The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-25
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/ 80 From the Chicago Times.
The DeWs Nom Mentor ia distress
lug, Mr., Garfield Ia we'll. So /,
! madaln,. So arc the little Garflelds
Tho fall ploughing Is satisfactorily
through with. The pigs arc ripening
The two Oolored servitors Wax fat
with cheer and grow gooti-naturedl,
lazy. The trouble isn't that way. The
worry 10 with the furniture, the car
! pets, and all the rural splondors Of tho
Mentor-mansion equipment. 1t was
spick span new last spring. And now
what condition is IL in? Ready fu,
the second-hnnd--nay. the tenth-hand
---shop. There haYe been too many
visitors recently, too much rclic-hunt.
ing, too much mnd. A correspondent
notes: "'rhc influx Of delegates and
single visitors at Mentor soon began,
and has continued ever since. General
Garfield and his wife were of so socia.
bic q disposition that they rcioiced
much when their friends began to
come in; but there is limit to all
things, and it is generally believed
here in Cleveland that the going of
dcputations TO Mentor for congratula-
tory purposes should now cease.
General Garfield and his wife will say
nothing to check the visits, but the
worn and muddicd carpets and furni-
turc Of the mansion, which u brief tiino
ago were fresh and new, and the
stripped garden and orchards, where
rclic-huntcrs and appic-!ovcrs were
daily at work, plainly confess the sad
tale OF too many caIicrs.' Yet the
Mentor lcnAn's arc not without cheer.
Mr.. Garilc|d'% salary is about to lump
irom $4,000 70 $50, 900 per annum,
and the callers Ec will lave at the
White House will be the running OF
the counlry's furniture, not his. AS
compensation for the ills she now cn-
dulcs III, say, the matter of broken
crookcrv, madam, Of Mentor, will
havc the satisfaction of toying with
that elegant and expensive set Of china
which Mistress Hayes ordered from
Europe TO the great scandal Of good
Democrats. On the whole there is
good reason why tho Gariields should
not worry excessively about tho ire
parable damage to their carpets.
SAM HoUsToN's IoYALTY.-Thc ro-
nance of tho life Of General Sam
Houston, Ex-Governor, ex-senator,
ex-prcsidcnt OF Texas, has often been
told. Tho story has been revived in a
letter to tho New York Tribune from
tho Rev. DR.. George w. Samson,
formerly president Of Columbian Col
legc, Washington, who was Houston's
pastor during his scnatorship. DR..
Samson fully vouchcs for the authcn-
ticity Of the story Of Houston's first
marriage and his flight to the Chez o.
koe country when he found TINT his
bride WAS really enamored of another
and had welded him under durcss-a
pieco of snch exceptional chivalrv that
all who heard Of it thought Houston
was insane. DR.. Samson contributes
a now Rnccdoto about the old Texan in
connection with Lincoln and tha out
break Of tho civil war. We give it in
his own words:
"Whcn secession and the war FOL-
lowing It came, Sam Houston was
almost alone III opposing 1t, in open
words and In direct acts. Whcn in
varied companies the remark was
dropped that Lincoln would not be
peaccably inaugurated, Houston firm
~ said: 'Fhe nnn that attempts to
prevent 1t shall walk over my dead
bodyP Truc to his word, when on
the day Of Inauguration vitlettes were
At overy street corner where the pro-
cessl0n was to pass, close ND to the
left side of tho carriage in which Lin
coin sat, with buchanan on his right,
tho tall form of Houston, mounted
and armed, was seen throughout the
whole route, pressing 50 closely up to
the wheels that no man could have
passed between. Such record should
set aside any suspicion that Houston
was not III every relation model OF
loyalty. Retiring to the bosom of lis
family he lived two years in yot an.
other political exile; but adorcd In his
family, and not IAN alien from the
Commonwealth Of the rcdccmcd."
hELLY'S SUErERFUGES. - at was
ConklinSs determination that carried
New lori," says ono Of Krllv's ia
r"rs. This is in pursuance Of Kellv's
cnlraHor to cover mp the fact that
New York was carried by the RcDub.
Leans IN consequence Of John Kelly's
treason I" the Democratic party. But
il will not do. New York was carried
for the Republicans by tho twelve
thousand Garfield electoral tickets
that were punched with the Tam,nany
local tickets in Ttmmany hall, and 40
sent out to the Tanmany booths and
thence served to Tammany voters on
their way to the polls. These Garfield
tickets punched with Tammany tickets
were sent into election districts where
the Iammany voters arc ignorant
though faithful TO Tanmanv. These
voters, unable to scrutinize their ow,
ballots, depended ON The Tammany
agents to put the right papers in theil
hands, and were thus BETRAYED. NIany
other c'tN Democrats no doubt voted
the wnoic Republican ticket as thci,
Only means of sufficiently showing
how deep was their scorn Of KcllS
and OF the party that surrcnders its
viii to such creature; but wha
elected Garfield was that Il mass O
twelve thousand Republican ticket.
punched with The Tanmany Tickets
,Ncw York Xerald.
PRESIDENTIAL. CREEDs. Rich
mond dispatch gives somo curiou,
aud interesting information as to tn,
religious or other beliefs of tho differ
cnt Presidents. 1t says: Genera
Washington was communieaMt /,