Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1884 — Page 5

TIIE IIERO OF KHARTOUM. The Strange and Adventurous Career of a Thoroughly Unselfish Man. Compiled from Archibald Forbes’s Cook. Charles George Gordon was born Jan. 28,1832, and has just rounded a half-century of his life. Born of a race of soldiers, his profession was practically marked out for him from childhood. He got his first experience of actual warfare in the Crimea, taking a prominent part, as an engineer, in the siege of Sevastopol. It was the experience gained in the Crimean war, togother with his great theoretical knowledge of military affairs, and especially of all that related to engineering, that was to stand him in such good stead a few years later when he was to lead the ‘‘ever-victorious army*’ from conquest to conquest, and enact the chief part in one of the most thrilling episodes of modern warfare. The Tai-Ping rebellion occurred at a time when America had a much larger rebellion on her own hands, and upon which her attention was naturally % concentrated. Between the TaiPing rebellion and that of the false prophet of the Soudan there is an obvious analogy, and it is certainly a curious thing that the man who suppressed the one should be the one upon whom it should devolve to cope with the other. Mr. Forbes points out the similarity between the Mahdi and the “Heavenly King" of the Tai-Ping rebellion: “Hung Sewtauen was ‘a poor youth of a rude, despised race;’ Mohammed Ahmed is a son of a Dongola carpenter. Both professed, and perhaps felt, religious enthusiasm; both certainly made a .weapon of the religious enthusiasm with which they were able to inspire masses. The character of neither 'displays personal heroism: both schemed and allowed others to fight their battles. Both characters are full of personal licentiousness and ruthless cruelty.” And Mr. Forbes might have added that both have fought with very material #nds in view, aside from whatever spiritual ones •lay have served as pretexts. Gordon went to China in 1860. and was with the English army when, in the fall of that year, the allied forces made an attack on Pekin, which resulted in giving the capital over to their hands and in the burning of the summer palace for ■which Lord Elgin was so severely criticised. At this time the Tai-Ping rebellion had been in progress for some ten years, and when the allies took a hand in it, on behalf of the imperial government, Gordon was on the spot, and gained that minute knowledge of the country about the mouth of the Yang tze, of which he was to make such effective use a few months later. At this time he made the prophesy that two years would see the end of the revolt, little dreaming that he himself would be the means whereby it would come to final grief. The “ever-victorious army” was organized by the private enterprise of some wealthy merchants of Shanghai. Under its first leaders, Ward and Burgoine, it had already achieved a certain reputation. when the death of the former and the dismissal of the latter left it without a commander. To this command Gordon was appointed, and from that time onward, in the face of enormous obstacles, both external and internal, kept it under his control, and led it from victory to victory. He took command in March, 1863. In May, 1805. Chanchufu, the last of the rebel strongholds, was captured and the rebellion was at an end. The force which. under Gordon's leadership, accomplished this, numbered from two to five thousand native soldiers, officered by Europeans. It was frequently on the brink of mutiny, frequently guilty of trencher ous designs, but the firmness of Gordon was quite equal to the occasion, His policy was to recruit his forces from the captured rebels, which he did on several occasions, the willing ness with which they changed sides furnishing a striking commentary upon the genuineness of the motives which inspired the rebellon. The gratitude of the Chinese government for Gordon's services knew no bounds. The large sums of money which were offered him were refused, but he accepted the decorations which represented the highest honors within the imperial gift. The English government was hardly less slow in recognizing his splendid achievements, and upon his return made him aC. 8., and hit rusted to him the important work of superintending the defense of the Thames. Those who wish to read a full account of his Chinese career will do well to consult the work ©f Dr. Audrew Wilson on the “Ever-Victorious Army. ” The next six years of Gordon's life were passed at Gravesend, the only years of anything like a quiet, peaceful exist ence that his manhood has known. Two or three more spent near the mouth of the Danube, and then opened the second great chapter of his life, the chapter which deals with his work in central Africa, and which is not yet dosed. He arrived in Cairo in 1874, to enter into the service of the Khedive, under the official title, which he found very amusing, of “His Excellency General Colonel Gordon, the Governor-General of the Equator." His first stay in Africa was of two years' duration, but he had accomplished an almost incredible amount in this space of time. Mr. Forbes sums it up as follows: “He had mapped the White Nile from Khartoum to within a short distance of the Victoria Nyanza. He had given to the slave trade on the White Nilo a deadly blow. He had restored confidence and peace among the tribes of the Nile valley, so that they now freely brought into the stations their beef, corn, and ivory for sale. He had opened up tho water communication between Gondokoro and the the lakes. He bad formed government districts, and established secure posts with safe communication between them. He had contributed a revenue to the khedival exchequer, and this without oppression.” After a sliort holiday in England he returned to Egypt early in 1877, and with greatly increased powers went to work again. “It was a stupendous task," writes one of his biographers, “to give peace to a country quick with war, to Sress slavery among a people to whom the > in human flesh was life and fortune: to make an army out of perhaps the worst material ever seen; to grow a flourishing trade and a fair revenue on the wildest anarchy in the w'orld. The immensity of the undertaking, the infinity cf details involved in a single step toward the end, the countless odds to bo faced, Uie many pests, the deadly climate, the horrible vermin, the ghastly itch, -the nightly and daily alternations of overpovering heat and bitter cold to be endured and overcome, the environment of bestial savagery and ruthless fanaticism—all these combine to make the achievement unique in human history.” And yet all this was done by the energy of this one man during tho five years which he spent in the Soudan. Unfortunately, it was to be undone too quickly; for no sooner had Egyptian intrigue succeeded in getting rid of him than the old order of things was restored, slavery and slave-hunting became the chief institution of the ©ountrv, insecurity took the place of the safety Which had obtained under Gordon’s rule, the order he had established gave way to anarchy. The Mahdi arose, oppressed natives flocked to his standard, feeling that nothing could well be worse than their present condition, and finally, when affairs were at their worst last winter, the eyes of the Finglish government became opened to the fact that there was one man in the w r orld capable of doing all that human power could possibly avail to do toward a restoration of something like order in the Soudan; and, at the last moment, when a day's further de*lajr would have made it too late, he was seized upon and persuaded to abandon the plans which he had in hand, in order to visit central Africa for a third time, and this time to provide for the rescue of the 30,000 persons under military service which are scattered through the Soudan. What the sequel of this mission will be the future must reveal. Those who have followed the past career of this intrepid soldier can with difficulty persuade themselves that he will not once more come out triuinphtut. He has escaped from situations more dangerous than his present one in times past, and that absolute fearlessness which has best served him in the past will not fail him now. The man who, during the Tai-Pingrebel-lion, sailed up one night into the heart of a large city, garrisoned by 15,000 men, upon a little river ’ steamer, with two guns and a handful of men, and virtually captmed the city, will know how to take care of himself in Khartoum. The man who mounted a swift camel one day in the Soudan and weut alone to tho camp of his bitterest enemies, tho slave deal era, and there, amid 3,000 of his foes, announced as his ultimatum that they to him, and that if not, he would

disarm and break them up —this man will not disappoint those who sent him to Khartoum, even if they expect tho impossible of him. Should that singular immunity from hurra, which made the superstitious Chinese soldiers think him to bear a charmed life, at last fail him. his will bo no ignoble end. Whatever it may be, it will nobly crown a life of a sort which is rare enough in any age, and singularly rare in our own. Perfectly unselfish, devoted ever to high impersonal aims, modest to .a fault, careless of glory and reputation for their own sake, unswerving in his love for mankind, unfailing in his readiness to make any sacrifices of fortune or life whereby lie may contribute to the advancement of his fellow-men, deeply religious, but in no narrow sense, bearing a life which he feels to be a well-nigh intolerably heavy burden because upheld by a solemn sense of its responsibilities, a man truly without fear and without reproach as the most chivalrous of the knights of old seen in the light of the most fervid poet s imagination, Charles Gordon appears to us as a man wholly by himself and strangely out of place in this practical nineteenth century. His single hearted devotion to humanity has caused those who have known him to regard him with something of that ref erence that men felt and feel for 3lazzini, or for the founder of Christianity himself, whose ideal of life has been so fully realized by these men. It is related that when about to set out on his present mission to central Africa, he was. one day, in conversation with an English official of high rank, and, drawing a little volume from his pocket, said that he had there the clear solution of the problem before him. The one with whom he was speaking supposed the volume to contain some carefully prepared scheme of the campaign at hand, but fouud to his surprise that it was a copy of the “Imitation of Christ.” Whether true or not. the incident is characteristic of the man, .and of his firm belief that the foundation piinciples of morality are the best precepts that nations, no less than individuals, may follow. His face is singularly attractive in its union of strength and tenderness, with its expression at once intellectual and sympathetic. In looking at its likeness one can imagine something of the anger with which he started out, weapon in hand, to avenge himself upon the treacherous Chinese official who had betrayed him and made sport of his honor: of tho quiet scorn with which he repulsed the proposition that he himself should play the traitor to the goverment which had reposed confidence in him; of the smiling disdain with which he has put aside the rich rewards that grateful governments have sought to bestow upon him. It is true, but superfluous, for Mr. Forbes to say at the close of hi's book: “No difficulties will abate bis loyal courage: no stress of adversity w'ill daunt his gallant heart. For him life has no ambition, death no terror. He will do his duty.” GEN. GRANT. The Rill to Place the Leader of our Armies on the Retired List. New York Herald: The Edmunds bill to place Gen. Grant upon the retired list of the army ought to pass without dispute. In presence of such a measure the nation is for the moment on trial. By the way it receives such a proposition and by the way its representatives deal with it the world will judge whether its heart is up to the level of a generous appreciation of great services. The hatred of small men for great qualities, the malice and vindictiveness of disap pointed opponents, will make themselves heard in opposition, with pretended constitutional and economical arguments: but tho nation should be deaf to all that, and should do for its great soldier all that could possibly be asked for in his name. Philadelphia Times: General Sherman is re tired on full pay for life by the laws of the land, and General Sheridan's retirement is provided for also, without reduction of salary. Why should Generel Grant the chief of all our chieftains, be less favored than are his lieutenants? True, he surrendered the right to retirement with pay for life by accepting the presidency; but lie was called to civil trust by the sovereign people by large majorities, and he could do no less than obey their command. The power that thus summoned him to higher trust than involved the surrender of a life salary in the army, should now restore him to equality with his junior officers, by placing him on the retired list. It is not a matter of national generosity but a matter of national justice, and the considerate people of all parties and sections will gladly have Congress equally honor the country and General Grant by the unanimous passage of the Edmunds bill. New York Times: Circumstances in which every honest man will give him his hearty sympathy have involved him in misfortune, and the country will respond with profound approval to the action of Congress in extending to him an honorable and secure position in the army which owes to him so much of its glory. This action, we are confident, will be taken with no less cordial consent by the brave men who fought against him than by the representatives of those for and with whom he fought. Chicago Tribune: The present is a generous Congress, but it has no generosity or gratitude for the man who did more than any other to save the government whose money it is so prodigally squandering upon undeserved objects? It can reward the recreant, but has it no reward for the patriotic hero? For the credit of the government, for the sake of patriotic example, for the encouragement of fidelity and gallantry in the army, in tho name of common justice, gratitude aiid decency, let Congress remove this unseemly scandal and bury all possibility of its repetition by placing General Grant in a situation where he will be independent for the rest of his life. Lafayette Journal: General Grant, by his valor and his genius, won the series of victories that culminated in the surrender at Appomattox, lie made possible tho preservation of tne Union. His heroism, his loyalty, his talent were factors in the conservation* of the government. The groat services General Grant rendered the country make it appropriate that he should be placed on the retired list, even if he possessed a competency, which it is now probable is swept away. This act of justice should have been done years ago. It would be a proof of the gratitude the American people feel toward the great soldier, and the love they bear him. Grant needs no monument to perpetuate his memory. The further we get away from the war, the grander his services will appear. Springfield Republican: The government of the United States will not have long in which to evince generosity toward General Grant, to whom it owes much. Germany, after her great war with France, made handsome presents out of her indemnity to her successful generals—that is, handsome as things go under the Prussian regime, which is one of austere economy. General Grant has had from the governernraent nothing which he has not earned by official service, and the country would, we doubt not, be pleased to see Congress do the generous thing by him, placing it in any honorable form, llis services in connection with the Mexican treaty are alone worth it. In that case, as the great soldier of tho American republic, he inspired a confidence as to the simplicity and straightforwardness of his motives which it had been very difficult to win in the sister republic. Some Good Points About Republicanism. Interview with VV. H. Barnum. There are some things about the Republican party which I cannot help admiring. The most wonderful thing it ever did was to formulate the national banking act during the war period, and, experiment as it was. it lias stood substantially as solid as the Constitution of the United States, without material amendment. It was a wise piece of statesmanship. You could not get such an act to-day. Congress lacks statesmanship. A majority of members in both political parties make everything subordinate to their own ambition to hold*their seats. The banking act has no equal except in two cases, so far as its solidity and permanence are concerned—it is like the Bible, on one hand, and the Episcopal Prayer book on the other. Your party papers are generally shrewder than ours in an exciting political campaign. You are silent, as a rule, on matters which ordinarily put an opponent on the defensive. In 1880 Garfield's weaknesses were avoided, and there was a power of sentiment created about the tow-path of the canal. I have noticed that sentiment is a stronghold with the Republicans. Directors Who Do Not Direct. Pittsburg Telegraph. Some of these days this sort of wrong will be corrected. The time will come when directors of banks will bo made personally responsible to stockholders and depositors to the amount of every dollar lost to them through their indifference to or neglect of their duty by boards of di rectors.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 13, ISB4.

THE CHAMPION BIGAMIST. Tho Detroit Coachman Who Eloped with His Employer's Daughter. Story Told by One Wife, in Detroit Times. “The truth will come out sooner or later, and I might as well tell it all," she replied, nervously. “My husband’s true name is George Robert Newbold, the son of a retired British army officer, now living at Peterboro, Ontario. Ho is about forty one years of age. From his early years he has been inclined to be fast, and has brought shame upon as good a father and mother as any son ever had. He is their only child, and notwithstanding his crimes they still love him, and overlook much that others condemn. He was married first in 1862, at the age of nineteen, to a Miss Jerusha Wood, at Barrowfield Church, Kingston, Ontario, he taking the name of Charles E. Stewart. lie lived with her for some time, and when tired of the arrangement came to the States and secured a divorce—one of those patent divorces, they call them. I do not know what his career was until the time I met him, but his subsequent actions would indicate that he was running after the women. I was married to the man Nov. 27, 1875, he still calling himself Stewart, and claiming a legal divorce from the first wife, which papers I have now, though Lawyer Moore has tried hard to get them. I did not know my husband's real name until he took me to his father’s house, at Poterboro, where the truth had to come out.’* “Will you give your maiden name and tile place of your marriage?” “For reasons that to mo seem good I must refuse just now. There are others whom I would shield, but aside from that I will try to give a connected story. After our marriage we Jived pleasantly until June, 1876, when Newbold went to Campbellford, where ho was married to Mary Adelaide Nichols, a maiden lady, aged thirtyfive years, the only daughter of a very wealthy farmer. I did not know of this for some time, as he was going back and forth, living with me, but claiming business as his excuse for frequent visits to Campbellford. After a time it began to be rumored in that town that Newbold had a wife in Peterboro, and some of her friends came to see if the reports were true. The truth of the story was so apparent that they returned to Campbellford, told the deceived woman the facts, and the knowledge so preyed upon her mind that she became a raving maniac and was sent to an asylum, where she subsequently died. He was arrested for bigamy on three distinct charges, the prosecuting witnesses summoned being Jerusha Wood, Mary Adelaide Nichols and myself; but Jerusha was the only one who appeared against him. He was subsequently convicted and sent to the Kingston penitentiary for two years. During his imprisonment in jail I ministered to his every want, and after lie had gone to Kingston 1 visited him twice, living with his parents the while. Upon the expiration of his sentence Newbold returned to his father’s home, and we remained there six months. 1 treated him as though he had always been a true and faithful husband. I wanted the past to be forgotten, and took my husband back, though thoughts of that deceived woman who died in tne asylum came to me oftentimes in the watches of the night and robbed me of many hours sleep. After six months at his home we went to Belleville, I remaining but a short time. There he was arrested, charged with falsely personating a government officer. He was sent to prison for six months. While in jail he won the affections of Mrs. Myers, the janitor’s wife, and ten days before tho expiration of his sentence she left her home and wont to Brockville, where she was later joined by Newbold. and they registered at the St. Lawrence Hall as the Hon. George Percy and wife. There they Remained six week, when the woman's daughter found her and reported the facts to Mr. Myers. The infatuated woman, who had then passed her forty-fifth year, declared she would not leave her new-found love, for he was the only man for whom she felt any affection. They went to Morristown, N. Y., where I found them. I went to where they were stopping, knocked at the door, and when he came to admit me ho looked very much astonished, ana said, ‘What did you come for?’ I replied by asking, ‘Didn’t you foiegraph?’ Os course he denied this, which was right, but I went into the house and drove the woman away. I heard afterward that she went back to her husband. After getting rid of Mrs. Myers, I stayed with my husband two hours and talked with him. trying to win him back, agreeing to do anything lie required if he would become a true man; but he would make no promises and I left, going to Brockville, and thence back to Peterboro. It was nearly two years before I heard from him again: then he was at Schenectady, N. Y.. and he wrote to me, begging for forgiveness, acknowledging that he had deeply wronged me, but insisted that he still loved me with an intensity that grew as the years of separation passed. Though writing in this way to me, the man was then living with a woman he had married in the meantime —a Miss Annie Henry, residing at 174 Union street. He then was calling himself John H. Percy. That woman, I see by the Times, has one child. Those facts 1 did not know at the time, and I wrote him an affectionate letter asking him to return. When he had been absent something over two years he did return to his father’s house, and again I welcomed him and hoped that comfort and happiness had at last come to us, but my dream was a delusive one. In a short time lie went to Toionto to learn shorthand and telegraphy, and there he picked up a girl named “Nellie”—the last name has slipped my mind. I hoard of this in time to prevent a marriage, and then lie went back to Schenectady, where he staid until last July. He returned to Peterboro and in November came here. I followed shortly after. The name Neveille was assumed here, and I knew nothing about it until my arrival. Ho excused it by saying that if his real name was given it would injure him, and I consented. He wanted Miss Shaw to take the same name and pass for his sister, but she wisely refused, and it is much better for her that she did.” “What do you know about the Newark marriage?” “I never heard of it till the Times came out and published the facts. As he was away for so long a time after locating in Schenectady, he may have married two or more, for he seemed possessed on the subject of marriage, and had a way about hi in that attracted women. His poor old father is one of the most respected citizens of Peterboro, and the shame that this man has brought upon him is terrible. The reasons for withholding the facts so long were that 1 hoped my children’s future would be benefited thereby. But I now see the thing in its true light, and make this truthful statement so that those who have been censuring me may not continue to judge too harshly. That lam not crazy is a wonder. I have borne enough to drive any woman into an asylum, but thoughts of the poor, innocent children have enabled me to bear up. lam not a blackmailer. lam not a conspirator to bleed money from .anybody. I have said to the Times frequently that I did not care what people thought of me. but that is not so All that is left to me is my reputation —and that is smirched by contact with this man, who lias been the cause of so much sorrow in so many homes —and for my children’s sake I want to regain what I have lost through no fault of my own. “As there is a God in heaven. I am tho lawful wife of George Robert Newbold, and irom him I have never been divorced. He has never supported me as a husband should; iudeed .1 have frequently sent him of my scant earnings when lie was oil from home. Sometimes I think and feel that my whole life has been a fearful nightmare. I seem to think that tho misery and woe I have gone through would he too much for hu man endurance; 1 see the shame and contumely heaped upon my head because of the wrong-do-ings of my husband, and in my agony I cry out, •Such things cannot be!' Briefly you have the Story of t lit* wicked man who is now lying in prison, and every word is gospel truth. Jerusha Wood. Mary Adelaide Nichols, Mrs. Myers, Anna Henry, “Nellie," Selina Rowe, Miss Whitney and myself—how many others I cannot say—have felt the wicked power possessed by Newbold. and for society’s sake I, his legal wife, wish that he may bo placed where his bane ful presence will no longer debauch the innocent girls and women with whom lie comes in contact. I have been harassed by interested parties seeking the sorrowful story 1 commit to the Times to night, but I have withheld it even longer than I should, still wishing to protect innocent sufferers. 1

may say that Newbold's history is well known throughout Canada. Just before lie left last, week l besought him to give up the wild and wicked scheme, but lie swore lie was not intending an elopement, as 1 feared. I knew better, and my last words to him were: ‘You and I will never see each other again. You are sure to get behind prison bars again.’ My prediction, born of jealousy, has proved true.” “Will you go to Toledo to morrow?” “I will not. There is nothing I can do there, and my presence would only tend to create trouble. 1 shall never live with Newbold again, but will try to earn a livelihood for myself and children in some honest employment. I want to show the people that I am not as dark as painted, but that my reticence has been prompted by the best of motives.” The deserted wife frequently trembled in her speech, choked, sobbed, and then the tears would fall and her frame quiver, but. with wonderful self-control, she would resume tho thread of her sorrowful story, and continue until another painful memory would stir her heart. ENGLISH-PEELLE. The Red-Eyed Truth of the Case from a Democratic Source. Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer, The action of tho House sub-committee on elections in voting to unseat Peelle and seat Will E. English excites much comment here. Var ions explanations are offered why the senior English has taken such an interest in this matter. One is that his friends and those near to him had bet heavily on the election of his son, and that the seating of the young man would re lieve them. Another is that the father desires for his son the honor of having been a member of Congress. That the father is not insensible to the boost it would give his son no one can doubt, but whether the seating of the young man in the face of an honest majority of the votes of the district against him will bring much honor is another question. Yet, weighed in another light, it is a question of awful consequence to William H. English. The campaign of his son was a cash one from the moment that he became a candidate before the convention until the polls closed on the night of the election. The good money thus spent was more than Wm. H., with his $5,000,000 or $6,1)00,000. could afford to lose; it was literally taking his heart’s blood. Fame, honor, every tiling, vanished behind the spectral campaign whose insatiate maw had swallowed so much of closely hoarded cash, and the ingenuity of the man of wealth, whose shrowdness had made so many men labor to reap for him a golden harvest, went to work to find some grounds upon which to base a contest for the seat. The fact remains unquestioned that a majority of the votes of tho district were cast against young English, which, to a modest man, would be evidence that the people do not want him to represent them in Congress. The contest is based on the ground that in Indianapolis the Republican voters were supplied with a ticket priuted on plain .white paper of unusual thickness—a paper which Senator McDonald learnod to call the “spring-hack kind” while ho was investigating the Southern method of carrying elections. Those who desired to vote against English could not get any other tickets with which to express their disapproval of his candidacy. That enough Democrats to defeat him took this view the returns of the election proves beyond a doubt. The entire Republican county ticket was voted for in this city with the same tickets which were voted against Mr. English, yet they defeated the Democratic candidates, and not one of them has ever dared to bring a contest beforo the courts, the only tribunal to which they could appeal. They could go before a committee, which would be governed by papism influences instead of the facts in evidence. If English was legally elected, so were the clerk, treasurer, sheriff, prosecutor and commissioners on the Democrat county ticket. The Republican sheriff was elected by only sixteen votes, yet his Demo cratic competitor did not dare to carry a contest, into the courts, though he received more votes than English did. It is said that the elder English is making the appeal to members of the House that the immediate seating of his son will give another vote to tho Morrison bill. The young man has no opinion on tlje tariff, and no man ever heard him utter an intelligent sentence on the subject. The father, who thinks on political matters for him, gave utterance to his views last winter to the Democratic Editorial Association. He took high tariff grounds and the broadest protection to national hanks. As tho Morrison bill has passed from before Congress, that argument will have no further force. The contest for Mr. Peelle's seat is made to get the SIO,OOO salary, which would go to reimburse the old gent for the election expenses of 1882, and possibly to invest in another nominating campaign. Should the young man be renorai nated he will be the worst defeated candidate the Democrats have ever led to slaughter, and in a large measure he will drag down the rest of the ticket. If the Democrats want success in this district they will not nominate Mr. English. The renomination of Mr. Peelle unanimously by the Republican convention three weeks ago shows the estimate placed upou him. his character and abilities by the members of his party, and to the public he has been a satisfactory representative. PRESIDENT EMI KENNEDY In Danger of Being Ousted from the Control of His Mythical Railway Company. San Frauciaeo Chronicle. A rumor has been in circulation that a meeting of the stockholders of the so-called People’s Railway Company of America had been held, or was about to be held, for tho purpose of ousting Emi Kennedy, the self-elected president of the mythical board of directors* Several persons who were known to have been convinced by Kennedy’s glowing, if contradictory, circulars, and wlio had honestly subscribed and paid their money, were called upon in relation to the rumor. At the office of the unincorporated corporation none of those in charge were willing, if able, to give any information whatever, and when Kennedy appeared that worthy admitted that there had been a meeting of stockholders of of one of the local boards, but that nothing of any consequence whatever had taken place. At the previous meeting of the board Kennedy, with colossal and unbounded cheek, had taken matters into his own hands and run things to suit himself. The rules of the institution, according to tho circulars, expressly state that only those holding stock represented in the local board could participate in the proceedings of that particular board. When Kennedy took the chair he was asked if he owned any stock represented by the board, to which he admitted ho did not. Notwithstanding this, however, he *p pointed a committee of throe to select the officers. The committee, after tho farce of retiring, reported the names which had already been prepared for them, which gave Kennedy the control of the meeting. At that meeting a protest was to have been read against Kennedy’s uisurpa tion. his past, present and future acts, and against tho negotiation of bonds, but as these matters were stated verbally, the protest, for that and other reasons which will be made public in due time, was not used. A gentleman who most heartily regrets ever having been drawn into the People’s railway scheme, said that the rumor, as stated, was not exactly correct, for the reason that there was no such a body as the board of directors, no such a person as a bona fide president of the company, and that the institution itself has no legal existence. While he did not wish to deny that a movement was on foot to rid the subscribers of Kennedy, yet at the same time lie did not admit it. He implied, however, by his manner and tone, that something was to be done. The meeting which Kennedy says took place on Monday evening was of the local hoard 53. As there has boon less than a dozen boards or ganized, it is very evident that tho high number, “53,” was only another of the methods used to deceive and for the apparent purpose of gulling the people in communities where the scheme has not been worked: It is also said that, by Kennedy’s orders, no money for any purpose whatever can be paid out by the so-called company’s officers. Henry Ward Beecher on Revenue. New York Special. Tho Rev. Henry Ward Beecher presided at a meeting of the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club, held in the Art Association Hall, on Montague street. Before introducing the speaker of Ihe evening. Mr. Beecher had something to say about free trade and the Morrison Tar iff bill The great problem to be solved .it present, he said, was how to keep down the immense revenue which was a constant source of danger to the government. One way was to reduce tin* tariff and another was to abolish the internal revefiue. The latter was derived chief-

ly from whisky and tobacco. Prohibition was taking State after State, and high license was getting a hold on the hearts of tin* people. In view of these facts, abolition of the internal revenue was not feasible. The people had expected a tariff reform bill, continued Mr. Beecher, from the Democratic majority in Congress, as about the only compensation it could give in return for its existence. Mr. Beecher predicted great fiscal change in the near future. The protectionists had refused to accept a gradual reduction of the tariff that would not have disturbed values. The change now would prob ably be sweeping, and it might be that many financial disasters would follow in its wake. Eat Slow, And clean your mouth afterwards with Sozodont, and your teeth will be in condition to do their work for years. Thousands of dyspeptics bolted their food because they had no good teeth to masticate properly. Chew fine, eat slow, and use Sozodont. Don’t Die in the House. —“Rough on Rats" clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bed-bugs. Fifteen cents. Pill FOR PAIN. CURES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache, Headache. Toothache, Sore Throat, Kwelliiagn. WprniiiH, Bruises, Rum*. MealdH. Front Bite*. AND ALI. OTIIKR BODILY PAINS AND ACHES. Sold by I>ruggit ami Dealers everywhere. Fitly Ceuu a bottl*. Directions in 11 Languages. THE CHARLES A. TOOELF.R CO. (BosMuen to A. VOQSLKR A CO.) Baltimore, Md„ V. 8. A; Infants and Children “Without Morphine or Narcotine. What gives our Children rosy cheeks, What cures their fevers, makes them sleep; *Tis Casioria. When Babies fret, and cry by turns, What cures their colic, kills their worms. Hut Castoria. What quickly cures Constipation, Sour Stomach, Colds, Indigestion : But Castoria. Farewell then to Morphine Syrups, Castor Oil and Paregoric, and Hail Castoria. Centaur Liniment.—Anabsolute cure for Rheumatism, Sprains, Bums, Galls, &c., and an instantaneous Pain-reliever. Gentlemen who wash to furnish themselves with fine shoes can be sure of getting the best, if they ask their shoe-dealer for Hamm's make. Our goods are made of the finest material, and the work is so well put together that the shoes will wear and keep the shape. Any foot, slim, medium or wide, can be fitted by a dealer who keeps a full line of our goods. Our name is stamped on the sole or woven in the strap of every shoe. HANAN & SON.

elbow ever, made t% Best Satisfaction and meets with Quick Sales 1!!:SPp for sale by every stove dealer. GALL S CARPET AWD LACE CURTAIN HOUSE. The Special Sale of WALL PAPERS at the Great Bargains I have been giving will continue a few days longer. See these prices: White Blank Papers, FIVE cents. Flat Papers, TEN cents. Satin Papers, TEN cents. Gilt Papers, TWENTY-FIVE cts. ALBERT GALL.

AMUSEMENTS. DIG Iv SON’S Grand Opera-House. GEORGE A. DIC’KSON Manager The Best Located and MOST POPULAR Theater in the State. 12, CROMWELL’S MAGNIFICENT ART EMERTAMTS! Tuesdav Evening, Mav 13, THE HOMES OF ENGLAND! From the Castle of the Monarch to the Cot of the Peasant, including tho Superb I Bas Reliefs NIGHT AND MiUiMNU” anil the Beautiful Transition. “HEAVENWARD." Prices. Admission—2s<\ 35c and 50c. I Course Tickets for the six nights, $1.50, now on sale. I Reserved seats without extra charge. Grand Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. General Admission, 25c; Children, 15c. $ I |i isievated " M fyP Garden. - Mav 12, Matinees ONE WEEK ONLY!—Mono*,, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; n Mr. FRANK JONES ami Miss ALICE MONTAGU In the Sensational Drama. “THE SLACK HAND!" WIGWAM RINK 7 The management reserves the right to refuse admission and use of skates to all objectiouable parties. Fishing Tackle, Lawn Tennis, Croquets, Base Balls and Bats, Hammocks and Swings, Japanese Wall Decorations, Kindergarten Supplies. CHARLES MAYEII & CO. Nos. 29 and 31 W. Washington Street. HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. TIIKEE THOUSAND FEET UP! DEER PARK, On the Summit of the Alleghenies, Directly on the line of the B. & O. Under the management of W. J. Walker, late of tbs Gils'ey House, New York. The Baltimore & Ohio Company has snared no ex* pense in improvements, refurnishing ana elegant ap* pointments generally, and Deer Park has no suporiot in everything going to make it tiik Summer Resort of the Grand Old Alleghenies. Accommodations for upward of five hundred guests. Three fast trains both east and west daily. All passenger trains stop at fleer Park. Fine orchestra. Perfect table. First-class livery. Billiard and bowling room. Everything throughout first-class. SEASON OPENS JUNE 23. No mosquitoes or flies. No malaria. Grandest place for children in the country. No hay fever—sure relief and cure. Rates—s6o. $75 and S9O per month, according to location; $3.50 per day for transients; sls to s2l per week. Diagrams of floors and rooms now open at B. &O. ticket office. Address all communications, up to June 15, to W. J. Walker, Queen City Hotel, Cumberland. Md.; after that date. Deer Park, Garrett county. Md. Send to Mr. Walker for th® beautiui new book, “Deer Park.” just out. THE “Oakwood." Green Lake. Wis.. wall open as usual the 15th day of May. Send for illustrated circulars t David Green way. Owner and Pro’r, Dartfood P. O.,WUt ■■—Hi mu ii Min in mi f-ii -i A NEW and VALUABLE BOOK, Tlie Life of Frederick Donnisoii Mauriee. 2 Volumes. Bvo. $5.00. BOWEN, STEW ART & C 0 No. 18 W. Washington St. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all others In factories, foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having their own power can procure an Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent and storage system has beeu perfected, making small lights for houses and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators ox to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send to the Brush Electric Cos.. Cleveland, 0., or to the undersigned at Indianapolis. J- CAVEN. Real Estate. Wo have some Special Bargains in Business, Residence and Vacant Property in all parts of the city. It will be to the interest of buyers and sellers to se# us. We can do you good. BARNARD & SAYRES.

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