The Greensboro patriot [May 12, 1885]

              THE GREENSBORO PATgfOT
GREENSBORO, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1885.
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I Ic spoke thua :
II opeia house-., theatres,
skating rinks ami
ul amusement, good and
i pin on trial '" day ami judge
r '.;. certain cardinal princi-first,
yon may judge of any
iis healthful result
• baleful reaction. There
■ « ho seem made up of
They are a combiua-multiplication
tables and
If you show thein an
picture they will begin
- tin: pigments involved
:.„-; it you show them
; rose they will .submit it
botanical analysis, which is
the post-mortem examination
Hower. They have no rebound
heir nature. They never do
fling more than smile. There
• ides "f feeling surg-np
from tin' depths of their
in billow after billow of re
tig laughter. They seem
turc had built them by con-anil
made a bungling job out
I "■ 111. blessed be God, there
arc people in the world who have
bright laces ami whose life is a
.. an anthem, a paan ofvictory.
t heir troubles an' like the
. that craw I up the side of a
great tower, on the top of which
the sunlight sits and the suit airs
of summer hold perpetual carnival.
They are the people you like to
have come tn your house. They
pie 1 like to have come
tn my house. If you but touch the
hem of their garments you are
healed.
Bl'BJEfl in i EMPTATION.
I - these exhilarant ami
Sympathetic and warm hearted
people that are most tempted to
pernicious amusements. In pro.
portion as a ship is swift, it wants
rong helmsman; in proportion
as a horse is gay, it wants a stout
driver; ami these people of exube-rant
nature will do well to look at
the reaction of till their amuse-ments.
Ii an amusement sends
home at night nervous so you
eaitnol sleep and you rise in the
morning, not because you are slept
out, but because your duty drags
I nun jour slumbers, you have
been where Mm ought not to have
been. There are amusements that
send a man next day to his work
bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nail-ted,
and they arc wrong kinds
of amusements. There are enter-tainments
that give a man disgust
the drudgery of lib—with
cause thej an- not swords,
with working aprons because they
UOt lobes, with cattle because
thej aii- not infuriated bulls of the
■• amusement sends
aging for a In'.- ot ro-mance
and thrilling adventure,
C that takes poison and shoots
itself, i alight adventures and
rbreadth escapes, you may de-
I Upon it that you are the saeii
I \ ictiui of unsnnctiued pleas-ure.
Oni recreations are intended
to build US up; and if the} pull us
■low n. as to our moral or as to our
physical strength, you may come
to the conclusion that they are ob
noxious.
•Still further, those amusements
" r«ng w Inch had J on into ex-penditure
beyond your means.
Mono) spent in recreation is not
thrown away. It is all folly for ns
I ome from a place of amusement
Ing that we have wasted our
iiioiic\ and tune. You may by it
have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that
yielded you a hundred or a thou-
Itul how many pro-perties
have been riddled by costly
amusements! The table has been
lobbed to pay the club. Thocliam
pagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party
has burned up the boy's primer.
The tablecloth of the corner saloon
is ill debt to the wife's faded dress.
Excursions that in a day make a
tour around a whole month's wages,
ladies whose lifetime business it is
to "go shopping," have their coun-terparts
in uneducated children,
bankruptcies that shock the money
market and appall the church and
that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet of
the mansion and dashing into the
mirror and drowning out the carol
of music with the whooping of
bloated sons come home to break
their old mother's heart.
When men go into amusements
that they cannot afford they first
borrow what they cannot earn, ami
then they steal what they cannot
borrow. First they go into em-barrassment,
and then into lying.
and then into theft, and when a
man gets on as far as that he does
not stop short of the penitentiary.
VICTIMS OF EVIL AMVSKMKNT.
There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of un-sanctified
amusements. How often
1 have had parents come to me and
ask me to go over to New York
and beg their boy oil' from crimes
that he had committed against his
employer—the taking of funds out
of the employer's till or the disar-rangement
of the accounts! Why,
he had salary enough to pay all
lawful expenditure, but not enough
salary to meet his sinful amuse
ments. And again and again I
have gone and implored for the
young man—sometimes, alas! the
petition unavailing. Merchant of
New York, is there a disarrange-ment
in your accounts! Is there
a leakage in your money drawer!
Did not the cash account come out
right last night ! I will tell you
there is a young man in your store
wandering oft into bad amuse.
ments. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, bull
not the sinful indulgence in which |
he has entered, and he takes by j
theft that which you do not give
him in lawful salary. You may ■
judge o| amusements by their ef-fect
upon physical health. The
great need ol money, good people,
is physical recuperation. There
arc ' 'hristian men who write hard
things against their immortal souls
when there is nothing the matter
with them but an incompetent
liver. There are Christian people
who think it good sign to be poor
ly, and because Richard Baxter
and Robert Hall ware invalids
they think that by the same sick-ness
they may come to the same
grandeur ot character. I want to
tell the Christian people of my con- i
gregatiou that God wilt hold you
responsible for your invalidism if
it is your fault, and when through ;
right exercise and prudence you
might be athletic and well.
The effect of the body upon the
soul yon acknowledge, l'ut a man ]
of mild disposition upon the animal
diet ot which tlm Indians partake
and in a little while his blood will
change its chemical proportions.
It will become like unto the blood
ot the lion or the tiger or the bear,
while his disposition will change
and bc.-oine fierce, cruel and nine
lenting. The body has a powerful
effect upon the soul. There are
good people whose ideas of heaven
are shut out with clouds of tobacco
smoke. There are people who dare
to shatter the physical vase in
which God put the jewel of eterni-ty.
There are men with great
hearts and intellects in bodies
worn out by their own neglects—
magnificent machinery capable of
propelling a Creat Eastern across
the Atlantic, yet fastened in a
rickety North River propeller.
Physical development which mere-ly
shows itself in fabulous lifting
or in perilous rope walking or iu
pugilistic encounter excites only
our contempt; but wc confess to
great admiration for the man who
has a great soul iu an athletic body,
every nerve, muscle and bone of
which is consecrated to right uses.
Oh.it seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow
their physical health to go down
beyond repair, spending the rest of
their life, not in some great enter
prise for Cod and the world, but
in .studying what is the best thing
to take tor dyspepsia ! A ship
which ought, with all sails set and
every man at his post, to be carry-ing
a rich cargo for eternity, em-ploying
all its men in stopping up
leakages ! When you may, through
some of the popular and healthful
recreations of our time, work off
your spleen and your querulous-uess
and one-half of your physical
and mental ailments, do not turn
your back from such a grand medi-cament.
Kind's Mountain Till Mine.
Baltimore Mumuctnren' Record.]
The King's .Mountain. N. ('., tin
mine, about which there was so
much excitement a few months
ago, seems to have taken a new
start. A party of Cornwall, En-gland,
gentlemen have offered
1100,000 for the mine, and the
i proposition is now under consider-ation.
That the six inch vein is
, almost perfectly pure cassiterite is
certain. The price offered by the
English capitalists for the Clay -
well mine is considered very small,
and the proposal will probably be
rejected. The ore is said by ex-perts
to be fifteen and live tenths
per cent richer than the cassiterite
ore found in West Virginia, and
eighteen and seven one-hnndredths
pet cent richer than the ore re-cently
found in the Ithtek Hills.
The Mta >f Paradise.
The Rev. Canon Kawlinson.au
admitted authority on till questions
relating to Biblical antiquities, has
contributed an article to the Inter-preter
on "Biblical Topography,''
iu which he discusses the various
theories advanced regarding '"the
site of Paradise." Canon Kawlin-sou
believes, with the German
Kalisch, that a distinct locality
was before the mind of the writer
of the book of Genesis, and ho
gives it as his judgment that the
I locality was in Assyria.
Cleveland at Gettysburg.
[Washington Letter-May1th.)
President Cleveland's visit to the
Gettysburg battlefield took him
away Ironi the White House for
the first time since ho entered up
on the duties of his office. The
trip was made at the request of
veterans of the Army of the Poto-mac,
ex Gov. Ourtin and others.
A special excursion train was ruu
for the accommodation of the vete-rans
and their friends, and to this
was attached the hotel car St.
Nicholas for the Presidential party
and the President.
The President, accompanied by
air. Diusmore, the White House
doorkeeper, was at the Baltimore
and Potomac depot at 7ij a. m.,
fifteen minutes before the train
started. Mr. Cleveland wore his
usual blaek suit with a spring
overcoat of dark material and a
silk hat. He appeared tobe heavier
in flesh, but did not look so rugged
as when he lived in Albany and
walked more. He has become
known as yet to few persons in
Washington, and he was not re
cognized by more than half a dozen
of the small group of persons about
the station. The colored porter
who had stood at the steps to the
special car stopped Mr. Cleveland
with the remark that "This car is
reserved.'' .Sergeant Diusmore ex-plained,
and the porter was profuse
in his apologies for his failure to
recognize the President Mr. Cleve-land
was pleasantly greeted by
Vice-president Hendricks with his
perennial smile, and by hand
shakes from the handsome, gray-haired
Secretary of War, Judge
Endicott, and the distinguished
looking Postmaster General, Col.
Vilas, and the equally distinguish-ed
Secretary ot the Navy, Mr.
Whitney.
The seveu cars carried in all
about four hundred persons. The
train made the run to Gettysburg
in three and a half hours. Very |
few stops were made, and, as the
coining of the President had been
made known iu advance to only a
small number of persons there were
no marked demonstrations at any
of the stations along the route.
The President had stipulated be-fore
coming that he was not. to bo
asked to speak, and he was not
even formally Introduced to the as-semblage.
Gov. Pattison, of Penn-sylvania
welcomed the visitors, and
speeches were made by Gen. J. C.
Blaok,of Illinois, Martin Maginnis,
of Montana, and Gen. Kosecrans.
Before the exercises were con
eluded the President returned to
his carriage, and was driven over j clause of which
to the cemetery grounds, which | defend with his
were a part of the battlefield, and
command a view of the whole scene
of the great tight. It was a familiar
spot to the President's companion,
Gen. Hunt, who commanded the
artillery of the Army of the Poto
mac, which was planted on the
very hill and mowed down l'ickett's
men as they inarched across the
long valley and up the grassy
slopes in the vain effort to gain the
hill and break the Union centre.
From the brow of the cemetery hill
Mr. Cleveland was shown the long
The Confederate Constitution.
How the Coufederate Constitu-tions
were preserved and what be-came
of them is thus related by
Mrs. G. F. DeFountaine. of New
York, in the New Orleans Timea-
Democrat :
Until within the last eighteeu
months I was the honored custodian
of both the "Provisional and Per-manent
Constitutions of the South-ern
Confederacy,'' a guardianship
which 1 considered next akin to
that of the "Ark of the Couvenant.''
During all of my journeying, after
the fall of Richmond, they were
among my most sacred treasures,
having been buried under the
ground on two occasions to prevent
their capture. Immediately after
the war, when the feeling between
the two sections was still hostile,
these touching souvenirs of the
"Lost Cause" were seldom exhibit-ed,
and then only to a few of "the
loyal."
No thought otherwise than that
of retaining them as relics or do-nating
them to some historical so-ciety
was entertained until within
the past two years, when late de-cided
differently, and they were of
fered for sale. Feeling that the
South was the proper place for
such mementoes, 1 wrote a person-al
letter to the Governor of every
Southern State, (I think without
exception) offering them to the
States. In not more than one or
two instances did I receive even a
recognition of the letter containing
the information of their existence,
and in no instance an offer for their
purchase. Then it was proposed
that a syndicate be formed of the
States mentioned iu the "Constitu-tions,''
in order that each State
should become part owner in this,
their Magua Charta, but this, too,
failed to elicit anything but a neg-ative
reply.
The historical societies were next
tried—first with a stated price and
then with the request that a price
be made by them. Out of all the
societies written to on the subject
only one, the Maryland Historical
Society, called a meeting and laid
the matter before the board, which
board decided that they were "not
iu a condition to make an offer for
the documents." This was sup-posed
to be the richest society iu
the country.
The principal colleges, universi-ties
and libraries were next tried
with similar results. It was then
suggested* that they be offered to
Congress, but not wishing to ask a
Southern man to introduce a bill
for the sale of documents, each
he had sworn to
life, and fearing
partisan feeling on the other hand,
would recall old issues, and rekin-dle
smouldering fires, I decided not
to make an effort in that direction.
Feeling by this time that patriot
ism, as far as large organizations
were concerned, was really a thing
of the past, 1 decided to otter them
to private individuals recognized
as wealthy persons, who did not
hesitate laying out immense sums
in bric-a brie and curious. From
one of these, a gentleman residing
iu Atlanta, who, by the way, had
THE VKA III Will. \ OF PAItlS.
line of ridges in front, across the Just paid $3,000 for a set of china,
valley where the rebel lines were j I received a letter stating that if
stretched in a semi circle five miles ; "both'' the constitutions were in
long. To the right he could see
the wooded slopes of Gulps Hill iu
the distance, and on the left I ton ml
Top and Little Round Top, the
scene of Sickles' desperate fight.
To the rear Meade's headquarters,
and over beyond the town below
was the stone house which was
Gen. Lee's headquarters. After
getting this outline of the field the
President was driven to the vari-ous
points of interest in three days
fighting. He saw where the Louis
iana tigers climbed the hill and
fought the Union soldiers hand to
hand, the memorial stone shoving
where Gen. Hancock fell badly
wounded, and the spot where Gen.
Sickles lost his leg. He visited
Iiound Top for another view ol the
field, descended into Devil's Den,
and then visited the Theological
Seminary for still another view,
and saw the place where Gen. Rey-nolds
was killed.
Mr. Cleveland was a very close
listener throughout the journey.
He asked few questions and made
no comments. He only alighted
twice from his carriage lor short
excursions out of the beaten path-way.
The tour of the field was
completed before sundown ami the
party was ready for the return to
Washington by 0 p. m. Dinner
was served iu the car on the way
to Washington. At a little station
a short distance from Gettysburg
a boj created some excitement by
tiring a pistol into the air near the
side of the car. Passengers with
lively imaginations thought for a
moment that the President had
been shot at, but their tears were
allayed by those who saw the act.
Some of the veterans were dis-appointed
that the President did
not say a few words at their meet
ing at the cemetery. They did not
expect a speech, but they thought
they were entitled to a brief ac-knowledgement
of their services
from the Chief Magistrate at least.
At 'J.30 p. in., the seal-brown
horses landed Mr. Cleveland at the
White House door.
Snake Like Hissing.
The viperous, malice laden ton-gue
of a wicked, depraved and evil
minded person is an atlliction to
any community, and its execrable
hissing is but the foul breath ol
the devil through the villainy coat-ed
mouth of his chosen agent. Mis-i
"perfect order," he would pay the
] manilicieiit sum of $1,000.
The first letter manifesting any
interest in the matter was from a
l woman—of course—"Last at the
cross and first at the sepulchre."
] the women of the South. God bless
them ! They know what it is to
"suffer and grow strong." This
lady was Mrs. W. .1. DeRenne, of
Savanvah, Ga., who, emulated by
the public spirit of her noble hus-band,
became the purchaser of the
"Permanent Constitution," which
subsequently,! believe, she donated
to the Georgia State Library.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the million-aire
banker of Washington, who
pays out annually immense sums
for pictures, &c, was the next ap-proached
by friends iu reference to
the Provisional Constitution. It
was thought that he, who had been
such a patriot during our war
struggle, would be willing to pay a
large amount for this, the first act
in the great drama of that war, but
the price offered by him was refus-ed.
Finally, however, negotiations
were again opened and he became
purchaser at the same figures.
Hundreds of letters were written
on the subject, for I determined
that it should never bo said that
they were disposed of without giv-ing
the South a chance to possess
them.
Mn' Is Not Likely to l-*or|rlve llhn.
[Richmond Roligious lU-rald.]
We went out in the country the
other evening to preach. We
stopped at the house ol a brother
for supper, and were most gracious
ly entertained, the ladies of the
house making themselves specially
entertaining and devoting them
selves ardently to the promotion of
our comfort. Leaving the house iu
advance of the family, we hurried
to the church, and began the ser-vices.
The members of the family
came afterward and took their seats
with the rest of the congregation,
without our observing their en-trance.
After the sermon we un
dertook to play the agreeable, and
began to shake hands with the
saints, ami chat around to the best
of our poor ability. Presently we
found a strinkingly good-looking
sister in front of us, and, holding
out our hand, expressed a wish to
form her acquaintance. A vicious
titter rattled through the crowd,
and the sister looked a little scorn,
ful. Wc asked what it all meant,
The Crimes of an Extraordinary Paris-
Ian Murderer-—Gay. Fascinating aud
Handsome.
A correspondent of the New York
World writing from Paris, says:
There is nothing that rejoices the
Parisian public like a sensational
murder. In the excitement it
creates everything else is forgot-ten.
If the murderer writes lettres
d'esprit and pretty verses, like La-cenaire,
the joy is turned into a
general delirium. Lacetiaire, the
author and murderer of a dozen or
fifteen years ago, had more vogue
at the time thau even Victor Hugo.
It has been always so iu Frauce.
Mine, de Sevigne wrote more let-ters
concerning the prisoner Ilrin-villiers
than about the great Tu-renue,
and the murderer of Tiquet
was more talked of iu the Court of
Louis XIV. than the victory of
Denain. The names of Mcuesclou
and Troppman are known to more
Parisians to day than are those of
any two members of the French
Academy.
The present Fra Diavola is a
youth named Charles Marchandon,
who. until his arrest for a murder
in the Uue dt Seze, lived the life
of a fashionable country gentle
man, supporting himself and his
pretty mistress on the proceeds of
a series of daring robberies that
puzzled the ingenuity of Parisian
police and detectives. March,union
is a young man ol 21 years, of ele-gant
figure and faultless dress.
He is remarkably handsome, aud
Jeaune passed as a model wife.
The latter is a young woman of 24,
of extraordinary beaut] and most
engaging manners. She is tall
and graceful, with brown, wavy
hair, a sweet, sympathetic look,
and a face of what is called the
Andalusian type. She is the
daughther of a coft'eo house keeper
ot Vesoul. where she lived till her
eighteenth year. An eminent judge
saw her, proposed marriage and
she accepted, but he died suddenly
before the union took place. His
death was a little suspicious and
Jeanne was subjected to an inter-rogation
on aft'air by the Police
Prefect, but nothing came of it.
At this time she made the acquain-tance
of Marchaiidon. From that
hour she ceased to frequent the
places she was previously accus-tomed
to visit. She preferred the
pleasures aud repose of a quiet
country life. She belonged to that
class called popottet, who love a
tranquil life and to be mistress of
their own home. Sho adored Mar-chaiidon,
whom she described in a
letter to a former lover as "a darl-ing
young fellow with a budding
moustache."
It was to please the taste of
This Hi autil'ul Girl
that Marchaiidon hired the fashion
able mansion at Compeigne and
robbed ami murdered to maintain
it. M. and Mine. Marchaiidon
were most rigorous iu the practice
of piety in the presence of their ad-miring
neighbors. Madame went
to mass regularly every Sunday at
seven o'clock and seemed to pray
with edifying fervor. Meri-li.-mdon,
by the Princess, he admitted that
he had forged the letters from the
alleged Count Bredoville.
"Why did you not return next
morning T"' he was asked.
"Because I talked with the ser
vants going out, and I understood
that there was not much hope for a
good steal," he answered.
"Yon learned from the concierge
at Mme. Carnot's that yon would
have a better chance t"
"Exactly; that's why I went
there."
The Princess almost fainted at
her narrow escape.
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his beardless face aud soft mild
eyes give him a look of childlike | if"im\7o"pu"i"ctnVnii'his"a^enda'ii'c
innocence. He belongs to a highly'' at church, was a severe champion
respectable family living at Batig-nolles.
He has been arrested on
several occasions, but always suc-ceeded
in effecting his escape by
his'cool audacity aud cleverness.
About seven months ago he hired
a pretty country house from a re-tired
military captain iu the little
town of Compeignc, where !iolived
A Life of Elegance and Luxury
with Jeanne Itlain, a pretty girl
from the provinces. He adopted a
new method ol maintaining this
pleasant and luxurious existence.
His custom was to go to Paris from
time to time on business, as his
friends were informed, and to pre
sent liimselt at an intelligence otlice
iu search of employment. Owing
to his handsome face aud attrac-tive
appearance he had no difficul-ty
in gaining admission to the man-sions
of some of the most wealthy
citizens of fans, especially when
it was the mistress of the house-hold
herself who visited the otlice.
He usually remained a few days
till he "located" all the valuables
and jewelry iu the house, and he
would then suddenly disappear
and the valuables with him.
Complaint after complaint had
been lodged against him under the
various names he assumed, but the
police, found themselves always
baffled. A few months ago he stole
l.l.iHM) francs from a resilient in the
Hue de Marignan. and to throw
the police off his track he went
immediately and engaged himself
with M. Worth, the famous iniilii
rier, as valet tie chambre, under
his real name of Charles Marchan
don. A detective ere long appear
ed and took th*> valet into custody.
Marchaiidon mad" not the slight-est
resistance, and seemed not in
the least disturbed. He chatted
with the detective as they walked,.
aud at an opportune moment trip
lied him up, threw- heavily on the
ground, aud was out of sight before
the detective had recovered from
his surprise. Marchaiidon boldly
returned to M. Worth's, and ex-plained
to the servants, with an
air of injured innoiieuce : "Did any
one ever hear of such a misfortune!
I was arrested by mistake for some
other person, but 1 had no difficul-ty
in cstaolishing my iiinonence."
The detectives, not dreaming that
the prisoner would return to M.
Worth's, did not think of going
there, and Marchandon's escape
was easy. On the occasion of each
steal, Marchaiidon was accustom
ed to go to an old clothes woman's
shop, and procure a disguise with
which to escape from the city.
Marchandon's Country llesideure
at Compeigne was a model of ele-gance
and good taste. Thousands
of francs were expended iu fitting
it up to the liking of his gay young
companion. He kept a MIIIII which
was frequented by the most refined
residents of the town and vicinity.
It was enriched with rare curiosi-ties
of decorate art, some of which
were adorned with his initials and
a count's coronet. The furniture
was richly carved oak and the cur-tains
of rose colored silk. In one
chamber was a Henri II. bed, cov-ered
with a red satin spread, the
pillows embroidered with the ini-tials
".I. 1>." anil the count's coro-net
and the curtains in black silk.
In a wardrobe, was a complete uni-form
of a gendarme. The xoidix
ante Mine. Marehailon had among
her belongings an ebony casket,
also surmounted by the coronet, in
which were found many packages
of letters received by her before
her connection with Marchandon
began. Bach batch was carefully
arranged and endorsed "Corros-pondanee
du Chateau du ," or
"CorresiKindanco du le Marquis
," anil so on. These had evi
dently been kept for blackmailing
purposes. She also kept a diary,
entitled "Le Petit Livre de Mes
Souvenirs." Several albums filled
with portrait* of the cavalry oUl-cers
of the. Compeigne garrison and
of other neighbors were on the ta
bles of the union, and on the man
of morality. A house of doubtful
repute had been opened within a
little distance of his residence and
his sense of propriety was so shock-ed
that he formally petitioned the
municipality to remove it in words
of vehement indignation. He like-wise
wrote numerous articles to the
local press iu the cause of mortal-ity,
and endeavored to persuade
the editors of their duty to oppose
all scandal aud decry every ap-pearance
of immorality. On seeing
the published account of the mur-der
in the Rue de Seze, and with
the blood of his victim hardly yet
washed oil'his hands, he remarked
to a gentleman who happened to
be at his house: "A terrible crime
has been committed in the line de.
Seze and the police are unable to
discover the murderer. If he be
caught I hope he will beguilotinetl,
for murderers are increasing at
such a rate of late that no honest
man can go to bed in peace."
The f 'rime for which Marcliainlou
is now in custody was a murder of
the most brutal kind. He gained
admission, by his peculiar method,
to the house of Mine. Carnot, a
widow lady, living in the Put- de
Seze. He rose during the nifjht,
secured what valuables and money
could be found, and, entering the
bedroom where Madame was sleep
ing. began to ransack the drawers,
'f'he old lady awoke at the noise,
ami Marchandon, flinging himself
on her. dealt her two strokes with
a clasp knife, severing the carotid
artery. He then hid in a closet,
where he remained till morning,
when he made his escape. He then
hurried home to his chateau in
Compeigne,and settled down quiet
ly to the enjoyment of the proceeds
ot his last coup.
His Arrest Ingeniously Accomplished.
M. Gaillarde. ignorant of Marchan-don's
residence, but remembering
that a certain/iipiVrf or old clothes
woman of the locality furnished
criminals with disguise suits, pre-sented
himselfbefore her as a friend
of Marcliainlou, and said : ■•.Mar-chandon
was to meet me here yes
terday and I want to know if I can
wait here and see him today."
"Ah !" replied the old lady, throwu
off her guard, "he has gone to his
home in Compeigne." That was
enough.
When Marchandon saw the
Chief of Police enter, lie turned
slightly pale, but did not make the
least resistance. Jeanne was also
arrested, ami Marchandon. alt hough
denying his own guilt, was parti- I
cularly anxious to impress on the
Chief that the girl was innocent of
any offense. Alter reaching Paris,
he was brought into the room
where the murder had been coin- '
initted. He was cool and indiffer-ent,
and insisted that another had !
struck the fatal blow. He after-wards
confessed that he himself j
was the murderer. An immense |
throng had blocked the streets i
around and would have torn him to
pieces but for the gendarmes. As i
lie was driven away, surrounded by I
the police, the maddened crowd
followed for blocks shouting, "Kill !
him ! kill him !"
Among the persons whom he had :
robbed and who was summoned to I
identify him in the room of the !
murdered woman was the Princess
P.—the police preserve her iu- \
cognito—to whom he had applied
for service a short time before. So ,
prepossessing in appearance was
he that he was engaged. The ]
Princess, however, asked for refer
euces, and Marcliainlou answered
that he had served with the Count
Bredeville and gave his address.
Os passing out he remarked to the
other servants: "This is a good
dud. I'll be here to-morrow at
seven o'clock
to the Count de Bredeville and re
ceiveil in answer an equivocal let
ter. Her suspicions aroused, she
went to the address and questioned
the conceirge, who replied that no
Count Bredeville lived there, but
that a young man came on the
Heath .a (hr Widow Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderbilt, the
widow of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt, died of pneumonia,
.Monday morning May 4th, at her
residence, 10 Washington place,
New York. She was takeuserious
ly ill last Tuesday, with what was
then thought to be pleurisy. It
developed into pneumonia, and on
Sunday she was given up and bade
farewell to her family aud friends.
She was conscious to the last.
She came of a Virginia family,
and was distantly related to the
Vanderbilts through the Hand
family. Her father was a lawyer
and cotton planter, and was a
cousin of William II. Crawford of
Georgia, at one time a candidate
for the Presidency. Mr. Crawford
moved to Alabama and had his
plantation near Mobile, and there
Mrs. Vanderbilt was born in ISKi.
She was married early to a Mr.
Elliott and went with him to New-
Orleans. She obtained a divorce,
with permission to resume her
maiden name. She returned to her
family in Mobile, and there her
father died during the war. On a
visit her mother to New York iu
1SI1S, she met the Commodore, who
was then mourning the death of
his first wife. Miss Crawlord was
tall and slender, with fair complex
ion aud black hair. The old Com-modore,
forty-live years older than
herself, became infatuated with
her. On May 20, LStM, an ante
nuptial contract was drawn up, in
which he agreed to beqeathe to her
in his will (600,000 iu first mort-gage
bonds of the New York and
Harlem Railroad, at par.
She would not consent to inline
diate marriage. She was at Sara-toga
that summer with !iermother,
and the Commodore was there also.
He pressed her with all the ardor
of a young suitor, and finally in-duced
her to agree to a marriage in
Canada, to avoid neighborhood
gossip. They weut to London,
Canada, and were there married on
Aug. 21 by a Wesleyau minister.
Augustus Schell went along, aud
was the Commodore's best man.
This was fifty live years after the
date of the Commodore's first mar
riage. The couple returned at once
to Saratoga, where their appear-mice
as bride anil groom in Con
gross Bali created a sensation.
Commodore Vanderbilt died on
Jan. 4, 1.S77. lie bequeathed to
his wife $500,000 iu five per cent.
Government bonds and 2,000
shares of New York Central stock,
ami gave her the use of his house
and furniture, 10 Washington
place, for lite. She had remained
there ever since, with her mother
and her brother, Robert L.Craw-ford,
and his family.
flirtation.
tR.iJdamnation.--TALK.ci
f. i/ flirutlc,
*«&*».*,
And. by llm ».
We here mar a»>
That past cxpoiiencu t**..
There'll be once more'.
Just as of yore,
Damnation at tho beacbv-
And sad to tell.
Ho know- fall well
Who hi? experience searches.
There's often been.
Plain to be seen.
Diminution in the ehuiehva.
Lyrlcs of Culture.
Far in tho depths of tho mighty woods.
Where the snapping turtles run.
And the brindle oow in the branch?* Imiods
Kriuii tho dawn lo Ibo set uf sun |
Where the oaribon and tho panther fight.
Ami the hungry coyotes bark.
And the bluo fvx howls tho livo-tong night
Near tho den ul tho Uojum snark :
Where the framptious mugwump make- his lair
Anil the amorous guyascutis
His. loyo song sings to the grinly boar.
You'll finil the pink arbutus.
The Latest Song.
Oh. mamma, ilear mamma, come home with me now
1 wonder what papa will think !
He'll meet you to-night with a frown on his brow
For suring so Ieng at tho rink.
NO iamp has been lighted to-night in tho hall.
TV dark and Iho baby's awake.
And—there! 1 was sure, dearest ma. you would fall.
Some night your poor neck will break.
Come home, come home.
Ob. mamma, dear mamma, come home.
The Month of I.ove.
Now o'er tho bill Pips trippeth merry May,
And modest llowers spring'noath herdancina foot
Kro long to crown her brows with garlands gay.
And happy birds witK s^ngs her coming greet.
The bullfrog in the inar-li dulh gayly sins
Once more nis-tural enrols Pi his mute.
And Corydoo and Phyllis, courting, swiiu;
Al dewy eve ui-in the garden gate.
Stand Sear the Hen.
When lovely woman thmws a ruck.
Acoiilnuiaeii.ushen to s. are.
It gives tli' artistic eye a shock
To mark hor attitude and air.
But bo uol to your danger blind.
If you should bo beside her then.
Al once a place of safely find
That is to say. stand near tho ben.
l-'arts and Fancies.
—Song of tho tierman pastry
cook—Wait till tho clouds roll pie.
—'"Never eat between meals,"
cautions a writer. Wc never do.
We boartl.
—A bride's cako is often as
heavy as the groom's heart when
the bills begin to coino iu.
—"Lverv cloud has a silver lin-ing."
Thai's where the clouds get
away with the vest pockets.
—The man who thinks the boy
who lives next door to him is a
good boy has uot been found.
—The widow of a Hindoo is
about the only individual whose
career really ''ends in smoke."
—A man content to live in an
oleomargarine boarding house does
not know on which side his bread
is buttered.
—A West Lynn teacher asked a
little boy the color of the Atlantic
ocean, anil he said he guessed it
was water color.
—"I am a belle ringer now,''
remarked a Ifedford avenue young
man as he put an engagement ring
on the linger of his dulciaua.
—"He who has pie has friends,'
says a Russian proverb, which, be
ing freely translated signifies that
the doctor and the undertaker
Stand in with the pic-man every
time.
—An item is going the rounds to
the effect that "sorne of the poet
Willis's best lines were written in
a boarding house." We have often
heard that hunger was a spur to
literary work.
—It is noticeable that the old
joke, the combination of bulldog,
trousers, young man, father and
trout gate is being fixed up for its
summer tour in the funny columns
of contemporaries.
—-'The gorilla does not build a
house in the native jungle,'' says a
returned missionary, l'robablj he
can rent one cheaper. The old
maxim is -'A fool builds houses, a
wise man rents them."
—How innocently unfortunate is
the the frankness of childhood.
YoungOrotnnd I)elsartc,the dram-atic
reader, was taking tea, on in-vitation,
with the family, aud in
the evening favored the guests
with a few of his most startling re
citations. He was approached by
the midget of the family, a fairy in
looks, but with an early develop-ment
of speech. "Now, I know-why
you talk so loud when you
speak pieces," she said to him.
"And why, my dear!' with a little
patronizing stroke of the golden
hair. "'Cause you're a liellowcu
ist: ma said so." That child will
be put to bed early after this
Sluuewall ■TaCEMM'i llaughler.
[ll.illitii'.r* An.
"Richmond society is deeply in
teresteil ill the announcement just
now of the engagement of Miss
Julia .lackson the only daughter of
den. Stonewall Jackson, to .Mr.
William E. Christian. The marci
age will take place June '£, at the
Second Presbyterian church, ami
tho ceremony be performed by the
pastor, the Rev. Dr. Moses 1).
Hoge. who was a dear friend of the
Confederate soldier, and conducted
his funeral services from the same
church in which Miss .lackson is to
Stale Hoard of F.duratioa.
This board was iu session last
week. The object of the meeting
was principally in regard to school
books, particularly the selection of
the new text books on physiology
and hygiene. A number of agents
of publishing companies appeared
in the interest of their respective
houses. The mutter of the drain-age
of tho State swamp lands was
also considered. There were two
proposals in regard to the body of
;100,000 acres in Carteret county.
One was by a company which pio
posetl to lease the lauds for grazing
purposes; Ihe other was by a com-pany
which proposed to drain the
lands, as the phrase goes, "one half
for the other."
The boartl adopted "Steele's Hy-gienic
1'hysiology," published by
A. S. Barnes & Co., of New York,
as the text book for the public
schools. Webster's school diction
aries were put on the list. Former-ly
only Worcester was used. The
following of Webster's were adopt
ed: primary, common school, high
sehool, academic and counting
house. Arrangements were made
for exchange and retail prices.
The proposition as to swamp
lands received much attention.
Mr. B. L. Perry proposed to drain
the land for one half. The board
agreed to give him 10.000 acres to
drain, he to pay all expenses, aud
the lauds to be surveyed by the
State engineer.
There was a proposition by Mr.
Flynn to lease for a few years a
part of the Hyde county lands
(known as the ISilib and ('arrow-tract)
in case the State bids them
in at the sale to take place on the
11th inst. There are .'100,000 acres | be wedded. The lady is as well
of these lands. Mr. Klynn's scheme |
was to lease 1.1,000 or 20,000 acres,
for the purpose of testing their
utility for stock raising. If valua
ble, he proposes to purchase. The
In i,ml postponed action on the mat-ter
until the next meeting, which
will be after the sale alluded to.
The Princess wrote | There was a request by citizens of
Carteret county for the construc-tion
of a roatl through the open
grounds of Ciuteret belonging to
the board. This proposition was
also held over until tho next meet-ing
erable and wretched and sin cov
ered indeed must bo the heart of I a7id to our undoing found that the ! telpiece was a portrait of Marshal ; Monday previous and asked her to j
that one, who is so ready to hiss , ia,iv j„ Question was the one who i MacMahon with "Vive le Koi" | keep tor him a letter addressed to ; Old Mr. Beutly—I see by the pa
TriHlllg Hilli the World.
out, like a stinging serpe
unkind aud lying accusations which
ly to hiss ij,,iy in question was the one who '■. MacMahon
nt, all the . gave us our supper. We spent a ! written ui d
ons | g00li j)art 0f t|10 uigkt trying to ex
their own depravity aud meanness I 1(i;1jn i„(W it happened, but w
hath engendered and nursed. Such | ,,ot 8ay t|,at our transgressio
a being is a black, ugly, loathe
some wart upon the beauteous
face of refined society.—Wilson
Advance.
Name your man.
say
ever be forgiven.
ve can-sion
will
erueath it. The Le-gitimists
of tho hour all gathered
there.
that name. The next morning the | per that a revised edition of the
known in Baltimore as in Rich-mond.
She is universally popular.
Mr. Christian is about 28 years of
age, and one of the most popular
anil successful business men of
Richmond. After serviqe of several
years in a large banking house of
this city, hi; began business last
fall on his own account, as the gen-eral
Southern representative of
McDcrmid & Co., of Chicago—a
firm of which Mr. C. W. Smith,
general manager of tlm Chesapeake
& Ohio Railway system, is a promi-nent
member. While actively en-gaged
iu business, Mr. Christian is
distinguished for his broad culture
and great polish of manner, having
received the advantages of a course
Princess read in the papers of tho \ Old Testament is to be published at the University of Virginia, and
murder of the Rue de Seze. The
—"We meet to part no more,"
said the bald-headed man to his
hair brush.
To his neighbors Marchandon truth ftashed on her, and she hur
represented himself as an illegiti I lied to the police station and told
mate son of Worth, of Paris, who her story The Chief ol Police
bail settled on him a generous ' took a photograph from the drawer,
mouthlv allowance, lie was re- and the Princess exclaimed:
garded"as a model husband, aud I "There he is!" When confronted
soon.
Old Mrs. iieiitly—Hoes it say
who writ it 1
0*1 Mr. Iieiitly—No.
Old Mrs P.ently-Well, it's per-fectly
scandalous. I s'poso it was
that man Ingersoll.
I afterwards at one of the German
universities."
—The Hoover Hill mill.-. Kan
dolph county, made $6,108 during
the month of March, from .171 tons
of ore.