Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — Reminiscences of 1880. [ARTICLE]

Reminiscences of 1880.

Several gentlemen ,;to-day wore recalling reminiscences of the republican national convention at Chicago in 1880. Among the viaitora from this city .was the gallant one legged soldier Hill, extreasurer of state, who in the first convention wm troubled in getting a card <>f admission. His disgust may be • magined on seeing a southern negro in rhe corridor of the hotel opanly selling tickets, and he made some remarks not very complimentary of the inetiioo-s which denied a soldier admission ard yet filled the pockets of this immigrant rom the south. His remark was over-, oeard by the ticket vender, and in a* 'flippant tone the negro asked: ‘Whar* lid you lose dat leg, sah?’ ‘I lost it’ mswered Col. Hill, ‘m the service of the union army,’ naming the battle. Well, aab,’ was the renly, 'you fool wid ■ne, sah, and you’ll lose de oder one.’* Quick as-a flash the colonel’s ciutch sanded alongside the head ot the gentle* >nan from'the south, and knocked him prawling ten feet away, and in such a ■ onfused condition that he did not care, ■o renew the discussion. The landlord f the hotel was so pleased with 001. sill’s action that he gave him the beat; oom and saw that he had sy fron t seat., i-ee of charge. During [jto the intense excitement oicident| to the Blaine-Grant riyalry in >ue .conyention of 1880, a Blaine delegate tailing from MaioeJ dogged the footsteps *.f Gen. Legau wanting to bet that Gen, • Jrant would not be nominated, and nally followed him into Don Oameron’s oom., where >a number of Indiat.ians toad gathered, Logan was in an ugly c.ood, and the impertinent .persistency r »f the man from Maine angered him beyond endurance, and he sprang towards dm with the intention of wrenching his spine- As he did so one of the Indi--.mans who was also shouting for Blaine mmped between them, and shaking his st under Gen. Logan’s nose, shouted Don’t you touch hint! don’t you dare •s ouch him.’ Logan halted and looking the Indianian, while kis countenance urned black as night, and his hand nought his revolver, he ask, ‘Who are .•on, sir?’ Quince A. Blankenship, of Martinsville, Indiana, by , sir;’ re* .lied the belicose Hoosier as he danced In front of the enraged general. Ex » nffnciUman Morrison, of this city.aad ?.lr. Hodges, a relative of Blakeuship’e, v.ere spectaors.and at Morrison’s sug-;-.euti<in. Hodges jerked Bia ken ship away » pushed him out of the room and by, m» doing prevented a possible tragedy., t realized afterwards that he Lad been fooli g with dynamite.

A New York firm applied to Abrabam i incoln some years before he became rasHeat as to the financial condition ot >ie ot his neighbors. Mr. Lincolu re- ■ led as Mllowe: ‘Yours of the loth a ant received. lam well acquainted •»>tb Mr. and know his circuit). ■ <*nce« Fir®t of all,’he has a wife and • by; together they ought to be worth ;»0 to any mau. Secondly, he has oflce In which there is a table worth and 'hree chairs worth say t’. m. ot there is in one corner a I rat hole which will bear looking o, Respectfully yours, A. Lincoln.' 1