Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-17

riety which his crime ana its punishment have
brought them into A Policeman. whose
duty IT was to keep in order the hun
the 'toughs' house as long as his body lay inside,
ana who aceord19gy, came In contact with sur
Seylss msm9sss 2. sne Jami gives emphatic cyl
aloin family hardly feel as much regret over
Mikes" death, as the farmer did over that Of a
with the lawyers an provin' the viii. an signin'
this paper, and sgnin' that. almost wish my
brother hadn't died!" were the farmers ,senti-
place OF regretting their loss consider the notor
ETY. which they have acquired cheaply purchased
AN OLD POLITICIANS GARNER
Ex-mayor A. Oakey Hall Is coming back into
public life very slowly and cautiously but coming
back all the same. He was a very popular man
at one time and even after the expose OF the great
Tweed ring frauds he had many friends left He
is man of q peculiar temperament and shrinks
from notoriety. There is a pretty general belief
| that he was not implicated in the frauds, or at
least not in the way that would call for legal pun
isnment or even Investigation But as soon as the
ran away, and people who were anxious to uphold
him and support him In every way were met by
| blacklist times the majority of people
believed though he may have been little foolish
he was not criminal with the great ring Of thieves
back to town he settled down very quietly, and
was embarrassed and constrained In ali his deal
ings with men. He took quiet editorial position
on me World, and labored patiently In his sane
tum day after day without any thought of regain
Ing his former position In society. His Oh FARMING
daughters and his really brilliant wife gave up al
most all OF their social pleasures and rarely ven
tured out into general society. But the ex-mayor
Is such genial good-hearted and cordial man, has
jolly good fellow that he finds It difiicult to
Keep Keep away from his former friends. Everybody
Ieels kindly disposed toward him. But yet until
EEeaQfdStlY Tn mt
among men. 1t was noticed that at the COM
mencement OF this season he accepted Invitations
still very numerously attended, and that he was
seen on the avenues and at the Opera more fire.
h tnnn at any me since the great
MADE up his mind to come out again, and the men
with whom he had formerly been on such intimate
liant writer on the editorial page or the World,
though his work had been uniformly good. PEG pie
s'n ma MSpds msa why s1s n he d
s able eon! than his After the 1rst Of the
his appearance more or less at the Clubs nights.
and was always surrounded by men who are dell.
cate In their expressions of good fellowship Then
at public meetings, but as he rarely made
speeches the facts did not count for much. Then
ne delivered an eloquent grafton at the commence
ment exercises at Packard's College, in the Acad-
envy Of Music and is now rapidly being pulled out
OF his shell by his enthusiastic friends It may be
courage and that he was not wise in thus Weld
ing to public opinion, but he seems to have had a
COCA deal OF wisdom after all, for he has created
an impression that he is downtrodden man, and
suffered much In reputation, and when man
once creates the impression that he has been
wronged he has strong hold on the public SYM
pathy.
HON. JOHN B. HAsKINs AND FLORIDA
met that sturdy old democrat, John B. Has
kin, the other day on the street looking even
more forid than usual. and certainly I'VE inches
larger around the waist 'F1orida Is q glorious
country" he said, II was tucked out. worried,
and pretty much upset generally when started
south and eight days in the climate of that great
state built me up SO that when got back here to
New York after an absence, of less than two
under treatment by the best physicians in the
World for ten years l often take run down to
F1or 10 e when am little out Of sorts and tell
the chief Of the Tuscaroras is by ali odds the most
vigorous democrat In New York city. The old
man MAJ never seems to lose his enthusiasm for poll
Tics, ana would stop at any moment to deliver
stump speech at the top OF his voice at any point
OF the universe. You may meet him at Del
Westminster county, on skin In the Harlem river.
on broadway, on Q roof, In cellar, at any place
or 9ader any any conditions and before you have
arm up In the air, his LETT hand on his him. and BE-
gin 10 deliver his sentiments In voice that IS dis
the usual rotund voice and orator1cai style of an
ex-COngressman, and has as much influence with
Ine WOrkingmen as any man in New York, except
gathers q crowd OF nifty Or sixty workingmen
arc around him in the street and begins to expound
hedWs m OF the sn party When he
lrghtu oath that i * Time Tor change IN Mli the
gOsernment, every man who hears him believes
implicitly in his views, and II the opportunity
offers will rush OF and vote at once for the demo-
HaEns he is true 3 o1 Sa Saa ID
thoroughly In earnest in all his convictions
Ex-GovERNoR HOFFMAN
seems to me to be the most numerous man in New
York city; he Is ubiquitous No matter where I
go or what the time OF day or night, am sure to
encounter the ex-governor walking placidly along
with his iron jaw and dropping mustache, alert
observant and vigorous He seems to be perpetu-
ally on the CO. He is at the first nights at all the
theaters, at numerous boxing matches, and quite
a, man LOT .he races IN summer and at all seasons
does not seem 70 have many friends, as he recog-
mes Few people1n The course of his walk and Is
suppose he Is the only ex-governor In America
VINO aoes not wear SIX hat on every possible oc-
ge Is an from attorney
though not q remarkable man, in some Ways
would rival Henry Clay in his memory of faces and
him last fall one afternoon at O'Clock that he
DEMea 10 ana called by name ALMOST every other
GU citizen en- we met Nobody escapes his observant
Woodford he is dead sure Of receiving a bland and
buttery smile and gentle wave of a white hand
for greeting. was introduced to WoodfOrd six or
s ny, years ago at dinner in Albany, and chat
ted with him less than i've minutes. After that I
qua not see him again for period of certainly two
hlm IN the court house he stopped at once, shook
me by the hand, called me by my full name and
asked me II remembered the occasion OF our flrst
meeting: I once spoke to him about this peculiar
faculty OF his, and he said 1t was mostly due to a
habit habit ne had acquired Of carefully impressing
every name on his memory and assoclating it with
some prominent feature or noticeable thing about
the person to whom 1T belonged. guess that sort
OF faculty Is purely gift know that some men
might study for lifetime and yet could not re-
memoer the names OF casual acquaintances when
they finished any more than when they began
EX-GOVERNOR ALoNzo B. CORNELL
mas settled down quietly in New York, and is
making herculean attempt to sink from public
notice. 1cannot say he has met with much Cd
position to his heroic effort in this direction.
don't believe prominent man was ever dropped
with such entire satisfaction and contentment "a
was was Mr.. Cornell He was never popular and never
VIII 0e, and his last little eScapade In the sblnd
pool" business settled his political standing. so
tnat ne IS wrecked both socially and politically
Wnat ne Is mentally remains to be seen. It can
not De wondered at that he was not q popular
governor In his personal relations with people. al
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