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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, FEBRUARY 21, 1382.
THE JUNE OFFERING
■WHICH PEOPLE PLACE ON THE
ALTAR OF JUSTICE.
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Kn. Scovllle’a Opinion Concerning Her Brother's Ap
proaching Doom-A Humor Abont Mrs. Gar-
Held Denied by Hereelf—A Talk with the
Man who la to Handle the Hope.
Chicago, February 15.—An unpretentious
marble front, 532 West Monroe street, is tlic
home of the Scc7ille family. Mr*. Scovillc,
sister of Ouitcati, is the presirfng genius of
the household, and withal an attractive lady
of ample proportions, pleasant face and evi
dently a genial temperament toward those to
whom she is kindly inclined. Her face is
ruddy, the eyes deep bine and full of expres
sion, und the voice clear and positive. She
has been pronounced insane, regarded as a
“crank,” in fact, but not the slightest trace 9i
insanity is perceptible in her ordinary con
versation. Indeed, she appearsacalm woman.
Saddened and soured by her experience since
July last, and the fact that she is not a raving
maniac to-day is a matter of surprise. The
ruling belief of Mrs. Hcoville’s existence
is that Guiteau was insane when he
fired the fatal shot at President
Garfield, and sjie stoutly asserts that
the jury knew him to be insane, and
firmly believed in his being a crank, even/
going so fur as to declare that one of the
jurors, when about to take his seat during the
trial, said to another juror, “We'll hang this
crank os an example to other cranks.”
“Bid you look for an acquittal?” asked the
reporter.
“No, not an acquittal. The most we hoped
for was a disagreement of the jury, so that a
new trial could be had.”
“What do you think of Guiteau’s counsel,
aside from your husband?”
“I prefer to say nothing on that subject.
We tried to get Benjamin F. Butler, of Mas
sachusetts, hut failed.”
“Why did you fail?”
“I don’t know, but I shall never forget the
words of General Butler when he refused to
act. Said he, ‘I am grieved, indeed, to de
cline to assist any man whose life depends
upon a trial in a court of justice.’ "
“What do you imagine Mr. Butler meant
by that?”
“Why, he knows, as every other lawyer
knows, that understands the tricks of justice
and a trial by jury, that it is not a safe place
to put a man's life, even though he be inno-
ctnt”
“Bo you mean that an innocent man will
not receive justice before a jury?”
“I mean that the jury in the Guiteau case
did not render a venliet according to their be
lief, but accoiding to popular demands and
blood-thirsty public sentiment.”
“Bo you think Guitcnu will hang on the
day fixed for the execution?”
“1 do not.”
“Will he nang at all for the murder of the
president?"
“No.”
“Your experiences at Washington during
the trial were scarcely pleasant?”
“No human tongue can tell the agony T suf
fered. It was terrible all the time, and I re
turned home with my nerves shattered,
am still sutiering, but I have hope of some
thing intervening 40 prevent the illegal
murder of Guiteau. He is crazy now/ was at
the time of the shooting, and has been all his
life.”
Mrs. Scovillc gave signs of fatigue, and the
reporter ceased questioning. Miss Fannie Seo-
ville, the oldest child of Mrs. .Scoville, is the
next piomincnt figure in the household, and
. she exerts a great intluenco over her mother.
She is ot medium height, good form, add the
-^pietiiro of health. Her face is rather attrac
tivc, and is very expressive when engaged in
conversation. A pair of gold-bowed spt
taclcs hide the eyes, but the writer has had
ocoasion during recent visits to the Scoville
home to understand now perfectly bright and
flashing they may become under certain cir
cumstances. principally when the young lady
is engaged in her lavoritc occupation of dis
missing reporters from the front door. Miss
Fannie wears her hair in the prevailing bang
fashion, and the front hair looks peculiar
from the fact that it is prematurely gray, and
the owner is probably the last person on earth
to change its color. She is of a very positiv
temperament, and hates reporters with all the
strength of her nature! At the same time
she possesses a power of fascination really
wonderful, while her conversation is brilliant
and witty, full of pert, forcible expressions,
do you dislike reporters?" tli
Why do you disiiKe reporters’.'" the writer
;kcd, during a pleasant hour passed at the
ille home. '
‘Wb:
asked
Scovillc home.
"I don’t dislike reporters as gentlemen,’
answered Miss Fannie, “but because of their
business. Ever since the shooting this house
has been in a state of siege with men of your
profession. Sometimes we have had three of
them, all at once, standing-guard on the front
stoop. They almost worried my life out for
.a.time, but I have got over that.”
"And you say you can tell a reporter as far
as you can see one?”
“Your experience should convince you of
that fact without asking me.”
“How can you tell them from other peo
ple?"
“I don’t know how I do it, only I do. They
come up here so quiet and nice and speak so
soft and politely, and sympathize with you so
tenderly, and all the time they are edging
their way in the front door, and once they
get into the parlor here it is useless to protest.
They won’t go *ut, no matter what I say.
They’ll just take a hook from the table and
begin rending. Of course they act gentle
manly and treat me with all the politeness of-
a chivalier. and what am 1 to do? The worst
of it is, they go away and print a lot of stuff
without a particle of truth in it.”
“Is misrepresentation the rule?”
“How nice of you to ask me that. Of
course you wouldn't do such a thing; you
wouldn’t misrepresent us, and sav I slammed
the door in your face. Oh, no! You couldn’t
be induced to say any such thing. But I
wouldn’t like to trust you, all the same.”
“I assure you, Miss Scoville, I—”
“Oh, yes; they all say that. So you may
just stop where you arc, and save your nice
things for some one who will appreciate them
and believe them.”
George Scoville is a bright young man, aged
about twenty years, and very much of a gen
tleman. He is always ready to answer ques
tions and yields such information as he may
possess very kindly. The remaining member
of the household during Mr. Scoville’s ab
sence is a pretty little girl of possibly ten
years. The oldest sou, Louis P., does not re
side at home. He is a young lawyer and no
tary, engaged in business on LaSalle street.
On the Guiteau question he is
loyal to the government, and de
nounces his uncle as a fool that has brought
disgrace and misery to the family. He is in
sympathy with his father, and says Mr. Sco
ville has sacrificed much in behalf of the
prisoner, simply to please Mrs. Scoville, who
is firm in her beliet that Guiteau is insane
and should not, be punished as responsible.
Louis says his father will receive no thanks
for his efc rts in behalf of Guiteau, because
he failed to clear him. The Scoville residence
is comfortably furnished, and has the air and
look of a quiet, happy home of people in
moderate circumstances. Miss Fanny pos
sesses a wide circle of friends, who have not
deserted her during the recent and prevailing
unpleasantness, and almost every evening
finds a number of friends assembled, joining
in music and sociability. Miss Fanny leading
in the entertainments. It is needless to add
that reporters are never invited.
Kt KcprlcYO-
New Yobk, February 15.—Prompted by ru
mors current in Washington to the effect that
Mrs. Garfield had written to President Arthur
asking him to reprieve Guiteau, the repre
sentative visited the residence of the lady on
Euclid avenue to ascertain what foundation,
if any, there was for the report. Reaching
her quiet homo about 7 o'clock, I was admit
ted into the hall, from which, through an
open door. I discovered the wife of the
martyred president surrounded by the
younger members of tiie family. She was
reading aloud to them, and the low, half-
mouruful cadence of her voice fell pleasantly
upon the ear. Sending in a card. I was ushered
into the reception room, where Mrs. Garfield
soon appeared. She was attired in deep
mourning Her face, though bright and
cheering, l»ore furrowed traces of the terrible
affliction through which she has passed. Ad
vancing, she extended her hand with cordial
greeting. An inquiry after her health elicited
the response that sh'e was feeling very well,
and that all the members of tho family, in
cluding Grandmother Garfield, were at
present in excellent physical health.
“A rumcr comes front Washington, Mad
ame, that you have written a letter to Presi
dent Arthur, asking him to reprieve Guiteau.
Is it true?”
Her face Rushed with a mingled expression
of surprise and indignation, and she replied
promptly, and with emphasis: “Absurd.
There is'not a word of truth in it. I have
not written to the president at all upon the
subject.”
“How do yoa suppose the rumor originat
ed?”
1 cannot say. There is no foundation
whatever for it, so far as I am concerned. 1
have expressed no wish or opinion in the
matter, and shall not.”
With this, the recollections of her great
sorrow seemed to take possession of her heart
and mind, and site arose and walked to the
mantel, gazing intently upon some object
there, evidently for the purpose of hiding t he
emotions that were plainly visible upon her
face.
Not wishing to pur.iue a subject evidently
so painful to the lady any further, the re
porter, after a moment's pause, apologized
for his intrusion and withdrew. Mrs. Gar
field had meanwhile gained that self-posses
sion which so marked her during the tearful
ordeal of a few months ago. There was no
expression of hate or bitterness in her looks,
but it was evident from her manner that she
will not attempt to interfere in any way,
either to save the neck or precipitate the exe
cution of the assassin of her husband.
Preparing for the Knd.
Washington, February 15.—“I have beem a
resident of Washington for thirty-two years,”
said Bob Strong this evening. “I was on the
police force at the capitol for six or seven
years under French. My brother was the
contractor for the building of both wings
of the capitol. Of late years I have been em
ployed at the jail—for the past twelve or thir
teen years, six years at the new jail. For the
last ten or twelve years 1 have been the person
to adjust the knot and fix the rope at execu
tions. I did it at the hanging of Bedford and
Stone, and put the rope over Bedford’s head.
The physician always suggests as to the ar
ranging of tnc knot about the neck so that it
will not go too far hack of the ear. I always
remain on the scatt'old until the body is low
ered into, the coffin. I was considerably
shocked at the Stone exhibition, when the
culprit's head was cut off as clean as if done
by a saber. The reason for his head being
jerked off' was not the length of the fall, but
Stone had gained ilesh, and at the same time
the muscles of the neck withered away— turn
ed to a kind of froth. lie weighed 200 pounds
at the time he was hanged The rope Gui
teau will be hanged by is three-quarters of an
inch in diameter and of manilla. The prison
er stands on the trap, and after the drop the
head is supposed to he on a level, or to go just
below the lloor of the platform. I always test
the ropes with a 200 pound sand-bag a,t*a drop
of seven feet. I talk with Guiteau every day.
I never have spoken to him directly abo’ut bis
coming death, but he makes fun of it when
talked to on the subject. His brother paid
him a visit to-day, and he told him how
to dispose of his hat and clothes. Some
of those I have seen executed -exlnlw
ited great courage before death. Wood and
Wright weakened. Wood more tlum others.
Some of them had been given coffee and
brandy, and had to be supported by the
priests. From what I have seen, I think that
Guiteau, when lie feels that the thing is set
tled, and he knows there is no more hope of
getting away, will not go upon the scafi'old
game. I think he will die like a cur. The
scaffold is now ready and the rope prepared,
When I prepare the rope the first work is to
f et it limber and the notches out of it. Then
rub it with tallow where it goes around the
neck. I saw nine men hung at one time in
Australia, when I was a sailor on a whaler in
1838. I will not nse any one of the ropes
that have been donated in hanging Gaiteau.
I will use one of my own, the one used when
Bedford was hanged, as no better one could be
got in America. I am not afraid of any mis
take being made. None has yet. I am 5S
years of age the 9th of March.
OF A YOUNG GIRL'S UNACCOUNT
ABLE INFATUATION.
Gottung. the San Francisco Wife-Murderer, Marries
one of His Female Admirers in Jail—The Story
of Her Infatuation for the Felon, and the
Subsequent Marriage Ceremony.
GENERAL ELI WARREN,
Ills Sadden Death Yesterday from Ifeart Disease.
A special dispatch to The Constitution
states that General Eli Warren died suddenly
at his home in Perry at 12 o’clock yesterday
of heart disease.
General Warren was one of the oldest of
the living prominent men in Georgia, being
eiglity-two years of age. He was perhaps
during his lifetime more continuously identi
fied with public matters in Georgia than any
other man in the state. Although more than
four score years of age, his interest in public
matters continued tip, we might say
to the day of his death. As
lawyer and as a planter, as a legislator, as a
member of conventions and as a party leader
no man has been more honest, and no man’;
acts have been marked by more strong, sound
sense and patriotism than those of General
Warren. His acts as a member of the con
stitutional convention of 1877 bear out the
statement that the last years of his life wit
nessed a clearness of mind aad soundness of
judgment rarely found in one of his age. He
has been the friend, acquaintance and eon
temporary of every distinguished public man
in Georgia for the last half a century
and has been personally respected
by them all. He has enjoyed their
confidence as well as the confidence of the
people. He was known as a man who took
great interest in agriculture, identifying him
self with the interests of the farmers. While
he was not what we would call a finished ora
tor, he was an unusually strong writer and
man who always expressed his opinions fear
lessly and openly upon all questions. He
was "one of the few men that we have had in
Georgia who dared to face public criticism
and adverse public opinion. He was never
afraid to express his sentiments and to act by
his judgment.
He leaves two children that we remember—
a son, Mr. Josiah L. Warren, of Savannah,
and a daughter, wuo married Judge Grice, at
one time of the Macon judicial circuit. Mr.
Warren, of Savannah, is a man of about 45
years of age and inherits the independence
and ability of his father, together with his
turn for political management
In the death of Judge Warren Georgia
loses a noble man whose service in the form
ing of her fundamental law was the fittin;
conclusion of a long life of usefulness an
honor.
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A STRANGE STORY
San Francisco Chronicle . _
Admit Justice Pennie, Mary E. Willis
and Mr. Gottung to see George C. Gottung,”
read the passport, signed by the sheriff, which
was presented at the county jail a little after
o’clock yesterday afternoon and proved an
open sesame for admittance into the jail. As
if expecting some one George C. Gottung, the
wife-slayer, under sentence of ten years’ im
prisonment in the state prison, stuck his
face through the wicket of cell No. 26. on the
main corridor, and glanced expectantly
around. A moment afterwards the turnkey
opened the cell door and announced the ar
rival of “some one to see you, Gottung.” A
joyous smile flitted over the murderer’s counte
nance as he hastily donned a black coat, ar
ranged his necktie and stepped out into the cor
ridor, where he was joined by the visitors, who
stood at the entrance of the corridor. The
prisoner and Miss Willis exchanged a hasty
kiss of greeting and held a short conversation
in a subdued tone, after which Miss Willis
and Justice Pennie consulted the deputy in
charge in regard to obtaining a private room.
Cell No. 1, the first on the right of the lower
tier as one enters the jail, was placed at the
disposal of the party, who went into its seclu
sion and closed the iron door after them, and
all was still.
A few moments afterward the voice of Jus
tice Pennie floated out on the stillness
through the open wicket and fell on the ears
of the listeners:
“George C. Gottung, do you take this wo
man, Mary E. Willis, to be your lawfully
wedded wife?"
“I do,” came the response from the mur
derer's lips.
“Mary E. Willis, do you take this man
George C. Gottung. to be your lawfully wedded
husband?” spoke the justice in a lamb-like
tone of voice.
“I do.” came Mary’s subdued response.
“Then I pronounce vou, George C. Gottung.
and you, Mary E. Willis, man and wife,” con
cluded the justice, as the iron door of the cell
swung open and he made his exit into the
corridor, followed by the prisoner and lus
bride and brother. The new Mrs. Gottung
and her husband lavished loving caresses upon
each other for a few moments, and the re
sounding smack of a parting kiss was heard
in the jail as the bridegroom went back to the
gloominess of cell No. 26, and the bride, in
company with her brother-in-law and Justice
Pennie, "wended her way down the circuitous
Stairway of the jail and out into the air of
freedom.
The bride is a prepossessing blonde, the
daughter of Robert Willis, a well-to-do and
respectable house and sign painter, residing
at 1718 Leavenworth street, and lias been a
regular Sunday visitor to the jail since Got-
tung’s confinement there in June ‘last, going
in the interest of the fruit and Howcr mission,
seeking to reform the hardened criminals,
and joining her soprano with Gottung’s tenor
in the hymn “Sweet By-and-by.”
Gottung, the wife slayer and bridegroom,
is a slender built man with a florid complex
ion, bushy red hair and whiskers, and small,
penetrating and evasive light blue eyes. By
trade he is a house painter, and was following
that occupation in June last at 444 Clemen
tina street, where he resided with his wife,
Morthinc Elsie Fredcricka Gottung. and their
infant child. The crime of which he was
convicted was manslaughter.
Prior to June last he suspected his wife’s
faithlessness, and on June 9 sent- her a decoy
letter purporting to be signed by a butcher
with whom the husband suspected that she
was unduly intimate. The note requested
the woman to meet the writer at the Atlantic
beer hall, 308 Francisco street, in the after
noon. Site kept the appointment, and took
her infant with her. Upon arriving at the
rendezvous site was shown into a private
room, to await the coming of her lover. Soon
afterwards Gottung, who had tracked his wife
from their home, arrived, and, forcing his
way upstairs, past the landlord of the place,
to where his wife was sitting nursing a baby,
plunged a dagger into her breast several times
and fled. The stabs were mortal and the
poor woman lived but a few hours. Gottung
was subsequently arrested in the cellar of his
house, on Clementina street, and an informa
tion charging him witli murder was laid
against him in department No. 11 of the su
perior court.
Upon the trial of the case the plea of insan
ity was interposed, but without effect, and
the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter.
Yesterday was set for the pronouncing of
judgment upon the prisoner, when Judge
Freelon sentenced him to ten years in the
state prison. In doing so the court reviewed
the case at length, stating that he could not
see any mitigating circumstances surrounding
the crime, and addressed the prisoner
as follows: “I cannot help saying that if,
when you first heard of these bad courses of
the poor dead woman you had taken the steps
which affection had required you to take,
tried then to withdraw her from those courses,
you might have succeeded; and your waiting
without any attempt of that kind, when name
and time and place and everything had been
given you, so you could have found out just
what she was doing and where she was doing
it. your entire silence for two months or
more, letting her be subject to all those influ
ences, until she became tlie very bad woman,
which she undoubtedly did become, has add
ed to the enormity of yeur offense.”
Miss Willis was present in the court room,
and when .sentence had been passed, went
rapidly out of the court and over to the coun
ty clerk’s office, where she procured the li
cense authorizing the binding of herself and
young life to that of the wife-slayer. She
gave her age as 24 years, and that of" Gottung
as 31, and his residence at the county jail.
Having procured the license, Miss Willis pro
ceeded at once to the jail in company with
the magistrate and the homicide’s brother,
where she/was united in marriage to the felon
f her choice.
The attachment between the two is a novel
as well as a strange one and is almost unac
countable. It is made more strange when the
surroundings of their meetings are consider
ed. Going to the jail at regular intervals, to
fawn upon and pet the hardened criminals
confined therein under the mistaken idea of
doing good. Miss Willis met the red-handed
murderer, Gottung, learned his story and be
came interested in the wretch to such an ex
tent that she learned to love him, took him
flowers and fruits, carried his infant child,
borne to him by the poor woman he so atro
ciously murdered, into the gloominess of the
jail that the father might fondle it, and in
hundreds of ways made the life of the felon
bearable. It is needless to say that Gottung
encouraged the misguided wonjan's, passion,
for the act of yesterday is sufficient to show
that he did.
A Chronicle reporter visited the prisoner
yesterday afternoon, and found Gottung pac
ing backward and forward in his cell in a
most uncommunicative mood. He refused
to be interviewed in regard to his marriage,
and told the reporter to go to what the Re
vised Edition terms “hades.” Capt. Green,
who was present, asked the prisoner how he
felt, and tie replied: “First-rate. I’ve got
an angel this time, captain, and not a —
Justice Pennie, who performed the cere
mony, when questioned about the matter,
was as dumb as an oyster, and if he knew
about the parties he would not
tell it.
Mr. Willis, the girl’s father, is very much
grieved at his daughter’s act and cannot ac
count for her strange infatuation for the mur
derer, but lias 1 noticed her growing fondness
for one of the prisoners at the jail for some
time past, and made an effort to have her
kept out. This, however, the jail officials say
they had no power to do, as the girl always
behaved herself while there.
The marriage it is thought, is void tinder
section 673 of the penal code, which is as fol
lows:
"A sentence of imprisonment in a state
prison for any term less than life, suspends
all civil rights of the person sentenced, and
forfeits all public offices ana all private trusts,
authority or power during such imprison
ment.”
Under this law it is stated that an effort
will be made to have the shameful union an
nulled. While the prison authorities per
mitted the marriage ceremony, it is but just
to them to add that strict orders were given
from the sheriff's office that the newly mar
ried couple should not be left a minute alone.
The Georgia OUce-lIunt-
Atlanta Correspondence Savannah News.
General Gartrell Is confident of his success in the
gubernatorial race this year. A day or two ago he
said: "I am sure of an election this year. A large
number of the organized are forme; the indepen
dents will go solid for me.” "How about Felton?”
"Why. Dr. Felton is my friend. He will not run for
governor, and will give me all his Influence. You
see the doctor is anxious to re-establish himself in
his own district, and will surely make the race for
congress. Congress is what he wants. Mark my
words, 1 will lie the next governor of Georgia.”
The general certainly beeps a confident exterior,
and if he makes a vigorous fight who will stand a
better chance of election ? He would make a good
honest governor, too. As to Felton’s being a candi
date, it is hinted that he cannot carry the colored
or republican vote. He seems to have done so in
his district, but a state’s campaign is quite a differ
ent thing. At any nite, the other names arc men
tioned for the race. A new one, which 1 have not
until recently heard of. is Hon. Milton A. Cand
ler, of DeKalb county. He is spoken of as accep
table to the republicans and colored men, and the
supporters of Mr. Norwood would rally to him to a
man. Mr. Candler, too, is the right sort of a man
for governor.
Washington correspondence Savannah News.
The fight among the republican factions in Geor
gia goes right along. Yesterday R. D. Locke and
Dr. Merrill, of Georgia, went to the white house to
protest against Longstrect & Company being given
the upper hand in Georgia matters, and against the
removal of Andrew Clark and the appointment of
Postmaster Johnson to succeed him.
He found there anothei delegation, consisting of
Emory Speer, General Longstreet, Wilson of Savan
nah, Dr. Arnold and Walter Johason. R D. Locke
made a statement to the president that Longstreet
imd those associated with him did not represent the
republican party in the state. They were not of the
partv, he said, and represented no one In Georgia.
He also stated that Colonel Thornton, in pur-
cnasing of a democratic paper aud converting It
into an independent orgnu, should have something
to say in regard to the "liberal” tactics inaugurated
ih the state. Speaking agai st Postmaster John
son’s apiaiintment to Clark’s place, Locke spoke in
good terms of Mr. Johnson as a man of character.
The president told him and Dr. Merrill that he
would not move hastily, but that all would be heard.
After they left the other delegation had a hearing,
and, It Is reasonable to suppose, “fixed” things as
they wanted them.
The fine hand of Representative Emory Speer,
whoa short time ago denied that he was interested
in Georgia patronage, is seen in the movement
among the officers and in the independent agitation.
It is stated that the differences between him and
he would
eputy, ap
pointed anotherman to the place.
There is a letter extant here in Washington, it is
said, in which Speer says that because Clark did
not carry out his promise he was going to try and
get him removed. It is certain that ever since that
refusal Speer has beeu after Clark’s scalp.
PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER.
A Trying Situation.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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“Say, mister, are we on this side of the bridge or
the other?” asked a placid old lady of a gentleman
on a Court street car.
‘We arc oil this side,” responded the gentleman,
gravely.
“Laws me! Then we ain't anywhere near Green
wood cemetery yet!”
“Yes, madam, we are within a few squares of it.”
“Sakes a massy! I thought Gieenwood was on
the other side of the bridge!”
No, madam; it is on this side.”
“Well, that pesky conductor told me it was the
her side when we started.”
t was, madam, 011 the other side then, hut we
sed the bridge.”
Then we are on the other side!”
“No, madam: we are on this side of the bridge.
We’ve pas«ed it.”
“Ana is Greenwood on the other side?” she
asked, starting up in some alarm.
“No. it is on this side.”
“Don’t try to fool me with your nonsense?” ex
claimed the old-.lady indignantly. “Don’t try to
make mo think that Greenwood is on this side of
the bridge when 1 know better, and don't try to
make me believe I’m on this side of the bridge
when I know I’m on the other! Don’t ye doit!
You want to be careful how you amuse yourself
with me, or I’ll fit you out with a new set of ribs!;
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that it wasn't too warm for him to walk to his des
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The Masher and the Terrier-
New York Star.
A woman and a terrier dog reached the Union
depot 1 esterduy half an hour before the time of the
brand Trunk train for Buffalo, und while the wo
man sat down in ihe walling room as the best thing
she couid do, the dog made the tour of the room
several times and then curled up on a seat not far
away to get a wink of sleep before being turned
over to the tender care of the baggage man. All
things were so-so, when a young man with a good
deal of cane and watch chain and necktie, saun
tered in and took a cool survey of the various
females. The one nearest the dog not only had a
young and pleasant face, but she was all alone.
After satl fyiug himself of this, the young man ad
vanced, made a graceful bow and i'.quired:
“Beg pardon, but do you go east?”
She nodded.
"Ah! I thought so. If you have any baggage I
shall be most happy—ah—shall be most happy ”
He had all the time beeu preparing to sit flown
beside her on the dog, and the sentence was not yet
finished when he sunk gracefully back. Some dogs
have been sat down on so often that they don’t
mind it, but this terrier had always been a pam
pered pet, and had been given proper time to shake
off sleep and get his legs under him. When sud
denly buried under 140 pounds of masher his ideas
must have been terribly confused, but not for long.
A clock couldn’t have ticked over six times when
the young man began to rise up and whoop, and he
was scarcely up when he made a course for the
door which upset every bandbox and satchel for a
width of ten feet. As he went out of the door a
black object let go of him and trotted back, and it
was only when the dog began rubbing against the
baseboard to restore himself to his former round
shape that any one was able to discover why the
frenzied young man had left in such a hurry.
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The Doctor and the Lawyer.
Steubenviile, O., Herald.
A smart young sprig of a lawyer had a grave old
doctor|on the witness staudfin a case of assault and
battery, and he questioned nim unmercifully.
“Ah, doctor,” inquired the lawyer, “did I under
stand you to say the cut in the man’s head was dan
gerous?”
“Yes, sir.” replied the doctor.
"Well, doctor, doesn’t it sometimes happen that
even a less cut than this one is dangerous?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And, doctor, is it not true that even a scratch is
dangerous?”
as, sir. and I have known of cases resulting
fatally when not even a scratch was visible. Only
recently a man died under such circumstances.”
‘Ah indeed,” qnickly put in the attorney in
pleased and satisfied way, “will you be kind
enough to tell the jury the facts?”
“Certainly, If you desire it.”
“You say there was not a scratch on him?”
“Not one that I could find,”
"And he died?”
“Yes.”
“Now,doctor, just tell the jury how it was.”
“Well, you see, he had the colic and he was dead
before I coHld get him untangled.”
The young attorney called another witness.
The Place of Parting.
t-'ree Press.
Meeting at court one day, Rochester, with mock
politeness, thus accosted Barrow, the witty divine:
“Doctor. I am yours to my shoe tie.”
To which, Barrow rejoined:
“My lord, I am yours to the ground.”
Rochester followed with: “Doctor, I am yours to
the center.”
The doctor returned: “My lord, I am yours to the
antipodes.”
Rochester, scorned to be foiled by a piece of
mustv divinity, as he termed Barrow, replied:
“Doctor, I ain yours to the bottomless pit.”
Wherenpon Barrow, turning on his heel, quietly
observed:
“There, my lord, I leave you!”
A Broken-Hearted Daughter.
Richmond (Va.) Special.
A touching incident occurred at t]ie Midlothian
mines. Superintendent Dodds mounted a coal car,
and addressing the wailing throng of women and
children around him, said: “My poor friends, it
grieves me to have to state to you that for the pres
ent our search for the bodies of those you know
and loved will have to be abandoned. You know
what fire In a coal mine means, aud it may take
months of watching to subdue it. We will close
the pit now.” The sneaker’s voice quivered with
emotion. When he finished a beautiful little girl
of fourteen years, Annie Crowder,the only daughter
of one of the victims, tittered a piercing scream and
rushed to the mouth of the pit, crying: “Oh. do
not leave my dear papa to burn down there. lost
me get into the cage nnd go down after him. Let
me save him.” The strong arms of the miners held
her back as the fragile thing tried to mako her way
to 'he cage, and more than one blackened face was
made blacker as the hand went up to wipe away
the tears. Men sobbed aloud and turned away to
conceal their emotion. The little girl, finding her
progress barred, swooned at the mouth of tlie pit.
Noblemen, Gentlemen and Americans.
Pall Mall Gazette.
“I am just arrived from Boston,” writes an
American visiting London, -‘and I am studying
with eagerness the vnrions social phenomena of
your great metropolis. Imagine then with what
interest I read in this morning’s Times the adver
tisement which begins as follows:
“ ’To Noblemen, Gentlemen and Americans visit
ing London: A gentleman, foimeriy in the picture
trade and personally acquainted with all the most
celebrated British and foreign artists, offers his ser
vices, etc.’
“So then, I thought, this Englishman, like a
Hindoo, knows three great casts—1st, noblemen,
2d, gentlemen, nnd third, Americans. How gen
erous it is of him to offer, as he does, to assist me to
make a collection of pictures and water-color
drawings, though I am not a nobleman, nor even a
gentleman!”
Episode at a Denver Soiree.
Reported by the Tribune society editor.
There was a gnashing of teeth on soft, tender
arms; there was a falling of many tufts of hair,
that fell to never grow acaiu. There was blood,
and there was everything but death. The largo
woman cried “enough” and said she’d never do it
again, and the young woman picked up her fallen
tresses, and smoothingout her ruffled garments, led
the trophy off to the hack.
“Now, Frank, the next time you take me out and
I ask you to escort me home, when I’m tired, I
hope you’H do so, and not play smart, in dancing
attendance upon somebody else."
Frank was heard to say atimid “yes,” as the hack
door closed upon the reunited pair and carried
them off to the city.
Tho January 'Money Freshet tn New Orleans.
On January 10th (being tlie 140th Monthly
Grand Distribution), tinder the sole manage
ment of Generals G. T. Beauregard, of Louis
iana, and Jubal A. Early, of Virginia, of the
Louisiana State Lottery, the following named
were ,among Fortune’s favorites: The first
capital prize w.ts drawn by No. 70,096, field
by I. M. Davis, of Morning Star, near Metn-
E his, Tennesse. The second capital. $10,000,
y No. 19,096. held by Sebastian Lehman,
No. 793 Larimer st., Denver City, Colorado.
The third capital, $5,000, by No. 50,309. by
True A. Heath, Concord, New Hampshire..
The fourth capital prizes, two. of $2,500 each,
by No. 10.239, field by , Vicksburg, Mis
sissippi ; and No. 10.535, held by L. Sanders,
No. 321 Broadway, New York city. Five pri
zes of $1,006 each were distributed around
among the holders of Nos. 9,452. 15,714, 29,-
757, 44,504 and 46,239, residing at New Orleans,
New York city, Toledo, Ohio, Norfolk, Va.,
and Topeka, Kansas. The 142d drawing will
occur March 14. and any information can be
had on application to M. A. Dauphin. New
A dministrator’s kalk-bi virile of
an order from the Court of Ordinary of Jasphr
county, will be wild on the first Tuesday in March,
18.82, at the court house door in said counts/ the
place of sheriff’s sales, between the legal sale hours,
the tract of laud in said county whereon James M.
Darden resided at the time of his death, containing
twenty-three n und rod and twenty-five acres more
or loss, adjoining lands of James L. Maddox, Wal
ter L. Zachry, Green L. McMicliaol, Mrs. I’ye and
others, thesame being about one-third in original
woods, abont seventv-five acres fresh lands, and
about three hundred and fifty acrestof fine bottom
land in high cultivation, all in good repair, with
good 1 wnter power and gin house. Also at the same
time aud place, will be sold thirty-two shares of the-
stock of the Central railroad and Imtiking company
and one bond of the Central railroad and banking
company for twelve hundred dollars, payable in
1891, bearing interest at six per cent., interest paya
ble semi annually at Savannah, Georgia. Property
sold for the purpose of paying the debts of, and for
distribution between the heirs at law of said Jamca
M. Darden. Terms ensh. February fith, 1882.
BENJAMIN F. WATKINS,
Adm’r of James M. Darden, deceased.
feb9 w4w
Georgia, DeKalb county.—To ttie r t^Verinr Court tit—'*"*■'
said countv.
T HE PETITION WILLIAM A. HEMPHILL AND
Samuel M. Inman, their asHoeiaUs an 1 succes
sors. shows that they desire to rarsuct in said coun
ty the business of manufacturing all kn...*of paper
trom rags and other material, also to manufacture
thread and cloih from cotton, to gin cotton and
grind corn nnd wheat and other grain into meal
and fiou , and sav lumber, all bv machinery, and
to do all other things usual nnd necessary to be
done in carrying on said business, not in conflict
with the laws of this State or the United States; to
purchase and lrold real cst-teiind sell th* same if
necessary: to keep and use a common seal. Their
corporate name is to be “The Glendale Manufac
turing Company.” Their principal office is to be in
Atlanta, county of Fulton, Siate of Georgia. Their
capital to be employed is to b- fifty thoumnd dol
lars (nil of which i* paid in) with the privilege of
increasing it to any amount not to exceed two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. They desire
liicorpornTt d for the term of twenty years,
with all the privileges incident to corporate powers
provided for under the laws of this State.
T. P. WESTMORELAND,
. . . , Petitioners' Attorney.
8th 1RS2 cxtract from the minutes^ This February
fcbl4—w4w wkv only
J. R. RUSSELL,
C. S. C. DeKalb county.
G £m HGI £’ J A i \ 1>ER COUNTY—ORDINARY’S
Office, Monucello, Ga.. December 21, 1881—A.
wit hthe will annexed, ol
the estate of Mary B. Comer, late of said county,
deceased, represents that he has fully discharged
his trust and prays for letters of dismission:
i; e . rf,0 '* s concerned are hereby notified to file
Mr ! T io b ,^ c,i ? ns -’. lf ?^ yexist ' on or before the first
SJj 1 J! 1 ^Pf l1 1882, else letters of dismission,
will be granted the applicant.
F. M. SWANSON,
Ordinary.
dec28-wlnw3m
Orleans, Louisiana.
febl4-dandwlt.
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Whereas, Mary A. Gillespie, executrix of Wil
liam Gillespie, deceased, represents to the court in
her petition that she has fully administered Wil
liam Gillespie’s csfittc. This is therefore to cite all
persons concerned, heirs and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can. why said executrix should
not be discharged and receive letters of dismission
on the first Monday in April. 1S82. This February 3,
1882. Lafayette wall.
feb7-w2m Ordinary.
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