The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-22
WARRINGTON ANECDOTES.
Annoyance from Autograph Hum
tiers.

In a chatty letter to the Washington
Republic Mr.. Ben Perly Poore, says;
Prominent among the nuisances in
tiicted upon Congressman are the albums
to which they are requested to sign their
names. Occasionally an appeal is made
for something more than mere sigma
ture, and Il western member who was
annoyed at this request, wrote: 81 am In
favor of a law banishing to Alaska any
one who bOres people by asking them to
write in their album" Years ago the
wife of a representative from Maine had
an album on on which she prided herself,
and she was especially proud of page
bearing the signatures Of Webster and
Everett Handing it to David Crockett,
then a member of the House, with a re-
quest that he would write something
more than his signature; he returned it
the next day with the following written
between the names of Webster and Ever
ett' 1t is copied verbatim:
Mrs of Main requests the hunter
from West-to write his name in her AL
bum.
Her curiosity shall be grathed by SEN
timenu wishing her heIJh ard happiness,
and a safe arrival at her residence with
her family and friends.
DAVID CROCKETT
Mr.. Jefferson Davis was noted for his
kindness in writing poetical extracts in
albums, and he was, by the way, the most
brilliant conversatiOnalist that has ever
been in Washington, thin, wiry, sharp
visaged, self possessed and dyspeptic,
with voice very gentle md mOdulated,
and address very pliable and courteous
the great secessionist could rattle forth
chat like bullets from Calling gun and
every epigram from his thin lips was
fatal to the reputation of a lifetime.
Never was the rapier of a polished wit
more dazzling or N re more mortal IN It's
exercise.
Daniel Webster was a good talker, and
some of his sayings have been handed
down as worthy of remembrance. Senator
Ewing (the father of Mrs. Sherman, and
of the present Congressman from Ian
caster, Ohio, once said in addressing the
Senate on the ruin and misery brought
upon the country by Jacl1son's order re-
moving the deposits from the United
States Bank, that the turnpikes III Ohio
we're growing up with grass, and that the
canal vas solitude. lie was afterwards
known as Tom Solitude Ewing. One day
Webster, who had been out drinking
with party of friends, entered the old
Senate Chamber, aud seeing Ewing sit
ting apart looking very glum, stepped il
front of him and quoted the following
lines from Cowper's poem on Alexander
Selkirk.
Oh, Solitudel where are the charms
Which sages have seen in thy lace?
On another occasion, Mr.. Webster,
when visiting the old hall OF the House
of REPRESENTATIVES, had his attention
called to the remarkable ECHO which re-
peated audibly everything that was said
from certain places on the floor. He
was told that this had the good effect of
preventing certain members whose seats
were in these parts of the House. from
speaking, and one was mentioned espec-
tally Who would otherwise have grumbled
over every appropriation. Mr.. Webster
wrote on an envelope:
Old growing P, from Tennessee,
Saws very little in the meeting,
Simply because (twixt you and me-
His speeches will not bear repeating,