Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-10

An interesting centennial anniversary was the one Dr. B. Joy Jeffries of Boston cele- brated Wednesday in commemoration of his grandfather's trip across the English channel, from Dover to Calais, in balloon. The aeronautic expedition, the first extended
 journey ever made in air ship, Dr. John Jeffries asked his son to celebrate when 100 years should have passed away. The second Dr. John did not live long enough, and the task fell to his grandson. who made the event of historic interest in several ways. Of the two tables used at dinner one had be- 1onged to John Hancock and one to the hostess great grandfather, the first British consul at Boston, Marie Antoinettes tureen held the soup. The guests spent several hours viewing the clothing worn by Dr. John
 Jeffries on his trip, the large collection of articles that he had with him, the pictures of the balloonists and the monument erect ed by the French on the place where the bal loon landed.
 A young girl chose to be married in a West Prussian town by proxy, and she has now made the unpleasant discovery that her marriage under these circumstances is no marriage at all under the eyes of the law. On the day fixed for the civil ceremony the | bride, being anxious to superintend the preparations for the wedding breakfast, in # going in person to the town hall
 with the bridegrus--,, s7n' iei sls'e. -ll liel
 place. None of the relatives nrl-
 perceived the ifnpropriety of the proceeding,
 and the Mayor pronounced the wrong woman
 married to the right man. The following
 day the real bride went to church with the
 husband, and the match was solemnized.
 Immediately afterward, however, the couple
 were informed, not only that owing to the substitution of one person for another be- fore the Mayor the marriage was null and
 void, but that they will be prosecuted for
 making false declaration to the civil regis trar.
 Some stories concerning Indians are going
 the rounds which show that there will be no danger in admitting some Indians to citizen ship. Old ''yilIage Maker was a savage,
 making no pretense to civilization and hay ing no desire for it. He was famous story teller ard liked to puzzle children with won derful tales of fancy. He never practiced polygamy, although it was common in his tribe. He married when he was very young ] and his wife was killed by the Sioux in the old days when the Sioux were always fight | ing. He then married again and lived hap oily with his second wife until few weeks ago when she died. He said that he should 1 die the next day and that he wanted to be I buried in the grave with his wife. He told | his family not to cut their hair or make any of the usual demonstrations of grief, for that l there was nothing bad in dying; that the | time had come for him to go; that it was all | right and he was not afraid. He had had no 1 sign of sickness, but he died as he said he
 should and was buried by the side of his wife. One of his grandsons, a lad of IT. | had some little time before got the consent l of his family to go off with show. He had
 been brought mp by this savage grandfather. l The lad saved all his money and carried
 home to the family sixty dollars besides 1 blankets and broadcloth. His old grand l parents were wrapped in the warm blankets l that he gave them and buried so.
 | In the same tribe-not one that is counted | civilized--a young man was taken i'll last | summer and could no longer work for the support of his wife and his widowed mother
 and sister, who were dependent on him. A | half-cousin, an old man and a very noble | one, took the family home The young man
 died. The wife was taken home by her own
 father; but the other two widows the mother
 and sister, remain with the old man, ''be
 cause there is no one to take care of then
 since the son and brother died" There art
 white men who would not be disgraced by
 associating with such savages as these.