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Daily globe., 1879-05-14
NELLIE WAS A LADY.
hut She WaMted to Marry, aud Her Father
sUas Opposed.

,cas Opposed.
iCamden, N. Y. Special.
When the Rev. j. p. Taylor came down
stairs this morning and gathered around
him his family at the breakfast table. there
was vacant chair, Miss Nellie, his daughter
was missing. During the night she had
left the house, and there was no traces of
her. The father thought she was some
where in the nSigh hb0rhood. Others who
were acquainted WITH Miss Nellie shook
their heads, and soon it began to be
whispered around that the Young lady had
eloped with painter.
Mr.. Taylor is the rector of st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal church. He is widely
known in Camden, and is universally re-
spected. His church is attended by good
ly congregation. The man whose name is
connected with Miss Nellie is house paint
or, whose name is WI. Aucott. The Au-
colt family consists of seven brothers, all of
whom follow the same trade. The youngest
one of the seven is the one upon which the
girl has fixed her affections. Last winter
the young man began to attend st. johns.
He had not been going there long before he
became smitten with Miss Nellie, and the
girl returned his love. She is about 20
years of age and is described as highly ac-
| compiished.
The rector saw how things were going and
reasoned with his daughter. It had no
effectsan the young people continued to
bask in the sunlight of each others smiles.
Nellie finally announced her intention of
marrying Aucott, and thenthe.good man had
serions talk with his daughter. He OBJ
jected to the step she was bent on taking.
He knew nothing concerning the young man,
he told her, or his antecedents. Nellie
didn't care for that; she loved Aucott, and
would marry him at all events. Then the
clergyman made her proposition. She was
to go to Chicago and reside with her aunt
for time, which the father deemed reason
| able. If upon her return she desired to mar
ry Aucott, no objection would be made.
Nellie consented, The aunt was written to
to come on and take her niece away. She
arrived in town yesterday. Nellie's trunks
we're packed and her entire wardrobe put in
condition for transportation to Chicago.
| Last evening all retired as usual. This
| morning Miss Nellie was missing. How she
managed to get out of the house her fathe,
has no idea. She took no extra clothing
with her, as far as can be ascertained. Fol
this reason Mr.. Taylor is very certain tha
his daughter will return to him. He can no.
believe that she has run away with Auoott
The young man could not be found thii
afternoon, and the young lady has not turned
up. The neighbors give it as their opinion
that Miss Nellie is now Mrs. Aucott. Th.
Aucotts are known through queer trade.
mark out in Germantown. Many a house
painted by Aucott bears this inscription
somewhere upon it: "a. b. which mean
the "Aucott Seven Brothers" Nellis hal
been at boarding school most Of her life, ant
it is supposed that she got her romantic no
tions there. AS the girl is of age. of cours
nothing can be done.
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A VIRGINIA ROMANCE.
Il Governor Arrested as a H0rse- Thief.

Il Governor Arrested as a Horse. Thief.
Charlottesville, Va, Chronicle.
3 It is related that while Thomas Mann Ran
dolph was Governor of Virginia he was once
arrested within few hundred yards of his
home in this county, and carried prisoner
to his own house. The story is to the fol.
lowing effect: The Governor was on visit
to his home, and finding that the fencing on
his plantation was pulled down and burned
by wagoners passing along from the valley
to Richmond, he determined to detect and
punish them. One evening he observed
q party 60 into camp on the roadside,
and after dark he strolled down to
point where he could conveniently
watch them. He staid out all night, but the
wagoners made no depredations on his
fences. In the early morning, however,
when they were about to kindle their fires to
prepare breakfast, they started out to gather
up what fuel they might find for that pur-
pose, when they spied man sitting on the
fence short distance ahead.
Now, it appears that short time before
Gov. Randolph had issued his proclamation,
Offering reward for the capture of an es-
capped horse thief, and the wagoners, who had
seen the description of the convict, thought
they discovered close resemblance between
the man on the fence and the escaped felon.
So thoroughly satisfied were they that they
would receive the reward for his arrest that
they approached and announced that he was
their prisoner. One of them proposed, as
he cracked bis wagon whip, to give him a
thrashing and let him 60, but his companion
protested that it was proper to ascertain GER
tainly whether he was the guilty party before
inf1icting the punishment, and proposed to
take him to the residence of Gov. Ran
dolph, near by, and get his advice. Accord
ingly, they marched their prisoner up to the
house, and knocking at the front door, a
servant made his appearance, of whom they
| inquired:
"Is your master at home?'
Tho negro opened his eyes in astonish-
ment at the inquiry, and replied, pointing to
the Governor:
s'That's master ~
1t is said that the governor then promptly
confirmed the statement of the servant, and
Joined heartily in the laugh that followed
He then told the man who had proposed to
whip him without the opportunity of de-
| fense to remain outside and he would send
him morning dram, at the same time un.
buttoning his coat, exposing a pair of horse
pistols, and he remarked that he should Ger
tainly have used them had an attempt beer
made to carry the threat of castigation into
execution. The other WAGNER he invited k
Join him in hot breakfast.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.

Duluth Ne,cs, May s: Duluth has certainly
started on the up grade. More property has
ch anged hands by bona fde sales this spring
than in the same time for three years.
j The other day some careless or vicious person
set fire to Clark Marshall's old house on his
farm in jackson, and not only was the house
burned, but fire run through and injured the
grove near by. a4t
The other day a pile Of forty-tive cords of
wood was burned between Detroit and Oak
Lake, ignitcd by sparks from passing loco
motive. Several hundred cords Of wood have
been burned this spring near Detroit, Becker
county.
Dundas Neus: James Phippen is laying the
foundation for his new mill, which will now be
pushed forward to completion. The structure
will be seventy feet in length and two stories
high. A large engine house will be erected
near the mill proper.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
Harne.siaa an Elephant.

An elephant keeper in Philadelphia tried
the other day to get venerable anima
named Old Chief to draw wagon. The
Times of that city thus reports the result:
"Old Chief didn't object much while the
harness was being placed on him. He
merely blinked steadily. and now and then
cast glance at his prosecutors, as though he
would say that his time would come. His &C
tions puzzled the keepers not little, and
they began to suspect that he was brewing
some mischief. At length they got him
hitched to the wogon. The gaping spectaf-
tors looked on with the epest interest
Chief manifested no sign that he
was going to- move. The trainers
put their hooks into his trunk and began to
pull on him. Chief snorted little and
shook his head disapprosingly. They pulled
harder. Chief snorted and tapped his. ears
like the roofs of two houses coming together.
They gave his trunk jerk. Chief lifted
his ears up with a yell and made dash for
ward, jerking the trunk free of the hooks
and projecting it out before him like bay
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
THE vANDERBILFs.
The Solid Facts About the Settlement Be-
t,ceen William and Cornell.

The Solid Facts About the Settlement Be-
t,reen William, and Cornell.
New York Special.
There is much imprinted gossip in this
city over the recent settlements in the Van
derbilt family litigation and the disin-
genuous attempts to make the same rebound
to the credit of VIM. H. Vanderbilt From
trustworthy source, to-day, your cores
pondent learned the following facts: That
the discontinuance of the suits was COM
promise agreed upon beforehand, and that
VIM. II. Vanderbilt was obliged to accept it
to prevent his cross-examinatiOn by Mr..
Scott Lord, Cornelius Vanderbilts counsel.
The latter had warned the millionaire,
rigid and penetrating inquiry into
his private AFFAIRS. and must not
only tell how much he was worth, but also
what speculate ns he had gained money in
and in what ventures he had lost money
since the death of his father. VIM. e.
could not stand this opening up of money
bags under the eyes of the greedy Wall
street sharks, and he is understood to have
said that he was willing to give million
dollars rather than have that done. The rest
was only the matter of fnesse. Cornelius
was perfectly willing to say that he discon-
tinued the suits at his own free will, and that
his brother William had paid him larger
share of the estate out of pure magnanimity,
and Mr.. Scott Lord was perfectly willing to
say that all he knew about the case Was that
his client had instructed him to
discontinue the suits. But since
Cornelius has got his $1,OOO,OOO, about
half of which he used to pay up old debts,
among them the Greeley debt, and his ex-
penses in the litigation, he has told tho Sc
cret of the settlement to a few confidential
| friends, who in turn have confded it to other
confidential friends, until now it is the secret
of "a large number of persons, and may as
we'll be the secret of the readers of the
public press. Mr.. Scott Lord received
for his services clean 500, ,OOO-the largest
fee paid in the case. It may be added that
the total wealth of the Vanderbilt estate has
been greatly exaggerated, and it is said that
it will fall short of the original estimate by
about four millions of dollars.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

Mr., DUNNELL has introduced bill appro-
priating million of dollars for the improve
ment of the Mississippi river, from the mouth
of the Illinois to the falls of St. Anthony.
The improvement is much needed, for navi-
CATION is seriously obstructed for the whole
distance by snags, sand bars and other causes
1t might also be good idea to inaugurate
the system of reservoirs now in use on some
of the rivers of Wisconsin, SO that We might
have sufficient water for purposes of naviga
cation through the entire year.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

Now that the outlook for the farmers is
cheerful and there is prospect they will
have something to sell, it is important that
they should consider how they are going to
sell it. The wheat buyers of the State have
resolved that they will not buy of any man
who asks to have his wheat measured in g
ing. 10 meet this the farmers must be pre-
pared to act together.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

SHERMAN claims to have saved by his re-
funding of the national debt total of over
thirteen and half millions of dollars in in
terest annually. He claims the credit of it
all, and will use it to boost himself into the
Presidential office. Of course the people
who subscribed for tho new loan don't de-
serve any credit.
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ger.
Atlanta Constitution.
We met General Toombs at the Kimball
House last night, and he tackled us on the
question of concealed weapons.
sWhat in the hi are you all making such
fuss about carrying concealed weapons
for?" said the General.
"Well, General, it is to keep people from
killing one another he replied.
eyes," says he, sit will have just the op-
posite effect. Everybody is expected to lay
aside his pistol, and the first thing you know
some d-n coward, who regards neither law
nor honor, will shoot you in the back. It is
all wrong, sir! man ought to carry arms
when he thinks his life is in danger. It is
not wrong for him to do 90, and 30 far as I
am concerned, will do it whenever want
to defend myself.
"My life is worth more than all the senti-
ment you can put into such question as
that. consider the right of self defense
irrevocable, and when | have the right of
self-defense can use anything I can get or
find that will be available. hear some
fools talking about abolishing pistols, put
ting them under restriction like you do
poisoners. hold that man has the right
to use poison to defend himself. Suppose
man had vial of vitriol in his hand, and
was attacked by some Que in such a manner
as to excite the fears of a reasonable man
that he would kill him, don't you think he
would be justified in using his vitriol by
throwing it into his assailant's eyes? The
truth is, the way TO protect human life is to
let every man who is the aggressor know
that the man he attacks is able te defend
himself, and it will prevent difficulties. They
say nobody but q coward will carry weapons.
That's q lie. know plenty of men who
carry them, and know they are not towards.
1t is generally the towards who want you to
lay them aside, so as to give them an advan-
tage over you.''
| ''You think, then, general, that q man
ought to have right to carry pistol any
way he wants to?''
"Certainly do; and it is better for al
parties. A man sends you word that he il
going to whip you. He is larger man
than you are. Are you to sit down and qui-
etly wait for him to do it? The bible doesn'
teach any such doctrine as that. Suppose
this man comes up on you and finds just be
fore he gets to you that you have deringe1
in your pocket. Nine chances to one hs
will come up smiling with proposition to
bury the hatchet l haven't any confidence
/ in these men who send you word ahead o
fight anyhow. Ny plan has always beer
!. to take them at their word and be ready fol
! them. They would generally find that ou
, and come up smiling"
| The general turned to go mp to his room
and, as he walked up stairs, he added tina
he had more to say on this subject and wonl,
give his views in full on it. "You know"
said, laughingly, ~ am not afraid to 80
what think on that or any other subjec,
the newspapers with their little shirt-ta ful
3 of type to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

Count SoHouvALoFF is to resume his old
Office as chief of the secret police of Russia.
In this position he will be alberto WELD an
immense power, for he will be responsible to
no one but the czar, and even that function
ary will naturally be in ignorance of many
of his acts. He will be the most arbitrary
despot in all of Europe, but it is to be hoped
that he will not abuse the power placed in
h,s hands,
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

DADDY TAFT is said to be an infdel and
therefore ineligible to the office of gov
ernor of Ohio. Charley Foster has the
bulge on the old man in being regular at
tendant upon orthodox services, though he
probably believes as little that he hears as
'roft fooo
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

Is Gen. Garfield repeating the role of the
maiden who, crying that she would ne'er
consent, consented? In spite of his pro-
testations that he won't, some of the counties
are sending up delegates to the Ohio Repub-
lican convention in favor of him for Gov
ernor. 1t looks queer.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

THE New York school board has refused to
remove Kiddle, who was recently converted
to spiritualism and has since been engaged
in libelling Shakespeare, Byron and Poe by
attributing the most execrable doggerel to
their spirits. The board has probably acted
wisely, for the surest way to cure such a
lunacy is to expose 1t to the broad light Of
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

IT is again proposed to reduce the salary
of the President one-half. There is little
probability that such bill will pass, and
indeed it makes but little odds whether it
passes or not. When we get man in the
Office who is fit for the place, he will deserve
all he is now receiving.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
THE COURTS.
Supreme Court

This court met at $50 yesterday morning
and transacted the following business:
No. "a. Frank Getler, respondent. vs. jack
son A. Linscott, appellant. Argued and sub
mitted.
No. "a. Charles Keith and Hiram B. Cowles,
appellants, vs.. d. Wentworth Hayden, Charles
Hayden, Charles B. Hayden and Samuel Hay
den, respondents. Argued and submitted.
No. rs. Tristane w. Field, Ezra B. Fales
and Clara G. West, respondents, vs. Charles A..
Rlnes and L. Pratt, appellants. Argued by
appellant and submitted on briefs by respond
enu. 2E
BUSINESS TO-DAY.
Only one case is to be heard to-day, as fol-
lows:
No. 81. The St. Paul g. Sioux City railroad
company, appellants VS.. The Minneapolis 4
st. Louis railroad, respondents. E. G. Palmer
for appellants; J. Atwater for respondents.
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Daily Globe Advertising Rates.
ST, PAUL, WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1879.

TIE chief of police was instructed to COM
mence the slaughter of dogs on Monday.
There don't appear to be great many car
casses lying around, however.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
District Court.

The State of Minnesota VS.. Mary j. Huston.
Defendant arraigned on indictmentsfor selling
mortgaged property, pleaded not guilty, and
WAS admitted to bail in $100.
THE CALL.
May 14th-Case IS. Thatcher Blake, VS.. Chi
cago St. Paul & Minneapolis railroad COM
pany.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
Probate Court.
Before Judge O'Gorms

Before Judge O. German.
In the matter of the estate of francesca
Martha Maria Scott deceased. Petition filed
for letters of administration. Order made for
hearing June S, 1879, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14

was stricken with paralysis, but lived long
enough to disclose to her family the hiding
place of over $4,000 in money, which she had
saved in very small amounts for over thirty
years. As they were in needy circumstances,
their qualification was unbounded. The treas
| ure was found buried in one corner of the cell
lar.
There were SO many robberies at Ann AHbor
Michigan, during the winter, that the authori-
ties began to suspect the students Of the uni
versity. Various clues we're found to end in
the rooms of some of the students and now it
is clearly established that gang Of student
burglars has been in operation. Two Of them,
Lincoln D. Seels and Harry Merry, have been
sent to Jail.
The Tehama, Cali 7ocsin is responsible for
the following: "At the meeting of the Sunday
school last Sunday in the Presbyterian church,
the following. question was given by one of
teachers to an advanced member of The bibls
class: Who was J"b?' The following pointed
though humorous answer was given: Job was
the only known to history who achieved
notriety by boilsr"
/ A Snowman in New England advertises his
evening performances by escaping from the
l village jail every dIteInOOn. nc pcIH1lto =
committee to tie him firmly with ropes, hand
cuff him, and lock him in cell, only stipulat-
ing that the lock shall be within his reach.
Usually he emerges within ten minutes, but
sometimes is at work hour, and once wss
unable to get out at all.
j On the 2lst ult., ss two carriages filled with
excursionists to the ruins of Ostia were ap-
preaching the gates of st. Paul, ON their return
to the city, they were stopped by four armed
brigands and the occupants robbed of all their
jewelry and money. One of the party attempt
ed to hide his watch by handing it to the driver,
, but, on counting up the plunder, the leader of
the brigands calmly remarked: There il
a lacking one watch-I want itr' He got it inn
mcdiately.
Daily globe., 1879-05-14
AROLISHING PISTOLS,

General Toonsbs 9n the Coarenient Dert,,-
Arizona silver belt., 1879-08-22

Gen. Longstrset, in a late conyer- sation On the subject of the var, gave tongue to tue following
 s.The Southern armies were never so well organized and disciplined as those of the North. There was probably as much courage in one army as in the other. ' Individual bravery amounts to httle ia battle, as men must be fought in solid blocks, as parts of a machine" :" At no tlme during the war did I tblnk the rebellion would succeed The sentiment in favor of the Union and it's flag was quite as strong and perhaps stronger than the feeling aroused in defending States and homes" " Grant was the greatest Federal General and Johnston the greatest Confederate leader. Lee lost hls head as Gettysburg or he never would have fought the battle. Lee asked him, after the war. !" Longstrees, why didn't you stop that thing that day ?" Ths suren- der at Appomattox came none too soon, ant the last time l saw Lee I said. that before drew my sword again 1 would be sure that 1t was ne- .cessary l slid not believe, and l do not now belieFe, that the war was justified on either side. It is a ter rible thing, and should be resorted to only in absolute sesf-defense-jnst as killing in private life. "
Arizona silver belt., 1879-08-22
rAs Hsrya ss.Aaas Avnls.

The scandal revived seme time ago by Mrs. II. B. Stove with reference to Lord Byron and his sister has at length received what looks very much like iu death-bIow. h the number. of she London Academy for tbe 9th of July appears series of letters from rho late Ladg Byron to her hus- bands sister, Mrs. Leigh, which date from January 16, 1916. tho day after Lady Byron left Der hus- band's house. to lhe year 1851. iEn- mediateiy preceding Ars- Leigh's last illness. "All these letters, !" esy6 the London News of the 18th of July. .' testify to the constant es- Eeem and affection which Lady Byron entertained toward her sister -in-law. The expressions of affection they con- rain entirely disconLtsaanee lhe ldea that the charges brought aguinst Mrs. Leigh after Lady Byron's death, and said to rest on her direct personal testimony, had any fouula- ton m fact. Writing only ten days after she had left her husband. Lady Byron addresses Ars. Leigh as My dearest Augusta, and concludes by saying, Feelings must not now be lndulged bat whenever 1 feel at all , lt viH be ss kindly as you could. Independently of malady, l do not think of the past with any spirit of resentment, and scarcely with the sense of injury. God bless him. There was at 8 later period a serious
 dispute betweep Lady Byron and her sister -in-iaW but 1t arose on the ap- pointment of trustee under Lady Byron's settlement. Lady Byron appointed Dr. Lushingt0n, to whom Mrs. Leigh objected. The rupture of their intimacy of twenty years clearly arose out of this quarrel In 1851 meeting gas to have taken place between them at Reigate in the presence of che late Rev Frederick lkobertsoD, but it did net happen, and some monShs later, when Mrs. Leigh was in her last illness, Ladg ByFon wrote to her daughter {:
 Whisper to her from me the words,
 ' Dearest Augusta n can't think they would burt her and added 8 postscript that she was at Esher till Wednesday, and if she vas wanted they were 0ot to hesitate to seud for her. The whole of this interesting correspondence, which throws new light on the relations of Lady Byron to her sister-in-law in the years af- ter the separation from her husband is entirely inconsistent with the the- ory Mrs. Stowe has promulgated as to the causes of that separauon.