Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 March 1884 — Page 9

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^TflE PRESIDENCY.

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The Leading Distinguished Dem- •-. oorats Talked of as Candidates. JpilX a. '*^3 •.

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JOHN OMFFKN CARUSLS

of Covington, Ky., who has represented that state in congress since 1877, being speaker of the present house of representatives, was born in Campbell nowKemtoncounty), Ky., September 5, 1835 received a common school education, and afterwards taught school, studied law, and has practiced it since his admission in 1858 was a member of the state assembly in 1859-61 declined the nomination for presidential election in 1864 was elected to state senate in 1866, and again in 1869. He was elected lieutenant-governor in 1871, serving until September, 1875 was a delegate-at-large from Kentucky to the national convention in 1868, in 3871 he was elected lieutenant governor of his state, and served it as alternate presidential elector in 1876. His career in congriff began March 5, 1877, when the fortyfifth congress began, and was therefore connected with it but six years when he was celled on tojnreside.

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«t New York, was born at Haverstraw oo the Hudson, about thirty-five miles from New York, July 31. 1883 received his elementary education at the public schools of New York city, where he gained a prise scholarship in Columbia college, whence he

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8AMUKL JOOTBS TtU)XH.

was born at New Lebanon, N. Y., February 9, 1814. He graduated at Yale college, studied law and was admitted to the bar. Caring little for social pleasures he remained unmarried, giving his whole time and energy to his profession. He became eminently sue* cessful, acquiring a large fortune. Though from an early age he took an exceedingly active interest in politics,his retiring disposition prevented him frjtu seeking the many public offices he might have obtained. He was chairman of the State Democratic committee for thirteen years in 1846 and 1867 he was a member of the State Constitutional convention and served in the State assembly for two terms, 1846, 1872. In 1871 he was prominent in the prosecution of the "Tweed ring" in New York, and in 1874 he was elected governor of New York by a majority of nearly 50,000. In 1876 he was the Democratic candidate for the presidency. Mr. Tilden's city residence at Grammercy park, New York, and his country estate at Greystone, about two miles north of Yonkers on the Hudson river, are monuments to hw excellent taste, he devoting considerable t.lmft to their adornment. Greystone, which commands one of the most beautiful sites on the Hudson, is valued at a half million dolr ten. and is palatial in its appointments.

as professor of mathematics,

studied law and was admitted in October, 1845 to practice in the state supreme court his eyesight failing, he engaged in the iron business, establishing under the firm of Cooper and Hewitt extensive iron works, mainly in New Jersey and Pennsylvania was appointed one of the scientific commissioners to Paris exposition of 1867. making a report on "iron and steel" windi has been trans r.ted into many foreign languages he was elected to the 44th, 45th, 47th and 48th Cougiesses, no( being a candidate for the 46th. He married the only daughter of the late Mr. Peter Cooper, and was the latters most valuable auxiliary in organising the "Cooper UVion for the advancement of science and art," one of New York's most successful educational institutions. He has always taken an active part iu New York's charitable institutions, being for a number of years governor of the New York city hospital.

HENRY B. PAYNE

was born in Hamilton county, New York, Nov. :0, 1810 was educated at Hamilton "college was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1834. at Cleveland, Ohio was a member of the Ohio senate in 1849—50, and a presidential elector in 1S48. In the protracted contest for senator in 1851 he was the Democratic candidate, and iu 1857 he was the Democratic candidate for govern against Salmon P. Chase was a delegate to the Ci cinnati convention in 1854, the Charleston convention in 1860, and the Baltimore convention in 1872 was elected a representative from Ohio to congress in 1875 by the Democrats a A Liberal Republicans, and served until 1877. For the last twentysix years Mr. Payne has been largely interested in railroad and manufacturing enterprises.

JOSEPH E. M'DONAJjD,

of Indianapolis, was born in Butler county, O., August 29, 181ft was apprenticed to the saddler's trade at i^afayetfe, lnd. spent two years at college, but did not graduate studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1843 c-mimnced practice, on I was prosecuting attorney for the State of Indiana ,in 1843-'47 was elected to the Tbirty-tii-st congres* (1849), and afterwards attorn?y general of Indiana, serving two term*, l856-'58 removed to Iuilianapolis in 1859 was defeated as candidate for governor in 1864 was elected to the United States senate in 1874. his term of service expiring in 1881.

THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD,

of Wilmingson, Del., was born in that ci*y October 29, 1826, receiving his education chiefly at a private school. His early training was for a mercantile life, but he studied and adopted the profession of law, reaching the bar in 1S51, and, witlktbe exception of the years 1855-56, when e*Tesided in Philadelphia, he has always practiced in his native city. In 1853 he was appointed United States district attorney for Delaware, but resigned in 1854 succeeded his father, James A. Bayard, in the senate in 1869, and has seived his state in that capacity since, his tsrm of service expiring in '1887. He was a nwanW of tiie electoral commission of 187ft.

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TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27,1884.

SCIENCE DECEIVED.

Mark Twain Gives th« True History of the Fossi) Footprints.

lemlnleeeneee of tlio Flrrt

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Seeelen

the Nevada Territorial

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lnture at Cara»M City and the Impressions They Left.

[San Franciscan.]

It may be all very well for Prof. Marsh and Prof. Harkness to talk their scientific talk about the Carson footprints, and try to •addle them onto the primeval man, the Irish elk and others who are gone and cannot now defend themselves, it may be within the just limits of scientific dander and research, but it is not moral. For 1 know the cold facts

Tht Profeseors Examine the Footprint*. about the footprints, and I know they were not made by the primeval man, or the Irish elk, or any of that sect they were made by the Nevada territorial legislature, and 1 was there when it was done. It was done at the time of the sine die adjournment. It had raine 1 rain all the evening outside, and it had rained whiskey all the evening inside—inside the fence, I mean, for there were no buildings in that early day— and neither you nor a much older man could have told on which side the weather was the most inclement. I was on. both sides of it, and sometimes on it, for brief, uncertain season, and I couldn't telL The footprint quarry, where that legislature sat— stood while they could, I mean—was a dry flat, with a fence around it, when the rain began just a dry alkali flat, containing a fence full of dry honorable alkalied flat! from all over the territory and in tints hours that first mentioned flat was absv lutely soaked to the depth of three inches, and the others all the way through. I make no

exoeption

know.

I say all. I was there, and 1

It Rained Whisky en ths Inside. And when the weather moderated so that no one could venture outside—outside the fence—these latter adjourned. They adjourned in the usual form—form used by territorial legislatures of that day the speaker bringing down his gavel on the head of the member mistaken by these scientists for the Irish elk—which be, the speaker, mistook for the fence post. I remember it as if it were but yesterday. Thus dissolved tiiey departed thencei

I: was then that .they made the tracks. They couldn't help making them, for the place was a marsh, as I was telling you. I saw it done, for I yas there and I shall now cast upon this pale, dim void of scientific conjecture the lurid glare of history. I was there and I saw them march. The primeval man was absent, the Irish elk did not arrive tae cave bear responded not to the summons the old siluriau ass got left. The menagerie was wholly local Part of it I saw and the rest of it I was. This is history this is cold history, and history not lie. I:

The Menagerie

wai

Wholly ttoeaL

The speaker went first He made ths large tracks—the ones that are eight indies broad and eighteen long, and reeembls ths footprint of a champagne basket He was a prime man in two or three ways, and evil in forty, but he Iras not the primeval man, jurt the same reflect upon this. I was there, I was there all the time, and I knew him welL He made the large tracks. Aad he did it with out an effort He could have done it one hand tied behind him. He said so Ms self, he didht teU me so, but be told others so. His name wm WelSh either Welsh or Bander^ I don't which: hot it was a umm

that sounded line tnoee. ne was a rancoer, and did not wear shoes, such not being his custom, and when he went forth among the cattle there was much hay and straw lying •eattered about, and with it much other material—material of a plastic nature, mud, to wit, acres of It and this material and ths straw did of a truth and by custom combine and form unto him sandals, as you may say nay, they were but the accumulative achievement of time that is to say, time and patient neglect. And as the prosperous yean rolled on his sends Is waxed and gathered grace and style, and also magnitude and majesty

But there was jealousy because of the splendor of his attainmsets in the field there was rancor because of the sublimity of hie sandals. So charges were brought against him, and he was indicted, tried and condemned as an obstructionist Condemned to cut his sandals down to eight inches broad and eighteen inchee long, with costs and thus it was with tliese reduced powers, these Uminisbcd capaci ies, that he made the now world-renowned footprints for the primeval

The Speaker Made the Large Tracks. Bach hist ry and thus is the primeval man vindicated, struck from the roster and dismissed from further service in this conflict. I now procped to dispose of the rest •f those myt s. If 1 were gone, and the treasury of history with me, they yet could not stand for even the scientific theory that gave thom being would be also their de •traction. Because it loca' es them in the old red sandstone period. There were no -Irish in the old red sandstone period. The Irish are a comparatively recent formation. They belong to the old blue grindstone tertiary. If these footprints belong to the old red sandstone period, what becomes of your Irish elkf What was he doing there when there weren't any Irish yet? Answer me that Messieurs Marsh and Harkness.

And so I have disposed of the Irish elk. Now we come to the cave bear. Why, honored sir, when he died out »f the world for good and all, there wasn't enough old red sandstone iu it to make a wlietstoue out of. It hadn't begun to deposit yet. And another thing the cave bear couldn't have lived in Nevada, anyway, for there isn't a cave in it, from one end of it to the other— except the comparatively recent ones in the mines, and perhaps here and there In the mining stocks. Too recent to do him any good, or hardly anybody elsa

Tracks of the Silurian As*. This disposes of the cave bear, as I look at it. Now the same arguments that dispose of the Irish elk and the cave b?ar dispose also of the old siluriau ass, for they trained together.

Now then—enough of that Lat conjecture stand aside and history go to the it. For I was there myself, and I kmw. The tracks which have been attribute 1 to the Irish elk were not made by an Iri-h elk at all, they were made by an Irish bricklayer —named Stephen McGinnis*, mev^er of tlie legislature. I knew him perfectly well. He had a hoof, a hoof like a cow's. It was a birthmark. He was a high-tempered man, and very handy with hi* birthmark. These are truths, these are facts in a word, his* tory. For I was them

Little remains to be said. Only this: The cave bear tracks were made by Mr. M. Daggett, now grown honorably famous in other walks in life, but still depositing the same identical track to this day, let us freely believe, when be goes unshod—as was the sternly simple custom of the pioneer legislator of the Territory of Nevada in a day when virtuous endeavor was held above the comfort of the body, and godliness above meretricious gauds of fashion.

The tracks attributed to the (A Silurian ass were not made by the old Silurian ass. I made them myself, and I make the same track now, and it appears that even an expert

cannot tell

it from an old

NfVAM

Silurian

ass's track, and neither can I tor that matter but it is

not

an old Silurian

aart track, just the same, any more than I am an old

Silurian

ass yet the per

son who calls the track out yonder an eld

silurian

an old

ass's track, does in effect call me

silurian

ass, by

reason

that I made

that track. And it must not be repeated. For I have my feelings as well as

another,

and the man that oaRs me an old

silurian

am, and proves it, shall not go out of this world alive.

have said

The language

may be intemperate^ but the provocation is

TfSRIWp

Why the TTOCKS Went North. These scientists are in an ill-concealed because they cannot tell why there are so many tracks, and all going one wayall going north. It was a large legislature^ dear sirs and the saloon was north. This ia history, not conjectural For I was there—in person.

I am done. Such is history. Such are the Carson footprints. They are not fossiliferous, they an legislative they are uniform they are ideutical with the tracks deposited by all adjourning legislatures. In the west, I mean. Let us have peace.

THE LIME-KILN CLUB. (Detroit Free Preesfl "I will now remark to dis club," said Brother Gardner, as he opened the meeting, "dat de Hon. Jawback Johnson, of Opelika, las arrove. He reached Detroit two days tgo on de roof of a freight car, an' in a lomewhat carniverous condition, an' as he mocked on de doah of my cabin at midlight 1 looked frew de winder an' put on a oa'r o' brass knuckles afore I dared step out »n' ax his name an' bizness. I has filled him ap wid meat an' tater, lent him a clean ihirt dat buttons behind an' a suit of close, an' 1 would furder remark dat he 'pears to be a pusson of transparent intelligence an' resplendent polish. Let us listen to him wid anxus interest and careless observashuu.

The committee on reception then donned their white gloves and claw-hammer coats and disappeared in search of the stranger. They found him shivering with stage-fright in the ante-room, and it was only after Giveadam Jones had threatened to loosen the top of his head that be consented to enter the h*ll- Once in he braeed up, however, and after reaching the platform and swallowing three peppermint drops and a glass of water he seemed to recover all his native confidence and to forget that one end of his collar was loose and sawing away at his chin.

KOn. JAWBACK JOHNSON.

His dissertation, which lasted nearly an hour, began by showing the advantages of truth, then after wrestling with the evils of ambition, the necessity of economy, he struggled with the disagreeable subject of industry, causing many a scowl on the faces of his auditors, and concluded as follows: "I thank you with consummate airnestness for de skillful manner in which you have evaded your attention to my cumbersome remarks, an11hope dat de seed thus sown on stony ground may sprout up an' yield sev-enty-five bushels to de acre."

When the speaker had been escorted from the hall Brother Gardner said: "De man who dares pint out our faults am a friend, an' let us receive his criticisms as such. If I should disktoer dat aqy of you war' lyin'in wait in de alley to slug the Hon. Jawback Johnson as a reward of merit it am werry probable dat de orator wouldn't be de only man hurt We will now abdicate"

From St. lioule to Dlexles,

[Alex. E. Sweet]

The brakeman went, on to say that the great objection he had to his profession was that he had to travel about so much. If the train remained in one place he would not object, but the continual change of climate was slowly but surely undermining his health, and in time he would become a physical wreck. "Why, sir, will you believe me, when I tell you that I have chilblains at one end, and prickly heat at the other "At which end do you have prickly beatf* "At the southern end of the line in Mexico. Before the train gets to Monterey, in Mexico, I'm all broken out with prickly beet, and freoklas, and spring boils just break out all over the back of my neck, and the skin on the peak of my nose shrivels up. Two days afterwards Tve got chilblains at the other end of the line, up at St Louis, where it freezes, and that's the way it is all winter long."

Mr. OchlItiea

rrpeane

(Washington Hatchet]

Mr. Ochiltree is a powerful speaker. In Texas ho has been known to stand upon the bee Irs ef the Rio Grande and call up the cows that were gracing upon the shores of the Breaos, and in this section a telephone has been known to vibrate for a week after he had whispered in it for a minute

SCARING A MASHER.

[Cincinnati Enquirer.]

Talk about pretty girl9—but she was a wild flower aud no mistake! She got on the train to go to Meridan from Vicksburg, and she was all alone. There was a sort of sidelong movement among five or six men, but a drummer for a Philadelphia saddlery house got there first He grabbed up his grip and walked square up to ner seat and took possession of it without asking a question, and in ten minutes he seemed to be perfectly at home. She answered his questions briefly, and he had the hardest kind of work to keep up a conversation, and as the train ap proached Jackson die suddenly said: "I want to telegraph papa from here. Will you help me?" "Oh, certainly. I have a blank in my pocket. Write your telegram and I will run into the office with if

We missed him when the train started, but by-and-by he found in another car, his hat crushed down and h°s nerve all on edge. When asked what had hap pened, he drew forth the telegram which the girl had requested him to hand in. II read: "Bring your shot-gun with you to pop over' a drummer who has dreadfully annoyed ma. Shoot to kill." "To think," he gasped, "that one so fair could be so murderous. Why, I'm all in sweat. I want some of you to stand by me.*

We got his grip from the seat, traded, hats and coats with him, and the way he slid from the depot when the train reached Meridan caused a hotel porter to observe: "Well, now, but that white faoe belong! to an invalid and them legs to a deer. What sort of a coon can he bef'

The Blvale.

[Washington Hatchet]

CHICAGO. R. LOOM.

There dwells in the land of Illinoy, In the city called Chicago, A beautiful girl by the name of Mslloy,

But her feet are as big as a log, O. There also lives in Missouri State, Near St. Louy, a girl of fine figger— Her face is perfection, but strange to relate^

Her feet area little bit bigger.

Only Little Green Grave. (Pock.]

—But, if Properly Loaded with Dynamite and Other Explosives—

It will Chose Vacanrfee Among ths dents of The Keaxeft Xadfcal PoOagfc