Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-07-17

preston or her thotghtS concerning |
him.
DR.. Hammer had disappointment not |
long since to preach 4 Fosteryille, and |
on Friday night bfore Sunday, be |
staid all night at Henry Majors house,
with whom Miss Plralee was living,
her father and mothe both being dead. |
The next morning, Mss Paralee. in the
presence of other members of the
family, asked the Dbctor why he was
SO sad, and remarked that the first
time she ever saw hin she thought he
was the saddest looking man she ever
saw. The Doctor replied that che
thought right, and tears were seen
down his cheeks. He said
that he sometimes tlt lonely and des-
olate as if he did MT haVela friend In
the world. Miss Iaralee remarked ::
DIR. Hammer, you ,ught not TO think
and feel so; everybody that knows you
thinks great dealof you and would
do anything they could to make you
comfortable and hippy. | know that
| would" As thewords comfortable
and happy" are ussd in the first letter
in some way or other, Miss Parallels
brother-in-law thinks that DIR. Hammer
quoted them from the above remark.
The affair, strange to say, has been
kept very secret at Fosterville. where
the young lady lives. There is moth
ing said about it there at all except
among the family and few others who
have been made acquainted with the
facts, but in Murfr,esboro it's just the
reverse. 1t is upon everybody's tongue.
Crowds assembled around the church
Friday morning and evening, and some
remained there until II o clock at night,
at which time the committee adjourn
ed, waiting to see if they could not
hear something il addition to what
they had already heard. In the after
noon DIR. Hammer vas examined, after
which he was allowed to make his de-
fense He finished little after Z
o'clock, when the committee took a
recess until 9:30P.M. DR.. Hammer did
not return to the night meeting, but
remained at the residence of Gen. ID.
ii. G. Spence. where he makes his
headquarters when not travelling on
his circuit. He was said, by parties
who saw him, and conversed with him,
to be in very sad and gloomy state of
mind and he remarked to one that
the writing of that letter was the most
foolish thing he ever did in his life.
He was suffering a great deal from
mental agony, and one of the party who
saw him informed our reporter that
the Doctor had slept scarcely an hour
since this affair was first made public.
Our reporter, in mingling with the
crowds of people who had collected on
the street corners, or in some Office or
store. to discuss the scandal, heard
many differences of opinion expressed,
some believing that the aged minister
could not have been guilty of such in
discretion, while others, sympathizing
with the young lady, were of the con-
trary opinion. One old gentleman,
who had come eighteen or twenty miles
to hear something about the matter,
was strongly of the opinion that min
lister who had been endorsed by a
Methodist Conference for forty years,
as a man highly respected and honored
by his church, could not stoop so low
as to attempt to ruin chaste and re-
spectacle young lady, and he would
not be convinced that DIR. Hammer ever
wrote such a letter.
The officers of the church, and even
one of the Methodist ministers who
was visiting some relative there, were
not permitted to enter the church
where the court of enquiry was prose-
cutting the investigation. Sometimes
the reporter would see one or two of
these sad looking people held in very
close proximity to each other and their
mouths cautiously muttering some
thing that no one could hear but them
selves. As soon as one of them would
take his departure, the other would
be approached by some one anxious to
hear something, and the old deacon or
elder, as it might be, would be ques-
toned and questioned, but not
the slightest hint of news could be OBJ
tanned. s.eE aeitg
The committee remained in session
at night until after IL O. o'clock, and ad-
journed until s clock yesterday morn
ing withouT having arrived, at any
decision. Dc Esd 81
Our correspondent at Murfreesboro
furnishes us the following facts in re-
gard to the first letter written by DR..
Hammer to Miss Nailor:
1.-The letter is said to contain re-
greet that she should show confusion
and embarrassment every time they
met. He complains of her not having
met him according to appointment
upon several occasions, and requests
that she will let him know if she in
tends to meet him at all ifso, hecould
stop off at Fosterville either on the 9TH
of July or the 18th, as he was going to
or coming from Shelbyville. He re-
fers to a meeting, either of the past or
future, atSmyrna, and speaks of having
played game of croquet. He refers
to Solomon's Songs, chapters land 8. ="
Our correspondent further says that
the Nailor family deny that the young
lady had any previous engagement with
DR.. Hammer, and he says further that
1T is reported that some days pre-
vious DIR. Hammer, in company with
several ladies, went from Mrs. Frazier S
house in a carriage, and stopped at
Henry Majors gate to leave dress.
DR.. Hammer insisted on leaving the
dress on the gate-post, instead of wait
ing for Miss Nailor to come after it,
but the ladies overruled him, and
when Miss Nailor came out to the gate,
she is said to have shown much con-
fusion and embarrassment. This fact
and the fact that when DR.. Hammer
staid all night at Majors Miss Nailor,
who usually occupies room on the
first floor next to the room assigned to
DR.. Hammer, left her room andoccupied
one with her sister-in-law up stairs, is
given by DIR. Hammer, it is said, as the
reason for referring to her confusion
and embarrassment mentioned in the
letter"
The committee sealed the letter and
other documents of the trial, to re-
main so till Conference, when final
action will be taken. The reader
doubtless has general idea of the con-
tents of the letter, however, from what
is said above. We have it upon good
authority that decency would forbid
the publication of the whole of it five
had it entire, and that the 9TH chapter
and I'd verse of the 9Th chapter en-
brace the scripture quoted In the
epistle.
Although the representatives of the
press were excluded from the investi-
CATION, they were furnished, when the
commission returned last night, with
the following
OFFICIAL, REPORT