The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14
The CAPITOL QUEER.
The looms who Haunt The Corl.i-
doris and Lobbies.
ANDREW JACKS0N'S PRUTEGE.
Tie Old Lady Who Loves Pennington, or
neIawarc-Intng Statuary is
Very Bothersome.
ANDREW JaCKS0N'S PgUTEGE.

Very Bothersome
WASHINGTON, Sept. il, 1890. Especial
Correspondence Of The HERALD. EVERY
CORNER OF the national capital is haunted. Its
twelve acres of floor space and its miles OF
corriaors anG iobbies are filed with ghosts.
ITS dome has whispering gallery where
tiie walls give forth the walls of dead
statesmen, and its population of spooks
covers the mighty dead of nearly century.
It has its live ghosts as well as its dead
those Of an Insane asylum.
CONGRESSMAN MANsuR's Bette NoIR.
Take, for ms lance, the little woman who
wants to be made the national poet of the
United States.n Her name is DR.. Sarah
"A, Ulrich Kelley, and she is one of the
queerest of all the capital queers. She is a
pale, weakened little woman, dressed in
shabby widows weeds, and back of her
queerness is said to be the conventional
big government claim which makes so
many cranks. Apparently deserted b. her
own kith and kin she wanders about
Washington, infesting the newspaper
offices from editorial sanctum to press
room at all times of the day and nipht.
She calls herself the Sweet Singer of
Pennsylvania, and her latest feat is a
rose ed pamphlet which is entitled
sTATEMAN's LOVE,
''Or True Autobiography, by Sarah A.
Erich Kelley, the world-renowned Bard of
Snanty Hill"
This took of nine pages gives Mrs. Kel-
ley's story of her alleged filtration with
Charles Mansur, 1.-The handsome, brown
eyed statesman from Missouri .Itwas, -
says she, IA case of love at first sight'''
Tue renowned statesman paid visit 10 DIR.
Kelley and asked her to diagnose his dis
ease clarvoyantly and was smitten with
her charms. She then describes Represen-
tatlve Mansur in eulogistic terms and
states that she could not marry him because
she was at The time hiding away for her
life from an insane husband "who claimed
all her heart, but in his insane delusions
imagined she loved him not and i'm
sgined also that it was right for
HIM TO hire wicked men TO muir
der her because she loved him not -
He spent s43, 800, she writes, in detectives
in eleven years, and it was for this that she
was posing in ST. Louis wden the Hon
Charles Mansur called upon ner. She told
Congressman Mansur this and he said
Pm glad you are a widow for I've fell in
lovewith you.' She tells him its no use.
she can't marry him, and he, by desperate
effort, refrains from shedding tears and
leaves Now sixteen years have gone and
she meets Mansur at Washington. She
finds him married and states that she has
not seen his wife, and supposes she never
shall as women are usually jealous of poor.
harmless widow ladies like herself. OF
IL &c oil Ilo l,,,4
annoying 20 Mansur, and he is laughed at
by his fellow statesmen whenever Mrs.
Kelley is mentioned.
The ostensible business upon which DR..
Kelley remains at the capital is that of Sc
curing legislation on bill creating Mrs.
Sarah A. Ulrich Kelley the national poet
of the United States. She wants to be our
Poet Laureate with a salary of 5000 a
yeay and a house to live In. This she
gives as the excuse for frequent visits to
editorial rooms and the necessary occasion
OF the yards of poetry which she invariably
carries about with her. At first amused
by her extraordinary literature and her
claims as Poet Laureate, the local press
printed considerable of her poetry, but find
ing that the softly treading, softly speak
ing doctor was like the rest of her type.
disposed TO take an ell for every inch given,
she has been pretty generally eliminated
from the non-paid contributors column.
OUR LITTLE MISS FLIGHT.
Little Miss Flight, the shadowy creature
who hauntrd the courts OF chancery in
Dickens story, has her prototype in the
national capital So many years has this
little red haired, grey.eyed woman fitted
in ald about the corridors, committee
rooms aud legislation chambers of the
Capitol that she has ceased to be novelty
anu SO endures long seasons of neglect
from Unsuitable correspondents. Nearly
seventeen years ago she was written up
by Gilbert Pierce, the present new North
Dakota Senator. How many years Mrs.
Emma Green Littletield Carter has pro
claimed herself as head of the government
and superintendent of the national legiisla-
ton, no one seeems to know. / first saw
her leaning against the desk OF Superiu-
tendent Ellis in the ladies' reception cor
ner of Statuary hail. She had Just written
a card, which being given to the page with
instructions TO had her f'iIember' would
share the fate of hundreds similarly sent
and be carried out Of sight, torn up, and
the answer brought back mot in
Having sent her caro- to the congressman
who never comes, the little woman sits
down nervousiy lingering the "bill' she
carries in her hand aud ready to chat with
whomsoever she happens to fancy. 1t is
said that in all these years Of fruitless
waiting she has never exhibited astonish-
ment disappointment or impatience.
Neither in hess, expression or meditation
Of voice does she differ much from the So
called level headed feminine claimant A
close fitting black gown, q white ribbon at
the throat, a spray or cluster of flowers
decorating her oelt, and jaunty tip back
bonnet and stylish VEIL make her very like
her sister, whoiclaims to have mind
TALK WITH A Prophecies.
s'The cylone will be here at five,m she re.
marked, somewhat irreleyantly, by way of
introduction.
''Whcre did you got that information? q"
asked lady, glancing nervously out at the
clear sky.
s'Oh, the Sayior,'' replied the Seeress.
He generally gives me direct warning of
all great calamities. ] had Gay on Lin
coins assassination and four hours on
Garfeld's. The Johnstown Hood was told
to me that same morning. You know, Of
course, how to get such messages Always
stand under a sycamore treen Mrs Car
ter, VINO claims to be the descendant of
Nathaniel Green, says that her husband
was staff officer under General Banks.
She is also more or less distantly related to
Queen Victoria. Louis Napoleon
and James G. Blaine. Her PRINCIPAL
business is that Of national detec-
tive and her connection with the Silcott
case she refers to with particular pride.
Nothing" says Mrs. Carter, pertaining
70 the department of justice is undertaken