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SINISTER LANDMARK. 1 SSSti iSSffiASSJyrSS SK
filled like a sturdy weed upon the city’*
■Tlie Disappearance of a New
York Slum.
SOME NOTABLE UPS AND DOWNS.
Barry Hill's Famous Kleplinnt Is -Dead-
Bow tlie Place Mns ManoB«l—It
Dkln’t Pay to Antagonize tlie
Police—Otlser News,
Special Conre*pondenee Macon Telegraph.
Not all the monuments of a big city are
built of bronze and marble. Harry Hill’s
was bnilt of brutality and mud; but it was
none the less a metropolitan monument in
its time.
When I Bret began to see life in New
York, a visit to Harry Hell’s was part of
the programme of existence. To see the
elephant in all his glory. And to see the
elephant was then a sort of duty every
New Yorker and every visitor to New
Yorker owed himself. One had perforce to
seek him in bisstall at Houston and Crosby
streets.
Harry Hill’s elephant was fed chiefly on
whisky and champagne, and more or Jess
tenderly groomed by young women of free
manners and unconventional views of life.
It would astonish the public to-day to
know of the unlikely votaries who came to
pay their tribute to this queer metropoli
tan idol. But it was a different New
York, after all. So different indeed, that
the elephant hunters who penetrated the
Houston street jungle a quarter of a cen
tury ago, would scarcely recognize it in
this year of grace.
Harry Hill's was, in fact, a survival in
New York of the wild London of the days
of Pierce Egan’s “Tom” and “Jerry.” A
current fashion condoned its existence. It
was, probably, as vile and wicked a place
aa there was in town, but it was allowed to
be a sort of feature of the city like Trinity
church in its way, or the stock exchange.
Arid to complete one’s social education the
diploma of a visit to Harry Hill’s was as
necessary as is a dress suit to a patriarch’s
ball.
Mammy might chide young Sappy, fresh
from college, for drinking; in water by the
quart at dood, after having been brought
home at daylight in a hack, so badly
mixed up with little Pappy, young Snappy
and a couple of others that the nackman
had to untangle them like eels in a tub be
fore the butler could pick his young mas
ter out. But when Sappy replied between
groans, “Fact was, mam, a lot of us fol
lows went to Harry H ll’s to see a set-to
between Plug-Ugly Pete and McSorley’s
bst,” msmm» had nothing more to »ay,
Had not Old Sappy been to Harry Hill’s
in his day, loo, and between ourselves also
come homo ip r, hack when the sky w
gray?
What men oan see in those awful
places.*’ Mr*. Sappy would sigh, “one can
not really imagine, dear.”
And Mrs. 1‘ftppy, whose own son and
heir would be in the hands of a doctor,
would agree with her that the fancies of
the ruder sex were quite past finding out.
But to seriously rebuke their Bciona for
conforming to a practice which time bad
made almost honorable would not enter
the mind of either of these worthy mothers
of the Bacchi.
Harry Hill’s formed a sort of center for
a lawless district, and a headquarters for
the most lawless men and women in New
York. All the vilenesa of the city settled
in the slum of which is was the chief land
mark, aa water settles or stagnates in n
hone pond. The history of the district is
red with blood and black with brutal
crime. Every other house in it had wit
nessed its murder. Tlie streets were os
thickly beset wiili bandits as the Forest of
Bondy. Within its walls, however, actual
lawlessness at the public expense had no
'place. The one virlue—if virtue it can he
called—that ever attached to the den lay
‘in the fact that the proprietor ruled it
with a rod of iron, and resented any in
fraction of its rules as mercilessly as a
judge upon the bench.
"Them’s my laws,” he would say, nod
ding at the numerous house rules em
blazoned on the walls, “and them that
comes here is governed by them.”
They were by no means unwise rules,
either. One forbade indecent conversatjon,
and another forbade political discussion.
One prohibited unseemly personal demean
or, and another warned the company that
dishonesty on detection would be promptly
punished. It used to be said of Harry
Hill that he allowed no one to rob a guest
hut himself, and the remark was strictly
true. • •
There was as much policy as intrinsic
merit in this. The establishment having
become a sort of show place, it attracted
the stranger from his Hotel, as well as the
rounder from his club and cafe. The pro
prietor clearly understood the necessity of
protecting his guests while they were be
neath his roof. He fleeced you hut lie did
it civilly. He sold you bad liquor and
worse wine tor the price of the best; but
he did not allow anyone else to infringe
upon his prerogative; and New York never
had a police force to equal the rufBans in
the pay of this cool-headed speculator on
the vicious instincts of the town.
One squad would be drawn up against
the wall near the entrance, each man with
his hand upon the blackjack in his pocket.
Another would rally at the farther end of
the hall. At the first signal from their
master there would he a rush of feet, blows
imprecations, howls of anguish and wrath,
and a dull thumping down the stairs.
Then all was over. If the thing that had
been shot ont on the sidewalk did not
come to itself and crawl away, the police
might remove it, or the ambulance.
Bo well was this policy understood by
even the most desperate scoundrels who
frequented the bar room and the dance-
house that you might have carried your
fortune and thrown it on the table, secure
that it would not be touched. Once the
door had closed behind you, however, and
you were again on the street, it was an
other matter; and if the kennels and sew
er* of Houston street had tongues, they
might tell strange stories of dark and des
perate crimes committed under the shad
ows of these walls.
In the days when Harry Hill flourished
ft most luxuriantly New York was foil of
■ such dives •• his, conducted, however, on
w • I*** rigid basis. They reached their glory
in tlie war time, when the town was popu
lous with dissolute and loose-living men,
with abundanl money to waste. After tlie
war they declined again; and what with
tlie interference of the police and the neg
ligence of the public, which had com
menced to outgrew its Irutal social stag
they disappeared one by one.
It was a ease of the extinction of the
dungheep. From the single dancing-hall
over a barroom,, in •which guiseilifirstknew
it, it expanded into quite a spacious estab
lishment, occupying several: houses on a
street cormr. Originally given overdo the
dance, and the dance of such a.character
as the dancers of the slums are addicted to,
it eventually secured a theatrical attach
ment. On a little stage in oneoorner of
the dancing hall more or less vulgar per
formances were given with variations of a
pugilistic character, to defray the expenses
of which it was the onstom of the fistic he
roes to circulate thediat among the audi
ence. Drink was sold throughout the,place,
being served at tables by women; and in
tervals of the stage performance a portisn
of the floor was given over to. any of the
audience that wished to shake its heels.
As I look hack on thisdingv hall, thick
with smoke, with its knots and clusters of
evil-visaged men and tawdry women, with
its clatter of glasses and the turmoil of a
lively drinking place, 1 have n curious
reminiscence of several players who would
not thank me for mentioning their names
in this connection, and who made their
debut on its squalid stage. There is a star
of quite considerable magnitude now trav
eling on the road who came out of a tene
ment-house to play at Harry Hill’s, and
another, who, i believe, began life as a
sweer in ti e dirty bar down stairs, and
graduated into a serio-comic singer, and
eventually, an actor—save tlie mark!
How well I remember one Christmas
Eve, when this poor wretjh, in almost
squalid rags, came on the stage to do Jiis
turn, and did it so cleverly and merrily in
suite of all His misery, that lie so touched
the hearts of a gang of frolicking colle
gians who had possession of the gallery
reserved for genteeler guests, that they
showered hands full of silver on him until
lie gathered togel her more money than lie
ever owned in his life before. I believe
this terminated as an engagement at Harry
Hill’s, for when next! heard of him he
was giving his performances in a variety
house on the Bowery with a name taken
from tlie New York Ledger, and a wood
cut from the Police Gazette job print,
representing him as a cross between the
Apollo Betvidere and Buffalo Bill.
There are other men who have achieved
less consideration in the same line, who,
also began life as lie did, but I never heard
that any of the female stars at Harry
Hill’s attained fame. What a fat and
greasy lot of vulgar harridons they were,
with voices that poured out of throats of
brass, and complexions from which the
paint cracked like whitewash from an o d
wall! “It gives one a bad taste in one’s
mouth to look at them,” said one of the
sight-seers, one night, and he summed the
fact up well.
Harry Hill made a great deal of money
and saved it. He waxed portly and ran to
, ewelry. He wore a big masonic emblem
n his shirt front and so many diamond
rings upon his fingers that he did not re
quire the. assistance of brass knuckles
when arguing with an obstreporous custo
mer. Within twenty years after he came
to this country, a penniless English stable-
boy, he had become a comparatively rich
man.
In the barbaric society in which he cut
such a figure, he was a man of tlie fore
most importance. No prize fight was com
plete without the presence of Harry Hill.
Indeed, on many an occasion, wlion the
polico intervened to prevent some widely
advertised encounter between champions
of the ring, the lawn on Harry Hill’s
country rdr.ee on Long Island provided
them with a battle-ground,
. The immunity that he enjoyed from po
lice interference lasted until a couple of
years ago. Then lie made the mistake of
nis life. He quarreled with the police.
According to His own story he refused to
pay the tribute which lie alleged, and
which most intelligent people believe that
the police exact from all whose business or
trade bring them at ail within the snrveil-
ancc and favor of the force and in contact
with the law, and they marked him for
luin. Probably lie would have been pro
tected until now but for this. It was a
reform year, and tlie police had been re
ceiving some hard knocks from the press.
So Harry H'U’e doom was written.
As no establishment like his can be run
without a gross and constant violation of
tlie excise laws, it was an easy ranker for
the police to find excuses fur guuuyiug him
when it no longer paid them to leave him
alone. Ilis bar-tenders were arrested again
and again. His waiter-girls were arrested
again and again. He was arrested 1 imself.
Then a renewal of his license was refused
him. He endeavored to run his establish
ment on a temperance basis, but milk and
soda water have no charms for Buch cus
tomers as his, and viciousness unbaptized
by fire h»« no aavor. Finally, he was com
pletely frozen out and vanished from the
scene* pf his protracted and prosperous
uselessness. ...
Now the building which he occupied is
being torn down. The site which witnessed
his long career of successful dofiance of the
law is to be occupied by. la-gc business
buildings, and the last relic of the days of
Houston street’s era of brigandage will
vanish forever.
It is not without interest to note that
during the tbirty-five years that Harry
Hill ran his curious and thoroughly crim
inal establishment he had no less a person
for landlord than that world-famed moral
showman and temperance advocate, the
great and only Phineas T. Banium.
Alfred Tremble.
(Copyright 1888)
See card of Dr. J. J. Sobers In bis specialties.
YELLOW KEVKK.
ITALIAN [FORGERS.
F
MSx^Chtef Drummond t>if the Secret Service
Tell* an Interesting Story of Coun
terfeiters unri IRnv They Are
Captured—ltrjickway III,
to kill him. “If I’d known that I’d a
struck him harder,” was the rejoinder. A
harder blow would have killed him. The
mi,« G.Tr-I- ' men airested were William Burns, alias
1 lie oons Oil ounny Italy j.; n glfit Billy. Daniel Sullivan, alias Scotty,
Dangerous Counterfeiters, j hri^’h^Mc!
■ Donnell, Dennis Glecnoa, Martin .Leonard,
SOME B1C CANQS BROKEN
and Dick hi el an, and one woman, Ann
McCormick. They all got sentences vary
ing from two to ten years.
In 1883 Mr. Drummond unearthed the
gigantic plot of Brockway, Martin and
Foster. Brockway was a very bright man,
well educated, and he had genius and
skill. These three men devised means to
swindle the whole financial world. Among
other bonds he was forging were those of
the Morris and Essex railroad company.
Itrockway was known to the police and
one day Drummond had a man shadow
him. Brock way went to the office of a
small printer ai.d remained there some
time. Drummond at once began to inves
tigate ahd found Brockway had left a
piece of steel with $1,000 in figures and a
small corner scroll to have a proof made.
This convinced him that he was at his old
tricks. Later on the chief heard of a
scheme whereby the country would be
flooded with spurious government and rail
road bonds. He had Brockway watched,
who used to resort to all sorts of means to
try and discover who was following him,
such as wheeling round mddenly, stopping
at corners, jumping on and almost imme
diately off a car. Once he was traced from
his home, 76 Greenwich street, to No. 231
Lexington avenue. This house was kept
UDder surveillance. A small, nervous-look
ing little man used to walk about occa
sionally with Brockway and sometimes as
though he was taking exercise after sitting
for a long time. This man, from some
photographers received from tlie west, was
Nathan B. Foster, of Bradford, III. Brock
way -was then trtffied to St. James hotel.
He met a man who wore iron gray wliis-
f ex-Chief A. L.
service. He was
is experiences re-
was called to the
who think Uncle
circulated freely
Special Correspondence S aeon Telegraph.
"Italians have a moi opoly of the coun
terfeiting business now They are organ
ized in bands, have 6e tret societies, pass
words, and are protecte 1 from detection as
well as they possibly <an be. They are
very quiet and reserved aud it is very dif
ficult to run them dowi
This is the opinion i
Drummond of the secre
chatting about some of
ceutiy. His attention
haul of counterfei^prn mide a few days ago
and he remarked that A nericans were now
driven out of the businc s.
Mr. Drummond lias h id a varied expe
rience with these gentry
Sam’s money is not
enough and who manufai ture it themselves
or rather manufacture sesnething that will
pa.s for money. For several years Mr.
Drummond was attached to the secret ser
vice department, and for more than nine
yens lie was at the head of the department
in New.York city. He wis born in Fulton,
Lansashire county, Pa., jn 1845 and is the
son of a farmer. Until l(e was 13 years of
age he lived on the farml but then went to
Port Deposit, Md., wher, lie learned the
trade of a harness maker, In 1860 when
the Great Eastern steamship arrived in this
country, young Drummond was attracted
to Annapolis to see the big wonder, and
decided to become a sailor. For five years
lie followed this profession, and in I860
was made an officer on the steamship Costa
Kica on the Aspinwali line. During the
next sixteen Jears lie was in the employ of
the United States and Brazil Steamship
company. In 1871 lie retired from the sea
and accepted a position with an insurance
copipany. This he soon (jure up and joined
tlie secret service in which lie has made
such a mark.
Mr. Drummond is about fi feet 8 inches
in hight, well built and of 1 fair complex
ion. He is always quiet add courteousb it
sharp and shrewd m attending to his
duties. His experience with counterfeit
money and counterfeiters has been so great
that he can almost detect a bad bill or coin
with his eyes shut and can fish out a coun
terfeiter so easily that lie hai become a ter
ror to tho‘e law hreakers.
“How do we cateh a counterfeiter?”
“Well, I’ll tell you,” he raid. “It seems
to come by instiuct to a certain extent.
Sometimes when a man is- arrested he
AUTHORS’ UNUAPri* WIVES.
Tlie Married Lives uf Carlyle and Charles
Dickens.
From the New York Star.
A correspondent, who has read with in
terest Mrs. Caird'B article on “Marriage”
and the interview with ihat lady published
in our columns last week, sends us the
subjoined communication. It will he ob
served that he makes no attempt to prove
anything one way or the other, hut corf-
tents himself with briefly setting forth a
few facts concerning the married life of
Dickens and Carlyle, merely pointing out
that, as it seems to him, in the one case a
mutually agreed upon separation resulted
in disaster, while in the other the mar- iuge
bond, though strained, remained unbroken,
as it was best for both that it should. We
print his note without further introduc
tion.
Tlie marriage of the future, as I under
stand it from -Mrs. Caird’s famous article
and the iuterview published in the Pall
Mall Gazette, is to be a contract which
•hall, in the event of certain contingencies
happening, he dissoluble at the instance of
either party. Mrs. Caird protests—and
rightly protests—against any inference
being drawn of what will happen when a
new relation is legalized from the occur
rences whicli take place when that same
relation is under a ban. Yet, I think I
may be allowed to point out that there are
two remarkable opposite cases in the liter
ary history of tlie last fifty years or so, in
each of which I have no doubt Mrs. Caird
would have advocated voluntary separa
tion. In tHe one case—and here there
were several children—such a separation
did actually take place; in the other—a
childless marriage—the pair, in the face of
the gravest misunderstanding, Jived to
gether “till death did them part.” It is
not my intention to generalize upon these
two cases; whatever weight they may
possess will, 1 make no doubt, be ulti
mately accorded to them.
Charles Dickens married at the age of
AAv USv V €• III C* IS 1? liw (lulu AA Uii LA wj TV Hill , , , YY* • f • , w .
kers and moustache. Mr. Drummond could Uventy-four. His wife was the sister of a
not find out this man’s name, but after
watching some time picked up nil envelope
he had thrown away. The writing tin the
envelope struck him as being familiar and
he soon found it was the same as waB on a
letter which James B. Doyle, a famous
counterfeiter, had thrown away on being
arrested. This letter of Doyle’s was signed
“Mart," which meant Lewis R. Martin.
Ho now knew the names of Brockway’s
partners. He was satisfied that these men
were not counterfeiting government securi
ties and so turned tlie case over to Inspec
tor Byrnes. He withdrew Drummond’s
force and placed some of his own men on
the case, but still maintained the direction
of affairs. In October he procured search
warrants and then carelully-arranged plans
were made for tlie arrest to take place on
Nov. 9, 1883. He secured the warrants at
11:30 o’clock in the morning and detailed
Detective Sergeant Cosgrove and Henry
Glandel and others to the work. Glandel
was sent to Lexington avenue with some
of the inspector’s men, four others were
sent to Eleventh street to watcli the house
Brockway had moved to. O her oflicers
were detailed to the St. James hotel. At
thinks he will Bave himself if lie tells of j 10 o’clock word was sent to Mr. Drummond
some crooked work that lie knows is going that Arockway, Foster and Martin were at
Prevention Iietter Thau Cnre.
The following statement speaks for itself:
“This certifies that I was, with my family,
a resident of New Orleans daring the terri
ble yellow fever epidemic which visited that
city in 1878. We were strangers there and
nnaceliraated, hut having .previously used
Ayer’s Ague Cure for malarial disorders, I
fully believed it would prove a preventive of
the scourge. I took the Ague Cure myself
and had my little girls take it daily, but I
could not persuade my husband to use it
lie fell sick of the fever and died, but my
children and I were not attacked. Our ex
emption from tickncaa at thia time was con
sidered miraculous, but I believe it was due
to Ayer’s Agae Cure, and feel sure that we
owe to this medicine the fact that we sur
vived the epidemic.—Mrs. L. K. Osborn,
boro, Prescott, Ark.
Where Hatties Abound.
From the Canton Advance.
Henry May colored of Fort Buffington,
we are told killed fifteen rmttleenakes near
hi* home last week. The “old one was
fouritei anl _ix inches iu length aud had
tli if teen rattles and the inevitable button.
The others were from sixteen to nineteen
inhlies in length. All were vicious, bad-
looking customers and defended themselves
the best they could but Henry whipped
the fight He lives on Jas. K. Perry’* place,
upon whicli farm eighteen of the mom
[ have been killed this year.
Perhaps he will tell of a man who is
disposing of spurious coins. lie’ll give a
little description of him and tell where lie
can he occasionally seen. Tliat is enough
for inc. I’ll go nnd visit these haiinUland
look for my man. Very probably it is in
the Lexington avenue house. Information
was sent to the oflicers to he on guard and
also to the men watching Brockway’s house
directing that directly they arrived a
descent should be made on hotli places.
Brockway went down town on an eie-
ft saloon. I tin 1 the man and then have 1 rated railroad train and the officers fol-
to malk his acquaintance. One has to he lowed him until he reached Houston street,
very careful hero, for crooks are very sus
picious. I’ll speak to the fellow 'casually,
ask him to driuk and then drink with him
The next night I will talk a little confi
dentially to him and perhaps vaguely hint
that I am a crook nnd have just done a
term. This method wi 1 last for several
days. The fellow will bring all the rest of
tho gang to see if I’m not a detective.
When lie is satisfied that all is right he
will tell me of a scheme to make money.
When he says it is counterfeiting I scorn
the idea. It’s too small for me, for I’m a
cheek man. However, after a while I’ll
look at his goods and agree to take some
and try to place them. Having got evi
dence against this man, I must shake him
and try tlie others. To do this I’ll quar
rel with him, break faith with him or tell
him his bills are no good. Then I’ll tackle
the rest of tlie gang until a chain of evi
dence has beSi forged. Then they are ar
rested.”
Mr. Drummond has made a great many
arrests in his time and had some exciting
when they quietly took him into custody
and hurried him to police headquarters.
There lie was searched and on his person
was found two one-thousand genuine rail
road bonds, one of the Central Pacific rail
road and one of the Morris and Essex rail
road. He was very indignant at tlie action
of the oflicers. The descents on the various
houses were made and a complete outfit for
the manufacture of $1,000 bonds was found.
Most of the implements were at 231 Lex
ington avenue at Martin’s room, 64. Mor
ris and Essex bonds were found nearly
ready for issue. Arockway pleaded guilty
and Recorder Smyth sentenced him to five
yia*8 in Sing Sing, which he served out
and was released last year. Martin was
tried twice. The first time the jury dis
agreed. On the second trial he was con
victed and sentenced to ten years in Sing
Sing. Peter Mitchell, his lawyer, secured
him a new trial. He was released on hail
and lias never been tried again, He Li still
at liberty, hut is beyond tho possibility of
doing harm from tlie loss of eyesight. He
adventures. He thicks tho arrest of a gang . js not atrong and will not live long. Foster
of fourteen men in 1881 one of the best remained in the Tombs twenty months,
pieces of work lie ever did. It appeals
that a man named William Burns, alias
English Billy had been arrested in Con
when ho was released upon his own recog
nizances because it would be useless to try
him owing to the construction placed upon
necticut in December,[1880, but managed to the statutes concerning the case by the
escape from the officer. The officer sue- [ supreme court.
cecded in shooting him, as the blood on I Brockway was horn in Connecticut sixty-
the snow showed, hut Burns got away. Mr. six years ago. He atudied in Yale college
Drummond searched for him in New York. * and began his career of forging in 18414,
in Bellevue hospital4lle was imprisoned for his first oflense^but
He placed this man, managed to break jail. In I860 he obtained
—j . 1 B j ca j impression of a plate and counter
feited $106 treasury notes. He next coun
terfeited $50 treasury notes and then put
his hand to $1,000 permanent bonds. Then
he made a $500,000 treasury note. In 1875
lie issued a $1,000 “Morris road" treasury
note and in 1880 put on the market six
$100,000 National bank notea. He next
tried witli James B. Doyle $200,000 C per
cent, coupons. Doyle was arrested and
sentenced to twelve years in prison.
[Copyrighted.] David Weciisler.
He heard of a man
who had been shot. ^
who proved to be Burns, under arrest, but
he had to be liberated because the Connec
ticut people would not swear to his identi
fication. Burns was very angry and said
he would kill Drummcud when he got tlie
chance. An eye was kept on him nnd.nc
was traced to a haunt of crooks at No. 1
Bowery. Chief Drummond detailed de
tectives to investigate tlie practices tiiere,
and very soon one of the largest counter
feiting establishments ever known was un
earthed. Burns was one of a gang who
would stop at nothing to gain money. They
had in their employ a number of women
who had to work for them and whom they
used shamefully. Several detectives were
sent on the case and by chnmming with
there men soon had aii the evidence 11117
wanted. They found that they had estab
lishments at 4 East Broadway, 3 Chrystie
street, 20 Madison street, 150 Cherry street,
57 Chatham street, 20 Avenue B, 136
Chrystie street and 1 Bowery. In all these
places after the men had been arrested
they found base metal, coin, stamps and a
thorough counterfeiter’s outfit. When the
time came for tlie men to be arrested
trouble arose. If one man was arrested tlie
othen would probably escape. Mr. Drum
mond wanted all of them, lie took a room
in the International hotel and sent out the
officers to entice them to come down. All
kinds of efforts were made to bring them
down. Some were to go to sell some wine
to some countrymen, others were to buy
stolen silks, jewelry or (nothing. In thii
wav they were brought before tlie chief
and very quickly handcuffed. They were
kept in the hotvi until all were 1—cured
and and then they were taken to Ludlow
street jail. Only cue of the men grow sus
picious. It was William Burns. While
going down Uwn he suddenly left the de
tective and run off.
“Stop, thief I” shouted the detective.
An officer saw Burns running and man
aged to strike him with hi- lint., vhi '
knocked him tenscles*. In Burns’ |sick
Mere I' III,.! .1 r:t/. -- .r.il t - I,- v. l.ic n Wi
to he used, he said, on M.- — — ,
Drummond told the officer Burns meant 1 going to vote for II
Why the People Like Cleveland.
From the Springfield Republican (Dem.)
The President does not evade tlie ques
tion upon which this campaign is being
fnmrhL but having pushed the issue of tar,
iff revision to the front he argues the mat
ter as sensibly and earnestly as did the last
republican executive, President Arthur,
and liis Secretaries of tlie.Trc;isurv, Messrs.
McCulloch and Folger. The main issue is
clearly stated and candidly, put. It is the
talk of a frank man who is very much in
earnest, and who pos»e.-se» the ability to
state his case well. Mr. D. pew has been
struck with the fact that the American
people have a -oft side for this man ir the
white-house. The reason is not far to seek.
They believe that he is honestly striving
to serve their interests to the best oi his
ability, and thia confidence begets a trust
that we believe will extend to an indorse
ment of President Cleveland’s plan for
placing the United States of America on a
peace basis.
Stalwart Opposition to Harrison.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The coming over of Mr. George C. Gor
ham to the Cleveland column is in itself
the gain of hut one vote, however brilliant
its possessor may he. Bnt if it should turn
out that the republican stalwarta t of whom
Mr. Gorham was such a distinguished
light are thinking about the vime way
that he is, then hi* new departure becomes
of the highest political importance. The
impression prevails in the slate of New
York that the anii-lllaine men are not
ruon.
brother journalist, for at the time of his
marriage Dickens was Btill parliamentary
reporter for the Morning Chronicle. The
young couple appear to have lived very
happily together for some years; she bore
him a considerable number of childrcn.and
his references to her are always of an
affectionate character. Years rolled on,
and the reporter became a rich anti
famous novelist. He amassed considerable
wealth; his. hoiks were in everybody’s
hands and his name became a household
word. Dickens and his wife lived together
for twenty years. How the estrangement,
which eventually ended in their sep
aration, arose It is very difficult to
discover. Mr. Forster, as becomes an ex
perienced and discreet biographer, touches
the episodes as lightly as possible. But it
seems to me there is every reason to ac
cept the statements of Dickens’ latest biog
rapher (Mr. Frank Manuals) that forsome
time previous to 1868 Dickens was in an
overexcited, nervous, morbid state.” He
was feverish, and could not he quiet. As
Harriet Martineau remarked, “It must
have been terrible wearing to his wife.”
And on the other hand, Mrs. Dickens’ dis
satisfaction must have reacted upon her
husband’s peculiar frame of mind. Things
could not go on like this for long. We
find him writing to Forster: “Poor Cath
erine and I are not made for each other,
and there is no help for it. It is not only
that she makes me uneasy and unhappy,
but that I make her so too, nnd much more
so. She is exactly what you know in the
way of being amiable and complying, but
we are strangely ill-assorted for
the IhiihI tin-re is between us.
Her temperament will not .go
witli mine.” Such a letter only too clearly
foreshadowed the end, and they parted
soon afterward. She was not preseht at
Gadshill when her husband died; one docs
not know whether he was Bent for or not;
one only knows that it was the arm of his
wife’s sister and not that of his wife which
supported him ns he rose dying from liis
dinner table. Dickens’ reference to his
wife in liis will, made a year before his
death, is anything hut aflectionate.- There
is no mention of a "second best bed with
furniture,” such as Shakespeare be
queathed to his wife: but instead of it wo
find a self-gratulatory sentence, which
reads almost like a reproach. “And I d>%
sire here simply to record the fact that my
wife since our separation by consent has
been in the receipt from me of an annual
income of £600, while all the great charges
(if 11 num.-mu- ami cxpi-u-ivc family have
devolved wholly upon myself.” In this
wise the mournful chapter is brought to u
close.
We pass from tlie consideration of the
married life of Charles Dickens to contem
plate that of Thomaa Carlyle-r-
When Carlyle married he had still to
win position and independence from that
sternest of taskmasters—literature. No
kindly fate smiled upon him, rendering
his first bdyk so successful that lie might
command a small fortune for everything
I10 wrote afterwards. Fqr years be and his
brave little wife could scarcely make ends
meet. A solitary farmhouse like Craigen-
puttock, with a taciturn husband for com
pany, is not a thing exactly calculated to
promote sweetness of disposition in a wo
man. Nor, on the other hand, do years of
unremitting, unremunerative and unrecog
nized literary labor copduce tosnavity of
demeanor in a man. Mrs. Carlyle was a
remarkably clever woman, unequaled in
the art of saying bitter and mor
dant things. “Charming, witty, brilliant,
and atlectioaally playful as she naturally
was,” remarks Mr. hroude, she had a hot
temper and a tongue, when she was angry,
like a cat’s, which would take the skin oil
at a touch. " She and Cariyie often mis
understood one another. Possibly they
may not have been altogether well matched;
they certainly quarreled. Rising from
tlie perusal of Mrs. Carlyle’s “Memorlala”
and Froude’s “Life of Carlyle,” one is al
most tempted to believe that it might have
been well if they could have separated.
And yet, would it have been well? As-
sun illy not. For, in spite of all vain sur
face shows; iu spite of Carlyle’s everlast
ing grumbling and frequent neglect of his
wife; in spite of Mrs. Carlyle’s “heart-cut
ting words;” in spite even of Lady Ash
burton, the pair loved each other with a
love that was intense and enduring.
A Woman'* Discovery.
“Another wonderful discovery has been made
and thul too by a lady In tata county. Disease
fastened ft* clutches upon her and for seven
yean she withtaood Its severest lest*, bnt her
vital organs were undermined and death seemed
Imminent. For three months she coughed In
cessantly and • ouhl not sleep. Hbe bought of
uta bottle of Hr. Klhg's New Discovery for
Consumption and was so much relieved on
taking firat dose she slept all night and with
one bottle baa been uifraeulouly cured- Her
name la Mra. Luther Luts.' Thus wrote W. C.
Hamrick A Co., of Shelby, N. C. Get a free trial
bottle at U. J. 1-iuner A Sona’ drug aiore.
.Advice to Mothers.
Mr». Tilufllow » Soothing firrup should alway*
mod for children Ux*lhfng. 11soothe* ine
ghl'd, fOaleuf the f
wlad coin.*. And u. t
*c. ft bote*.
FRED MAY GOES FREE.
IIoiv ft Gay Offender Mu j Evade 11,. r
From the New York Commercial Advert^"’
The immunity from the disgrace of n„
tshment by the law which men that L”
money or influence enjoy i„ thi8 J 1 ?
once more glaringly exemplified bv tV
case of “Fred” May. Tramp,, men of £
cond! .on a„d men who break law. bec.£
they don’t know any better, are locked!
in cells until sentence is nnsr.d Bn ,i P
and then they are carted^ to ££?
order to vindicate the maiestv „f ,1, , "
Fellows like May, if they^heLft 1 *?-
have money, plav the ruffian and ‘ en ^
any offence which is bail,« e .W
furnishing the small bonds re’quhej t
May’s case was one of peculiar
tmn. On the evening of June 8 ?8 if'
amused himself by embracing L • • 0
passers-by and acting in a generdlv inT
cent way at Warren street and l n Je '
place. Just at the height of hi; am ** 6
ment a well-dressed man who vuiS*"
near him, urged a Bon of the vvatchm^
Acker, Merrill & CondtV, m
for a policeman. The hov hastened de E °
0.vr‘ “ dl »"«\r'KK,'E
May had just put his arm around the
wauit of a pretty girl, who tried to
him when the policeman annearpil
Gowan qrdere.il May to ±
May had not had enough"kn”" I f or 6?*
evening, so he answered the policeman
roughly, and retired ten or fit teen feet
to wait for another girl whom t mg
McGowan repeated his orders. Mav
shouted an angry reply, and, putting his
hand in his lim pocket, advanced toward
McGowan. When within three feet of the
patrolman May produ.cd a 38-calibre bul-
dog revol ver, al the six chambers of which
head ° aded ’ and I ,ointed il at McGowan’s
Just as May was about to pull the trig,
ger, McGowan brought his club down on
May g wrist and sent the pistol flying into
the gutter. He followed the blow with-
another, which landed over May’s left eve
and stunned him. ’
A large crowd had gathered bv this time
May lay on the pavement with his fore
head bleeding. An ambulance carried him
to Chambers street ho-pitai, where his
wounds, which were slight, were dressed!
Before midnight lie was taken to Leo
nard street station house. When hebecame
conscious he was tipsy. He was not iden-
tified until the next raorhing, and passed
the night on aboard bed.
When arraigned in the Tombs police
court ho presented a miserable appear
ance.
His excuse was that he drank too much
wine the night before and did not kuow
what he was doing.
He was held under $1,000 bail on the
charge of assault with intent to kill. The
bail was promptly furnished and Mar was
allowed to go.
After that his examination was put off
from day to. day on the excuse of sickness
doctor’s certificates being produced in abun
dance to siiow that he was confined to his
bed with serious illness.
Meanwhile May left tlie city. His trial
in general sessions was set for to-day.
When May’s name was called in that
court to-day no one answered, and Recor
der Smyth ordered the bonds to be for
feited.
Louis Howland Livingstone was May's
bondsman. Joseph Moss, of Howe and
Hummel’s office, was in court, and, when
asked erfiere his client was,the lawyer slid
that IicBupposed May was having a good
time in Paris,
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