The Washington critic., 1888-01-14
STURDY JUDGE CoNKLING.
Anecdotes About Him ana His Famous
Son, the ex-senator.

Son, the ex-senator.
Old residents of Auburn tell many
anecdotes of sturdy Judge Conkling
and of the boyhood days of his dis
tinguished son, Roscoe Conkiuq.
Charles Briggs, for instance, for many
years the freight agent of the New
York Central Road at Auburn, de-
lights in telling how the future United
States Senator cdme to him one day
and said:
=" 4 have had row with my father,
Charley, and l want to 90 on the
road as q brakeman. VIII you help
me to get q place.
'He must have been about l6
then" said Briggs, 'but knew there
was good stuff in him. | knew, too,
that it would distress his father, who
was very proud man, TO have his
son employed in any such capacity.
SO / reasoned with Rose, urging him
to study law or something like that
Well, he did study law, and was ap-
pointed district attorney of Oneida
County before he was % years old -
The old Judge did not believe in
shining by borrowed light, as this
little incident will show. On one o,-
casion he was introduced as ''the
father of Senator Conkling." Straight
ening himself up until his fine and
dignified figure was seen to best adj
vantage, he said:
Introduce me as Judge C0nkling
sir. - New York Press.
Longevity Notes.
The oldest resident Of Blue Anchor y
j., is Stillman Morton, who is 81 years OF
age.
Hattie North, who recently died at Troy.
Kan, was believed to have lived III year
William Aiken, cOlored man of Co
lllmbia, ;. C., was married ON his 1851
birthday to Susan Watson, young
widow aged 80 years.
Ezra ID. Whitaker of North Adams
Mass. is 81 years old and very strong aud
robust. Job Anthony of South Adams is
Two venerable citizens Of Chilcothc.
Mo, died recently. Isaiah Austin, S.
was 95 years of age, and Iunty Mich.
ney, who was 30.
At the donation day ceremonies at the
PHILADELPHIA Home for Aged and lniirm
Colored Persons, John Gibson opened the
celebration with prayer, although he is
III years of age.
The Hon. David Neighbour of Califuu
\. j., has Just celebrated ms 9l,t birthday
He is one of the few surviving members oi
Nilt NOllNtullOll WHICH lTullltl Nllt NNIl.
stitution of New Jersey in lSiS
When Maria Gilbert died at Stanford,
KY, recently, she had lived eighty-Sryeu
years without ever having left her hum.
She never saw train, although her hHm
was but five miles from the railroad
Mrs. Mary Hi yes Gilbert of { .uUp.-le.
Mass, is in her ODD year and I lay
best of health, with memory urmpoircd.
When but Ii years she was at a dinner L.
President Adams, who drank glass of
wine with her.
The grandparents of Mr.. and Mrs T. -
Johnston are four of the lOngesi-iisea
people in Georgia, connected b. similar
ties, They reside at Griffin, and are re-
spectiyely g. 81, 81 and 10 years, and are
remarkably hale and hearty.
Dong His Duty.
Every one has heard of the 'h,rr
man, whose business ii was (. keep
order in the meeting house, bgJ tea
of our readers ever saw him, Now
adays no one is supposed to need
watching in such q place, partly be-
cause the children too generally stay
at home, perhaps, and partly because
many things are now looked upon as
quite innocent which formerly would
have been accounted sacrilegious
Here is an anecdote which illustrates
how, in the olden time, one tithingur n
least magnitied his office. General li-
was the great man of the town Ills
daughters were sent 20 Boston to be edu-
Gated and one of them came home with e
Boston lover, who is now merchant iu
New York city. He went TO church with
her
But Boston manners aud New England
country manners and ideas were not the
same When the hymn was given out,
Mr.. r. found il and handed the book TO
Miss H; she bowed and took 1t.
Second hymn, the same, The old uthing
man looked and frowned, but did not
quite like 10 offend General H. hut he
thought il over and over and his con-
science accused him of beings "respecter'
of persons, and that ho thought very
fearful sin
Therefore, he took his seat in the0tter'
noon, resolved 10 do his duty learessyr
whatever might be the result TO hun.
| The hymn was given out. Mr., II
| found il and handed the book tu Miss
| IL; she bowed and took IL.
Rap, rap, rap, went the old man stiok'
| Then pointing to General lis pew.
| "You, you-I mean General IL S gal
| and her Boston beau None of your
oarryings on here, say Nou'ha
| Companion