, 1880-03-15
GOVERNOR GARcELoN's LOVE Ro.

MANCE.-Hi first wife was Miss Wall
dron, and by her he had five children,
four OF whom are now alive. He went
out with Maine regiment early in the
| war, hut soon returned nome. When he
came back he married the wife of man
who had gone to California when the fe-
yer broke out, but who had always sent
back plenty of money Just before the
marriage $700 was received from him,
and this helped to buy the wedding
dresses. Just three weeks after the mar
:iage the former husband arrived from
| California and was greatly surprised to
tind that his wife was the wife OF anoth-
er. He went to Garcelon and told him
he could keep the woman, but he wanted
his money back. An arrangement was
made and he returned to California.
The Mtelligencer, the editor of which
probably from natural cause has acquired
a mOruid APPETITE for gobbing up every
bit of social nastiness atloat and spewing
it upon the public, adopts the foregoing
piece of petty scandal without any refer
cnce to its source or object in it's publ
cation but the qualification of a deprav-
ed taste. We touch the dirty thing only
at the instance of intimate personal ac-
qualntances OF Gov. Garcelon in this
neighborhood, who know that it is false
and are scandalized by the publication.
Governor Garcelon is seventy years old
and resides in the town of Lewiston, in
which town he was torn and where he
has practised medicine tor nearly half a
century. His social position was as high
as that of any man in the State and his
private character as far above reproach
as any. His wife was a sister of Frey,
the leading Republican Congressman of
Maine, and his daughter was recently a
guest at the White House and am ong the
distinguished ladies mentioned as receiv-
ing with Mrs. Hayes on last New Years
day. He was attached to no Maine reg>
iment during the war, but was Surgeon
General of the State, having the super>
vision of all the Surgeons attached to the
Maine volunteers, with his head quarters
in Washington. The absurd story of
his having married the wife of another
man who had been away from her tor
more than twenty years and being com>
PEELED to compromise with the lawful
b,,c1,on1 haforo hoo ri ~ Il
persons now residing in this city who
have been guests in his family since the
date assigned to that transaction, and
would certainly have heard OF it had it
been true. True or false, the only inter.
est attached to the story, outside of the
parties implicated and their immediate
friends, depends upon the filthy tastes Of
the publisher and his readers.
According to a recent Government re-
port, there are 5S4,SS tenants in Ireland
who are striving to wiring out of the un :
certain soil not only their own support,
but that of the landlords and middlemen
There are Only 1929 tenants in Ireland
who have more than 500 acres each; S,1S7
have between 200 and 500 acres each ;
498, ,239 have so acres or less; and 2S7,-
SIG have Is acres or less. These numbers
are sad indeed, and they are doubly sad
as compared with the landlord statistics.
In 1870 the government reported 2,973
absentee landlords Of Ireland, who owned
precisely one-fourth Of the Island, rated
at an annual rent of 2,47O,S16 pounds.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The bll
passed by the Senate yesterday for the
relief OF homestead settlers is a measure
Of great importance to very large num-
bers of settlers in California. 1t Wa:
originally introduced by Senator B"oth
and bis persistent efforts procured it,
passage, both in the public land commit
tee and in the Senate. Under the exist
ing law the right of pre-emption on pub
| lie land at ia ches from the date OF settle
ment. but the right of a settler under th
homestead law only from the date of tn
entry. This bill provides that the liant
shall be given to the first settler whethe
he claims it as a pre-emption or as
homestcader. Senator Booth said O
this point:
"Tn.re is no reason why the right g
homestead settlers should not relate bac