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The morning call., 1891-03-19
KEPT TWO WIVES.
A Connecticut Mans Duplicity Discoy
cred After Death.

A Connecticut Mans Duplicity Discov-
cred After Death.
A curious case which has come to light
here is that of an old soldier who, for ten
years, lived an apparently happy and crcum-
spect life with two wives, neither of whom
had anyknowledge of the other, says a Bridge
port special to the Globe Democrat The
two homes of the doubly married man were
in Hartford and Bridgeport, and had not
each of the widows applied for pension
they would have remained in ignorance of
the true state affairs previous to the hus-
bands death in 1880
The man was Walter Jones, an industrious
mechanic, who worked number OF years in
the East Bridgeport machine-shop. He was
married here in 1871, and with his wife and
two children lived in well-furnished and
comfortable home on East Main street He
was prominent In church affairs and moved
in good society. In 1860 he married a
young lady in Hartford, and after living
with her year at her parents residence
left her. as she said, to take a travel
ing agency for Western manufacturing
concern. He said he could not take the time
to return to his family more than half a
dozen times year, and her daughter should
remain at her old home. In 1880 word was
sent to Mrs. Jones in Hartford that her hus-
band had died in Chicago and was buried
there. She donned widows weeds and de-
daughter Nellie, now Il girl of II years.
Six months ago she read in an old paper
of the death in Bridgeport of one Walter
Jones, and the notice mentioned the COM
pany and regiment in which he served She
wrote to the Town Clerk of this city and OBJ
tain a copy of the official record Of his
death, to which the attending physicians
name was appended. and she wrote TO him
and procured certificate of death. Ali
this was done 70 obtain pension under
new law which had been enacted by Con-
gress. AT the same time these preliminaries
to obtaining pension were being arranged
by the Hartford widow, the Bridgeport
widow went to the slme physician for
death certificate. The doctor was in di-
lemma. He wrote to the Hartford widow
that certain details in obtaining the pension
made it imperative that she should come to
Bridgeport. She did so, and with her
daughter visited The physicians Office. She
then for the first time learned of her hus-
bands unfaithfulnesS. Acting upon the
advice of the DOCTOR she accom-
panied him to the residence of the
Bridgeport widow. The two women held
long conference and each expressed great
sympathy for the other. Each was willing
to give up all claim for a pension, and each
Hartford widow was fually prevailed upon
to 90 ahead and present her claims. although
she was married to the deceased man year
later than the other. The widow in this city
has two children, a son of IL years and a
thirteen-year-year girl. She has an income
sufficient 10 support her comfortably, and
she is happy in knowing that her seN-denal
has resulted In bringing some comfort TO the
little family in Hartford.
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BURTON'S STORIES.
How He Horrified the Ladies at Cheer
full Dinner Party,

How lie HORNED the Ladies at a Cheer-
full Dinner Party.
Dining In England with very strait
laced set of people in the country, who, he
fanced, considered him as something little
short of an ogre. Burton met several very
young ladies, and he made up his miad to
horrify them, says L. de Leon in "Thirty
Years of My Life" He commenced
giving narrative of an imaginary
shipwreck on the Red Sea, or the
Blue Nile. remote from all human habi-
tation or help. After describing how
they all suffered from the pangS of hunger,
and the woltish gances they began to cast
on one another from time to time, as the days
wore on, aud DO relief came. dropping his
voice to mysterious whisper, almost
under his BREATH he added: " The cabin
boy was young and fat, and looked very
tender and on him, more than on any other,
such looks were cast, until" Here he
paused looked around at the strained and
startled faces of his auditors. in which
horror was depicted, and then abruptly
concluded, as though dismiSsing IL disagreea-
bic memOry-"But these are not stories to
be told at a cheerful dinner party, in a
Christian country, and | had best say no
more. Let us turn to some more cheerful
subject"
OF course he was pressed to continue
and complete his story, but stubbornly re-
fused, leaving his hearers III most un-
satisfactory state of mind as TO the de-
nOuement of the unfinished narrative. Bur
ton told me he was thoroughly convinced,
by the startled looks cast upon hum by the
younger ladies, that they believed that he
and his tougher comrades in the shipwreck
had roasted and eaten that cabin boy, whose
tenderness lie had so eulOgiZed. They
seemed to have no doubt that he really was
a cannibal in fact as we'll as in intention.
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SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.

Emlly-Now that you are engaged to
Harry, dues he ever ask you for kiss?
Julia-He never has yet. Emily-Dear mel
Is he bashful2 Julia-Oh, no; he takes
them without asking.-BOston Herald.
Husband to wife)-I must remind you
that our failure is too recent TO allow you
to wear this diamond necklace.-Figaro.
Men can be found who are willing to go to
Africa as missionaries, who are not willing
TO take care of a cross baby for the tired
wife for half an hour.-Ram's Horn.
Clerk lin the gas company's offce)-This
bill of Wishlet's is entirely too large; he
couldn't consumed so much gas last month.
BoOk-keeper-How do you know? Clerk
Er-um-I ought to know, I'm paying my
addresses to his daughter.
Clerk-This cloth is very durable, madam,
| assure you. Shopper-1es, but take it
away. 1t is not endurable. Paul Dis
patch.
"To church. to church." the parson cries;
To church each fair one goes:
The Old they go to close their eyes,
The young to eye their clothes.
New England Magazine
Enforced Abstinence-"Do you play the
banjo?" mot when there are any people
around" "Why not?" They wont let
me."-Puck.
Sauss-In the good old days when gallant
fellows met they used to break lance to
show their love for each other. Rodd-
Nowadays they show their love by breaking
q bOttle.-New York Herald.
His Fizht-Sanso-Were you ever In a
fight, Rodd? d-Yes-er-no-er-tha
isl once had a fight; but L wasn't in it,
New York Sun.
81 think you are perfect heather, Mr.
Boggs," said Mrs. BoEgs, a prominent
worker in church charities. Il wish
were," said Boggs. "You might pay me
little more attention hen."-New York
Herald.
English Heiress-No, Mr.. Porker. l can
never be your wife. 1t is my wish to re-
main ever near these ancestral halls, hal
lowed by the memories of agesl Mr.. Porker
(of the hustling WesD-Is that all? Why,
Yseult, dear. I'll buy the place and have
every stone of it removed to Chicago!-
MunSey's Weekly.
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just Wanted to Know.

Senator Zeb Vance of North Carolina, who
has q national reputation as a s.ory-teller,
sat in the Palace on Tuesday with party of
friends. A young man, with slight limp,
walked across the corridor, and paused to
glance at the register. The Senator eyed
him for moment. and turning to frie nd
sad: Didn't know that limped for years,
did you? Well, / was hit in the leg by a
Federal bullet that caused me no little in
convenience. l got around p retty well, but
while standing in Jackson. Miss, | noticed n
long-hared cOuntryman eying me pretty
closely, and he finally approached me.
Look here, my friend he said. L don't
want to appear curious, but would like to
know If you're really lnme.'
II replied that | was"
"'Well, you'll excuse me, wont youP just
kinder thought I'd ask. reckonn' you
wouldn't get riled about it. Wounded, l
suppose, in the WARP?
Eyes, | was wounded,' l said abruptly.
"'You see | didn't know, aud I'd like to
ask you another question: still eytng me
critically.
"Go ahead. WHAT'S it?'
"'Pd just like to know If you was shot
runnin' or caught in a trap.
Everybody rOared who heard it, and it
cost me about $40 tor the drinks.
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PERSONAL NOTES.


j. j. Harlan, HauIV.u lawyer, is at the
Lick.
A. L. Brown, a Red Bluff lawyer, is at the
Grand.
Charles Cadwallader of Red Bluff is at the
Palace.
H. G. Phelps of Cleveland, Ohio. is at the
Baldwin.
d. Lubin. Sacramento merchant, is at
the Grand.
Jesse d. Carr, Salinas capitalist, is at
the Palace.
Mayor R. H. Notion of Los Angeles is at
the Baldwin.
r. Rowlands, mining man from Placer
vile, is at the California.
Past Senior Vice Commander Goebel, G.
A. r., is visiting the posts in this city.
Amorg the arrivals at the Hotel Plcasnn .
ton are w. II. Gilbert and family NJ. V. V.
Peck and Mrs. E. Hollenbeck, of Saginaw,
Mich.
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MEN ABOUT TOWN.
Short Stories Gathered From the
Hotel Corridors.
An Engineers Lost Nerve-senator vance's
Limp-A Negroes Tender Spot-The
Title Always Sticks.

George o. Clinton, one of the oldest rail-
road superintendents in the country, is now
on visit to this city and is at the Palace.
"When l was with the Missouri Pacifc
some years ago." he SAID last night, "there
was in our employ an engineer named We.
Haley, who was one of the best men 1 ever
saw in a cab. He was a careful man and
conscientious to fault so far as his work
was concerned, but for all that he seemed
to have no conception of the meaning OF the
word fear, and was known as the fastest
runner on the line. For that reason we put
him on the fast mail between Kansas City
and Sedalia, and for more than year he
took that train through on time. cannot
recall an instance during that time when he
was minute late.
''At last, however. misfortune overlook
him. lie had been engaged to be married 10
a young lady who lived at small station
along the line, but, as lovers will sometimes
they quarreled and Wes left her in anger.
She wrote him TO come back. but he was OBJ
stinate and ma1e no reply. After q few
days he recOnSdered the matter and asked
for lay-Of. intending to go out to stralghten
matters up once more. He sent no word, iu-
tending to surprise her, and that very night
she threw herself in front OF his engine and
was killed. Wes was on the train, but rid
ing on the rear coach. an extra man being in
his place in the cab. l never saw a man so
completely crushed in my life.
lie came back to work in a few days,
and took out his old run, but his heart was
gone. For several nights noticed that his
train was reported late, and | sent for him.
/ as ked him abaut it and he broke down and
cried like child. His courage was gone,
he said, and he dared not rush his engine
to the old speed. The upShot of it was that
we were compelled to put him on slow
run, and he never could be induced to pull a
fast train again He is only one of a num-
Der of engineers whom l have known during
my railroad experience to lose their courage,
and | never knew one OF them to regain it.
st requires nerve of iron to pull one of
the modern flyers, and that nerve once lost
by any miShap an engineer is useless for all
time as a fast runner. This is fact known
to all old railroad men, nearly all of whom
have met with stories similar to that of poor
Yves Haley"
The morning call., 1891-03-19
A TURKISH Joke
That Is Credited to General Lew Wal
lace, the Famous Raconteur.


lace, the Famous Raconteur.
This is credited as one of General Lew
Wallace's jokes: There lived in Stamb0ul.
Turkey, well-to-do Turk named Ismail
Hassam. He did not have tue eloQuence of
ingalls, nor the imagination Of Rider Hag-
gard, but he was endowed with ready
Oriental wit that stood him well in hand
when he was in a tight place. neghbor
called on Ismail one day and wanted to
borrow his donkey to use al huur. lsmail
made low salaam and said:
"NcighbOr. am sorry. bat my boy started
on the donkey an hour ago to Scutari. By
now he Is gayly trotting over the hills far
from the sacred precincts of Stamboul."
Ju-t as Ismall finished his speech,
donkey's bray was heard In the stable,
which was under the same rOef rs Ismaii's
house, bnt in the rear. The neighbor said:
''Ah, | hear your donkey bray"
Isnail protested that his neighbours ears
were deceived, and that the noise was not a
d nkey's bray. Then the donkey, which
was supposed to be jogging along toward
Scutari. brayed twice loudly. 1t was too
much, and the nelghbor cried:
"Oh, that is your donkey, Ismail; Allah
help me, ! can now borrow it,
Then Ismall said: (Which do you believe
is lying, the donkey or me p?
The neighbor had to give Ismail The b u g.
fl of the doubt, and went away. .-Washln G.
ton Post.
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1t ALWAYS Sticks.

Ibid you ever notice." asked an old poll
tician at the Occidental yesterday, "ho~ the
title of Governor sticks to Senator STAN
ford? 1t is safe to say that 95 per cent of
the people of this State cling to the old
title, and scarcely any one ever refers to him
as the Senator. There is a peculiar thing
about the title that has often suggested it.
self to me. For some reason, If man is
Governor once, he is always Governor to
those who know him. and no matter what
titles he may afterward acquire, the otheI
will always stick. | have known several
Senators VINO have been Governors Of States
at some time, and, like Senator StanfoJq,
StranSe isn't il p''
The morning call., 1891-03-19
where Girls Predominate.

According to DR.. Shattuck, who is stop
ping at the Commercial Hotel, medical men
have made peculiar discovery. BY inves-
tigation they have found tnat of the chill
dren born on the sea-coast the females
largely outnumber the males, while in the
interior this is reversed. "AlOng the coasts
of France, Great Britain and New England,
as we'll as in China" says the doctor,
where the family di is largely composed
of fish, especially among the poorer classes,
the rule is an infallible one, and statistics
have been gathered that show its truth. No
cause is assigned for it, but the fact re-
mains -
The morning call., 1891-03-19
STATE PEDAGOGUES.
Election of Officers at the Annual Meeting in
San Diego,

SAN DIEGO, March 1S-The State Teach
ers' Institute continued its session to-day.
Papers were read by C. II. Keyes of River
side, Charles Mills Gayley of the university,
Superintendent f. MEG. Martin of Santa
Rosa and D. Syle of Santa Barbara. Super
intendent Molyneaux of Pomona and Hon.
j. w. Anderson were visitors this afternoon
and made short addresses. The election of
officers resulted as follows: w. W. Seamans
OF Los Angeles, President: Ii. j. Baldwin
OF National City, Emily Rice of Chico, c.
NJ. GayIey and q. W. Luckey of Ontario,
Vice-Presidents; j: p, Greeley OF Santa
Ana, Secretary; j. T. Hamilton of San
Francisco, Treasurer. Riverside was Sc
lected unanimously as the next place of
meeting. The evening session was largely
attended, the attraction being lecture on
Evolution" by Professor John Dickinson
of the University of Southern California.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
BURIED In SNOW.
4 Rotary PlOU Lifts Up the Body Of a
Missing Man.

SPOKANE FALLS March ia dispatch
from Mullan says the mystery surrounding
the disappearance of Abner G. Dsggett was
solved to-day A rotary plow clearing the
track of the Northern Pacific lifted his body
from a drift into which it had sunk over
month ago. Daggett was visiting relatives
at St. Egs House, over the divide, and
started out to walk to Mullan, distance of
eighteen miles, to take the train for Spo-
kane Falls. He was caught in a-mountain
snow-storm, and must have wandered about
for several days, as pistol shots were heard
three days after he started by a solitary
miner living in a cabin in one OF the gulches.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
A Very Tender Spot.

"Kilrain is a very light hitter, or else he
fails to realize how tender negro's jaw is"
said Kcarny-street policeman yesterday.
you often hear people talk about the
hardness of the African head, and nine
people out of ten will tell you that negro's
soft spot is his shin; but this is a great mis-
take. Years of experience have taught
policemen that the easiest way to deal with
an unruly negro is TO hit him on the point
of the jaw. A very light tap will ordinarily
suffice, and | never yet have seen a negro
who could stand a COED hard jolt in that
place. l have tried 1t number Of times,
and never vet knew it to fail"
The morning call., 1891-03-19

this evening, man deliberately jumped
overheard near Arch Rock. He had been
sitting on the after-rail on the starboard side,
and Jumped so quickly that the bystanders
could not catch him. He was seen in the
wake of the steamer, but sank before the
vessel turned He was about so years of
age, wore high silk hat and was clean
shaved. He wore a dark-brown overcoat
and black clothes
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Shielded While Insane.

SPOKANE FALLS, March Is. - Eugene
Boardman, book-keeper for NJ. Seller & Co.,
committed suicide at Occur d'Aleue City
last night by jumping into the lake. Mr..
Boardmnn was a sufferer from overwork,
and went to the lake for his health. His
brother missed him from his side in the
night and went in search of him, finding his
body in the water. Mr.. Boardman leaves
family here. During the day he had been
in good spirits. The rash act is believed to
have been the result of an attack of tenn
pUrary insanity.
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ON THE WAR PATH.

Thomas We1ch Challenges the Crew of
the Scottish Moors.
II can lick the whole crowd-captain,
mate and ALL Don't hang baeki Come on
and I'll murder the lot of your This was
interlarded with the choicest Anglo-Saxon
expletives and this warlike challenge came
from Thomas Wech, sailor of the Scottish
Moors. lying at Mission-street Wharf.
Thomas had been drinking and went aft
to interview the captain, but the skipper de-
clned to be interviewed, so the mate or
dered Thomas to go forward, which Tom
declined to do. Il am looking for fight"
he shouted, land by the Holy Moses l might
as we'll begin here,' and to show he was in
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Arrested for Discriminating in Freights,

ALBANY Oregon, March IS. e. P.
Rogers, Assistant General Freight and Pas
senger Agent of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, WAS placed under arrest to-day on an
indictment by the Grand jury here for violat-
ing the law referring to the discrimination
in freight charges on certain grain shipments
from Tangent and Mllersburg, Linn
County, TO East Portland. MIR. Rogers ar
rived from Portland this evening and was
released on his own recognizauce. The case
will come up before Judge Boise tomorrow.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
00nosad m Faltnn

CARSON New. March 1S.-Considerable
interest is felt here in the California Sena-
torial question, and the people view with
apprehension the possible election of Eel
ton as lie has always. in and out of Con-
gress, been pronounced an uurelenting en-
emy of silver 1t is to be hoped that the
better class all over the State will see to it
that an enemy Of silver shall not represent
them in the Upper House of Congress.
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LOOKING FOR BLOOD.
A Waiter Seriously stabs Gambler in Card
Game Quarrel

PRESCOTT (Ariz.), March Is - William
McCrea, gambler, was seriously stabbed
this afternoon by Louis Hernandez, Mexi-
An waiter, over game of cards. Her.
nandez had previously threatened TO kill
two other persons during the day and drew
r. knife on one of them, who was unarmed,
but secured a gun with the intention Of
killing Hernandez, but before he returned
the row with McCrea occurred, resulting as
above stated. McCrea was wounded in the
breast and in the right side of the back in
the region of the liver. The latter wound is
considered dangerous, but not necessarily
fatal. Hernandez is in jail.
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and in not few instances forgotten. Some
years ago the servants of the bank discov-
cred in its vaults chest which, on being
moved, literally rell to pieces On examin-
ing the contents quantity of massive plate
of the period of Charles IL was discovered,
along with bundle Of love letters indited
during the period of the Restoration.
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earnest Tom knocked the mate down and
danced a jig on him.
The mates cries brought the crew on
deck, and it was then that he issued his
challenge to the ships company. Tom
quickly retreated to the cabin and sent the
steward for an officer, and Tom was locked
up at the South Harbor Station, where he
had charge of using profane language
placed against his name ON the register.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
OBITU AR Y.
urRNnoN. FATHER AND SON.

william H. Herndon, who, prior to the elec.
tlOn OF Mr.. Lincoln as President OF the United
Stales, was his law partner, and who suose.
yesterday at Springfield Ill.,, from the effects OF
la grippe, at tile age OF ~ years. Six hours pc
fore bis death his youngest son and namesake
CURED al the family residence in the suburbs Of
the city.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
Sudden Deaths at Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, March 10.-John F. Casey
formerly chief sUitchman for the Santa Fe
road at The Needles, died in the City Jail
here Today. he has prominent relatives in
Chicago
Joseph johnson, who was injured by a
piece of timber falling on him while putting
up bridge, died at the hospital to-day.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
MARRIED..

TYNER-REED-In Redding. March IA, 1891, by
Judge Sweeney, William Tyner OF san Francisco
and Lillian L. Reed OF Cleveland, Ohio.
POLLOCK-CLARKE-Tn this city. March l6 1891
by the Rev. DIR. NJ. N. Gibson, William Pollock
and Catherine NJ. Clarke bOtn of San Francisco.
ROHR- this city March IT.
1891, by tine Rev. j. p. Dickson, Edward Rohr
and Hattie Blanchard of Boston.
ZUNDEL-NOoNAN-I this city, March Il, 1891
by the Rev +. A. Werth Robert A. L. Zundel and
Lille Noouan. both of San Francisco.
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-MARRIAGES-DEATHS.

rBirth marriage and death notices sent by mall
will not be inserted. They must be handed In at
either of the publication oilices and be tndorSed
with the name and residence of persons authorized
to have the same publshed.l
BORN.
ELMASG-In this city, March II, 1884, to the wife
OF A. EimaDg, son.
sTRUT-Iu this city, March 10, 1884, to the wife Of
John Strut,
sTRAHAN-March IA, 1891. to the wife OF Thomas
L. Strahan, a daughter.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
Close of the Citrus Fair.

Los ANGELES, March 1S.-The citrus
fair closed tonight, after a successful run
of eight days, the interest being sustained
up to the last moment The receipts were
over $1,000, or average Of over $1,000 per day.
The fair will be reproduced in Chicago
early in April. The Secretary leaves TO-
morrow 10 cOmplete Ihe arrangemenLS.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
New Ariznna Officials.

PHGSIx, March 1s.-The Governor to-
day appointed Thomas Hughes of Pima
County Territorial Auditor, and William
Christy of Marticopa County Territorial
Treasurer. Both appointments were con-
tirIned by the council.
The morning call., 1891-03-19

The Nevada Herald says: Below Boston
Bar, near what is known as Keystone Flat,
there is tract of land If several acres,
steadily sliding into the Yuba River. The
amount of earth slowly moving into the
river, and which will eventually be de-
posted in the valleys, show that it is not
hydraulic mining alone which creates de-
bris, and this landslide is only one of the
many to be found in the mountains, and
with which mining has no connection.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
crrrsrIvr UArrrNpAcu

Celestim Kaltenback the oldest Postmaster In
the United States, died at his residence IN
Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday morning aged IS
years He was appointed Postmaster in 1888 by
President Martin Van Buren,, aud he has held
the Office continuously ever since.
The morning call., 1891-03-19
nRIr1rARY NOTES.

Abraham Sites, pioneer Of this State and for
thirty years clerk at the Golden Eagle, Sacra-
mentO, died IN that city yesterday He was
native of Ohio, 20 years of age. His brother.
Corwln X. Sites, is County Recorder at Rapid
CITY, S. Oak.
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Lost His Right Arm.

SANTA ANA (Cal.), March 1S.-Robert
Kerr. lad about IA years old, met with
fearful accident this morning. Tue mishap
was caused by the accidental discharge of
shotgun, and his right arm was SO mangled
that it had TO be amputated above the
elbow,
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His Fourth Trial.

HILLsBoRo (Oregon) March IS. The
jury was completed to-day in the fourth
trial of Sandy Olds for the murder of Emil
Weber in Portland, May IS, 1889. The ex-
animation of witnesses begins tomorrow.