The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-12-26
GEORGE u. WILLIAMS.


| From Gath's Cor. Chicago Tribune. +.
L can give you and exact ply,
steal extract of Judge Williams
taken from measurements in the
year 1866; and, as he is in ali
essentials unchanged, you can gel
good aYoirdupois and linear mo-
ton of the man. He was born
March &c, 1896, and is Of the age
of John Sherman. He is 6 feet l
inch high, weighs ia pounds,
measures 404 inches around the
/ ehest,and 22f inches around the
head, or more than Trumbull, less
| than Sumner, and the same as
Edmunds. Chief justice Williams
ancestry as wholly Welsh, and his
name is so common in Wales that
it stands third In the. list of CON-
mon surnames in England and
Wales, and is rs common as Smith
and Jones. This Welsh element
has been very common in our pub
lie life. Jefferson had it in the
name as well as the blood. Sem
ator Anthony is half Welsh, ex-
Senator Morgan the same, Carrot
Davis Is the same, ex-senator
PomeroY ditto, and Sprague ditto.
To look upon, Judge Williams
he is large and broad but not
q stout person, of commanding
height, rather loosely and roughly
put together, with large bones,
hands and feet, and plain, black
dress, BETTING the local judge of
some state court. Barring his
pioneer look, there is something
naturally judicial in his face, and
revolving eye, over the whole of
which seems to be seated some in
visible weight, as if his faculties
and mental machinery rolled slow
~ to their work, and were op-
pressed by the matter in hand.
He has a good fair forehead and
large under lip and mouth, which
is the least inviting feature about
him. His voice is sonorous. He
speaks right onward, slowly like
his look, but logically, and with
increasing but never dramatic
weight and interest. His CONVEX
sation is dry and sound, with little
annecdote and no laughter. He
smiles occasionally but never was
a professional smiler in any sense;
and always struck me as liberal
charitable, solid man, striving to
get along and invariably COM
handing the, confidence and sup
port of his associates from the Pa
cific cost. I presume shall never
have chance to roll at ten pins
with Mr.. Williams any more, as
hereafter he vii wear a gown and
be luminary in office. I predict
for him the growing confidence of
the country, and, in his own char
acter, a steady conservatism and
emulous scholarship, which will
reconcile the country to his selec-
ton.
POINTS OF CHARACTER.
Judge Williams worldly estate
consists of new house, commo-
dious and plain, BETTING his of
flee, which he had just finished ut
a cost of $4,000, and had occu-
pied it only two or three weeks
when in the fortunate receipt of q
commission which will give him
$40 900 per annum, and q pension
if retired after ten years service.
He has also investments in Wash
ington real estate which, if their
promise be kept up, will yield In
gross about $4,000, exclusive of
his residence. Like q large num-
Der OF men from the Pacific cost,
ne has cast his whole money and
credit in capitoline real estate
and l may mention, that associat-
ed with these Californians is
Clark Ingersoll, formerly of Peoria
Illinois, who is said to have above |
$500, 900 in property on Connect
cut avenue, which goes by the name |
OF Honest Miners Camp" The |
fraternity is composed of Chief |
Justice Williams, Senators Stew
art and Jones; Messrs. Sander
land and Hilyer, of Nevada; Sar-
gent, Graham and others, of Cali
fornia,; Rose Conkling, A. G.. Cat
tie, and Ingerson, and they rate |
their investments at about $780, |
600. The English minister has |
been induced to build his
permanent legation among them,
the investment amounting to $3.50
600; and the two houses of Stew
art and Hillyer, just completed,
have consumed 100000.
THE WIPE
of the new chief justice is O hand
some and animated woman, born
in New England, matured and
welded insIowa, unhappy in early
life, divorced, and, while music
teacher ut Portland, Oregon,
Judge Williams, who, it is said,
befriended her in Iowa, met her
by accident, and being a widower,
married her. / mention these
matters because the extraordinary
promotion of-the husband will
give them publicity and for the
purpose of saying that Mrs. Will
Jams has returned her husbands
chiValEic kindness by devotion to
his interests more efficient than
women in public life have in their
power commonly TO accord. Pres
ldent Jackson was married to q
lady whose first husband surviy-
ed; and the celebrated Mrs. Mad
ison is said to have kept board
ing house in Philadelphia, where
her future husband took up his
quarters. 4teiss @8fS8 rs f
After long and quiet services
on the bench of two states, in the
senate for six years as member of
the joint high commission, and
as attorney general, it is assuring
to see in this case patience aud
adventure compensated at last, SO
that we may say with May the
poet: "They also serve who only
stand and watt 90
DEcEIyING CHILDREN.-Neyer
deceive q child; IL you once do,
he will never believe you again;
and mischief win be done that
years will not repair. Some silly
tmothers promise their children
anything and everything ITO make
them good, & Heaven save the
mark!l never meaning for one
moment. to fulfill their promise
indeed, IN some instances it would
| be utterly impossible for them to
| do SO! Now, all this is the quint-