Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-01

absent minded - are someNme.
eHsn. Spencer psehably heard that
good fellow busa. y, i. "
s|sfss !. B.,.rd ,ss 1
iSa very fine gsntaSman, sndls godo
, to the pages. His weakness 10 good goett
: on the road. He 10 like Grant and Bonner
"The Camerons !"
.Simon WAS not much Of a favorite. He
subeidised-o one or two pages and gave the
III asSsna =
Lin Rlaina y
= ooh! he ts popular. Everybody fkes him
HE 10 just what you would suppose him to
+ fromethe neperts Of the nsNspaperA4u ~
Y'UNAiA3Qui like JoepfafAlrshn GAsh
rIhe GW1lAp1ji1 Mate ~ 9fa aa ~ wv
NATURALLY a mean man. None Of the
" q BY 1das1bnts"
"We 1d1a IovshE "a }llaSs regard
ed him p a3r2nk Ina ho&6l33ble min. He
Is might haMG HI T. SSEhss 5onstimes.
he doeSS't Ben lt6aircs. He nsvef forgets
himself when he Adone spsakins- Conk.
lii {ls6l o. tsnd win kstasan#
"He is . good-natured fellow, but doesn't
know anything"
.Dawes and Hoar, ofaMassachuseets? {"
dawes always looks at the galleries to
see hfanysNe saya1esing nirS NhiN b is
spsekhg: Hossbpesd n46rSd.stt ut ssme.
how the boys don't hang to him"
1.-THE 66uAn6c 5ens4ers?"b
sharon issntveether bun Jones is q
brick. I made $50 on one Of his speeches.
Always got money, and viii trust the boys
with his errands. IAave Known pages to
haze $, 9oQ e ;l bic money At one % time lin e..l H !.
s'fhe southern brikadiefs Z"
'Afatt Ransom, Of North Carolina, is as
kpodsasi1 the best. Gordon and Lamar are
ttteeasant, aud Ben. Hin u not 2 bad man. /
tell You Who used to be . royalfellow, Han-
nesan, Of Texas. He was always fighting
fotsSe p.sss' Wade Hampton is a fine fsl-
"Ben B1tlsr?"
Everybody, likes Ben. He is capital
cuss. He is-all smartness, ambition, and
good nature. He doesn't hate anyone. Theirs
is no hate in him but he does wade in and
stir up the animals insthe house."
"Recall in . random sort Of a way the
characteristics of any one in either house."
"McCreery, of Kentucky, wos . case. He
was the tobacco squirter. Tobacco juice
Tucked down his chin and spotted his clean
shirt as regularly as he got n on. McCree'
ry's name wss proposed. for chairman of the
commfttee on fofe4sa relations. Assuming
a leaning attitude he dfolled out: Il don't
know much-about- my-own people
shd-nothtug--sboht-anJu one elssGG l
guess you had better not put me on Con-
gel, of the house, the, great American OBJ
%jector, b confoandeafo0l. lts object uu-
til you can't rest. He Ia, a civil-servlce
man, but took care OF his nephew all the
ame. Fernando Wood is ;agsunptuou.
cuss, and the ,boys- have no use for him
the house. Rather like him. Burnside is
the
FAsHION-PLATE OF CONGRESS-.
He got resolution through the senate
permitting skull caps 10 the chamber.
Townsend, of New York, wassone Of the
best fellows going. He used to take me
home 10 his carriage, and wanted to send
me to sea for a good time on q man-of.w war
General Banks was very popular among
the ladies. He also answered every card
sent to him. He was q decent fellow.
Pomeroy. Of Kansas, in his day, was the
fayorite of the old women. We had con-
siderable fun stthe expense ofthe forgottou
G%oldthwaite. He thought the capitol ele'
vator was Q street-car, and he invariably
gave the plge i've cests. II was sdeposited
to his credit with the secretary Of the sen
ate. He fancied the tickets ofadmission to
the electoral commission we're opera tick-
cts, and after giving them TO the pages
wanted them back again. He said be had
4 very large fS11fiy add must take them 81
to the opera. Must hive the tickets. He
was crazy. Garfield b aGstudent and is
not especially, popular, Hs- is always
thihxing abost ssomething.. The colored
senator, Bruce. is q frst-rate man. Morton
was always kind to tue pages. He was q
senator without hate in his soul"