The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-21
SHE WILL SUE THE SENATOR
The Hon. Ephraim Emson and Pretty
Miss Blackman. Did He send
Her rsticks Of Candy: She Says
She Whipped Him Well.


Her sticks of Candy? She Says
She whipped Him Well.
GOLFERS MILLS, \. j.. Nav i6.-Th
queer controversy here. to which tn
Hon. Ephraim Emson and Miss Louis,
Blackman, the village school teacher
are the principal parties, continues t.
attract unabated interest. The lates
move Is in the direction of a slander sui
instituted by Miss Blackman against Mr.
t.mpson. The papers have not been
filed, but MIR. w. ID. Holt, Of Trenton
one Of the leading lawyers Of the state
told q Sun reporter yesterday that b,
was under instructions from Miss Black
man to begin proceedings at once, AM
that the matter will be in shape to tax,
into court by the time the next term
opens. in September. The Hon. Eph
rain EMson Is not only an able bodice,
man, but lie il q man OF means and i'm.
pOrtance hereabOuts. lie runs the vii
lage store, lives in a big barracks of a
house. and owns pretty much everything
in town. He has taken an active part in
politics; has been once in the senate and
twice in the assembly. For more than
twenty years he has been member of
the board. Of freeholders of this county,
lie likes to have his own way, and zen.
orally he has it. He has large mum.
her of people to whom. by exercising
ms bare power Of property. saying moth.
'ng Of his influence, he could make him
self painfully unpleasant if they ven
tuied To play at cross purposes with him.
Although not churchiLan himself he
went to the expense Of building "a mod.
est little chapel. in which he lets the
pious people of the village worship. and
right next door to the church he built n
school-house. He still retains these
structures, and the ground on which
they stand, AS his personal property, ami
when things no not move To suit he
makes his ownership felt. 1t was, in
fact. an excess Of zeal in the concerns
Of tho school which precipitated the
present trouble. whicl, dated from the
arrival Of Miss Blackman as teacher.
Miss Blackman's statement in brief is
that the senator pursued her with i'm
proper attentions from the date of her
arrival, and being rcpulsed set about
systematic course Of SANDER and perse-
cution. with the idea of driving her ont
Of the community. Miss Blackman is
AN attractive and remarkably keen.
witted lady, about twenty.four wears
old. Her parents are Quakers, and they
reside in Tuckerton. For some time she
taught school in Wildwood u few miles
from here. AMI she was not only liked ms
y teacher. but respected for her womanly
dignity Of character. " was. Miss
Blackman says. through the seductive
influenceof candy that the respectable
senator and assemblyman first conveyed
I" her tha; he looked upon her with the
eye of favor. lie had working for him
u young man called I've Reynolds. who ,
frequently drove over from Golfers !
Mills to call upon Miss Blackman at Mid. ,
wood. where she was teaching. Sena.
tor Emson says it isn't SO. hut I've AYERS ,
that IL was frequent practice of the
senator's, when he 1ve) started on one |
"f these trips to Midwool, TO take the n
most gorgeous rel sticks of candy right
nut Of one Of the jars on his store shelf. n
where from time whereof the memory n
III man r'lnneth not to the contrary il =
had been gloatrd upon b, greedy I
children. and dircct that it he given to h
The pretty school teacher. with the sena. Il
lor's tender compliments. At last, after 81
long solicitation on the senator's part, |
o Miss Backman says, she decided to h
iblndon her school at Wildwood and take n
'h,rs, Of the one in the senator's "
little " ho,'l house at Golfers Mills. Mr.. u
Reynolds in the meantime continued his h
attentions to Miss Blackman, and made N
ather more progress than did the sena-
or. The senator Teremptorly dismissed Il
VIZ. Reynolds from his service He did
mt. however, according to Miss Black
mans story, cease his attentions to her, :,
md these attentions, she says. cnlmina. h,
ed one morning last September when in
.phraim, coming to the school house "
'efore the scholars arrived. ON the pre-. 80
ehce Of winning up the clock. did then et
nj there make Improper proposals, g,
which Miss lslacknan rcpclled with "
roper Indignation. III
From that time said Miss Black IN
nan yesterday to a sun reporter, "Eph- T.,
aim began ascrics Of prosecutions which mr.
rove me wild. lie circulated SANDER lc,
us reports about my relations with Mr.. hi
leynOlds, and about my character gen. ov
rally. He tried his hest to get me re-. IN
ioved from the place which for more il
han II year he urged mo to take, with a l.
lew to lettering myself Tie would to
ave got me out had he been able to Ia,
Dntrol the three school trustees. Some
these trustees, Judge Conover among
iem, had opposed my taking the school Ia,
first, but at Ephrain's instance they -" 49,
When, however. he wanted ,,' ,a
throw me out, and everybody knew II, II
.hy he did, these very trustees who had -" ~,
opposed me would not hear of it. ,''' ,"'
"He denies that he sent me candy. ~ ~
Des he? lie did send me candy, and AZ, -,
Ut only that, but was foolish enough 81, 81,
cat some of it once, and | had liked ,i' ,i'
have died Of dyspepsia. It was awful W., o,a
indy. What | did on the 18th of a,' a.,
arch last did because vas nearly in Wv w,
me from that mans cowarlly attacks t.'
me. ] could stand it no longer, and Ie, Ie
had to do something" ao ao
What Miss Blackman did on March R R's
was to give Ephraim a particularly ~, ,ht
und thrashing with three stout oaken en' .n'
icks which she had cut on Ephraim's e,' s,,'
emises for the express purpose of ap- gu, 81.
yiny them TO Ephraim's back. when. "'e
'er favorable opportunity offered. I
Ephraim assured the reporter that the prC
rashing did not hurt. and that he had ty
, difficulty in taking one of the sticks ro,,
It Of little Miss Blackman's hand. Miss be-,
|ackman admitted that Ephrsm did for
cceed in grabbing one sof the rods A,
ON her hand. The other two she wa