Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1889, Page 6

<< The Central National ae commanding appearance of the handsome Central national bank building, fronting the Space at the crossing of 7th street and Pennsylva- nia avenue is typical of the position held by that institution in the financial world. Mr. Samuel Norment, who BANKS AND BANKERS. WASHINGTON OF FINANCES. Sound Institutions and Sketches of the Men Who Oon- trol Them. s —s Although Washington is not known to the world us a great commercial city dignity as the seat of the national government and its fame asa city of wonderful beauty overshadow- ing all other claims to distinction—nevertheless ithas many financial institutions possessing a eredit and conducted ona scale that will not suffer by comparison with similar institutions in cities that are rated us great money centers. Washington is especially fortunate in having a good number of banks skilfully and prudently Managed, towers of financial strength in the business community whose operations have al- ways tended toward the encougagement of all that is good and wholesome in the growth of the city and to the stimulation of beneficial en- terprises. The continued prosperity of these banks and the healthful increase in the amount Of their deposits give evidence not only of the confidence reposed in them by the public but flso of the steady growth of the capital. Of Some of these banks and the men who direct them sketches have already appeared in Tur Stan. below will be found accounts of other leading banking institutions of the city and of the men at the head of them. The Citizens National Bank. Secupies the handsome white marble building on 15th street opposite the Treasury depart- ment. It is a landmark to travelers. a goal for many a business man, who finds it a faithful guardian for his funds, It is not, absolutely speaking, a very old concern, and yet it has lived long enough to give it « respectable and comfortable tone of age. It was founded in 1974 by a number of prominent citizens, headed by Jacob Tome of Port Deposit, Md.. who was ected president. The capital stock of the concern hes grown with the develogment of the city and now amounts to $300,000. The bank is considered perfecy sound and puts forth ® statement of cond:flon that is most encour- aging to its stockholders and reassuring to its depositors. 1875 Mr. Jno. A. J. Creswell was elected President and he has continued in that ca- pacity ever since. The present officers of the sre as follows: President, John A. J. Cres- weil; vice president, E. Kurtz Johnson; cashier, mas C. Pearsall; directors, Jacob Tome, John A. J. Creswell. Alfred. Richards, William ‘T. Waiker, Samuel T. G. Morsell, William 4. West, N. H. Snea, E. Kurtz Johnson, Joseph F. Saum, George E. Lemon, Thomes Somer- i Ay 7G aH. $F fe deposit safe com, ‘ad ant o Washington = tate in improved parts SAMUEL NORMENT. of the city where there is no uncertainty as to values, has been amasssd by Mr. Norment through wise business methods and careful at- tention to his affairs and stands as a monument to his ente . Sagacity and ment. Mr. Norment is « self-made man in the sense that he has made his own career and for- — He began his life pens aga a tar e Treasury at a salary o! a year, hav been given the _— Tt President Polk’s administratien through the influence of H John Y. Mason. Within a few vearshis abilities had been recognized by successive promotions until he bad reached the highest grade in his division. Such employment, however. did not suit him and he resigned to begin an active business career. He engaged in the lumber business, in which he continued with marked success for seventeen years, when he retired to devote dent management and e-interests ef both cor- Pporations they rank among the most substan- tial institutions of our city, of which fact the fine structure at the corner of 15th street’ and New York avenue is an enduring monument, The Capital Bank. The youngest bank in the city is the Nationa Capital bank. It is an East Washington insti- tution and its doors will be open for business on the 2d of September, : For a number of years the need of a bank in the eastern portion of the city has been recog- nized by the business men and other residents, A few weeks ago several gentlemen came to- gether and resoived to organize a bank. As soon as their intention became known they re- ceived such encouraging assurances of co-op- himself to banking, insurance and financiering, | eration and support that whatever lingering for which he had early developed a talent. | doubts may have existed in regard to the prac- His success is attested by his wealth and the | ticability of a bank on Capitol Hill were soon influential position he holds in the business dispelled. A committee on organization was world. Mr. Norment. however, has not given | formed, consisting of John E, Herrell, J. W. his time wholly to business. He bas taken a | Whel| ley, Henry C. McCauley, John G. Slater, deep interest in educational institutions and | Geo. ¥. Pyles, Allen C. Clark and 8H. Walker, has promoted the cause of learning by munifi- | These gentlemen are all well known in the busi- cent gifts to several churches and colleges. | ness community, and their interests are largely Ever since his youth, though in no sense | on Capitol Hill.’ Mr. Whelpley is the assistant ®@ sectarian, he been _ connected / treasurer of the United States, and his extended with and has been an influential member of the | knowledge of financial matters was utilized by Methodist Episcopal church. As a strong and | the committee in organizing the bank. As logical debater he has often taken a leading | soon as subscription books for the stock were part in the deliberations of governing bodies | opened the subscriptions came pouring in. of thatcharch. The issue of the great contro-| ‘It was decided to make the capital versy that resulted in securing lay representa- | $200,000 and it was found that subscrip' tion in the church is attributed largely to the | for twice that amount had been received. The werful speech made by Mr. Norment in the | gratifying feature of the subscriptions was the famous laymen’s convention in Philadelphia. | fact that the greater part came from the busi- Mr. Norment is apparently still in the prime of | ness men and residents of Capitol Hill. In as- his life, with a strong Physique and a prospect | signing the stock preference, of course, was of many more years of activity and usefulness. | given to residents in that section of the cit: 4 Mr. Norment now has the distinction of con- | and in consequence the stock of the new bank trolling and paying taxes on *more real estate almost entirely held by people living in that than any other individual in Washington. Hi locality. connection with the Central national bank Suitable accommodations have been secured began with its organization April 11, 1878. - He | in the building at the northeast corner of Penn- has been president of the bank ever since its | sylvania avenue and 3d street, which is cen- foundation. Its history has been one of steady | tral and is in the midst of the business com- progress on safe lines. For years the bank oc- | munity of Capitol Hill. cupied a portion of the old Bank of Washing-| ‘The directors have elected Mr. John E. Her- ton building, but it purchased and moved into | rei president. Mr. Herrell 18 well known, not its present spacious and handsome quarters | only in that section of the city, but all over the — District as a man of ions: April 1, 1888. At the time of the removal to the new building the deposits were A sterling character and 21,012,764.63. At the present time the business capacity. Mr. deposits sre $1,342,367.65, an increase in Herrell was born in alittle over a year of one-third secured with- Loudoun county, Va., out any effort on the part of the management. and when a young man The discounts at present are $733,461.68; came to this city, where cash on hand and in banks @593,880.71. Si he followed his trade of organization the bank has paid out in divi- bricklayer. ‘This was in 1850. In 1861 and | dends $82,000; and carried to the surplus fund the year 1850. He soon 1862 he served ag ® | $100,000. There is now on hand in undivided became a master work- member of the Mary-| profits about €10.000. Associated with Mr. man, and in 1861 he land house of dele-| Norment in the management of the affairs of was appointed to super- gates. From Angust, | the bank are a number of well-known citizens vise the brick work in 1862, to April, 1863. he | and leading business men of Washington, Mr. the navy yard in this was an assistant adju- | Jas, L. Barbour is vice president and Mr. J. A. city. Ten’ years later tant general for Mary-| Rugf cashier. The board of directors com- he resigned’ and began land and was elected | prises, besides Messrs. Norment and Barbour, he manufacture of to the Thirty-eighth | the following genticmen: Messrs. J. C. brick, which he still Congress, serving on} Ergood, Wm. B. Webb, H. Browning, B. ‘continues under the the committees on | Charlton. Wm. E. Clark.’ O. T. Thompen z. firm name of John E. ‘Men- Herrell & Co. Mr. Her- commerce and invalid |], Edwards, Levi Woodbury and W. Ora ee denhall. JOBN E. HERRELL, ell represented the old rempadle $s n-| The Farmers and Mechanics Bank. | sixth ward in the common council.’ He Among the oldest and best known business a ies dae rene institutions of the District is the Farmers and ore republican con- an a ee identified with various building # and investment companies. He Mechanics national bank, whose building on Bridge street, Georgetown, is a landmark. March, 1865, he was 6 owner of real estate, all The records of this banking house are inti- JOHN A, J. CRESWELL was boru in Port Deposit, Cecil county, Md., in November. 1828. He graduated at Dickinson college, Pennsylvania, in 1948, studied law and was admitted to the bar of Maryland in Correspondenceof Taz Evexrne Stan. It was said the road had reached it—that it had net, We carried a lunch and went stout- hearted. sent tothe herr ect to 3, 4. 3. CRESWELL. the unexpired term ot of which is located in the eastern section of the Senator T.A. Hicks, deceased, aud wasa member city, He has been a director in the National ef the committees on agriculture and mining, 2 r Bank of the Republic for several years and alsochairman of the comm.ttee on the library. | mately connected with the history of the Dis- | Bark of organize the Columbia national bank On the 22d of February, 1866, he delivered, at the | trict and with the earlier financial operations was a member of the board of directors of of the United Statesgoverument. The Farmers | that bank until elected president of the new and Mechanics bank was orgunized February 15, 1814, with William Marbury as president and Clement Smith as cashier, and began opera- Fequest of the House of Representatives,aeulogy ou his friend and colleague. Henr: AA paris beak je was seut as a delegate t> the Philadelphia . : loyalist” convention in 1866, to the border Fels ae te fe states convention held in Baltimore in | tions upon the site the bank now occupies. ifty | circles in this cit He 1867 and to the Chicago republican con-| thousand dollars were loaned to the United] entered the National Yention of 1968. In May, 1868, he declined | states May 17, 1814; afterward other sums were Bank of the Republic as the office of secretary of the United States | advanced to the government, and the notes of | > runner when a boy Senate, to which he had been elected, and on | this bank were used in paying the troops of | and his faithful services, the 5th of March, 1869, he was made Postmaster | Gen. Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, Its | his intelligence and apt- General in the cabinet of President Grant. | capital stock is $252,000: surplus, €60,000; un- | pees wills recognized July 6, 1874, he resigned this poxt and was | divided profits, $63,951.03. Some of the old soon afterward by pro- ¢lected president of the Citizens national bank | furniture and furnishings belonging to the} motion to the position the next year. He was counsel for the United | bank in its early days were in use up to a few | of assistant teller. When States before the court of commissioners of | yearsago, when, in the conrse of improvements, | the Celumtin ional ms claims and i» now actively engaged | the bank was refurnished. Today, instead of bank was started Mr. in the practice of hix profession. , plain wooden palings to protect the money | Baldwin wae given the Mr. Pearsall, the cashier of the bank, is as | from being abstracted from the counters and position of teller, which thoroughly identified with it and its growth as | drawers strong and handsome brass screens do | position he has filled its president, having been part of its ma-| that service. with credit to himself ehinery from the beginning. He was elected | “The officers of the bank were provided with | and satisfaction to the gerne teller upon the organization of the | handsome privute offices while the work of im. bank. Mr, Baldwin is and continued in that capacity until 1879, | provements were being made. only twenty-eight years when he was made cashier, which position be | © Henry M. Sweeny, president of the Farmers of age and will be the has filled since then with an industry, intelli-} aud Mechanies national bank of Georgetown, | youngest man holding _W™. 8. BALDWIN, lence and couscientiousness that have made | D. C., and also president of the Potomac insur- | > similar position in this city. services almost invaluable. o— i company, is _a|/ The directors are as follows: Thom: The Second Natioual Bank. native of the District | Smith, vice president; John E. Herrell, James " ofColumbia. He has |W, Whelpley, Henry C, McCauley, John G. ‘The Second national bank was established in occupied several hon- | Slater, eonege F. P tf Allen C. Clark, 8. H. 1872. The late John C. McKelden. an old orable public posi- | Walker, Walter Marlow, H. A. Griswold, Chas. resident of the District, was active in its organi- tions. He wasa mem- |G. Dulin, Dr. W. P. C. Hazen, B. B. Earnshaw, zation and he became the first president, with } ber of the board of | George F. Harbin and P. J. Lockwood, Daniel L. Eston cashier. Messrs, W. W. Bur- aan suenell and —— of the board of alder-! Gq ow Frrpay axD SaTURDAY Eveytye to men, and was elected to the mayoralty of dette, Lewis Clephane and Thos. L. Tullock ' 7 were prominent in the ization of the Marshall Hall excursion. See advertisemenf— rp age the city of George- Stown in 1869, and con- bank and were among the first directors. At first the bank was located on F street between : 6th and 7th streets, in a building adjoining the & tinued in that office residence of Mr. McKelden. ‘The rapid increase until the change of ecity government. He in the er em and bed demand for increased i banking facilities in a short time convinced the F——F = also served asamem-| Fails, has arrived at Brussels, He reports directors that more spacious quarters were . == ber of the sinking everything satisfactory at that point, “aaa " neede. a fund of the District | the uropeans and Arabs are living upon the At that time the business which Setters shout Tih and F streets — just begun | HENRY M. SWEENEY. of Coca and as | best of terms, velop and the new bank shared in the | commissioner of the metropolitan police force. ii i increasing prosperity. In the year 1874 the| ‘The following are the directors ‘of the | Mr. William Henry Bishop, the novelist, as erection of the fine iron building which the bank still occupies was begun. ‘The location On the east side of 7th street between E and F streets was selected because of its general con- venicnce. The cashier, Mr. Eaton, retiring on account of ill health, he was succeeded by W. B. Griffith, acting cashier. In the latter of 1874 Mr. Heury C. Swain became cashier aud at present holds that position, having been 4m the continuous service of the bank as cashier for fifteen years. Mr. Swain is one of the well- known res in financial circles in this city. He was iu New Jersey and, coming to this city in the year 1862, he has been connected with banking institutions in this District almost ecntunuously up to the present time. His ex- Perience as well as his wide acquaintance with men has enabled him to discharge the duties ef his important position with credit to himself ete eee eae FOREIGN NOTES. M. Haneuse, the Belgian resident at Stanley Farmers and Mechanics bank: Messrs, H, M, | Sone to his new home, the villa Biancheri, near Sweeny, C. M. Matthews, M. J. Adier, J. H.| Nice. He has recently made a tour through Smoot, A. B. Jackson, Thomas Knowles, L. V, | Spain. Wine, 8. Thomas Brown and Philip May. ‘The shah of Persia arrived at Vienna yester- ‘The present cashier of the bank, Mr. William | day. He was received at the depot by Em- Laird, jr.. entered the service of the bank as | peror Francis Joseph, Archkukes Charles, an assistant in 1849, and in two years ufter- | Ferdinand and Rainer, and a number of other ward he became cashier, which position he bas | distinguished personages. Archduke Maria, since filled. on behalf of the empress, received the shah at the Hotburg. PRB arte seers eiecsicgise After a deal of persuasion Mme. Carnot, was organized in November, 1870, upon a ene Tee President, has sscended charter granted in May of that year. It is con- « Herr Gottfried Keller of Zurich, whom Paul ducted by some of the best-known and solidest | sroyse called “the German Shakepearo”” has of our business men, and is one of the safest | recently celebrated his literary jubilee. and most substantial establishments of the| An epileptic in» hospital for incurables in capital. The institution is surrounded by safe-| Ghent yesterday made an attack with a razor and satisfaction to the management of the ™. @. EMERY. . In the year of 1876 Mr. McKelden retired from the presidency of the bank and Mr. Matthew G. Emery was elected his suc- cessor and has held the position ever since. Mr. Emery has been rominently identified with this guards unusual in savings banks. In the first | upon the other patients in the institution, who place the business is conducted under the poe in bed at the time. He badly gashed the supervision of the controller of the currency, | throats of twenty-four of them, but none were as is a Cal or Lame They _— no cur- | fatally injured. rency, but they are under bond to the Supreme iis rt Court of the District of Columbia fo the | - Cholera is raging at Bagdad and Bursoray. amount of $200,000 to secure deposits, and they ene atortird hoon nines to place military cor- e liable at any time to be called on by the < fs controller of the currency for a statement of ac-| Miss Olive Schreiner of the “South African is a sister of the Miss Schreiner, who counts, as if they were a national banking com- | Farm” pany with acurrrency, They cannot discount | has made hervelf so couspicuous as a temper- paper or loan money on certain securities that | ance advocate in South Africa, Prof, Roberts of London estimates that in the oe a a. Led most = ot ouses, There is probably not another bank in great smokgcloud daily hanging over London - bonis solids worth #10,- the country conducted as this one is, The de- pedis ameuns to nearly a million and a half 000,000 5 seen and carl Mr. B. P. Snyder is Tschernischewski, the too outspoken Russian president of an haan novelist who was sentenced to twenty-five and also of the National years’ service in the Siberian mines, has been safe deposit company. pardoned by the czar. He was bornan Tar: The duchess of Fife is said to be a famous town, Pa, July, 1835, gymnast. In 1846 he entered the ‘ing office of the I by his father, tnd sorved for four 2% home in New Ham hire to this city in ear noni = integrity an che push and. inal rer is famed. state is fa building busin ese large enterprises connected was the front of the Post at building. He also had con- the stone work of the wings of the Sebeness cael etenaes were intrasted to his su; He became interested in public fae, board of The Bulgarian suthorities have purchased 10,000,000 cartridges in Vienna and are tiating with a Belgian manufacturer for 50, ‘The Prince of Wales is to stay at Homburg for three weeks, after which he returns home in order to pay a visit to the duke and duchess of Fife at Braemar, and then Denmark. to join tamily party at Fredensborg castle. Count von Moltke’s brother Louis, an ex- of Denmark, is dead, aged cighty- Somes Lae eer : 4 dem Shae ont Se o semiber ot goers ben Bosniak of the Mutual wee long letter from Omaha, Neb., to Corporal Tenner im reference to his rerated pension. In it he recounts his services in the war, ap- proves Mr. Tanner's administration of the pen- sion office, denics that he has ever sought a rerating, and declines to accept the money until a medical board has examined him and reported that he should be granted the in- creased pension with arrearages. The letter concludes: I doubt if I would ever have made applica- tion for such increase, but you have seen fit to take up my case without my knowledge and, with the kindness of a comrade, himself a Srievous sufferer from wounds, have done that | which you believe just and right under the law | you are sworn to administer. For this I thank You most sincerely, but under this attack upon Yon there must be left no room for doubt or cavil as to the ety of your condact, The medical and leg: ts of your office have | acted upon the ‘as made in your office, and including the six examinations made since the war (the record of none which have I ever seen) have declared that I was unjustly rated. Before I can execute the voucher re- ceived or take any other steps im this matter, I desire that there should be a rigid and searching examination by medical experts as to the extent of the present disability. Thanks toa careful life and abundant vitelity Ihave no expectation of an early death ana I know my remaining days would be greatly solaced and blessed if a competent medical board could give me the assurance that my pains and ills are mere figments of the unagin- ation and that 1am whole in body and sound IN THE TANGLED LAUREL JUNGLE. WITH HIS OLD REGIMENT. President Harrison Presides at Its Re= Union and Makes a Speech. Gen. Harrison's old regiment, the seven- tieth Indiana, held its regular annual re- union in Tomlinson hall, i i Elkins—that is, ne one so favored weturned to tell of it toa waiting world, From Gorman to Elkins, by the schedule, is fraction under 54 miles—up and down, across and over, as picturesque, wild and rugged a region as adventurous railroads ever attempt. From here up the valley of the Potomac isa deep, narrow, winding wooded gorge, to which its iow and small ene com with head- long es, the general rise bein, ee: the ile We finally execute gonads ‘ture from it in a long loop or ox bow and find our way up and through an unbroken forest to the divide, go down till we strike the north branch of asmuch as the latter had been invited to parti: pate at the morning ceremonies. The Presi- dent of the United States presided at the morn- ing session, City Attorney W. L. Taylor de- livered an address of welcome, to which the President responded. ‘Mz. Taytor: The survivors of the seven- tieth Indiana infantry, now assembled in an- nual reunion. have heard with great gratifica- tion the cordial words of welcome which you ~ a | have addressed to us, We have never doubted rude beginnings of lumbering, with their saw | the hospitality of the citizens of this great mills and wooden tramways which bring down | city, and have several times held our reunion and “slit and split” the ever-present hemlock | here. If we have more frequently sought some and aurnce—D0t another variety of the — | rt had aot epee bse pao (i family ie found i is ‘oods. At) ent was organize: is , } aes ak Comat meeae stem) | only been because we could be a little more to aan Wor ouch s revalt £ an eh branches for Davis, six miles away. ‘This | OUrselves than was possible in this city, You | a a —_ — F 7 Cova | Davis is for the projector of the road, while | Will not think this a selfish instinct when I tell agra doe eally cok jot yes ght bie | fhomas stands for brother Tom, We are now | you that as the years go on these reunions of | Bove Nesbeotrady ask that you or the honorable in the developed coal measure and just beyond | ur regiment become more and more family po power e Interior a 7 Thomas are the Davis coal mines and coke | affairs, and as in the gathering of the scattered | of medical oxanliners somewhere in the coun- ovens, already extensive and capable of limit- | members of a family in a family reunion who | *'Y charged wi ope adesorg. 4 Saeart Garces leas expansion. From here our descent is | we have loved when we get together as com- | ctamination and report the facts as to my con- rapid, almost alarming. Our branch executes | Trades to be somewhat apart that we might en-| dition. | If this request shall be complied with a series of leaps and vaults, At one place the | Joy each other. eo casams Goan te cen ace now considerable stream takes a jump of 36 | | “It hae been pleasant Tam sure, however, | Only preference being. in view of other ex- feet, while, as I believe, we for soveral miles | to link this anoual reunion with the great ee Se ee = depressed 130 feet in_eac ix miles be- | event of yesterday, It us good to meet ‘KE! yN’S. | low Thomas wo unite vith the larg er, the main | With our comrades of the whole state, those | HIS CASE LIKE BANKER BROWN’S, Blackwater, coming to us from Davis, falling | Who had other numbers on their uniforms, but at one point a clear 60 feet, The Blackwater | carried the same flag under which we marched, is spanned by the once widely celebrated natural | in these exercises connected with the dedica- bridge of rock, You will remember that ‘-Port | tion of a monument that knows no regimental Crayon” made the grandeur and glory of the | distinction, [Applause.] I exprets, comrades, Blackwater known ‘in a series of admirably | My Own gratification at being able to meet illustrated papers in Harpcr’s Magazine some | With you. The cane ek was made in the forty years ago—not enly the river but some of | time of our assembly made this possible, the few and insolated dwellers along its narrow canyon-like valley. Its waters, of the color of very dark wine, are saifl to be tinted by the roote nd leaves of the persistent, interminable and Raper laurel, growing here in unimagin- able jungles. AN IMPOSING GORGE, The united stream continues to leave us— down it plunges and still lower down, beyond our ability to reach its level, In one part for several sections, as I was told by Chief En- gineer Parsons,who sat by me, that we were on an artificial ledge quarried into the rock 400 feet above its surface, Atour passage down the sun was in position to shine down into por- tions of the chasm, and occasionally through the tree topg we caught flashes und gleams of its purple foam. The banks rise from 500 to 1,500 feet high—some of the points are 3,300 feet—and are for the most part wooded, save at places where the floods had washed the precipi- tous rocks of timber and the sustaining soil, At several points of the greatest eleva- tion of the track over the stream a pebble would fall from a car window into the river. ‘The general surface evens itself up or down. We draw near the still rushing river. It slows, meets the Shaffer fork, coming trom nearly the opposite direction, the two iorm the Cheat river and burry westward to the waiting Mo- nongabela, A half-mile below the junction we cross the Shaffer, a large and beautiful stream, whose waters are only less violent than their darker sisters, while the scenery is of the same wild picturesque character, and all the country is still wooded and its surface rocky. So far as the Shaffer's valley was available our tracks followed it, and passing another divide we struck the valley of the Leading, a compara- tively sluggish stream, from which the moun- tains recede, forming a low and distant rim, mecting in the horizon, INVISIBLE ELKINS. ‘We passed little shabby ill-conditioned Lead- ville, which some say is to be the Elkins, ran a hundréd yards beyond intp a narrow caual, in thé bottom of which ties and track had sunk in the sojt-hearted earth, We slowed and stop- ped and our brakeman sonorousiy cailed “Elkins!” In some amaze three of us sat silent. “I know it is Elkins,” cried the reas- suring general, “for we have just passed the Secretary of State's house.” We hid the car to ourselves, We had kind Mrs, Deakin’s plentiful lunch to solace for still uuivisible Elkins, We had an hour and twenty minutes. We had a gentle summer shower, Our locomotive executed the Y, took us in reverse and up the Leading, down the Shaffer, up the Blackwater, around the loug loop and down the Potomac. We had leisure ou our re- tarn to note the less striking features of the way, Occasiouaily the crypt-like valleys opened into small botiows, usually improved with here and there a neat log cottage, a cultivated patch, perhaps two or three prim.tive dwellings. This we observed on the Shaffer, where our track had Socupiaa much of the way the ont space for aroud, iy return for which the rail- road company had appurently quarried « nar- row and seemingly beautiful road along the rising, rocky bank, while up the Black- water, as stated, the constructors of theraiiroad had quarried the two sides of right-angled triangle into the living cliff, midway from its buse, along and up which we went at a speed little less than that of our descent. WILD AND STERILE, This country at different. points about it has been occupied since 1776 by the English race, yet for the entire distance along the Black- water, over the divide, and down to Gorman— a distance of 35 miles ~1t has the newness and rawness of a first invasion- by civilized man of @ land in the state of nature. Seemingly all it has that he wants is the tmber—oak, hemlock and spruce—that grows on its surface, and the coal but lightly covered by it. It never can sustain but «scanty population. The soil is ight and thin and much of the surface is over- lain with rock of all sizes as to preclude culti- vation, Cleared patches, sometimes what the THE FAMOUS BLACKWATER. ‘We have passed three or four stations, little for which He Could Never Account. From the Denver Republican. and I am glad to spend a few moments with you today to forget altogether for the time being that * am a public officer, and to remember only that Iam your comrade and friend, [Applause]. If those having charge now will announce some proper arrangement by which I can take by the hand the members not only of the seventicth Indi- ana? but any comrades of the first brigade who have done us honor by meeting with us wigs will be glad to conform with their wishes. It is possible, perhaps, that without leaving the i, simply by an exchange of seats, this may be laren Ag and when that is done there may yet be time before dinner to proceed with some of the other exercises upon the program, The veterans listened attentively to this speech, and after the other exercises were over grasped the hand of their comrade-in-arms, now President of the United States. The President and his party left Indianapolis in the afternoon for Deer Park. With the President were his son-in-law, R.S. McKee and Mrs. McKee, Attorney General Miller, Private Secretary Halford and Dan Ransdell, marshal of the District of Columbia. The President was loudly cheered as the tra’ moved out of the depot and at all the places along the route the enthusiasm shown on his outward trip were repeated. The train arrived at Cincinnati at 6:20, the private car was reversed and later attached to the regular Baltimore and Ohio eastern ex- press. Immediately on reaching Cincinnati, was served in the car “Baltimore.” There was more than an hoar’s time between the ar- rival of the train on the Big Four and the ae departure by the Baltimore and io, Mra, Bertha Eaton of North Bond, Ohio, the widowed sister of President Harrison, dined with him, and had a long chat in the private car while it waited to be attached to the eastern ex- press, which left Cincinnati at 7:45, fifteen minutes late, ene a a MRS. MAYBRICK’S LOVER. Brierly Sails — Liverpool for Amer- ica. not without precedent in the state of Kansas. and an acrimonious dispute terminating in li and the town company. Dr. J. H. Lane of Wyandotte, was then prac- ticing medicine at Elston and was one of the lay asleep in his office, when two men came to the door and rapped and summoned him to go toa patient, a child whom the doctor had been treating and who, they said. was worse. A lamp in the oftice was burning low. The men opened the door and a puff of wind blew out the light. Dr. Lane asked the men to close the door so that he might relight the isamp. They did so. The doctor turned to the wail tostrike a match. A momentary sensation of intense brightness flashed over ‘the doctor's senses, everything around him seemed to collapse, and he lost all consciousness. When he recovered he found himself upon the floor, face downward. He urose and went to the door. A strange feeling pervaded him, He mounted his horse, which was picketed near the door, and rode off. Consciousness deserted him ‘somewhere as he was leaving Elston, The last he remembered was a vague idea of taking refuge at the house of a friend living in the country. When Dr. Lane next re- gained cousciousnesss a heavy thunder storm was in progress, He had been jying asleep under a large tree, with his head resting on a satchel. The rain had poured in torrents and be was drenched to the skin and muddy. Gathering his senses he tried to recall the evenis of the preceding night and he walked along to see if be could recognize the place where he was. Everything was unfamiliar, His horse had disappeared. iled to recognize any feature of the When he fell to the floor in his office at Elston he had had $85 in currency on hus person. Of this he remembered #8U had | been in his trousers pocket and $5 in his vest pocket. When he awoke under the tree he felt for the money; the $5 alone remained. He setout to waik through the storm and soon reached a highway. At several houses he asked shelter, but was refused. Finally he Albert Brierly, the man through whose | found a place to stop in a shed near the cabin instrumentality Mrs, Maybrick put her head | of some negroes. ‘Ibere be lay down, feeling into the noose and barely escaped the most | strangely exhausted, and fell fast asleep, When shameful death,sailed for Boston on the Scythia | he awoke in the morning he heard the colored 2 3 people talking about the Fourth of July. The yesterday, and ‘vhen he sailed no one knew | tinuer in which they talkea puzzled him, and whether or not Mrs, Maybrick was to be| when he emerged from the ~bed he asked an hanged. old colored woman how long it was to the It is said that his firm has dissolved their Fourth of July. ‘ z q Liverpool partnership recently and the New| It’s done passed s long time ago.” she said. Orleans business was broken up as well, It is Atashort distance a locomotive whistied, “What road is that?” asked the doctor. curreutly reported that Brierly is about to “De Missoo P’citic,” was une answer. settle in the southern states and enter busi-} “Wht county is’ this?” quickly asked the ness as a cotton broker on his on account. mystitied docior, He was told it was Franklin. arrived on the steamer ge about 2:30, a wgeas’’ be asked, and his mauner must companied by a lady believed to be his sister, | bave shown great agitation, for the old colore Shortly after his arrival he was met by three | Woman hardiy waited to tell him “No, Mis- gentlemen, one of whom was his brother, F, J, | ®°Uri,” before she backed away from him and | Brierly, who had come to bid him good-bye, | #reamed that the white man was crazy, and the party continued walking about until 3:30, when the last tender, the Skirmisher, left Dr. Lane immediately left the house and went to tue ratroad track, intending to waik for the steamer, which was lying in the middle of the river. A Liverpool special tothe Philadelphia Times home, He dragged wearily along for a day aud then found himself so weak that be was compelled to stop at a fuel station—Mount Hecla—intending to take passage on the cars, Aie Jearued thatthe passenger train did not stop there and he managed to get to the next station, There be borrowed £10, giving his watch as security, and returned home. When he lett Elston the watch was in his vest pock«-t; when be recovered under the tree he found it carefully wrapped up in his yalise, How it got there he did uot know. Upon reach- ing Elston be approuched his home cautiously, He had a coufused idea that some great crime, had been committed. and tuat be might be im- plicated init. He had been gone about three months, ‘Lo this day Dr. Lane cannot explain his strange journey from Elston, Ken., to Frauk- fin county, Missouri, which is about 350 miles in a direct line. How he traveled it Dr. Lane does not know. ‘Two circumstances be ren bers appear to him as if th. dreum. One was his killing of a rattiesnake, the other was his bemg nearly parched with thirst and sceing a stream und stopping to drink, He did not remember drinking, but re- membered bending to drink. Dr. Lanc’s health was permanently itapaired by the experience. There were no contusions on his head tha’ would indicate blows. When be returned the litigation was ended, and soon after Eiston asa town site was deserted. se soe Lawn Teunis at Newport. Another fine day for tennis favored the players at the championship tournament in singles at Newport yesterday, The matches played this morning were among those of the | third round, The first match was between E. G. Meers, who stands fifth among the players of England, and Fred 8. Mansfield, champion of the southern states. Meers won in taree straight sets, 6-1, 6-2,6-2. Atthe end of the first set of the Meers-Mansfield match Z. A. Shaw. jr., played C. A. Chase, the champion of the western states. Shaw won, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. A Female Highwayman, Della Mahoney, a former partner of the no- torious Mollie Mott, was held to the Chicago grand jury in bonds of 2,500 by Justice Prindi- ille f way robbery. Della st Ww WIS FAREWELL. Bricrly then bade ferewell to the Indy and gentlemen. When he went on board the ten- der he wept. On getting on board the Scythia he immediately erossed to the far side and did venture to look toward the stage where his friends were standing. He was not recognized by any of the general public. Brierly would receive the news of the ultimate tate of Mrs. Maybrick on his arrival at Queens- town, where the Scythia was to call for the Boston mails, Nothing is yet known as to when the convict will be removed to a penal establishment. It is not expected that she will be removed for two or three weeks, Stafford will probably be her first destination and thence she will be taken to a penai settlement, probably Millbauk. MRS. MAYBRICK RECEIVES THE NEWs, The messenger who carried the order remit- ing the death penalty arrived at the jail at :30 Wednesday morning. Governor Anderson and Chaplain Morris entered Mrs. Maybrick’s cell, This is Chaplain Morris’ description of the visit: We went into the prison at 2:15 o'clock. The woman’s department, in which Mrs, Maybrick’s cell is situated, is near the gates on the left. We were received there by the head warden and the woman, who accompanied us to the cell, She knocked at the door, The light in the cell was instantly turned up and the door opened by one of the female wa’ rs. We assed in. ‘The cell was lighted by a'single gas jet- burning brightly. “Mrs. Maybrick was undressed and in bed. She lay on her back, her bair loosely coiled about her head. She made no sign as we en- tered. She merely turned her eyes and looked atus. She was very weak had a listless air natural to her condition. The vernor went close to her bedside and said: ‘Mrs. May- brick, I have just received a message from the producing fair Ri ts, and a large breadth of buek- wheat, No signs are found of wheat and bat slender and dubious attempts at corn; scarcely a hill of potatoes and but slight essays in garden vegetables. Sheep do well and the mutton'is famous, Along these rushing little rivers the native laurel reigns—tangles and strangles men unfortunate enough to penetrate its jungles, Do you remember the fortune of one of the best-known young Washingtonians who was so unfortunate as to become involved in one of these laureline labyrinths, from which he was only rescued by searching friends on the third day of his missing? A JUNGLE EXPERIENCE. I could never understand it till my brief ex- Perience on the Laurel river of two days ago. Making my absurd way up it with rod, bait box and basket, I met the buge trunk of a hemlock thrown. across it by a wind, which I was obliged to goaround. ‘This required me to climb a nearly perpendicular bank 30 or 40 feet high or go around the top of the tree on the other side, Narer! ly in the oe soap ee pee trat ‘is too far before its real difficulty an bh tary which states that he edvised terror were revealed. I was not inclined to | home secretary : turn back. It was with the utmost exertion | He queen to commute your sentenes to impriy- I could get forward. The bodies of the laurel, from an iuch to two and a half liam- MERELY HELD OUT HER HAND. eter, are like vicious vine, growing | “Mrs. Maybrick said nothing, her face showed every possible devilish way except upright. lifted her left hand Each will turn at every possible angle’ rising | 2° %60- | She merely #: os from one to six or eight feet, but mam; horizontally or nearly so, and each mingled. woven and tangled with <I other in every unimaginable cs woun one hand, which held the hoo! at Fargo, D. T., at 10 a.m. yesterday to com- plete the unfiuished nominations. The ticket was completed by the nomination of George F, | Alerican Wines and Liquors, bow stored im tour ware | Champagne, quaria, dozen ¥ 60 Champagne, pluts, Zdezen. 0". 1300 1040 VIRGINIA AND OLHLK AMERICAN WINES, Virginia Claret... iw 50 Dr. Lane’s Extraordinary Wanderings | Sortwu's Virgie Seodling. ‘per The case of E. T. Brown, the Wichita man | Malaa. who difappeared for five months and on his - returning conid give no account of himself, is | In the summer of 1869 a little town named | Elston in Labette county, Kan., was laid out | gation resulted between the original owners | prime movers in the case. One night Dr. Lane | 9). 3j0 ha Gin reat had resisted all other treat- ment. 1 reward Swift's Specific a most excellent medil- ta to act’ . WM. E. 89, Matherville, Mies., March 6, 1859, CANCLE OF THE TONGUE. For three or four years I had an eating sore on my congue that made e considerable holein it, 1 became Alarmed at its progress and went to Atlante for trest= ment. The result was that 1 commenced the use of Swift's Specific end the sore was soon goue, without & trace of it left, a& LEWIS, ‘Thomaston, Ga, March 14, 1889. Treatise on Cancer mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC ©O., Drawer 3, Atlanta,@a, au6-tu,ths3oul Or A. 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