Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-26
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way Note Book.
/ saw orr uncle Joseph Mcdonald in fte
United States Senate about q week ago
He is big man, tolersbly big all over, and
with q somewhat waddling walk, and he
occasionally uses q stick to help himself
along, though there is not-much evidence
of decay about him. He has large bald
head with an sbattis OF thin hair making
two parallel lines over the ears; his features
are pretty good, out they are inhabited by
a sort of wondering and simple good.
nature which substitutes for the msgister
isl appearance the idea of good country
landlord, something like Joe Willett at the
Msypole Inn. The smile comes as natur
all. 10 that eye as the corn.dodger would
come 10 the mouth, for you can see appe,
tie lurking ali around the vissge, as il
every sense he had was accessory to the
organ of taste. Now and then there
IS little flash in the eye, or deeper
iIgbt, IS il thought was not far behint
inst rubicund exterior. Something OF tae
OLD cunning OF the Indian fighter, modified
By life time of peace, peryades the facs.
Be began life a saddler, and would not sell
cut that Renaissance now for 800. 900, for
lie expects that il he can get the nomina-
tiIE tor President there will be hundred
miles Cf saGdlers in procession from difsr
ent parts OF the country, all beating on the
saddle leather. Thus tenderly do the old
trades come up in the mind and supplant
these later professions which now are over.
packed, and mems minds return to me-
cbsnics as the happier estate. McDonaldis
second to Hendricks, and Mr.. Gresham
oh him m ho his partnar ahnnf limo
Gresham was called 10 the Cabinet
Having been in OHIO part of the week
I went through Senator John Sherman's
residence now being transformed and en-
larged. II will be his third home con-
struction at Mansfield since he moved
there in 1910 al the sge of, say, twenty.
Like General Sherman, he had been an
adopted son OF his cousin at the town
OF Mt. Vernon, where Columbus Delano
and General Morgan reside, both equally
respected by their towAsmea though of OPP
posiIe parties. John Sherman began life
ment and Canal Company in 1887, in
the first year of President Van
Buren's construction. HIS father
removed to Ohio because his depu-
ties in the office of Internal Collector 10
Connecticut plundered him and broke him
up. He left eleven children and next to
no property, yet observe the career of that
poor family. Industry, genius, beauty,
socisbility and length of days seem peren.
NAL there. From that poor widow, several
of whose children the good neighbors and
kin relieved her of, the mind and eye wan
der to the beauty of Mrs. General Miles,
the vivacity Mrs. Donald Cameron, the re.
funder of the public debt aud the great
Alsric of freedom marching to the sea- Let
those who die poor with purely descended
posterity compose their souls!
Frank Rurd, of the Toledo District,
Ohio, is more referred to than recogniz I'd.
He is bachelor, think, of a somewhat
bcyish countenance and address, and lit
tie resembles TIE late Oliver P. Morton,
having dark hair, eyes rather wide apart,
a somewhat heavy face, and rather large
body; he is permanently lame, and this
NAV have a little fretted his serious nature
and given him some OF that combatiyeness
which we saw in Thaddeus Stevens. /
should say that he was q large man, weigh
ing quite 200 pounds. His sister married
John Delano, the son of ex.Secretary De-
lapo, who despite good deal of contention
at Washington is regarded by many Of his
Democratic neigH Oors az an excellent man.
Hurd comes Of u strongly oDiniOnated fam
lily: his father was jurist and author, and
the son is in the same line. He is rather
self-iDdulgent, but has periods of study,
while his conibativeBesS is uointermittept.
He attracts respect for TIE stesdiress Of
his opinions, and in intarcuurses is often
found quite kind and reciprocal.