Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-13
HERE AND THERE.

Mr. Pendleton, who is the author Of the
civil service law. some time ago called upon
President Arthur and requested that in the
appointment of a postmaster to a little office
in Ohio-vaCatcd recently 80 as to get a
Republican started ON four-year commits
sion-aCtion be delayed until the Democratic
administration came in. The president fatty
refused and declared that no existing courtesy
between presidents coming in and presi-
dents going out required such postponemeut
Mr. Arthur proposes to fill all vacancies oc-
curing before March Fourth and to fill them
with Republicans
"Tom" Marshall, the rittsburg lawyer
and politician. has always been an intense
hater of the Cameron dynasty, and away
back in lSGO when tn, elder Cameron A.
pired to the presidency. Horace Greeley
stopped off in rttShurg on his way To the
Chicago convention and conferred with Mar
shall on the subject of the presidential nom
inaton. With Greeley aud in his confidence
was young fellow of whom Marshall did
not make much account Sixteen years later,
| when he had forgotten the stripping, the lat
| ter a visitor again to Pittsburg, called him.
| self and the circumstances OF lSGO 10 Mar
shall's attention. lie remembered every de.
| tail Of their first meeting and recalled every
person present even asking Marshall "and
how is the little lady?' referring to Mrs.
Marshall, who was Of small stature. James
c. Blaine's wonderful recollection of names
and faces, all his friends agree in rreditiug
with much Of his success.
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"Tho little lady" Mrs. Marshall, to whom
her husband was chivalrously and devotedly
| attached, was, by the way. tho daughter of
"Roddy" Patterson, elected sheriff of Allie
| gheny county in ISIS, on the Democratic
| ticket, in a political revolution due mainly
| TO the phenomenal feature of Marshall activC-
| ly espousinG the cause of the Democracy.
| The Whig party, or what was left of it, had
| yoked up with the KNOWN Nothing fanaticism
| and the alliance fired Marshalrs soul with
| disgust. He is an Irishman born, though
not a Catholic: and the race and
| religious higotry of the movement
excited his deep resentment. and he
put the steel into his wayward party
| Very soon after Patterson had been elected
sheriff, Marshall married his daughter. | am
not sure whether or not it was case Of
| elopement Wasn't it d" Old Bill " Allen of
| Ohio, who after defeating political opponent
married his daughter
| #@g
| Mr.. Cleveland-recently elected president
| Of the whole United States-once told me
| the story of his being drafted and sending n
substitute to the army. He spoke without re-
| serve about it, for that he is a frank man. all
allow who have been interviewing him since
he became more conspicuous figure in the
country's politics. He was assistant district
attorney at the time in Buffalo, and could
have escaped the liabilities of the draft as he
had two brothers in the army and was the
/ a aif,iV, -
mother. But he took his chances and was
drawn. At that time the municipal authori,
ties of Buffalo often picked up stout and lit
men who preferred going to the army tC
| going to the work house, and from this class
many cheap substitutes were taken by people
| whom the draft had hit. Mr.. Cleveland Dc
clined to have any such " rung in " upon tn,
government in his behalf lie found
stout sailor, fresh in from A lake cruise who
| wanted to shoulder a muskCt and try his fate
and fortunes in the army; Clevelar paid
ana sent him. The substitute got | * with
whole skin, and some time ago wrote tc
Mr.. cleveland suggesting that under some
crook IN the pension law, as 1t stood or was
to be altered. the money paid him could bt
recovered back from the L. :. treasury. The
! mayor OF Butlalo-OF he NAV then have beer
governor of New York-wrote back that j
the government was satisfied he was
There have been a number of more or les
correct stories printed recently about tn
military order of the Loyal Legion, which 1
made up of commissioned officers Of the lat
war and is to be continued by their eldcs
sons like the Cincinnati which grew out q
the Revolutionary war. | am told by on
high in the legion that il had its start in tn
brain OF the late Col Sam b. Wylie Mitchell
deceased, of Philadelphia, who was tn
founder of the Pin Kappa Sigma fraternity
with its Alpha chapter in the University o
| Pennsylvania and the Maltese cross anC
| JeWeicd deaths head Of whose order blaze
from the lapels of some of our college boys
coats. Gen. Hancock is the commander in
chief Of the Loyal Legion in this country
j. l.. Barr, formerly of Lancaster, is one of tht
most active Philadelphia members and Can't
George NJ. Franklin belongs to it.
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Judge Collier Of the Pittsburg bench, was
Lancaster county boy. lie was born anC
raised near MillersvIlle.
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| ID. Mon. Stauiier the eminent civil engin
eer, son Of the late J. Staufier. and now edito
of the Engineering Nelcs, New York, ha, {
wonderful collection of autograph letters, in
cluding originals not only of every president
but OF every member of all the cabinets from
Washington to Buchanan's. Strange TO say
t-it is more difficult to get complete letter.
| from the later than the earlier cabinet Officers
| loT Lllc TeaSpH lilat nowadays the ministers O
state mostly have secretaries to dispatch theiI
dictated correspondence. Mr.. StautIer has
| autograph letters of all the governors o!
| Pennsylvania, from the Penns to Pattison; OF
| nearly all the attorneys general and of man
| other SUGGESTIONS of public men, as we'll as
| OF all the mayors of Philadelphia from its set.
| uement to the Centennial, These latter letters
are feature of his specially illustrated
| NV atsons Annals" work which he has
| swclled by many rare features to some "A
| volumes, and which, as he has prepared il,
| is of almost priceless value There il no end
| to the money that can be expended on the
| special Illustration of one such work by an
| indeiatigable collector. A gentleman in New
| York, who has been at work on Sanders0n' s
" Lives of the Signers," has twelve folios
| that cost him 10000 and could not be du-
| pllcated at any price. Oceans are crossed
and continents rausacked for autographs and
illustrations.
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IL would be curious 10 trace the history of
the Judicial oath and see what different forms
OF II prevail in different localities, and the in
huences that govern and give rise TO
them. Hereabouts most people affirm in
some sections nearly everybody kisses the
book in Western Pennsylvania, where the
Presbyterians first planted their faith, the
popular mode of swearing in court is by the