Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-12-26

here; my old heart is satisfied"
wish I could transcribe the quaint
dolngs and sayings of that, day. But all
the words one has at command, all the
fine writing, all the fine thoughts, could
not convey an adequate conception OF
the happiness that reigned in that house.
hold brighter than Kings pal4ce that
glorious Christmas Day.
John Sherman's ssDif1culty.''
didn't you have fight once on the
floor of Congress with a Southern
member?"
*The only difficulty of that sort I
had was with man by the name of
Wright, from Tennessee. He was
man who drank hard, and came on the
floor in that condition. I was making
speech one day, and came to the end
OF sentence, when this man said,
That's ie.' He was some distance
from me, and I did not hear it; but the
reporter did hear it, and put it down in
his transcript, so that next day it ap-
peared in the Globe newspaper. This
made me mad, and I arose on the day
following to question OF privilege. I
said that had not heard any such re-
mark made, and presumed that the
gentleman from Tennessee who did
make it, as the reporter had heard it,
was in such condition that he did not
know what he was saying. At this
Wright arose as if to make reply, but
his colleagues surrounding him pulled
him down. A little while after he came
around to speak to some of the South
ern Americans, or Known othings, who
sat just around me. He addressed re-
mark to one of these, and as he did so
looked at me with some insolence. I
arose at once and picked up a cup of
waters, such as lay on the desk of every
member at that time, and threw the
contents in his face. He had a pistol
at his hip, and tried to draw it on the
floor. when he was suppressed by the
other members. However, the incident
made great impression on the House,
and led to an early adjournment, as
there was every expectation OF either a
duel or an ARRAY. It was known that I
was no duelist, but would repel an as
sault. A member from the Southern
element came to me to find out what I
meant to do. told him that I should
repel any physical attack on me with
interest. He then instructed me that il
the sequel Of this incident was to be an
assault instead of duel, there could be
but one assault-that the fight had to
begin and end in single encounter.
He told me to be ready. T got pistol
and put it in my pocket, and I was
good shot. I never felt cooler in my
life, and I made up my mind that the
instant Wright approached me with a
hostile intention I would shoot him
dead. A friend of mine, capable in
such emergencies, walked out of the
Capitol with me, and as we descended
the steps on the side next to the city
and came to the fountain which flows
Railways down the several flights of
steps, there I looked, and coming around
the other side of the fountain was
Wright, also accompanied by col
league. I walked toward him, looking
him in the eye, with my hand on the
pistol, fully determined to shoot him if
he raised his hand. But he did nothing
of the kind. He probably saw what Was
IN reversion for him, and I went right
past him without suffering an encount-
er. He afterward turned out a drunk
ard and died dfunkard. The remarks
passed on him at home in Tennessee, on
account of his cowardly behaviour at
that time, used him up."-Gath, IN Cjo1-
ci7a7aati Enquirer.
The Temple of Diana.
This was built, as Pliny says, on a
soft foundation to guard against the
shocks of earthquakes. The founda-
ton. therefore, was laid in q swamp,
wood and charcoal were interposed to
absorb the wet, and the arches form q
subterranean labyrinth, in which water
stagnates, all of which is SO at the pres
ent day. The superstructure bears all
the evidences of al edifce which was
destroyed eight times, and took $50
years in building and rebuilding. It
now consists of several walls of immense
blocks of marble, the fronts of which
are perforated with small cavities, into
which were sunk the shanks of the
OA1Co oAAu oAASOA p1SStOo3 "AUA "lACA UlIO
walls we're faced. In several places
where the walls have fallen, they have
exposed cornices and holdings of a
former edifce, against which the new
walls had been built DIP. Some of the
vast porphyry pillars which formed the
front portico still lie PROSTATE before it;
but others we're brought by Constan-
tine to his new city OF, Constantinople.
The heather temple was dilapidated to
build the Christian church of st. So
phia, in which these pillars are again
become the great support of an anti
Christian edifce. But the most inter
esting circumstance of the building to
me is the great illustration it gives to
the acts of the apostles. Here is the
place where st. Paul excited the COM
motion among the silver and brass
rmiths who worked for the temple; and
over the way was the theater, into
which the people rushed, carrying with
them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's
companions. Hence they had q full
view Of the magnificent front of the
temple, which they pointed out as that
which all Asia worshipeth" and in
their enthusiasm they cried out, Great
is Diana of the Ephesians!" to whom
such a temple belonged.