Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-06


a we'll known Southern family. Mrs.
Marine. the suicides stepmother, is one
of the Virginia Bradfords. Her husband,
the late Prof. Marine, of Columbia Col
lege, was one of the most cultured in
structors eff that institution. He was
Scotchman. and was a graduate of the
University of Glasgow. The suicide was
his son by a first wife. ROsalie Murray
Marine, the only child by his second mar
rage, died of scarlet fever at the age of
twenty, after but three days illness, al
most three years ago. She was lovely
and accomplished girl, and was beloved
by all who knew her. Her death broke
her mothers heart, and since the death of
her husband the bereaved mother has been
more than alone in the world, for her step
son, owing probably to the hereditary
insanity which caused him to take
his own life, acted as il
she were an enemy. Had she
been his enemy, he doubtless could not
have inflicted more shocking blow upon
her than to have chosen her house as the
place to kill himself in. If Mrs. Marine
does not die as restlt of this accumula-
ted series of misfortunes, it will be be-
cause sorrow aud trouble do not kill, how
ever they may torture. Tom Marine
was always considered rather queer and
Eighty. He was supposed to be in love
with his stepmother's niece, Marion Brad
ford, and her marriage to an army officer
was considered great grief to BIN. One
might have imagined that his disappoint-
ment aggravated his hereditary disposition
to insanity and been the cause of his sui
eide, had he not attended the wedding and
appeared to be the happiest of the guests.
THE WORST ELEMENTS IN THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY
in this State are increasing their efforts to
fha inc nf
at Chicago next week. Were the Opp0si-
tion to him being such as it is, confined to
his own party, it might be ignored, but
unfortunately the veto of the five-cent
fare bill, proper and praiseworthy meas
ure in view of the bill being unconstitu-
tional, has tended to make him unpopular
not only with the working classes but
with what, for want of a better term, l
shall call the middle class, which is prin-
cipally composed of Republicans. The
working people, indeed, have no right to
complain of the veto for the bill did not
affect them, as they only use the elevated
railroads during the present fYe-cent
hours. TradesfOlk and clerks, and for
that matter, nearly all business and pro-
fessiOnal men, together with shoppers and
theatre-gOers, have more reason to ''kick''
on account Of the veto, as the proposed
! extension Of the fVe-cent hours
would have been a saving to them
of a nickel almost every time they
would be most apt to travel on the ele-
waited roads. Gov. Cleveland, therefore,
| if nominated, would doubtless lose many
Independent and Republican, as well as
! Democratic votes here in the city, be-
cause of the veto, but there can be no or
| ganized opposition to him by the labor
unions, for they are already already pieageG 10
! oppose Blame. On account Of the Iri-
! Dunes employment of nOn-union compost
/ tors Typographical Union No. has OBJ
| tanned the pledge of all the other unions
! that they will vote against the I'rt-
| Dunes candidate. They will, therefore,
| be forced to support Cleveland, in the
| event OF his nomination, not because they
| like him more, but Blaine less. AS to the
| opposition of Tammany, Cleveland's
| friends claim that it would gain him more
Republican and Independent votes than
it would lose him Democratic, as decent
people consider the candidate John Kelly
is opposed to to be the one of all others TO
be supported.
THERE ARE DISADVANTAGES IN HAVING
FOREIGN NURSES
for ones children in order that they NAV
acquire lingual proficiency. 1t often re-
suits in a child's acquiring foreign
language at the expense of his own, so
that his uncultured parents are hardly
\
The case with not a few New Workers.,
notably with 'EWillie'' Vanderbilt, as the
son of William III. Vanderbilt is called to
| distinguish him from the sold man,
Willie's five-year-oId boy has French
and a German nurse who have orders
never to speak English to him, but to
address him each in her own tongue.
The consequence is that the child speaks
French and German fluently, but can
hardly speak English at ALL Absurdly
enough, too, the few words of English
which he knows he prOnOunces with an
atrocious German accent, and he says
''dat" and ''dis" Tor Ithatv and 'sthis."
He understands English as little as he
speaks it, so that ''Willie," who
knows no language but his own,
is debarred from talking to his own son.
When the two are together, one of the
nurses, or Mrs. Vanderbilt, who speaks
French and German with ease if not with
entire correctness, has to act as inter-
prefer between them. AS Withouta COM
mon language. it is difficult to comply
with Solomon's maxim, "Spare the rod
and spoil the child,o Mrs. Vanderbilt is
the boys chastiZer when he misbehaYes.
She would, however, be more apt to act
in this capacity than her husband in any
event.
THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF SKELETONS
in the closets of New York families-that
in the Rev. DR.. Primes family probably
has not often had its parallel. According
to the account generally accepted, when
the first wife of DR.. Prime died, her sister
wished to be her successor. The doctor,
however, did not share in the wish. and
when he married again he chose another
woman for his wife. His sister-in-law,
unable 10 get the father, actuated by
pique or some less worthy motive, married
the sOn-her own nephew. 1t is not often
that a nephew is willing to marry his
aunt, but, in this case, although the groom
was "a and the bride 80, she was a well
preserved woman and by no means looked
her years.
When one remembers that Cleopatra
was 40 and native OF climate where
women age faster than they do here, at
the time Anthony considered the world
well lost for love, it is not inconceiYable
that woman under forty may some
times have charms for a man even fifteen
years younger. Young Prime, too, in
making love to his aunt and she in re-
ceiving his attentions, followed an his
tOrical example In which the discrepancy
in age is greater and the relationship, in
some respects, nearer. Minon de PEuclos'
grandson, ignorant of the relationship,
fell in love with her, and she, equally
ignorant, returned his attachment. Their
filtration came to an end, however, when
their consanguinity was discovered.
But | am treating a matter of doubtful
morality with too much leVity. Let me
dismiss the subject, therefore, with the
addition that the manned aunt and
nephew were sent to Coventry, when they
went to live in village near here, and
they are obliged to live in some obscure
town in the West, where their relation
ship is not known in order to escape the
ostracism Of their fellow creatures, so
great is the disgust inspired by a union
forbidden alike by the laws of eonsan-
guinity and decencyi
ROSCOE CoNKLING HAS A SUITE OF
ROOMS
ON the second floor of the house adjoining
the premises of the Bar Association, in
West Twenty-ninth street. His stately
figure is familiar to the neighbOrs, who
watch with interest his visible movements
and note every visitor whom he receives.
A recent visitor has been Father Ducey,
who on one occasion brought a gorgeous
bouquet of rare flowers which he pre-
scented to the ex-favorite son of New York.
When George Bliss conversion to Roman
ism was announced, it was suggested
that Father Ducey's visits upon Mr..
a