Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-03-29
SHIPHERD.

Jacob r. Shipheri, accompanied by his wife,
appeared before the House Committee on For
eign Affairs, at Washington, on the 2ist OF
March. He handed in certificate from his
physician that his recent illness had been quito
serious. shipherd was examined at length by
tue committee. He stated that he in
dorsed to President Garfield and Sec
retary Blaine, in May, copaes OF the
prospectus Of the Peruvian Company. In New
York, on May 30, he had prolonged interview
with Minister Hurlbut, who said tue President
regarded the case ss strong IN Law and equity
as it could possibly be, and action would DO
taken il il would enable Peru TO pay her ip-
demnity and get out OF her trouble with Chill.
Hurlbut was assured by onipnerd that 1t would
result advantageousy to him II ho
made no opposition. Shpherd had two
extended conversations with Bla ne at the end
OF July last, and asked tnat both Chill and
Peru 10 officially Noticed OF the right to the
guaDo fields asserted by Americans, which tho
Secretary said should be done ~ once. In q
letter to Hurlbut Shipheri states that $3.50, 900
of pool stock in the Peruvian Company had
been reserved for the Minister aud his friends,
the terms Of payment TO be arranged at their
convenience.
In his testimony before the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs on the 22d, shirherd
said that the only officers OF the United States
with whom he had any correspondence or whom
he sought to interest in the com pany we're Minis
ters Hurlbut, fitzpatrick and Adams, the Secre
tary OF State, President Garfield, Senator
from New Hampshire (Blair), and William II.
Robertson, Collector Of the Port OF New York.
According to his story Blair was given a re-
tainer, which he afterward returned, and Rob
trtson was paid q fee for services rendered the
company in the capacity Of attorney. Shipberd
adp Tod hat d..alin u,tfb HI l.
patrick consisted in writing two letters to him,
which were never answered
Shipherd, when called before the House com
mittec on March 20, stated, before any ques
ton had beon put, that he desired to add a
word, IL it would bc in order, to the testimony
given the previous day. He then stated that
he would waive the technic Il objection he had
raised, and would state that the Senator TO
whom no had alluded was Henry w. Blair. OF
New Hampshire. He further stated that, with
one exception, there was no other Senator or
member OF Congress who had In any way been
interested as counsel or had been approached
with view 10 securing his services. This
gentleman, Shipherd said, Was asked to act al
counsel, and declined on tho ground that be
might be called ON as member Of Congress ia
pass upon the claims Of the Peruvian Company.
With this exception and that OF Senator Blair,
there was no other instance Of any effort 10 &c.
OF Congress. Witness produced q cJpy
OF bis letter to the President. II was
quite long, and rehearsed in detail the
claims and plans Of the Peruvian
Company. The Icttor referred to enclosures
naming the prospectus OF the company, the
draft OF agreement with Peru, the chain OF the
title OF the Peruvian Company, and stated II
was deemed best TO lay the whole matter before
the President. IL spoke OF tho magnitude OF
the interests involved, and estimsted the value
OF guano at 81, ,OC0, 600, go, and Indicated that
ex-President Grant would be President OF the
company and that its Board Of Directors
would include gentlemen equally woll known
and capable.
Shipherd failed TO show up In the House
committee room at Washington on March 2iih
He sent as substitute physicians certificate
to the effect that he was suffering from n u
ralsia and threatened with erysIpclss, with q
likelihood Of mis- remaining Ill for several days.
The committee sent him notification that
thereafter it would be necessary 10 have his
physicians certificate sworn to.
DEATH or THE POEr LONG FELLOW.
Henry wad,worth Lonsfcllow, one Of Amer
cas- most distinguished poets, del at Ca1-
bridge, near B,ston, Mass, on Friday, March
"a. For nine years his digestive organs have
bccn impaired TO such a degree that he couii
only partake OF vegetable or farinaceous food.
The immediate cause of dissolution was q chill.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Young Henry's early education received the
utmost care from his parents, and at the age Of
IA years hc entered Bowdoin College. in his
native State, from which he was graduated in
1925. After leaving college he eLtts his
fathers law Office, but the Law was SO uncon-
genial to his tastes that after few months OF
study be abandoned blackstone ard Kent, and
commenccd the study Of literature. Having
been rendered the professorship OF modern
languages at Bowdoin he went abroad to
quality himself for the cuiis Of the
chair, and sIent three and half years III
Europe. He returned 10 the United States M
1929, and at once assumed the On les OF his
professionally. He remained at Bowdoin untl
1885, when he accepted tho ros.ssofship OF
modern languages aud bellos lett, sat Harvard
Again ho went abroad, and alter . var hn
entered upon his dutics at Harvard, IN 1886.
This position he held uutil 1854, when he re-
signed and devoted himself * luavely to hrs
own writing and the pu ic~t on oi his works.
He began his literary work while . student
at Bowdoin, many VI bis eariy poems
being published in the Uatted States
Gazette, and while pro eSsor b, contributed
mttfN tDie CfitiCiruis 10 tuo NOTUi ANU tCuh ht
rieto. His first collection oi p,euis was pub
lishcd in 1889. Ballads aud O.ner Poems "
appeared in 1S43, and Poems on Slavery =
and the "Spanish student" the year follow
ing. The poem that brought him the most
fame, "Eyangeline, sppear.d In lsA7, AMI
"Kavanagh In lS4a "Hiaw-tha" " wAs pub
lished in 1855. Miles Stand,-h" IN 1858,
Hanging OF the Crane" in ls7&, and "Kera-
mos In 1873. No Amer can poet has been so
greatly admired in Europe as Mr.. bong
fellow, aud his works have been trans
lated into most OF the continental Ian
gusges. He visited Europe In l642
again In 1868, and again tine next year. The
honorary degree Of L. ID. Was conferred upon
him by Cambridge University in 1868, and that
OF ID. @. l. hy tho University OF oxford in 1869.
In 1878 he was elected . member OF the Rns-
sian Academy OF Sciences, sndrin 1877 mem.
Der OF the Spanish Academy. On the 9Th of
last month the 75th snuiversary Of his birth
was widely celebrated by .hs various literary
institutions Of the United States, but his health
has latterly been 20 broken ~ 10 render it ini-
rnsuif,ia for him 4 afford a hks corron-