Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-23
AMERICAS CRETNA GREEN.
The District of Columbia Becoming
National Marrying Mart.
ONLY ONE DOLLAR AND COST S.
The Price of tho Process Reduced to
the Minimum and no Questions
Asked-Omaha Capitalists In
vesting in Maryland.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
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WAsnINaroN, ID. C., Sept. %.

Green.
Children falling to receive a marriage
license or to get minister to perform a mar
riage ceremony have only to fly TO Washing
ton ana their hearts are quickly made 10
beat as one Attention was to-day called to
the loose condition of affairs in this respect
by the elopement and marriage OF Claiborn
A. Wilson and Miss Maude Glasscott. of this
city. He is twenty, she seventeen. He is a
nephew of President Arthurs United
States marshal of this district; she was a
belle in the youngest channels of upper so
cicty. On both sides of the match there
is protest. but IL is too
late. In the multiplicity OF
complications which have brought forth
hundreds of sensational marriages in the
District of Columbia during the past three
years, making this resort far-famed for all
who have obstacles in the way of marriage,
no one has ever been made to suffer. 1t is
not crime in the ey es of society and the
law aids and abets amusements of this
character From Maryland, Virginia and
all directions they come every day, till the
list of marriage licenses issued by the clerk
of the district court runs as high as that of a
whole large state. Congress Will not, how
ever. be invoked to stop this traffic for the
people here seem to enjoy it, on the contrary
it will be encouraged. No troublesom e
questions are asked when man applies for
a license in Washington to wed the girl of
his choi Q. All that is necessary to secure q
wife is to get the girl to say yes" and to
raise 81 in cash for the license and secure a
minister TO tie the knot. 1t does not matter
whether you are white or black
or copper coloied, or whether
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you are twenty-one or seventeen, whether
your girl is fifteen or forty or whether your
parents are willing or unwilling, 81 will Sc
cure the order of the court upon minister
of the gospel to solemnize the rites of mar
riage and no questions will be asked. So
much encouragement is just now afforded
young people to elope to Washington that
fathers and mothers in the surrounding
country are not a little worried.
TWO INTERESTING SUBJECTS.
Two subjects have been the source of much
inquiry among the officials at the treasury
department during the past week. The in
terest is general throughout the country and
with the approach of December it will be-
come greater. They are as to what congress
will do on the coinage of silver and for new
basis of national bank circulation.
The impression prevails that the president
will make important recommendations on
these subjects, A treasury official says the
coinage of silver will remain as at present,
but that in all probability recommendation
for u 2 per cent bond, especially for ma
tional bank circulation security, will be
recommended. He contends that the most
experienced men in the department favor
and see the necessity of it and he believes
that the president and secretary of the
treasury will urge it, This official suggests
that those interested should address their
and say what they wish done and say it
now.
IF HE WERE NOT AN INDIANA MAN.
To-day's Post says that President Harri-
son would be willing, knowing the man as
he does and upon the recommendations
given, to appoint General Fred Knetfler, Of
Indianapolis, commissioner of penSions-if
he were not an Indiana man. 1t adds that
Merrill of Massachusetts, had talked him
self to death, SO far as the commissionership
is concerned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Congressman Samuel j. Randall with his
family ls now, and has been nearly all sum-
mer, at Walingford, Pa. Mr.. Randall is
suffering again from his old enemy tue gout.
He will, however, be on hand at the conven-
ing of the house.
Quite a number Of prominent republicans
and democrats will go to Abingdon, Va, to-
morrow TO witness the formal opening OF the
Malone is expected to lay down the issues
defining his position on the state debt and
throw the gauntlet at his democratic adver-
saries. The republican candidate for attor-
ney general is a cousin of Stonewall jack
son. He will talk with General Malone.
Secretary Tracy will ask congress to give
500 each instead of $50, as provided by law,
to the enlisted man of the navy who were
wrecked on the Nipsic, Vandalia and Tren-
ton at Samoa last March.
Z Chief Justice Fuller of the United Sta tes
supreme court, whose district is Virginia and
the Carolinas, wants to trade districts with
Justice Harlan, whose district embraces
Illinois.
handsomesJ costumes worn in Washington
society are made by the sisters of charity
in charge of st, Roses industrial school in
the north western part OF the city.
A plague is visiting the national capital in
the form of caterpillars. They are denuGing
and killing trees and making the sidewalks
slippery by falling from overhanging
branches They even invade houses and
crawl over the seats IN the street cars till
especial attention is required TO keep them
out of the way.
1t is expected that Miss Wannalnaker,
daughter of the postmaster general, will be
the reigning belle of society here as soon as
she returns from her visit to Mrs, Harrison
at Deer Park. Her good sense and winning
manners are her charms.
With far weather for two weeks the con-
tractors announce that they will complete
Pennsylvania avenue, which is being recov-
cred with asphalt, and nave it in prime order
for the Knights Templar conclave,
There is good deal of amusement here
over the report telegraphed from Chicago
that Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
would be a candidate for United States sen
ator from Dakota. United States senators
are required to be residents of the states
which they represent, and as Mr.. Roosevelt
is now holding an office as citizen OF New
York, it is not very likely that he will appear
before the public as citizen of Dakota.
To-day's Post says: Nathan Shelton, Of
Omaha, has just bought farm in Anne,
Arunder county, Md, and a number of
other capitalists from Omaha and else
where out west are negotiating for property
in the.same vicinity. The old rule seems TO
be reversed. Is the west coming east TO grow
up with the countryi
Ais@Y NEWS.
lieutenant Stanley G.. Carbaugh, of the
Fifth artillery. and Mrs. Carbaugh, will
spend the winter in Washington with Mrs.
Carbaugh's mother, Mrs. Isaac Henderson.
They will arrive on the 1st of October.
First Lieutenant William g. Mcfarland,
Sixteenth infantry, on duty at Fort
Duchesne Utah, arrived in the city on
Thursday He has been granted four
months leave.
Lieutenant Edward V. Stockham, assigned
10 the Seventeenth infantry from the grad
uating class of 1889, has sent his resignation
TO the secretary of war. The important
business interests of his father demand at,
tention, and as the prospects in that direction
give brighter promise financially than a
military career, Lieutenant Stockham mas
decided TO embark IN mercantile pursuits.