Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1888, Page 13

BETTER AND WORSE HALVES. A Grist of Matrimonial Stories and Sketches. A Marriage with Legal Phraseology— A Bride's Misfortune ~Made His Swertheart His Mother-in« law—Connubialities. A Sad Romance. A complaint that could be utilized as the basis for the plot of a novel was filed in the county clerk’s office re- cently, says a 'Frisco special to the New York World. The plaintiff is Mar Bailey and she asks that her marringe i . M. Ba y be declared null and She represents that on December 18, 1887, a marriage ceremony, purport- ing to unite her to Bailey, was per- formed in Florence. Ari., by B. J. Whitehead, justice of the peace. Her consent to the union was obtained hy deceit and fraud, she claiming that Bailey represented to her that a man named W. E. Guild, who was a legal guardian of the estates of her two minor children, was about to and in fact, had applied to the probate court to have her children taken awny from her and placed in his custody, and that he would certainly deprive her of her children unless she immediately consented to marry the defendant. She was given the alternative of marrying Bailey or being separated from her offspring. Both men also informed her that if she resisted the application for the cus- tody of her children Bailey would ap- pear as a witn@ss and procure others to appear against her and tesiify to her unlitness to have the care and custody of the children, and would surely ruin her reputation. Plaintiff declares that the “‘representations, statements and threats” of the defendant so distressed and worried her that she consented to g0 through the marrviage ceremony, and when it was performed she was acting under duress and fear. Immediately after marringe she separated from her husband and has never lived with him. An Amusing Incident. There was a bridal couple coming in on the Bay City train the other day, says the Dotroit Free Press, and the passengers in that particular car were on the grin most of the time over their antics. The bride had got the mgn she loved, and she didn’t care a copper who saw her pillow her head on his shoulder. The bridegroom had got afarm with his wife, and if he wanted to feed her gumdrops or squeeze her hand whose business was it? A little old man, dried up and barcheaded, sat directly in front of the couple, and he looke: around so often that the young husband finally explained: “We're just married.” “I knowed it all the time,” chuckled baldhead. “And we can’t help it you know.” “No, you can’t—I'll be darned”if you kin.” #] presume it all seems very silly to an old man like you,” continued the husband. “Does it! Does it!” cackled the old fellow as he bobbed around. “Wall, igu just bet your life she doesn’t. I've en right thar three times over, and I’'m now on my way to Canada to marry a fourth! You orter see me a week hence. I’ll hug and squeeze and fondle at the rate of forty miles an hour, and darn the skunk that laffs at me! Silly! Why, children, its parrydize biled right down.” A Mormon Wife. The first question asked by the stranger in Salt Lake City is this, says a SalvLakgCity letter: **Do the Mor- mons still ctice polygamy?” They claim that they do not, but their assev- erations are taken cum grano salis by the Gentiles (here. The lidmunds bill disfranchises women living in polygamy and fines the man $300, with 1mprison- ment for six months. The women are “allowed”—compelled would be a more appropriate term--"to testify against their husbands,” Despite this itis ex- tremely difficult to secure convictions, A woman is called on the witness stand and a colloquy something like this oc- curs: *‘Are you married?” “I do not know, sir.” © “Is not the defendant your husband under the Mormon law?"” I cannot say, sir.” . “‘Is this your child?"---showing an in- fant of two or three months’ age. **Yes, sir.” “Who is its father?” ‘I cannot say, sir.” This is no uncommon occurrence the attorneys tell me. And after all, one can scnrcn]e’ blame the woman for testi- fying thus if they believe in the “divine sanction of polygamy” as taught by the church. o less celebrated a lawyer that the late Jere S. Black has said: “To compel hushand and wife to testify against each other isto change every yule of evidence; a contemptuous de- tiance of the great principles which pro- tect the sanctity of the family and lie ut the basis of civil society.” He Might Get Whipped. In an excursion on which some dozen couples recently arrived in ecity, says the Washington, D. Btar, there was one pair in which was about twenty-five and the young young man ahout eighteen. The procured a license und were mar- ried. Some time before the train was to leave the bride walked into the de- pot alone. She was asked: ,*'Well, you are married?”’ “Yes,” she rveplied, *but I wish I wasn’t.” *Is it a runa- way?” was asked her. “Not so faras I am concerned,” she said, “for I'm old enough, but, his mother may raise objection, 1 ain’t think- ing about myselt, but I wouldn’t be surprised if his mother whipped him, I wishI hadn’t married him, We'll haye to face the musie, but T don’t know how it will come out, It is 100 late now, however, and we must take the consequences.” **You ought 10 be ashamed of marrying that chit of a boy. He isn't. eightoen yet,” re- marked a bystander. *Well, I am,” ghe unswered, “*but it is too late now. He is nineteen, and I'll have to make the best of it.” Subsequently the boy husband joined herand each wore a look of aniety us they took their seats iu the train, An Embarrassing Romance. Miss Delin Doughty, a we young lady of Fair Haven, a minister, a feast, and & large assemblago of fi waited in vain on Sunday night for Mathew Riley, who was then to have wed Miss Doughty, says the New York Sun of the 19th instant, Mr. Riley be- longs at Keysport. For soveral years he has been visiting Miss Doughty. Several times it was reported by friends that they were to be murried,and at last the mur) was to have taken place about on Sunday at the vesidence of Doughty’s parents, but Mr. Riley wanted to see his mother before arriage and suc- coaded in getting Miss Doughty’s per- mission to postpone the ceremony until after church in the evening, The Rev. Tupeeof the Methodist church agreed to be on hand then, and Mr. Riley then hired u team and started for Keysport. A great supper was prepared and all the intimate frieuds of the couple were half noon on hand, but the hours slipped away Mr, Riley did not return, Mr. Lupee and the guests, at 10 o'clock Monday morning, left the was-to-have-been bride to her sorrow. Miss Doughty went next day to Free- hold to see Mr. Riley, and says she found him at the American hotel, where he explained that after arriving at Keysport on Sunday he was attacked with heart trouble, andsent n man back to Fair Haven with the team, and told him to let Miss Doughty known that it would be impossible for him to get out in time for the wedding. Mise Doughty also says that the wedding will po: ively take place on Sunday next. It out that the man who was sent the team forgot to deliver the age. “Mother-in-Law." A romantic story comes from Clayton county, Georgia,” says the Pittshurg Time Back in 69 one Mann fell in love with alocal beauty, and all ar- rangements for their wedding were made; but subsequently the father-in- law interposed an ohjection to the young man because of his politics. The bride, too, suddenly became adverse to marry- ing him on that account, and soon the day of their wedding she was united with another suitor. The rejected groom at once disposed of his property in the county and removed to Texas, where he has since lived, and is said to have grown rich. About a year ago he visited tho scene of his country days to find that his sweetheart had a daughter, aged eighteen, who bore a striking re- semblance to her mother. He lost no time in proposing to her. She accepted, and this week is set for the weddmfi— which will make his old-time love his mother-in-law instead of his wife. A Little wo Soon. A couple from across the border came to the city recently says the Bingham- ton (N. J.) Republican, and stopped at one of the best hotels. The young lady was plainly but neatly dressed and was a handsome brunette. The young man stepped up to the clerk after having escorted the lady to the parlor, and asked where he could find & minister, as he wanted to get ‘‘spliced.” Upon be- ing informed, the clerk handed him the pen to register. “Idon’t wantto register now,” said the young man; wait until after we get married, then [can write it Mr. and Mrs.—" “That don’t make any difference,” said the clerk, “‘as long asyou are going to get married.” The youthful swain stepped up to the desk, took the pen, looked it over care- fully, and then atthe register. His face grew red, and he hesitatingly in- scribed “Joseph Link” upon one line, and upoy the next, Mrs. Lottie Link, all of Scranton.” “I wonder what she would say if she knew it,”” he smd in an awe-struck voiee, and then hurried out in search of a clergyman. The inscription was soon legalized. Then She Wept. - A recent Bismarck bride had ‘‘bad luck” on her wedding day. She had al- most reached the church when she dis- covered that she had forgotten her bridal veil. She went back after it. On the way to the church again she sneezed three times and split the satin bodice from belt to shoulder. The carriago stopped at a millinery store. needle and thread were procured and had the rent repaired. As she stepped from the car- riage to the church door the lace bodice of an underskirt caught and the under- skirt at the waist gave way. As she walked up the aisle the skirt began to slip down, but she managed to grab it ‘through the side of her dress-skirt so hung on until she was safely married and back in the carringe. Then she wept, you bet! Man and Wife. A newly elected justico of the peace, who had been used to drawing up deeds and wills and little else, was called up to marry a couple in haste. Removing his hat, he remar “*Hats off in the presence of the court.” All being un- covered, he proceeded: ‘“‘Hold up yer right hand. You, John Makin, do yer solemnly swear to the best of yer knowledge an’ belief that yer take this woman to have and to hold for yerself, yer heirs, execyrters. administrators and assigns, for yer yer and thir use forever?” T do,” answered the groom promptly. “You, Alice Evans, take this year man for yer husband, ter have and ter hold forever; an’ you do solemnly swear that yer lawfully seized in fee simple an’ free from all 1ncumbrance, an’ have good right to sell, bargain an’ convev to snid grantee, yerself, yer heirs, ad- ministrators an’ assigns?’ #]---1 do,” said the bride, doubtfully. A Lunatic Goman Judge Lawler listoned recently to the beginning of a case which, for singul- arity, equals anything that has Been re- voaled by the courts of this city for many aday, says the San Francisco Chronicle, ~ The case was that of Julia Cheney agaiust Forest Cheney, and the prayer of plaintiff was for aunul- ment of marriage. From the testimony given it appears that the following is the story of the case: “The wife, a young and beautiful givl, has always had a passion for mus! She could sit for hours listen- ing to the sweet strains of the ‘flute, violin, and bassoon.’ She was roman- tic, and in her picture of the future a Vi large share was given to the satis- faction of this craving for music. In Soptember last, only a few weeks before her marringe, she met Korest Chency. He was much older than herself, and was by no means her complement in grace or attractiveness. In fact, he was shovt and homely, But he played the violin, and this to her made up for all other deficiencies. So, after courtship of two weeks, the romantic girl and the violinist were marvied. She, however, never lived with him, for on the very day of the ceremony the groom was taken very ill and beeame 50 bad that it was necessary to remove him to the hospital. There the young wife spent her honeymoon, tending 1o the sick man’s wants, During this i ness she discovered the appalling fact that the man whom she had married was 1ot a sane man. Ho was subject to the greatest lapses of memory, and wuuls do and say the mosy ridiculous of things. He thought himself a veritable Paganini on the violin. If any one should eriticise his slightest mistake he would grow furions. He would make the most unearthly noises, ing his bow across the in_ imitation of Wagnerian inusic, and would declare that sweet voices from the south were whispering to him. He vowed that he could pro- duce a half dozen diffevent tones from the same string, and each one of the had its significance to him, To touch some notes, would set him erazy with childish delight while the faintest sug- gestion of others would make him start like aman with delivium tremens, Some notes, he said revealed huwman faces to him, beautiful and gay, others brought before him monsters, gorgons, imps and devi When the young girl realized the character of the man to whom she was attached by legal cords she was al- most paralyzed with grief and overcome with chagrin. She, however, refused to live with him when he became well enough to leave the bospital, and she er husband, becaus hat he was insane when him, and being so, the claims, is void. Marricd n Rajah, At the studio of a young portrait painter,” says a London correspondent, “Teaw yestorday a picture which was very curious in its subject. It contained two upright figures---oi that of a swarthy Indian rajah covered with jowels and wearing the star of Indin upon his breast, the other,a tall ana lovely English girl of about eighteen, ina pink dress, her hair gathered be. a by a ribbon and falling loose again. The rajah is smiling the smile of proud possessorship, and the girl is looking with a somewhat bewildered air at her future lord. They are two real people. She is the daughter of an English chemist, and her parents have consented to her mar- riage with the Rajah, who, after the ceremony, will take her out to his do- minions. One instance of such mar- riange between christian maid and pa- gan man is very well known and has turned out a decided succ A Miss King, the daughter of a governor of an English jail, married about thirteen yearsago ‘‘the Shereef of Oran,” who is the spiritual head of the empires of Morocco. The Shereef, whois a des- cendant of of the Prophet, on marrying Miss King, renounced all his other wives, whom he lodged in an asylum at Tangier, which it isa rul't of his duty to keepup for the refugees from the secular power, and he moreover gave to his son by his christian wife, the Sacred Stick, the possession of which at the time of the Shereef’s death determines the succession amongst his children to his sacred office and great possessions. it CONNUBIALITIES. A record of 341 divorce cases in one day entitles Boston to a smile of recognition from Chicago. The president and Mrs. Cleveland cele brate the second anniversary of their mar- riage on June 2. An exchange speaks of a ‘“‘southern girl who eloped with her lover on a myle dressed in boy’s clothes.” There ave 21,000,000 widows in India. This may explain the reason why English officers consider India such a dangerous station to be assigned to. Two years' imprisonment is all that an Ohio man got for marrying ten wives. The jury took into account that five of them were red-headed. One of the games at social parties in Penn- sylvania is kissing through a khot hole. 1t is not wholly satisfactory any more than court- ing by telephone. A lady who died at Marseilles requested that her heart might be placed in the tomb of her second husband, but her body in her first husband's tomb in America. Mrs. L. L. Sherman (white), of Great Falls, Mont., secured a divorce from her hus- band, Morgan Sherman (colored), the other day and immediately after married her law- yer. A Maryland widow named Halletts set a bear-trap at her smoke house door, and the first catoh was a man who was courting her. He had packed up 100 pounds of bacon to carry off. There appears to be very little doubt in New York about the duke of Marlborough having set his heart upon marrving the beau- tiful Widow Hammersley who has a little dot of £5,000,000. It issaid that in all London there are but six really happy couples. The only strange thmqn\muc this statoment is the extrava- gantly optimistic view the statistician takes of the situation. The latest “victim of tobacco” is a sad case, indeed. He 1s seventy years old, has smoked for sixty years, and last weelk he married a woman four years his senior, To- bacco smoking affected his brain. Another marriage of aged onesisto bo added to the rapidly growing list of such events. This last couple hail from Atchison, Kan. The groom is almost a nonogenarian, and the bride is in her sixtictn year. In Harrisburg, Pa., whenever man belonging to'a club gets marrie older than himself he is made the recipient of a gold watch. All the young men of late have availed themselves of the opportunity. Maggie Hughey, a Pittsburg woman of forty, was married Friday to her third hus- band, just five hours after her lamented No. 2had jomned the silent majority—an vausual intermingling of crepe and orange blossoms. Miss Alice Pollock, daughter of a Pitts- burg millionaire, ran away from the Boston Conservatory of Music and was married to Frank A. Rouke, a young clerk with the brain of a dude and’ fifty-two pairs of trouser: There are quecr people in_this world, A young woman in Mahaney City refused to marry her lover, but when he had proved his devotion by blowing up her house with dyna- mite she wanted to marry him to keep him out of jail. Ishmael Weaver, a colored man who died recently at Barnesville, Ga., was the father of seventy-two children, of whom fifty-two sons wero able-bodied farm hands whien he died. At least this is the tough story toid by the local paper. % A sensitive man ot west, ac newspaper paragraph, is trying to get a di- vorce from his wife 'on the ground that she did noi, “manifest sympathy for him and ap- pear in his behalf " during” his recent trial on a charge of murder. 1 The maddest woman south of the line is that Georgia she who sat up till1 o'clock awaiting her husband’s return from “the lodge,” and upon going upstairs found the supposed culprit safe in bed, where he had been snoring away during her hours of vigil, A California ox-governor has married his housckeeper and surprised all his friends. The governor 15 to be congratulated. Many a man who thought he was marrying a housckeeper has merely surprised himself, discovering his mistake when it was too late. ““John,” suid the wife tenderly, “promise me that if 1should be taken away you will never marry Nancy Tarbox.” ‘Certainly, Maria,” repiied the husband reassuringly, 1 can promise you that. She refused me three times when I was a much handsomer man than I am now 4 A West Virginian has just made a match betwixt a vich widower of seventy and a ma ture maiden of forty by the singular expe- dient of not allowing them to see or spealk to each other till they did so at the altar, though they corresponded frecly for the space of three years P, B. Sperry was married to Miss Kittie Downs, of Woodbridge, Conn., recently, and the remarkable thing 'about it is that Mr. Spary is the forty-fifth member of th Woodbridge church choir to be married since the present leader, C Walkser, assumed control. Whether Mr, Walker is to be blamed is a question. Ono of the colored applicants for a marriage license was unfortunate enough to forget the name of the girl that he was_going to marry, and he had to tramp back six miles into the country to find out what it was, Upon being questioned as to how he called her, he au- swered “Gallie,” and he couldn’t téll any more. *Dat’s all I know,” he said. marriage, she e -— For Feigning Misfortune. London Daily News: For the con- temptible fraud of feigning misfortune, a young man named Frank Johnson, or Pickford, was justly sentenced at West- minster to six months’ havd labor. The and attempted vietims w. ladies and members of parliament. members seem ta have fallen easy prey to the swindler; while to one of the ladies—Lady Knutsford—belongs the credit of haading him over to justice. The prisoner’s plan of campaign was to provide himself with a **Parliamentary Comuvanion,” 1o set ry sin itagainst the names of members on whom he had , and then to call upon them in turn with some wmore or less plausible story, the end of which was bis urgent need of aloan. H® had been robbed of his purseand wanted his railway fare home, or some other temporary misfor- tune had befallen him. The man was not in want. He had “a regular allow- ance” from his father—suMicient, ap- acently, to leave him free o oxercise bos since refused to recognize him W) his wits in ‘this potty rascality, THE NATION'S - DEFAULT. A Record of Persistent Injustice to National Creditors. CONGRESS AND PRIVATE CLAIMS, How the Government Has Treated the Soldiesa of the Revolution and Their Heirs—A Chapter of Tustructive History. WasniNaToN, May 25.—|Correspondence of Tie ~The fact is remarkablo—however 1o be accounted for—that whilst, as colonists, the Americans were notably faithful and prompt in the payment of their public obliga- tions, the ““fine gold became dimmed’' almost as soon as independence loomed bright. Dr. David Ramsay, in his history of the United States, shows how favorably colonial integ- rity operated for the earlier events of the revolutionary struggle. Speaking of the im- possibility of s the Americans procuring gold and silver, he says: “Paper of no intrinsic value was made to answer all the purposes of gold and silver, and to support the expenses of five campaigns. This was, in some degree, owing to a previous confidence which had been begotten by honesty and fidelity in discharging the obligations of the government, From New York to Geor- gia, there never had boen, in matters relating to money, an instance of a breach of public faith. In the scarcity of gold and silver, many emergencies had imposed a necessity of emitting bills of credit. These had been uniformly and honestly redeemed. The bills of congress being thrown into circu- lation, on this favorable foundation of public confidence, were readily received. The en- thusiasm of the people contributed to the same effect.” But with & continuation of the struggle much longer than the generality of the people had estimated, and the impoverishment of many who had been in favorable circum- stauces, besides well meant but injudicious enactments of congress which produced dis- astrous effects, popular enthusiasm abated and extraordinary exertions had to be made to keepup the contest. An army for the war, end when it might, soouer or later, must be created. So said Washinston; so concluded congress. The officers already in the service must be retained as far as possible and new ones, for the war, secured. That could not be done upon the basis of any present pay or emolument, for the country was unable, and had been for some time, to find a suficiency or supplies. The army, and par- ticularly the ofticers, said, make us no more promises which it is out 'of your power to fulfil, but guarantee us that whenever the war is over, independence gained, and you arein a condition to make your promises good, that you will give us something that will be of benefit to us as long as we live. Washington proposed for this_ half pay for life. Congress and the army accepted it, and on the 21st of October, 1750, an act was passed guaranteemg half pay for life to every officer that should serve to the end of the war. The fall and winter of 17823, follow- ing the British surrender at Yorktown, brought the desierated peace. In the meantime, as the period was plainly approaching when the pledges to the army at, large, and especially to the officérs, must be redeemed, a,popular ferment was excited, particularly in one or two of the eastern states, the object of which was to prevent the fulfilment of the actof October, 1750. An agrarian and seditious spirit was aroused, and the army, then mainly quartered along the shores of Newburgh bay on the Hudson river, was profoundly exercised, and only quelled by the firm and_judicious manage- ment of the beloyed chieftain. Appeals were made to congress, then at Philadelphia, which terminated in a new arrangement, whereby the parties concerned agreed that the officers entitled should yield the life half pay and take instead of it five years' full pay in cash down, or securities of equal face value, with interest at 6 per cent per annum untill'the securities were wholly paid. Thus the ofticers gave up a life-time guarantee for a five year one. Did the government at length comply with this much reduced boon to the oficers? It did not. It dia not pay any cash—down, but handed to the officers certiticates of indebt- edness for their respective amounts with 6 per cent mterest to d i took place under an March 22, 1783, When in 1754 the time had come round to_ make the first year's payment of interost, a vision for which had inserted the yoat before in the annual esti- mate, it was found that the provision had been ‘secretly erased from the face of the es- timate so that the officers might get nothing! General Bdward Hand, a gallant officer of the late Pennsylvania line, moved to reinsert the item erased and his motion was seconded by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Thirtecn members voted with Hand and Jefferson and nine the other way, but nine were victorious, ' for there was 4 numerical majority for reinsertion, a constitutional majority (according to the then regulations of con- gross) had not voted aftirmatively; so Hand’s motion was defeated and the ofticers were denied even the interest of the reward guar- anteed to them 8o sacredly and repeatedly! What a falling off was heré from the honesty and punctuality of colonial days! The case would have been reversed if the delegation of Massachusetts, on April 22, 1754, had voted consistently with the delegation of the sume state on March 22 of the previous year. But the Shays spirit was out, and it cume to a head in the revellion of 1735, The result was that the officers were, to repeat the deliberate language of Colonel Pickering, quartermast neral of tho revolutionary army sheated,” Even to this day the oficers of the army of the revolution, to whom promise after promise was made in the most sol- emn form known among men, have never been paid—directly to themselves or indirectly to their heirs and descendants— the reeompense they earned. Do we not, then, hold by a tenurc not honest—and per: haps' not sound i the sight of the judge of all—a great domain and property bought with blood! Would that the nation had more of the spirit of royal David who refused to ap- propriate to Lis own use the costly refres ment brought by the three mighty inen from the well of Bethlehem, 1t is true that after forty-five years of re- fusal to acknowledge the wrongs perpotrated upon the oficers of the revolution, congre was induced in 1523 by the heroulean exer- tions of Webster, Van Buren, Har Buchanan, Hayne, and perhaps alt r the brightest galaxy ever convened in our national legislative halls, to assist, though not to remunerate, the residue of revolution- ary officers then surviving., Efforts have siice then been made, now that our means are superabundant, to wipe Off the pecuniary obligations yet undischarged. In such offorts, commenced in 1835 and continued to 1575, the names of the following legislators stand prominently forward: Senator Evans of South Carolina, Walker of Wisconsin, Sew- ard of New Ycrk, Shields of Missouri, Broom of Peunsylvania, Marshall of Ken- tucky, Smith of Virginia, Washburne of Maine, Foster of Connecticut, Comegys of Delaware, Crittenden of Kentucky, Hutler of South Carolwa, Hale of New Hampshire, Bell of New Hampshire, Fenton of New York, Cragin of New Hampshire. To these names should be added, by reason of their report of April 5, 1852, highly favorabla to the claims, the names of Senators James of Rhode Island, Sumner of Massachuset Foot of Vermont and Chase of Ohio. The prominent opponents were Senators Slidell of Touisiana, Pettit of lowa, Craige of North Carolina, Jones of Tennessee, C. C. Clay of Alabuma, Brown of Mississippi, Fitz- patrick of Alabama, Pugh of Ohio, Bayard of Doluware, Stuart of Michigan, James M. Mason of Virginia, and more determinedly than all, Robert Toombs of Georgia. The last time the subject was under any full discussion was on the 14th of January, in the senate, adjourned from time to o from the 24d’ of December, 1356. The bitter opponents of the bill, with Toombs as their leader, were at length compelied to ac knowledg, justice of the claims and ex pressed a desive to pay them, under the stin giest possible conditions. But by a-vote of 24 t0 23 on the 16th of Junuary, the whole subject was postponed to the first Monday of December, 1857, and never again cousiderpd with any heurt, the Kausas Question having interyened and presented a party bone of “contention that absorbed all othier topics. Ou the ¥lst of January, 1857, GREATEST OFFER EVER MADE.| =29C. 43 Blue Angola Shirt and Drawors; shirt made with fine trimmed neck and pearl bultons. 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C Senator Evans, chairman of the revolution- ary claims committoe of the senate, asked to have his committee discharged from the further consideration of a iarge number of petitions and memorials from k representatives of deceased officers, together with memorials from the Cinelnnati society of Maryland, representing members of the old Maryland line; of the Cincinnati socie- tics of Virginia, Massachusetts and Pennsyl- vania, and_of certain resolutions in behalf of the claims from_the legislature of the state of New York, Leave was ranted nccordingly. Mr. Fenton, of New Cork, introduced & bill which was favorably reported back from the proper committoe of the houso of representatives on March 3, 1858, and placed upon the calendas He addressed the house on June 11, 1858; again on May 18, 180, but nothing practical came of it. *Kansas” was all the go, and cctually drowned the *still small voice" of justice and right. So_ far, then, the honor and conscience of the American people have never recovered from the effccts of the subtle poison administered through the secrot erasure madein the annual estimate sometime between the promulgation of the report of congress on the 25th of September, 1783, and the proccedings of April 22. 17 That scems, indeed, to have been a fatal p tion. Can W recuperate from it? y During the forty-ninth congress several bills were offered and some reports made on the weighty subject of national re- sponsibility for private debts owing by the government, the which, if they were owing to the government, the most stringent meth- ods would have been, 1f necessary, resorted to in order to collect. Among thé ' ablest of these reports was one from the house com- mittee on claims by Mr. William Warner. It declares that the action of congross in pass- ing upon private and domestic claims is most. unsatisfactory. It estimated that the num- ber of claims likely to_come before that com- mittee alone prior.to the close of that con- gress would reach 1,800. Some are for very small, others for large amounts. Not more than 1 per cent of private claims ever pass congress, whereby is effected a practical de- nial of justice to the honest creditors of the country. Judging . from the disposi- tion made of private claims in the past, there were more of such before that committeo alone than at the present rate of procedure would be disposed of in the next fifty years. That is a humiliating statement for "a “coun- try provided with ample means for honest and which, in times past, pleaded as the only reason for not punc- tually paying its debs, The average claimant, says the report, cemes and goes and dies, leaving his claim against the United States to his children, for, i imant docs not belong to the favored an ordinary life-time is far too short to claim, however just, through congress. report regrets “thay this republic of should refuse to open its s to any of its citizens having just demands against the govern- ment. Other great nations far exceed the United States in the dispensation of justice to citizens, and the fact is judicially "estab- lished that of nearly all governments the United States holds itself least amenable to the laws. Russia and Spain approximate us the closest, whilst the great empire of the German states sets all mankind a noble ex- ample of national and public justice. In England the subject of tho sovereign is provided with redress under what is called the “‘petition of right,” and his case is tried like a suit between one subject and another. The respectable governments of Europe never shirk from a full and fair investigation of claims against them, and submit to a de- sion adverse to the government when ndered by their courts. We alone stand back from so righteous and noble a policy. Why! Most probably because our long train of delinquencies has accumulated a mass of claims that terrifics, und so the mass gets bigger and bigger with every passing year. Why not brace up our moral energ nd s0lve upon some expedient by which the con- stant cries of justice and truth might be properly stopped ! If the present court of claimsis choked with business, as is also the case with the supreme court, an additional court of claims should be instituted without delay. The or- ganization of the present court furnishes an example to be imitated. In referring cases of claims from con- gress and its committees the so-called “Bowman act" of March 3, 1853, should be extended, principle, to all claims. It should be that atl claims preliminarily ap- proved by a committee of either house might 0 open to investigation and report by the court of claims. The questionably lezitimate and very wholesale enactments of limitation which past fears excited, ought no_longer to control sensible and just legislation. Such an act of limitation was passed anu approved March 3, 1863, when cvery available dollar had te be appropriated for the purposes of the war then flagrant, It barred most just and hohest claims which, but for it, would undoubtedly have been' determined long before now. Limitation acts are arbi- trary and onesided at the best, and ought not to be continued i operation one r by sure of urgent state en the aarrow circumstances ublic did not prove such acts when no longer needed. Thus on the 6th of Jan- v, 1807, a committee of the house of rep- tutives resolved: That all just and equitable claims growing out of the revolu- tionary war, which are now barred by any law of the Unitea States, ought to be pro- vided for by law. Later on, viz, January 14, 1828 & committee reported ite opinion “That it would be as dishonest in the gov- ernment of the United States to shield itself against the payment of a just debt under the statute of limitations, as it would for an individual to do so. A claim of long standing, if provably just, ought to be paid irrespective of statutes of limita- tion,” Il later, viz., February 27, 1530, a committee argued elaborately ‘against not only the injustice but the essential unconsti- tutionality of limitation acts, and on January 2, it was said, “That when u claim is y proved to have been‘originally just, sver to have been adjusted or’ dis: , the moral obligation still exists, and the debtor cannot conscientiously avail him. self of the protection of an act of limita- tion.” In the consideration of the claim of Colonel Francis Vigo (recently settled and paid) the counnittee, though not allowing the claim, make the declaration (February 24, 1535) that they *do not ingist that the United States are exouerated by lapse of time from sUligation 10 admit claims” if nd and just timon les suflice to show that acts of limitation ought not to impede the admiu- istration of what is in itse)f just and right, and that every claim now before either house of cougress is entitled to o fair and impartial consideration and decision. For the future it should be the especial care of the govern- ment in its every branch, to pay s they go, or, ut least, w disallow claiws from acjuiving orner 15th and Douglas St. the hoariness of the age. The_limitation in the tenth section of the act of March 3, 1363, should be removed forthwith, and all claims be submitted to an impartial adjudication. Thus the relief to congress and claimants furnisbed by the Bowman act of 1883 would be universal to all claims. B ‘amiliar Story Told in Five Lan- guages. ENGLISIL Mary had a little lamb, Tts flocce was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, That lamb was sure to go. A FRENCIT. La petite Marie had le june muttong, Ze wool was blanchee as zo snow, And everywhere la belle Marie went, Le june muttong was sure to go. CHINESR. Wun gal named Moll had lamb, Fleacee all samee whitee snow, Evly place Moll gal walkee, Ba-ba hoppee long too. GERMAN. Det Mary hat got ein lecdle schaf, Mit hair shust like some wool, Und all der place dot girl did vent, Dot schaf go like ein fool. s, Mary had a little shape, And the wool was white entirely, An’ whenever Mary would sthir her sthumps, That young shape would follow her com: plately. e SINGULARITIES. An allegator nest, found in Rick «Creek, Fla., last week, contained forty-three young saurians. An Italian beggar, arrested in New York, confessed that he had not washed himself in fifteen years. A striped bass weighing fifty-three pounds was caught at the mouth of the Croton river the other day. A calf was born on the farm of Michael® Gibbons, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, without the remotest sign of a tail. DA spike-nosed pike was caught in Lake Ulysian, Wisconsin that weighed 192 pounds and measured 6 feet 2 inchef in length, James Hunt, of Catoosa county, received a pair of rabbit cars from Texas Monday, that measured six inches from end to end. A nugget of ruby orve, weighing 1,000 pounds and estimated to be worth $10,000 was taken from a mine near Elko, Cal., a fow days ago. Men employed in the Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal., repo hat the recent earth- [Pquake 'in' that viciniyy was felt below the 1,600-foot level. Joseph Davis of Wayne county, W. Va., has a daughter aged six years who weighs 230 pounds, This is believed to be the larg- est child of its age in the world. M. Jovis, a French aeronaut, is making a balloon, nearly two hundred fect in height, in which he proposes to sail through the air across the Atlantic next autumn, “Nig,” a black bench-legged fyce, way down in Georgia, has just died of grief for loss of his playmate, a big bob-tail cat, who some days ago got to the end of his nine lives The surgeons of Erie, Pa., are watching with interest a man who had some five inches of skull carried away by the explosion of a circular saw, yet threatens to get well in spite of it. A queer flower which grows in Yucatan is the manito (little hand) of the guarumo. Itis in the exact shape of the human hand, with four fingers, thumb, nails and knuckles, all complet A ranchman at Sayara, Colo,, has a_pig that has a porfe s head, with dog's hair covering the head and Except- 1ng this and a short bushy tail the rest of the animal is like a pig. H. H. Kirkpatrick of Hawkinsville, Ga.. made a raid on the rats that had invaded his corn crib a few days ago, and when the bat- tle ended it was discovered that 215 of the rodents had met sudden death. An animal having a_head and forefeet like a squirrel and hind feet like a coon has been killed near Augusta, Ky. Seyeral hunters of that sectiou, when'shown the carcass, de. clared they had not seen one like it before. M. Scott, of Vanceburg, Ky., having at last wade up his mind and body to quit mov- ing, has buried the embalmed bodies of his threc children, which he has carried from place to place for the last seventeen years. rsc stolen from an Ohio farmer two came howe the other day by him ddie and bridle on. He was orty miles to the inn broke loose, but no one came to claim him, Martin Mewborn of Hartwell, Ga., says a chicken just two days old, in presence just after he had fou it, straightened up, Happed its winds and crowed us clearly and distinctly as any roostor, tnough not so loud of course. A human skull was disinterred diggers in Haskel by well couuty, Kansas, recontly at a depth of 13 el beneath the ecarth's surface. Remaius of fish and sca reptiles have been found on several occasions at various depths in the same neighborhood. At Charlotte lightning struck on Lawe- rence Sexton, just us he had put his hands in a tub of water, and knocked that gentleman down, tore off Lis right shoe and cut a hoie in the wb's bottom, but boyond paralyzing him for some fifteen minutes did no physical damage A few days since A. Bolton, of Malabar, Florida, found a fine large deer tightly wedged i a deep sluice used to drain the muck beds a few rods back of his residence The drain was only about two fect wide, but decp, and the animal had been unable to extricate himself. An old lady living at Ryde, England, died recently, and in due course her furniture was adve ed for sale. On the day before the sule one of the executors carefully examined an aucient bureau, and discovered a secret drawer and a false bottom, in which were upward 1,000 sovereigns, closely packed to gether. William B Jones, of Dublin, G., cuught two young rabbits in his garden a few days ago. He bad an old Maltese cat which had a family of kittens. and from some cause the kittens died, The old cat has adopted the rabbits, and happiness reigns throughout the housebold. The cat cares for the rabbits as tenderly as she did for her own offspring Wesley Talbert, of Sheibyville, Ind.. while making some repairs upon his house, found two hen's s cuclosed within the walls which were laid fifty years ago. While not exactly fresh, the eggs were in 8 fair state of preservation, and if not utilized in the mewr.- time to make a restaurant omelet, they may come in play during the coming camg paign. A remarkable case is reported from Michi- gan, Threo years ago Miss Hattie Cotton of Constantine, lost her voice and surgical treatment for its restoration was of no avail, She went to western Iowa and her voice re- turned. Going back to Michigan her voice again failed. This exporience has been re- peated three times, Miss Cotton's voice fail- ug at home, but coming out strong in Iowa. Concord, Fla., has a fine spepimen of wild man, who is de: with long, flowing, pure white hair hangii about, shoulders in wiid profusion, an snow-white beard reaching nearly to his waist.” He is clad in tattered clothing, wears a coonskin cap, carries an old-fash’ ioned fiintlock musket, and is so wild that ‘‘whenevor any person comes near him he runs like a deer and hides in the dense swamp near by." — LINCOLN'S MOTHER. The Negleoted Grave inthe Woods o Indiana. The Centryville, Ind., correspondent of the St. Louis Globe sends the follow- ing to his paper: In a neglected piece of woodland on the outskirts of Lincoln City, 1s the grave of President Lin- coln’s mother. A marble slab four foet in height, and almost buried in a dense growth of weeds and dog wood, bears this inscription: NANCY HANKS LINCOLN, MOTHER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Died October 5, A. D., 1818, aged 85 years. Erected by a Friend of . Her Martyred Son, 1879. At the foot of the grave is a small marble foot-stone with the letters ‘N, H. L.” engraved upon it. Surrounding this grave are the graves of seven other persons, but there are no stones or mon- uments to identify the occupants of an, of them, and all are sadly neglected. The deserted spot is but a short distance from the highway, but is so situated that it can be reached only by crossing cultivated fields, With "the proper efforts the place might be made very attractive, however, and there is some tallk among the people hero of beautify- ing it and erecting a more costly stone over the Lincoln grave, The place is seldom visited by strangers and rarely by the people living hercabouts. Not more than 200 yards north of the grave is the spot upon which stood the I i hich lived President Lincoln while a young man. It was made of logs of course, and was situated on a small rise of clayish looking ground. Not a vestige of the old structure remains, The writer frequently visited the house before it succumed to the ravages of time and the elements, as his uncle lived onand cultivated for years that which has passed into history as the Lincoln farm. Just back of "the spot where the house used to stand runs the Cannellton branch of the road. Time has nearly obliterated all traces { the Lincolns here, saveé the lonely orave in the deserted wood. Lincoln City is so named because it is situated on the site of the old home- stead. It had a population of about two dozen families,and is the junction of the Evansville, Cannellton & Rockport di- vision of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railroud, Some edstern capi- talists, o few years ago, made an at- tempt to boom the place, but, despite the magnetism of the name, the hoom was not successful, an it is very doubt- ful if the place ever grows in" poputa- tion, as the land surrounding it {; of a very poor quality. Some of the old inhabitants of this vi- cinity tell how, in 1844, when Lincoln was an elector-at-large on the ticket with Henry Clay, he visited the home of his boyhood, squared his back u against the old stone school house an tallked to his old friends and neighbors. - A mun near Vienoa lost three wives, by each of whom hLe became possessed of a child and a mother-in-law. was on excel- lent terms with all, These ladies used to meet frequently at his house, where they came to see his children, but the meetings minated n a_grand pitohed battle, v all three subpenacd their son-in- law as 4 witness. “When Adam dolye and Bve ) uvln. Who was then the gentle- man?"’ This conundrum antedates our prerogative in matters of polite soctety, but we do know that in the present| age and season, our Prince Albert Coals, In light welghts and colors, aro the correct thing for| gentlemen's busiuess suits,| while the same style in fine black worsted 15 the “sine, qua non" of an nt ward- robo. 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