The daily gazette., 1879-08-15
Usaoo 0Oss1p.

A correspondent OF the CtncinnaLi In
| quirer sends chap e. Of the tory 10 that |
paper from U'ica, N. Y, the--home Of |
Senator Conkling. lie ssys:-
For years his ighbOrs have been
predicting some such OutcOm. Of the gal |
liant les for wpici onkling Is noted.
Before his marriage lie was gay boy.
and Just across tile Mo- awk vi in the
ueigl,bOrhOod Of Dee field, 10 y youth
,h,se pr.senc- ronsly sug rs,s the srn.
10, Senator. Whe this light mindrd
KEEL comes 10 Utica, tn. initiated vi L
kr.wingiy, AID cont..m l ting tn curl
that angs the boys foreheA they mu
muir "kJsca1."
Ia fee ing against Conkling IL Utica
has been rowing In b'ttern - since hi.
refusal 20 come home TO attend his
daughters wedding. Shortly aher ad-
journ,neut OF the session he came here.
and alihou.h his daughter and sOn-in-
law live on the same stra' Wit him,
i ,tsni cniy two blocks, COnkling ha
not called on his chi'd, neither has he
recognized his soD-in- aw. When
you z u,an tonkiing's amours gave is
|, father great unaesiness. The Ol gentle
man, who was IN del Of virtu' him elf.
fr, quently admon sh his headst rong
y Oh, but 10 no urpose. When Conk-
= lug became suitor for the hand Of the
!, lady who afierw ,rds became his wife,
Governor S ymour, the lady's brother,
y strongly objected to the match. Conk-
st ling preserved, and OH one occas on Gov
ar ernor Sayin. ur invited HIM TO the door
,r Of the Seymour mansion, and sh owed
" him .wn the steps into thu street. Ros-
70 coe iriumpbed and tor the sake OF ppea :
no ance q peace was patched up between
ch the Two families. When In 1868, Sey.
-, mour was 4 candidate for the P,esiden.
cy, Uticians we're At first surprised tbs
as vehemence Of the dehuncialiOn Of tthe
ut Governor by brother-in law COnklin.
be but presently IL became apparent that
~, be young man was paying of An OLE
grudge OF his precsrious cOurtship OF th'
ar Governors sister. The Governor, VIII,
be Is deeply attached TO his sister, paid II,
ep- atte, tion TO Conklingls abuse, and til,
~, result was that after the lordly Senate
'"0 had traduced him for some mouths HI
ave made . sh W Of friendship for his distin
art gulshed relative. Governor Seymour
tn with characteristic nobleness Of charat
Al, ter, never alluded to the more than par
VII tisan abuse which Conkling heaped uI
ano on him in the memorable campaign !
in 1858.
pity vi late years Cohklsne mas oeen m9c
ling heen hnsv vii With b,s name ~ ConI,;r1 10
ish- name has been mixed I'M With that 6,
be- Kate Chase-Sprague for some years pas
tho 1t Is we'll known in Washington that Il
orld have freonentlv IGNORED the ,sdy in me-
fel- tion because of her 100 ardent admir-
will ton of the Senator with the hyperic
tho, cul. Miss Blair, when conversing wi
Utica gentleman, has alluded to MI
'he Sprague as "that person." When Il
stort ex-Governor's wife was in Columbr
Ohio, she was also tsbooed socially.
Since writing the above have obtai
C;.u ed further particulars concerning I
ivy Deerfield boy who resembles Conklir
ayor He is called Roscius, the name bei
etec- given him by some woman who rails
who him. He lived for years at the Deerfie
toll gate, with q woman named jon
oi He is now married, and is employed
hese the Utica and Black River Railroa
the Apropos of the boy, will relate the (
in lowing
In Uniied States Register In Bankrupt
ntry Comstock, who lives in Utica, recen
busi- met Joseph A. Shearman, an old and
, the fuential citizen of this place. Comsto
inquired :--"Mr Shearman, now, cand
III ", why did not Senator COnkling xtte
'sent his daughters wedding?"
up. Mr.. She rman, glanc ng significan
.hs In t Q dir ctiOn Of Deerfel :, replied
w 81 will answer you if you will tell
iaiiy why he did not come home to attend
we'll sons we ding"
Sud 1t is asserted by those here, who ella
.,.,. to speak with authority, that C0nkl
''"'o. ha cen more or le influenced by n
VIII Sprague for some time. 1t is belle
uilty that he had prepared = peech attack
"a the decision of Electoral Conn
,. -, sion, and would have delivered 1t but
'.o the arg ,ments and destinations If
rob- Chase Sprague, who persuaded hin
bouts the opposite course.
Peter Dunlap, q farmer Of Dow
po township, N. s., was killed by lightI
De TO on Wednesday tight. The house Of !
ction Rghtmxn Ia East Durham. On bee.
,bbed shattered by lghtning yesterday, and
of The "~' ~'