The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-11


The following from the indianapolis
correspondence OF the Cincinnati Eu.
quirer Is travelling around exchanges
credited To the Oregon CORES spOndcnil
OF that paper: The mos; notable oD-l
ect OF interest We have out in oui'
Western regions" said Matt Brown. OF
Oregon, his eyes cleaning Win dcyo-
tiona lire, is old General Joe Lane. i
suppose there are thousands of people
in this country familiar with his name
and record who would swear he WAS
dead. and the Young politicians OF the
present generation manage 10 get along
without mentioning him at all, which l..
very remarkable, sometimes think.
considering what "a con -picuous hgure
he was IA American politics twenty
years ago. Indiana idoli1es him. No
man ever received such an ovation tor
services ia the field a. Joe Lane when
he returned from Mexico al the close oi
the war. and gave the State a chance 10
carry him OH IT, shoulders for his gal
lantry at Buna Vista. lie came West ia
1886. was appointed provisional Gov
ernor OF Oregon by Fillmore thon was
| in the Senate. and had Just finished his
President on the ticket with Brecken-
ridge. After that defeat he came back
to us IL disgust. and the hot political
places that knew him once, knew him
no more forever. He bought farm
back OF Roseburgh, running up from
the Valley of the Willamette, and built
him small frame house high on a pic
iuresque spur Of the Rogue River
Mountains, where he has lived ever
since in
| TIE MOST PrRFEcI sECLUsIOS.
Two years ago he lost his wife, whom
he always called ",he Madame and
loved devotedly. Since then his desc
lation has been relieved only by negro
boy, who cooks and keeps house for him.
lnfirm. You ought to see him. He's
eighty-three now, straight AS an arrow,
six feet two inches in height, aud he can
pick up his rifle and bring home a deer
or follow down a trout stream over tht
rocks about as well as the next man.
And then he reads great deal. One
room in his cabin is sacred to his books
and his library is one OF the most valu.
able on the Pacific Slope. Strange how
the Old man hangs on to the skirts of the
past. Old thoughts old questions, old
scenes, old statesmen which have nearly
faded out of our remefn braurc ald given
place 10 the issues and plans OF the pres.
cnt are nc... drink aud lodging 10 him.
| lie talks about ancieut notions OF poiiti.
cal honor and integrity. and any CON
parison with the present turns him sick
at the stomach. Only once lately we gol
! him worked up 10 the point of
COMING DOWN FROM HIS GARREI IN THr
CLOUDS.
and making speech. II was on the AL
of June. AT Roseburgh. just as we wer,
getting ready 10 leave for ST. Louis.
There were at leas; live thousand there,
aud when the old hero began, the Gu-
ditors stretched their uecks as If some
revocation was coming. He reminded
one, with his majestic presence and
flowing white bair and beard. OF some
John the Baptist ia the wilderness cry
\ ing unto the people Repent. And
when he came down from the platform
lac took us delegates 10 one side and
begged Us, with faltcriug voice aud
tears in his eyes to give the country a
pure ticket, and help briug back the
honesty and deccncy which politics had
Loot and the country wanted 10 see re-
stored The old man has one wisl
LEFT TO vote for Tiiden aud Hendricks.
the ticket wins he wants 10 depart in
peace. like Simeon, for he will have
lived 10 see the country's salvation.