Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-30

III.
nam is attractive widow, fair and forty, il
not lat, and is said to be very engaging in con-
versatiOn. She came to this city from
Iowa Her late husband-Putnam-was, be-
fore the war, q member of our old police
force, known as the auxiliary guard"
During the early years OF the war he was an EN-
had charge of one OF the extensive cOrrals for
governmen mt horses and mules in the first ward
ne ar the National Observatory. His health de-
ciined here, and he was finally too i'll TO attend
10 his duties. Mrs. Putnam then supported him
and herself by keeping boarding house on
street pesr 9Th, which she continued for some
time after his death. The defendant in the suit
just closed, is represented to be wellto do citi
zen of East Tennessee, about 90 wears OF age
During portion of Andrew JOhnson's admins
tration he was an Indian agent. While in this
city in the early part OF 1863 on business he was
introduced to the charming widow
Az A Bachelor.
ne acquaintance appeared to be mutually
agreeable from the beginning, and it was not
long before il was whispered around that there
wonld be Wedding. They were frequently in
each others company attending sociables and
evening parties; but after a month or two of
gayeiy, Davis left tor his home not however, to
forget the happy past. The courtship was con-
tnued by meal OF letters, those from him, IL Is
Tt presented, being models in their way; and by
june of that year the wedding day was set by
him. in letter for the 2Jth of that month. Plead
ing that his business engagements woud not
allow him 10 take the trip to Washington, he
BEGGED HER TO COME TO HER ADoREI,
and after further correspondence Cincinnati
was agreed on as the place where they would
meet ard he made one. Mrs. Putnam RELYING
implicitly on his word. accompanied by her sis.
ter, set out for "POrkopOlis." and met her in
tended husband at hotel in that city, a few
days before the time tixsdfor the wedding. The
city was "done" by the trio, who visited all the
objects OF interest together, the sister of Mrs.
Putnam affection ately calling the prospective
husband brother" saying that as the day was
so near when she would be entitled to use that
appellatiye she might rs well get accustomed to
it. The wedding day finally came, but with it
came not the bridegroom. Long and anxiOusly
the widow and her sister watched and waited,
but in vain.
"HE coMETH NOT, SHE SAID"
Something must have happened They would
thing had happened. 1t was nothing less than
the flight of the fsithless Davis. With several
hours start he was then far out on the Coving
ton road. A maiden would have sat down and
wrung her hands and bemoaaed her sad fate.
Not SO our widow heroine. She went straight
of to livery stable, asked for the fastest horse
soon on the track of the fugitive and rapidly
lessening the distance between them. As the
evening shades descended, and just about the
hour when, according to the programme agreed
uIon between them, thew should have been
standing before q minister in the hotel parlor in
Cincinnati and exchanging marital vows, Davis
was jogging along comfortably toward home,
cbuckliDg at his success in getting out of q
scrape SO easily. All at once he was aroused BY
a Nell-known voice demanding to know what he
meant by such conduct as those, or words to
Z.
situation at once, and, being eornered, became
desperate, and in his reckessness told the truth,
probably for the first time in all their inter
course. MADAM" said he, 81 am lawabid-
ing man, and
CAN'T MARRY YOU.
for j already have q wife and five children"
Staggered but not overcome by this blow, the
widow asked him If he had anything to say in
excuse fer his contemplate conduct in deceiv-
ing trusting woman? Well" said he, " I've
only been reading a novel to you" "You have"
II q 49, N-zll n
to publish it for YOU" She then insisted upon
getting into his buggy. He should take her to
Tennessee, she said, where she could learn
whether he was telling the truth now, or was
previous falsehOOds. Finding she would not be
refused, he acceded with the best grace he
could, and she accompanied him to bis "native
village" Finding that he really had wife and
children, she left him saying he would hear from
her again, and went back to Cincinnati, from
whence she shortly afterwards returned to her
home in this city, where she made preparations
to commence legal proceedings against the gay
deceiyer. few weeks ago she went to Knox
vile to prosecute the suit, claiming $4,000
damages, and obtained a verdict, as already
stated, for 81 COO. She has not returned here
yet, and from letters recently received from her,
IL would appear that she has some doubts as to
PENDANT having been "made ever'' by him in
anticipation OF verdict In the widows favor.
LIcENsEs.-Editor Star: Is q nonresident or
license to sell goods in this territory by sample?
AS the spring trade Is about opening and whole
sale houses desiring to place their goods in this
market, this question is one that should be
1t appears the Legislative Assembly passed a
law requiring nonresident dealers selling goods
at a cost of s6io. The,cost of a license was for,
meTly $50; then raised to $50, and subsequently,
TO 5000. The merchants of other cities deeming
the license unconstitutional, brought the subject
he fflQ Snn Cnnr tnf he tod
This court decided that the license imposed on
nonresident traders was unconstitutional, and
consequently the law Of the Legislative Assem-
bly, is void. This body adjourned few DAYS
ago without taking any action in regard to the
license law made void by the decision of the
Supreme Court; and the question now seems to
be an open one, and as there 10 no law against
nonresident salesman showing samples and
soliciting orders therefrom, IL would not seem
just to compel resident Of this territory to take
out q license to solicit orders by sample, when
he Is the regular authorized salesman of q New
York firm. A resident should have at least the
same rights and privileges as nonresident.
RESIDENT.
PETITION FORA MANDAMUs.-This afternoon
an application for writ of mandamus is being
heard by one Of the judges Of the Supreme
Court in General Term. The writ ia filed by
Mr.. p. II. Reinhart, and he asks q wit to be
issued on George Baker, Controller of the Dis
trict, requiring him to draw q warrant for
balance of salary due. He sets forth that the
sum of 1854 Is due him for salary as chief clerk
of the House of Delegates from October 18th to
January 18th; that the pay rolls have been GER
titled by the Auditor, and the necessary appro-
priation made by the legislature; that the law
makes it the duty of the Controller to draw his
warrant for the balance due; that he has as
signed sl93 of his claim and the assignments are
in the hands Of the Controller; and that there is
yet due him (Renhartl the sum Of slsl.
TWENTY DOLLARS CoLLATEIA AL FORFEITED
Jacob Roth, keeper Of a restaurant, was i'm the
Police Court to-day, charged with keeping hts
place Of BUSINESS open on Sunday, the 18th inst.
The witnesses were VIM. Dubois, III. s. Atchi-
son and Samuel Clements, officers of the Metro
pelitan police force. District Attorney Miller
asked that the case be not called, as the ac-
eused had not appeared, and his collateral (s2O)
was forfeited.
ATTEMPTED SCICIDE.-A young man, named
Lewis Spcer, residing on 18th street, between
Nj and n streets southeast, a cabinet maker by
trade. ia repOrted to have made An affemnf tn