The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-02-16
rEIs Is MIGHTY GOOD READIN'.
Fitx Leo Tells How the President
Elect Can Help the Negro.
from the N. 7. Herald.l


Richmond, Va, Feb. 3, 1851
called upon Governor Fitz Lee at the
grand but sntiquated capitol of Vir-
ginia yesterday.
"AhI" said he, grasping my hand
firmly, "the Herald is always with us,
and we are always glad to welcome its
representatives
The ex-maior- general of confederate
cavalry shows to better advantage on
horseback no Wsdays than he does in
his office. When he harassed Sheridan
up the valley of the Shenandoah and
planted "hell fire" in his front at
Mechanicsville to prevent him from
making bivouac on aristocratic Frank
lin street he was lean and cadaverous
looking, rivalling in that respect even
Sheridan himself Now, however, he
has put on rotundity that makes him
as ssthick as he's long," as the saying
goes. In this again he initiated poor
Sheridan, who, during the latter part
of his life often complained of his
pudginess. AS Lafayette said, most OF
the great men of the world have been
small men, and all in ripper years fat
men. Napoleon t., Grant, Sheridan and
| Fitz Lee all come into the same plump
category.
| With his feshiness, however, Gen
Lee has put on jovial good nature
The world has been tolerably kind to
him during the last fifteen years, and
he feels apparently like reciprocating
Having hung his sword up to rest for
ever, all the old military austerity was
flung away, too, and instead Of
soldier in the executive chair the ole
commonwealth has in control a politi
clan who knows how to pull all th'
strings at once without endangerins
any of the entities connecting. "Fitz'
Lee has been governor three years,ant
during this period, as an old stat'
house official puts it, he has ATTENDED
more marriages, christenings and fun
erals than any man in the state
Picture, therefore, short, rotun'
figure, large at the girth, not Falstaffi II
quite, perhaps, but rapidly approach
ing il; fine, full, handsome face, clear
benevolent, light blue eyes, with brow
, inclined to shagginess, and you see th
ex-cavalry chief.
i CAPITOL REFLECTIONS.
az can't invite you into very gram
official quarters" said the governor
"for we nave not been able to go int
capitol building down here yet, as yo
have in New York, tor instance thi
: with a quiet SMILEY but we shall prob
. ably some day. From time to tim
q the legislature has made move in tina
direction, but always to be met with
. vast deal of opposition from sentimen
| aroused by memories of this old build
I ing, which has withstood the wear an
[ tear of century. Some day we hop
to have more commodIous and mod
ern home to shelter Washington (referr
Q ing to Houdon's famous statue of I'll
father of the republic down in til
corridor) and more worthy of that
o pointing to the magnificent Washing
: ton equestrian statue in the capt.,
. grounds.
Il And then we gazed around us, Il
II the pike road leading off to blood
g Mechanicsville, to the grand old hou.
@ where General Schofield held milital
court tor No l division and the Jef
Davis old square mansion (uow
: public schooD, with its lofty Angelica
porch and massive Doric pillars, whe