The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-19
HORACE
Anecdotes About Him and His
Wife-A Somewhat Uncom
Portable Domestic Life.
detroit Tribune.1

oAS$ASy S~ w SAS
without hu ting anybody's feelings
It has been whispered ABOUT New
York a good many years, and per
haps wilt be less likely to be exag
| gerated and misunderstood if put il
plain type. His domestic life was
| u Unfortunate and uncomfortable, anc
this was partly the result and par,l,
| the cause of his own eccentric habits
Sidney Howard Gray, one of the
Tribune's best editorial manaeers in
those old days, insists that Horac,
Greeley is q myth. like Hercules,
D ana, Hebe. and Mrs. Harri-.
"rhere meyer was snch u man" he
SAID to me awhile ago. "When the
truth is known it will be seen that
the Horace Greeley of popular fancy
never existed. and that the real Hor-
c Greeley was a person of attributes
dianletrically the reverse" l think
he is mistaken here, and that tue
real Greeley, though somewhat diff
ferent from the ideal CIR. eley, Is as
suredly the same individual.
In the fall of 1861 I came here to
engage Mr. Greeley to 60 to WASH
iDgton and lecture. Inquiry ut the
Tribune: office took me 10 his house
OH Nineteenth street. I rang long
and repeatedly, and at last a lady
came down stairs to the door with
sleeves tucked briskly up her arm
and her hair twisted into q knot on
top of her bead. The following con-
versation took place:
"ls Mr.. Greeley in?"
HE is not"
do YOU know where be is?"
II do not. He is not stopping here
now"
Can I see Mrs. Greeley"
"You dol am Mrs. Greeley"
"Do-was-is- does Mr.. Greeley
come home sOmetimes?'
occasionally. He has not been
home this week."
do yo know where he is stop
pine?"
Il do not. He stopped at the Ev-
erett house last week."
1 went down to that hotel and in
quired. They said he was at the
New York hotel, and there 1 found
him raging up and down his room
and storming over a pile of dispatches
on the table. I seemed de trop, and
inquired what was the matter.
Matter" he repeated in his high,
falsetto voice, %''enough, ! should say;
battle yesterday at Plttsburg Land
ing; rebels whipped US. Of course; our
soldiers are being driven into the
Tennessee to-day. Our generals are
drunk. Buell. ought to be shot anu
Grant ought to be hung!"
After while he quieted down suf-
fcientlv to enable me to do my Grand
and take my leave
l have met a lady this week who
intimately acquainted with the
Greeley household for twenty years.
"M1s. Greeley" she says, had
not the knack of making a home.
She was always clean, hut never neat
never neat in appearance, l mean
because she was always washing
something and always dishevelled. i
have e her take her children with
not a garment on them out into the
street and pump water on them to
wash them. When 1 was there n
day l saw a servant wash out an
apron of her own and hang it out to
dry. Mrs. Greeley jumped up, seized
carving knife, rushed out and cut
out the piece of line containing the
and flung it to thegirl, saying:
How dare you hang your apron on
the same line with my baby's clothes? |
There was neatness for you.
"Yet when they lived on Nine
tenth street she kept three goats in
house for the children to play
With, and when I let one of my serv-
ants 60 IT, to live she came run
ming home to me the next day, saw
|ng; 1 won't live there, mjssus.
I asked her what was the
Sure. I have no bed at all, !
out must just bunk down on the pile
II hay they have for the goats!"
mi. Greeley asked me one SUNDAY
o come around in the morning and
20 to Chaplin 8 with him. 1 went,
nd when | got there there was a ira
going on in the vestibule-he and
lis life and the children and the
oats were all mixed up together.
The question u.s." said Mr.. Gree
py, whether the goats shall 70 10
with US. Mother insists
hat I shaD't 20 to church unless / 90
t the bead Of procession OF goats
nd children. Tnst seems lnore like
secular following.' 1 believe we got
at last without them: though MIS-.
ireeley said It's only your cussed
Mrs. Greeley had an antipathv !.
kid gloves-she would never put
lem on. 1 remember a bout she had
18th Margaret Fuller on the lubiect. ,
We all net on the street, and instead =,
say ing Good morning. or s,me )
her human salutation, Mrs. Greeley +,
Margaret's hand with 4 little ,
ludder and said, Skin of q beast! {
lin IF q bea>t!!" why, what 40 you !
ear" inquired the a>tonished maid :,
1 from Maine. Silk said Mrs. \
reaching out her hand. Mar
ret just touched it and shudderei.
ying: 'Entrails Of = worm! Entrails q
q worm! n
II was once in q stage with Mrs. d
going up Madison avenue. Il
hen she suddenly pulled the strap. G
q tin pail out from under /,
+ shawl, ana, reaching it out to the Ii