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ST. PAUL, SATURDAY. APRIL 27, 1878
HE hermaphrodite this morning will con
tain ita St. Paul department an apology
for its Minneapolis department yesterday.
A CAT may look at a King, but we don't
know what grade of animal can inspect a
Duchess. There is evidently a good deal of
nsk about it.
THE newspaper snobs are in ecstacies
over the chanty ball. There are people
who are supremely happy when they can be
slobber those who look upon them with con
tempt.
PUBLISHING a hermaphrodite newspaper is
elegant. The St. Paul department of the
Pioneer Press this morning apologizes f6r
the Minneapolis department, the Minne
apolis depaitment apologizes for the St.
Paul department and the editorial page
apologizes for both departments.
AT a late hour this morning we received
by associated press telegram from Philadel
phia the startling intelligence that at a pub
lic meeting last evening Mrs. B. B. Hayes,
or Ohio, took a child in her arms and kissed
it. The country will be thrilled by this
astounding intelligence. Verily, Mrs. H. is
the Mother of her Country, if she is the wife
of a Fraud.
HE Pioneer Press has not heard of the
murder of John D. Smith, committed just
outside of the corporate limits, a two column
account of which appeared in yesterday's
GLOBE. If that concern will hire two or
three more men with instructions to "bea
the GLOBE" it won't hear of a murder within
the corporate limits.
THESE seems to be strong evidence
favor of Bishop McGoskry's innocence. The
reason why the GLOBE condemns Beecher
and suspends judgment in the McCoskry
case is because the latter declares that his
alleged letters are gross forgeries, while
Beecher not only never denied nig letters,
but admitted them to be genuine. Beecher
stands self-convioted from his own utter
ances. It is yet to be proven what McGos
kry's utterances were.
The letter fiom Jeff. Davis that was read
yesterday at the memorial celebration in
Macon is the letter of a man reettng with
spite against humanity. If this sour spirit
possessed a spark of the patriotism, thai love
of his own section and the people thereof,
of which he boasts, he would hold his peace,
instead of appealing to dead or dying pas
sions, of which the least exhibition would
react with ten-fold effect upon the South
itself. We are glad to learn that Gov. Col
quitt's addreBS wag "sound and patriotic."
SHALL INCOMES OF OVER $2,O0O FAY
A TAX?
Congiess will, to all appearances, re-enact
the income tax. When everything eaten,
drank, worn, looked upon, touched, tasted
heard of and snielled is loaded down with
taxation, as a matter of justice, there may
be no good reason why a person with an in
come of over $2,0Q0 a year should not pay
a tax. The chief objection, besides the gen
eral objections to the extravagance and cor
ruption combined rendering such burden
some taxation necessary, is that an income
tax always has been, and always will be, we
fear, in practice a premium offered for per
jury.
& Xenophon begins his Memorabilia of
Socrates with the charge of corrupting the
morals of the youth of Athens.* Socrates,
who had consecrated his life to teaching
what he considered the purest morality,
justly complained of this as the most atro
cious accusation brought against him. Had
he been guilty, the law, and not poison,
should have ended his life, and not, as now,
would there be a drop of sympathy shed
over his death.
Any man, or any law, or any human in
strument tending to corrupt the morals of
the people is objectionable. It is the part
of statesmanship to balance good with evil,
perhaps, for this is the usual way, but we
doubt the wisdom. Men will swear to any
thing to save their money. In
the South, during the war,
when it became perfectly self-evident,
that the defeat of the Confederacy wag abso
lutely certain, unless by some masterpiece of
statesmanship the moral sense of the world
could be gained, when it was equally self
evident, that to do this the Southern people
should themselves emancipate their slaves
and embody the whole enfranchised race
into the great body of citizenship, the slave
holders would not do it, but preferred
to lose their cause rather than
give up their property. This begins
to be, if it has not always been, the history
ot men. The last income tax was evaded by
perjury, and men all over the country an
nually perjured themselves to save a few dol
lars. It gave birth to a systematized es
pionage over private business, every busi
ness man had a detective at his door, and the
whole country was overran with spies. The
living were hounded to death, as criminals,
and the dead robbed in their graves. Can
the country afford, for the sake of a few dol
lars, to run the risk of these demoralizing
tendencies? jaat_would_seem to be the
question.
THE FLORIDA CONFESSIONS.
There never has been any doubt, in the
minds of reasonable men, that Florida le
gitimately cast her vote for Tilden. The
confessions of the two rascals, McLin and
Dennis, simply proves what every one knew
before, and what the electoral commission
would have learned if they 'had made the
slightest investigation. It brings to light
not only the fraud, but also the appliances
by which it was perpetrated. Among
these we see that Hayes was a direct
party to the purchase of the State.
Both MoLin and Dennis had positive prom
ises of appointments if they would perpetrate
the great crime, and Mr. Hayes, for a time,
faithfully endeavored to execute his pledge.
His several efforts to provide for his pals
was^creditable among knaves, but fortunately
the Senate notified the President that the
offices were not personal property, and hence
he was stopped from carrying out the bar
gain to its full extent. Those who have
sought to shield Hayes by the electoral
commission, and assert that whatever crime
was committed he was not cognizant thereof,
can do so no longer. He stands forth by
these confessions as one of the leading
conspirators in the attempt (which finally
became successful) to subvert the will of the
people.
Little by little the proof positive of all
this scoundrelism has been coming to light,
and it implicates all of the leading officials
of the country from the President down. It
is enough to make people stand aghast and
wonder who can be trusted to place patriot
ism above party, when such a spectacle is
presented as that which was afforded during
the winter of 1876-77. Committees of "visit
ing statesmen," went to the contested States
and not only gave countenance to the great
crime by their presence, but
aided and abetted it. It is doubtful
whether the robbery of the Presidency could
have been consummated but for the pres
ence of the Shermans, the Garfields, the
Stoughtona and their ilk. It is vain for
these men to denounce the McLins and the
Dennises. The Republican leaders, includ
ing Hayes, made them criminals, and are
profiting by their criminal acts. There can
be no distinction among villains equally
guilty.
Whatever failure there may be in the
courts to give the perpetrators of this great
crime their just deserts, the people have an
opportunity to administer a remedy by per
manently retiring from power the Repub
lican party.
WILL THEY SUBMIT.
With their usual arrogance the Republi
can politicians of Ramsey and Hennepin
connties have decided that either a St. Paul
or Minneapolis man must be the congres
sional nominee in this district. All out
siders and outside considerations are swal
lowed up in local greed, and St. Paul pre
senting Stewart and Minneapolis presenting
Ramsey is regarded as the alpha and omega
of the whole affair. If the remainder of
the district chooses to exercise its power it
Can take the nominee itself or name the
m,an. The last Republican Convention in
the Third district had the following repre
sentation: Aitkin 1
Anoka 3
Benton 2
Becker 1
Carlton 2
BigStone 1
Cass 1
Chisago 2
Crow Wing 1
Clay 2
Douglas 3
Grant 2
Hennepin 15
Isanti 8
Kanabec 1
Lac qui Parle. 1
Lake Meeker 4
MilleLac 2
Morrison 2
Otter Tail 5
Pembina 1
Pine 1
Polk 2
Pope 3
Ramsey 12
St. Louis 3
Sherburne 2
Stearns 4
Stevens 1
Todd 3
Wadena 1
Washington 5
Wilkm 1
Wright 4
Yellow Medicine... 2
Total ..100
Here are 100 delegates, 27 of whom are
from Ramsey and Hennepin counties, and
73 outsiders. Neither the St. Croix valley
or a county north of Minneapolis has ever
had a member of Congress. They have
been constantly called upon to nominate and
elect St. Paul and Minneapolis men, and
like abject slaves they have obeyed. This
year there is the usual howl about the politi
cal arrogance of these two cities, and it re
mains to be seen whether any practical steps
will be taken, or whether one-third will
continue to rule two-thirds. The proper
thing for the outsiders to do is to agree that
in no event will they support either Stewart
or Washburn for the nomination. They
probably cannot, at the outset, agree upon
who they will support, but they will fritter
away their strength unless they solidify on
that point and act together. If they will
make such a resolve, they will bring the
Ramsey and Hennepin county politicians to
their knees begging for terms.
The Railroad Contest for Missouri River
Traffic.
CHICAGO, April 26.Commissioner Fink,
of New York, has suggested by letter to all
roads concerned in the present contest for
the Missouri river traffic that they hold a
conference to see whether their differences
can be adjusted. The allied Chicago roads
met here to-day, and resolved to continue
their present organization indefinitely. They
referred the matter of rates to the executive
committee, with the recommendation that
a rate qf five cents per hundred between
Chicago and Missouri river points, south of
and including St. Joseph, be made on all
classes, as the Chicago roads had declined
the proposition to equalize through rates
from the seaboard to the Missouri river, by
adding 10 cents to the rates from New York
to St. Louis. Mr. Fink asked that the
Chicago roads name what rates they would
accept. Commissioner Midgley replied to
day, on behalf of the latter, that as Chicago
local rates-have always been taken as the
basis in equalizing through rates, via
Chicago and St. Louis, the Chicago roads
now propoBA the present rates from Chicago,
which are on first and second classes 18
cents, third class 15 oents, and fourth class
10 cents.
Chicago Distiller's Failure.
CHICAGO, April 25.Henry B. Miller filed
a Voluntary petition in bankruptcy to-day.
He is a well-known distiller and ex-county
treasurer. The secured debts are $12,000,
unsecured $122,000, of which 111,000 are
due the United States on distillers' bonds.
The total assets are nominally about 8,000.
&.
THE ST? ?AUL DAILY GLOBE, SATtJBDA
THE UTAH DIVORCE-
HOW IT WORKED IS DR. ARMING*
TON'S CASK.
The Patent Utah Arrangement Not Very
Safe In MinnesotaIt Don't Count In Arm
Ington's Case, Hence He Has Committed
Bigamy.
IT will be recalled by many that Dr. Arm
ington of Northfield, Minn., obtained one of
those peculiar Utah probate court divorcee,a
year or two ago, and subsequently married.
He was prosecuted, convicted of bigamy, but
to postpone the evil day when he must en
ter prison, he appealed to the supreme court.
The following decision was rendered against
him yesterday:
Tht State of Minnesota Respondent, vg John L.
Armingtcm, Appellant.
OPINION.
The subject of challenging jurors in this
State is made a matter of statutory regulation.
It is made the duty of the court to inform the
defendant before a juror is called, that, "if he
intend* to challenge an individual juror he
shall do so when the juror appears and before
he is sworn" (Gen. St. ch. 116, See. 10.) "A
challenge to an individual juror is either per
emptory or for cause," (Sec. 11.) "It shall be
taken when the juror appears and beforo he is
sworn," (Sec. 12.) It is also provided that, "all
challenges to an individual juror shall be taken
first by the defendant and then
by the State and each party
shall exhaust all his challenges before
the other begins," (See. 33). A peremptory
challenge is declared to be "an objection to a
juror for which no reason need be given, but
upon which the court shall exclude Mm. (Sec.
13, as amended by act of March 5, 1868). If
the offense charged is punishable with death or
with imprisonment for life, the State is entitled
to seven peremptory challenges and the defend
ant to twenty. For any other offense the State
is entitled to two and the defendant to five
save as above, the statute is silent as to the
time when the right of peremptory challenge
shall be exercised by the accused, neither does
it contain any provision like the Wisconson
statutes, under which the case of Lamb vs. the
State, (86 Wis. 428) cited by appellant was de
scribed, plainly implying that a jury must be
called and in the box before the accused shall
be required to exercise his right. On the con
trary, the foregoing provisions seems clearly to
indicate that each party is required
to make and exhaust all his
challenges to each juror as and when he is
called before he is sworn and in the same order
stated, and such in effect was the ruling of
this court in The State vs. Brown, 12 Minn.,
638, in which it was held that the course pur
sued by the court in swearing each juror separ
ately and before the full jury was present in the
box was correct practice under the statute.
The indictment in this ease follows the pre
cise form prescribed by the statute for an in
dictment of this character (genl. at., ch. 108,
see. 2, No. 25). It must, therefore, be held good
(Bilansky vs. State, 3 Minn., 427 State vs.
Ryan, 13 Minn., 370 State vs. Thomas, 19
Minn., 484). The gist of the offense charged
was unlawfully contracting a second marriage
with the party named in the indictment while
the accused had a wife then living.
It was stated with sufficient
precision to apprise him of the
particular offense which he was required to
meet, and as the general averment "that he had
a wife then living" was sufficient under the
statute to admit proof of the former marriage
and its validity, it was unnecessary to Btate in
the indictment the time and place, when and
where it was consummated, or the maiden name
of the former marriage.
(See Hutohina vs the State, 28 Ind., 84
State vs. Bray, 13 In. (N. 289.)
Another error alleged by appellant is upon
the ruling and instruction of the trial court,
upon the sufficiency and effect of the evidence
which was introduced to establish the existence
of the defendant's former wife.
In order to a conviction in a case of this
character the rule undoubtedly requires proof
by competent evidence of a prier legal marriage
in fact, and such fact must be established
to the satisfaction of the jury beyond a reason
able doubt. Formerly such fact could only be
proved by direct evidenoe. This rule, however,
has been changed by our statute (Gen. Stat.,
ch. 73, title XI, sec. 89) which in terms enacts
that "where the fact of marriage is required
and offered to be proved before any court, evi
dence of the admission of such fact by the
party against whom the proceedings are insti
tuted, or of general reputo cohabition as mar
ried persons, or any other circumstantial or
presumptive evidence from which the fact may
be inferred, shall be competent." Under this
statute indirect and circumstantial evidence
of the oharacter indicated not onlv admissible
in all cases for the purpose of establishing the
fact of marriage, but such fact may be proved
by auoh evidence alone, whatever
its strength and might, are such as reasonably
to produce upon the mind of the jury that de
gree of conviction requisite in all criminal pro
ceedings.
(The State vs. Johnson, 12, Minn. 476). In
reference to this matter, we discover nothing
in the conduct of the trial, or in any ruling of
the district court at all, in conflict with these
views, or calling for a new trial. The indict
ment alleges that defendant "unlawfully mar
ried one, Susie E. Roe, whose true name was,
and is Susan Weller." It is objected that
the court erred at the close of the testimony,
for the proseoution.in not granting defendant's
motion to dismiss, for the reason that theie
was "no evidence to prove his (defendant's)
marriage to Stuan Weller." This aver
ment as to the name, was descriptive of the
person, and not of the offence. Its only of
fice of importance, was to designate and iden
tify the particular individual, with whom
it was alleged the defendant
formed the unlawful marriage relation. The
accusation is, that he married one Susie E.
Roe." The proof showed that the person
whom in fact married, bore that name among
her acquaintances, and at the time of her mar
riage to defendant. She is thus described in
the "License to Marry" and the "Certificate
of Marriage," which were introduced in evi
dence. Her identity is unquestioned, and
there is no pretense that the acoused was misled
by the additional descriptive averment in the
indiotment that "her true name was, and is
Susan E. Weller." Whether, therefore, it was
sufficiently proved or not by the evidence, is
immaterial.
The remaining question for consideration
relates to the decision of the court excluding
what purports to be an authenticated copy of a
decree of divorce of the "Probate Court in
and for Box Elder county, in Territory of
Utah," entered in that court at a
special term on the 18th December, 1876, in an
action between John L. Armington, plaintiff,
vs. Martha F. Armington, defendent, dissolv
ing the marriage contract between them.
Among the objections made to this evidence
was the one that, at the time the decree pur
ports to have been rendered, both parties
thereto were residents of this State, and had
been for several years prior. When this evi
dence was offered it incontestibly appeared,
from the testimony already given, that both
the defendant and his said wife, Mrs. Martha
F. Armington, had been resident citizens of
this State, and domiciled therein for over nine
years prior to the date of the decree, atd that
they were both actually living in this State at
the time of the entry. It did not appear, nor
was any offer made to show the fact that either
had ever been domiciled, even temporarily,
within the territory of Utah and as
to Mrs. Armington, it is quite
Clear that she never at any time during
the progres of the proceedings in eaid court was
outside the limits of this State or within the
territorial limits of Utah, as to Mr. Armington
the most that can be claimed from the evidenoe
is that he temporalily left his residence in
Northfield in this State sometime in the sum
mer of 1876. and returned in August or Decem
ber of that year. Where he was during that
period does not affirmativahr appear, but it
does affirmatively appear Vrt he has resided
and practiced medicine in Northfield ever
since November in that year. Upon this evi
dence the court was warranted in assuming
that neither of the parties ever acquired a bona
fide domicile or residence in Utah, and that
both were daring the conduct qt these divorce
proceedings domiciled resident* of this State
and subject to its laws. Upon this state of facts
the probate court of Utah, whatever may have
been the extent of its jurisdiction over the sub
ject of divorce under the local laws of that
territory, as respects its citizens, had no juris*
diction to adjudicate upon the marriage rela
tions existing between these parties. To each
State belongs the exclusive right and power of
determining upon the status of its resident and
domiciled citizens, and subject in respect to
the question of marriage and divorce and no
other State, nor its Judicial tribunals, can ac
quire any lawful jnrisdietion to interfere in
such matters between, any such subjects, when
neither of them has become bona fide domi
ciled within its limits, and any jndgment
rendered by any such tribunal, under auoh
circumstances, as an absolute nullity (Ditson
vs. Ditson, 4 R. Cooly on Const. Lims.,
400, and notes there cited Kerr vs.
Kerr, 41 N. I. Hoffman vs. Hoffman, 46
N. Y. 80 Hanover vs. Turner, 14 Mass. 211.) It
does not appear upon the face of the judgment
or decree or in any of ita recitals that- either of
theparties were ever residents of said territory
of Utah, or domiciled therein. This is a juris
dictional matter which should appear to entitle
the judgment to any respect whatever for
though it be conceded that the Probate Court
that rendered the judgment was in the legal
senseaoourtof iecord,"its jurisdiction,''if any,
render the local laws of the territory over the
subject of divorce was a special authority not
recognized by the common law,and its proceed
ings in relation to it stand upon the same foot
ing with those of courts of limited and inferior
jurisdiction unaided by any legal presumptions
in their favor. Corn vs. Blood 97 Mass.
540. The evidence was properly executed.
To disprove any cmninal intent the record was
also offered in evidence, coupled with an offer
to show that the defendant, acting under the
advice of counsel, believed in the validity of
such allseed divorce, and that he contracted
his second marriage in this belief. In defining
the offense of polygamy the statute declares
that "if any person who has a former husband
or wife living marries another person, or con
tinues to cohabit with such second husband or
wife, he or she shall, except in the oases therein
specified, be deemed guilty of the crime of
polygamy." The excepted cases refer to a
marriage after a legal divorce by one not the
guilty cause thereof, and to one innocently
contracted under a belief that the former wife
or husband is dead when such wife or husband
has been continuously absent either
beyond the sea or aftei a voluntary
withdrawal and without being heard
from alive for the period oi seven years.
It will be observed from these provisions that
in a case like the one at bar, the existence of a
criminal intent in fact on the part of the ac
cused, is not an essential mgiedient of the
statutory crime charged. If the facte specified
in the statute are shown to exist, the law pre
sumes the guilty knowledge and intent.
Hamilton vs. people, Barb, S R. 625.
If the pretended decree of divorce upon which
he relied was in fact illegal, and void because
made by a court having no jurisdiction* it af
forded him no protection against the conse
quences of a second marriage, whatever may
have been his motives or his belief in respect
to the validity of the decree. His mistake or
ignorance, if any, was one of law, and not of
fact. His case, therefore, is one
to which the maxim, "ignorantia juris non
excusat" applies. Being, together with his
lawful wife, a resident-citizen domilciled in
this State and subject to its laws, be was bound
to know that the tribunals of no other State or
territory could rightfully take cognizance and
jurisdiction over their maritial relations for the
purpose of decreeing their dissolution neither
could they acquire such jurisdiction through
any act of the plaintiff in temporarily changing
his domicile when done with no bona fide in
tention, but for the sole purpose of procuring a
divorce in fraud of the laws of the State te
which he owed allegiance.
Judgment confirmed.
COHNEXL, A. J.
Greenbacks at a Premium in Frisco.
SAN FBANOISCO, April 25.In this city re
cently small sums of greenbacks have been
purchased for gold coin at a premium of 50
cents on every $1,000 in notes. Secretary
Sherman, wishing to transfer some currency
exchange to the East without desturbing the
volume of greenbacks in San Francisco, drew
checks upon himself in sums of $5,000 and
$10,000 payable in New York. These checks
were forwarded to Sub-Treasurer Sherman
of this city. Parties here wishing to remit
currency to the Fast and finding it to their
advantage to use these checks, instead of
purchasing drafts at a bank, have taken their
greenbacks to the office of the sub-treasurer
and made an exchange. As the subtreasurer
could not give out checks for gold coin, and
as greenbacks in open market are for the
moment quite scarce, a small premium had
to be paid to secure them in sufficient quan
tity to cover the checks sought in exchange.
National Fire Writers' Covention.
N EW YOBK, April 25.The annual meet
ing of the national board of fire underwrit
ers was resumed to-day. J. B. Hall, of
Ohio, offered a resolution, which was adopt
ed, requesting the president of the board to
immediately issue a circular letter to all com
panies issuing what are known as stock pol
icies and to solicit the opinion of the com
panies' views, looking to the establishment
of an adequate tariff of rates, and that when
replies to this circular are received a digest
should be furnished to the executive com
mittee, and whenever in the opinion of the
latter committee it should appear proper, it
shall at once issue a call to all the com
panies to meet in this city for further con
sideration of the subject.
Resolutions regretting the resignation of
General Agent Montgomery were passed, and
the board adjourned sine die.
Various Investigations in Ohio.
COLUMBUS, O., April 25.In the House a
resolution was adopted providing for the in
vestigation of charges now pending against
Representative O'Connor, that he was daring
1839 an inmata of the Michigan penitentiary
and never had been pardoned.
The House bill to appropriate $30,000 to
put the canals of Ohio in navigable order
was defeated.
The Senate joint resolution providing for
an investigation of the books and papers of
the Southern railroad trustees was adopted.
A resolution was also adopted appointing
a committee to investigate whether any
members of the 62d or 63d assembly had
improperly received money to influence
their votes on the biU authorizing the pay
ment of a million dollars to apply to the
Cinn. Southern railroad.
A Chicago Communistic Sensation.
CHICAGO, April 25.There is considerable
interest felt by citizens in the movements of
the communists of this city. They are ac
tively at work drilling and arming with
breech-loading rifles. On being questioned
they confessed that they are preparing for
future emergencies, but say they will act
merely self-defense and will not foment
disorders. There are about 8,000 of
them in this city, and it is stated that 1,000
to 2.000 of them are armed and drill weekly.
The police force are watching their move
ments to prevent recurrence of the riotous
proceedings of last July.
Pensions That Will Cease.
HABBIBBUBG, April 25.Owing to Congress
having provided for the payment of pensions
to soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812, the
State treasurer orders county treasurers to
pay soldiers and sailors and widows entitled
to State annuities $14.37 from January 1st
to March 1st, 1878, and from that time the
names of all pensioners under the State, (set
of March, 1878,) will be dropped from the
rolls of the State.
America at the French Fair.
LONDON, April 25The United States
steamer Wyoming and the ship Constella
tion, which arrived at Havre together Tues
day from New York, with exhibits for the
Paris exhibition, discharged their cargoes
immediately, and the goods will be in Paris
this week. The American section of the
exhibition is filling rapidly, and it is thought
it will be little, if any behind, on the open
ing day, May 1st.
&
National Finances.
N EW XOBX, April 25,Kernan's news
agency furnishes the following Washington
dispatch: "The syndicate have just taken an
additional five millions of 4 per cent,
bonds, making fifteen millions taken so far
under the contract of the 11th inst.
WASHINGTON, April 26.Subscriptions to
the 4 per cent, loan to-day, $104,000.
FANNIE EICHAEDS.
SHE MAKES A VERT STRONG
PLAUSIBLE DENIAL.
AND
I Reply to the Charge* Again* Bishop
MeCoskry by Mia Alleged Partner in
CrimeShs Claims the Letters Are For
geries and That Improper Relations
Nevsr Rmisted-The Perils of a Detroit
Girl. [Detroit Correspondence Chicago Tribune.]
I believe that if the bishop were to re
turn, as it is stated he will, and demand an
investigation, it would be found that of the
letters alleged to exist, and in his own hand
writing, testifying to his dishonor, it would
be shown that those which are vile and crim
inal in their language are [forgeries, cleverly
executed by a young man whom Fanny
Richards refused to marry.
MBS. BANNISTEB INTEBVISWED.
I visited Mrs. Bannister (nee Fanny
Richards) to-day, and had a long conversa
tion with her on this scandal. I found her
at her residence, 122 Vinewood avenue, near
the Grand Trunk junction, about five miles
from the City-hall. She lives in a prettily
furnished brick cottage, which affords plen
teous evidence of taste and refinement, while
a well-stocked library shows thst she and
her husband have a pretty wide acquaint
ance with htearture. She is anything but
an attractive young woman. She has
neither face, form, nor figure. She stands
about four feet ten inches in height, is
slight, "straight up and down," without a
vestige of bust freckled eyes of no par
ticular hue that can be described other than
between ashes and green irregular
yellow teeth,those on the right
side of the lower jaw slanting inward
angular and in dress a veritable dowdy. I
should judge her weight at about eighty
pounds, while her feet are modeled upon the
basis of a woman of four times her size
Her age is a little over 18, she says, and I
believe her. When she talks she twists her
lower jaw like a scold slangwhanging a
neighbor over a fence. She may have hod
all the elaborate education that it is claimed
the bishop gave her, but if so she carefully
conceals it. Her grammar is worse than
that of an Ann Arbor graduate, which is
saying a good deal, while her confusion of
metaphors would, if she would take to the
paragraphic field, knock all the imitators of
Shillaber endways.
I was never more astounded in my life
than when I saw in this plain, ordinary,
homely, commonplace little married girl
she is nothing more nor lessthe party of
the second part to the greatest scandal of
the age, especially when I considered that
Bishop McCoskry is a man over six feet in
height, as round about as a tobacco hogs
head, weighing about 350 pounds, and a re
fined gentleman in manner and bearing.
INDISPOSED TO CONVBBSB.
Introducing myself as a newspaper per
son, I found Mrs. Banister indisposed to
talk on the subject, unless in the presence
of her husband, who had enjoined her to
silence, especially toward members of the
press. I told her that I came in the charac
ter of a friend, who did not believe that she
was the vile creature that she had been
painted. My object, I said, was to learn
whether she had received a telegran from
the bishop in response to the one she had
sent him calling upon him to return and de
fend her character. She declared that she
had heard from the bishop, who was very
ill at Dr. Mason's in New York, bnt who
would return and face the charges. Then
she took a little cry to herself.
"Mrs. Banister," I said, "I understand you
deny all of these charges?"
"Yes, I do," she replied, emphatically
"they are vile slanders. If you are, as you
say, a friend, and I wish I could believe it,
you are the first I have met since this awful
slander against me came out. I never knew
until Thursday last that any one in the world
could accuse me of the slightest impropriety
in my life. Imagine my feelings when, on
going to the grocery store on the corner,
this vile thing"showing a copy of Rose's
Nose, a sort of street gazette, which first
published the story"was placed in my
hands, and I saw myself branded as a foul
woman. My husband was sick at home, and
I could not show it to him till the next day.
What a task was that, to me! But, thank
God, he is a man who will not believe in
stories about his wife's disgrace he stands
by me in my hour of trial, and he will see
me through my trouble.
HXB DELATIONS WITH THE BISHOP.
"Have" you any objections to stating your
relations with the bishop?"
"I would rather my husband W6re here, as
he knows all about the matter."
I hadn't time to wait for Banister, so I
pressed her, and elicited the following infor
mation from her:
Mrs. Banister claims to have been born in
England. Her father was a large boot and
shoe manufacturer, at No. 5 Old Woolwich
Road, and near the Star and Gartar, Trafal
gai Square, London. For a short time he
represented Greenwich in the House of
Commons. Shortly before his death,
which was caused by consump
tion, he encountered heavy] losses, and
his estate went into the admin
istration of his brother. When wound np,
after his decease, a very small sum, barely
sufficient to support widow and child,
was left. Mrs. Richards determined upon
emigrating to Canada, where she had some
friends, and where the present chief justice
of the supreme court, Sir William Buell
Richards, a relative of her husband, then
judge of the court of common pleas of
Toronto, was likely to render her assistance.
She took with her letters of introduction to
Bishop McCoskry, whom her husband had
met and formed a friendship with while the
latter was attending commemoration at Ox
ford, and when she determined, finally to
settle in Detroit, she made application
to the Bishop for guidance and assist
ance. She was received with kindness, and
at her request the bishop assumed the re
lation of guardian to her daughter, the
present Mrs. Banister, then a child of less
than 11 years of age. Remittances were
regularly sent from England for the sup
port of the Richards family, and these the
bishop received and applied to the purpose
of maintaining Fanny and her mother. Up
to the present time, Mrs. Banister claims,
money is regularly received by her and her
mother from England, and the whole charge
of her education and support was defrayed
out of the little property remaining after the
winding up of her father's estate. Her
father had, while the bishop was in England,
rendered him services of a valuablecharacter,
and the form which his gratitude took was
in making the life of the daughter and the
widow of his friend as agreeable and com
fortable as possible.
PICNIC PEBSENTS AND LETTERS.
"It is alleged that the bishop provided for
you bountifully with money?" said the re
porter.
"It isn't so," she replied with vehemence.
"He never gave me anything but what was
my own, except, perhaps, now and then,
when I was going out to a party or picnic, he
would give me fifty cents or a dollar for
pocket money. I don't think he ever gave
me more than $20 since I have known him,
and always in trifling sums. The story that
I was a drain upon his purse that prevented
him from paying his just debts is a wicked
lie. The bishop gave away in charity the
best part of his income, and don't seem to
know what money is, but he never spent
money on me. didn't spend money on
myself either, for I hadn't more than enough
to dress myself and mother was obliged to
work.
"Yon do not deny that yon received let
ters from the bishop?"
"No. I have had four or five, bnt they
were all just such letters as a good Christian
minister might write to a girl of 15 under
his charge. He never wrote me a letter he
didn't sign, and they were all
noble and pure in their language. The
bishop was not a dirty person, nor did he
write without cause, or for the sake of hear
ing from me. The story that wrote him
making him an offer of half my bed and all
the clothes is a vile falsehood." Here Mrs.
Banister broke completely, and sobbed for a
good twenty minutes.
"I protest before God," she said, recover
ing, "that I am an innocent women, and the
victim of a great scandal. My relations with
the bishop were only those of the most hon
orable character. My husband knows that I
came to him a pure woman, and he will as
sert it before the whole world. The stories
that have got into the papers are lies from
beginning to end, and they have been in
vented by that wretched fellow, George Mc
Connell, whom I did so much for, and whom
I thought so much of until I found hita a
mean sneak-thief, who stole my letters from
my writing-desk, and actually picked my
pocket of one. I got that fellow employ
ment on the Post and Tribune through the
Bishop's influence, and tried to do all I could
for him, but he was a mean fellow, and
when I gave him up he swore he would have
revenge.
THE NIAGARA EXCUBSION'.
"He says I took him to Niagara with the
bishop's money and that we had a round of
immoral dissipation there. I did go on an
excursion to Niagara with him, but it was
this way: Mother and I planned to go on a
trip, and bought two tickets with our own
money. When the day came, mother was
taken sick, and, as 1 wanted to go, I thought
I might use her ticket, and so I offered it to
George if he would escort me. There were
lots of people going that I was acquainted
with, and I thought it was no harm. We
went, but there are a dozen of people I can
name who wUl bear witness that my conduct
was that of a properly trained, decent girl,
and any one who says the contrary is a
story-teller. But even if I had done wrong,
what a miserable fellow this McConnell
must be to glory in betraying what would
have been his shame as much as mine. But
he is a mean, vengeful liar. He stole my
letters, and then, with the bishop's hand
writing to copy, he forged disgraceful .let
ters, which he dared not sign. After I was
married, and he stood np with Mr. Banister,
he swore he would be revenged, and and
he wonld put up a job on the bishop that
would knock Beecher out of sight. The
bishop thought at first he was a nice young
man, and said he would make me a good
husband. I thought so too, once, till I
found him out, and then I told the bishop
about the letters. The bishop was annoyed,
and spoke to McConnell about it, telling aim
that he had acted like a thief, who should be
punished. Then it was, I suppose, that "Me-
Connel deposited the letters in a safe, and
cleared out of Detroit, and went to Birming
ham, where he now prints a paper called the
'Post."
"Do I understand you to say that the
bishop knew of his letters to you having
been stolen?"
"Yes but their was nothing in those let
ters that any one could take exception to.
They were high-toned, moral letters, such as
a minister might be supposed to write a
giddy girl needing advice. I have not seen
them since they were stolen from me. I
have not seen these which are alleged to Lave
been written by the bishop to mo, and to be
full of immorality. Those who have made
the charges which are all abroad now, and
have blasted my name, didn't have the man
liness to ask me if I acknowledged having
received these letters. They came from a
thief, and he who could steal the leal
letters could be guilty of fabricating the
forged ones."
Here another fit of Crying Bupervened.
HOW DETBOIT OtBXS ABE XJBELBD.
"But, Mrs. Banister," said the correspon
dent, "there are other charges made agaiast
you, to the effect that, while you were al
leged to be living on terms of intimacy With
the bishop, you were also holding improper
relations with various young men?"
"It is false!" she almost shrieked. "Now
that I am down the liars who have been
writing about me are fabricating charges to
make their papers sell. There are fellows
who tell stories about me who shall be made
to say in the witness-box what they have
been telling the Chicago Times people and
Hose's Nose. Oh! those miserable fellows
who go about ruining a woman's good name!
I suppose there is hardly a low loafer in
town who isn't bragging that he was by
favored lover, too. But my tune will come
when I will make them pay dearly for then
slanders. My husband knows that, though I
was gidy, and a little flirt, I was a virtuous
girl, and that when I became his wifeyou
are married, and know what I meanI was a
maiden in fact as well as name. Whea I
was a girl I had a good many enemies who
envied me, and spoke ill of me because I had
supenor advantages to them. In Detroit no
girl's reputation is safe, anyway. If s-he
leads a Christian life, they say she is in
love with the minister if she is
gay and fond of amusement,
they say she is loose in 1-er
morals and if she pleases herself, and dods
what she thinks right, she is called a sly oue.
Half the young fellows she meets are ready,
if they see an opportunity, to try and seduce
her, and all of them, if she makes 'lie
slightest false step, are only too anxious to
help her along the road to ruin. I know that
I was talked about before I was married,
the same as any other Detroit girl who en
joys herself modestly, but not a soul could
say that, he or she could bring home a single
act of impropriety to me."
TUB WOULD DEFIED.
"Then you most emphatically deny all the
charges?"
"I do, every one of them, and I defy the
world to prove the accusations. The bishop,
when he comes back, will put them to t-ie
proof. He is a very old man, nearly 75, and
very feeble. I don't think he will live long,
but he will be given strength from above, I
feel sure, to see me done right before tbe
world. People will soon get to see that
there have been too many lies told for any
truth to be in the papers. There are always
two sides to a story, and mine has not ben
heard yet. But I hope you will say that,
when the time comes, the liars will be shown
up, and the thief and forger McConnell,
especially. I am, and the bishop is also, a
victim to that fellows revenge. He has
been hatching it ever since I gave him the
door."
A LIBEL SUIT AGAINST THE "TIMES."
"What do you propose to do about it?"
"That is very hard to say until the bishop
returns. I suppose a libel suit against the
Chicago Times will be the first thing, but
we have not ourselves the money to carry on
such an action. There is no use suing that
dirty fellow who prints Hose's Nose, as he
has no property, and to sue him would be to
advertise his disgusting paper, which I saw
for the first time on Thursday. We can
only wait till the bishop arrives."
"When will that be?"
Probably next week. Perhaps Wednes
day as soon as he is able to travel." You
may be sure he will return and establish his
innocence and mine before the whole world."
This closed the conversation, and your
correspondent left, feeling satisfied that
there was mnch truth in Mrs. Banister's
repudiation of the charges.
A Free Advertisement for a Paper Run
by Ladies.
CHICAGO, April 25.Miss Frances E. Wil
lard, the well known temperance lecturer,
and Mrs. B. Winard, widow of the late
Oliver A. Willard, editor of the Chicago
Post, have assumed control of the papsr as
editor and publisher respectively. The pub
lic may expect that a pure and upright news
paper, independent in polities, and an advo
cate of all that is good, will be published by
them.
THE WAY THE MONET OOE3.
Some of the Items of the $7,300,000 Appro
priation Bill.
The following are tbe principal appropria
tions in the river and harbor bill, passed on
Monday: For Baltimore harbor.
For James nver. Va
For Appomattox nver, Va
For Great Kanawha river, W. Va
Cape Fear, N.
Norfolk harbor, Va
Savannah harbor
Charleston harbor
Cedar Keys, Fla
Chattahooche nver, Ala.
Alabama river
The Warrior and Tombtgbee iivere,Ala.
Ship channel in Galveston Baj
The Mississippi and Arkansasrivers
The Missouri rive:
Survey of the Missouri river.
Entrance to Galveston harbor
Sabine Pass, Tex
Yazoo river, Miss
Removing the Red ri\ er raft
White ane St. Francis rivers, Ark
Missouri river, opposite St. Joseph
Missouri river, at Nebraska Cit
Mouth of Red river, La
Removing snags from Red n\ er
Rock Island rapids...
Illinois nver
Mississippi nver, between the mouths
of the Ohio and the Illinois
Mississippi river, between St. Paul and
Dea Momea rapids 250,000
Missouri nver, above the Yellowstone 30,000
Missour river at Omaha City 30,000
Cumberland river, Tennessee, above
Nashville
Cumberland river, below Nashville
Red nver of the North, Minn.
Tennessee river above Chattanooga
Tennessee nver, below Chattanooga
Cossamer, Georgia and Ala
Wabash river, Ind
Duluth harbor.
Sturgeon bay, canal entrance
The Ohio river, from Pittsburgh to its
mouth
New Orleans haibor
Monongahela river, W. a. and Pa
Michigan City harbor, Ind
Oakland harbor, California
Fox and Wisconsion rivers
Chicago harbor
St. Mary's river and canal, Mi^h
Harbor of Refuge, Lake Huron
Detroit river, Mich
Saginaw rivar, Mich
Toledo harbor, O
Qaritan nver, N
Wharf, landing, and channel at Mem
phis
Cleveland harbor and breakwater
Erie harbor Pa
Buffalo hirbor, N.
Oswego harbor, N.
Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers,
Oregon
Canal around the cascade of the Colum
bia river
Galena river and harbor. 111
Mississippi mer, at Viekbburg
The Neuse river, N. C.
Curntuck sound, N. C.
Harlem mer, N.
Boston haiboi
Piovidence river and Nairaganset La\
Staten Island sound
Washington and Georgetown liarbora
Connecticut cr, below Hartford
Hudson nver, N.
East river and Hell Gate, N.
Roundout harbor, N.
Burlington and Sv.anton harbors
each
Piers in Delaware bay near Lewes
Schuylkill ri-er, Pa."
Delaware nver, below BuJelsburg
Delaware river, between Trenton rnd
White Hill
Shrewsbury n.er, north and south
branches
Des Moines rapids
Upper Mississippi, from the month of
the Illinois
The bill leaves it discretionary with the
secretary of war whether he shall have the
work done by contiact or by hued labor. It
also appropriates 150,000 for surveys of
other nvers and hatbors designated in the
bill.
75,000
70,000 30,000
222,000
85,000
20,000
20,000
5,000
20,000 18,000
25,000
40,000 75,000
180,000
70,000
50,000
125.000
25,000 25,000
24,000
75,000
50,000
20,000
50,000 25,000 30,000
75.000
240,000
60.000 45,000
30,000 15,000
300,000
75,000 50,000 30,000 30,000
300,000
50,000 25,000
75,000 80,000
250,000
75,000
175,000
100,000
100,000
25,000 50,000
200,000
46,000
100.000
25 000
80.000 90,000 30,000
75,000 30,000 40,000 20,00 20,000
150,000
30.000 50,000
15,000
50,000 30,000
70,000
350,000
30,000
Vt
20,000 20,000
30 000
100,000
10,000
18,000
95,000
41,500
Regulating the Wfitei Supply At Flies.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In your report of the fire in the Pfeiffer
block this morn'ng, you say that ''the loss,
except by water, is sma'l," and '-that all of
the occupants suffered considerable damage
by water." Now this is true, and while it
goes to show that very much more water was
used than was necessa.y to extinguish the
flames, it does not imply wnnt of skill or
care on the part of the fhciren but is due
to the refusal of the city authorises to fur
nish them w*th proper fire apparatus. For
the past three years theie has been in the
use of the fire department of the city ap
paratus known as Patent Relieft Valves.
This is an attachment to the hose which
gives the pipe-man complete control of the
stream of water, and enabk 3 him to let it
on and shut it off at pleasure. With this
apparatus he does not let the water on until
finds the exact location of the fire and
has his host position, and he
can shut the stream off the moment
the fire is extinguished. A few months ago
the city was asked to pay for these valves,
but refused to do so not on account of
price, but for some fancied megulanty in
their purchase by the officers of the fire de
partment, although the cit ha? had the
benefit of their use for ovei three years.
They are now removed from the steamers,
very reluctantly, by the chief engineer, and
are lying idle in his ofiice, and the citizens
of St. Paul are at the mercy of an overdose
of water if a match is struck on their prem
ises. Without tb.9 use of these valves, the
water is frequently put on fronf the steamer
before the hose is in position, and the pipe
man has to carry his biaisca through a
building, with a stream of water flowing,
and when he has used enough water to ex
tinguish the fne the stream cannot be shut
off until the steamer, often several blocks
away, can be communicated with. More
property was destroyed by the surplus
water flooded rn the Pfeiffer block last night
than would pav for the relief valves ten
times over, yet the city fathers who seem to
revel in blissful ignorance, think they ore
serving the city by placing pioperty owners
at the mercy of streams of water. A five
dollar fire in a dry doods house on Third
street may at any hour, the present old
fashioned use of the hose, cause the destruc
tion of five or ten tnous^ud dollars' worth of
goods by a surplus stieam of water. Can
the merchants and insurance men of St.
Paul afford to see the hre department ham
pered its efficiency, as it now is, by the
lack of these valves? Yours, &c,
TAX PAXEB.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The croquet mania rages Monticello.
The pest offic3 at Long Prairie, Todd
county, wall soon be a msney order office.
Chatfield busmesi men complain of dull
times.
Chaska people pnde themselves over their
Concordia park
Fleets of prairie schooners navigate the
streets of Owatonna daily.
F. G. Head has sold h.s interest in the
Cokato Republican to his partner, K. W.
Miller.
The acreage of gram in Morrison county
tins year is nearly doable that of any pre*
ceding year.Little Falls Tramcnpt.
Eastern capitalists have agreed to cash all
railroad bonds voted by the towns of Chat
field, Elmira and Jordan.Chatfield Demo
crat.
McKoskray and McClaskey are two varie
ties of the many names given to the Bishop
of Michigan by the papers of this State.
Such is fame.
Wolves are reported to be numerous around
St. Charles. On Monday one man took the
scalps of five young ones to Winona and re^
ceived the bounty of $30.
Two cows, three yearJings and a span of
horses wer9 killed by a fire that destroyed
the barn of George James at Princeton,.
Morrison county, last week.
