Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-05
How the Mighty Have Fallen Since
Their Palmy Days.

Robert Small, the coored pilot who ran
a vessel out OF the Confederacy and deliV-
cred her to the Federal blockaders, is ex-
pected to be Msckey's successor from the
Seventh South Carolina District. The next
Chicago delegation from that State Is set
down as certain for Arthnr by South
Carolina Republican here who also fur
nishes some curious information concern
ing the aiter.the,wsr Republicans who con-
trolied that State in the carpet bag period.
Cham berlaiu, he says, is doing we'll in the
practice of the law al New York. Corbin,
the terror OF the klu-klux clans, is farming
IN Vermont. w. +. Earle is winning his
way in Washington. Tomlinson IS living
ia Minneapolis. Patterson has gwen tne
State wide berth since 1876. Tom Robert
son, the other Senator, is paralyuc IN
Columbia. Bowen, who held Charleston
and all her interests in his grip, IS dead.
Elliott. the Smarfest Negro
developed by reconstruction, Congressman,
speaker Of the house and attorney general
elect, is making precarious living 10 New
Orleans: Wright, the negro Justice OF the
supr,ue court, is 8 drunken losfer iu Bsau-
fort: Dunn, the controller general, is ped
ding a patent glue in Boston; Hardy So.o-
mons. the Jew fnancier and keeper OF the
Stale deposits, Is possessed OF little bake
shop in Kansas City Gurney, county treas
ursr Of Charleston, is long since dead ;
Mics G. Parker, the manipulasOr OF mil
lions Of conversion bonds, keeps little
music store in Indiana, and ekes out Nv
ing By lecturiug on temperance and relig'
ion; Governor Scott, since his trial tor
murder. is broken in health and spirit, but
fa1lx frpr RI
ohio wood lands; Hoge lives in Ohio, and
remembers the fat pickings OF the Con-
troller Generals office with pleasure; ex'
Judge L. Il. Carpenter stays away from
south Carolina with care; he has done
pretty we'll in the star-route cases, and has
not changed his politics
More Than Half q Dozen Times
in the same number OF years; Cass Carpsn-
ter is a wreck in Denver; ex-Chiet Justice
Willard has dritted to Washington, having
| been digested and diSjected by his Demo
cratic employers OF 1876; the irrepresslole
Judge T. J. Nackey has also opened q law
office in Washington; Cardozs, ex-State
| Treasurer, and Swsils, once president oil
! the Senate, look contented with clerkships
| in the Treasury; Whittemore serves the
| Lord in Massachusetts, with the same nuc,
ton that he did in the Senate Of South Car
| olina; Charley Leslie is as shifty in Kansas
as ever he was in Barnwell county; kimP'
ton, once financial agent OF the State IN
wall street, is q seedy looking lame duck
among the curb stone brokers there; Puter,
who once handled the assets of the bank oil
| the State, comes to Washington occasion
| ally. cheerful but not rich; McDevitt knows
| the value of four aces in Colorado as well
| as when he had
The Revenues Of Edxeueld County
I to back his hand; John B. Dennis prospers
in Dakota; Joe Woodruff practices short
hand in 3 counting room in Philadelphis,
not so profitably as when he was the king
pin of the legislative ring as clerk OF the
Senate and president Of the printing com
pany; Nagle is special agent Of the Pen
sion 0fice; and last, but not least, Frank
Moses, the young native Governor OF lS'2'
bayir 2 served out his term for swindling
in the county prison of New York, is now
teaching the Tustlers' Of New Mexico
! some new tricks