Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 March 1885 — Page 9

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SOME INTERESTING PORTRAITS.

•ow Many of the More Notable People ol Our Time Look.

ELIZABETH OiBT STANTON.

Mrs. Stanton is one of thoee much lauded but rarely seen personages a beautiful woman, whose youth is past, yet seeming to enjoy a youth perpetual, that greatest gift of the gods. In point of scholarship, ability and force she is almost without a peer. Mrs. Btanton is in her 70th year. Her father was on* of New York's distinguished lawyers, her mother being a Livingston and one of the most beautiful women of that distinguished family. She was educated at the academy in her native village of Johnstown, and took many prices for Greek and Latin over the heads of her boy classmates. At the age of 16 she went to a seminary in Troy, N. Y., and completed her education in two years. At 20 rite was married to Henry B. Stanton, a young lawyer and prominent Abolitionist. After traveling in Europe Mr. Stanton settled down to practice his profession, first in Barton, then in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and later in New York city. Their family consisted of five Sons and two daughters. Mrs. Stanton distinguished herself in 1848 by calling the first woman's suffrage convention ever held tn the world, in which she put the demand for suffrage in the shape of a resolution, which she drew up herself and pressed to a vote. Her life may be said to have been devoted to this reform. For over 40 years she has been bq historic character in conventions and before legislative assemblies of both the state and nation. As a lyceum lecturer she traveled from the Atlantic to Hie Pacific for many consecutive years. Hers has been a busy and eventful life.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

CHARLES 8. FAIRCHILD.

Charles S. Fairchild, who has been appointed assistant secretary of the treasury, was born in New York state, and is now in his 43d year. He received his preliminary education at the Oneida Conference seminary, in his native town. From thence he passed to Harvard, graduating in 1863. He then chose the law as his profession, and entered Harvard law school. After graduation he went to Albany, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Mr. Fairchild made his entry into public life in 1872, when he became deputyattorney general of the state of New York. His course while he held this position, from January, 1873, to January, 1876, commended him to hit party, and in 1875 be was elected attorney general. His service as attorney general was mart valuable to the state, and reflected great credit on the Democratic party. Mr. Fairchild has held no public office since the expiration of his term as attorney general of New York, but a* president of the State Charitable Aid association he has served the public in a most practical way. The work of this association, which is of an extremely important character, may be hindered by his loss, but that oan hardly be regarded as an objection to his appointment as assistant secretary of the treasury.

The Sage of Wall Street.

BU88KLL 8AGUB..

"Old Collateral," as he is sometimes called, has not yet lost his grip on Wall street, flimigh it is said he is even more cautious now th»w ever since the last disaster there. Ryianftll 8age is one of the purest example! fan Wall street of frugality and thrift, these qualifications increasing with his hoard. Even like old apple woman who has for years sold him the apple that he usually eats with his cracker for lunch, and for which he was accustomed to pay a penny, now says Uncle Tfn—11 Insists on "two for a cint," and yet he is easily worth $30,000,000. He was a New York state youth, and 50 years ago used to drive the produce of his brother's farm to market Now he is approaching 70, and loves to tell of the resolution he made in tho6e days to "earn all he could and spend less than.he earned."

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Is was to the policy of spending nothing that be really owes his possessions. Early in life his brother and himself entered into the grocery-business, which prospered and led to further successes, so that in 1850 he had become of so much importance in his com* munity as to be a candidate for congress, being elected to the Thirty-third and Thirty* fourth congresses. In 1860 he plunged into Wall street with about $200,000. He invented alluring methods of speculation, known as "puts," "calls," "straddles" and "spreads," from which he has rolled up hit enormous wealth, it being no unusual thing for Mr. Sage to realize $10,000 in a singk day from the "privileges" he disposed of.

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GYRUS w. rncLD.

Cyrus W. Field belongs to a distinguished family. One of his brothers is a judge, another stands at the head of tho New York bar, and another is the editor and owner of The New York Evangelist. Cyrus has linked the old world with the new, and "gathered the nations in a group" with the submarine telegraph. He has won wide celebrity and fortune, and is a millionaire. He was born in 1820 in the town of Stockbridge, Mass., where he was educated, and had for his school companions the Sedg wicks and others who became noted in the world of letters and politics. When 18 years of age be was employed in New York in A. T. Stewart's dry goods store, whence, after one year of service, he went to Lee, Mass., and engaged as a clerk in the office of his brother, Matthew Field. Eighteen months later he went to Westfield, Mass., and became the junior partner of E. Root & Co.'s paper firm, which failed a few years afterward and left Mr. Field deeply in debt. His next venture was the opening of a paper commission house in New York, at which time he was his own porter, clerk, cashier and boss. He was very exact, methodical and prompt. At noon, no matter who was present, he would spread a napkin on his desk, and partake of his lunch from a tin pail. It ten years he built up an immense business, paid his Westfield creditors, principal and interest, bought the homestead on which his father lived as a tenant, and presented it to him. The greatest event of his life, however, was the laying of the Atlantic cable, to construct which he crossed the ocean almost as many times as the weaver spider passes from point to point when building its bridge of gossamer. His later work, in which he is at present engaged, and may give him a still greater place in history, is the application of electricity as the motive power for railroad? cities, a public exhibition of which is forthcoming. ...

Th« Armless Hero of Massachusetts."

THE LATE SERGEANT THOMAS PLUNKETT. The recent death of Sergeant Plunkett removes one of the noted heroes of the war. For many years he has been in charge of the cloak room of the Massachusetts legislature, his mutilated figure being a familiar one in the State House in Boston. He leaves a widow and two sons.

Sergeant Thomas Plunkett was born in Ireland in October, 1839, and when an infant came to this country with, his parents, who settled in Massachusetts, where he grew up and became .respected for his habits of industry. When the call for troops came in 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-first Massachusetts Regiment. He was a good soldier, obedient to orders and faithful in the discharge of every duty, but he little knew what sacrifices he would be called upon to make for the land of his adoption. In all of the many important battles in which his regiment was engaged, Sergeant Plunkett distinguished hiwmalf by his gallantry. He was the hero of many incidents of individual intrepidity. But it was at the battle of Fredericksburg that Sergeant Plunkett performed the crowning act of heroism that gave him his and left him the "armless hero of Massachusetts."

The Twenty-first Massachusetts took part in the terrible battle at Fredericksburg, and in the thick of the fight the color bearer was shot, and as the regiment was falling back Comrade Plunkett, seeing the standard fall to the ground, sprang forward, and seizing it waved it high in the air as a rallying point for the command. In an instant the color fell from his strong right hand, for a minie ball had shattered the elbow. With his right arm hanging useless by his side, he grasped the falling color with his left hand, and facing the enemy, slowly fell back. In a few minutes he received another shot which shattered the left arm, thus completely disabling him. But with a heroism that was born of a determination to do his whole duty, he pressed both arms, now rendered useless, around the flag and bore it off the field, bapyjit with his blood. Soon after Sergeant ••wikfitt'8 heroic jLCt became known to the

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state authorities, Adjtr Gen. Schouler suggested to Gov. Andrewthat the sergeant be commissioned. The governor replied: "No it is better that he be known in history as Sergeant Plunkett" Whs Shall Preside Over the White House?

MUM FRAivcn A VOLSOM.

Who shall preside over the White Hons* has been the question ladies have pondered over ever since the success of the present administration was announced. The lady of the White House is a prominent figure in Washington, socially and politically, as they have been supposed to lead in setting many fashions which interest the fair sex throughout the United States. The fact of President Cleveland being the second bachelor president, President Buchanan being his only predecessor in this regard, has increased the natural interest in the matter. Since the inauguration President Cleveland's only unmarried sister, Miss Elizabeth R. Cleveland, has done the honors of the White House in an exceptionally energetic and pleasing manner. She is a lady between 85 and 40, and is highly accomplished, having for along time been a lecturer by profession. Gossips have it, however, that Miss Cleveland is to be superseded before long by Miss Franoes C. Folsom, who is likely to become Mrs. Cleveland. Miss Folsom is the only daughter of President Cleveland's late law partner, and but 20 years of age. She is exceedingly clever, and will in any case be an interesting addition to Washington society.

ALcMtir in New Ham pah Ire Politics. I

FRANK JONXS.

The career of Mr. Frank Jones, says the New York Times, has been one of marked diversities. Born among the basket makers of dreary old Bafrington, he has occupied Webster's seat in congress carting charcoal over a country road in his early manhood, he has lived to count a fortune reaching a good many hundred thousand dollars. From a tin-peddler and brewer in Portsmouth, N. H., he was discussed for a place in President Cleveland's cabinet. Frank Jones had an elder brother, who opened a tin store Portsmouth, and by Yankee shrewdness and push prospered. As his business grew he put a wagon on the road to retail his dish pans and wash boiler merchandise. Frank quit charcoal peddling, and for a year or more he and his cart went up and down the hilly roads round about Portsmouth dealing out the shiny pie plate and the plastic spoons Then the brother died. His widow inherited $5,000 or so. All in due time Mr. Jonee married the widow. The tin business went on the dollars kept rolling in.

Some wind wafted an ambitious Englishman into town, named John Swindle, who had a theory that a local beer brewery would make its projector rich. Mr. Swindle ventured and lost, and at auction one day the proprietor of the tin store came into possession of a brewery, and Jones made money with the saute ease that Swindle had lost it. He startled everybody by his ventures, but all the while the fortune grew, till one day folks awakened to the fact that two-thirds or so of the property within reach was all padlocked to the Jones'possessions. Frank Jones suddenly became recognized as the capitalist of the state. Then came politics, in which he shines at present.

(Senator from South Carolina.

WADJE HAMPTON. J.

Senator Wade Hampton was born In Charleston in 1818, received the college education and training which was accorded to the southern aristocracy,of which his family were distinguished members. He served in both branches of the legislature of his state, being a member of the senate when his state seceded. He served in the confederate army throughout the war, but it was in an accident «iiiqp..that he lost his leg. He was elected

governor of the statt In 187B and again in 1878, and since 1870 has served his state in the United States senate. Though he began life rich be is now poor, possessing but little income beyond his pay as a senator. The estates which formerly yielded him a princely income avail him but small profit now. His family is an expensive and quite a large one, and his young daughter, Miss Hampton, rarely accompanies him to Washington. Wade Hampton was twice married and is now a widower. His first wife was a "M-^ Preston and his second the only child of George McDuff, the families of both being distinguised in the annals of the history of the Palmetto state.

She Couldn't See It.

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Dealer: "Havent you anything in the way of second-hand goods to sell, madamef Madame: "No nothing to-day."

Dealer: "I should think you would ssll that mirror, for it must make you every time you look in it."

An Arkansaw Kxhorter In Trouble. [Arkansaw Traveler.] A well-known planter of south Arkansaw, a man who has exhorted at more revivals than any worker in the state, had trouble last week. While hauling cotton along a muddy road one of the steers broke the yoke and ran away. The old fellow sat down on a log and said: "Lord, you know prettywell what I have done for the church, and how many privations I have stood without a whimper of complaint. If you have observed me very closely, you know that I never said a word when my fences were washed away, and that even when Josh Chandler beat me in a lawsuit I did not murmur, but now, after mature consideration, I am compelled to say something. Damn that steer 1 I think that under the circumstances I am excusable. Very few men would have stood as much as I have, especially a man whose wife is in a flout half the time, so I submit the question: Don't you think that I am justifiable in the course I have this day taken? Here I am, stuck in the mud. By the time I can get another team the boat will be gone, and I'll have to leaye my cotton or haul it back home. If I leave it bn the bank somebody will steal it, and if I take it back home. Anderson will catch it with a mortgage. So, you see, I am peculiarly situated, and am, before any court in the world, or out of it either, justifiable in remarking, Damn tliat steer."

How News Orlginatee Sometimes. [LHe.1

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Scene—Newspaper office. Enter compositor. Compositor: "Boss, we want more copy for to-morrow's issue."

Editor: "Burn a child in Hoboken." Compositor: "I've done that, but' there's still a space left." j.*

Editor: "Well, contradict it then.

What She Wanted an Egyptian Mummy tor. [Hartford Post.] The Shuttle family sits around the evening fire and manages to enjoy itself notwithstanding the rattling and slamming. of the shutters by the wintry wind. "The English have whipped those wild Egyptian hordes, I see," said Job, as he threw down the paper. "I am glad of it," r6joined his wife. "Egyptian mummies will be cheaper now." "What if they are? Do you want an Egyptian mummy "I want something that will keep quiet when I'm trying to count the stitches on this worsted shawl."

The Situation in Afghanistan.

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England and Russia rubbing noses again.

A Suggestion for the Maclcays. It is suggested that while the Mackays art flush it wguld be a wise move on their part to buy a hand organ for their son-in-law Colonna, and put it away in the garret. Then is nothing so uncertain in this world as wealth.

"Whure Ignorance Is Bliss," ata w-

[Boston Courier.]

There's music now heard in the morning, As sweet as the tones of a fiddle— •Tis the melody made by the flapjacks

As they sizzle and sing on the griddle. And 'tis now that the boarding-house missus The hearts of her boardsrs to chirrup, Brings out the light-colored molasses

And serves it as "pure maple syrup." And the boarders, confiding and trustful, Partake of the saccharine staple With quite as much relish and gusto

As if 'twere the sap of the maple.

A Well-Known Musical Director. [Life]

The leader of the Thomas concert*

Nocturne In Hat. [RJ. Burdette.]

Oh, the lady she puts on the roller skates! Over the fence is out I And into the mazy her way she takes, '.

Eddying here and about VV. Oh, but she shone in walta or reel! Oh, but she slung a dizzy heel! Oh!!! but you'd ought to heard her squeal-

Over the fence is out.

[SECOND STANZA IN A lONOB.] Quivered and rattled the chandelier Lather the arnica on! Ah, but the slivers wars sharp and sere!

Where has the doctor goaaf Ah, bu' her joyous race was run Ere the .j* night had soaroe begun: N^f. for a week can she have some ft.

Lather the arnica on!

An Unfilled [Cleveland Yeios.]

At a country danoe, whan printed pr» grammes were in use for the first tun% shortly after supper a young man approached, a lady and said: "Is your programme full, miss?" "Do you want to insult me, sirf" she replied. "No, indeed, miss. I only wanted to know if your programme was full." "Well, you're not a gentleman, sir, or you'd mind your own business. Full! Well, I should say not. I didn't eat a thing but a small piece of chicken And just a few bites of cake." _J

Peck's Coming Bad Bey. [Peck's Sun.]

"Pa, does the sausaga come out of its hole on Candlemas day, and look around for its shadow so as to make an early spring? Ma says it does

"What are you talking about?" said papa to the little boy. "It is the ground hog that comes out of its hole, not the sauLtge." "Well, ain't sausage ground ho^f and the little one went off on his roller skates as though shot out of a gun, leaving the old to worry over the incipient punster in an otherwise respectable family.

Tho Bride Would Astonish sti». [London Truth.] He was a tame curate in the wild Black Country of Australia, and he was waiting in church to marry a couple of the aborigines. Enter one of them, the male, in a hurry and his working clothes, with his and face covered with antique dirt. |"Aw've kum to be wed." "You?" responded the curate, aghast "in that garb. It is most improper. Why, you are downright dirty." "Me dirty? Wait till you see her."

%l A Dance at tho Dentist's. [From Stuff and Nonsense, Chas, Scribner's Bona]

Said this old "coon," who hailed from Duluth, To the dentist who looked at his tooth: "If you'll take it away, Quite handsome Pll pay." &<•

It was done, but 'twas grievous in sooth.

"A Kascally Thief."

•*£". [Kentucky State Journal.] Jones: "What are yoq mad about, Smith?" Smith (in a terrible rage): "What am I mad about? Why, this morning I found a silk umbrella in the hallway of my boarding house, and as nobody seemed to own it I just captured it myself. I laid it down here not five minutes ago, and some rascally thief has off with it."

BonMrville Journal: A Lewiston man who bought a cow recently thought he had been because he found when he got her home that she hadn't any front teeth in he* upper jaw. He must have been a milkman.

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After a Theological Dlaooasloa» LThe Judge.]

If you will go to hear Bob IngersoU on •'Orthodoxy," don't go home and air his ideas ta your wife, more especially if die happens to be a minister's daughter.

How to Ran a Slow Kaco. [Texas Sifting*.]

Two sporting characters, A and B, pra posed to run their horses, tbe slowest to win. They tried to make the race, but did not succeed, for as each rider wanted to come inlast, they went slower and slower, and finally came to a standstill. Tbey did not know how to run tho race untfl a happy thodjght oocurred to one of them. 'They simply swapped horsea A rods BV horse and mounted A's horse. Bach rider then did his best to make tbe horse he was on go as fast as possible, so as to come i. first, so that his own hone, which the other man was riding, would be beaten, thereby winning the money as the slowest horse.

He was Quiet on One Point. [Atlanta Constitution.] "Pinder," severely demanded Mra Fit* goober, "did you take your medicine last night?" "Yes, ma'am," sweetly answered that oherub. About an hour afterward the lady found the mixture of compound UttsnMs that had been intended for Finder's oold lying snugly under the washstaad. "Pinder!" she yelled. "Yes, ma'am." "I thought you told me you had taken your medicine "So I did, ma but you didnt ask me where I took it to, so I kept quiet on that point." But ha didn't keep quiet on the poir of her rod.

A Warning to Whilttm. [Puek.1

A Vermont man whistled fer what he' rethought wus his dog in the dietanoa.

But it proved to be a bear.

The Difficulties of Arkansas Journalism. [Through Kail.] ft costs more to run a newspaper in Arkanns, acoording to an exohange, than in any. other state of the Union. It is pretty generally known that the principal item of expense is the salary of the surgeon on the' staff. In Arkansas, when an editor libels a man, he is not sued. Tbe outraged citizen, simply arms himself with a double-barreled^h diot-gun and makes a sieve of the editor. Arkansas editors find it convenient to have a^ surgeon employed by the year to sit at a desk in their respective offices and be ready to act, at any moment. •V.'.

-1-" A Wicked Editor.. [Philadelphia Gall

Irate Subscriber—I want to see the fellow that wrote this article. Western Office Boy—Must a been the edO,*: itor, I guess. "So I suppose. Where is he? Where is he,

"Hrfs not in." "Oh, he ain't in, aiat he? Aint in, ehf Well, where is he?" "He's attendin' the funeral of to see him on Monday." 4' ,, iagg§®

Kataxnl One. [Harper's Bazar.]

"'How does it happen, Bridget, that there, as many feet of gas charged far thiamontt^ aslast, when Mrs. Blossom and myself have, been out of town three weeks?" "Sure an' I can't tell, sor, savin' that whin5. the gintleman came to luk at the maythui there was six fate of coal an' wud atop of it an* ha obsarved that I needn't bother wid it he'd take a luk at the praoaydin' fignra ltaybe he added the six fate at wood an' oeaL

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