Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-02

Donavin did not have cent in his pocket.
The clerk called porter and sent the col
onel across to the International hotel on
PARK row. Yesterday morning, when the
colonel came down from his room, he had
the appearance OF very rakish and wild
old gentleman. He looked at the clerk
aud said: 'Pheugh! amt it tough-but
must have mild one TO hold down the
hat.7 He had no money. so ne took the
gold ring from his finger and paid for
enough whisky to steady his nerves and
make his eyes roll.
This was In the barroom of the Interna-
tional hotel, and the first lntimation of
committee IN charge of the colonel was
when dapper business-like man with a
soft brown moHstache bobbed up from the
corner OF the bar and asked the colonel
how On earth he had missed him last night
The colonel sand he really couldn't under
stand It, and then another stoutly built
black whiskered man appeared and shook
hands with the colonel as though he was =
long-l0st brother.
"Well, we're ali from Ohio" said he
Of the brown moustache. Lets have
drink"
All three drank, and when the two Ohio
friends took the colonel away he spoke in
a solemn orGcular tone, and declared that
ne would go To Ohio, This was at noon.
At O'Clock in the evening young man
from the Star entered the International
hotel. Col. DOnayin was braced up
against the bar, looking not like the
august old gentleman who was at the
Aston, but like a very gay and jolly old
fellow. The two friends were at their
posts. II musht go to Ohio" the colonel
remarked again and again, as he watched
the bubbles in his glass. Such ass ertions
seemed to act on the two friends like
galvanic battery, and they poured into the
colonePs ears recollections OF home and
childhood by the yard, and three fingers
OF whisky to smooth the way for the
memoirs.
The young man from the Star walked
up to the trio and said "COl. Donayln, l
believe"
Wrong. Hal ha! Very much wrong"
answered the man with the brown NOUS
tache. This is Mr.. w neeler." The coll
onePs blue eyes were fixed on the young
man, and he SAID: Happy to meet you
MI. understands your name, believe
Wheeler-a good name. Mr. Wheeler
Col. Simpson X DooavIn of Ohio is happy
to meet YOU, and, by George! l mustn't 80
to Ohio.o
The colonel during this speech swung
his right leg to and fro, trying in vain 10
anchor it on the iron rail beneath the bar.
The man with the brown mousuache nuffed
serenely on his cigar, but was evidently
ill at ease in perceivIng that the colonel,
instead OF understanding that his name
should be Wheeler, thought that he was
being introduced to a person by that
name.
Are you going to Ohio to testify
against Senator Payne, colOnel" the re-
porter asked.
eyes, sir" said the colonel, ''if have
to go in a balloon" Then the colonel
rested his rightleg and gave the left one
chance to catch the iron bar. 1t couldn't
do it.
''5ee here,'' said the man with the
brown moustache, drawing the re-
porter aside; ''don't mind him. He's a
little off. l am his triend-his bosom
friend"
The bosom friend then laid his hand on
his listeners shoulder and said: "D0 you
know that for ten years | have been fight
ing the Standard Oil Company? You leave
the colonel to me. Pll get MIN to Ohio be-
fore the committee goes, just as soon as he
gets over this little toot."
Here the bosom friend remarked that he
was an OHIO politician, but with the de-
lieacy of a politician he politely begged to
be excused from giving his sme. Would
he give his friends name? ''Well, really"
replied the bosom friend "he wouldn't like
it. OF course, he's doing what he can for
the colonel, too. Why, sir. he's the col
onePs bosom friend, too"
Then the bosom friends gave the col
onel few more drinks for the sake of old
friendship, and when last seen were pilot
ing him toward the Bowery, while the
colonel, still continuing his work on the
grapevine on his shirt front, was declar-
ing that he would so to Ohio, If he had to
charter a balloon.
The persons in charge of the colonel are
said to be two Ohio workers