The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-04
THOSE HETEROGENEOUS.

Mr.. Blaine Ans,cers the Questions PROFOUND
ed by the Indianapolis ''Senti,,el."
In the Blaine libel suit in the district court
at Indianapolis, Mr.. Blaines attorneys filed
the following answers to the interrogatories
propounded by the Sentiners attorneys on
September h: I, James G. Blaine, of Angus
ia, Maine, on oath depcse and say, in answer
to the foregoing interrogatories:
l. Harriet B. Stanwood.
2: In Georgetown, Kentucky, in the spring
3. I lived in Kentucky as assistant professor
or tutor in the Western military institute from
January 1S4S TO December ISL. IN 1873 and
1S49 the institute was ut Georg town. in 1859 at
Blue Lick, and in 1871 ut prcnnOn Springs.
4. The lady married lived in Kentucky
from the spring of 1913 TO the spring of 1851,
engaged as a teacher n Col. 4. +. Johnson's
female seminary, the first two years at
Georgetown and the last year at Millcrsburg.
5. / finally left Kentucky in the latter part
OF December, lSJi. and went to New Orleans
on business and thence directly to Augusta,
Maine, which place | reached on February o.
1852, and was next employed as principal
teacher in the Pennsylvania institution for
the instruction of the blind, i'll Philadelphia
9. My wife left Kentucky in March, 1851,
accompanied by IN self as far as Pittsburg
Pa; thence Travelled alone to New York,
where she was met by her brother, Jacob
Stanwood, and under his protection proceed
ed to her mothers residence at Augusta, Me-,
where next met her on February 8, lS52.
Z, ana " L was married Ill MlllcrSDurE,
KY. on the 30th of June, 1850, in the presence
of Sarah G. Stanwood and S. l.. Blaine. The
marriage was secret. Having doubt subse-
Quently of its validity under the laws of Ken
lucky, which then stringently required a
license from the clerk of the county court,
had the marriage solemnized a second time in
Pittsburg, Pa, on the 10Th of March, 1851, in
the presence of John V. Lemoyne and David
Bell
10 and IL. Jacob Stanwood was the eldest
brother of my wife, 1 had no acquaintance
with him at the time of mQrrlaQo-hlQ
never seen him nor heard rom him in any
way, directly or indirectly before my mar
rage. ] met him for the first time in Feb |
ruary. 1852. had two letters from him after |
my marriage and before 1 met him, one |
warmly welcoming me as member of the |
family and the other inquiring If he could /
promote my business interest by loan of
money. had no other correspondence of |
any kind until had personally met him in |
brothers, neither of whom had ever met |
when came to New England in February, |
1852, nor did ever meet any of the male rela-
tives of my wife before my arrival in New
England in February, 1852.
II, ID and IA. My first child, son, was born
in the house of his grandmother on the 18th
Gay of June 1851. His name was Standwood
Blaine. He lived with his parents in 1852, 1858
and part of 1854, in Philadelphia, and died
July 30, 1854, and was buried in the Stanwood
family lot, in Forest Grove cemetery Angus
TIA, Maine.
10. IL and17 monument was placed, by
my direction, over his grave year after his
son of James G. AMI Harriet S. Blaine, born
June IS, 1851; died July 81, 1854"
Is. have not myself seen the stone since
the first week in July, but L have reason to
believe, and do believe, that since that date
many letters and figures thereon have been
defaced, and that the figure 81 in the year
1851 has been entirely removed. l have no
means of ascertaining by whom this was
done, but have reason to believe, and do be-
lieve, that photograph was taken of the de-
faced stone at the instance of one of the pub
fishers of the New Age, a democratic paper
published in this city, and that copies of said
photograph were sent to divers and sundry
persons. including the publishers of the In
Sentinel, the plaintiff in this suit
know the book referred to as 1.-THE Life of
James G. Blaine" did not revise the vol | {
ume or become in any degree responsible for
anv statement made in it, though / saw parts ;
Of it before its publics ton, but did not and {
have not, to this day, seen No. 6S, to which I
the question refers, though the statement
here made was doubtless derived by the I
author Roswell H. Connell, from conversa- I
ion with me- but not from any special au- /,
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE. Y
UNITED Pis SITES rs OF Mo AMERICA SIS. .
Before me, Winfield S. Choate. commits =
oner of the circuit court of the United +
States, in and for said district, personally APP
pear James G. Blaine and subscribed aud made a
,ath to the truth of the foregoing answers f
n said district, this 18th day of September in
he year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun
red and eighty-four.
lSeal.1 WINFIELD S. CHOATE,
of the Circuit Court of the >.
United States for the District of Maine. -