Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 13, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 January 1895 — Page 6

RIDING THE GOAT.

Jolly younc Irishman, sancy and bold. Named Timiay O'Hooley, as I have been told. Concluded he could, with perfect propriety, (Enlist in the ranks of some secret society. 80 looking around the right one to choose, That gave large returns for very small dues, fA lodge I'll not name, it appeared to his mind, ffVas surely the very best one he could find. Tim's petition for membership quickly , was niii le. And for four that the matter night be long delayed, He said, "Now, b vs. ye must do this up qui;. No tellin' how soon I may be gottin' sick, And wantiu' thim dollars ye promise to lave To Kate an' the baby whin I'm in me grave." He was told to appear the next meeting night, And the matter would bo attended to right. Now, the "boys" of that lodge were full of their tricks. And to get Irish Tim in a torribc fix. Concluded to tdd, by the way of variety, Something new to the ritual of their society. To the meeting Tim came, all dressed in his best, Aod anxious to take his seat with the rest ; But was met at the door by a member or tw. Who said: "There's a ceremony you must go through. Before entering the room you must take off your eoat, JTor we hoar von are good at riding a goat." Ride a goat!" exclaimed Tim, "What the t'ivil i- that ? Tis surely BOme joke ye are now drivin' at; I kin ride on a hone very sthylish an' neat, But to get on a goat, what'll I do with me feet?" Bathe took off Ins coat and they bandaged his eyes, Pot a belt 'round his waist, to Tim's great surprise. Then bade him to enter and he quickly would see How soon he'd bo raised to the second degree A stout rope and tackle were placed near the door, By the belt poor Tim was raised from the floor. Back an 1 forward he swung, a comical sight, Kicking and sprawling with all of his might. "Let me down! let me out!" he cried in affright, "Bad cess to me sowl that I came here to-night!" The rope quickly slackened, and Tim came down plump In a big vat of water just fresh from the pump. Och, mur'her; I'm drowned! By me sowl. 'tis a shame! lie Katy's a widdy, an' don't know the same!" Cried Tim in a rajjo, as he sprang to the floor. Tore the blind from his eyes and rushed for the door. All dripping with water from his recent cold bath, He shook his list at the crowd and gave vent to his a rath "To dirty spalpleens! I'll take by the throat The first one that jokes me 'bout riding the goat." Then Mixing his coat, he fled from the hall And never was made a member at a if. Hoosier "Watchman. FULL FATHOM FIVE. A violet for your thoughts, Mr. Armstrong. For fully live minutes your eyes have boon fastened ou that black lake with a total disregard of our presence, which, to say the least, is very un complimentary." and a pretty, dark girl I hook her flower saucily at the laughing face regarding her. MI did not Intend to be rude, Miss Katherine, but you cannot expect me to say I'm sorry. What right have you now to Complain of neglect when hist spring you cruelly laeorat (1 my feelings by the double loss of my best friend and my best girl'.'" "You look worn and heartsoro, truly," and Katherine nodded mockingly at the robust young giant stretched at ease ou the veranda railing. "I know the worm i' the bud hasn't begun operations outwardly, but nevertheless my heart bitterly resents your post-enga genu nt unkindnoss. As for Jack" laying an arm affectionately across the shoulders of a companion on the railing "he Is about as interesting as the yacht's spar whou his sweetheart's not by to applaud his witticisms." "Beware, Mr. Armstrong," Carrie Ormsby laughed, "Miss Moberly meditates vengeance." "It doesn't require much meditation," answered Knlherlne, scornfully, "to know there is always a blockhead attached to a mast." My opinion exactly," said the offender, wickedly, "though I hesitated to air ft before." "Now, then, Will, that's rather trong," and Jack Deering smilingly came to the MMN of his flushed and Indignant betrothed. "Yonr fiancee is responsible, old man. If the romantic glamour has so quickly disappeared from her fulure lord and master how's that, Jack -she needn't Tent her disappointment on u harmless Individual like " A hand belonging to the aforesaid "old man" quh kly and effectively stopped the flow of eloquence, while Katherine shook the delinquent energetically until a matted voice penitently murmured, "I'll be good." See that you will, sir," answered Miss Moberly, severely, and her stalwsrt lover released the suffocating culprit. The gay group occupying a small upper balcony of the Mackinac hotel heartily enjoyed the dally skirmishes between the inseparables, as Jack, his friend, and his fiancee were christened.

Katherine was an energetic creature with a sharp tongue that did valiant service for herself and her lover, who wisely let her select her own ammunition, though alert and ready to do bat

tle physically if Will proved the strong- 1 er force. Great chums the throe, for ;n spite of frequent struggles the girl openly admired the quick wit and sunshiny presence of the popular Armstrong, knowing the strength and honesty of character ander the agreeable manner. "I'm afraid, Mr. Armstrong, you've forfeited your Holet," a lovely girl cried laughingly, as Katherine defiantly tucked the blossom into a buttonhole. Jack being already adorned, "but I'll replace it with a rose if you give us a clew to the brown study." Armstrong looked eagerly toward the speaker, and the color deepened in her cheeks as she turned to Include the others, saying: "You know I always used to wonder, at school, what Napoleon's or Alexander's feelings were before one of their groat battles, and now. perhaps, Mr. Armstrong, the uigbt before the yacht race, can toll something that will gratify my curiosity at last." "If Alexander's thoughts were as tinheroic and practica as mine, Miss Ellis, it is just as well you were not clairvoy ant." And Will smiled gently at the stateiy blonde. "I was only Imploring Old Boreas to send along a good southeast gale strong enough to blow the anchors Oft the sailors' buttons." "I do not whistle. Mr. Armstrong, so cannot bring the wind to you that way: but if a song will propitiate Boreas, I'll help you with pleasure," and the clear, sweet voice rang out charmingly in the open air: "(Jive me a freshening brceae, my boys, A white and swelling sail; A ship that cuts the dashing waves And weathers every gale." "Uravo, Marion!" Katherine cried exultantly; "now I am sure we'll win. Three cheers for the Nancy!" and she spun joyfully about amid the laughing applause of her friede. "Will, stop j staring at Marion and thank her pretti- J ly," and Katherine chuckled gleefully j as Armstrong started abruptly ami turned his eyes out toward the lake, away from the lovely, flushed face so near him. "I'm afraid Miss Ellis does not realize that- a swift wind for the Nancy means second place for the Phyllis, You cannot serve two masters, you know, Miss Ellis, and as the Phyllis' owner is inclined to be despotic I'll try to forget you sang for us." "Is it a case of hating one and loving the other!" Carrie Ormsby cried maliciously. "It Is a case of resented interference, evidently. I assure you, Mr. Armstrong, you cannot resent the song as much as I." And with a slight, haughty inclination of the stately head Miss Ellis left thel veranda. Deering ended the uncomfortable silence with a lively tale of an adrenturous scramble up Sugar Loaf rock, under cover of which Katherine whispered to Armstroig: "Ihm after her and explain." And With a grateful look be hurried away. The tall llgure, walking so resolutoly down the long corridor, never turned when a hasty step announced the pursuer, and a voice sounded humbly: "Miss Ellis, please forgive my detestable rudeness." "I have nothing to forgive. Mr. Annstrong," icily. "It was stupid of me to sing unasked." "Oh, wait a minute!" desperately. "You do not understand. I must speak to you, Miss Ellis. Do give me a chance to explain," and Will turned an anxious face toward the haughty young lady, who, reaching her room, laid a baud on the door. She faltered an instant, and he seized the advantage at once. "Miss Ellis," breathlessly, "your song was the sweetest response I ever had to a wish. Don't you know that I would spend my life listening to your voice, if such happiness were possible?? Hut Katherine told me Grant sent to Chi cago for red roses for to-morrow, and I weil," with a flushed face and distressed smile "I thought of you wearing his colors, and it wasn't comfirtable exactly," and he laughed forlornly. "But didn't she tell you I refused to have them?" The listless face was all eagerness now. "What! honestly? Oh, Miss Ellis! did you, really?" And the excited young man caught and held the small hand nervously tapping the door. "Well," with a tremulous laugh, as she found her efforts at release unavailing, "red is not becoming, you see, ami so I thought " "You would wear blue?" joyously. "I hop-'d so, but nobody offered me a badge." "Will you wear my colors If I send them in the morningV" eagerly. "Yes, gladly." "And you surely want the Nancy to win?" "I should feel dreadfully if she wasn't victorious." "Then I have no fears." And Will Jubilantly kissed the pretty hand, released it and turned quickly away. The sunrise gun on the obi fort sounded a lusty greeting to the sleepy little village lying at its feet. Every morning it thundered out Cade Sam's welcome to the coming day, and when In winter the small Island was cut off from outside communication by the thick ice, It boomed friendly encouragement to the im prisoned inhabitants that spring would soon be at hand with Its train of ships passing in companionable proximity, and its host of pleasure-seekers, doing its b st to transform the simple, primitive spot into n fashionable garden for the enjoyment of the "Summer Amusement Company." The narrow strait separating Hound Island from Mackinac is alive with gaily-decked craft rocking about In a manner that bodes little enjoyment for

any but a seasoned tar. Tiny steam yawls chase between larger and more cumbersome vessels, and make futile :

attempts to sink the red buoy, which marks the opening stake. The jaunty yacht serving as judges' boat is crowded with marinen bold, who hide under smart cape and blue flannel toggery a cowardly longing for the dull, tame shore. The sands are lined with people, who cover the ramparts of the fort and till ; to overflowing the broad gallery of the White hotel. Dp in the little cupola over the red roof an anxious group of faces walch the desultory movements of two sloops drifting so aimlessly about fie small basin. At last a preparatory gun from the dock of the official launch gives timely ending to the maneuver- ' ing. and having signalled for read!- I neSH site steams away to form the outer wall for the start. The Phyllis and j Nancy, with roofed mainsails Btaunch f and taut in the heavy breeze, and single Jibs puffed out like large balloons, slowly swing around and advance toward an in-aginary line drawn between the gaudy tinker and the waiting launch. The Nancy has a slight advantage over her opponent, but is coming so quickly with the pretty white side touching the water that a groat throb of fear stirs the Interested audience. Will she be too soon? Must the race bo lost before starting by a wrong time calculation? Every face la turned imploringly to- ' ward the saucy steamer so heedless of the catastrophe, and eyes are strained to catch the first flash of powder. Tho Nancy actually leaps across watery space, widening to two lengths the distance from her rival, and heads so near the line that a sickening apprehension of defeat stirs the nervous group on ihe hotel roof. All at once a bright glare greets the view, a resounding report arouses the imprisoned voices of the island, and with an instant of grace the pretty yacht flies across the lino, followed some seconds later by the Phyllis, and the race h; ou. But why does the Nancy steer so madly toward the Michigan shore? Can't she see her rival stealing toward the lit Lie red buoy dashing In the breakers before Sheboygan ? Has she na care for the yearning eyes and anxious hearts that follow the contest with fearful dread? Ah! Captain Will, have you no pity for the girl In the tower, whose white hand crushes your violets to still the furious beating of her heart? Btill to the eastward she points until directly opposite Sheboygan, when, helm shifted, she bears down on the old lumber town, and the wl dorn of j her sailing plan is apparent. The Fhyllis. In to tho southwest shore, requires a fourth tack to round the Btake, w hich the Nancy's superior windward strength has enabled her young commander to reach without further effort. The test now is one of speed, and her wily master hopes to pit the old reometrical axiom of th" single Straight line against the Shorter, though Intricate, angle of his rival. Like great white birds they swoop across the water, the beautiful outspread plumage glistening with silvery brightness. It is a royal struggle, with victory to the swift, for just as the steamer's throbbing engines cease paising; the Nancy with wondrous speed darts across the lino, welcomed with noisy clamor by the fort guns. The race is won, with liO seconds gain from the outer bu oy. "Then you really forgive my stupid blunder last night, and promise never to tannt me frith it In the fntnrer 'Obi I'm not gofclg to perjure my

soul with rash promises at this early , that Mr Cleveland intends to send a spedate, my dear fiance' with a little ten- j (;;1i message to Congress on the subject. iler smile, "but iust at present 1 for- ! it,, had not heard of anv such intention

gire you freely." Armstrong's glance was suspiciously bright, and a troublesome throat presented immediate reply, it came at last, a low, wondering voice whispering humbly: "Sweetheart, how is it you care for me?" "Do you question my taste, sir?" Marion answered, with a tremulous effort t be playful. "Perhaps it is because I admire handsome men; perhaps, who knows, because you are tall and Strong and masterful. I'm afraid I haven't had time yet to discover 8 reason. That I'll tell you in the morning. To-night I am only conscious of one fact," raisin- her eyes trustfully to his. "I love you, dear, with all my heart :" The music from the distant ball-room came fitfully to two Agares ensconced in a corner of the veranda. Tireless promenaders marched back and forth incessantly, but the gtrTs bead w:is turned away from th' restless exercise and the brilliant starlight shone in he? blue eyes fastened so joyously on the handsome face bent toward her ivnnsy Iva nls Grit. Encourages Electrical Progress France has for some time past been specially a; live in the application of electric power to canals, a fact lue probably to the importance and extent of bei canal system. The latest successful trial reported is one on the canal boats of the lIavre-I,aris-Tyons on 1pagnle, In which t transferable electric motor and rudder combination is used, while the motor lias been driven by current from storage batteries. The canal boat, having a length of thirtyeight meters and carrying ISO tons, is driven at a speed of eighty live centimeters per second; an increase of 0 per cent, over the speed with tow hOTS s, while the electrical energy consumed was about 4.0 horsepower. Ai times a speed of one meter (three feel three inches) per second was obtained. It is now proposed to employ also g trolley system as on the Bouigognd canal, and to let the feed water that maintains the levels at the proper height operate dynamos generating the necessary current. France has always been foremost in the application of electricity to navigation.

DEMAND HIS HEAD.

NEW YORK BANKERS WANT CARLISLE'S RESIGNATION. J. Pierpont Morgan and Other Wall Street Magnates Urge the President to Get a New Secretary of the Treats-ury-The Currency Bill. The President Is Anf,ry. Washington ipecial: Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the famous New York banker, and some of the other gentlemen who were taken into the President's confidence last fall concerning an issue of bonds have hi en making a secret visit to the White House on an important errand. They asked the removal of John G. Carliale for the reason that he has demonstrated his ""fitness to manage the finances of the co,?.n!IT aod 'hat hisfontmnsnce in office win imperii tue puonc creuit ana reiaru f improvement in the financial condition of the country. Mr. Morgan ami Ins assoeistet also endeavored to ascertain whore the President stände with regard to the currency bill now under consideration by the House of Representatives President Cleveland is said by those Who associate with him to be very angry at t Iiis demand of the New-Yorkers for Carlisle's bend, lie is exceedingly indignant that a coterie of bankers should have the effrontery to poke their noses into the administrative affairs of the government, demanding the dismissal of 1111 dlb-ial whom ttt President has hon ored wiin nis commence. 11 is preuy eertain that they got no satisfaction. Tt may b confidently stated that the President declined to ask for Mr. Carlisle! resignation, but he is believed to hsfe promised to look after the finances hireself during the remainder of his adminlst ration. It is known and admitted that the President informed Mr. Carlisle cf SECRETARY JOHN i. CARLISLE. j Mr. Morgan's errand and repeated much "r their conversation to linn, but .Mr. Carlisle' private secretary said that his resignation would not be asked for and that he would not voluntarily tender it. What explanation the President may have giren Mr. Morgan as to his attitude concerning the currency bill is unknown, ! nnd he is no more communicative than a sphinx on the subject to the members of his cabinet (hie of them, who is opposed to the bill, said to-day that the measure bad never been discussed in cabinet meeting, and all he had to go upon was the concluding paragraph of the recent message, which, In g 1 the reeommendstfa general terms, indorsed tns of the Secretary of the Treasury, and urged the necessity of some kind of revenue reform. He had not heard the President say a word on the subject since, and could not say whether he approved the pending bill, but it was nt least inconsistent with his previous ideas and public utterances on the subject of sound money. Nor was the pending bill an exact formulation of the sugg (tions in the treasury report, so that it could not be assumed the President was committed to it. He doubted the report lie had not heard of sny such intention and was inelined to believe the couirary. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. The Amount of Cash Owed by Uncle Sain Increased in December. The monthly statement of the public debt issued from the Treasury Departing nt shows that Dec. 31, 1884, the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to (910,903,090, an increase for the month of $31,320,775. Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest bearing debt, $073,168,130, increase during the month, $40,025,100; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity. $1,825,800, decrease during the month, $1.130; debt bearing no interest. ' !7.'! lo. increase (luriu- the mouth. $120,780; total debt, sir. M.oTV'.TP. of which 1590,134,101 are tertificatei and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. Cash in the treasury is classified as follows: CJoId. $139,006354; silver, ..4,033,456; paper, $122,014,759; general account, disbursing officers' balances, etc., $16,197,710; total, $782,754,289; against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $629.416,700, learing a cash balance of $153337,579, of which $K0,L'l 1,445 is pdd reserve. TLe monthly statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States shows receipts during December amounting to $21,866,130: disbursements, $L'7,135,460, tearing a deficit for the month el $54969,324 and for the six months of the present fiscal year $27,564,465 The receipts from customs were $11,200,049, agsiatt $1000,092 for the month of Noeinher; from internal revenue. $'.,. ;;!,- 039, against $7,774,704 for November. The receipts from customs during the last six months were $69,664,330, or only about $161.000 less than for the lirst half of last year. The receipts from Internal revenue daftttg tin last six months were $82,160,782, or $8,201,276 la excess of tho irst half of the last fiscal rear. A $.",Xx) diamond necklace and a diamond marquise ring were stolen from Mrs. J. Ererett I lasier, of New York, at the Palace Hotel in Dearer. After ds t. ctives began to investigate the theft, the necklace was mysteriously Returned to Mrs. Hashr's room. Jobs Cunningham, a blacksmith at Mexico, Mo., struck J. T. Denies, a prominent citizen, on the head with a bar of iron and fatally injured him. Jonathan Crumpacker, aged 67, of Elkhardt, Ind., was waylaid on a lonely road aüd murdered by so unknown thief.

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TERRIBLE DESTITUTION.

Disease Added to Other Tribulations of Nebraska Irou.ht Snffirtni. Additional dispatches have been received from Westers Nebraska telling of the destitution and distress prevailing among the inhabitants of the drought-stricken districts. A dispatch from Hastings says: "Terrible dest?.ntJos exists in Perkins, Chase, Dundy. Lincoln, EXayes, Hitchcock and Frontier Counties, and the worst feature of it is that the people in several localities are afflicted with SCUTty for want of wholes me food. The .State Relief Conualttee lirids itself unable to relieve nil the people in distress, so great is the demand for ail. EtsJboed men report that since the cold snap no less than a dozen people perished in the above counties in the past two days for want of food and fuel." II nndredl of families nre without coal, and in the border counties, where no trees or brush exist, the poor people will have a hard time to keep from freezing to death. In Ferkins County the destitution is complete. Over GOO families ere sppesling for help. In Hitchcock County the wife of a settler gave birth to twins during the storm, and betöre neighbors could reach her home the poor woman expired for want of Sufficient food and attention. The twins are still living ai.d ia charge of charitable neighbors. North Platte reports that there nro many cases of Buffering and hanger among drought tunerera ia Lincoln and Logan Counties. Overseers of the poor stain t!:at unless aid conies frOBS outside there will be many deaths from banger and want of clothing this winter. "The Siate Relief Commission 1ms fifty families on its list :;s Deeding assistance and most distressing reports come in from all ores the western part of the State relating to woful lack of food and clothing." says 1 I. in. -obi dispatch. "Xo deaths certainly attributable to starvation are yet reported, although it is claimed that a woms and two children found dead In a cal in near Niobrara tho morning before Christmas died from lack of food and care. Coal is most needed and Mr. Lodden, of the State Belief Committee, and General Manager IIoldredge, of the Burhngton and Missouri Hirer Railroad, are doing everything in their power to forward supplies to the more destitute localities. A, ery few farmers in the bonier counties have any t?tock left, having let cattle and horses roam at large. The people arc living in covered wagons by hundreds rather than face starve tion and freeze to death.. More or less destitution exists in every comity, from the Colorado iine east to Hall and Adams Counties, and the various relief Committees, although overwhelmed with applications for aid. are doing all they can to relieve the distress." STRONG IS NOW MAYOR. He Becomes the Executive Head ol New York. For the first ti ne in twenty-two years a Mayor not of the Democratic faith is at the load of th J New York city govern- ! incut. Y illiam L. Strong, who was on T u e sday inducted into the cilice, rep- . resents much the same conditions and OCial e'.etneuts that asserted themselves in 1STÜ in the deration of William F. Ha vetneyer to the Mayoralty. In both instances there was a revolt against mull i c ipal corruption. WM. I BTBOKOi Upon both occasions public sentiment w:is crystallized tbrongfa the medium of a committee of seventy, the main purpose in 187- being to overthrow the Tweed regime, nnd in I: 14 to correct abuses, known or snspected, in the poBce and etSr er departments of the city gnrssssnesst. The exposure of the practice Of levying blackmail by the police, particularly upon ' the criminal dssses of society, who. ia consideration of their payments of money, were granted humanity from arrest, was primarily the trork of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, which procured the appointment of the BtSte Senate Commit- , tee which has become famous under the, name of its Chairman. Mr. Lexow. Without an enlargement of the poSfetS of the Mayer, it is argued, says a correspondent. Mr. Strong, whatever may be his disposition, is as helpless to combat Corruption Is the departments as his predecessors in office have been. It is proposed to enact a law giving the Mayor power of removal over beads of bureaus and an kbsolste control of the police department. Under the present system, vrhiie the Mayor appoints numbers of the police board and other department chiefs, he may not remove them except 1 through processes thai practically amount to a deprivation of the pow er. The framing of new laws touching these points ! promises to be as important work ns any that is likely to come hefore the State Legislature and to bring out as many conflicting theories. iporks from ih Wires, Stephen Weiber, treasurer of IfcOsoh County, S. !., is short in his accounts and has been arrested. Receiver YVaU.er. of the BUUta Fe, j pays it is not the intention to cease oht- j ating the Atlantic and Pacific Hail lines must reduce the cost of operSi Ion before they can again compete with lake tines in the carrying of grain. ThSCBUS Quinlau was sentenced at ; Bowling Greee, Mo., to two years in tho i penitentiary for murdering Cottfreid : KJ oppenstein, of Chicago, last Decemher. The importation of cattle into Belgium from Canada has been prohibited because of pleuro pneumonia having been detected in some aniimds recently arrived. Investigation shows that directors of the Commercial BSBK, which failed pi St. John's, N. F., had borrowed thousands of dollars from the bank and had overdrawn their accounts. An American ex detective named DSUriac, who was SB occasional reporter for the Figaro, has been arrested at I'aris on a charge of attempting to blackmail M. Sehlis, the banker. Frank Btsilworth struck William Jahnson a fatal hlow on the head with a piece of iron at Minini, 0. T. Harry Johnson, a brother of the victim, drew revolver nnd killed Stalhvorth. James Crum, who was released from custody nt Guthrie, O. T., upon his turnins; State's evidence on fellow-counterfeiters, was rearrested on a charge of horse-stealing in Kansas.

rpßJQ Qjl SENATORS.

MORRILL, PALMER AN O HARRIS ALL OLD-TIP Ef?S. fhnglaalasi as Poor Bsj s, They Forged Their Way ASMBSSl nnd IIuvc BUSSS in Public Life Nearly Half a CenturyVescrablc Stuteesssssk Nestor of the Senate. The three oldest men in the T'nitod Slates Senat.' are M.wrill. of Vermont; Palmer, of Illinois, and Harris of Tennessee, for nearly half a century they have been in public life. Men of deep learning, careful obserratiou and sound judgment, they hare studied American diti .i in all its phases and have become thoroughly acquainted with all measures of public concern. Naturally they nr looked upon as the Grecian leaders 1 ..ked Upon the sage of Nestor, and whether on the floor of the Senate or in the councils of their parties, the wis l-un stored up by years of exp rieace is constantly nppesJed to by their tasocistes. They have passed beyond the mark of three BCSSUj ami ten. DUt their venerable frnilMS are yet Strong as the sturdy oak and apparently th y are fully able to serve their country well through several more sessions. The oldest of the trio is Jus; in S. Morrill, the BBe of the S. sate. His life has than that of Palmer or Harris and hss bei ssore douely oooBUted to the halls of legislation. He was boni in Straff.. rd. Yt.. April 14, 1MO. Sad after receiving a CSSBUSsn school dacstioa he entered a country grocery st re and progressed until BS owned one himself. Next he took up farm lifo and finally in Isöl, 1 is ' j - f : . ? f : '" kN;l.A'i.eJ SCXATOB MOBBIU at the age when most BUBS who achieve fame and public life are already as hss road and searing the g..:il. he was first elected to Congress. Then began his active political career. His kn.e.viedge of commerce and finance brought him at once Into proiniii' e.ee and in his second term he was placed on the Ways and Means Committee, in lS'jo be becssss the author of and carried through thw Morrill tariff. lie rSSSShsed in the House, of itepre-eiitatives until lv7. when he was ejected to the Bernte and took his seat at the same time as did Rosese Conkling. There he has remained ever since and fa now serf lag a term which ends in Mar -h. 1 S. 7. whet:, if he lives, he will have completed 4'J years of set vice in Congress. From iss until the Dessecrats came int. control he was rhasrssss of the Committee of Finan -e. He is progressive, is deeply jatf WSted in sdacS" tional mutters and has SOUS much Est the colleges. The sturdy old Senator from DHaois is a Kentucfcias by birth and is 77 rears of age. He received a cosssnon srhool education gad wont with his father to M:;disn County. Illinois, at the age of 14. Then be took a COUIUe in Alton College, paying his expenses by his lab r. After graduating he tauscht s country school and studied law. being admitted in the bar in W. 183Ü. He r - e rein ne rosigradttallv ln-m ac p tion to another until I8d2,ra ,: " v, uwhen he was s. nt to the Sla;-' BeBaSSk Here he distinguished himself a I 1 ojBsUMSSf of slavery and it w.is during 1 e years at Springfield that be became ihe lirm friend of Abraham Lineals. Trior to 1830 he was a Dessocrut, bat when the BcBUbHcsa party w.-.s termed BS Joiaed it "it account of its position toward slavery. In isii he was one of the members of the j-ace conference I t Washington. When the war began be went into Missouri as BUSSSSSl "f Fourteenth Illinois Regiment and 1 became a brigadier general. He took part in many important enagemeni s. rose to the r;ink of major geSSBCal and commanded the military department of Kentucky from Fel.ruary. 1''.". to May. 1S4;;;. In 1808 he was elected Covcrnor of Illinois as a Republican, but In ported Greeley and then drifted hack Is the Democratic party. He w.-s n instsd for several important otlh-es, but the Republicans an re boa itreakg for him. In IX! 10. however, he was sent to ihe United States Senate by the Democratic Legists Lure. The aged Senator from Tennessee v , lorn iu Tnlfshosna, that State, in IMS and grew up. wild and without discipline. on his father's sterile farm. At the age of 1 1 hs he went to Fnr.s, Tonn., and be-: a 11 work as a shop lny. While !. pa he got his arhosi z. At the age of 1! we find biSB in Tippan t Juso ly, Miss., w hi re he has become n kuceessful merchant. II 1M.M For two years he studied law at night, attending to his business iIuiüi tue Say, and had nocumulatod $7jd0u Wheat though the failure of a bank he was lefr penniless. Witii undaunted enter rise ha set to work anew and within 1o years bad repaired his losses. Meanwhile Inn nights had b en given to study of law and hi 184 he was admitted to the bar. Shortly afterward he was elected to ihe Mississippi Legislature and in 1M went t. Congress. In Isö.'l he settled nt Memphis. Tonn., and iu 1V7 was elected Iovernor of Tennessee and re elected in 1v.: and IML He took sides with the Confederacy and was driven from the Stats by the Federal troops. Then he joined the stnff of Qea. Albert Sydney JefsBStSSi nnd was with him when he f-11 mortally wounded nt Shiloh. He i-ontinued with the Oaafsdarste army unt'l the c ose of the wnr nnd then found that his entire fortune of l.iO.OO0had Ikhui sw ept aw ay. He evaded capture on par de, wont into exile inl-. Mex'uo, where he remained IS mouths, and thence to Fnglaud, where, lie remained a year. Returning to Memphis in INCiT he resumed his law practice and in 1X71 was sent to the I nited States Senate, where he has since boen n conspicuous Igare, His term asJpM in March of the coming year, and aa effort is being made to defeat him tor re election. Fx Congressman Daniel W. Connelly died at Scranton, Fa., after a briei illness, lie represent. ni the Fleventh Feuns hu ms district in tue f orty -eighth Congr

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