The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-12
Marriage Clerk Died TWO
Days After Second Marriage
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
Lunched omit on His Wedding Day, and
Never Recovered-Postoffice Inves-
tigation and Some of the
Results Of It.
The Times Dispatch Bureau.
w TIT y bFTUet, N, WI
Washington, u. c., May II. 1903


Those people In Washington who have
been watching the drift of politics in the
Old Dominion are very much inter-
estcd In the seemingly rapid dcvel-
opment OF the prohibition sentiment
In various parts OF the State. and they
are making the prediction that the next
campaign for the gubcrnatorial nomina-
ton Will be fought out along prohibition
lines They say that the Mann bill and
the Campbell case will constitute issues
upon which prohibition and anti-prohibi-
ton sentiment will line up on opposite
sides and that the result will be a virtual
test OF tho strength OF prohibition In the
State
CAMPBELL FOR LEGISLATURE.
During his recent visit TO Washington
Judge Campbell said to intimate friends
OF his TINT IL he should be turned down
by the Legislature he was going to seek
vindicatlon at the hands of his own peo-
Pile and to that end would be candidate
tor the Legislature. He Is said to feel
that he Is still strong enough in Amherst
county to go to the Legislature and sit
umong the men who deprived him of his
seat as county Judge.
CHANGE IN THE MARRIAGE
OFFICE.
Virginans coming into Washington to
be married will no longer have the kind
attentions Of that good friend to all on
marriage bent, Mr.. j. Il. Meiss. Jr.,i at
the marriage Office. For years he has
stood behind the marriage clerks desk
in the Office OF the, clerk OF the Supreme
Court OF the District Of Columbia, ana
he has issued the licenses to hundreds
Of Virginia couples. He has been go ac-
commodating as to get UP at any hour
OF the night and 80 to the Office and Is
sue license In order to help the rur5l
SWANS on their way rejoicing. But the
death OF Michael a. Clancy has changed
things MIR. Clancy was scventy-three
years old n few weeks ago and took a
notion to get married a second time hmf
self. He celebrated his marriage with
days hard work at his desk. and a ]unch-
con OF strawberry shortcake The short
cake gave him q fit of stomach trouble
from which he never recovered and the
bride OF two days became q widow. Mr..
Clancy had been the marriage clerk Tor
many years, yet his old age made 1t me-
cessnry to delegate his more onerous du-
ties to some one younger and more ac-
live. It fell to the lot OF Mt. Meigs to is-
q eue the licenses and to collect the one
dollar the law gives the court. 1t was
in this way that he made SO many hearts
happy.
n, Mr.. Clancy Mr.. Cunningham has
succeeded to the honor of being marriage
clerk. Being younger and actiVe.. ne mas
transacted the LullcS i'N t'aSLoD
liring Mr. Meigs has been transferred 70
the prosaic work OF keeping some or the
conrt records However. Mr.. Aelgs VIII
still be ready to respond to all calls at
his door bell from those who need a
helping hand to keep them from the rate
and pursuing parent, ana mat Ut anS
hour Of the night.
THE POSTAL INVESTIGATION.
The investigation being made By the
pnstoff1ce Department of It's own mis-.
do,nps : continues Fto reveal fagrant
methods. /, develops that out OF me
total expenditures of the Postal Depart
ment of the government, aggresatng the
enormous sum of s13o,o00,ooo. A. w,
Machen and George w. Beavers have
heen dIspensing over half of it. 1t was
known by some few people two years
ago that there was some jobbing going
on in Beavers division, and a New York
paper printed n story abouta job on COM
putting machines for the larger postofilces
throughout the country, showing that
Uncle Sam was paying twice the market
price for them. But the paper which en-
plotted the story was of such a decided.
~ yellow t!nge. that no one took the
story seriously. else an investigation
might have been set on foot then.
Another Interesting development in the
Investigation is the fact that though Con-
gresham Laud, of California, chairman
of the House Committee on Postofices and
Post Roads. was one of the instigators
of the investigation, and though he has
from time to time held up his hands In
holy horror at the Irregularities In the
Iostofflce Department and over the vic.
lation of the civil service rules going OIL
therein, one OF the first fruits of the in
vestigatIon was the dropping from the
pny-rolls of the department of his niece
Miss Genevievo Laud, of California. She