The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-09

ty, great clearness and vigor of statement. and
a way of Knitting his arguments together so as
to make speech deepen its impression on the
mind of the nearer until the climax is
reached.
GARFIELD AT HOME.
General Garfield is the possessor of two
homes, and his family migrates twice year.
Some ten years ago, finding how unsatisfac-
tory life was in hotels and boarding-houses,
he bought lot of ground on the corner of
Thirteenth and Streets in Washington, and
with money borrowed of friend built plain
substantial three-story house A wing was
extended afterwards to make room for the fast
growing library. The money was repaid in
time, and was probably saved in great part
from what would otherwise have gone to land
lords. The children grew up in pleasant home
surroundings, and the house became centre
of much simple and cordial hospitality. Five
or six years years ago the little cottage at Hi
ram wa ssold, and for time the ONLY resi-
dence the Garfelds had in that district was a
summer house he built on Little Mountain,
bold elevation in Lake county which COM
mands view of thirty miles of rich farming
country stretched along the shore of Lake
Erie Three years ago he bought farm in
Mentor, In the same county, lying on both
sides of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad. Here his family spend all the
time when he is free from his duties in WASH
ington. The farm house is a low, old-fash-
Toned, stofy-and-a-half building but its limited
accommodations have been supplemented by
numerous out-buildngS, one of which General
Garfield uses for office and library purposes
The farm contains one hundred and twenty
acres OF excellent land, in a high state of cul-
tlvation, and the congressman finds recrea-
ton, of which he never tires in directing the
field work ard making improvements in the
buiIIinUS fancps and Orchardc (lava1ap1 10
only twenty-five miles away; there is post-of-
hce and railway station within half a mile
and the pretty country town of gainesville is
but five miles distant One of the pleasures of
summer life on the Garfield farm is drive of
two miles through the woods to the lake shore
and hath in the breakers.
General Garfield has five children living,
and has lost two, who died in infancy. The
two Oldest boys. Harry and James, are now at
school in New Hampshire. Mary, or Molly,
as everybody calls her, is a handsome, rosy
checked girl of about u. The two younger
boys are named Irwin and Abram. The Gen.
erals mother is still living and has long been
member of his family. She is an intelli-
strong will, who keeps we'll posted in the
news OF the day and is very proud of her sons
career; though more liberal of criticism than
of praise.
Gen. Garfeld's district lies in the extreme
northeastern corner of Ohio, and now en-
braces the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull,
Geauga, Lake and Mahoning. His old home
county of Portage was detached from it a year
ago. With the exception of the coal and iron
regions in the extreme southern part, the dis
trict is purely rural one, and is inhabited by
a population of pure New England ancestry.
1t is claimed that there is less illteracy in pro-
portion to the population than in any other
district in the United States
In person Gen. Garfield is six feet high,
broad-shouldered and strongly built. He has
an unusually large head that seems to be
three-fourths forehead, light brown hair and
beard, large, light blue eyes, prominent nose
and full cheeks. He dresses plainly is fond of
broad-brimmed slouched hats and stout boots,
eats hearty, cares nothing for luxurious living,
is thoroughly temperate in all respectslsave in
that of brain-work and is devoted to his wife
and children and very found of his country
home. Among men he is genial. approacha-
BILE, companionable and remarkably enter
tanning talker.
Chester A Arthur.
Gen. Chester A. Arthur, the nominee for
Vice President, is a resident of New York. and
for number of years was collector of customs.
He is at present chairman of the Republican
State Committee