, 1879-02-18
SOUTHERN BLOOD.
Its Plentiful Infusion in the Veins
Of Chicago.
What Kontuoky "0arpotrBaggors" Have
Done for This City.
Sketches OF Few OK Tie 01oro Notable
Immigrants.

has q las,cr from lts Chicago correspondent,
whel, rnay he best Cleaned from the headlines,
which refer to The "southerners Win ,aye madc
tho Northwest nroprcsefvs anil p1or,n,,,: lin
se'notHaole showing o1 "iae ''e nou.n ha' con,
ferretl upon that region men OF etn'nence anu
cnpftat from Dtxie-l.snd vitallzing society; over
s;. ono Owned in and about Chicago by Them:
nrr,1mrnt, for Intimate soctnl and trac rc1,tinns
'..s - '.nsts.I',. I ,n'
win Inc 'aRo e1'Y' sh'easos sae. ca p'ta', ',LNr
aIlty, nn'l energy nsktng hospitality; gcnealugy
Of distinguished Northern southerncrs-Kcn-
lucky blood made u,anfcst generally"
Aoo.'1 nse Columns a,e as'o.ea " 80. 10 s.e men.
tion of prominent resfaehts of this state at
large, sonc living and sumo dead, who were
horn In the South. Then the correspondent comes
in,o sa;,,,,a,,i r,shonrn ~ uianor ,tha
,,hs Nt.'tuau I1n9n, q,,. 80 D'a1s,, ou"' -
Klch, Col. Nlchard d. Namilton, aud others who
aro now dead; then coming down to tlc living.
lie does no. by nuy means limit his pararraphs
to Kentuckiana, but takes iii Southern lpcn
wherever lie fuIs them, For the pu5,,os. OF
ciyinr IN idea Of thu letter, tic following
skrtchca are taken from It;
r,,n nov. ..,,,,r,. ,,c,r,,tnn uoouv
~. ~ AoN. sn"u.. ~ .'".1a s......'4So AooHx,
nonhY' te, wnn Mas no1M III ~ nosnom 9 eoVnty, N.Y.
IN iosl, ~ Wnleh aeeta1n ns 'a'nes, VlrElna1l,
.,9 a1u ~, .eGvE ~ i"n1,v Io w.
1oh re n,rcrts spanr from m tarmers fap,,cs
"away back" tic has one brother attn living,
4, banker at Midway, Wondiortl County, kr.
nMo o.ns. osn,Mcts t te'grsm },,s,a y anasna' ai
a,Gu tHv.l. tuGo .touG VII, tsce1eu
KY, Judge Dtekey. !hc sublert OF the previous
sHsten ee'nE H. sGnuot,nstg, IT. ana lme warn
ifleidsh.1 c1sst'nG oesWcen ,Ns t~o 10t.sta IS
nesa ss,oWm ny 1naen mun.ss .,, NEARLY !emhrk'
tile very bess!' IT WIS through hs alyire
mud counsel that Judge Afoorc entcred Miami
University, at Oxford, O., graduating from
TINT Institution. al'd taklnE postgraduate
dent. Returning to To- Kensasky, be be entered tie
law-of!ice Of Judge Jatncs X Curry, at Cynthl-
ana, Harrison County,-probahly lbs Oldest liv-
Ing lawyer In America, be being lla's and
hearty man to-day, and IN rs 0oth year,--dtd
after titao began law-practtce there, cvtntunl..
" removing to tovl,gton, whcro he remained
until 1865. For two years he suspended prartce
t0 edit Democratic weekly, tlIe henfuckV h.
teil,yeHetr, in the interest Of james X. Polk. lie
alsS served term IN the Kentucky Legislature,
as The Democratic. Reproscntatiyo Of Kenton
County In 1655 doing all In Ills power against
the Know Nothing movement. ulitl IN 1856 wus
elected Judge Of the circuit comprising tho
Counties Of Kenton, Campbell, 3racken, Pen
declined reelection, md removed to Chicago
III 1866, when tie formed a general law.pnrtt,cr.
slip with ex-Congrrssman b. q. Cauiticll.
Immediately attatnlug ali extensive pruc-
tice, md particularly In Important laIld
ltttgnttons. lie was elected to tbs present rosl-
ton in 1879, being assigned BY Ills associate
Judges to the claflcery cascs of the Superior
Court, the importance nntl vaatncss OF the i.l-
tcrpsts Of which eau scarcely lt realized by ore
ut ustancs; and 1t Is cretlItable taet ttsat so
careful, able, aml Just hns lle bpcn In hfs rul-
illEs, tat there Is scarcely a!i instance H. The
GreGt hltsancf ol easGe ne hls aetosnlasel where
the slata supreme touFl has reversed nla ae-
clsons' lhe eas9 thGht.ouGu s " previous let.
Ut o. 1ohI l.. WILSON Y; w. E.TA'A9 ~ ;'ohrhd'
Cohpay. nYosf .n,1 III, ssGs. sans nt " suiu paeeI,
ntM an aeeouhtllE lpt He4llf eapJ,uuu u PIonts,
VIII shortly eonle Ge!ofo Juneo Moorg:! u can
oo irulv saia OF Eip siNt " Is = 1uaec VINO
Woulu pe5lntt no poiitis,n' 'haGihatloAs TO ohter
mo hls aleet'nh LOT olnce' hn nas boen an
Elder tn tl!e IrcseyleEtan Charcn M i9r twenty
tVc years; s notnper o. -. htlfct!1e's
church here; anu ms roeeiveA iIs9 acgro9 Of
Doctor OF Laws IRON "ooatcF Cotlcee, ohih
ARA. hloore's lntllgr was onn ol ths ploneer
rrcsbyterians " hcntNeky, No1eFt "llaou, OF
Washington, Mason County,
L. z. LETTER, Esq, "
Of The grcat Wholesale nnd rrtpil firm Of Field,
Letter & Co, Of this city, liz. IL urobnb,y our
wealthiost resident, though ,comparatiy1|y a
yoIur tnau: md ra,>lot call to .nIud a l,rtter