The Washington critic., 1886-11-23
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER e3, isso.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

senator Logan is Ectllng rlCn, SlyS
Macfarland in the Philadelphia Record
He came to the conclusion that he must
make some money about the same time
that Roscoe Conkling did. In the ma
outside of public life; and as an honest
man he kept his eyes open for lcgiti-
mate opportunities in Washington. He
has found two opportunities, both of
which he has industriously improved.
One is In his blood. and thunder po.
litical history, and the other Is In sub
urban real estate. Logan made q better
bargain with his publishers than Blaine
did, and is likely to get much more
money out of his book. Two years
ago he bought a little place on the
hill just north Of Washington for
$4,000 paying nothing down but
permission to the real estate agents to
advertise the fact as much as they
pleased. This they did so dexterously
that Logan's place is now worth three
times what he gave for 1t, and the
property in the neighborhood has risen
correspondingly In value with It. Lo.
gan has set his son, j. A. Logan, jr.,
up in the real estate business with 81.
mon Newcomb, jr., the son of the great
mathematician. Young Logan is
bright fellow and carries out his
fathers real estate spoculations, which
are extending in several directions out.
side of the city, with great success,
Logan thinks he will go into the cam
paign of 1888 with quarter Of mil
lion dollar "bar'l"
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Mrs. Henry Garden Of Lafayette,
Ind, now owns clock which was
made by jeremiah G. Cleveland, the
Presidents uncle, on Lucys Run,
Clermont County, Ohio, three.scoro
years ago. Its history, as related by
the Cincinnati Commercial. Gazette, is
this: Two brothers, both young men,
and uncles of President Cleveland, and
respectively named Jeremiah G. and
Stephen b. Cleveland, settled In Cler.
mont County, Ohio. The latter kept
store at Felicity, and was awhile in
partnership with Robert Chelfant, the
father Of the beautiful wife of Hon.
George Il. Pugh, once the idol of the
Ohio Democracy. The other brother,
jeremiah G. Cleveland, located on
Lucy's Run, halfway between Batavia
and Amelia, and married a daughter of
the pioneer, Charles Robinson, and put
up q clock factory, which he operated up
to about 1888. He made the woodwork
and case into which he put the works,
generally buying the latter in Phila.
delphia. The Presidents father, who
was Presbyterian preacher, had
learned, when boy, the trade of
clockmaliing, and in 1885, two years
before the President was born, came
to Clermont County, Ohio, and spent two
weeks with his brother, during which
visit he helped his brother Jerry finish
up half dozen of these "wall.sweeps
or Virginia tickers," as some call
them. Mrs. Gardens is one of these
old-fashioned grandfather clocks"
and is seven feet and eight inches high.
1t was bought in Cincinnati, where
jeremiah G. Cleveland had put dozen
of them for sale in May, 1925, and of
which it was one, for 500 in silver, by
James Earl, late Of Wea Township,
and is now sixty-on years old. 1t was
brought from Cincinnati to Lafayette,
by way of the Ohio and Wabash riv-
ers, at that time there being no rail-
roads in this country. AT one time n
man by the name of Babcock offered
Mr.. Earl eighty acres of land for this
clock. This land is now owned by
Rose kirkpatrick of Wea Township,
and is worth $1,000 or $4,000. This
clock has kept the time for over half
century, and is still in good repair.
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Says the same correspondent: At one
of the second. hand bookstores not long
ago an almanac Of Jefferson was sold
for dollar. Upon investigation, it
was found TO be full of memoranda,
and the purchaser resold it to the
State Department Tor about thirty
times what it cost him. A great many
Government documents are in these
book stores, and not long ago friend
Of mine, in looking over the shelves,
found what was apparently blank
book, but what was in reality a lot OF
unused Treasury stamps. lie bought
it at the same price he would pay for
an old account book, then went to the
Treasury and had the stamps re.
deemed, making a hundred dollars OF
SO by the operation. Government doc
uments are worth nothing or great
deal, according to the time and the rar-
ity of. their publication.
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Some years ago, says the Chicago
MAI, Chester A. Arthur, while pas
senger on train between New York
and Albany, produced copy Of
Charles Levers Jack Hinton" H(
had scarcely entered upon the adven
lures of the dashing guardsman wher
gentleman entered the car, seated
himself In front of Mr.. Arthur ant
took from his sa,cbsl copy Of "Sain
PatriclS's Eve" also by Lever. Thi
coincidence led subsequently to mutua
acquaintance, and, naturally, 10 dis
cussion of the merits of the great Irisl
novelist. The writer well remember
the recitation by Mr.. Arthur of these
lines:
"Och, Dublin city, there Is no doubtln',
Bates every city upon the say;
IT'S there you hear O'Connoll spoutin',
And Lady Morgan maxim tay.
For tits the capital o. the finest nation,
Wid charmin' pisintry upon Il fruitful
sod,
Flghtin' like divils for conciliatlon,
An hatin' each other for the love o
Godn
Those familiar with Levers writing
will recall his structures on Englisl
landlords who oppress their Irish ten
antry. When Gladstone and Parnel
came together on common platform
for Irish rights Mr.. Arthur, being ther