The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-03-18
The Original OF CcIoaei Sellers.

Says the Evansville lind. Courier
The Colonel Mulberry Sellers in th,
! play, although the same Sellers, is not
Mulberry in the novel. Bat when Glenn
ens Mark Twain) and Warner issued
their first edition Of the "Gilded \ re ,
! they called him EAchol Sellers Colonel
/ Eschol Sellers. Now this name i, with
many Of our citizens, 4 name OF familiar
sound, as it belongs to an individual &C.
/ tnally in the flesh who Is well known to
many readers of The C3prjGr. The pro-
/ t0typc Of tho renowned hero of the book
! is proprietor Of large eoal-mlnc aud
mineral lands on the Lower Ohio, be-
/ low Shawnectown, ILL.,; in which enter
prise Philadelphia capitalists, among
whom cx,SccreIary OF The Navy Borie
= most promi nent, are concerned with
him. 1t is said that Mark Twain met
this gentleman in the East somew here,
and, from the pecuiiarilies Of the man,
was induced to appropriate bis name.
When the fac: became known 10 Mr.
Sellers through the distribution of the
iir.t edition, he Immediately went East
and protested against the unauthorized
u-o OF his name, and the authorities were
compelled to change the name SD far as
To substitute Beriah for EShcol. and at ::
cost 10 them, il j. said, at SIS 600. as
part OF the sccond edition was then
andcr way, and had 10 be destroyed No
doubt the observing eye # the novelist
must have detected much of that in the
lnau Sellers, which the Colonel Sellers
in the book expresses so focibly and
aptiy In the short and pthv sentence:
There is millions in it," Mr.. Sellers.
OF Sellers Landing, Is an inventor, and
All the world knows that inventors are,
and mast b, idcaIlSts and enthusiasts
We, of the everyday routine of life, can
hardly appreciate the inner feelings OF
the inventor and poet; and their vagar-
les, to- our dull eyes, seem but too often
vain vaPorings and bubbles, while to
them they are realities the children OF
their braIn-oi Q; ch one Of which they
feel justified in declaring 10 every body
seeking investment: /" There are mil.
lions IN IT," \ number OF years ago Mr..
Sellers erected a paper mill in the knobs
ot Harden county, H., overlooking the |
Ohio River opposite the town oi Casey
vile, Ny, baIit a small town, and estab- /
lished q post-Otiicc, and called the place /
5 Hers Landing. The papermiiI was
built az great expense, ahcraa invention (.
OF his own. The material out of which I
paper was To be made was cane, such H. I
grows in tao bottoms OF the Mississippi !
River and It's tributaries; and the caDc. (
to make it tit fer paper and to separate
rs fiber, WAS 20 be shot, Is it were, out /
oi BIZ IRON guns IN that mill, and there :
was 10 have been millions il. Bat, aIa>.
The mill has gone to decay, Ben Bolt,
md Sellers Landing, like Stones Land
NJ in the book after failure of the Salt
LEX and Pacific Railroad, Is deserted,
lni grass grows IN Ite mud paved stress.
Mr.. Sellers, however, is :; man Of cul-
ure and refinement. lie is OF old Qua
ler stock. and the name stands we'll ia
he city Of Philadelphia. The family,
0 the present generation, were in pos.
sssion ot grant OF land from William
Penn, and some of them arc extensively
in the iron business, aud are !
cry rich. Mr. Sellers is man of much
nd varied information, and like most
Enthusiasts, iuent ,a!her.