The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-02
A CARD.
Mr.. Blackshears Reply to Prof. NAL
lecte

leste.
| Editor Morning NcIUS: do not desire q
newspaper controversy with anyone, and
especially with c. S. Mallette, who
has, In an interview, asSailed my good
name and reputation in the columns
OF your paper. The article in question hav-
ing been copied by the Constitution, and
read by hundreds who do not know Nal
| lsttes tendency to misState facts, as do my
sell and the citizens of Savannah, L think
1t proper to reply to the charges made
| against Inc and also Mrs. Dixie Embry, nee
Haygood. with whom | have a business
| contract.
In defense of Mrs Embry, I will say, that
she dld not cause Mallette to withdraw at
savannah, as he states, for discharged
| nm for unfitness for the position he occu-
pied. Before l employed him as advance
agent he made pledge that he would alb
STAN from drink and discharge his duties
| faithfully. He failed to keep bis pledge.
FOR instance, wher | sent him to Savannah
ne procured small hall in the third story
OF building, causing me to lose more than
| SOU; beside, ne appeared before the public
there showing the effects of liquor, and that
was why Mrs. Embry de lined to be
introduced by him the second night. |
therefore discharged him. He says that
owe him for his trip to Waycross,
Albany and Americas, because 1t
was financially successful We
barely paid expenses, and why
Because he did not attend to his duties dur
ing his trip to those places. At Waycross
he dld not even distribute our handbills or
put notice in newspapers, much less procure
hail. On our arrival no one was aware
of our coming, and had to rent the court
house and have stage built and advertise
our performance, because he had neglected
TO do those thing When | started him
a Uci n |
gave him $40 to pay his railroad aad hotel
Iare, which amount was amply sufficient,
as paid all other expenses on my arrival.
The next day | received a telegram
from him calling for $40 more. [ sent
SO. On his arrival at Americas | received
another telegram asking for $50 more,
which did not send One hundred dollars
was asked for and S6j given, when $50 was
amply sufficient. The trip to those points
was not financially successful, simply be-
cause had an incompetent advance agent,
and so / owe him nothing
Now as to the $5S.3S, that he says was
spent for the Haygood Combination arrang-
his apparel was seedy, and | spent that
amount for clothing for him, etc. He owes
me that now, and that is why | presented
that bill to him.
He charges me with "disorganizug" an
opera that he was Tehearsing at Macon and
causing the prlma donna to Withdraw, and
later the other members of the opera,
thereby defeating scheme he had of max
ing big money, all in order to get Mrs.
Embry on the road. Now, the truth is the
prima donna, ana other members of the
opera, Withdrew of their own choice. He
saws that he would sooner believe what T.
l.. Embry says in regard to the marriage Of
Mrs Embry than what Mrs Embry has to
say about it-that is, that they were law
m at MoInTlhiC AFr
"a last. saw them married, and as proof
of it being fact, submit the following
correspondence, which will explain itself:
AFFIRMING THE MARRIAGE.
Mrs. Enlbry also received the following letter
yesterday, which explains itself:
OFFICE OF MEMPHIS AVALANCHE,
MEMPHIS, Tenn. May "A, 1898.
Mrs. DiTie Embry. formerly Mrs.. Dtrie Hoy
good, Macon, Ga:
MADAM was loId by our County Court
Clerk to-day that he had received letter from
you inquiring about the validity of your mar
| riage license issued April "a ult., and if he
| could give you the names of any witnesses
present at the marriage. was present at the
marriage ceremony at the Clarendon Hotel par
| lor, and write to offer you any assistance in my
power as a witness I had on the
same afternoon attended, with sew
eral other gentlemen, n test given by
YOU in the hotel parlor. Lam city editor of
the Memphis Avalanche and reported the test
next morning In that paper as we'll as the mar
riage. Seeing your name later in the afternoon
on the marriage record at the court house. | at
once sought Esq. John j. Barry who was to per
form the ceremony. and went with him to the
hotel and saw you married in due legal form by
a regularly authorized officer to Mr.. I. L.
Embry, which was the name of the man in the
license. If you should have any need of such
proof and can be of any assistance to you am
at your service. Respectfully,
J. P YOUNG.
THE LICENSE.
Last night we also saw copy of the marriage
license by which Mrs. Haygood and Embry we're
married. 1t was duly signed b. P. j. Quigley,
Clerk of the County Court of Shelby county,
per NJ. F. Garvin, deputy clerk, and bearing the
regular seal of Office, with the inscription:
County Court, Shelby county"
On the marriage license is the following GER
tifcate,
state of Tennessee, Shelby county: solemn
lied the rites of matrimony between the within
| named parties Thomas l.. Embry and Mrs
Dixie Haygood) on the oath day of April, 1888
JOHN J. BARRY,
Official station,
Magistrate Shelby Co., Tenn"
Permit me, in conclusion, to say that
have answered all of his charges truthfully,
and that he has misstated facts.
Respectfully,
THOS. B. BLACKSHEAR.
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