New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-16
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL.
THE LITERARY DIVERSIONS OF THE CHIEF
JUSTICE AND JUSTICE BRADLEY.
SENATOR FRYE'S ADvENTURE-wAs CONGRESS-
MAN MADoo ARRESTED FOUR HUNDRED
TIMES 9-CAsE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Washin gton Dec. ID hear that Jusuco branlel
is writing book-not legal volume but family
history. 1t IS for his satisfaction than fol-
any other purpose and If the work Is published II
| will probably be for private circulation only. The
| Justice raised near Albany. but his family Were
| among the original settlers around Stamford Conn
Every landmark in that historic spot Is familiar to
Justice Bradley and he finds great delight In his In
| vestisations.
hear also that some Of Chief Justice Fuler's
admirers have been anxious have collection OF his
| poems and addresses made Mr.. Fuller. however. is
modest about It. His poems his pride, and no
| takes pleasure I'm them than I'm knotty legal
| question Those which have been given to the public
have been mostly OF clcgac character, such as
odes on Garfield Grant and Logan. His friends have
notion that Mr. Fuller has attempted something an
bilious In tho way of epic after Homer and Virgil
Their curiosity this point has been grat1cd
and 1t may be that they are mistaken. The public
addresses of tho Chief Justice howcry enough TO
be called prose poems Gems OF polished and elegant
oratory" they used TO be called in Chicago. One Of
| these addresses delivered az celebration I'm
honor OF stephen a. Douglas last spring and opened
with pithy statement that ." the Republic Is op'
portuny." A few weeks later the orator was called
from private life 10 fill the vacancy caused by the sud
den death OF Chief Justice Waite On leaving Chicago
Mr. Fuller was given dinner at which many notable
| speeches made. He himself talked with his
wcnted felicity, quoting largely from Cicero. and not
forgetting TO say something pleasant about the
suavlter in modoS and the forter in re-" 1t Is
addresses Of this kind that his friends would Ike to
see given more lasting fame than the columns OF
the daily newspaper afford. but the Chief Justice IS
wary and will hardly crafty any enemy he may have
by writing book l have heard from a friend that
his book reviews not unknown in the literary
columns of the Western papers, while one occasion
1t was his pen that analysed popular opera boufe
The friend tells that the chances that
some enterprsng newspaper could get an interview
from the Chief Justice Robert Esmerep and John
Ward, Preecher" which would be moro ncsive than
most of the pulpit criticisms which have been
numerous Of late. Novels which strike vein
are his delight and he has sometimes laughngly
promised TO write one himself But for the present
he contents himself with reading them for recreation
Whenever noted ecclesiastical litigation comes
before the Supreme Court It Is altogether probable that
the Chief Justice will assign tho writing of tho opinion
10 himself He likes 10 delve IN this branch of the
law. Years ago in the celebrated trial of Bishop
Cheney, Mr.. Fuller, though himself orthodox
Episcopalian, his counsel lie espoused the
Of the prosecuted ecclesasc with all the aror Of
convert. The Bishop, charged with heresy con-
corning infant baptism Mr. Fuller delivered three
days speech which astonished tho ecclesiastical tr
bunal, not only by its literary tone, but also by the
depth Of its theological learning believe his client
was acquitted OF heresy. The Chief Justice always
took active interest In theological matters and was
often lay delegate TO the councils Of his church
On occasion friend asking the lawyer where HIS
vacation had been spent, edited by the reply that
Mr.. Fuller had been at a National Synod where manJ
questions of theological lore had been under discussion
Egad," said the enthusiastic layman at was
glorious TO sit there and hear those old doctors ex-
pound the law OF tho church,
"I received a letter today said Senator Frye,
(which recalled to my mind Of the most peculiar
Incidents III all my experience II happened IN In
diana during the campaign OF 5s4. when stump
ing in the southern part Of the State for Blaine and
Logan. | had spoken at Evansville and my next
appointment at town on the Ohio River which
could not be reached except by boat and took a
packet late in the afternoon We ran aground on a
bar and 1t nearly midnight before reached my
dos tinaton I landed on floating raft all |
alone, there being other passenger for that town.
and not soul in sight nor light to show the ex- |
ktence Of any living being in that latitude asked |
the captain Of the packet particularly If that the
Place where wanted to CO. and he said IT was. |
asked II there any town there. He said yes, |
there was considerable Of town up on the hill 1 |
went ashore and the packet started of. l sat down |
on log that lay there and wondered what l should
do, for It about the lonesomest situation ever
found myself in.
al lighted cigar and reflected the situation,
but concluded that the safest thing could do
sit there until some came, even II had to wait
all night. Byand-by,'I light moving about in
tie sky at angle Of about sixty degrees from me,
and wondered If 1t could be / concluded that
stars did not jump about that did and it was to
Ole for freely. Finally gave long, loud hello,
which was answered by voice in the direction OF
the light, and l shouted at the top of my voice,
"'Where is your town.
Cup here the answer.
"'How can get up there p asked
"'You will have TO climb the bank was the reply
Come this way and you Will find a path
81 tumbled along over the raft reaching terra rma
safely, and found the path The man the bank
could see the light Of my cigar and shouted to me
once in while to 80 this way that way, and with
bis guidance and by feeling along with my hands,
fnay fached the top of the bun after the toughest
climbing ever lad in my life and am good deal
of mountanceE / found standing there with the
lantern in his hand the latest l saw. lie
must have weighed between four and five hundred
pounds. and after asking If l was Senator Frye, he
began TO make excuses for not coming down the bank
10 meet told him that no apology neces-
AIRY that tho climb was all man Of my girh could
10 comfortably, and did not blame him for not want
ng 10 make the attempt, oven to meet senator lie
laid he was chairman Of the township Republican Com
nttee and that they had appointed delegation Of
ifzens TO meet me at the wharf, but similar
nttees had been selected TO meet political speakers
m five different occasions within the ,
PREVIOUS three Of four years. and ,
lot one had ever for them TO receive gentle
men appointed to welcome mo had gone homo dis =
used by the delay Of the boat, and were probably all
n bed and fast asleep by this time. lie said he had
cen IN bed himself but his wife had demonstrated,
nd had told him that It was wicked for him 10 let
trangcr land at the wharf and try to make the town
hat time OF night; he had dressed himself again, ,
nd with his lantern had gone down to the edge OF the
ank to II had arrived. He took me to his house
nd gave a comfortable bed.
" In the morning awakened by tho firing OF "
annon, and when went down to breakfast, asked =
that 1t meant. My host said that the Republican
tate Committee had often appointed meetings there,
ut speakers seldom came, and the Republicans around
he country had been fooled often that they re- =
used to turn out untl they certain the speaker
ad arrived The guns, he said, signals TO ,
he surrounding country that the meeting would be
ED as announced. That afternoon had one OF the
est audiences l spOle 10. and the poops seemed