The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-08
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OF steps which leads up about forty-tive feet
OF bill and lands you at what was builtfo n
coach-house. but Is now used rs dwelling.
was told that Mr.. Greeley's only living
daughter has a suit OF rooms in that build.
ing. quite handsomely furnished. Going
further and turning to the left and climb
ing the bill, we come upon the foundation
OF the house In which his children were
born. The ruins measure about thirty by
twenty feet. IL is said that during the
bread riot- in this city Mrs. Greeley ex-
pected her house to be invaded by the Irish
because OF the Tribuns's attitude. She
placed some gunpowder under the dwell
ing, and told her servant to fire 1t when
they came into the house. Don't wait
for a crowd. II only two come, set IL or"
She chose this spot because IL was only a
few steps from ravine through which q
small springfield stream flowed. Some OF
the trees In the vicinity Of the house are
beautiful. Mr.. Greeley used to take his
little Ratchet" and follow the Glad
stonian exercise Of trimming off the lower
branches when the saplings were six or
seven feet high. Perhaps this IL his near
est resemblance to Gladstone. The trees
have grown, and nearly all OF them are
straight and rise twenty TO fifty feet with
out q branch.
Mr.. Greeley damned the little stream in
his third attempt when he put the bow Of
the dams arch against the current in
stead of with IL, as twice previously. The
arch is OF granite blocks, and at least
twenty inches thick. Over it the little
stream. which Jumbo could easily drink as
It flows. has fall OF about fifteen feet.
From the pond thus made he got bis ice.
By its side he stood and CONGRATULATED
himself on the success OF the Tribune,
and wondered il he would ever be Presi-
dent, and / am told that into its depths be
felt like casting himself when he was de-
feated, for he bore his reverses with little
heroism.
He came home from New York every
Friday afternoon and stayed until Saturday
afternoon. The rest OF the time was spent
| in the Tribune Office. This custom was
religiously observed for the last ten years
of his life. His farm - needed supervi-
sion, and he could no; entirely neglect it.
1t is the opinion OF his neighbors, from
one Of whom l gathered the facts OF this
letter, that the Tribune was his greatest
and only success. He DELIGHTED to mould
public opinion. and frequently spoke of
the pleasure he felt in influencing the out
side world.
Mrs. Greeley hated dii t, and would have
no carpets on her floors because they
| brought dust into the house. As one OF
our party said, "She was like my aunt.
who would not 90 through deaths door
without stopping to polish the knob" She
sometimes invited her husband to lunch
his guests at the village hotel. more espe-
cially when she knew nothing OF their COM
ing until they were in the house at lunch
time.
saw Miss Greeley, the only surviving
daughter. She is moderately good look
ing. and sat in rickety, mud-covered'
rusty-looking top-buggy. and drew the
reins very skiliully on very handsome
bay horse, who showed signs of capering
at the noise OF a shoe-factory on the road
side. She was alone, and seemed to pos
sess an air OF independence, as well as a
life-interest in her fathers great paper.