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By? P. M. HALE. ADVERTISING SATES. - . .. -' i- Advertisements wll be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents' for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the i RALEIGli REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetterille Street, next o Market House. 1- A NEW THING 111 NORTH CAROLINA ym I V ill $ OFFICE : FjV,.,tc ville St., Second Floor Fisher Building. n.VTKS OK 9CB8CRIPT10K: ' ,,nf rorv one year, mailed post-paid .-. , .$2 00 One i'"r' si mon,h" raa,,el post-pajd.. .. 1 00 .r- No name entered without payment, tod .,, Mut after expiration of time paid for. VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1885. NO. 91. STORY OP FRGDERICKSBtRG. Hekbert W. Colliswood.T after the battle of Fredericksburg; in was strewn with the fallen foe. It n,.' irroui TbfV 1 ran8 on tue ide of 016 n,u W ith tlitir frout to us; and a boy could throw v stone to the nearest rank, to close Had they pushed their way to the frowning Ot our rillc In e last mad charge, . Whcu they struck our linea like an augry Till the blue line wavered.and turned and broke, nd the stragglers sullenly disappeared Behind the mantle of pitying smoke. , rn was oue tall map in the nearest rank, o tall he had towered above the rest '. we watched him bearing the tattered flag, lie lav w ith a rifle ball through his breast, We thought him dead, "but be turned at last, W raided himself on his elbow there, Kod looked down over.tbe bloody field, j Then back, a us in a fierce despair. We sw lilD fumble beueath his coat, And feebly draw with a shaking hand little package of letters stained With use ami tied with a faded band. He spread them out, and he picked np onei The smallest letter of all the store; We knew that his eyes were filled with tears That blotted the tiny packet o'er. He tried to read, but hi bead dropped low On his breast, and his hand fell nervelessly; But the stiffening fingers stilt kept their grasp On the words that bis eyes could no longer see. A murmur ran through the rifle pits; We had watched him there from oar sheltered stand: We fell to wondering whose hand bad traced The letter he held in his big brown hand. His wife : " said one : " No, his sweetheart, boys I " aid another." His mother !" said one whose face Was fresh and fair as a girl's; he dropped Hi suu auil clamlered from oat the place. . He ran to the dead man's side and raised The band, and there in a childish scrawl Was written, lore you, papa dear." The hand had Closed o'er the rest, and all That had cheered his soul in that lonely place Was the simple note of a little child. And yet, it had sweetened the taste of death, For i: seemed to me that the dead man smiled. at least, was my idea. I thought it worth a trial. The first thing to be done wa9 to secure a genuine kleptomaniac. With this ob jeetinview, I inserted in several of the daily papers the following advertisement: " Wanted a kleptomaniac, who must be a lady of otherwise irreproachable habits and pleasing manners. She will be requir ed to act as a companion to a gentleman's wife who is similarly afflicted. Duties light ; remuneration liberal. Apply in the first instance to X Y. Z." care of a firm of advertising agents. Notwithstanding the frequency with which such articles as books and umbrellas disappear, I had supposed kleptomania to be a very rare disease, and, moreover, one which few persons would care to owu to. Imagine my surprise, then,' at receiving fifty-seven answers to my advertisement, every one of the writers claiming to be a lady. From the nature of the case, I could not very well ask for references. Not that this mattered much, for I had enough confidence in my own judgment to think I could do without them. I went through the letters with great care, putting aside all that tried to recom mend themselves by shamelessly describ ing acts of successful pilfering. I had no hesitation in concluding these ladies to be impostors attracted by the salary. There remained just five, who bashfully said they were considered by. their friends to be kleptomaniacs, a statement which they did not themselves indorse in any 1 way. Two of them if I recollect riebt. for I have mislaid their letters were eld erly spinsters whom the world had treated badly; the other three were widows. All wrote at great 1ength,eachurging,strange ly enough, that because she was pooty therefore she had exceptional claims upon ray consideration. From their letters it "Most respectable people, but unfortu nate. Yes; it's only right you should know that."' "Another lady toKeeyou.Sir," amnounciMl James. This time the rascal was certainly smil ing. I knew quite well he was thinking of my wife. I knew, also, that her appearance upon the scene would just about finish me off; but I had no reason to apprehend any thing so dreadful. Miss White had a clearer idea of the sit uation. She looked at me in the same re proachful way as before, and then com posed herself in that attitude of patient resignation which made jne 1 feel as if I were doing her a positive injury. " What room is vacant, James? " I asked hurriedly. "Is any room vacant?" " Only the boudoir, Sir." ," Then show who did you say it was?'' "Mrs. Dark, Sir." " Show ,her in there." "Oh, don't let mo detain you," said Miss White humbly. "I'm not usedto detaining people. ' And then as if the thought was too much for her. this most depressing woman burst into a flood of tears. By the timo that my fifth visitor arrived, an event which happened very shortly after the arrival of Mrs Dark, I was well nigh distracted. There really waa no room for this last woman. I could not have two of them gossiping together, and perhaps quarrelling, so I was compelled to ask Mrs. Heslop to watt in- the hall. It was very rude; but what else could I do? Be sides, such inconvenience as she suffered was entirely her own fault her eagerness to secure the post having brought her two hours before her proper time. "Miss White," I said, feeling at last se cure from further interruption, "are you might have been supposed that each was ; pray excuse a necessary question are A KLEPTOMANIAC STORY. A Delicate Sit nation. All the Tear Round. 1 imint commence this narrative with a most painful admission my wife is a con firmed kleptomaniac. In all other respects she is an admirable woman, though I say it who shouldn't. bhc is beautiful at icast in my eyes: she is comparatively i ung, though perhaps she might not like mc to Uc too precise on this point ; she has Hoop of friends, and no lack of anything that a husband jn comfortable circum stances, and devotedly . attached to her, ran supply; and yet, owing' to some'dis tressinj.' mental disorder, she is continu ally bringing home other people's prop eity. i Nothing:. I am quite sure, could be fur ther fromber gentle disposition than the vice of covctousness. She docs not take things because she wants them, or in order to obtain a cheap gratification. So far as I can sec, she is subject merely to the same propensity as the jackdaw. I solera Iv affirm that she has no notion ff wrongdoing. She pilfers with the in nocence of the dove,. cooing all the while with that soft voice of hers, which would disarm the most hardened stickler for the rights of property; and when she sees me take anything to restore it to the lawful owner she invariably regards me with mute reproach. I hrst discovered ner mat ad v aunneour honeymoon, which was spent in the North of England. We were in a jeweler's shop at the time, and a diamond ring had mys teriously disappeared. Parenthetically let me observe that, although Maria will, at a pinch, take articles of no earthly value, she prefers jewelry, as being at once port able and pleasant to look upon. The man ileclared she had stolen the ring. While I was pouring upon him a flood of abuse, and she was entreating me to spare him, Ac became so agitated at the sight of my indignation as to have recourse to! her handkerchief. As she drew it from, her pocket something fell on the floor. "Fol lowing a triumphant dart of the jeweler's hand I looked, and, lo! there was the ring. That was the first of many painful mo ments. Yet I can confidently say that,in Jtead of diminishing my love they have in creased it, for they have added to my other feelings a great pity for her who is so griev ously afflicted. There never was a less nervous woman than Maria; herein, I fear, lies the hope lessness of her case. If I could detect even the quiver of an eyelid and what charm ing eves she has. to besureasshequiet ly appropriates what belongs to another, I mirrht tu Mn tn take cotiracre. But. alas! the smile never leaves her pretty face.'her tones never falter, her hand goes untremb lingly on its stealthy way as if it were im pelled by some invisible "force external to herself, and then the horrid deed is done. Oh. what agonies I have endured, watch ing without the power, of stopping her! What shame, what pity, what horror lest vh .hould he cauffht in the act! I always the most unfortunate oersen in the verse. In the end I decided to interview all five, that being the only way by which I could discriminate between them. Accord- ing'j. I wrote to ask them all to come to I ray house on a certain day, and added that I would, of course, defray any traveling j expenses. In order to prevent clashing. which I saw might place me in a most un pleasant position, I requested one lady to present herself punctually at eleven o'clock, another at half-past, another at twelve, and so on. -There would be no difficulty from my wife, for she was to be away from home on that morning. It had been arranged that a certain Uncle Joe should escort her to an exhibition which I had declined to attend. While I pitied Uncle Joe, who was a very irascible old gentleman, I cer tainly felt lie had done me a great service qn this occasion, though even - here there might be fresh trouble, in store. When confronted by an angry stall keeper who accused him and his -companion of steal ing, he would, J was confident, be a mag you reallv a kleptomaniac?" I put the question bluntly, because I was convinced that no woman who had so many tears at her command could possess the coolness essential to successful pilfer "Go to the hall door at once," I said to James, who happened to be passing, "and on no account let any of the Ave ladies out ofpthe house until I tell you." It was really a frightful scene that met my gaze in the boudoir. Mrs. Dark had discovered in an Indian cabinet a secret drawer of which I had no knowledge, and this drawer had apparently contained a large quantity of jewelry, all of which I felt sure had been" appropriated by poor Maria. In order to fill her pocket more cosily, Mrs. Dark was seated upon the floor, with the whole collection of rings, bracelets, and brooches in her lap and a paper in her hand. She was a bushy -browed, keen-eyed el derly woman, with very square shoulders and a slight stoop. A glance at her hard featured face and coarse hands was enough to show that she belonged to a different class from those of my other visitors a fact that rather surprised me, for her let ter had been the most attractive of all. When I heard her speak I was driven to conclude she bad not penned it without assistance, if, indeed, she had anything to do with it. Strangely enough, too, she was the only one of the five who displayed the least sign of embarrassment at being caught thieving. She laughed, it is true, but the laughter had a very forced ring. However, she recovered much sooner than I did. After closing the cabinet she crammed all the jewelry into her pocket and rose to her feet. ' " Looks fishy, don't it? " said Mrs. Dark, scrutinizing me from head to foot. "You are a very brazen-faced woman," said I, carefully keeping between her and the door. For if she were to get away and pawn the things Maria had taken there would be a terrible explosion. "Well," said Mrs Dark with an irritat ing pretence at resignation, " I suppose bard names are all in the day's work. What wages arc you going to give me for this job of looking after your wife! ' I winced at this, i " Hand over the property you have the victims of an infamous conspiracy originated by Mrs. Dark. But in the end we escorted them to the door And they de parted, Miss White weeping copiously. Looking back at their conduct which I can do calmly now I must say that my only feeling is one of pity for them. I am morally certain that they had no more sense of wrongdoing than poor Maria has. When they were gone I interviewed Mrs. Dark alone, for her behavior hnd raised certain suspicions in my mind. " May I ask your object? " I inquired of her. "I have been put up to this job by the police." "I thought so." " Here," said she, bringing out the pa per which I had already seen in her hand, " is a list of the missing things, the last of the lot being a bracelet belonging to Mrs. Arbuthnot. And here" pointing to the jewelry "are the missing things them selves. I call that neat, I do. I'd made up my mind to a fortnight or more in the house, but an hour, you see, has dotie the trick." Fortunately, I had no trouble in hush ing the matter up, and if it had effected a cure in Maria, it would have been the most welcome thing that ever happened to me. One would have thought that such an exhibition of kleptomania as she had witnessed would have given a salutary shock to her system, and turned her mind into a new groove. Alas lit did nothing of the sort ; she is as bad now as she has ever been. You who have be on endowed with a normal mind may feel inclined to blame rather than pity her. But I would beg of you to remember that your mind might have been constituted as hers is, in which case you would not and could not have acted differently. There may be a remedy for poor Maria's malady; if so, I should be very, very glad to know it. JAILS NO OBSTACLES TOE NEWS MADE NOWADAYS. One Day's Woman-Wo Item. To Lovers In the Old Dominion. she sobbed more bitterly than ever. It was distressing to watch and listen to her. Looking around desperately for some han dle to use against her, I experienced a rude shock. My gold vate had disap peared ! From that moment my opinion of Miss White underwent a profound change. I rushed, perhaps wrongly, to the other extreme, and set her down as a most art ful woman whose weakness was assumed to cover her nefarious designs. Naturally enough, I felt rather sore on this pointy for I placed a high value upon the vase. There could be no doubt as to what had become of it. For what other purpose could she have brought that suspicious- looking black bag? ! " You have answered my question, I admit," said I, with a feeble attempt at nificcnt spectacle. I was getting used to 1 jocularity, "mavery practical manner. I ing, ana my only oojeci now was to get t siuieu : i augmj citiimcu. iWU ,. ner out oi me nouse. insieau oi replying ( eswpc mi mc uuw it, but it would be a new sensatiou for feel as guilty as if I were her accomplice. N'iht after night, when she ia asleep, I hav- long made a practice of searching W pockets, and then of creeping down s'iii to examine her. private cabinets. The number of things I have found secret "1 in one corner or another is enough lo make my hair stand on end when I think f tin m. Whether Maria ever misses them, wiif-thrr she knows that I have sent them k to their owners, I have never been '"l' ti) iii.ffrt.iin hut she has neither re- -I; -1 r;i ted nor said a word on the sub ' t tn me. I hare noticed,Jhowever, that :" r hiding places arc ' changed from time time, which looks as if she were not al- '-"'her satisfied with them. About a year ago Mrs. Arbuthnot, an " 'I'-tintance of ours, lost a valuable brace which I felt quite sure Maria had uk, Hut I never could find it. though I Marched the house from top to bottom. Ir Arbuthnot had her suspicions, I could s" and this drove me pearly frantic, not ""'.v with thinking of what had become of the bracelet, but also with trying to dis- "v' r a remedy for the existing state of "flairs. At last I hit upon what struck me as a really go,i ijea Like cures like, I-arga-''' if I were to introduce into the house il,i"thi -r kleptomaniac would not Maria be ''"nit 'iisgusted and alter her ways? A '' habit in ourselves may be tolerated, '"" w hen it crops up in others it often M"es a most repulsive aspect, and straight ,VLiy clamors for its own removal. Sueh, Uncle Joe. - When the morning m question arrived, I tried to bundle Maria out of the house with very uncoujugal haste; but notwith standing all my efforts, her toilet required so much time that it was past eleven be fore she drove off. The drawing room where I had decided to receive my visitors was a large, pleas ant, and comfortable room, with double windows looking upon the rriad. It was too full of knickknacks I thought, but that was my wife's doing. I had contributed only one article to the general collection a small gold vase which a favorrte mare of mine had won in a trotting match. It stood on a cabinet between the fireplace and the window, a couch being just in front. At the end of the couch and slight ly in advance of it I placed a chair for my self, intending my visitors to sit in the armchair opposite, where they would be facing tne ngni. When Miss White appeared I was vexed to see that it was already half-past eleven. so that clashing was nearly inevitable after all. Let me say at once that she was a very different woman from what I had ex pected. There was not a trace of hardi hood about her; a meeker looking creature I never saw. In fact, I began to thins there must be some mistake. She was neatly dressed in black, in fig ure she was tall, thin, and rather angular, and she had a pinched face with a very mournful expression. When she first en tered she raised her eyes ,to glance at me and then at the room, but after that they fell, as if they were habitually ixed upon the ground. Her intellect, I imagined, was a little dull, for she apparently mistook the seat I assigned to her and occupied the couch. In self-defence I was obliged to move my chair further away and face the light, which was not what I had intended. Without taking any notice of my action, Miss White laid down by her side a black bag she had been carrying. Then Bhe drew out her handkerchief, placed it on her lap, and folded her hands over it. In this attitude, with downcast reyes, she' silently waited for me to begin' a most difficult thing to do, as I now found. As I tried to shape the necessary questions so as to be the least offensive, I grew very uncomfortable. "Aheml" I said, "Miss White?" There was a knock at the door, and James, my factotum, entered. "A lady to see you. Sir," he announced ; " a Mrs, Stone." fancied that Miss White raised her eyes reproachfully , to my face, but they fell again the next moment. The idea that she had guessed the object of this second visitor, and felt herself to be subjected to a sort of competitive examination only added to my embarrassment. " Showherintothediningroom.James," I said, "and say I'll be with her in a few minntea " " Don't mind me," said Miss White hum bly. "Since the death of my dear par ents I am used to being set aside for others." But, Miss White" I protested. "No, please don't apologize; I am not used to that. All my life long I have been trampled upon. I don't complain no, I don't complain. I merely state the fact, as I think it only right you should know everything if I am to become an inmate oi your house." " Another lady to see you, Sir," announc ed James; "a Miss Mildew." Here was a pretty entanglement. What on earth had brought her long before her time? Of course, that other woman in the dining room would hear her, and know the meaning of her visit. I waa growing very hot indeed. "Show her into the library, James?" I crnmmered. " Don't mind me," again said Miss White, applying ber handkerchief to her eyes; " please aon t minu me. i m use tn Keincr left alone. .. I'm only an unfortu nata sinarle woman, without a friend in the world. I think it only right that you .hmild know that also." " Yonr parent,'? said I, making a fran tic attempt to get to business, -were never saw you take that vase, Miss White ; it was cleverly done, without doubt. She dried her tears, and looked at mr with mournful surprise. " I'm not used to being told that I do things cleverly," she said. " You are the first who has told me that since my poor mother died. But what thing do you mean? " " Why," I replied, trying to smile, "My gold vase, which you have put in your bag." "Do you accuse me of stealing?" she asked. Notwithstanding the flood of tears which she held in reserve somewhere, I saw then that there was fire in the woman. The doleful features hardened; the eyes glit tered dangerously. She sat erect, but still with folded hands'. Dreading a scene, I answered somewhat hastily : " No, no. by no means. It is an excel lent conjuring trick, but nothing more." " Because," she said severely, " I am used to being insulted ; I am used to being trodden upon, but I have never been so in sulted or so trodden upon as that at least. by a gentleman." " Then," said I when I could in some measure collect my thoughts, " you don't know what has become of the vase? " " Sir, I have never seen it." "But but pray excuse my pertinacity ; you came here as a kleptomaniac. Now, didn't you, Miss White?" "It is very hard," she replied, weeping again, " for a poor defenceless woman to be attacked in this way. But I don't com plain no, I don't complain, for I'm used to it. I came here ip answer to an adver tisement said to proceed from a gentleman, and I only wish I hadn't." " And that advertisement was for a kleptomaniac. Really, Miss White, I must ask you to let me see your bag." Crying bitterly all the time, but with out a word, she handed it to me. I opened it and found it empty ! I don't think, that, either before or since, I have ever felt so crushed as I did at that moment, though my conviction that this shameless woman' had got the vase was unshaken by my fail ure to find it. . "Please don'ti apologize," she whim pered. " Nobody ever apologizes to me, no matter how deeply they have wounded my feelings. I'll say nothing about repara tion not a word. " But after your unjust suspicions I am fairly entitled to live here under your eye, so that you may judgfe of me for yourself and such duties as you give me I'll do uncomplainingly." Could impudenee go much further than this? Here she was coolly founding upon the one robbery a right to live in the house and rob me at ber leisure! Anxious a I was to get rid of her, I was still more anxious to recover the vase. But how was I to proceed?,' I could not call in the police and have hei searched, for that would involve telling all about my unfor tunate wife. And now there burst upon me a thought that brought the perspiration out in great drops upon my forehead. In every availa ble room in the house there was one oi these desperate kleptomaniacs, who was doubtless thieving right and left. Excuse me one moment only one mo ment." I said, and literally ran from the room, my intention being to create a scare and thus prevent any further depre dations. Mrs. Heslop, I felt was harmless enough. There was but little damage she could do in the hall; sol hurried by into the dining-room and caught Mrs. Stone in the act of pillaging the plate basket. She was a tall and handsome woman with a remark ably self-possessed manner, for she advanc ed to greet me without the. least sign of discomposure. Being in a most agitated state of mind myself, I scarcely know what I said to her, except that I should certainly be back before she could find a seat. Then I rushed away to the library, when the first thing that struck me was the disappearance of uiy4 ivory paper knife. Miss Mildew, who ' was small and brisk, came smilingly out of a corner. But, without a word I fled, thinking-that by so doing I might alarm her more than any thing else. That's all risrht. But stolen ! " The abandoned woman was actually winking at mc! " That's a hard word, too. How many kleptomaniaps have you got stowed about the house?" "Five, including yourself." ' They'll carry off every stick of furni ture if you don't watch them," said Mrs. Dark, laughing. "The very idea, of put ting them in seperate rooms! It's just like a man. Shall I help you to make the others fork out? Set a thief to catch a thief, you know." I jumped eagerly at this suggestion, hoping to come to terms with Mrs, Dark after the rest of my tormentors had bcn got rid of. She undertook the manage ment and, I must admit, went about her work in a very business-like way. In a won derfully short space of time the six of us were collected in the drawing-room, all sittinsr down, except Mrs. Heslop, who preferred standing. I supposed she was vexed at having been been left in the hall, but the real reason came out presently. "It is no use trying to soap it over," began Mrs. Dark, looking round the cir cle; " we are all kleptomaniacs. It's not our fault, of course, for we did not make ourselves, so there's no harm in owning to it. And what we are is one thing, and what people think of us is another. How , is this gentleman here to know I'm not a humbug? He advertised for a kleptomaniac and he wants the real genuine article. I take . it. But how is he to know he has got his money's worth unless he tests us? An incapable kleptomaniac would be just ns bad ns a vulgar thief. So what I propose is that the five of us should empty our pockets, chignons, and such like places of resort for missing articles, for," said Mrs. Dark, smiling complacently at the other four, ." I'll lay a tenner to a brass farthing, ladies, you've not been idle." Though the terms of this proposal were considered objectionable, it was eventu ally agreed to, Mrs. Heslop strongly pro testing on the ground that she had no op portunity of showing her powers. How ever I told her that unless she took part in the competition, she would have no chance of being appointed to the post, and, as she had no valuable prize to setoff against the salary, she recognized the expediency ot yielding. Mrs Heslop was the first who was called upon to exhibit what she had got. And here a little difficulty arose which explain ed her objection to sitting down. It turned out that he hnd improved herself that, I believe is the correct expression with uiy gong,- and, accompanied by Mrs. Dark", she had to retire in order to produce it. A small picture and several pairs of gloves completed her spoils. She was very wroth with James, who, she de clared; had grossly insulted her by sta tioning himself in the hall to watch her, justif she were a common thief. She had scarcely finished speaking when the door opened, and, to my horror, Maria walked in. What she must have thougnt of me sitting there with these five women, I cannot even conjecture; for reasons which will be rendered obvious the sub ject has never been discussed between us. She looked as if, by some mistake.she had entered the wrong house. "T up vnn arc pncrsicrpA shfi finirl at length, and was about to withdraw. I was too much confused to speak or move. But Mrs. Dark begged her to re main, and she did remain. She sat down close to me and watched and listened like one in a dream. I learned afterwards that Uncle Joe had had an attjack of gout ; hence Maria's return at an unexpectedly early hour. There is no need to describe in detail the process of disgorging. Miss Mildew pro duced my ivory paper knife, a number of stamps, several packets of poet cards, and two books; Mrs. Stone very nearly the whole contents of the plate basket; and Miss White many objects of bric-a-brac, and without a blush on her mournful face my gold vase ! All the things were laid on a table which I had cleared for that purpose and set in the centre of the circle. As she gazed at her superior pile Miss White put away her handkerchief and smiled while the other three looked as if they could have eaten her. And now it's my turn," saia Mrs. Dane, pleasantly. With which sne emptied a nuge pocicei into her lap, and there came tumbling out all the jewelry which I had previously seen. Among it I noticed for the first time Mrs. Arbuthnot's bracelet. In my dismay I could not help stealing a glance at Maria, but except for a look of wonderment, her beautiful face was as calm as if the whole transaction had no interest for her. "I think you'll admit ladies," said Mrs. Dark with satisfaction, " that I've licked the lot of you." There were arguments, of course ; there were many reasons given for setting aside the verdict. And when logic failed abuse was poured out without stint. The four defeated ladies declared themselves to be New York World Special.J Last Tuesday, Mr. James Fauntleroy, a well-to-do young farmer, went out walking on Ragged Edge Hill with Miss Mollie Downes, the belle of Chatham Hill village. While passing along a narrow pathway on the mountain side overhanging a deep ra vine they were accosted by Mr. Pierre Du gan, another farmer, who had been a suit or for Miss Downes's hand for several years. Dugan came upon the couple while young Fauntleroy's arm was around the girl's waist. He began to reproach the girl and Fauntleroy struck him full in the face. The blow knocked Dugan from the narrow ath into the ravine, where he lay sense ess for several hours until Fauntleroy could return to Chatham Hill and organize a relief party, who with the aid of ropes raised Dugan from the ravine. Dugan's legs were broken, and it was feared that he was internally injured. Miss Downes's grief was intense, and when Fauntleroy was put into jail, she fainted. Fauntleroy friends were much alarmed as to what his fate would be if Dugan should die. Fauntleroy's brother, who is a lawyer, suggested that it was a pity Jim was not married, as Miss Downes could not be made to appear as a witness against her own husband. The suggestion was quickly caqght at, and Lawyer Fauntleroy went to Thomas Downes, brother of the girl, and after some persuasion, induced him to consent to the immediate marriage of the couple. Knowing that the sheriff ; would object and that he would do all in ' his power to to prevent the marriage the I arrangements were made very quietly. ' Through a cousin in the office of the Conn- ' ty Clerk, Tom Downes got a marriage li- ! cense for his sister and James Fauntleroy. j Last night Miss Downes and her brother drove quietly into Chatham from their ! home, two miles distant in the country. ! They were met at the jail by Lawyer 1 Fauntleroy and a minister named Pe terson. The party had previously located the cell occupied by the prisoner, and they now pushed their carriage directly against the jail wall, under the cell win dow. Lawyer Fauntleroy jumped on to the seat of the carriage, and thrusting his hand through the iron grating, broke through the glass of the window, at the same time calling out to his brother to reSssure him. Tho latter, by dragging his cot under the window in the cell and standing on the head board, managed to get his head onja lev el with-the window. The necessity for the marriage was quickly explained, and then Lawyer Fauntleroy jumped to the ground and aided Miss Downes to get into the buggy. The trembling girl could not quite reach the eager hand stretched from the barred window. Then Lawyer Faun tleroy knelt down in the buggy and the minister aided Miss Downes to plant her dainty foot on his back and clambered to the shoulders of ber brother, who stood braced against the jail wall. In this posi tion she could easily grasp her expectant lover's hand, which she kissed fervently. In this strange situation, nnable to see each other's faces, but with the moonlight streaming through the grated window, the young couple were hurriedly married. New York World. A respectable family in Newport is brought to sorrow by the elopement of a daughter, Miss Lizzie Caswell, with a vaga bond music-teacher whose deserted wife is bringing a suit for divorce against him in Boston. Mrs. Lilly Fisher, of Auburn, a "young and attractive widow," is thrown into despair by the discovery that a scamp to whom she was recently wedded was al ready a married man. And fwo other females have been similarly deceived by the same man. In Troy a pretty young girl of sixteen years, Miss Altha Soycr, ran away with and married a man who had. threatened her life if she refused. After th$ marriage the girl returned home, and her husband, being refused admission, drew a revolver, but was disarmed by his involuntary father-in-law. Ella Marple, the daughter of a rich farmer of Glovers ville, eloped with a married man, whose wife and eight children are abandoned, and thus two homes are desolated. A wife, the mother of a boy seven years of age, living at Hyde Park, Mass., leaves her child shortly before her husband's re turn home in the evening and drowns her self in a pond near the house. At Balti more William E. Stone, a married man with nine children, shot his wife fatally and himself dangerously in consequece of domestic troubles arising, as he alleges, from the misconduct of his wife and the annoyances caused by his mother-in-law. In Brooklyn a young Swedish woman, Christine Eklander, married a scamp who ran away with all her money and jewelry and is found to have another wife and two children in Connecticut. In Syracuse appears a double divorce suit, Florence E. Saul applying for a bill against her husband, and John D. Gris- wold, of Buffalo, suing his wife for di vorce, ; with Mr. Saul as co-respondent. Then comes a divorce suit in Brooklyn, brought by Mrs. Evelyn Robbing against ber husband, whom she accuses of all sorts of inhuman treatment. A divorce suit in Detroit is of a different character.Mr. Louis Stewart applying for a separation from his wife'on the ground of her violent and un governable temper and her eccentric habit of gathering scrap iron and paving stones, with which she fills the house. A violent tempered wife becomes more dangerous when she keeps a stock of paving-stones and pieces of iron on hand. In this city Mrs. Mary R. Smith, of Bat tery place, appears to have been doubly unfortunate. She married a man whom she subsequently found to" be a bigamist, and was then robbed by a scamp who Eromised to " protect" her property from cr treacherous husband. From Auburn we have the story of Edith Porter, a woman twenty-two years of age, who has disap peared from home.leaving word that she kills herself for love of her " dear Joe." In addition to these cases yesterday's journals contained news of the progress of the Loud divorce suit, of the Downs and Taber scandal, both in Athenian Boston, and of the appearance of two claimants to the title of widow of the notorious Marcus Cicero Stanly. Then by telegraph and cable are wafted to us a Montreal nban donment case, in which Dr. Charles R. Knapp, a former New Yorker, accounts for his desertion of his handsome young wife by the statement that he" only married her for fun," and a London divorce suit, the plaintiff in which, Lady Jane Lamp son, is an American from Boston. imprisonment. So you know the Mayo boys?" "Old Dick's boys?' " Yes." " Wall." "Do you know whether or not any of them have ever distilled whisky?" " Cap n, I want to ax you a question : Don't you think it's wrong fur the gu Ver mont ter let a man do a thing an' then say -his son shan't?" " Well, we are not here to discuss con-, stitutional rights. Do you know whether or not any of the Mayo boys have, within the past year, engaged in the unlawful manufacture of whisky ? " " Air ye still talkin' about old Dick Mayo's boys?" "Yes." " An' you say you don't know old Dick? ' " Never mifid about the extent of my acquaintance in your neighborhood. I asked you if you knew whether or not " " Yas, I know you did." "Well why don't you answer my ques tion?" " What do you want me to say?" " I want you to tell the truth." " Then you don't want me to say much, I reckon. I have alius noticed that the less a man says the more truth he tells. Now thar's old man Pryor that j'ines places with me. I believe he ken talk all day an an' not tell mor'n one truth, he " " We care nothing about old man Pryor. The Mayos are now under discus tion." "That's what I 'lowed." "Then, why don't you answer my ques tion? " " Whut must I say?" " Whether or not you know of the Mayo boys engaging in the manufacture of unlaw ful whisky." " Wall, let me see. You want me to be certain, don't you?" "Of course, I do." " Don't want me to make no mistake? " "No, I do not." " Wall, I'll tell vou. Dick Mayo's boys never made a drap o' whisky." " Remember that you are swearing to this." " I know that, an' I'll sw'ar to it again if you want me to." " Mr. Crenshaw, I am sorry to say it, but I do not believe you are telling the truth." " You'd be a heep sorrier than you air if we wuz out in the woods together. Now let me make a bargain with you. If I prove that Dick Mayo's boys never made a drap o' whisky, will you let mc go home an' prom ise not to fetch me up here no mo' in the same case? " " Yes I promise." " Hold" up your hand an' sw'ar." The foreman held up his hand and Mr. Crenshaw, with an air of triumph, said: "I know that Dick Mayo's boys never made no whisky, fur Dick Mayo ain't got no boys. His boys is all gals. You must 've meant Jack Mayo's boys. Goodbye, gentlewiei." Jtltss Mary Smith's Legacies. IPittobpro Home. The venerable Miss Mary Smith died at her home in the edge of Orange county last Friday. On Sunday morning she was buried at The Grow beside her brothers. She belonged to a family of remarkable talents and culture. f She was the daughter of Dr. James Stdwick Smith, who was an eminent physician of Hillsboro. He was a man of great popularity, and was often called on ten serve the people in a public capacity. Ble represented Orange in the Legislature served two terras in Congress, and was tt member of the con vention of 1835. He-served with ability. At his death, which occurred many years ago, he left a handsome landed property to his three children, Mary, Frank, and Sidney. Sidney became a lawyer, was a man of great powers of memory, and won derful fluency of speech, which sometimes rose to eloquence, j He served in the legis lature, perhaps several times. He was genial, sympathetic, impulsive, and when himself, was a ver companionable man. He has been dead many years. Frank be came a physician.! He was thoroughly read in his profession, but being a man of means he never soSght practice, nor did he ever aspire to political promotion. He died five or six years ago and his property went to his sister. ! Neither of the three, was eyer married. ! They lived together at the old home stead about four males from Chapel Hill. Miss Mary is now dead leaving no near relatives. Her property is estimated at forty thou sand dollars. By her will written by her own hand, she makes provision for her former slaves and dependents and various bequests to friends, but the bulk of her property goes to the University and tho Episcopal church,! of which she was a member. The "Jones' Grove" tract of land is given to the trustees of the Uni versity to create a fund for the poor and worthy young men of the btate. It is a magnificent plantation of about 1500 acres, and is worth $12 or fl5 per acre. The home' tract equally valuable is given to the Episcopal church. We are happy to hear of this liberal gift to the University. It is worthily be stowed, and will be. wisely managed. The amount of good it will do in the future is incalculable. It will be a monument to the giver more lasting than brass, and will give her a name among the benefactors of this noble institution that will last as long as the institution itself. COURTS AND CORPORATIONS Life-Terms an4 Railroad Lawyer. HUMAN NATUR' VARIES LITTLE. How Our Exemplars Work Roads. THEY WILL HAVE IT. Wooden Legs as Uar-Rooms. " It was quite a picturesque scene," re marked Lawxer Fauntleroy to-day, when he was laughingly relating the story. "It seemed to me at the time that tne weaaing was without.parallcl in this or any other country. Brother Jim has a good, true and plucky little wife, God bless her, and I know they'll be happy as soon as he gets out of jail. This will not be long, as the doctor told me to-day that Dugan is much better and is not injured internally. Of course if we had known last night that Dugan's life was safe we would not have hastened Jim's marriage; but it's all right, anyhow." The sentiment in the county is strong ly in favor of the young couple. All the parties are well-to-do country people and have borne excellent reputations. New York World. 11 The fourth annual convention of the Church Temperance Society was brought to a close last evening, after a session of two days, at Grace Chapel, on Fourteenth street. The society favors high license as against prohibition. Among those who have been in attendance are the Right Rev. T. A. Starkev, Bishop of New Jersey, the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter; the Right Rev. A. N. Littlejohn, Bishop of Long Island ; the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Ly man Abbott. Theodore Roosevelt, the.Rev. E. Osborne, of Boston, and the Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington. " The card of the Rev. John Axwell was the first re ceived by the Chair, and that gentleman was called to the platform. He said he had been in Maine, Kansas and Minneso ta, and had studied the workings of the Prohibition laws. He had also been in half the large cities of Europe, but in none of them had he seen the same amount of drunkenness as exists in Pro hibition States. "The number of drug stores in Kansas," said he, "is appalling. I found it the same up in Minnesota the first year prohibition went into effect. On the Fourth of July the people were so drunk we didn't have any celebration. The next year I voted for license, and so did several others and we got it together with a big celebration and no drunkenness on our national holiday." The Rev. Geerge H. Vibber, Prohibition ist, said his experience in Kansas bad been different from that of the former speaker. The last time he was there he met a friend who told him that he had got all the whisky he wanted in Canada. "Where's the saloon," asked N the minister. "Oh, I didnt get it in a saloon," was the answer; "I was walking along the street and met an old man with a wooden leg who winked at me. I winked back and he told me to come along and he'd get me what I wanted. He led me out back of a little church, sat down on a tombstone, unscrewed his wood en leg and took a black bottle out of it. I had two drinks for 30 cents." THE HERREWS. New England is the " awful example" as the temperance lecturers- say held up for the reformation of us poor Southern devils by every speaker or writer who is grinding an axe. New England, in fact, is on a steady decline, and its people are very much like other people. It is hard to believe that the working men here described are Yankees: "Nor do people with whom road-mak-in2 and repairing is a matter of annual tax ation take a personal interest, or have any personal pride in their roads. Ihe worst mud-holes in roads arc frequently in front of good farm houses. It would take the farmer an hour, with his horses, to nil up such a hole, and make a good road by his front door. But that would be doing work which is the town's business to do, and he would get no pay for it. So he lets it alone. Each man's proportion of work is assessed. He has so many days' work to nav. . The tiroes of working: on roads are fixea by the town officei. Carts, horses, ploughs, &c, are furnished on order, and allowed for at fixed rates. You have seen the deliberate slowness with which day la borers on railways, or on contract work in city streets, perform their labor. These men are lively and swift compared with the countrv farmer when working out his road tax. The gravel-bed is perhaps a half a mile down the road. Four or five men with shovels load a cart there in three min utcs, and having loaded it sit down and smoke and chat a half hour till it returns empty. Down on the roadway four or five men await the cart, smoking and chatting, dump and spread the dirt or gravel when it comes, taking three minutes for the job, and smoke and chat a half hour till the cart comes again. If they planted and gathered crops as they make roads, they would starve. It is not because they are lazv or indolent. These are men of might in their own affairs. But they are work- jng out the road tax, and who ever heard that a man ought to work in payment ot tax as he works for himself ? " W. C. Prime in New York Journal of Commerce. THE THEATRICAL HUG. How we do Juliet's Love-Maklng. TRIALS OF GRAND JURIES. Seeklne Evidence Against Moonshiners Some of Their Characteristic. fN'ew York Herald. Of the three hundred thousand Hebrew inhabitants of the United States perhaps fifty thousand are dwellers in this city, and in all civic relations they can be compared favorably with the aggregate of citizens of any other race or religious profession. A Hebrew seldom is an inmate of any of the institutions of public charity. It would be almost unprecedented to find a Hebrew beggar on the public streets. The police records attest that Hebrews rarely commit offences against the public peace, nor are Hebrews in any great number en cacred in occupations which conduce to those offences. Further than this, the benevolence of the Hebrew residents is by no means strait ly umiieu to pvupie ui their own race and creed. The virtues signified by these facts must be credited to a sense of moral duty such as few crit ics will agree can spring so generally from anything else than deep religions conviction. New York World Washington Letter. 1 It is probable that there will be an in vestigation this winter of the past use of money to control ksertain Supreme Court appointments. The story of Mr. Gould ana Huntington's (Contribution to the Gar field Campaign Find and tho agreement connected therewith has alreadv been given. I heard to.day, from a good source, the reason why Ir. Gould demanded a written agreement was because he had such an unfortunate experience with Mr. Hayes. Mr. Gould contributed $300,000 to the Republican Campaign Fund in 1876. He claims that he was not recognized in any way after that. It is not understood that the agreement made between Mr. Gould and the representative of Mr. Uarneld, made in 1880, mentioned any special per son who was to be appointed to the Su preme Court Bench. It merely signihed that his wishes wfere to be consulted. Mr. Gould desired at that time to have Judge Dillon appointed But he afterwards be came satisfied with Stanley Matthews, al though it is now; said that Stanley Mat thews, was not irt his mind at that time. A prominent lawyer, in speaking or the Supreme Court Bench as it now stands, said to-day: "L do not think that the railroads ever make anything in getting their attorneys, appointed to the Bench, where these appointed men are protected by a life term. A lawyer who has been noted for his corporation practice, when he gets on the Bench is apt to go to the other extreme. He hardly dares to be fair to the corporations on account of his pre vious relations with them. Now you take and read the decisions of the Supreme Court and you will see that the three men on it who were railroad attorneys before they were appointed Justices, to-day go oftener against corporations than any other men among the 'Judges. These Justices are Waite, Bradley and Matthews." He then went on to say that he thought that the tendency of tjhe times was to discrimi nate too much against corporations. Said he: "You must bear in mind that one half of the people of this country ace mem bers of some kind of corporation and that two-thirds of the; property of this country is owned by corporations. Out of the popu lar clamor against railroads have grown many adverse decisions of the courts which, if logically followed out, must be made to apply to all othei corporations of this coun try. These principles, rigidly followed up, would embarrass seriouly the presptri- bY 11 tUQ UUUMT. "5 fArkansaw Traveller. When he was brought into the grand jury room, he looked around care lessly and sat down. " You are Mr. Buckley Crenshaw, I be lieve," said the foreman. " So do I." "Where do you live?" " At home, when I'm thar." " Where is your home; " " Wall, cap'n, I've been hussled around so much lately that I ain't certain. Don't know that I could find my way thar cf you wuz to turn me loose." " Why did you object to coming here?" " 'Cause I ain't got no bus'ness to trans ack here." " Do you know the Mayo boys? " "Old Dick's boys?" " Yes, I think so." " Do you know old Dick, cap'n? " " No, I think not." " You oughter know him. He'd treat you white ef you wuz to go to his house. " " I have no doubt of that. Now remem ber that we want you to tell the truth. If you don't, you lay yourself liable to fine and iClara Belle's Letter. There is an awful lot of hugging every evening close by Union Square. Two Ju liets are performing in adjacent theatres Margaret Mather and Mary Anderson. I have watched their scenes of farewell to their Romeos and am prepared to describe the embracure exactly. Both get a con vulsive clasp in the arms of their surrepti tious husbands. Mather is short and thick. Her Romeo is not long armed, either, and I observed that, when he enfolded her to his utmost, one hand was spread over her femoral plexus, while the other covered her intercostal nerve on the opposite aide. His face was snuggled for an instant on her carotid and herepigastrum was visibly denresscd. Now. it was different with Anderson. She is long and thin. Her Romeo's hands lapped far over each other across her clavicle, and then crossed easily to opposing sides of her lumbar vertebra:. Her illium was somewhat contorted, and her hands dangled from the carpuses. I hope I have made the essential contrasts of the two actresses plain.. Go East, Tonne Han ! Elizabeth City Economist. We know a cranberry bog of ten thou sand acres in Dare county that could be bought for a song and would be worth more than a mica mine. But there is no need of work for a living in Dare. One hour's work during the day will make a man " o'er a' the ills- o life victorious," and a man can make a square living who has in dustry and self-sacrifice enough to roll up his trousers and pick up clams and oysters. Band is a great agency in making an im proved cranberry pond and sand is every? where in Dare. What Folks Call Fossils Now. Cleveland Leader. This matter of public men speculating in information which they acquire through their positions was not considered proper by our Furitan fathers. It recalls a story I have heard of. Senator Hamlin. Some legislation was 3eing considered in the halls of Congress in regard to one of the railroads. . The bill came up in the Senate, and it needed bet a vote or two to pass it. At this moment fa brother Senator came to Hamlin's desk and said : " Senator Ham lin, if this bill! passes the Blank Blank Railroad's bonds will be worth a hundred cents on the t'oUar. I can take you or let you send to a place where you can get any amount of these bonds at this moment for 6 cents on the dollar. What say you to' the chance ? " l"I say damn your chance and damn your bonds, sir!" was Hamlin's emphatic reply; and with that he turned' his back square; upon his brother Senator, and the story is! that he never treated him decently afterwjard. Hamlin did not be lieve that it wtas right for him to use in formation gotten as a publirfnan to ad vance his own fortune, and he acted upon this rule during his public life. Where They Imitate Jackson. Harriiburg Patriot Dem. It was the deliberately expressed opinion of one A. Jackjson, a Democrat of consid erable prominence some years ago, that "no party can carry out any distinctive pol icy that employ its opponents as its agents.' ' This was the only Jacksonian doctrine that the Republicans ever respected. They never allowed the Democrats to act as their agents in filling offices when they were in power. j. A.
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