Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-21
BLAINE'S ANSWER FILED.
The SENTINELS INQUIRIES RE
Piled To IN FULL.

His Secret Marriage Again Detailed
and the Names of the Witnesses Given
His Wanderlngs as a PedagOgue i'm
kentucky Sarrated-The MutilatIou
of His Child's Grave Declared a Mys-
terry.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Sept. 20-In the
Blaine libel suit in the District Court this
afternoon Blaine's attorneys filed the fol-
lowing answers to the interrogatories
propounded by the SeRtineps attorneys on
Sept. 8:
l. James G. Blame, of Augusta. Me, on
oath depose and say IN answer to the fOregOin q
interrOgatOries:
l. Harriet B. StanwOOd.
2. Georgetown, KY, in the spring of 1S4S.
3. lived IN Kentucky as assistant professor
or tutor IN the western Military Institute
from January, 1S4S, to December, 1851 In
lS4S and lS49 the institute was at Georgetown
in 1850 at Blue Lick, and in 1851 at duncan
Iron Springs.
4. The lady married lived in Kentucky from
the spring of lS4S to the spring OF 1851. en-
gagged as teacher in Col. 7. Johnson's Female
Seminary, the first two years at GEORGETOWN.
and the last year at Millersburg.
5. finally left Kentucky in the latter mart
OF December, 1851, went to New Orleans ON
business and thence direct to Augusta. Me-.
which place reached Feb. 9, 1852, and was
next employ ed as the principal teacher in the
Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction
of the blind in Philadelphia.
8. My wife left Kentucky in March,
1851, accompanied by myself as far as Pitts
burg. Pa, thence Travelled alone to New York.
where she was met by her brother, Jacob
Stanwood, and under his protection proceeded
10 her molhers residence in Augusta, Me-,
where next met her on Feb. 8, 1852.
Z. and 8. 1 was married IN MiIlers-
burg, KY, on June 80, 1880. in the presence of
Sarah G. StanwOod and S. L. Blaine. The
marriage was secret. Having DOUBTS subse-
quently of its validity under the laws of Ken
tucky, which then stringently required a Ii
cense from the Clerk of the County Court,
haq the marriage solemnized the second time
In PlttsDurg, Pa, on March 49, 1851. in the
presence of John V. Lemoyne and David Bell.
NO ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BROTHER.
10 and IL. Jacob Stanwood was the eldest
brother of my wife. l had no acquaintance
with him at the time of my marriage. | had
never seen him nor heard from him any way
directly or Indirectly, before my marriage [
met him for the first time in February, 1852, /
had two letters from him after nv marriage
and before met him, and one warmly well
coming me as a member of the family, the
other, lnquiring if he could promote nv
business interests by loan of money | had
no other correspondence of any kind with him
until after had personally met him in Feb
ruary, 1852. My wife had two other brothers
neither of whom had ever met when came
TO New England in February, 1852 nor did
meet any male relative of my wife's before my
arrival in New England in February, 1852. =
IL, l3 and IA. My first child, son, was born
in the house of his grandmother on June 49,
1881. HIS name was Stanwood Blame. He
lived with his parents in 1852 1858 and part of
1854 in Philadelphia. He died on July 81, 1854
and was buried in the StanwOod family lot in
Forest Grove Cemetery at Augusta, Me.
l5, 10 and II. The monument was placed bV
my direction over his grave the year after his
death, thus inscribed: "Stanwood Blaine, SON
of James G. and Harriet S. Blaine; born
June IS, 1851; died July 81, 1854"
NO VISIT TO HIS CHLD's GRAVE.
I9. 1 have not myself seen the stone since
the first week in July, but have reason to be-
leve, and do believe, that since that
date many letters and figures there
on have been defaced, and that
tirely removed. have no means of ascer-
tanning by whom this was done but have
reason to believe, and do believe, that pho
tograph was taken of the defaced stone by
the procurement of one of the publishers Of
the Nea0 Age, Democratic paper published in
this city, and that copies of said photograph
were sent to divers and sundrY persons, in
Guiding the publisher of the indianapolis Sen
tineL, defendant of this suit.
10, 20, q and %. know of the book referred
to as ''The Life of James @. Blaine" / did
not revise the volume nor become in any de-
gree responsible for any statement made in it
though saw parts of it before its
publication, but did not and have
not to this day seen page sixty eight, to
ment there made was doubtless derived by
the author, Rofell II. COnnell, from conversa-
tons with me, but not from any special
authorization by me to make it.
JAMES G. BLAINE
United States Of america, District of Maine:
Before me, Winfield S. ChOate, Commissioner
of the Circuit Court of the United States, and
for said district, personally appeared James
G. Blaine and subscribed and made oath to
the truth of the foregoing answers.
Witness my hand and official seal at Au-
gusta, in said district, this 18th day of Sep
tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eighteen hundred and eighty four
lSeal. WINFIELD S. CHOATE,
Commissioner of Circuit Court of q s. for the
District of Maine