Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-11
BEHAVIOR EDISON IN CONTEMPT.

EX.mAYOR EDISON IN CONTEMPT. Sentenced to Jail and to Pay a Fine.
 NEW YoRK, Feb. 1O.-Judge Freedman, in the Superior court special term to-day, gave very elaborate opinion and decision in the proceedings brought by Theodore Roosevelt and others against Franklin Edson, ex-May- or of this city, upon the motion to punish him for contempt of court for disobeying the order of injunction granted by Judge Beach last December to restrain him from making any nominations for commissioner of public works or corporation counsel. Judge Freed man finds that ex-Mayor Edson is guilty of contempt of court, and he directs "that for the wilful disobedience and the contempt of which the defendant stands adjudged guilty he be imprisoned in the county jail for the period of fifteen days, and that, in addition thereto, he pay fine of $25O. And I fur ther direct" says the judge, ''that the order to be entered and the commitment to be is sued be presented for settlement on notice of two days to the attorneys for the defend ant"
 known Robert SeweI1 and Daniel Dudley Field, ex-Mayor Edson's counsel, held con sultation in MT. Fields office. MT. Sewell said to reporter, According to the decis- ion we are to have two days before the order is S., entered When it is entered we ceedings pending an appeal The case will not only be taken to the
 court of appeals, but will be brought to the legislature. "Why to the legislature?' 'fFor
 an investigation of the judges" "Mr. Ed
 son intends making vigorous fight evident
 Irv21 l0,1. E.
 probably be entered on Friday next.
 "A MOUNTAIN PINK.
 A New Jersey Negress Who is Said. to be 116 Years old.
 From the Philadelphia Record.l
 The oldest person perhaps now living in the United States is Sylvia Duboice, a negress and former slave, who in August last cele- brated her 116th birthday and who lives in destitution on the bleak summit of the Sour In little frame cabin, with one room hardly large enough for the swinging of cat, and which is hidden amidst the stunted under l brush and huge boulders that lend a rugged and barren pieturesqueness to the lone spot, this famous mountain pink" drags out her burdensome life, attended by her ''baby," as she calls her youngest daughter, Elizabeth Alexander, who is herself seventy years of age.
 When Record reporter, after wearisome climb of miles, reached the cabin the other day, he found the venerable human relic stir ring up wash clothes that were in boiler on l the stove, while the ''baby," lusty and stout 1 imbed was chopping wood, swinging her axe with the skill and strength of an Amazon. Lo1f l the identical spot upon which her cabin now | stands. The structure n"whieh ali these years were passed had begun to tumble in | sheer decay about her, for it was bold tar l get for the fierce winds that sweep with hur- ricane-like fury over the top of the gray old | mountain. It at last became not even fit shelter for beast. Her condition excited ! the commiseration of Rev. MT. Ferris, a mountain missionary, who succeeded in in 1 teresting the ladies of the Presbyterian church at Bennington, ten miles away, in he1 1 behalf They raised the money for the build | ing of 8 new cabin, and into this she has just
 moved. The structure is not lathed or plas. 1 tered, and there is no carpet on the floor 1 The old lady sleeps cot, while her daugh 1 ter reposes on an old straw mattress in the | loft, which is without window and is reach
 ed by the aid of a primitive ladder. There if l not single article of comfort about tine place 1 and hardly the necessaries of life. But the l new house is palace in comparison with the old one
 The centenarian is remarkably preserved | for so great an age. She says that she can
 hear purity good" Her eyesight is excel
 lent, and she never wore "specs." She can boast of the possession of sound tooth and says that since she was thirty years old | she has drawn !" crumbs of comfort" from g clay tobacco pipe. 't think much Of thai 1 old clay pipe as I do of my darter over yan 1 der,' she remarked. The old lady is densely l ignorant, never even having been taught te | read or write, and this, combined with he1 l clouded memory, prevented her telling mucE | about herself But the daughter says that
 her age is fully attested by an entry of he1
 birth in the family Bible of Major Baird, tt | whom her father, a slave, belonged. Sht l was born near Rock Mills, at the edge of tn, l Somerset Mountain, in Somerset county, N 1 J. When girl she sold or given to man named Duboice, who lived at Grea Bend, on the north branch of the Susquehan na river, in Pennsylvania. She says she op ! erated ferry for her master, and took hi name. When she reached her eighteenth | year and was her own master, Duboice fur | nished her with paper, setting forth tha | she was a free woman. Armed with this sht | returned to Jersey. which was at that time | slave State.
 | Her father served as ffer in the Cont | mental Army, in the command of Major Baird | his master. He participated in a number ot
 battles. She has no memory for events, and | gets the Revolution sadly mixed with the | war of 1812. She is the mother of thre. 1 children, the eldest, Judith Roberts, whose | age is eighty-three years, living at Princeton | N. J. She cannot recall the ages of her fath ] CT and mother when they died, but says he1
 son-in law, Francis Crazer, died in Philadel | phia during the Centennial at the age of ont
 hundred and four years. Old Sylvia is as l "pert as 8 cricket can walk about unaded l and ia but little stoOr,a6 from Two vaar
 ago she made a journey to Lambertville, ant
 later to New Egypt Her life has been pub lshed in book form by Prof. Lsricoh, of Rin goes, and has had large sale in that section l Mrs. Alexander told the reporter that she hat l to take as tender of her mother as tho
 she were a baby. The doctor will not per
 init her to take medicine, but prescribe
 nourishing food. These old women subsis
 wholly upon charity. The daughter regret l ted that, owing to the care required by tn
 mother, she is unable to go out to work fo
 their support, and the consequence is tha | fbax, ip Iastitntfop T