The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-07
Washington Letter.

HIS YOUNG WIFE-A SUIT FOR ID
yoRCE-MRs. CHRIsTIANCx BUSHES
INTO PRINT-How SHE WON HIM
ETC, ETC.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March %, 1880.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The House on Saturday attempted |
to make a show toward a weeks !
work, and managed to refer quite a
number of bills reported from CON-
mittees to the calendar. The con
sular and diplomatic appropriation
bill was then taken mp, and the gen.
eral debate concluded. aud the read
ing of the bill by sections for amend
ments begun, which cuts the debate
down to FIVE minute speeches and
gives some assurance of the speedy
disposal of the bill. Having accom-
plished this much the House closed
the week, most fruitless in results,
by adjournment to this noon. The
Senate had adjourned on Thursday
to to-day.
The argument, if such it can be
called, urged by the advocates Of
the pulp and paper monopoly, that
the increase in the price Of paper ID
only that which is marked in other
articles and means q return of healthy
business, is as weak as it is impu.
dent.
1t is to be observed that the jump
ing up of values so, without parall-
ell, in the last eight months, is coafiD-
ed TO such articles only as Congress
has given a monopoly by prohibi-
ton in duties, that has taken them
out of the list Of revenue ard made
them simply counties. While iron,
steel, paper, and few other staples,
have gone up, wheat has not jumped,
nor corn. nor any other product OF
an agricultural origion, although
such industry is the underlying pros
perity Of the country.
Keen, active agents or the press
are watching carefully the progress
of this contest, and the names Of the
members daring to aid in this monop-
oily will be duly taken down and for
warded home for publication, so that
the papers may publish TO their con'
stituents the wrong done. The
remedy lies in the proposition made
| by Senator David Davis, Of Illinois,
to admit not only the raw material
free of duty, but the paper itself.
There was cry Of free breakfast
TO the poOr man when the duties on
tea and coffee were abolished. Now
let US have free reading for the poor
man in land where food for the
mind is considered OF vastly more
Importance than stimulants for the
stomach.
1t seems to be understood that
General Paine will not retire from
the direction Of the Patent Office for
some time to come, as there is con-
siderable business that he desires to
close up personally. There are ma
ny names mentioned as the probable
successor of General Paine, and it is
very doubtful whether the right one
has been suggested. The ciVil-ser
vice theories of Secretary Schurz
would lead to the belief that Dir.
Doolittle, the present assistant com
missioner. a gentleman we'll qualified
and popular in and out of the De.
partment, would be promoted to the
position, but it is rumored that the
Sherman boom will have q prepon-
derating influence 10 the selectiOa Of
q commissioner.
About four years ago there was a
brief courtship in Washington, ter
minating in a marriage, which was
the occasion Of much comment and
gossip. The groom was a widOwer,
a sexagenarian, and a Senator; the
bride was a beautiful Treasury girl
of twenty, It has proved to be the
old story of January and May. Ex-
Senator Christiancy, of Michigan,
now U. S. Minister to Peru, is ex-
pected Home in few days to insti-
tute a suit for divorce and the young
wife has rushed into print and &C.
cuses the supposed irreprOachable
old man Of drunkenness, opium.eat
ing and cruelty. She says they had
been married scarce two months
when he choked her and locked her
10 her room. Her knowledge of her
husbands alleged bargain with Sen
ator Chandler, deceased, and her
threatened exposure of its terms, &C.
cording TO her statement, greatly
enraged her husband, who, she says,
knocked her down on one occasion in
Peru, in the presence of an American
named Haight. Of whom she says the
Minister was jealous.
The story Of the domestic troubles
is one which has often been repeat
ed in this world. There could have
been nothing attractive to a rosy
young beauty in a feeble old Sena.
tor, except his reputed wealth and
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