Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

king the fellow full in the face. tt
didn't hurt the country hummer much,
but it played thunder with the glass and
cut Clusters hand badly. Still he made
Dy the operation, as it gave him stand
ing for courage that he had never MAIN
tanned before.
AS a school boy he was remarkable
only for brightness and aptness, and
even IN that not to an extraordinary de-
gree. He was generally popular on ac-
count of his urbanity, and was sort of
fayorite among the girls because he
was rather good looking He didn't like
work in its manual sense, and was more
fond of roaming over the country and
lOahng at the corners than attending to
the trade to which he was apprentieed.
| presume ii Custer had not made such
famous career in his after life that his
boyhOOd would have been passed over as
one of perfect mediocrity. At least then
his future was net marked very high"
"Cadiz has also the honor of raising
one of the most celebrated of diyines as
well as one of the most distinguished of
cavalry officers, has she not 2"
"Yes,
BISHOP SIMPSON
Lived in Cadiz until he was about twen-
ty-five years old. He was educated by
his uncle, Matthew Simpson, who had a
private academy for boys, and it is to the
careful and judicious instruction of his
uncle that the great Bishop owes his
well rounded education. His uncle was
remarkable man. He was a man of
strong character, great will power and
splendid accomplishments, and pre-
sided over, perhaps, one of the best
private academies in the country. He
betrayed, out of his own pocket, the ne
cessary expenses of young SIMPSONS
raising, and placed him on the high road
to fame. So great had become cultiya-
tiOn, that when he was about twenty-five
he was offered chair in Allegheny Col
lege, but | think it was the Chair of Nat
ural Sciences, though upon this point
am not certain" "What sort of an ap-
pearing boy was he"
"Ie was a big.
OvERGROwN, AWKWARD FELLOW,
Exceedingly timid, and one that served
as the butt of ridicule and finn for his as
Sociates. For a time he attended the
public school of Cadiz, ard in going to or
coming from them he would never go up
the public streets, but take the back al
leys He was sensitive as to his appear
ance, and never cared to assert his true
manliness. of which he had big stock,
but allowed his fellOw-schoolmates to
run over him and do as they pleased
with him."
"Did he show an early religious incli-
nation %
"Yes, when he was quite young he be-
came an earnest and regular attendant of
church and Sunday school, and partici-
pated in the exercises more than any of
his age. The first Methodist Sunday
school that was organized in Cadiz was
organized by Simpson, and it is in exist
enee to this day. He early studied for
the ministry, and whether admitted to
the ministry while at CadiZ, 1 do not
know, bat anyway he used to frequently
preach in the country churches around
there.
did he give much promise as pull
pit orator.
"Not much, though it is said that he
was logical taIker, and possessed a
great fund of information on the sub
ject that he treated of from the pulpit.
He was hard student, and a close in
vestigator, and by the time he reached
| Iull IldlHOOU IlO Was dS hCn IOOll0cU
man as could be found. Instead Of
spending his time in attending dances,
parties, and picnies. he used his time in
reading and thinking. He lived apart
from his society, and was considered a
big coarse, awkward, uncOngenial fellow,
and it was only after he had ripened up
that his old companions saw that they
had been green, and he had been smart"
sThen he wasn't ladies man
"Not in the society sense of the term.
He treated them as a man of his char
acters would Agenteelly, but he was not
hanging on their skirts and wasting his
time and money in escOrting them to en-
tertainments, fairs and concerts. He
worked as though he had a big work to
do in the world, and his success as man
vindicated his wisdom as boy. Yes,
Cadiz has raised two men. each of whom
has reached high meridian in glory
and fame, yet when boys they were per
haps more 'setdown' on than some whose
name never passed over the hills that
surround that village"