The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-06-06
ANECDOTES OF WEBSTER.

occasionally recruited his finances By school
teaching. Under date of Salisbury, n. H. Nov.
4, 1902, Daniel wrote to Ezekiel as follows -
81 have now by me two cents in lawful federal
currency. Next week ! will send them, if
they be all. They will buy pipe-with a
pipe you can smoke, smoking implies wisdom
wisdom is allied TO fortitude-f from fortitude
It is but step TO stoicism, and stoicism never
pants for this worlds goods. So. perhaps, my
two cents, by this process, may put you quite
at ease about cash."
After having declined comfortable Office,
in order to pursue his profession, Daniel wrote
from Salisbury, ION the 10th of June, 1S04,) 10
his brother, in this wise "Zeke, / don't be-
lirve but what Providence will do we'll for Us
yet. We shall live, and live comfortably. |
have this week come within an ace of being ap-
pointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
for Hillsborough county. Well, you will say,
well you no better off than if you had not
come within an ace. Perhaps am-say moth
ing but think good deal, and do not 'distrust
the gods"
After Dan iel had taken up his residence at
Portsmouth, and commenced practiclng as
| young lawyer, he also soon commenced prac-
/ tcing young lover, by visiting Miss Grace
Fletcher. AT one of these visits. probably with
a view of combining utility and enjoyment, he
had been holding skeins of silk thread for Miss
/ Fletcher, when be suddenly stopped, saying,
'ICrace, we have thus been engaged IN untying
knots let US see if We can tie a knot-one
| which will not unite for a lifetime" He then
took piece of tape, and, after beginning knot
OF a peculiar kind, gave it 10 her TO complete.
This was the ceremony and ratification of their
engagement. And now IN little box, marked
by him with the words 'sPreciouS Documents"
containing the letters of bis early courtShip,
this unique me mortal is still TO be found. The
knot has never been united.
The subioned anecdotes are related by a
correspondent OF the Boston Transcript
Soon after Mr.. Webster came TO the bar he
was retained in a suit between two neighbors.-
1t seemed that they had got 10 loggerheadS about
q disputed line, out of which had grown tres
pass suits and all sorts of controversies, and that
the more malicious and artful of the two had
so piled the other with law in one shape
mother, that he had nearly ruined him. The
I latter at last became aroused, and brought
/ an action against the other for malicious peTSe-
cution, and retained Mr.. Webster 10 man
age it. On the trial, proof Of malice was clear
and convincing, and il was evident that the
day of reckoning had come al last. ln summon
ing up for the plaintiff MIR. Webster. after
making strong argument against the defend
ant, showing that he had again and again lnst-
tuted suits against his client. merely to perPlex
and annoy him, closed fellows; ''In a word.
gentlemen, | do not see how can better con-
clude than in the words ofthe good old psalm
Then looking at the jury bot pointing to the
defendant, he repeated from his lavorp authors,
Sternhod and Hopkins:
He dgged pit, ne dgged il deep,
He digged ii for his brother,
By his greal sin, he did fall 10,
The pit he digged Tor t'other.
And so it proved. The verdict was heavy
against the ''digger."
In 1882, when the Wing Convention was in
session, first came news that General Scott, who
supposed to be g little too prone 10 display,
particularly in plumage, was nominated for the
Presidency. Then came news that William
A. Graham, of North Carolina, the land OF tar,
pitch and turpentinp, was nominated to the
Vice Presidency. When the latter piece of in
teliigence was conveyed TO MIR. w. be was en-
gagged shaving himself. He stopped, and hav-
ing heard the news, remarked, in his slow,
phatic manner, as he deliberately wiped his
razor: "Well, do not see, then, but that the
| Whig party have tarred and feathered them
selves.
1t is related Of Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Mason
that they were once riding the circuit together
in the inter season. The snow was deep and
the weather cold, and both were muffied in
bufaloes Mr. Mason was an uncommonly tall
man, and MIR. Webster, il is well known. had
very deep voice, amounting at times almost TO
a growI. On the road, where If was not very
easy turning out, they met bluff countrynan.
with his OK team, who shook his goad at them
and sang out 'turn ont there-turn ont :" They
gave him hafthe track, but he insisted npon
the whole, and began to threaten, when Mason
began 10 rise and rise, until he got up six feet
and more, and, to the astonishpd view of the
teamster, seemed to be going higher, when Mr..
Webster growled out, in his most bearish man
ner, "Turn out yourself, siri'' "Gee, gee,"
cried the teamster, ':why don't you gee g" put
ting the brad into his oxen as he cleared the
track for what, 10 bis aStonished vision, appear
ed brace of giants
The latter anecdote reminds me of the case Of
the gentleman who was riding in a new
carriage, when he was saluted BY teamster he
was about meeting with an imperative order
fsTurn out, there turn out or will serve
you as did the man the other day.'' Our own
er ofthe gay equpage, not caring TO risk his
carriage in an encounter with an OK cart, took
ap position on the extreme right, and waited
patiently for the horrd despoiler OF vehicles 10
pass. He could not, however, resist his Curl
nSity to know what dreadful thing that cartman
did do: and so, leaning his head out the car
riagp, he accosted him with the inquiry, ofIow
did you serve the man the other day ~ allow
did | serve him :" replied the teamster, 'swhy
ne wouldn't turn out, so | did,"