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BALM FOR MADELINE.
SH£ GETS A VERDICT FOR $15,000
AGAINST BRECKINRIDGE.
JURORS SOON DECIDE THE AMOUNT.
Only One Man Opposed to Give Her Any
thing— The Argument* in the Cue.
Au Interesting Week.
Washington, April 14.—The jury in the
•ult of Madeline V. Pollard against Colo
net Breckinridge for $50,000 damages for
Preach of promise of marriage has render
ed a verdict for Miss Pollard, fixing the
amount of damages at $15,000. The case was
given to the jury at 3:07 o’clock this after
noon. Judge Bradley remained in his chair
for a few minutes after the jury went out,
and then he walked aroundto the attorneys’
room, where he awaited news from the jury.
The courtroom rapidly cleared, only about
a. hundred men remaining to secure good
seats when the jury returned.
During the hour and a half that the jury
was out people began gathering about the
courthouse, but most of them went away
when told by the knowing ones that there
would hardly be a verdict for many hours.
At half past 4 o'clock the jurymen inform
ed the bailiffs who had them in charge that
they had agreed. Judge Bradley was ad
vised immediately, and in that mysterious
wanner in which news Hies about a court
house, a hunureu people knew it as quickly
us the judge, and flocked into the court
room in his wake.
A minute later, at 4:35 o’clock, the jury
filed slowly in, flanked by the bailiffs. Al
most immediately behind them came Colo
nel Breckinridge, easy and debonair as us
ual, with Colonel Phil Thompson, Desha
Breckinridge and Mr. McKinney, of his
counsel, while Judge Bradley waited for
Miss Pollard’s counsel to appear. The big
room was as quiet and still as a church
during a funeral service.
At 4:40 Calderon Carlisle, Miss Pollard’s
attorney, entered hastily, looking somewhat
surprised at the jurymen sitting quietly in
their seats. He had hardly sat down when
Clerk Hodges called the roll of the jury.
Then he put the usual question: “Gentlemen
of the jury, have you agreed upon a ver
dict?’’
Announcing the Verdict.
Foreman Cole, the oldest man of the
twelve, replied slowly: "We have agreed
upon a verdict and find for the plain Litt.’
“In what amount of damages?” asked the
clerk.
“Fifteen thousand dollars,” was the an
swer.
When the foreman had sat down. Colone.
Breckinridge rose quickly to his feet and
asked in his musical voice: "If your honor
please, within what time can a notice for
a new trial be filed?”
“Within four days,” said Judge Bradley.
“Your honor,’* said Mr. McKinney, who
bad started to address the court when Colo
nel Breckinridge asked his question, “We
give notice of an intention to file a motion
for a new trial.”
Judge Bradley bowed, and then turning
to the jury thanked them for their faith
ful services and discharged them for the
term.
The crowd filed out slowly, followed a few
minutes later by the defendant and his
friends. They walked across the courthouse
square to Mr. McKinney s olnce, where Mrs.
Breckinridge was in waiting, and fifteen
minutes later husband and wife entered the
wailing open carriage and were driven along
F street, one of the principal business
Itreets in Washington where department
clerks and shoppers were eagerly buying pa
pers containing the verdict.
The baroucne .stopped ala big grocery
store, where .Mrs. Breckinridge gave some
orders. Colonel Breckinridge stood in the
doorway calmly surveying the crowds of
passersby, and laughed as a little newsboy
pushed an “extra” in his face. He bought
the paper and re-entering the carriage with
his wife drove to their home.
In Mr. Carlisle’s oflice. Miss Pollard was
holding an ovation. Mr. Carlisle had skip
ped nimbly out of the courtroom and gone to
tell his client the verdict. She did not break
down and cry, but expressed her joy in re
peated handshakes with her friends. Her
brother closed the door of the room to
keep out the rush. Mr. Carlisle said that
Miss Pollard did not care to talk. “She
has kept herself as much in the background
as possible,” he said, “not only from our
desire, but from her own. I think it is best
that she should say nothing so soon after
the close of the trial.”
Colonel Breckinridge also declined to talk,
but he promised that he might have some
thing to say within a dayt or two.
WILLIES PROMISES.
Dlr. Carlisle Opens the Arguinontin the Sinn
ing up ••• die Evidence.
Washington, April 9.—The beginning of
tlie second month of the Pollard-Breckin
ridge trial this morning, witnessed the be
ginning of tiie end in tiie commencement of
argument before the jurv. There were few
persons present when the court convened,
but tne plaintiff was among tiie spectators,
much to most persons’ surprise. It was
supposed sin would not care to hear her
character publicly discussed with the free
dom tiiat counsel use m such mutters.
Miss Pollard looked well and she appeared
to be in the best of spirits, chatting with
-aiss Bills, of tiie House of Mercy who sat
beside her. Colonel Breckinridge and all
his lawyers were prompt, inciuumg Major
Bulterworm, who delivered a speech in Cin
cinnati .Saturday mgnt and left that city
immediately for W asnington.
« «ni»lr .<.«■ Ball.
Calderon Carlisle then began the opening
atguuient lor tne prumiitl. Without any
attempt at oratory ne .0.0 the jury that in
hrs opening statement a mot. tn ago yester
day, lie n.i'l been exceedingly temperate,
but he ■ omd now say tnat all his stale
in. ills, ano more tniio iln .-e, had be. n p.ov
ed. He agrei I with Major Butterworth
tiiat there a i re three part' s to the si.il—
tne plaintiff, the Geicimu.it and the cuininu
t.iiy, alii n - pointed o.n iue inn accounts
in the new.-papers of the progress of me
trial as eviueu tiiat the community was
deeply' interested. He asked tne jury to
consider ns may to tin community, and
promised to point out later <ri, v.nal Ill's
community had a light to expect. Before
going into tile legal aspects oi the case. ,ur.
Carlisle reiuiiioci the jury of the distin
guished career of the defeidant and the ad
vantages at his command m preparing ms
delense. .Mr. Carlisle said that tne defend
ant n.id known tiie lattice of the piai.idf.
who. though an humble saddler, was yet
prominent Mason and Odd Fellow. He
sk"t. lied briefly the life of th- plaintiff up
to the filing of the suit, a period ranging
from 1870, until 1893.
Then Mr. I a:n.-l" told of the meeting
between tiie plaintiff and the defendant
on the train in ISM. Be passed over tins
quickly, saying both parties .aid it war a
mere trivial eotivi rs: lion, the only point
of difference lieing that she said he ac
costed Iler: he said she accost el him. “And
now. before we go further.” raid Mr. Car
lisle, "let us see what inann r of man this
'was who had to go through the train to
get his overcoat and who found a school
giri in his path.”
Tne future relations of the plaintiff and
the defendant were reviewed from the
standpoint of each, and Mr. Carlisle con
tended that it had been shown that the
guilty' relations of the pair were continuous
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despite the testimony of the defendant that
there had been long intervals in their re
lations. Then Mr. Carlisle took up the al
leged promise of marriage, which Miss Pol
lard says was made in Washington on Au
gust 31, 1892. Colonel Brecmnridge had tes
tified that Miss Pollard was not in town at
that time, but it had been proved by an en
try in Mrs. Minears’s boarding house ledger
that Miss Poilard returned on the date nam
ed. As to the defense of Colonel Breckin
ridge, that he and Miss Pollard had merely
pretended to be engaged, Mr. Carlisle re
ferred to the very’ important testimony of
Claude De Roche Francis, who told of his
accidental eavesdropping in Mrs. Thomas’s
where Colonel Breckinridge said to Miss
Pollard tnat he was sorry she had mention
ed their engagement to the witness. At
this point, Mr. Carlisle asked Judge Brad
ley’s permission to continue his address to
morrow and as it was near the hour of ad
journment, the court adjourned.
Mr Carlisle Colid mtes tt is'-peecll.
Washington, April 10.—Mr. Carlisle con
tinued his argument for the plaintiff in the
Pollard-Breckinridge suit to a very small
audience today. In addition to 'hose whose
business compelled them to be there, not
more than twenty persons were in the
courtroom, including the plaintiff and de
fendant. The day was very stormy' and
the courtroom dark and dismal. I'ln.iny,
in his narrative—for it was more of a nar
rative than an argument—Mr. Carlisle came
to the promise of marriage made before
Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Carlisle quoted Mrs.
Blackburn’s account of the first interview
on Good Friday night, 1893, when, accord
ing to the witness, Colonel Breckinridge
asked her to take charge of Miss Pollard
as his future wife.
“He has not spoken one word in contra
diction of Mrs. Blackburn’s statement,”
said Mr. Carlisle. "He tells you her tes
timony' is true.”
Mr. Carlisle also referred to the letters
that had been written by the parties in the
case. Colonel Breckinridge swore that no
letters had been exchanged between Miss
Pollard and himself in 1886 and y et a. type
writer testified that she had addressed en
velopes to Miss Pollard for the defendant
during that year, and the plaintiff had said
that she received many letters from him.
Mr. Carlisle laid great stress on the lit
tle decorated basket which belonged to the
late Mrs. Breckinridge. Miss Pollard testi
fied that it had been given to her by the
defendant with the remark. "Madeline, this
was poor Issa’s and I want you to have
it.” Colonel Breckinridge denied this, and
hinted that it had been stolen from his
apartments by' Miss Pollard. “Sometimes
a little tiling like this proves to be the most
important item in a case,” said Mr. Car
lisle. “A witness has told you that it was
on Miss Pollard’s lap while Colonel Bieck
inridge was sitting by her side, and it has
been shown that he saw it many' times and
that fact proves that there was a degree of
affectionate intimacy between the defend
ant and the plaintiff that presaged mar
riage.”
Mr. Carlisle proceeded to score the defend
ant for hypocrisy. He had been a man of
•great standing in the church, said the law
yer; had been a leader in the Sunday school
and had addressed religious gatherings—and
yet he came into court and admitted that
in telling Mrs. Blackburn and Maior Moore
of his engagement to the plaintiff, hehad
lied, and that both he and the plaintiff had
agreed to lie about the whole matter. “He
came here, gentlemen,” said Mr. Carlisle,
“asking you to believe his unsupported
word that there was no contract of mar
riage between them—his unsupported word
against that of a reputable witness and of
the plaintiff. He asks von to believe his
word after he has confessed that he ar
ranged and acted lies concerning that en
gagement.”
Asking for the Full Amount.
In conclusion, Mr. Carlisle said: "It has
been shown that this man of power end
influence and distinction, social and politi
cal, did acquire power and inflpence over
this plaintill; that lie dal have an influence
over her life: and did promise to repair the
injury he had done. If you think this, gen
tlemen, you are authorized as the court
tells you in its instructions, not only' to
give compensating damages, taking into
consideration the previous relations of the
parties and what the social advancement of
such a marriage would have been to this
plaintiff; but you are also authorized to give
exemplary damages. You are allowed to
give punitive damages, to punish the defend
ant as an offender against the rights of
man, and in doing this, there is only one
limit to your action, and that, is, the full
amount claimed in the declaration—sso,ooo.
This I ask you to give, gentlemen, in the
name of right and justice, reason and pur
ity: in the name of our mothers: of our
sisters and our brothers; and if the whole
amount should bo given, you will have done
your part to put a stigma on such conduct
and to effect the only reparation, that can
be asked for by his injured plaintiff.”
Multi Madeline ISncupes.
When Mr. Carlisle sat down, Colonel Phil
Thompson began his opening argument
tor the detense. He was impassioned
irom the beginning, and spoke in
a manner entirely differfi.it from
the colloquial, matter-of-fact way
m which air. Carlisle addressed the
jury. Just before he began to speak. Miss
pollard and Miss Ellis left the courtroom.
Colonel Thompson said he did not extenu
ate the fault ot any man who had been
guilty ot seduemg a young giri. but he d.il
not think that a man should be held re
sponsible in a suit of this kind for having
been intimate with a woman who was of
ill-repute. Speaking in his high, keen voice,
with his pronounced southern accent, he
appealed to the jury' to regard the Plaintiff
as a lewd and wanton woman, and not to
encourage such to bring their suits in court
and make a stench in the nostrils of decent
people.
Alter referring to .Miss Bollard, as “a self
acknowledged prostitute” and saying that
“every decent man knew the defendant was
right in refusing to put her at the head of
his tabic with his daughters,” < ’olonel
Thompson took up the testimony of Mollie
Shinglebauer, Brant and Kaufman, and
contended that it was not shown that the
plaintiff had not gone to Lexington at night
during the whole of the time she was liv
ing near that town.
lie next referred to the testimony' of Wil
liam Wood, the Lexington carpenter, who
said Miss Bollard had broken her engage
ment to him because he would not take her
to Europe and he made this the text for
these remarks:
“She is a money hunter and a money get
ter. Talk about love and affection! Why,
she has shown in every feature of this
case to be on a wild hunt after this de
fendant’s money—that’s what she wants.
She is not alter love and affection; what
she wants is the money, and that’s what
these eminent counsel are assisting her to
g.-i - and she seems to have hypnotized some
body into giving her money to carry' on this
After further assailing the plaintiff’s char
acter in most scathing terms, Colonel
Thompson brought up the subject of the let
tei dated July 20, 1881, which the plaintiff
said she did not write to Colonel Breckin
ridge.
“If she wrote that letter,” he said, "her
ease is gone and she can have no credit
before an intelligent jury. She says in ibis
it iter: *W hat 1 have to t**ll V'OU, is worse
than a divorce case!’ That’s a self-accusa
tion of guilt with Rhodes—that’s
why she tried to keep om
this letter—that’s whv she said
she did not write it. She did not write it,
and I’ll stake this whole case on that let-
lb re she was,’ said Colonel Thompson
a. little later on. “robbing and deceiving
old man Rodes. She admitted on the stand:
’! am engaged to Rozell; I’m Colonel
Breckinridge’s mistress and I’m milking
Rodes tor my' tuition and my schooling at
one and th" same time.’ She was deceiving
right and left, and bleeding an old, hard
working, industrious man. Talk about Mol
li Shinglebauer after that. Why, M .lite
Shinub b.y:. r never painted herself as black
as that. Now, this woman, this adven
turess, this money hunter, wanton and
bawd, comes here, with the plea of being
an innocent girl before she met Colonel
Breckinridge.”
“Was ever a man in the power of an un
scrupulous woman ridden so roughshod as
Colonel Breckiniridge has been by this wo
man ?”
Thompson Is Too Gay.
Colonel Thompson embellished speech
with numerous Kentucky anecdotes and did
not mince words or phrases in his unspar
ing denunciation of the plaintiff’s charac
ter, “prostitute” being one of the terms
most frequently applied to Miss
i’oliard as "this bnautifni and gentle
plaintiff,” Colonel Thompson came to the
testimony of Mrs. Blackburn, in which he
said she had confused several conversations,
a natural tiling in an old lady. "I like Mrs.
Blackbrun,” he said. “I have known the obi
lady a long time. She’s a lovely old char
acter. but she’s getting along in years, joe
Blackburn, my friend, was the youngest of
the Blackburn brothers, and old Governor
Luke Blackburn -he’s been dead many
years—and this old lady is his widow. She’s
no longer a maiden gay. But she’s got lots
of spirit, I tell you. I was a little bit
afraid when 1 came to examine her that
she’d jump down my' throat, frizes and
all.”
Then followed references to King Solomon
and his many wives, King David and
Uriah’s wife, Antony’ and Cleopatra, and
the first Napoleon and George Washington
and their love affairs.
“Miss Bollard has been raised and lower
ed by' her affair with Colonel Breckinridge,”
continued Colonel Thompson. “She had
said she would rather be his mistress than
the wife of Rodes—rather go with the de-
fendant into society wnere sue could have .
intellectual enjoyment than to be the wife
of Rodes, tending children and milking
cows, and doing farm work. And, said
Colonel Thompson, "barring the sin, I don t
blame her for feeling that way.’
» hompsoi. Clones. w i ll' Begins-
Washington, April 11.—Colonel Bhil
Thompson resumed his argument tor t.olo
ncl Breckinridge this morning in the lol
lard-Breckinridge breach of promise case
before a very sparse attendance,
lard was not present, but the defendant
was on hand. , . . . ln .rj|
Colonel Thompson concluded at lo.yu
o’clock. He was lollowed by Major Ben
Butterworth, also tor the detease, . n elo
quent talker. Major Butterwoi th
somewhat diffidently, but soon warmed up
to his mark, characterizing the suit as a
tar-reaching pestilence that "tter-
have been brought to trial. Major Butter
worth said he had known Colonel Lrcckin
ridge lor many years—as he
neignbor, colleague, brothel. And,, he
said, “you may speed it on the
gentlemen, that the man to whom
Butterworth was a friend in his
does not turn his back on him in .us nd
Tiie’popularity of the genial Ohioan "J'A
the belief in this sentiment wa.< sh wn
just here by hand-clapping from the spec
* Vt was a most remarkable thing, said Ma
jor Butterworth, resuming, how ” in ° c c’ l V
this little school girl had been. 1 hey, ' 1 1d
not raise girls like that on the Miami when
he was a boy. He offered nothing in exten
uation of the defendant. His friend, Ju(| b®
Wilson, could not be more severe on him
than he had been on himself. But as to
the plaintiff, she had said: “I was onw “•
simple country giri. Mr. Carlisle, and what
could a simple country' girl Know f-b<J ut
men?” “If that be your theory, cried Ma
jor Butterworth, “1 denounce ’it as a vile
slander on every country girl in the world.
A country girl knows the difference between
right and wrong. My' mother was a coun
try girl, playing with your mother, her
neighbor, my good frien'i iturnim- to J' l '''-’’
Wilson) on the banks of the Miami. My
sister was a. country girl; so was yours.
They needed no one to tell them the differ
ence between right and wrong; they’ needed
..■ iienim iiuenna to protect them from
bad men. Don't you know that?” to Judge
Wilson. ...
“Yes, and I'll speak of it again, said
Judge Wilson. .
“But people say, could country girls re
sist the silver-tongue? I am sick of that;
it has been worked threadbare.”
Major lliitlrrniirlh Severe.
Major Butterworth plcKed Miss Bollard’s
character to pieces, beginning with the let
ters she wrote to Owen Robinson, m ISBO.
Even then, he said, she knew about love
and marriage and corresponded with young
men- “This innocent girl who says she
never knew n. person, did not have a single
friend, not even a bowing acquaintance—
this innocent little school girl!”
Fie said he ili'.t not bcni-ve her stories
about her age, how she did not know until
she was twelve years old about the year
she was born, and all that.
Taking up after recess the Wessie Brown
letter, which he read. Major Butt-rworth
said that that writing told of experience in
love rather remarkable'in an innocent little
girl who knew nobody. This led Major
Butterworth to inquire why it was that
while other girls in America went without
chaperones, Miss Bollard was never trusted
to walk alone with the boys. Why was
Uncle George or Aunt Lou, or Mrs. Kean,
always with her? Why was it that this
girl was so watched? She had been en
gaged to Rodes; she had been engaged to
Rozell, and she confessed a love for Aleck
Julian and Brofessor Oberineyer. "Did she
not have experience?” he asked.
Taking up tiie letter dated July 20. 1884,
inviting Colonel Breckinridge to call on
Miss Bollard at Wesleyan college, which
the plaintiff pronounced a forgery. Major
Butterworth criticised the counsel for the
plaintiff for trying to hold up the defendant
as a blackleg, a perjurer and a forger in
the face of all evidence that she wrote Hr*
letter. Shaking his fist at Colonel Breckin
ridge and rushing at him with a well-simu
lated ferocity of countenance and manner,
ho almost shouted: “It’s either the letter
of Madeline Bollard or you're guilty of for
gery; you've disgraced your family, your
traditions and your boy who sits by your
side, or else that woman lied.” Contrasting
the claim of Miss Bollard that she was an
innocent girl when she met Colonel Breckin
ridge with her own testimony and the let
ters she had written. Major Butterworth
said that if she were all she said she was,
then there was some excuse for bringing
the suit, “if what she said is true.” he
said, with eyes turned upward and hands
high above his head, “then I am in favor
of congress offering a premium to ev ry
woman for pulling down a glittering star
in the political or any other firmament.”
1 V irtuous Girl I’rolei'ts Herself.
With no attenipt to disguise his irony, he
pictured Miss Bollard as she had made
herself appear at the meeting with the de
fendant at Wesleyan college—a poor, flut
tering little creature, who tried and tried to
tell this man of her trouble with Rodes and
was laughingly diverted and made to tell
of herself and to listen to flatteries. Major
Butterworth maintained that if Miss Pol
lard had been all she claimed, and if Col
onel Breckinridge had made wrongful ad
vances, he would have been repulsed in a
way that would have kept him from fur
ther conduct of that sort. “There is that
about the virtuous woman.” he cried,
“which chills every germ of lascivious ap
proach.” As for the carriage ride that
night, if she were a virtuous woman, at the
first approach of lasciviousness on his part,
she would have cried (and Major Butter
worth made a rush at the white-haired de
fendant and shook his fist in his face,
shouting his words in tones that could have
been heard a block, “Take me back, you
leper!” “You wouldn’t have gone twenty
feet with her,” he shouted, addressing the
defendant; “I don’t care anything about
your blandishments, she would have run
away from you—gone to her mother, to
somebody, for protection—and so would
every virtuous woman repulse such lecher
ous advances.”
'J'hiiiks !!<• la Xot So Black.
In the course of his further argument.
Major Butterworth compared the plaintiff
to Delilah and Colonel Breckinridge to
Samson. She got him m her power anil
Jed him by a single hair; and when she
had shorn him of his locks she cried. "Sam
son! the Philistines are upon you!” and
then lie pulled down the temple of his
fame and accomplished his rum. In all
the years of the liason, he said, there had
not been a memento, a ring, anything given
her as a mark ot affection save and ex
cept the willow basket, which, had been
the dead wife’s. “And she comes here for
no other purpose than to make his crime
more horrible, saying he brought it to her
with these words: ’Madeline, this was
Issie’s; she cared for it. and 1 want you to
have it!' My God! Can it be that tins
man can be monster enough to drag in the
name of his dead wife; to bring a message
from her grave to this woman—his mis
tress. Whatever William C. P. Breckin
ridge may be guilty of—whatever his short
comings, he could not be guilty ot insult
ing the memory of that dead wife, wit >
her grave clothes still clinging to her dero ;
form. And this woman tells how, in tha
carriage ride, when lie was trying to si - i
duce her, he spoke of his dead wile (his
first wife) and his little dead boy, and she
hauls them like a ghoul from tne grave to
parade them before the world, and every
accent woman cries, ’My God! that, can’t be
so!' 1 do not condone the shortcomings of
this gray-haired man; 1 do not seek to ex
tenuate his fault, but is he the monsrer
site has painted him? She tells that sir:
gave up her child alter holding it in her
arms two hours. Did ever woman live who
would do that? Never! No woman would
let her child be taken trom her breast,
but. would pull back her child as it from
the gates of hell!”
Th, fervor and intensity displayed by Ma
jor Butterworth a; this point was felt by
tne jurors and spectators. The Ohio lawyer
marched back and forth shouting and ges
ticulating and illustrating every idea by
appropriate gestures.
1. iu I er wo 1111 Con< Judes-
M"ashingtou, I). C., April 12. — (Special.
Major Butterworth began a few minutes
after court was called to order. He held
tip to view the character of Madeline Pol
lard, described from his standpoint, and
dissected it. His language was delicate
and clean, and there was a careful avoid
ance of the risque stories and broad allu
sions which had marked lhe address of .bis
associate counsel. The relations of Miss
Poilard with James C. Rodes was the sub
ject to - which .Major Butterworth first de
voted himself, lie read the letters from the
plaintiff to Rodes, begging and demanding
money from him. Then he read the letters
which Miss Pollard called “wooden, or
dummy letters.” These letters were dated
from New Orleans, Jacksonville and other
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Afq You Sick?
Do you feel dull, languid, low-spirited, full
ness or bloating after eating, tongue coated,
bitter or bad taste in mouth, irregular appe
tite, frequent headaches, “floating specks”
before eyes, nervous prostration and drowsi
ness after ineals ?
If you have any considerable number of
these symptoms you are suffering from
Torpid Liver, associated with Dyspepsia, or
Indigestion. The more complicated your
disease the greater t he number of symptoms.
No matter what stage it has reached Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will
subdue it.
If not cured, complications multiply and
Consumption of the Lungs, Skin Diseases,
Heart Disease, Rheumatism, Kidney Disease,
or other grave maladies are quite liable to
set in and, sootier or later, induce a fatal ter
niination.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov
ery acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood-purifying organ,
DYSPEPSIA.
Rev. Charles Prosser of Mount Carmel,
j‘,'<irthu>iil>erlan<l Co.,
writes: "I was a
great sufferer from
\ dyspepsia, and I had
suffered so long that I
was a wreek ; life was
rendered undesirable
mid it seemed death
® was near: but I came
‘ 1 in contact with Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medi
// cal Discovery and ’ Pel
-/ lets.’ i took twelve
bottles of ‘ Discovery,’
and several bottles of
Ilu> 'Pellets,’ and fol
- lowed the hygienic ud
vice of Dr. Pierce, and
I urn happy to say it
was indeed a cure, for
life is worth living now.
A thousand thanks for
Rfv Pitossi R your treatment, Icn-
KEV. inosbi.it. close my photo.
ISJDJGESTIOM -TOnPiD LIVER.
B. M. Sea volt, A’o. A?7 Sai.dusliil St., Mount
Vernon, Kiiox Co., Ohio,
writes: “ 1 can heart
ilv recommend your
•Golden Medical Dis- ff
covery ’ to any cue M 441
who is troubled with Vfl
indigestion and torpid s fen,
liver; I was that bud it. ’Xj)
was about chronic witli IW / fit,l
me. All the other
medicines could give \j jgf?;jeSafcc r
ino no relief; but at /
last, what eome to my \
relief was tha; wonder- X,
ful medicine, the‘Gold
en Medical Discovery ’ /bl
I could scarcely eat Cff'
anything—it would put
me in terrible distress r .. Rvavott F.«o
in ray stomach; 1 had
a dull aching and grinding paiu iu myl
places in the south, and Miss Bollanl says
they were written in Cincinnati during her
first pregnancy, some of them at the dic
tation of the defendant, and sent to Rodes,
through her mother at Towlesboro, Ky„
to divert suspicion. Miss Bollard testified
that her mother knew nothing about her
trouble, and taking up this point, Major
Butterworth said:
“There is only one person in the world
who can tell whether these letters are gen
uine or not; there is but one person living
who can clear up this mystery. That
son is the mother of Madeline Bollard, and
she has not been called. Why has she not
been called? People niay say, ‘Why don't
you call her?' and I will say to that that
we are not going into the camp of tiie
enemy for our provisions or our powder
either.” 11
Major Butterworth said he did not seek to
extenuate the sin of his client, “But,” he
said, "the men who have framed your finan
cial system, the men who have framed
your laws, your great generals, strong as
they were, have trembled and given
way to this temptation to which this man
was subjected. She knew she held this
man’s destiny in her hand. She could com
mand, not demand. And yet, she never
contemplated a lietter life. She kept him
there crawling at her feet.”
The Visit to Mrs. Bistekburn.
Major Butterworth took up the calls on
Mrs. Blackburn by the defendant and the
plaintiff to tell her they were engaged
merely for the purpose of setting right in
Mrs. Blackburn’s mini the statement of
.Miss i’oliard that Colonel Breckinridge had
promised to marry her. He took occasion
to picture Miss Pollard as the adventuress,
laying her plans to entrap into marriage a.
man whom she had in her power through
their guilty relations. Tiie plaintiff came to
the defendant and said, “i’ve told Mrs.
Blackburn that we are engaged. Now what
can I do to set myself right with her?”
And then the two I :e.ded to go to Mrs.
Blackburn and he, to keep this woman from
being condemned, agreed to say they were
to be married. They were obliged to lie
to get out of it. 'There was no way to
light except by plunging through tile dark
ness," said Major Butterworth, ' Ione!
Breckinridge had done a noble act. He had
gone to M'-s. Blackburn to save a woman’s
honor; to keep her Irom being disgraced as
an adventuress, an 1 when she could not
force him into marriage thr nigh that means
she had spread this terrible pestilence
broadcast throughout the land.”
■‘lC.nr: t.hmk, gentlemen, that a verdict for
the defendant is a ratification of his sin.
We ask not this exaltation; we ask not
the exaltation of any one who has violated
the commands of the decalogue. We ask
for only what is just. 1 heartily join with
my’ brother (.Mr. Carlisle) in asking you
for a verdict in defense of American woman
hood; but according to the standard up to
which our wives and mothers must be
had.”
Major Butterworth concluded at 3:10
. ' 'ock, having spoken eight hours and a
hall since 11 o’clock yesterday morning.
U ilxou V. indsLp.
Washington. !>. (’..April 11.—[Special.]—
The beginning of the end was marked
this morning wiien Judge Jeremiah \l.
Wilson began l.is closing arguments for the
plaintiff. Judge A Iron's voice is keen and
p •nelraling, and wh n it rose m aceusati >n
against the dn'endant, who sat unmoved
beneath tiie terrilil? lire cl words, it was
particularly elf: elite. He held tiie close at
tention of the jury throughout the day.
He raised a la.ugh by remarking that Hie
plaintiff and defendant were like .Mary
and the lamb. Wherever .Madeline went,
"the lamb was stir • to go.”
Towards the close of the day he offset,
the pl iintiff's evidence against that of tiie
defendant, and asked the jury as a climax,
winch they would raioer ivlieve. tiie
plaintiff or this man who acKnow.edged
unit he had lived a lie for ten years mid
had lied to keep other people from tnat
knowledge, and who had lalsilied even his
marriage certificate?
The plaintiff was not present, neither was
Major Butterworth at the opening, but he
came in with Desha Breckinridge just as
Juuge Wilson was regretting his absence
that he could not ask him what he would
do with a fallen woman and the man who
“1 suppose,” said Judge Wilson, “he
would say, ‘f. would turn the woman out
and I'd send the man to congress.’
“1 stand here for womanhood,” said Judge
Wilson “This defendant proclaimed from
the stand tiiat while affairs of this kind
onlv injured the man they destroyed the
woman. I am here to insist that the social
law shall be equally distributed. 1 stand
here to protest against allowing this man
to enter my’ parlor and your parlor, while
tne basement door and the gate in the
back alloy are bolted against the woman.
I condemn him, and if I could I would
see tha’ the condemnation would ring
around the world.”
It had pleased Mr. Butterworth to de
claim pyrotechnically that the womanhood
as the land was arrayed in behalf of the
defendant. No. a thousand tine's no. He
had said t! at the country girls of tiie
country did not need chaperones and he
(Wilson) had expected to hear it said that
gray-haired men of forty-seven needed
bodyguards.
About l*'<*inulc Doctors.
Colonel Thompson’s sneer about female
doctors was made the occasion for the de
tense of tiie advancement of the higher edu
cation of women. Colonel Thompson had
one niieU on 4tli Column'.th Page.]
cleanses the system of all blood-taints and I
impurities, from whatever cause arising. It
is equally efficacious in acting upon the Kid
neys, and other excretory organs, cleansing,
strengthening, and healing their diseases. As
an appetizing restorative tonic, it promotes
digestion and nutrition, thereby building up
both flesh and strength.
“FOK TIIE BLOOD IS TIIE LIFE.”
Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
fountain of health, by using Dr. Pierce s
Golden Medical Discovery, and good |
digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, and i
bodily health and vigor will be established. |
Golden Medical Discovery cures all
humors, from a common Blotch or Eruption,
to the worst Scrofula, Salt-rheum, “Fever
sores,” Sealy or Rough Skin, in short, all
' diseases caused by bad blood are conquered
' by this powerful, purifying and invigorating
medicine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal
- under its benign influence. Virulent blood
l poisons are, by its use, robbed of their ter
, rors. Especially has it manifested its po-
stomach with pain in my right side and back,
and headache, bud taste in my mouth; at night [
1 was feverish and the soles of my feet burned.
I took four bottles of tiie ‘Discovery’ and
two vials of the ‘ Pellets.’ I mn well and
hearty mid can eat as well as any body can,—
thanks to your * Discovery.’ ”
ECZEMA.
Joseph P. Delano, Esq,, of VTursow. Tlich
moiul, Co., 17(., writes: “About five years ago
I 1 was taken with a dis
coloration of the skin
on my legs and arms, (9 X
which’ in a short time fej a
terminated in the most (II 53
aggravated eczema, ill M.
My sufferings were in- ¥ 'TrX 'rfh
tense, mid no relief did rad
I experience, until 1 V j • I fey I
commenced the use of } o
your preparations. \ ' r
I have taken live bot- \ I
ties of the ‘Golden \ .X
Medical Discovery,’ and x
more than that num- -c/ cb
ber of the ' Pellets,’ and '//L jCyr
believe that 1 am en- 1 ■'
tireiy cured. 1 never
feel the least itching, '
or burning, which was j. j>. DELANO, Esq.
at one time so mfliear
ablc. My appetite and digestion are splendid,
and, although 1 will be seventy years old my
next birthday. I am as hearty and strong as
most men of' fifty.”
Mr. G. Milton Sydnor, Druggist, of TTnr
sme, Richmond i'o.. I'd., writes: "My irieii'.l,
Mr. J. J’. Delano, has requested me to write ;
von in confirmation of his statement, which I
cheerfully <lo. I know Mr. Delano personally
well, and can testify to the correctness of his
statement. , . T , ,
His ease of eczema was the worst that I had
ever seen. I saw him often during the tune
he was affiicted, ns In; came to my store oltcn
after medicine. He purchased tiie ‘ Discovery ’
and ' Pellets ’ from me, mid lias been one of the
I strongest champions of your medicines, and
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toney in curing Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas,
Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous
Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease,
“ White Swellings.” Goitre, or Thick Neck,
and Enlarged Glands.
CONSUMPTION, WEAK LUNGS,
SPITTING OF BLOOD.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Con
sumption (which is Scrofula of the Lungs),
by its wonderful blood-purifying, invigorat
i ing and nutritive properties. For Weak
i Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of
I Breath, Bronchitis, Chronic Nasal Catarrh,
I Severe Coughs, Asthma, and kindred affec
tions, it is a sovereign remedy. While it
promptly cures the severest Coughs it
strengthens the system and purifies the
blood.
The nutritive properties of extract of malt
and cod liver oil are trifling when compared
with those possessed by the “ Discovery.”
It rapidly builds up the solid flesh and
weight of those reduced below the usual
standard of health by “ wasting diseases.”
I thus aided me very much in their sale. T am
1 quite sure that he lias been the means of my
selling several dozens of that preparation.”
CATARRH OF TWENTY YEARS’
STANDING.
.Torn Weaver, of West Carrollton, jlfonL
gomcry Co., Ohio, writes: “My catarrh was of
about twenty years’
standing; my left nos
tril closed, I could not
breathe through it;
had a constant pain A A
above my left eye M Vyl
night and day. I com- f d Ay
menceil using Sage’s A ?»
f'atarrli Remedy at O
the same time using
the ‘Golden Medical W ’ / U'd
Discovery ’; I Used one k
package mid one hot- BX » ’ T /
tie of’Golden Medical —x.
Discovery’ and I tWi. X ,j£
found great relief; as- CkSC'Mi
ter using the second J
1 thought all was .</ Y; W
right, but. I began to
feel the effects of it ,
again, so I got the J. M eaver, Esq.
third and fourth packages, and I am satisfied
I fun rid of it. Since I commenced using your
medicines, I have taken six bottles of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.”
A Treatise on either Dyspepsia and
Liver Disease, Blood and Skin Diseases,
; or one on Nasal Catarrh or on Consump
tion and other diseases of the Respira
tory Organs, mailed on receipt of six
cents (stamps) for postage.
Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
No. G 63 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
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