in  the  legal  way.  They  were  accordingly 
married  by  the  presiding  judge.  Subsequently, 
they  pleaded  guilty  to  the  charge  preferred 
against  them  and  were  duly  sentenced  to  six 
months  in  territorial  penitentiary,  the  sentence 
being  suspended  on  good  behavior. — Optic.

A GATLING  GUN

Dr.  Gatling,  the  gun  inventor,  was  in 
Washington  when  Morse’s  wire  stretched  a few 
miles  out  into  the  country  and  back  again.  The 
inventor  of  the  telegraph  had  not  then  reached 
the  discovery  of  the  ground  connection.  He 
thought  he  must  have  a return  wire  to  make  a 
circuit.  Morse  had  spent  his  own  money,  his 
wife’s  money,  and  all  he  could  get  from  rela- 
tives. He  needed  more,  and  he  applied  to  con- 
gress. An  appropriation  of  $30,000  hung  in  the 
balance.  It  was  in  the  hands  of  a committee  of 
five.  Two  were  favorable;  two  were  opposed. 
The  fifth  was  Congressman  Wallace,  of  In- 
diana, father  of  Gen.  Lew  Wallace,  governor  of 
New  Mexico  about  1878.  The  Hoosier  states- 
man was  absent  when  the  deadlock  occurred, 
but  he  returned  and  voted  for  appropriation. 
Morse  got  the  money  and  made  telegraphing 
successful.  But  Wallace,  by  the  act,  dug  his 
political  grave.  He  went  back  to  his  district — 
the  Richmond  district,  one  of  the  strongest  Whig 
constituencies — and  stood  for  re-election.  The 
democrats  put  up  Bill  Brown.  Wallace  and 
Brown  stumped  the  district  together,  and  wher- 
ever they  spoke  Brown  would  say :