Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-06
full course, Patterson won, Charley Epps
second, Abraham third time, $50.
Tamrnanr,s Celebration of the Fourth.

|
| made an address of welcome, the Declare
! ton of independence was read, after which
| Orlando B. Potter delivered the long
talk" choosing as his topic The Declare
| ton of INDEPENDENCE" The other speak
ers were Richelieu" Robinson, Eugene
S. Ives, A B. Tappan and Dennis McMa-
| hon. Among the letters read was the fol-
| lowing:
| EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 9Th.
| Hon. P. Henry Dago, Grand Sdchem-DEAR
SIR: l beg leave to acknowledge the receipt OF
! YOUR invitation to join the society OF Tammany
| in its ninety-seventh celebration of the Fourth
/ of JuIy-the birthday OF the republic ! regret
i that pressure of official duties and engagements
4 prevent my acceptance of this kind invitation.
j OF the purposes sought to be accomplished by
the people in their choice of Chief Magistrate,
/ recently referred to III your note OF invitation
| am seriously mindful. In order that the hopes
i of the people be fully realized every member OF
1 the party in power should yield q cordial sup
port TO all efforts on the part of the administers
ton to restore pure, free and Just Government.
The statement contained in your note that the
administration should so discharge all its tlInc-
tons to merit not only the appreciation OF the
4 people but at the same time insure hGrInoni-
Gus party united in Jetfersonan Democracy,
4 meets my approval, although my conception OF
| the true purposes and the mission of my party
cOnVinces me that If the present administration
merits the intelligent approval OF the people
this result of itself certainly should insure {.
harmonious party united Ill JefferSonlan DeulOc-
4
4 and keep alive the memory Of patriotic devotion
and sacrifice for the sake of free institutions no
! occasion is more propitious for renewal OF our
/ pledges to a true and progressive Democracy, so
| essential to our countryS safety and pros
f''' GROVER CLEVELAND.
/ A repast followed the literary exercises.
/ Missing Government Funds Accounted For.
DETROIT, July fth.-Ex-Internal Revenue
| Collector Stone has an original ordinance
4 adopted by the Confederate Convention in
| Louisiana, which evidently accounts for
| part of the funds reported unaccOunted for
1 bv the New Orleans Mint. The record of
| the New Orleans Mint, which closed on
4 January 81, 1861, when the government
4 of Louisiana went into the hands of the
| Confederacy, shows that 1885,, PIG had
| been coined prior to that date all of which
| amount probably went into the enemys
hands. Louisiana seeded from. the Union
on January Is, 1861, all the Federal
offices were transferred to the State OF LoUi-
| siana on the Goth of that month, and on the
| 18th of March were transferred TO the Con-
federate Government. The document IN
MIR. Stones possession is an ordinance " TO
transfer certain funds to the Government
| of the Confederate States of America" In
the first section " the people of the State of
| Louisiana ordain that $3.50, 297, now III
the nanUS Ol a. > bulLOt, dl tuc DIdlc uc-
positOry and known as the bullion fund,
be transferred to the Confederate Govern
ment, and said depository is ordered TO pay
that sum upon an order of the Secretary of
| the Treasury OF the Confederate States.
| The second section orders payment to the
Secretary of the Treasury of $l475l9, the
Custom house collections since January
81, 1861 The ordinance was adopted in
New Orleans on March Z, 1861, and IS
signed by A Montom, President and J. N.
s. Wheat Secretary of the Convention. 1t
is attested by the seal of the Convention OF
louisiana When l read the dispatch
concerning the missing coinage from the
New Orleans Mint said Mr.. Stone" /
thought Of this ordinance. AS it refers TO
the bullion fund particularly, it is likely
the document accounts for so much Of the
coinage 1t was found in the archieves of
the Confederacy when the Sixth Michigan
was quartcred in the Mint of New Orleans
when the city was retaken. The ordinance
is written in ink. in neat style, upon the
first page of foolscap sheet of paper. It's
but slightly soiled and perfectly preserved"
4 Bigamist's Defense.
New YORK, July 4th.-It came out n
the Tombs Court to-day that if Rev. DR..
Houghton. of the Little Church Around
the Corner" had come home ten minutes
later on Thursday night, his servant, Mary
Quinn, would have been married in his
house to Godfrey Bahler, who had at least
two wives already, and whom DR.. Hough-
ton was waiting to confront with the
charge that he was bigamist. Bahler was
a waiter at the st. Nicholas Club, across the
street from DR.. Houghton's residence, at
East Twenty-fifth street. He had been
counting Mary, and one OF his Wifes heard
of it DR.. Houghton was informed Of
Bahlers character, and means were con-
certed for catching and Furnishing the man,
but DR.. Houghton was out when Bahler
came around on Thursday night and asked
the Rev. Gilbert Underhill, DR.. Houghton's
curate, to marry him to Mary. Mr.. Under
hill and Mary knew of no lawful impedi-
ment but Dr. Houghton came in time TO
prevent the ceremony.
Officer Finn testified to-day that he had
had warrant in his pocket for four months
for Bahler's arrest. In Buffalo, in October,
1888, Bahler had married Mary McManus.
They had come 10 this city and he had
stolen $50 from her, sold her furniture and
had run away. Mrs. McManus was in
Court to-day She said that she had found
out that before marrying her Bahler had
married Polly Ingledew, now a cook at the
Manhattan Beach Hotel. The woman got
a warrant for his arrest. Bahler heard Of
it. visited Mrs. McManus and threatened
her with vengeance if she prosecuted him.
He told her that he had influence and had
an organization of Swiss walters at his
back After that, from nearly every prin-
cipal city in the Union threatening letters
came to her, written in French. English
and Spanish. Some of them were sour
rilous.
Polly Ingledew was not in Court. She
SAYS she was married TO Bahler in Novem-
Der, 1880. She found that he wanted her
to support him, and she turned him adrift
After his marriage to Mrs. McManus he
wrote from the Snake Hill Penitentiary to
his first wife, begging for $50 10 get himself
a decent suit of clothes. She sent him the
money. He got the clothes, got place at
the ST. Nicholas Club, and began to court
Mary Quinn. She heard of II, and notified
policeman Finn. He notified DR.. Hough-
ton. BY that time Bahler had got $40 of
Mary Quinn, and spent so OF il on we'd
ding ring.
Bahler listened to all that was said with
attention Then, turning to Justice Smith,
he said: Granting that all this IS true,
you have no evidence upon which to de-
tain me- The only woman who now con-
fronts me is Mary McManus. l may or may
not be married to her. Where is any other
woman to whom am married." Justice
Smith said he could not hold Bahler for
abandoning Mrs. Manus, because II was
not clear that they were man and wife, and
he could not compel Polly Ingledew to
come from Manhattan Beach to prosecute.
Bahler was discharged, and left the Court
room free 10 renew his conquests among
confding servant girls with savings bank
accounts.
The National Sangerfest.
New YORK, July 4th.-The Fourteenth
National Sangerfest opened its proceedings
, tonight i'll Williamsburg, l.. /. Societies
, were present from nearly every city in the
Union ofany note, and were welcomed by
the Brooklyn societies, which turned OF;
en- masse, making an imposing display.
The visiting societies were met at certain
point and escorted through the principal
: streets. The buildings along the route were
handsomely decorated and brilliantly illu-
minated, and the societies were heartily