
amined It he started back aghast and then
exclaimed: 'Qosh, that m-n got off at the
wrong station after sit! 1 ”
Mr. Bilsy, who was diolng t,i an Italian
restaurant, bit the end off one of those crow
bars of bread tost are served in those cara
vansaries while his Us’unore begged him to
emit another story. ' He Anally consented
to tell this combination of humor and
pathos:
*T was wandering np one tf the princi
pal streets of Indianapolis one Dseoration
day, when I met a rngged old farmer from
tho interior who seemed to have lost his
w»y. As he wandered aimlessly along, I
approached him and asked: ‘Do yon etjuy
the exercises of the day?’ •Wall, so bio,’ he
answered; 'but I ain’t here for fun, X ooma
up to go to the bnr> in’ ground np there on
the hill. My boy’s buried up there. He
was in the army, you know. He had to
lie about his age to git in, but tbs angels ‘il
forgive him that one lie. Lord, how he did
fight! I’ve heam the other soldiers tell
about it. Wall, ho went into
the battle o’ the Wilderness an’
got wounded awful They telegraphed to
mo an’ I went right down. Hu wanted to
be took home, an’ I fetohed him. Ore the
way up he grew worse, an’ be said to me
that it he oonld live to get home su’ see his
ma he would be satisfied. He ksp’ gtttin’
weaker an* weaker, bnt be held out till I got
him homo, HU ma tried to nn’se him back
to life, but he kep on runnin’ down. He
called me np to his bed one night ’bout sun
down an’ said, hi hs: Ta, 1 want ter
be buried up in town (tneanln boro in In-
gianap’Ut) an’ I want yon to kesp my grave
' “Here tho old farmer wiped the tears
from his cheeks with his big brown hand,
and then brongbt it down on my suonldor
in a determined manner and exclaimed:
‘An’ mister, I’m sgoin’ to keep that grave
green, if I have to paint it.
Oueofthe moat affecting stories that
Mr. Riley tells is that which gave him the
— MACUN DAILY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 27, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
IT IS USURY
11
UNLOADING A LOVKK.
Nyni Crinkle In the New York Mirror.
ACCORDIN'!! TO THU VBRDICT OF
TUB JURY IN TUB GAY CASE.
The New England Mortgage Security Com
pany Will Carry It to the Catted
BUtr. Supr.m. Court—Astern
Cnaio 1. a hong One,
mutyra at the abrino of justice were paring inspiration for his puthetio poem, “C«ms
up and down the Hour o! their la-gdor
mitory-like room of the Stubblefield Uouto
listening to the chimes of tho Sabbath bells
or standing at lint uptar wind >wn and
watching the church-goers peas by on
UnJr ways to places of worship,
and each one vowod that if
be ever got off the jary bo would go to
church every Sunday twice a day. It sud
denly occurred to Oapt. Barron that they
had in tbtir nnrnber, the Rev. H J. I.rvey
who could preach as flue a sermon aa any
out wcnldoare to listen to, and as an eaxlb
lary there was Mr. T. H. Lowry, tbs director
of the First Bsp'iat ohoir, and eull turteer
U necessary, he himself sculd pea# areand
the bat. He oonoeived the Idea, fits.ad the
motion, put it and bad it recotdrd e* nasal-
monsly oamed in lees than lea
minutes, so that by the Hate the
preachers in the various city charades were
giving out their texts there was a regalar
•e-'ioe going on in that big app*t chamber
cf the BtuboleAeld Hoaie, n* a gintias
'teacher .xponeding the Seriptures and a
Ine choral organization farniahlig the
mutio under Director L; wry’s lea let skip.
It was tbU Bcrvioe, it beard Iren kU
•tend outside the door, that gave te the
faithful bailiff, Victor Menard, wke stood
F ve Got Curvature o' the Spine.’’ Il voices
Ih" l-oa-tfnl, .neetj aculinii-uta of a lltll",
deformed ohild whogloriea in his deformity,
aad whoee only tear is that hU aunty will
not know him when she gtVi to heaven,
where he it, beeanse there, as the haa told
him. be will be ereot and free tram deform
ity like Ute other angels.
"The idea tor that poem,” said Ur. Riley,
was evirated ty a rough, rugged man
that I met oae day on my tosro. I had
Vena ieereriag in a little Interior town, aad
Lad te get sp at d yright one eeid atoraing
to ride te the seaxe.t railway stattea. Ths
sun who drove me over wav ont of the
rueged ekansten Nut you asset ic the rural
regions—»a* ef Ihoee mil who deem sued-
M.aUli'-y ■ weakness, osd Her* someth Mg
te he ashamed *L As we tod* along over
the eraehisg snow hs eeid: 1 hewn yon
talk Uel a a VI.’ I remarked: ’Indaedl I
ksp. yvn obeyed if 'Yes,' said he, feat
rale. My little (trl wua there
that sort e' thing. Ski's (reel qn pe'try.
Yea may bar Man km. Ike eat cn the
Deal raw. Mu'i a lithe (Ml set vtiy talk
Yes must •' notice* btr.‘ 1 told kirn that
I did net resell hr Ting anon her, end ke
ee.idx.uM-. '6k. ain’t vary big. She don't
weigh mar'* Any pettsde. Yea eee ifce'i
P«d over the jury dnrlng their get eerv'tnn o’ the spine. Met mo'-ktr
en daja' inoueertnvn, the impristicn died when eke was a Mai* thing, an' havin’
of their extreme piety {which he exytecied
*t the time to the Taxxoiava, saying: “It
Jj the beat jury I ever saw or (laid with.
They don’t discuss the teiUneny, nor dia-
oberfinthe alighekrthc ecurt'e ordiwt. They
dou t make any trouble, I don't tbbh they
do anything for past time but prey and
•lag. They don’t even play a game of
poker onoe in a while,’*
THREE bTORIKS BY A POET.
damea Wblteoinb itlloj TeUiXala. At..t
Imltanlan.,
frem the K.w Tork Bun,
“Did you ever hear about the man that
lot cf at the wrong .atakonf’ The qnea-
tinner »a* James Whitcomb R ley, the
Poo, who recently took the e*k», to to
*P«»k, at the anther's readings. He wee
tiding with an Evening Cun man who bad
koeai, and traded yarns with him, lo! Ih «e
®»sj J tar a. The deal was never equable,
tor i a one otp tell a story better than Ur.
•hey. Uie listener had never beard about
the mu, that ddsembarked at the wrong
Wt »• f IT* 4 ^ t°id the eliiting
./It happened ont in Indiana on ;one of
“Oee railroads that go terete Iota in a dnvi-
•hog msuDtr aa if it wanted to take la
•rttybody’e farm. A fanner took one of
toeommodatihg trains on ibis road ones
i» n 8 He bid been to town to ley
« »ome supplies. On thn scat beside him
a '* •• T *rel packages of groceries. On the
“oo» near him aat other neoesteries of life,
jhciuding a sack of salt and a big demij- hn
•u of ths ooncintrated eusenoo of ryu and
""otunesa. He bad stufltd an old attenu-
“pet-bag in the rack over his bead,
la order to give Lis blue-stockinged feet
end teal he had taken out Lis oow-
../■ o* 8 !- o efreeooed boot* aod aet them
/°UgkHe the demijohn. He was no dade
. tppearaneet Hit jean trouieia «._od
I Vt' 1 ' d "' hl*4 to bold aloof fro: hi* fm-t,
g■».equally brief co.t aleeve held r’-v I
| ■' - ’ m a i Jiti mannar He
eae to loek out tm her as
■tether m, the ta> dowa stair,
two day an' kart brnselL Lu sever
let arm it I kvv teak tore o' her the best
iaer kew, but the'* never grewed. fame-
tiaiM I think ska'll saver he ae kitgtr.'
TW Mare tael’-ad to Us eyesiikstuUed
war sekamsd te due the evtdeases of
kit grief aad taraed aside his head, fee-
isg that I **e itoUag at blm tad ktd dn-
• >vmtd kit imuMem, he daehed away the
ntUitti frees Mb eyas with sue of the
k'-evy laiUirr aitleaa'tkst be were aad said
■I danac what’a Ike matter with my eym,
Otto’ my besom It lame, aa’ I tut some
jjnWQflt «cu hli log tkia merala', I mast ■'
gut earns ef it on ah ysr mitten o' mine.
The great usury o«e that for ten days past
has been attracting ths attention judicial
and fluai oi.l circlet in the United States
Utroi.it Court in Maocn before Judge Speer,
woe decid-d yesterday io favor of the de-
ferd.at, Jacob U. Gay.
When the court opened np yesterday
morning, Gui. N. J. H mimond preoeedad
with the concluding aigument. He
paid eapeoikl attention to tho
tact that tne evidence had failed to es
tablish any connection between the Corbin
Baukug OompaDy aud the New England
Mortgage Seouriiy Company beyond wbat
any one two oompaniea or indiviauala wonld
havo in the case they transacted business to
gether in a single instance. And beyond
the New England Moitgsgs Security Com
pany Colonel Himmond stated that he
should not attempt to go, or in other words,
that he should not carry the war into New
Hampibire. That be bad "voided to aot on
the advice of Samuel Weller, Sr., and “Be-
vara of the vidder. ’
He held stoutly that the right to oharge
their own price for their servioea belonged
to the Corbin Banking Company, and
neither the New England Mortgage Se
curity Company nor Mr. Gay htmselt ques
tioned the right at the time they effected
the transaction. He held that some admit
ting that Mr, O D. Gorman was the agent
of the Corbin Bonking Company, bo was
merely acting tor them in their capacity ».
brokers, and not as bankers. Be sighted
the Mark case as d -oided by the Supreme
Court of Georgia, quoting the language of
a portion of Judge Bieokley’a deciei >n.
Hie argument was olear and able from
first to lost. His conclusions were logically
reached nd ouch one was brought cut to
oloit relief and impressed npon the jury
with vigorous force. OoL Hammond sus
tained tally his reputation for being «d able
advocate and tor having a olear understand
ing of civil law.
After the conclusion of argnment a half
bnur was oonenmed by the attorneys in col-
lee leg the documentary evidence, elanify.
ing and arranging it for the n« of the jnry
as reference, and in the meantime his H mot
Judge Speer was busily engaged in making
fn-sb notes or revising those already maae
of points on which bis charge was to tnuob,
hehav.ng ata ed that he had a.t np until
four o’clock the night before at work on bis
charge and that the attorneys must now bear
wiihhim a few momentsas patiently ns he
and the jnry bad done with them for the
last eight days. The oharge was began a
little after noon in a few int oduotory re
marks. Judge peerstatedihatbe had re-
oeived a Voluminous request from the
oonnstl for claimant, bates ne should oover
those point* tonaaed upon in the request,
so far as be h>d examined it, in Ma own
oharae he wonld con.lder it a nseUsi repeti
tion and waeteof time to inooporate the re
quest, also that he would not feel like charg
ing the jury with the request until he
bad had time to go over it
carefully nqd this htdbeen impossible as it
bad only been handed him a few minutes
before.
Col Hammond, for the plaintiff*, arose
and in a few brief words stated that if tho
olnta were covered the plaintiffs wonld
withdraw the reqnest
As Jndge Speer advanced in his charge all
parliM became deeply interested in the pro-
iln.-tlou, whioh, laying nothing of it* mar-
ils as a judicial document was a most clear
and lucid ontllre of the train of logio and
evidenoo upon which the oaaa was to rast,
Tho langnago of the oharge was accurate
and forcible, as well as eloquent and ohoioo.
The situation was first reviewed
Horn first to last, and then the court pro
ceeded to estimate the tide is.ues, Hs
trimmed the question down to an issue be
tween the claimant and defendant and then
took np the relatione of Charles L. Flint,
irestdent of the New Eug aud Mortgage
Lourity Company, and Jaoob U. Gay. ■«
said that the former, being preetrtent.of the
company, oonld be held responsible for bis
ai.fun in the transaction; that he was pre
sumed to be eognMant of the methods and
iraotiev* of the Gwbin Nanking Company
a tk* tiru.ciieu, k.,d tho
if the jury found that defendant had been
the vietim ef Henrietta abort** tho plaintiff
vu to be held responsible. Ma eud th-t
the Lwe of every laud look in band the sab-
Jeet of eeury, and attempted to regelate
aad retrial the pey meat or eollectlun of
.icrbilantratM Ur theaseet uoo.j, end
that our own lawe, neat especially, wars
fumed with th!a eljaet ha view.
He ntiswed lb< Mmaah Mi aa 11 woe de
cided is the Kiprttae Oeutl of Georgia, and
bald that the charge of oaraagaois eeraale-
bone ts a derle* to add be the taka at la-
eeiMt, evald be lard ea asarieas.
The eoaiiutmta ef the eoart upen this fea
ture of the evee wase bold and straight,
forward leaving no roam far dosbt ae te the
exception the oovrt wonld take to Ike lati
tude the SspiWme eoart weald allew loon
egeolx as to feair ekatgra for aeaailsiiaa.
The eh itge aa very Isagthy, aeatvinleg
■case Ihiriy-lva kancred werde.ead reqaii-
Ing tome two kaarr tuec ter ite delivery.
When the eean kad aeaalmded ths dram-
mentsry evidenea war handed over te Mr.
A Waad.rfal Teed cad M.dlelae,
Xaoan oai bm* by pbj.i.Um. .2 *r.r th. world,
lus'l Eb al.loc art talr sire, f Mh aad hrerfib
Yon ask me to write a sketch for the
Christmas Miner. I will tell yon a trne
story of an aot re as yon knew, bnt of whose
inner history you may not heva beard. Iiel
shade her name with our pity, aa the
blackberry vines shade it on the only tablet
her memory that it left behind.
She was beautiful, gifted and restive un
der restraint. She hail one of those half
Spat isli frees, whose eye. are like a tropical
midnight, and are as full of dreams at time.,
and whioh at other times snot fire )ik« a
summer eland that la trimmed with light
ning.
Her ebeets. wh<n «B« first b-gin to aot,
bad a warm bloum seldom seen on or off
the at ige, end it melted into a tl’ky brur.v.
She inherited from some one the triple tal
ents of the sriiate, ths writer, aud the soi
rees. bhe oortied a voluptuous, passionate
nature that knew little discipline, and ahe
wajcrtwn to thn stags as much by the
freedom it proffered sa by the independence
it scoured One day ths got married. It
was not a happy arrangement, aud the b-md
was dissolved. After that there was a dash
reaklrssnras in her career, as there is
spt to be in tbe careers of women who stake
much on an emotion and are disappointed,
bhs played ronud tho country for a while
and oame to N«w York.
I was or.e of tbe many who made her no-
quatntance in a professional way, and per
haps I should never have known her as
other then a versatile actress, if tbs charm
of Intellectuality, an indescribable brilliancy
of temperament, end a pronounced ariistio
i;ift fur the brash bad not led me afterward
;o her rooms, which arere a strange combi
nation of boudoir, studio and Bohemian
club.
This girl, whose mother had brought her
up in a Tumble cott go in (he Catskills, was
now launched npon the tepid waves of Bo.
bemiao life in tbe great eity She drew
abont her the gay, reekless, profligate, gifted
men of the professions She charmed them
with her wit, and fascinated thorn with her
variable talen'a. The vpotaneUy and unre
liability of ber gifta gave a flash to her per
sonality that we call genius.
It was the fashion at that time for every
aotreea to paint. She put up an easel in her
room, and suddenly txhiblied a facility and
a skill ti at amazed her friends. She Was
aaked by n pnnliaber to write a series of ar
ticle*, and she threw off in her leisure mo
rn, nts several eurraaoaUeg papers, bristling
with a new raillery and bubbling with a new
g»>ety.
When ao aetrers gets into Now York and
sattlrs down into cuuifortabls quarters to
be surrounded by thn taxation, the flattery
and tbe excitement of metropolitan life,ana
begins to dread the m xt engagement with a
traveling o impany. Her new abiding plaee
makes her think of the Arab life on tbe
road with anything bnt delight. There
never was a wc man no bad that some in-
•ttnot of domesticity did not flutter in ber;
and to a woman of artiatlo impulses, social
lifts and reflective moods, the Iriumrelite
curio of "living in her trunks" is not only
at limes almost unbearable, but lt is oorro-
sive aod demoralizing.
Oar Nameless played a long engagement
in New York, aud, desplto her luxurious
habits, aaved up a little money. Her mod
est *»ion began to take on a few homelike
leonliaiitiea. Her birds and doga and
iric a-brao; her gifts, her souvenirs and her
Mtfohsaea, with their associations, made lt
tsrd to toar down; and tbe ftionds who
me made it still harder to abandon.
Thon came the trial The actress oonld
nat live without an engagement, and to get
an engagement aha must travel.
I little woman, I’m dead in love, and dead
| in earnest."
“Hasn't it grown darket?” she asked,
‘Where’s the moon?"
“Why, it’a gone up and over, and you’re
chilled with the night air. Let me take yen
baok."
Yes," eho Slid, “I am cold.”
"No," she said, with a if
sake go!"
He stood at Ibe door t
looked back.
•'For God’S
-ment and
Wrlplay, the foreman af the jary, aad the
twelve were told that dkey weald retire and
mm
make up their vi rd*et. They wars eat
half hour, and retaraed, giriag in Iha (el
lowing:
“We, the jary, dad tot the defendant
tho plea of diary, and we also find for the
plaintiffs in tne sum of prindpai •0,600
In ter oat on tame for three jaare. mat
Months and ore day at 6 per eent, t2.Ml.Sl,
Adding ten per cent for ueorncy’a
total m found of S9.720 06
B. H. WaiuLrr, foreman.'
Aa toon u the v rditt vu anneauwed the
claimants t.qaeeted slay of ex -tauen until
a brief of the tviueneo eoald be rasde ant
in order that they might carry the ease np
on writ of appeal to tM Uaitod elate* Hu-
h pierne Conn. The eoart granted them
' sixty days for thsir purpose and alter a tew
to Tinas at He ewa aairtau Mayarcaa. kat eras aa
^ teMratamMM V rM*M^rei I momenta oonenrrrd in tbe anangsmenU of
I hare Man «U.« MMremnsa r d(Uall . Tba Mnn »dj 00 niod and tha groat
ti-Ul wui ended.
"Ob. wa1 • p«*«r th* gifu« «1» w.
To n« otmlfti m otb«n ico u. M
Fiw v«*»ea vuit to »pp«Ar i!ck. «td jot k
kmj *i iw wUh poia truwn os nw) (ttnit,
bi*o loCcrtBfi for Month* from f«a*»U
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to t# foasd lo aoy drag ttora. Tbit rtmnCj U
ircelte forw#»k b*ckv C4r»ox.dor reordglc p»!ci,
Mnd Mil lt»t (lui Of dlMUM knows It
oompUlcti." lllutnitd, Urgo umUm oo dluuti
of v.idiu, with moot ouecoMfol coorsoo of aolf
trtttctui unt tor 10 onto Is tUmp«. i«dm»
World’s Dlflpo&Mnr Medical AimocUUod, %u |t:a
ttract, HuffAlo, y.T.
An Koterprlalnc Cltlaei Dead.
A lkx andrijL, Ya., Dreembtr ib,
John B. 6moolp mayor of Ihia
city, died ilia Liomisg after a week'
illlcm, io the 58 yekr of hia a^e. He wrs
tbe lirawl of ltd cztensiTe tannery of 0. G.
Smoot A tions; president of the Oiiizm'
N^tionsl buik, sed wm idootified with
msny of the tOhineas enUrprigea of the
dty. The poblio boildincs are draped io
ni o urn in g.
ytora. oni ora ploucd *Ub 1U oction M j petfea a
tu a Is nloiict lid o&A oil grww tircLg-
•r ond f tin fi «h fr»-i fbo cm of IL 1 tit II U oil
t.«•«<,? tunrid iuMi. oodli to MraoUUy mir
fal for chiwrar wk«o c.ir*»i ■WUWloo U n**d-
•d. m lo HottoMl*. —I W. rum. M. D., tuux-
TillA bi*.
Kerderod Bio Wifi.
Ratlkkai. Deetmbtr 85.—Nit Burke, no*
cro, murdered bii wile %bi» woxninfi. fire
mitre couth of thie eity. Burke end fcU wife
quarreled laat night In the ooarse of ths
qnarrel Burke broke the woaun’e fingsr; he
then lefihrr and this morning be went to
her hone* end oe'Ied hie wife out Fhe
earn* to tLe door aod without a word, be
drew a butcher knife - d .tabbed her to
the groin. She eerk on the ground end
died to a faw mtoctaa. TJurka fled. The
murder wea reported etpolioe he^qsaitor*
to-night, and a squad of mounted carers
was sent ont to search for ths murderer, but
be baa not bi tn found.
Alt Iileeataa whetker trees !aa«. stomach. DO-M
or pile.. U lanared to 1*5 titracl. TraJa
mark eetalria etch bottia ce bed wraypar.
Oae day along oame Armand.
He waa euro to oomo. Ho repreaented
wealth—cDormous wealth. He was young.
Indeterminate, but Impressionable, and
withal manly. Us dropped ioto her train.
The namelrea girl bad a new fascination
for him. He fell to love with ber, and in
the elx months of tbelr Intimacy ihe be
came a now woman.
One late September Dleht they were sib
ting on tho gray sand et I’ nihmck. A red
moon was coming up oat cf the eea mists,
and it threw a bridge of Are aerosa the
dneky w*vrs. Forthwith trooped over it*
dancing tiiubtra alt tha phantom hopes and
liner dreams of lover*. Her hand lay by
his. Hat dark cheek was very cloeo to him.
Thle ie the purport of tho oonvereation
■poken in soft tones:
Bho—Fee in earneet—that'e whet it ia yon
aotiae. I'v* been dead in eerntst jut eix
months. I’ve been going to tell yon a bun-
dra<i limes, bnt I wanted yon to ask ne,
aod jos'nrvur did.
He—Wei), what hw made yon in earneet?
She—Yon
Ke—And don’t yon thlek I've keen In
earnest mysell?
•be—If I thought you wsrsn't, I tellsve
I'd kill myself. Toe see how I'm shsaged.
Be—I want yoa ehaoged. Yon are tbe
brightest, slevrreat girl I aver met. But
year gay life laa'tto my faoo.” new.
■he—I've eat it, every bit cf it. Every
friiad I he* la barred oat. I haven't had a
visitor to eagper (*> two monthe. I scarcely
is out et ell axoept to welk down the etreet
or the psetmen. I've even given np amok-
tog eigaiattee.
He—I didn't eek yoa to racks a martyr of
yea reelf.
Beo—Whet Ie II all cawing tc?
Tkia eras etid with one of those inimita
ble little starts, ee it her in.uiUone were
ooly patient up to a oerUin point, and then
tbe must bee wamin and leap to eoncto-
•iocs
My daer," said lire yoaug man, “I hoard
yon tay yourself one night that the destina
tion wu never of any cc "requeues so long
as the way waapleuact.'’
‘Did I sty thvit” the asked.
•Vi-ei eariunly di-1, aid teased Off a glut
ef ebaeipaf ea oe If i j prove IL"
••Well, the: r;r tfx menth, ago," eh*
atld, muieglj. “I’m not toe earn a woman
now.” Then with her usual Impetuosity.
•Ob, rhertey, why don't yon talk erf wbat
I’m tbl .Urg ebeio'?"
‘Msjaoee I oon’t alwtya read your
thoaghle -to.y’reeo spe-modle."
“Reed my feeltoge, thin; they're stead
ier.”
“Are you quite sure?'
“I wie- 1 a era ev «UTo cf all Utinga as I
am or one thing. How much do yon think
cf me?”
’More than I ever thought of anything
before. Yon're a neereeity of my thinking."
“What ere you going to do with ma?"
"Iaove you."
"Do yon know wbat it meenaY’
’Happiness, if yoa don't kick over the
One morning ,'n bleak March a European
steamer waa on the point of sailing A
young man wns hurriedly taking leave of a
young woman in tbe cabin. Bne held to
Lim somewhat desperately.
“Lat me go on deck with you. They will
not throw eff the ropes for half an hour
yet," Hire said.
"No, don't," he replied, "There’s a bit
ter wind blowing, and I don't want you to
catohoold. Do try and take oare of your
self, and oome buck oared. If you'll ODly
be a ittle careful and do wbat tbe dootor
tells yoa, everything will bejolly agrin. ”
“Jolly," she repeated. “Haw well I re
member tbe word. It was that night last
snmmer when we eat on the sand turd I
caught my oald.”
"There you go again," he said. "If
there'* a jolly plaoe, it’a the Bouth of
France. By Jovol It I oonld get the gov
ernor’s yacht next summer, l‘d oome aod
take you off at Malta and we'd ro up the
Mediterranean top.ether. Talk about jolly I
There's the wblatle. Be a good girl; write
to me every mail. Good-by!"
“Don't yon want to kiss me onoe more?”
she asked, bolding to his baud.
He beat over and kissed her, and then
harried awey, carrying a wet spot on bis
aueek.
IV.
Bix months later. A small pension on
those hills baok of Toulon, with a little win
dow deep in stone oasementa, and a few
oleanders that one of tbe fathers of tbe
Chnroh of 8L Lints bad brought baok from
1’alsstlne growing under it. Utlolse at
the window, with ber head resting in her
hands, looking wearily oat on the endless
line of fortitlaations and the long mole
lying in tbe warm ann sleepily enough.
Nothing moving but the lazy French flag
on the Hotel de Ville and the atnpid post
man coming np tha road.
Hherew him when o riy his helmet was
visible above the rock*, and o tiled out
eagerly: “Lisotte! LiseMe! There's tho
postman. Tt'hst are you doing?"
“I have not seen tho postman,’’ said tho
maid, adjusting her eap, “and I oan see
down the toad to the arsenal. ”
“But I tell you he's there, don't argue.
Bbe got ber letter, tore it open, and rea l
it. The red spots in her eboek seemed to
die out. Bbe held it in brr band and walk-
ed oat cf the wiudow without seeing any
thing,
• LisotteI" she o'lied.
“Madame!”
“1 am going to Amorica! Get mo my
guide-book!"
“Madame forgets the fair, and tbe exonr
sion to Nice I"
"Get me my guide-book!"
A few minute* later and aha bad to nn-
burden herself to somebody, “I tel) yon,
Liaetto, aomeihiog baa happened. I mast
gn hack. 1 shall die if I stay here, and I’m
going at onoe."
Nothing could obange her purpose.
There were a number of Americans at Nice,
sh there always la. They had paid oonrt to
the pretty American. Bhe had grown
stronger iu the balmy air of the Mediterra
nean, aDd some of the old vivaolly had
been the life of tho Uttlo arty that camo to
the pension. To tbe nmazemont of every,
body she packod her tranks, and with fe
verish haste abandoned L ranoo.
▼,
Wo hive now to oomo baok to the samo
rooms in Thirty-fonrth street,
Bhe had been to New York jnst a week.
It Is late aatumn- Bhe is bandied np aad
Cunghing. AlnUrcl re sun hue by the
mantel, with hie elbow on it, whipping bis
trouse rs with a oitio.
‘My dear,’’ he said, “yon are painfully
uDjuat, not only to yourself, but to me.
thmk it most be teoanse you are ill."
TamnotilL 1 am entirely reoovered.
You are the only one who hasn’t oompli
muted me on my improved appearanoe.’
“Yon must know,” he went on, “that
oannot do wbat I wish. I am not my own
metier ycb"
“Are yon any teas your master than
wbon I went away?"
"No.”
“But aomethlDg has changed you. Tell
me wbat il ia."
“Remember," he said, “I oome _ med ^.
ately whenov, r you need for me!"
Then ho was gone forever.
When ehe heurd the wheels of his oo^
die sway down tbe slreot, she fell off ttT
chair upon the o,repot, and Llsette , found
ber sobbing and moaning,
Alltbrcngh tbe night, tears andtheatifled
wail ot a broken heart,
VI.
A weather-beaten little cottage on a slope
of tha Catskills. Lata win it, Mini hhow
lying for weeks on the ground.
When everything failed and the dootor
gave her up ehe went borne to her old
mother to die, alter years o! brilliant gayety
and reparation. All through the long win
ter th, y had pnilad her to tnat window with
the Lille old-fashioned panes io it, and ahs
aat alone and looked out at tbe bleak aud
weary waste of ioe-oovered hills, with the
fe w bate trees bending in the blast, aad the
scurrying snow making wreaths along tha
oreats of tbe desolate ridges.
The isolation of pride, no loss than of
ncoBaaily. They shun d not see her die by
inobos. February had come and gone.
March bad -et in with a little eoqnettish
promise ot apriog, and with it oame all tha
old memories, moonlit sands and words of
love; romance and the emeil of the o'ean-
dera, and tbo bets bamming ronnd the
Freneh pension. Then days ot hopelres
gnats and gray sklea, and tbo wind taoing
over the drei-ry atretohea.
Cue day a hamper camo from Lisette, tbe
only one who know where she waa, and in
Itwaialittla bunob of French v nil"*. It
touched her like an April ray, at dsbe gave
way under its influence. They pnt Rome
paper on her lap, and she wrote a letter.
ya.
Swell quarters to apper Fifth Avenae.
Luxurious rooms, A gentlem to ia a gor
geous dressing-gown on one side of a little
round bnaktast table, and a beautiful
woman on the othe*.
The beautifal woman is his yonng wife.
She poors his coffee for the a <ko of being
dom-attn, and drabbles tbe lace of hdr
aleeve in it
My dear,” ahe sty*, “thero aro two 1st-
tersbyyonr plats. Yon haven't rotiord
them. You! IsUss sire net often sent lets,
am omions to know wbo tent tin in.”
He laid tbe paper down and picked one
up and read it, Thi* la what it Raid:
“My Deab: You ntver exprot to hear
from mo again; bnt I havo enffered so much
sino'.i that ornel night, and I h tvo been so
sick that yon will forgive me for making
one last request. It la the very last, and it
ia only aneu a little one. I waut to sue yon
and bear yon say tout yon do not bate me.
I suppose you have hoard that l was fatally
11L Bull am better now. Thank God,
the spring is cumtng. The bluebirds are
bora and tbo lllao buds are swelling. Ob,
my dear, life is snob a weary faroo that we
oan afford to forgtvo and forget for tho sake
ot old times. I want to look at you oooe
more, and then—then I will not trouble
you. Will yon not oomo to me for a mo
ment? I have writt-n tbo foil address ont
at 'll;* !■■!' Haa letter.”
He crumpled it np and pnt it in bis
pockot, parried bia wife's questions, and
went down-town. Bomstbing smote him.
‘By Jove I" be said, “I’ll go np aod see tbe
girl—it's only decent. Let mo see—to
morrow’s Wednesday. I'll get away on
Tfanriday.”
Alast ho did not get away, for on Wed
nesday Lisette came and put this telegram
ia bis hand:
“Heloise l« dead. Mrs. •*
There is nothing more to bo told. Ona
bitier day a little funeral passed down the
frozen road and over the ridge. Three or
four pooplo stood mufllsd in tho blast over
a grave III lli- re.unliy churchyard.
At tbe samo momeot a woman in tha
flush of health and beauty oame and put
berjawelUdhand'on a young gentleman's
ahonlder and said: “Beo here, my dear,
tbo 11 iriat sent tbeao up this morning.
Look at that; I'm going to put Bin your
botton-liole."
'What la it?" ha asked.
'It’a an oletredar,” ahe said.
“It isn't fair to say I'm ahinged. I have
to ba mors discreet "
'Tom told me that night on tha sand that
you loved ma enongh to make ma you
wife. And I told yon I’d rather Uva and
work In a oellar with yon than in a palaoe
with auy other man. Du you remambtr
ur
□e nodded his bead. “I thought I told
yon the truth."
“Hut you made a mistake."
“Xaasenee, my dear; don't ba tiareMon
able.”
Bhe pulled herself round in the cushion-
ad ehair. Bhe atlled him by his first due a,
“Os* ef two things jon must do now,"
■ha eaid; “kill me or euro me. I'm in your
bands, kelpleu. Let'* gel through it with,
out any socesoae. If l treat you differ
eutly bam all the real, it la your own
fault. Gad knows I didn't bring this on
Myself. I don't want yon to have to
eneak end skulk to see me. I went yon to
prove that ell yen kavs told ma is trne, and
aeoept tbe responsibility of ik befot* the
world. Ota you do that?"
•Yea don't know wbat yon ere asking,
It im iataraeaely unfair to ma now, aud
wonld ba lo yon afterward.”
Than yon can’t do it? '
‘Are you goiag to fore* me to answer
that qatcllob?"
Tea. I'm poor. I’m an actress,
know what they have told yon. I know
that if yon go awey now I ahali die. But
ara i«ing lo aak yon to go away aud never
!*t aat area on yon nnleaa yon answer
and aat aa I want yon to."
"Ton'll get ov r this, it yon will only ba
“Do yon maan bappinaaa for me, or are
yon thinking •> j|% cf yonnelf?"
“Yjnare the first i ue that ever tanqht
me to think of something other than my-
*i IL I don't see why yoa aboald ask ma
tbain
•I hardly know myself. But if I thought
now that, alter all, yoa ware just Uke lira
rut, I’d go bark to tha hotel and end it.
What mad* you love me?"
“I have eaked mytelf that question,” he
•rid. “bull never got any otuer Informa
tion than that I do. It’s a jolly mystery.”
“Jolly?" ahe repeated, ratbtr sedately.
•That's a man’s w red. It’s enriont, but I
can't apply it to this cue."
“You'er melancholy to-night Cheer up
•aim aad sensible.'
"Yes, I shall get over it to my tray," ahe
said grimly. “I have clang to yna draper,
ately. Everything to mi it at was worth
aaviiig, sprang into naw Ufa when I knew
yon. I never knew till than hi w ranch I
hsd to do, and how much had bean given
ma to do it I never knew UU now what a
wrerk I shall be without you. But I've got
to do withont you. h
“We shall be friend* alwaye," ha said
meekly. ,
“Yon anght to know better than to a tend
there and say that to me. It reminds ue
of what somebody ones said abont j am plug
bait way down Niagara after tbe skiff start
ed. It's simply brutal. If yna had not
changed yon wonld not have dared to imply
that I am *noh a fool. Friend* indeed!
Why not acquaintances. There's my hand.
Good-byel"
Ha took her hand. -‘You'll be in a dif
ferent mood to morrow, aod feel lorry for
whet you've Raid."
f.ba did not reply, and he held her hand.
“I shall <y.me and see yon whan I can," he
laid. “Yonll need me."
* ‘Never," ahe said coldly. “We are c -deg
now, and thtre ia never to be another word
between ne, nor a letter lent.
Forgot that Ue waa Married,
From ths Chicago Tribune.
A panograpn lioa naea going tbe round*
"f tire pr; ea ot Into |,urp .rang to l.u a
tmtbfal account of a remarkable oasu of
abeeat-mladi dnoas whioh made a young
man forget hia woddir g day. A prominent
civil engineer iu this city oalled attention
to this floating paragraph yesterday ana
IfMdt
I know of a muob more remstkablo
o. It waa not absent-mindodi.es*, how
ever, bat aa itlastralion ot tho vroaderfat
copcoutratlon of thought which is po aibln
in great emergenoioH. Bomowberu about
1HS7 Ed D. Mason, assistant engineer on
tho Wabash road, want to Buffalo to bo
married. Tbo aeremoDy was performed at
10 o’otoek Id the morning. While congratu-
lationa wore being extended the newly
w< dil"d Benedict reeelved a telegram from
bia ehlof io Toledo informing him that an
important traat-bridgo over a river on tha
11 " of tl". bad l--'M b.inid and
must be rebuilt immediately. The wo.-kiug
plana could not bo found,and Meson was or-
e» r..,l 1...II.... Am tin train .r. r. )■■■ .' lid nut
reach Toledo before tbe next morning.
Taking a baaly adieu ef tbe bride end wed
ding party, aud promising to return at 3
o'clock to pulake of the wedding dinner, ho
hnrriod tu the oflieo of an . engineer jpell
known to blm, wbo at ones plaeed the fa-
cilitics of hie offioo at Mason's disposal,
fly 11 o'clock ho was hard at work. When
> o'clock same, feeling boint and weary, he
walked down etairs utrehanioaily, entered
& neighboriug restaurant that be had fre
quented before, refreshed himaelf with a
sandwich and a gluts of beer, and returned
tn bis work. By 5 o’aUck be hr J duplicat
ed the original plana ot tha bridge from
memory, including exact meatoremerta aid
and telrwrephed them loToifdo,
On this Ultgrsphie plan tho bridge ouJd-
er* loitaatly net to work and fiord it ab-
aoletoly oorrect eveu to Ura ininnto, dotal*. Ik
waaamoat astonishing feat. Butw.iat lastill
■mors aatooishtog la the fact that from tha
moment Mason left bis bride to tbe morn
ing until be had forwarded bia ttlesjrepiiio
report be never reoalled the event'of bis
marrtor.c. When ha went out for hi* Inch
he might just aa well have gone to the wed
ding-dinner, aa tbe die tan oo was no greater,
and excused himself without low of time.
Bat bi* mind was so intensely oocupltd in
meeting the emergency that no thought of
anything bnt the horned bridge oonld gain
entrance. In later years Muon waa a
colonel in the army, a prominent member ol
the American Boeiety of Civil Engineers,
and Itft as monuments to hi* ekill the
bridge over the MUe .-aippi at Hannibal and
that over the Ms-ouri at BL Joreph. Ue
died aor. a fifteen years ago. Uih widow ia
■till living, and has in my presauoe corrob
orated, go far aa abn could. Colonel Mason's
acc-unt of bin wtdding-dsy experience.”
The Teleanaph la for Frogrea*.
From tbe Tattapooaa Journal.
Wu are glare to see that Georgia has great
and iutiueatifcl pap-re that rate ready to com
bat the effort* of aa tutapokeu enemy to
You must go clog the wheels of South. ro nr-.ere-a, and
ont of my world forever. Onoe mure, good-j to defend Tallfpooea, Bt chsm and
by!"
“Good-by!" ht repeated,
you—may tf*
I other Southern cm.--•• oai reucka.
"Lst me klsa I Tkeelnrdy old Mac;n'1;: srn mania ly
I denounce* tbuae publican - »• ,»!*e.