Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
THE RECONSTRUCTED.

4 GIc Items GbOnf s"me0f theeT- T-R'0'h.
Jake Thompson is living in moderate
circumstances at Memphis.
Clement &. Clay is buried at Hunts
Vile. where his property was pretty
much torn up by Sherman.
Beauregard is superintendent of street
RAILWAYS in New Orleans, with good
salary.
Joe Johnston is thriving rs leading
life.insurance man at Savannah. lie Is
growing old with composure.
General Kershaw. of South Carolina,
is "A LAWYER in the quiet town ot Cam
den. and is making n livelihood.
Ex-senator Chestnut is also lawyer
in the town of Camden, South Carolina.
and makes fair living.
General L. ID. Roddy, who had
clvalry brigade, is banker in New
York. In good circumstances
James Lon Estrcet has a public posi-.
ton which sutiices to maintain him and
his numerous family.
The sons of Howell Cobb are farm
ing, and get along tolerably since the
decease OF their father
Governor Isham G Harris resides IN
Memphis, where he would have very
good worldly condition if he were not
annoved by some old law suits growing
out OF the war
General II. NJ. B. Young, leading
cavalry officer in the rebel army, Is
planter at Cartersvile, GA, in moderate
circumstances, and he has just been re-
elected to Congress.
General Albert Pike, a brigadier
from Arkansas, is practicing law at
Washington City,with ex-senator John
son, of Arkansas, and has just repub-
lished his delicate poems.
General Dick Taylor is probably the
richest of the Confederate generals and
is engaged in banking and other large
operations in New Orleans, abettlng
Yarmouth.
General d. II. Hill keeps school in
the town of Hillsborough, and mean-
time edits periodical, published once
month, called 1h' limit Vie LoU'.
Joe Brown is 55 wears old and is the
Bismarck Of Georgia lie is pretty rich
is worth anywhere be;w SlOO,OOo
and $4,000, ,0O0-and president of the
Western and Atlanta Railroad.
Ben Hill, ex Confederate, is practio-
ing law at Atlanta, and is said to be the
best lvwyer in the State. lie WAS
Senator of the Confederate States, and
had personal collision with Yancy.
Ex-senator Robert NJ I. Hunter has
a poor farm on the Rappahannock river
in the tidewatcr part Of Virginia, aud is
said to be disprited, although his coun-
sci is cheerful at all times and his intel
lect retains its full yigOr
General Cheatham, having nude an
unsuccessful run for Congress against
Horace Maynard, has retired to private
life. breathing scorn upon Andrew
Johnson, who divided the Democratic
vote with him.
General John &. Breckenridge is now
living at Lexington, Kentucky, AMI was
given an important place at one time
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
lie shows good nature and quiet dis
position, but no great bounce in these
piping times of peace.
The family Of William II. Yancy ro
sides on a farm near Montgomery, Ala,
and are in only moderate circumstances.
Yancys tomb is small affair IL is
said that two Of his sons are in Brazil.
whittier they emigrated at the close of
the war.
JEFF Davis is president Of the Caro-
lima Insurance Company st Memphis,
under the patronage Of a Mr.. Wick,
whose bank recently went up when tho
Southren Security Company drew
check upon it for an unforeseen amount.
Alexander II. Stepb,ns liv.s near
Crawfordsyille, Ga, in small and not
very comfortable house, which he digni-
fies with the name Of Liberty Hall.
He is charitable, and gives away all the
excess he makes after providing for
himself, and be writes long and abstrsrt
books. showing how nothing ought tn
be a. it is, and what might have been
the case had something else happened
twelve wears before.