Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-14
Sketches Of Well Known Virginians BY
Washington Correspondents.
JOHN W. DANIEL AND GEORE D. AND
JOHN 8. WISE.

a crowd yesterday. He presented the case
of Mr.. O'Ferrall against John Paul's va.
cancy." Mr.. Daniel combines wonderful
qualities OF logic and eloqusncs. He has
a countenance of remarkable strength
and beauty-a curious amalgam of Joe
jefferson, Edgar A. Poe and Edwin
Booth. His hair is intensely black and
worn rather long and curly at the neck.
His complexion is swarthy. His eyes are
steel grey. His nose and chin are Napo.
leonesque. typical of dominant spirit
and valiant intellect. The mouth is small.
with thin bloodless lips. This is the one
unpleasant feature. In conversation the
mouth has pursed look and tho teeth are
invisible. AS Major Daniel grows old
it indeed age shall ever wlther him-hls
face will not lose IN power but there will
be an evanishment of its present beauty.
Some of the ladies say that his face is the
grandest and comeliest in the world. 9th
or persons might dread it as they would
that of sorcerer. Like Byron and Prem
tbs, he is lame Of one log; but. unlike them,
he was not born 80. His MANNED limb is
caused by heroic wounds in the war. He
was LIST Lieutenant in company of which
our own r. NJ. Mitchell was Captain
MI. Daniel made earnest inquiry of his
Augusta. Ca, friend. and seemed q little
surprised, hut much gratifed, at his devel-
oping into prominent and successful
railroad builder. There seems to be no
doubt of John W. Daniels election to the
next House of Representatives from Vir-
ainia. The new reapportionment bill has
made it possible for him to be Congress.
man without antagonizing Hon. John
Randolph Tucker. This is an excellent
solution, and avoids the ambitious rivalry
of two eagles flying in the same air at the
same time.
The two Wises are always being con-
founded. You see they are both in the
House of Representatives from the same
State. To be sure John S. Wise is Read
juster, and George D. Wise, his COUSIN, is
a Democrat, but they are both young and
active, and they get mixed. John Sergeant
Wise is the son of Henry A. Wise. but he
will never be the man his father was. He
doesn't look anything like him to start
with. Henry A. Wise was thin. man of
1ery eyes, tongue and temper. John :
Wise is short, stout, chubby, smooth
faced young man, with brown hair, broad.
~ parted in the middle, who jokes and
laughs with the greatest ease. He has his
fathers quickness and nervousness. He
has, in some measure, his fathers elO-
quence; but his father was An orator,
whereas his son is only stump speaker.
John s. is as lively as = cricket. He sits
in his seat chewing the end of q cigar,
while he writes with his head thrown to
one side. Sometimes his tongue, which
he can curb very effectively, occupies the
place Of the cigar. Presently be jumrs up
and moves rapidly around the House. He
stops at half dozsn desks, says some
thing bright at each. and springs on until
he b0unces out Of the House. In the cor
ridor he dashes along. head up. coat open
and coat tails flying. smiling all the way.
He looks like very active wren.
His cousin George is very quiet law
yer-like man until he gets on his feet and
begins to talk, when he works himself
gradually up to high pitch Of excite
ment. He is very effective man before
q jury, and always gains the attention of
the House simply through his intense ner-
vous earnestness. Re is better speaker
than his cousin John. George Wise's father
was Federal oficeholder here before
the war, and George himself, while q boy,
was page In the House of Representa-.
tives here. He is eleven years older than
his cousin John. He was captain IN the
Confederate army, and was for ten years
Commemorative Attorney In Richmond.
He served in the Forty seventh Congress,
and will probably be reelected to the
Forty ninth. He is q slim man, with
black and gray hair and q mixed mus.
tache.