THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: MARCH 31, 1896.
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STATE NEWS.
Cream of the State Press Drops of Turpentine
and Grains of Rice from the East Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
An effort is being made to have the
qeabord extend a branch of its road to
Concord.
The North Carolina Teachers As
sembly, is to meet in the city of Ashe
ville, June 16.
A cteel and iron bridge ia to be con
structed across Tar river at Tarboro at
acoetcf 15,000.
KUeigh is to have a first class public
library; $1,200 has been subcribed to
start it,' and $2,000 ia in eight.
Smitbinld Herald: The farmers of
this county are buying more guano
this year than for many years.
Progressive Greensboro has adopted
a complete system of an improved
electric fire alarm, says the Record.
Col W. A. Turk has been elected
vice-president of the American Asso
ciation of Passenger and Ticket Agents.
Miss Cornelia Bryant, of Stanly
county, has a copper coin that ia 566
years old, having been coined in 1330.
The Watauga Democrat eays that J.
R Hodges, cf Elk, has contracted to
sell his silver mine to a California mm
for $30 000.
Rev. Thomas W. Gurthrie, a well
knovn minister of the N. C. Con
ference, died at his home, in Rockin
haru, last week.
Revenue Officer Vic Davis, was shot
by EI Essick, at a distillery three
miles from Lexington on Friday, while
trying to arrest him.
Rockingham Index: Mr. John C.
McDutfia died onTnursday at his horro
near RoberdeJ, of pneumonia. He was
about 65 yeara of age.
A stock company has been organized
with a capital stcck of not less than
j:0,000 to build a cotton mill at Mt.
Pleasant, Cabarrus county.
The Morning Star, Wilmington, ob
served its 2Slh anniversary March 20,
with the announcement cf a reduction
of its annual subscription to $5
?. Winston Sentinel : Mr. L N. Clin
ard, one of the oldest and best known
citizens, dropped dead on the street,
in Salem, about 5:45 Sunday evening.
The Carolina Central is putting up a
turn table at Lrncolnton, preparatory
to making that place the meeting point
of the freight trains from the east and
west.
A statement has been given out that
the dispensary system of handling the
liouor traffic has worked well at
W ay nesville; $2,000 has been cleared
in profits.
The Sanford Express states that the
Langdon Henszy Coal Company has
sold the Cumnock mine, in Chatham
county, to the New Ycrk G s Coal
Company.
Laurinburg Exchange: Mr. Jno. D
Parks died at hia home in this place
Wednesday night at 11 o clock of pneu
Cionia, aftsr only c week's sickness
aged 66 year3.
Bishop Edward Rondthaler of the
Moravian church, will prech the Bac
calaureate sermon before the graduat
ing class at the University at the next
commencement.
The Oliver Street Baptist church of
Charlotte has called Rev. J. R. Han
kins, a native of North Carolina, but
now of Louisville, Ky. He will enter
upon the work in May.
The Republican says Mrs. J. S. Star
buck ha3 opened in Winston what "is
virtually a barber shop for the ladies,"
but it dosn't tell us what she does
shaves, cuts hair or what.
Atlanta Constitution: Hon. C. M.
Stedman, ex Lieutenant Governor of
North Carolina, will move to Atlanta
from Asheville May 1st, and enter the
practice of his profession, law.
It is reported, and we hope truly,
that the Rev. E. F. Jones has resigned
the pastorate of his churches in Cf is
ton county, and will return to his home
ia Watauga, says the Boone Democrat.
At Mt. Airy Wednesday a young
man named Cud Lineback was arrested
and sent to jail for stealing tobacco.
Next day he was tried, convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year.
A colored woman of Monroe, to quiet
her restless child, gave ic as much mor
phine as she could hold between her
two fingers. The doctor did his best
but there has been a funeral in that
family.
Mr. William Marsh's barn was de
stroyed by fire last Friday night. It
contained feedstuff, etc., and the loss
ia fully 500. It is supposed to have
been incendiary, says the Washington
Gazette.
Winston Sentinel: A large crowd
attended the dedicatory exercises of
the new Lutheran church five mi!e3
south of Salem, yesterday. Tne ser
mon was preached by Rev. H. M.
Brown.
W. K Brock, charged with larceny
of a deed from Mr. Bjrness Geddie,
was tried before 'Squire McLean j e3
terday and bound over to the Superior
court in the sum of $50, says the Fay
etteville Observer.
Mount Airy News: The crop of ap
plea harvested in this country last year
exceed3 that of any previous year
within our recollection. Large quan
tities are being sold on our streets daily
at very low prices.
Col. W. J. Martin, professor in
Davidson College, and Maj J. C. Win
der, formerly superintendent of the
Seaboard Air Line, are dead. Bjth died
of paralysis. Tne former was in his
67th year, the latter in hia 6"5th.
Saturday evening little Mary Lucy
Dupree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Dupree, met with a very painful
accident. A basin of hot water had
been left on a table, and the little girl
reached up to see what was in the basin,
turned the water over on herself. She
She wa3 badly scalded about the face
and neck, eays the Greenville Reflector.
The dredging at the wharf the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad to
deepen the water for the admission of
tank steamers of the Standard Oil com
pany, has about been completed, says
the Wilmington Dispatch.
At Concord some days ago some one
entered the Episcopal church and rob
bed the box that contained the con
tributions for the poor. About $6 was
taken, together with a bottle of wine,
which was gotten from a closet.
R3cky Mount Argonaut: There is
some talk of the Southern Railway
running a direct line through from
Durham to Rocky Mount. Such a lino
would open up a grand country besides
giving the Southern an almost air line
to Norfolk.
Last year there were no blue birds
and the farmers greatly missed these
little harbingers of spring. To their
delight the blue birds have appeared.
It is said the cold weather of the win
ter of 1894 5 killed them out, says the
Warrenton Gazette.
Mr. D. A. Simpson had the misfort
une to cut off a part of one of his fin
gers a few days ago. He was cutting
hay for a horse when he shoved his
hand too far into the cutting machine
with the result above mentioned, says
the Roxboro Courier.
Concord S:andard: Rv. J. J. Pay-
seur, of Matthews, preached Sunday
morning and night at the First Baptist
church in this city. At a business
meeting of that congregation immedi
ately after the night services a call was
extendtd He accepted.
Little Miss Mary McGray, daughter,
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGray, hap
pened to qaite a painful, though no
ways serious, accident yesterday after
noon. While walking on a fence she
fell off, cutting a considerable gash in
her forehead, says the Darham Sun.
Moses Pender, who killed Mr. Jos.
Ruffin in EJgecombe county some
time og-, was captured at Scotland
Neck Friday. He told a correspond
ent of the News and Ooserver that Mr.
Ruffin was making for him with a knife
when he hit him with the stack pole.
Mr. Charley Wise, a son of Mr. L.
H. Wise, by accident toook an over
dose of laudnim last Sunday night
and came nearly giving himself up.
But by several experiments and after
hard work he c ime to about 4 o'clock
Monday morning, says the Hickory
Press.
Charlotte News: A very artistic ar
rangement of gold ores is now display
ed in the windows at the Buford Ho
tel effice. The ores came from Dr.
McComb's mines and attract much at
tention, especially from the Northern
visitors. The ores show the sulphur
ests and gold.
Mamie, the three-year old daughter
of Charles Putman near Shelby, was
playing with a hickorynut in her mouth
and, while coughing one day last week,
8 wallowed the hickorynut. She is now
in a dangerous condition, as the nut
has lodged in her bowels, says the
8helby Aurora.
The suit of Wm. Mcllheny against
the Southern Railroad Company, was
concluded yesterday at noon. Late in
the afternoon the jury agreed on a ver
dict awarding Mcllheny fl.250 dam
ages. He sud for 2,O0O.The railroad
company took an appeal, says the
Charlotte News.
The Boone Democrat says that one
night recently a young man named
Moretz shot and seriously wounded a
Mr. Waugh, who lives at Old Fielde,
Asbe county. The shooting took place
at Gap creek, and reports say that all
the parties concerned were undt r the
influence of liquor.
Dr. G. K Bagby writes his family
that he is having his recently patented
tufting machines manufactured in
Richmond, where he went to arrange
for their manufacture. The first ma
chine to be made is sold right there.
O-her machines will soon follow, says
the Newberne Journal.
A colored man reports to the Faye
tteville Observer that he found in the
hollow of a large tree three 'possums,
four squirrels and a bushel of honey.
The honey was situated in a compart
ment above the 'possums and squir
rels, and they probably knew nothing
of their sweet neighbor.
Ne.ncy Kelly drove a mule to Wm.
McDonald's house in Flea Hill township
and hitched it to a tree while she went
in to sit up with a corpse. During her
absence some one stole tho team, and
though diligent search was made, no
trace of the thief could be discovered,
says the Fayetteville Observer.
Mr. Jas. E Yancy, one of our best
citizens m Asheville township, lost all
of his bacon, about 1 200 pounds, one
day last week. He was smoking it
when the house caught fire. When
discovered, about 12 o'clock, m , the
smoke house wa! too far gone to save
anything, says the Roxboro Courier.
The old adage of "it's never too oM
to learn," is beiDg changed to "it's
never too old to marry," in this coun
ty. Lst Thursday in Register Har
ris' office David Goss, a bashful swain
of 61 years, was united in marriage to
S iusan E Leonard, a blushing bride of
45 years, says the Lexington Dispatch.
Fayetteville Observer: Two color
ed boys were playing with a pistol on
Mr. W. N. Williams' plantation ye
terday, when it accidently went off,
the bullet entering tho neck of one and
ranging down. It was thought at first
to be a mortal wound and the one who
did the shooting was almost distracted.
Lexington Dispatch : In the case of
Ed. Clodf titer, for seduction, tried last
week, the court gave Miss Alexander
$1,000 damage. In costs and all, Mr.
Clodfelter will have to pay about
$1,400. He was also bound over to next
term of court in a $1,500 bend to an
swer to the charge of criminal seduc
tion. Some mischievous person put a large
rock on the C. C. track above Stouts
last Saturday. The night passenger
train came along and carri d the rock
along in front of it some two or three
hundred yards. It might have caused
a serious accident. Such mischief can
not be too severely censured, says the
Monroe Enquirer.
Dolph Smith and Will Coachman,
both colored, got into a fight here Sat
urday afternoon which finally resulted
a very ugly cut in the back for Smith.
The report goes that Smith on first
round knocked Coachman down but
was afterwards attacked by Coachman
who used his knife with fatal intent,
says the Laurinburg Exchange.
Scotland Neck Democrat : A coher
ed man named Neptune Anthony died
recently at the home of his son, Peter
Anthony, at the age of 110 years. He
was twica married before the Nat
Turner insurrection, was able to walk
about until a few days before his death.
He did hia first plowing when he was a
lad with a wood n plow. His father
came from Africa.
John P. Bean an acting deputy
sheriff under Cbarles H. Rhodes,
sheriff, was arrested and tried on
Thursday for embezzling or misappro
priating about $500 or $600 of the pub
lic money which he collected by reason
of his effice. He was tried before S.
P. Sherrill, J. P., and bound over to
court under a $600 bond, says the Lin
colnton Democrat.
A supposed attempt was made to
burn the store of J. R Gattis, on Chap
el Hill street, last night. This morn
ing it was found that somebody had
poured oil on the ouside of the store,
near the corner, where a can of oil was
sitting on the inside. A goods box sit
ting on the outside of the store was'
burned, but the house did not catch,
says the Durham Sun.
In speaking of shad a few days ago,
the New York Herald said that some
years ago it was thought by New York
ers that shad of the finest flavor were
found only in the Hudson river, but in
late years it has been ascertained that
New York receives the finest shad
from North Carolina waters. All in
all the Old North State has no superior
among the States of the Union.
Alfred I Craven, a native of York
ville and a resident of Gastonia and
afterwards of Atlanta, was arrested
last week in Atlanta on the charge of
forging a $100 check on his employer.
He was book-keeper in the Atlanta
Coffin Co., and is also short in hi3 ac
counta with that firm. The Atlanta
papers give the details of the forgery
and shortage, as alleged. He escaped
from the officer and has fled, eays the
Shelby Aurora.
Gastonia Gazette: While Statesville
and Louisburg are wrestling with the
second hand clothing business, it is
proper to note a state of things over in
Cleveland county. A gentleman from
the western part of Catawba county
brings to the Newton Enterprise news
of current reports over that way to the
effect that Mr Jake Swain, a mer
chant near Mooresboro, Cleveland
county, has the small pox and that he
got it from a lot of second-hand cloth
ing which he opened a few days ago.
Salisbury Herald : Robert Douglas,
who was arrested here last week and
taken to jail in Statesville, charged
with murder in Virginia, will be aole
to prove an alibi. The Statesville cor
respondent of the Charlotte Observer
says M. W. Bell, of Mount Mcurno,
was in Scatesville Saturday and says
Douglas was hauling cotton for him
the day the murder was committed.
Again it is in evidence that the young
man was at home the night of Febru
ary 2nd, going from Mount Mourne to
Iredell on the tram.
On Tuesday of last week Mack, Loyd
and Jud Wagner were arraigned and
given a preliminary trial at Boone,
charged with burning Mr. W. L
Bryan's store, barn and dwelling last
July. James Cornell, one of the par
ties in the case, turned states evidence
and testifies that he and Way caster
(now m jail at Statesville) were hired
by the Wagner boys to fire the prop
erty for the purpose of destroying ev
idence in the possession of Mr. Bryan
in the postoffice robbery case in which
Tice and Mack Wagner are implicated.
A. Lewis, of Kernersville, was in
Winston yesterday. He snowed a
Sentinel representative $45 in green
backs which were taken from Banner
Jordan's pocket after he wa3 killed.
The bills on one end were soiled by
blood. Mr Lwis offered to pay them
to Mr. J. L Patterson in settlement
for a debt, but the latter gentleman
was opposed to taking "blood ' m?-ney
and asked Mr. Lewis if he could not
give some other kind of money. The
Kernersville man wbs prepared to ac
comodate him Winston Twin City
Daily.
Burlington News: News reached
this place of the robbing of the resi
dence of W m. Dark, a well known citi
zen of the southern end of the county.
It is said that one night last week two
men entered the house and demanded
his money, when he slipped out of the
back way and ran for a neighbor to
help him, leaving the women of the
family alone with the robbers, who
proceeded by threats and cursing to
frighten the women, while Dark was
out in the dark night hunting for help
instead of defending hia own with what
weapons he had at hand The robbers
secured $200 in gold and other valu
ables. CHEATED BY HER FINANCEE'S
DEATH.
St. Paul. Minn., March 24. Miss
Kitty F Smith has filed a very unusual
kind of claim against the estate of Al
fred J. Hill, who died last June, and
whose estate is now undergoing probate
in this country.
Miss Smith was the financee of Hill,
and bases her claims on that fact, de
manding $200 for expenses incurred in
preparations for marriage, $100 for re -signing
her position before marriage,
and $2,000 said to have been promised
her by Hill in consideration of the mar
riage. The estate is valued at $65,000.
WARMTH SAVES FOOD.
FAP.d serves to maintain heat in the
animal and it is true economy to pre
serve it by outside means. Warm
stables save food, and as lumber is
cheaper than fodder and hay, this
warmth should be provided wherever
animals are kept.
LANGDON IN JAIL.
Samuel P. Langdon, Presided of the
Chatham County, N. C, Coal Mines,
in Jail at Philadelphia Charged With
Murdering His Mistress.
Many North Carolinians know Sam
uel P. Langdon, late President of the
Cumnock Coal Mine, Chatham county,
where nearly forty men lost their lives
just before Christmas by an explosion
of fire damp. Langdon is in jail at
Philadelphia. A young girl, said to
have been his mistress, lies dead. The
following dispatch from Philadelphia
gives some of the particulars:
Philadelphia, Pa., March 26 There
is little doubt that Annie McGrath, the
beautiful eighteen year old girl who
was foucd dead at 2926 Girard avenue
on Monday night, was murdered by
Samuel P. Langdon, the wealthy coal
operator, whose mistress she was.
The evidence thus far adduced points
almost conclusively to the theory that
Langdon killed her, and then attempted
to commit suicide, but weakened in
this and fld from the hcuse. He is
still a prisoner in the cell room of the
City Hall, where he will probably be
kept until the chemical analysis of the
girl's stomach is completed.
The wet towel which lay over the
girl's face when the bo. y was found is
in the possession of the detective de
partment, but its condition is kept a
profound secret. The most incriminat
ing fact, however, is that the girl's lips
and almost the entire interior of the
mouth were burned and, discolored, as
if by acid poison, while Langdon's
tongue from tip to palate is a series of
ulcers and mucous patches, which, ac
cording to his own statement, were not
there before Monday. This condition
is almost esaetly similar to that exist
iag in the girl's mouth, except that in
the latter it is more aggravated.
The statement made by Bertha Stew
art, ihe colored servant employed by
the couple, clearly show important
facts. Sae was the last person, with
the exception of Langdon, who saw the
girl alive. This was about 3 :30 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Langdon, as
she was known, came down stairs and
told the servant to prepare for dinner.
She then returned to the bed room,
where her supposed husband had been
with her all day.
There was no further sign from the
upper part of the house until 4:30
o'clock, when she heard a piercing
scream. She hurried up stairs and
knocked at the doer. Langdon, clad
only in a night shirt, opened the door
slightly, and told her that her mistress
was suffering from a bilious attack, to
which she was subject. Through the
aperture the servant saw her mistress
lying on the bed with the towel on her
face. She was motionless, and may
have been dead at that time. Langdon
had evidently been lying on the floor.
WENT TO DINNER ALONE.
At 5 o'clock he came down alone to
dinner and told the girl not to disturb
her mistres3, who was not well. He
gave her the keys of the house and left,
saying he was going to New York.
Tvnt night the body was discovered.
The girl's relatives deny that she was
ever subject to bilious attacks.
Tuesday morning the Stewart girl
received a postal card from LaDgdon
It had be n mailed after he left the
house the night before and instructed
her, if her mistres3 waa no better by
Tuesday, to notify her father, Henry
McGrath, 2018 Gratz street.
When arrested Langdon complained
of being ill and shortly afterward he
vomited copiously. He told Police
Surgeon Andrews that his tongue and
throat were ulcered from excessive
smokiog; but that he had not before
been troubled by such an effection.
The surgeon found the throat in good
condition, and says that smoking does
not produce such an ulceration as in
this case. The mouth looked as if it
had been burned by an irritant, euch
as ether or chloroform. The condition
might have been produced by a mineral
acid in a small q lantity. It was clearly
recent.
The authorities refuse to say whether
or not the towel shows any spots but
they admit that there was no odor cf
drugs in the room. This may be ex
plained by the fact that both ether and
chloroform evaporate rapidly, and
after the lapse of some hours would
leave no odor.
One of the first results of ether, said
the doctor, is stimulation. A person
just put under its influence might be
come excited and scream loudly.
It is almost certain that the Com
monwealth holds this theory of the
case.
Detective Frank P. Geyer, who un
raveled the Holmes murders, is on the
cas3, and when asked for his opinion,
said: "People don't scream unless
placed in a perilous position. Only
one theory can be held. The girl is
dead and the man is alive ana locked
up."
It ia also stated in a later dispatch
that letters were found in Langdon's
pockets showing that he was probably
eDgaged to a young lady at Rileigh.
However, this may be a mistake. The
lady mentioned lives at the coal mines,
is a book keeper there, but has visited
Raleigh, and may have written letters
to Langdon from here.
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THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.
Members of the Comtrittee Say That
Positive Active Action Will be Taken.
Washington, March 24 The man
agers on the part of the two houses in
charge of the Cuban resolutions failed
to agree this afternoon and adjourned
to meet again to morrow at 2 o'clock.
Many tentative propositions were dia
cussed. It was apparent, however, that
neither house will adopt the text in toto
of the other. The opinion is expressed
that the Senate conferrees will agree
to the first and second clauses of the
House resolutions, striking out the
third clause, which reads:
"Resolved, That the United States
has not intervened in struggles between
any European governments and their
colonies on this continent, but from the
very close relations between the people
of the United States and those of Cuba,
owing to its proximity and the extent
of the commerce between the two peo
ples, the present war ia entailing such
losses upon the people of the United
States that Congress is of opinion that
the Government of the United States
should benreDared tODroteftfc thnWiti
mate interests of our citizens by inter
a. m
vention, it necessary."
This will remove the obj ctionable
features discussed duriner tho dphata in
the Senate, ard it is thought the Hjuse
win accept tne resolutions as so
amended
While the members of tho nnnfprAnn.A
adhere to the statement that no conclu
sion was even aooroximatelv reaohAd
they all declare that they will report a
conclusion that will be satisfactory to
both houses, and which will be agreed
to. They assert with emphasis that
the latter is not to be left hanging in
tne air, tor tne over whelming vote in
both houses is accented aa an mnripnpft
of the sentiment of this Congress that
nnai and positive action of some sort
should be taken, and that tho nnncrpss
should not be frustrated by a few
irienas or spam, developed by the de
bate in the Senate. For this reason
they eay they will agree upon resolu
tions that must command the respect
and support of both houses of Con
gress.
THEY SETTLED THE QUESTION.
A Dispute Between Two Men Settled by
Shooting a Third.
Morgantown, W. Va. , March 24.
John Mitchell, head waiter at the Wat
son Hotel, Fairmont, thought the din
ning room would seat a certain num
ber of guests. Howard Warwick, an
other waiter, disagreed with him. A
violent quarrel ensued, during which
Mitchell drew a 32 calibre gun and let
loose on Warwick. The bullet missed
him, but hit Alva Diggs, also a waiter.
Diggs died this afternoon from the
effects of the wound.
CONFESSED HIS 'CRIME,
A Murderer Who Has for Months Sham
med Insanity.
Atlanta, Ga., March 23 Alexander
Carr, who was convicted of the murder
of Capt. H. O. King, whom he shot
down in cold blood in the streets of At
lanta, and who has for months acted
as an abjectly insane man, deceiving
the experts on insanity, as well as the
public, broke down this afternoon, and,
sending for the sheriff, confessed he
had been playing the part all along.
Carr is under sentence to hang for his
crime next Friday, and he declared he
threw off the disguise of insanity be
cause he could stand the strain no
longer, and because he wanted time to
prepare to meet his God.
MR. WALTERS A YACHTSMAN.
He Buys the Margarita and Knocks at
the Door of the New York Yacht Club.
Baltimore, Md., March 24 Mr.
Henry Walters, of this city, will be a
new but welcome acquisition to the
American yachting fraternity. He
has purchased the handsome steam
yacht Margarita from Col. A. J. Drexel,
of Philadelphia, and has applied for
membership in the New York Yacht
Club.
Mr. Walters is the son of the late
William T. Walters, of Baltimore, and
is one of the principal owners of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He is
the owner of the world iamous Walters'
Art Galleries at Mount Vernon Pla3e,
Baltimore, where he haa his residence.
He also ha8 a fine home at Wilmington,
N. C.
Mr. Walters' yacht was specially
constructed in 1889 for the late M. Max
Lebaudy, of Paris, and was named
Semiramia when launched. The gay
young Parisian soon tired of water life,
and the yacht was sold to Mr. Drexel,
who changed her name to Margarita.
She is 224 feet long and made an aver
age speed of twelve knots in crossing
the Atlantic.
SHE MARRIED A MANIAC.
Mrs. Ida Gottsberger Divorced From an
Undesirable Husband.
New York, March 21, Judge Van
Wyck, of the Supreme Court in Brook
lyn, yeeterday annulled the marriage
of Ida C. Gottsberger to Frank R.
Gottsberger because the latter ws in
sane when the ceremony took place.
Mrs. Gottsberger testified that Gotta
berger courted her from 1887 to 1892,
calling on her at intervals of several
months. She did not know that he
was insane. He often read passages
from the Bible to her for the purpose
of showing why a woman should marry.
"He frequently stopped during his
remarks," she said, "and would cause
me to pray with him. When he wanted
to demonstrate anything, he would
bring out a prayer book, which he al
ways carried.
"He said the Virgin Mary was listen
ing to me, and that it would be a crime
if I did not marry him. I broke off
with him for a year. He met me after
wards and was glad to see me. He
wrote to me several times, but I did not
answer his letters. He then came to
the house to see me, and said : 'Silence
gives consent. You did not answer my
letters, and, of course, I understood
you to mean that you wanted me to
call and see you.' He read 'Oliver
Twist,' and then engaged in prayer.
"He often spoke about the baccarat
scandal in England, in which the Prince
of Wales figured. I knew nothing
about the case, and told him so. I
asked him to desist, but he continued
despite my remonstrance. He cried
because I could not take his view of
the scandal.
"He said it would kill him if I re
fused to marry him. He was always
in tears. For seven months I did not
hear from him. I made inquiries from
his father regarding him, and waa told
it waa none of my aff airs, although he
was at that time in an insane asylum.
I was not aware of this until after our
marriage.
"After being released from the asy
lum he came again to see me. He said
he had a dispensation from the church
permitting our marriage. I put him
off. It was on Friday night. On Sat
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urday he came again. I refused to
marry him, and he bae'e me good-bye,
saying he was going to Europe. His
intention was to marry me and then
leave, aa he had planned the trip some
months before. He left in June On
his return to the houss on New Year's
day, 1893, we got married. The affair
vas kept a secret, but he made it
known in April, and wo went to live
together.
'I had not been with him long before
I regretted my action. He tied me to
the top of a trunk with a sash-cord, and
beat me. Ho threw hot milk at me
and carried me around the room with
his teeth clenched. Ho recited poetry
from nine o'clock at night until he
went to bed at five o'clock in the morn
ing. "Frequently he would force me out
of bed in the dead of the night, and in
sist that I should dree s myself and go
with him to Prospect Park. He smoked
cigarettes, and dropped the ashes upon
his food. Then he would mix the ashes
with his food. He said he had a right
to kill me and use me, as he could not
bg held accountable for anything he
did.
A year after our marriage, I learned
of his insanity. He told me he had
been in a retreat for nervous prostra
tion. He was arrested on the Brooklyn
bridge at the order of his brother, who
was in pursuit of him. He was taken
to the station house and turned over to
his father, who took him to Mount
Hope Asylum, in Maryland.
"A child was born to us. It had
more than human strength. It acted
wildly, and died within twenty four
hours. In at boat once, a Jamaica Bay,
Gottsberger attempted to drown me.
I left him last year. He came after me
each week, and once, seeing me on the
stoop, he seized me and carried me to
the street. While I was living with
him he locked me in a room without
food, and when I was sick he would
provide no medicine for me or consult
a physician. I got a got a nurse and
he locked her up. He forced the door
open and pulled her out and threw a
large dog on top cf me. The last place
he lived was at No. 42 St. Mark's Place.
I regard him as an insane man. He
has not been rational since I married
him."
The policeman who arrested Gotts
berger on the Brooklyn bridge said that
tho defendant's b: other told him he was
out of his head.
The nurse, Anna Nichols, told of her
experience with Gottsberger while she
was attending his sick wife, and she
said he acted like a madman.
Justice Van Wyck granted a decree
of divorce.
DULL DAY IN CONGRESS.
Ex-President Harrison Authorized to Ac
cept Certain Medals The House.
Washington, March 2G None of
the matters which came up before the
Sanate to-day were of much public in
terest and importance. One third of
the time was consumed over a joint
resolution appointing Bernard R. Green
successor to General Casey, in the
matter of the construction of the new
library building in Washington. Nearly
as much time on an amendment to the
legislative appropriation bill, allowing
a third clerk to the Senate Committee
on Pensions ; and all the rest of the
time on a motion made by Mr. Sher
man to strike out of the legislative bill
all the sections in relation to tho com
pensation of United States District At
torneys, Clerks, and Marshals. The
latter subject was not disposed of when
the Senate adjourned.
The joint resolution reported yester
day by Mr. Sherman from the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, authorizing
Benjamin Harrison to accept certain
medals presented to him by the gov
ernments of Brazil and Spain during
his term of service as President of the
United States, was taken up and passed.
Mr. Allen (Populist), of Nebraska,
offered a resolution as follows :
Resolved, That Congress should by
appropriate legislation and without
further "delay restore silver to free and
unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16
parts of standard silver to one part of
gold, and should by appropriate legis
lation withdraw from the Secretary of
tne lreasury any power that he may
now have to issue the bonds or other
interest bearing obligations of tho
United States until the necessity there
for ehould be declared by Congress,
and that Congress should not adjourn
until these things have been accomp
lished. The resolution wa3 laid on the table
for the present.
The Salisbury World says Miss Nora
Cowan, a school teacher of Rowan, and
Mr. E. A. McMurtrey, a farmer living
near Brison, Ark., heard of each other
through friends and corresponded. In
December they met at the Atlanta ex
position and were pleased with each
other. Monday night of last week Miss
Cowan left Salisbury to meet Mr. Mc
Murtrey. They were to meet half way
between their homes and be married.