Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-11
INTERVIEWING A GHOST.
A "World" Reporter Persuades the
Old Year to Linger over his
"reminiscences.
What the OLD Fellow, After Hi.
-E Death, Considered some of His
Claims TO Rem IN Franco.

What the old Fellow, After His
~ Death, Consid cred some of His
Claims 10 Remembrance.
(From The New York World
The last chime from Trinity had ceas-
ed when a World reporter, who had
been interviewing the bell-ringers. turn
ed from the gate near the tomb OF the
gallant American who cried "Don't give
up the ship to see crouching behind 1t
the ghost OF 1878. ....-.
"A happy But the reporter
checked himself. Then the old man re-
lleved the embarrassment by finishing
the sentence, and the reporter took out
his notebook.
"a s.What's the use of interviewing a
man when he is dead ?" asked the old
gentleman, with the least touch of inn
patience. "Go back to your own files,
be continued. as he drew his arms more
CLOSELY about himself and shivereI.
"a little chilly here," suggested the
reporter, anxious to prolong the cou-
versation.:.
trife so, but remember
when was young fellow, the 9th of
last January it was, il was the coldest
day of that winter, the thermometer
dropping eight degrees below zero.
Then 7 sras cold. That was the day
before King Victor Emmanuel died and
Prince Humbert took the oath as king
ten days later. Next week Samuel
Bowles died in Springfield"
Then the ghost of 1873 ratified on with
his "reminiscences, going from month to
month, country to country, paying little
attention to his companion, but marking
with his long, gaunt finger the passage
Of events on an imaginary calender on
the footstone before him. THE murder
of John NJ. Armstrong IN Camden by
Benz. H. Hunter was January 22,' he
said "Armstrong's lie insurance will
soon prove Hunters death"
lin January, too. young KING Al
phonso married the Princess Mercedes.
How little they dreamed that her life
was to end In the: following June! The
Metropolis went ashore in this month,
and q hundred lives were begun in an
other world. Poor George Cruikshank
drew his last breath in February. He
made bis mark and many good friends,
too, all with an honest, humorous pen
Gil. The American and Newfoundland
fishermen got their lines entangled dur
ing this month, then in November the
United States paid the damages. In
China two thousand women and child
rem were burned to death in February.
On the 7th, the venerable prelate Plus
IX, died in the Vatican. On the goth
Cardinal Pecchi was elected to succeed
him. On the 9th of February died your
own townsman Theodore Roosevelt.
About the middle OF the same month
Bayard Taylor was sent as minister to
Germany. But his was short service,
tor only the other day he died. On the
10th, the United States senate passed
the silver bill, and few days later the
house passed it by vote OF three to one,
while in China seventy million people
were reported Us starving. On the 2Sth
the bill was vetoed by the president. but
congress had its own way just the same.
.sIn March died old blunt Ben. Wade.
It was in March, too, that the wedding OF
Lord Roseberry to Miss Hannah Roths-
child, of London, took place. O'Leary,
the walker, won the international match
in London and q reputation which bis
recent tramp in New York doesn't alto
gether sustain. think-what do you
say The British training-ship, Eury-
dice, capsized in the English channel.
and 800 lives were lost. March 25th
three .Mollie Maguires were hanged in
Bloomsbury, Pa, and ten days ago, by
the hanging Of Kehoe. the king OF the
Mollies, the list was completed. Lord
Derby's resignation as British secretary
of foreign affairs was announced March
twenty-eighth."
"Your memory seems clear. "inter-
rupted the reporter.
Eyes," he replied absently, and then
continued in the same low. tireless tone :
early in April Tweed's strange, event
full history ended in the Ludlow street
Jail. In the same month Mrs. Tllton's
confession was perpetrated. The death
of VIM. Orton, president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. was Wired
over the country on the 22d OF this
month. ..-.
May opened with the Paris exposi-
ton, and centennial sight-seers made
the pilgrimage there. On the same day
died John MorrisseY. In Brooklyn
francesca Peralto rode 305 miles in iii
teen hours, but never knew why he
did it. Emperor William was fired ut
by Hoedel. The Allan line steamship,
Sandman took fire, and three lives were
lost. Professor Joseph Henry, of the
Smithsonian Institute, died at the age
of eighty-one years, and Earl Russell
ended his busy lite in his eighty-sixth
year. Decoration day, the 30th, was
showery. but the spring meeting began
at jerome Park, and Duke OF Magenta
galloped away with the Withers Stakes.
The greatest surprise of the meeting to
me was MIR. Withers winning the ladies'
stakes with Invermoor. In tact, all o
US were scared when we saw the tall
black run into the lead, except those
who had backed her to win at the odds
OF 8 to l: l didn't-did you?"
MAY S1st the Grosser Kurfurst was
run down by the konig Wilhelm and
290 lives were lost. In June Or. No.
billing discharged thirty buckshot into
Emperor William, much to his annoy
ance. In the Haydock Colllery, Eng
land, 200 lives were lost, and nearly q:
many widows lett without means OF sup
port. In this month death removed the
American poet, Bryant, IN whose
| memory the meeting was held in the
Academy of Music last Monday, and or
the same day the king of Hanover died
The Berlin congress opened in thi:
month ON the 18th. On the 29th the re
organized Monmouth Park Association
began its racing season at Long Branch
On the first day, owing to the sicknes:
oil the Duke OF Magenta, Mr.. George
Lorillard dropped few thousands te
his brother Pierre. whose colt. Spartan
won the s'Derby." hands down, but Mr.
George got back his dollars with inter
est on the glorious fourth when, for th,
July stakes he ran first, second ant
third with Harold, Monitor and Idler
and iol owed it up by win ming the Yves
End Hotel stakes with Balance All, te
the great delight OF Presbury and Hill
dreth. To keep the ball rolling, yo,
know. they had added thousand to th,
stake. and as Presbury said after til,
race the thou could not have gone int,
any better pockets than those of tn,
Westbrook stable.
"The Henley regatta. in which til,
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