The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-05-03
Irish jaunting car, and is fond of having
q young LADY by his side.

Irish jaunting car, and is fond of having
a young lady by his side.
Senator Cameron has quite a stud OF
horses and good taste in matters Of
an accomplished horsewoman, as is Miss
Bayard also.
The Russian minister has mammoth
pair of bays, with great numbering
chariot on whicn are spread the coats OF
arms of his own and his wite's family.
He and Nine. Shishkin are very estima-
bic, unassuming people, snd put on less
style than any of the foreigners. They
are to be seen walking every day, plainly
dressed, and she steps to kiss little
children that she meets in the streets.
Having kissed them, she runs after her
husband and jab5ers Russian at him till
he smiles, and looks back at the child
his wife has kissed. They have family
of little ones of their own, and for their
use the carriage is mostly devoted.
The foreign ministers all have stylish
turnouts, and during Lent especially
are on the drives every pleasant day. Sir
Edward Thornton has a handsome paiFot
Clipped chestnuts, which he drives before
an elegant barouche, but he generally
prefers walking himself, and is one of the
most inveterate pedestrians in Washing
ton. His walking shoes are a curiosity.
The soles are broad and bevelled in the
English style, and are fully half an inch
thick. The uppers are of goat skin, tied
with leathern thongs.
Secretary Sherman takes his daily drive
in an open carriage, drawn by two
ordinary-looking horses. Every day
about four O'Clock, if it isn't too stormy,
you can see Mrs. Shermrn waiting for her
husband at one of the entrances to the
treasury department, and as he is very
his appearance at that door /
is as regular every day as the clock
strikes four.
Corcoran, the banker and philanthrop-
st, drives pair of small, jogging bays
before a comfortable carriage, swinging
ow to the ground, which was made at
lis order because his rheumatic limbs
-efuse to entsr a carriage. Senator
Morton's old coupe is missed from the
streets. Every day of his life in Wash>
ngten it could be seen standing either at
he Ebbitt house, or at the White house,
n the capitol, or some one of the depart
nents, and it carried him faithfully for
many years. 1t was low, the box reach
ng down to within an inch or so of the
and was made expressly for
i'm. 1t was scratched and battered and
7orn, and the horse he drove before it
7as one of the forlornest specimens Of
nimal life that was ever seen.
he harness was cid and rusty,
nd the repairs it had undergone,
ere well advertised. Mr.. Morton
ad peculiar antipathy for anything
it was almost afecta-
on with him as it was with Lincoln,
nd no one could ever induce him to get
low9bait of for horse. One day his ;
river left him and he engaged new .
le. The first time ot6 the q new f1EyeFg pa Re had c
ought from his former service, and 81
T. Morton would not enter the carriage 7
It'll the negro had taken off the rosette h
)m his hat, and put on a suit of ordi- Fl
ry clothes. He used to say that d
-ery was a badge of servitude Fer 8
ndo Wood drives a mammoth pair of c.
y horses, with gold-mounted harness fe
vered all over with his monogram. il
is carriage is numbering evidence Of Is
spectability. :,