The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-24
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
Storey Twain Ward Nasty.

II III DONGJnldD, ana nave Dccn dTOunu
and had lots OF fun in my day The
speaker was the centre Of an admlring
group IN resort where he alternately
quahed his beer and looked patronzingly at
his companions, who frequently applauded
his statements. YES, sir; my name is
Charles Appleton Stevenson, and I've been
through the whole business. | guess
won't travel much more; am guest Of
General Hincks now. I'm getting along
past sixty. I've seen lots Of the boys get
up. Away backin 1889 or 40, after the Cana
dian rebellion, worked on Thurlow Weeds
paper the New York Commercial, at the
same frame with Wilbur +. Storey, now OF
the Chicago Times. Storey was hand
some, dashing fellow and q good printer.
He got the western fever in 1S40, and struck
Jackson, Michigan, where he published the
Patriot, with Rufus b. Cbeeny. At the
end Of about three years Storey bought the
Detroit Free Press from the Bagg family.
John L. Harmon put some money into the
concern, but think Storey bought him
out in about eighteen months. They were
both tony chaps Storey used to get his
boots from New York and his clothes from
Boston. think Storey married his first
wife there; her name was Isham,
daughter of the superintendent Of
public instruction Of Michigan. She wrote
the book notices for the Free Press. Now
lives IN Virginia; they separated by mutual
agreement. Storey went to Chicago about
1860, after selling the Free Press to poll
tican named Walker, for 100000. The
Times had been started, if / remember
Alright, with the money Of Stephen A.
Douglas. the United States senator, and
Cook, United States marshal. About 1852
G. II. Mccormick, the "reapcr man."
wanted to 90 to congress to get his patent
renewed. He bought up the paper Of the
Times and secured controlling interest.
Mccormick didn't get TO congress, and
about 1860 he offered the sheet at private
sale, declaring that he had lost several
thousand dollars on it. Here Storey APP
peared and bought the Times for $4,000,
investing the other $4,000 which he had re-
allied from the sale of the Free Press in a
Hoe press. Storey edited the paper HIM
self
Burnside placed a chain-gang around
the Times office to stop the publication Of
the paper, which was printing reasonable
articles. Jack Woodlock, the pressman-
and he's there to this day-took a hose
and swore he would scald anybody who
interferred They run off twenty-five papers
and Storey took them under his arm and
climbed out upon the roof, and got down
into the street, saying that he never lost an
edition. He went down to the telegraph
office and sent despatch to Lincoln, and
Abe sent back this:
Order OF General Burnside countermand-
ed. have enough on my hands without
claiming the press.
"Storey run his paper The next night, but
Storey lost money on the Times. About
1864 the concern began to pay The thing
has been going by fits and starts ever
| since.
"There's General Iincks; he's a practical
printer. too; as good a one as am. Yes,
sir; he used TO work at the
case in the office Of the
Post. He was afterwards shipping-clerk in
the hardware store that had the contract
for furnishing iron tor the United States
navy He married into the same family
with General Butler, He got up in q
hurry.
II rot acquainted with Sam Clemmens
or Mark Twain, as he Is best known, as a
brother typo in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1852
How old is sam' Well, he's about fifty
eight now. AS was saying, he was on the
Plaindealer. He came up to Detroit on the
boat. The next heard Of him he was
playing the Bohemian out in Frisco
where he nearly starved and went to Ne
vada. There, for an hour, Sam was worth
$l.000,000 or more. He struck what /:
known as the Comstock lode, Virgins
CITY. A friend of his'n, who crossed the
plans with INN, was sick, and Sam tailec
to report, and the claim was jumped, Blu
he made little stake there and went tC
the Sandwich Islands. He came back by
Cuba, and struck New York city. He me
his wife there She had fortune, He
wrote an autobiography which made hin
popular. and then he published his Rough
Ing It,. Since that time. | take it, you feel
lows know something of him.
Did know Artemus Ward or Charles
L. Brownef don't know my own son bet
ter. Browne was reporting on the Cleve
land Plaindcaler He was practical prin
ter. struck him on the Toledo Blade anC
Detroit Free Advertiser. He was nativ
of Portland. Me, went to Cambridge Mass.
and worked in . book printing establish
mpDt, and then went 10 Boston, where h
got the Western fever.
petroleum v Nasby2 I wish | knew
m, self US DO him. have known hin
since he was boy twenty-five years of age
We didn't use to associate with David X
Locke--that's his real name. you know
Locke WAS type snatcher to begin with
but he took the place Of Charles +. Browne
who got on drunk, as city editor OF tn
Toledo Blade. Locke went up fast rs III,
Crossroads Man and now owns tn
sheet"
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