The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-23

| OF the 81 Will vote ~
| making ltle total 80. The conservatives
! snow no gains and at least losses.
Presbyteries voting against dropping
! fine subject number 73. OF these IS want
| a new creed. 30 a revision and . supple
| mental statement, explanatory OF certain
| misunderstood phrases.
It seems likely, so leaders say, that the
vote will stand about 13o for a change OF
| some sort to Is against one conservatives
| base their hopes on the fact that they are
| united while those who seek changes can
| not reach any agreement
MIDGETS TO MARRY.
A midget engagement was announced
| in Newark yesterday. The bridegroom
| elect is ..AIaior'' Albert J. Criqui. of No.
| 30 South Orange Avenue, and the bride
| is M.ss Pearl Robinson, OF Chicago Each
weighs tifty-eght pounds. Criqu Is q
wears old and his finance Is 20. He IS
| thirty-eight inches tall and she is three
| inches taller. She has been in Newark
| for several weeks. No date has yet been
| set for the wedding.
| Both are performers in vaudeville Mss
Robinson's mother, Ida Robinson. Is a
strong woman" weighing over two nun.
| bred pounds and she makes q feature of
| smashing rocks with her fist, lifting
! heavy weights and breaking chains.
| CIRCUITS father is a saloon keeper, who
| weighs $50 pounds.
| When day broke yesterday big ocean
| tug might have been seen ploughing the
| waters in and around Sandy Hook. Stand
| ing in the bow with anxious eyes was
| young woman, WHO scanned the horizon
! at every move Of the craft
It was Miss Isabella Langston. looking
| for some trace of her brothers, Frederick
v and William H. Langston, OF No. 295
Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, who left High
! land Beach in their yacht, the Aliris, last
Tuesday afternoon for Grayesend Bay,
! and Of whom nothing has since been
heard. With them was Otto Segelke, of
! 81 Putnam Avenue, and, it is believed,
| Noah F. Mason, Jr., of Bay Eighth Street
and Bath Avenue. Bath Beach. Miss
Langston had been on the water all of
| Saturday and remained aboard the tug
until it came to anchor, at six O'Clock
| last night.
Her task had been Intellectual. Not 50
much as a trace of the missing men could
be found, and when the young woman
reached her home she was worn out and
discoura ged. She says she has almost
! given up hope of ever hearing from her
| brothers again.
FAITHFUL CAT
| DR.. Henry Moreton's cat which was
| found lying upon his masters body with
I his paws encircling the neck of his dead
| friend in the marrow little shop in Centre
| Street, where the Doctor spent the last
| years of his life in poverty and desolation,
! is now keeping silent watch before the
| locked door.
! There sits Tom, grim and faithful as
| the Roman sentinel who stood at his
| post amid ashes and lava of Vesuvius, and
| no one disturbs the cats last vigil Even
| the rough boys of the street know why
| Tom is there, and respect the devotion
| which only can wait at a barred door
for a caressing hand, now forever still.
..I keep the old shop for Tom," said the
! Doctor a few days ago, when a friend
| urged him to abandon it for more COM
| Portable quarters, for ne did not lack
| friends even in his darkest hours, and
| now to-day Tom is keeping the shop for
| his dead conra1e.
! Friends of DR.. Moreton often wondered
| why he chung with such affection to an old
! chair, which he took with him wherever
| he he set up his ever-dim:nishing drug
I! business, and in which his dead body now
| sits in his little room. He almost lived
| in it, and he repeated hundreds of times
| to his friends that he wished to die IN it
| Now that he has gone it has become
/ known that more than half a century
| ago his old sweetheart died in the CHAIR
| She sat down in it one day, tired out, as
he was, and passed quietly away, he
! was destined to do siXty-three years after
| ward.
| DR.. Moreton, when a young man, be-
| came engaged to Emne L. Jones. Bust
ness called him suddenly back to Eng
| land, where he went to settle up an estate.
and during his absence his brother George
/! fell in love with Miss Jones and married
her.
RETURNED TO ENGLAND.
| Henry Noraton rea5 70 Work.
to find that his sweetheart was the wife
| OF his brother, and, with a broken heart,
| he turned his face again toward England,
| saying ne would never marry and would
never return to America. He kept only
| half of the pledge, for his brother and
| his brothers wife, after five years per-
! suaded him to come back
FLYERS ON THE SPEEDWAY. Z
| For the first time this month Sunday
| daWned clear and bright on the Speedway
yesterday, and metropolitan road riders
made the most of the glorious autumn
weather. There was an outpourins of
horses and humanity, such as had not
been seen since the driving season opened.
AS early as ten O'Clock in the morning
the sleek, lean flyers and the men in buff
coats, snugly tucked away in their mar
row, spider-like wagons, began to file
down the hill from the viaduct. An hour
is''st - /" % tiuchiya uOlteO WIFI
| speeding turnouts, and at midday the
throng became almost too dense to adj
| NIT OF speeding a fast horse with safety.
Both men and horses pricked up their
ears when they reached the crest Of the
hill under Washington Bridge and saw
the speeding stretch to the northward
walled in on either side with long lines
of lockers on.
The horseless public outnlrnbered ten
10 one the throns on the road Both side
walks were crowded. Along the curb