The news & observer., 1905-01-07

| Bell Wade of Troy. and her husband
is Mr.. Ward, of Virginia The two
young people We're married on We'd
nesday night, suddenly at the hotel
! There had been no actual objection on
| the part of her parents. but they had
counseled delay Another daughter OF
! Representative Wade's, Miss Matte
| May, was married on December 27th
to Mr.. L. j.. Boring. of Johnston colin-
| ~, Tennessee. Within a year three of
Mr.. Wade's children have been mar
ried, the third being a son. There Is
only one LETT noW, said he yesterday
| but they have to choose for them
selves Mr.. Wade is one OF the old
or men of the House. He is not a
speaker but legislator who watches
the business with close eyes and is al
ways at his desk and following the
proceedings. He is very popular in his
| county and is well known among the
membership of the House, who are
rapidly coming to appreciate his sterl-
! ing character All who heard of his
daughters romantic marriage yester-
day were extending good wishes for
the future of his daughter and her
| husband.
my bill on divorce law" said Rep
jresentative Stewart yesterday would
! have the effect of restoring the law ex-
actly as it stood in the code of 1888.
| 1t repeals all legislation enacted since
then on divorce. This is the measure,
! | think, that will be approved by the
| people OF the State. In order that
! the public may understand the intent
of Mr.. Stewart's bill,-which is in
| line with the resolutions adopted by
most religious bodies-it is printed
| below in full
| The General Assembly of North Carolina do
enact:
Section 1st:That Chapter 100 of the pub
lic laws OF 1887: Chapter 442 OF the Pub
lie Laws of 1889: Chapter 277 of the Public
Laws OF 1885, Chapter 2l1 of the Public
Laws of 1899: Chapter % of the Public
Laws of 1899, and Chapter 100 of the Pub,
lie Laws OF 1908 be and the here
by repealed.
Section 2nd-NTarriagcs shall be dissolved
and the parties thereto divorced from thes
bonds of matrimony on application of tho
party injured, made as by law provided in
the following cases only;
l. Ii either party shall separate from the
ether and live in adultery
,. II the wife shall commit adultery.
3. ii either party at the time of the mar
rage and still is naturally impCtent
4. If the wife at the time OF the raarriage
be pregnant and the husband be ignorant
of the fact ot such pregnancy and be net
the father of the child with which the
wife was pregnant at the time of the mar
riage.
Section 8rd-That all laws and clauses of
laws in conflict with this act arc helcby re-
Section 4th-That this act shall be in
force from its ratification.
Will the legislature tackle a dog
law? Will they thus encourage sheep
RAISING? Some good people in North
ampton are movin~ in that direction
as the following from the Roanoke
Chowan Times reads:
iAs will be seen in our Georgia
correspondence the people of that vi
cinity are moving to secure a dog
law, to protect sheep. If the farmers
of other sections of the county desire
to sign such a petition they could cut
it out and paste it on sheet of paper,
sign under it and save copying. Such
a law would encourage sheep raising
Mr. j. G.. Steed. once in the revenue
office in Raleigh under Collector Sim
mons, and now q travelling representa-
tive Of a large guano house, is in the
city renewing political acquainttnces
among the membership of the J-egiSla-
ture. Although he has long since got
ten out of politics, Mr.. Steed is one of
those Democrats who follow the de-
ings of the party and is generally to be
found when Il convention meets OF a
Legislature convenes. He stated yes
terday that he had no special bust
ness in Raleigh at this time. but was
here simply to see his friends. Speak
ing of the romantic marriage OF MI
Blair and Miss Allen at Rex Hospital
a day on two since, Mr.. Steed recalled
the fact that on election day. Novem-
ber 9Th, 1904, when the fusion turn
over first befell, he was married IN
the same hospital under similar cir
cumstanccs only I'm his case he was IN
he'd with ii severe attack of typhoid
fever, instead of by reason of an ac-
n
the FIRST, last and only time since he
grew up that Mr.. Steed failed to vote
the straight ticket, but he still feels
that he did a good days work. When
Mr.. Steed was married "Billy' Chris
tian. of the News and Observer, did
the honorS of the event in the paper,
and on the following day, when the
news columns were telling their story
of political woe, the touch cf human
sympathy in his account of the mar
liage and the narrative of the world
old joy of the newly wed, did much TO
rede en- the paper of the 1th of n pvem-
Der from Il complete robe OF funeral
woe.
A newspaper man was making mis-.
cradle the life of the Hon. Clement
Eanly, whom he was interviewing in
the lobby of the Marlborough House.
when Iredell Meares. ESD, of Will
nlingtCn, came on the scene. lie a
once tackled the newspaper slave.
Idle comments, eh?' said he TO Mr..
Manly with a nod at the report, /.
"The idle comments said the latter,
seem 10 come III this case from Tdeli
Mcares." And, despite the fragrant
character of the pun, the thrust went
home.
Mr. Meares and Mr. r. L. Lee, of
Lumberton, who stopped in at the
Legislature on their way back from
attending the Edwards receiverShip |
suit at Asheville, told of IL thrilling eX-
perencC ON the way to Raleigh from
which they were eNtricateG only by the
ingenuity of Mr.. Lee. 1t seems that
at Salisbury, where they had to change
sieepers, Messrs. A.earec and Lee found
themselves on the step of the wrong
car after the train had started It'll
was a through train which made long
jumps, and as the two hugged the step
which was numbered with their grips
and vainIy shook the locked vestibule
doors, the prospect w;lS a serious one.
The night was bitterly cold and their
loudest shouts were drowned by the /
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