The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-18
The Feeling At Augusta.

Special to St. Louis Globes Democrat.
+ The prompt action of Mr. Blaine in commenc-
ing an action for Islander against the Indianapo
lis Sentinel for publishing an editorial contain
ing scandalous charge against him, is giving
much satisfaction to his friends and supporters
here MIR. Blaine is nowhere better known than
in his own home, among his neighbors and towns
people He has resided here over thirty years
and his life has been one of straightforward
ness and uprightness. Not whisper has ever
been heard against his private character His
life as regards his family and social relations has
been one of strict rectitude. This every citizen
here will attest AS your correspondent has
previously intimated there has been a strong
and thus far unsuccessful effort made among
anti-Blaine newspaper correspondents here to
rake up charges against Mr.. Blalne's character.
They have been interviewing citizens and nos
ing around in every hole and corner to discover
something. Their efforts from first to last have
proved futile, and they have made no Roadway.
Mr. Blaine has been expecting something of the
indianapolis Sentinel for some time The Ceve-
land charges and their effect through the country
has made the anti Blaine men desperate and it
has evidently been their plan for some weeks to
nullify them i'll some manner Mr.. Blaine how
ever, will not be trihed with. He stands on
solid ground, and is prepared to meet every as
sault on his private character that may be made.
Testimony of a Man Who Witnessed tho Mar
riage.
Richmond (I1d) Special to Cincinnati oommercial-
Gazette. tf#
Your correspondent has just finished an inter-
view with Isaac R. Purnell, of this city, who
witnessed the marriage of James G. Blaine in
the little town of Millersburg, the countyseat of
Bourbon county, Kentucky, and says if there
was ever breath of rumor in any way dis
creditable to Blaine or his wife he would have
certainly heard it, so sweet morsel would it
have been for village gossip. Mr.. Purnell will be
sixty years of age next, November and says he
was born and reaHed in Millersburg and contin-
ued to live there until he came to this county
nine years ago. Blaine, he said, taught III
distant from Millersburg and the president of
that school was also the president of the fe-
male seminary in Millersburg, in which the
Stanwood sisters were employed One of the
girls married a merchant named William Nc
Kim, and the other married Blaine, in the parlor
of the seminary, which was on the opposite side
of the block in which his parents resided. Like
most of the other villagers he was present to
witness the ceremony and the departure of the
party in hacks for Paris or Cvnthiana where
they took the cars for their wedding tour There
was nothing hasty or sub rosa about the mar
rage nor did he ever hear it intmated that
there was the slightest indiscretion connected
with the courtship Hence he has not the slight
est hesitancy in branding the charges Of the In
dianapolis Sentinel as an astrocious SANDER,
and his son, whom your correspondent subse-
quently met on the street, said that his mothers
recollection of the marriage was Just as distinct
as that Of his father, and was in perfect accord
with it as to the material points.