Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-03-14
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have got to the point wlJno-
palaver," said Wade.
''Nou surely cannot be n earnest, Mr.
Wade" said the Southerner.
| why. of course | am. You see. sir,
/ we Northern men don't like to fight. Now,
! | am opposed to the code and so are nav
constituents; but you fellows have broke
summers head, and we must spunk up II
| little, or you will break all our heads.
| The shortest way to end the matter is to
kill OFF few of you. and have picked
upon old Toombs a my man !; he will have
! to challenge me. Then, OF course, will
have the choice of weapons, and ! will
take my old rifle and--me ii don't
bring him down at the first crack
/ When ToombS heard of what Wade sail.
he replied IL can't challenge him; il |
/ do he will kill me"
1t appears that Toombs and Wade had
/ been out together shooting with a rifle
several times, and while Toombs could
shoot well with a pistol, he was poor
rifle shot. Wade was an old hunter. and,
at distance of a hundred yards, could hit
a dollar almost every shot.
Mr. Wade afterwards said to the writer:
If Old Toombs had challenged me that
/ time. as | expected he would, | would
| have made him put patch on his coat.
the size of a dollar, over his heart, and the
old fellow would have got demoralized
when / e saw me drawing a bend on IT,
and missed me, while,-me II | wouldn't
| have cut the patch -
! Not only did Toombs refuse to challenge
Wade. but no Southern member could ever
be induced to send him a challenge no
Tatter what he might say.
| During the impeachment trial of PreS-
/ dent Johnson a very amusing occurrence
happened one day between Mr. Wade and
Mr.. Chase, VINO presided at the trial The
session was to open at II o'clock NJ, and
| it was within twenty minutes OF that time.
aud the Chief Justice had not made his
| appearance in the Vice Presidents room,
| The hands of the clock crept slowly but
surely nearer the figure NU.. when sud
denly the door was thrown open and in
staked the Chief Justice. He walked hur-
riedv to the wardrobe, but his robe Of
office was not upon its accustomed peg
nor on any peg. What was to be done? ?
/ Pages were summoned; this, that, and
/ the other room, desk and drawer were eX-
! amined, but no robe was discovered. Ia
the midst of this excitement, the grim.
! honest old hero, Ben Wade, made his APP
| pearance, with nod and grunt to the
| tlurried occupants of the room. He walked
TO the hat rack. and after depositing his
hat went to a sofa on the other side OF the
room to leave his umbrella in a safe place
| The excitement was still going on, when
Wade. after learning the cause of the
trouble, without entering into the furry Of
the hunt. leaned over the sofa. and with
his umbrella booked up an uncertain-look-
ing black bundle. Seeing it was the long
lOOked-for robe. he held ii toward Mr.
Chase with, Here Chase. here's yer old
frock you've been making such con-
founded fuss about" The pages smiled a
smile. The Chief Justice was TOO over
joyed to do anything but speedily get in
side Of his robe, and IL On that merning
the heated crowded audience saw the Chief
Justice looked redder than usual, they
know the cause of ii, 1t was all about that
''frock"
In 1869. President Grant sent Mr.. Wade,
with commission of eminent gentlemen.
10 negotiate for the purchase of the island
OF st. Domingo. Many anecdotes are told
of Mr. Wade during the trip out in the yes
sci and his stay on the island. The cores
pondent of the New York Sun. writing
about him says: '''rhe rage of Wade is
fearful to behold. He has turned himself
into volcano of profanity, He says that
Grant has sent him down here with pack
OF fools. who, now that their work is DONE
want to sport around the West India Is.
lands and scoop up all the snakes and liz
ards. He swears, and sweats, and sweats
and swears in the hot sun, until one could
almost imagine that his great soul was Just
ready to jump out of his body. The fact Is,
Ben wants to go home. His work Is done,
and he don't want to loaf arourd any long
er. He objects to being the figurehead of
gang of crazy buggists, who are inces-
sanity talking about scarabari, unbellifer-
Gus, and lugiminous orders, arachindari.
coprophagi authropomorph9, the phytele-
phasmacrocarpa, lacertina, thorictes, and
other-nonseHse, ds Ben calls it. The
other day. one OF the buggists came on
board with fat spider strung to a stick.
What in the name of heaven Is that p asked
Ben. That, Mr.. Wade said the happy
buggist, holding up the spider, is a beau.
siful specimen of the tarantulared lycosa
tarantula. It's the finest specimen | ever
saw The old war horse gazed at it one
moment, and then growled out; The deuce
1t is! Take it away Soon after, another
buggist came on board with a three tailed
nsh, and told Ben it was the most COM
plete specimen of the homocarsal and het-
erocersal platessa fleuses that he had ever
found. A more disguised man than Mr..
Wade when he received this information.
has rarely been seen. | am told that Ben
has said that he expects next to meet q
buggist with a six-toed negro or q Carib
with double row of ears all around his
head strung to pole.n
-Pius IX. during his long reign creAte0