The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-02

II would add to the State industry and
prove Q source Of profit, and with this
In view he fitted out Q large ranch, In
the Baeon-G Wdon contest Tor the GubeI'
Material honbft, Major Bacon, his op.
ponsnt, said that Gordon had but one
sheep left. Whether or not that one
shesp still lives We cannot say, In per
son General Gordon Is erect and as
straight s a soldier, with digniied
martial bearing, a magnificent, impress
i've, yet kindly face, crowned with q
splendid head Of waving hair proiusely
spHnkled with gray, On one cheek Is a
long deep scar, the result Of q sabre
wound received In the fights In the
Wilderness, In all his photographs and
In his portraits that occasionally hout
the rounds Of the press 1t will be no.
tlced that they are all In profile, caused
no doubt by the presence Of the scar,
JOE BROWN,
Another prominent figure in the his
tory OF Georgia Is the present United
States Senator Joseph Brown, "Old Joe
Brown as he Is Familiarity called, who
from . hard working country boy has
filled nearly all the offices OF trust and
honor that the State could give and has
accumulated q fortune that Is estimated
70 be in the millions,
He was the war Governor OF Georgia,
and since then has been as ~luetuating In
his politics as Ben Butler, but he has
always had an eye single to the advance
ment and welfare Of Joe Brown. His
sails were always spread TO catch the
wind OF every fashionable political gale,
He ia more cordially damned than any
other man In Georgia, but he has that
faculty Of always getting there"
In person he Is slender, and clerical
In appearance, with long white chin
whiskers, white hair aud thin ilOrid
features. One secret OF his financial
success Is bis habits OF economy; in fact
this element Is so strongly developed
that 1t approaches very closely TO aYarlce,
He lives In q modest unpretentious
house, and his carriage Is much the
worse for age and wear, and his dress Is
never e%xtrayagant,
There existed bitter eumity between
Brown and Toombs, aud on one occasion
Toombs said: "If a person would dump
a car load Of ipecaC into hell II would
not vomit out a man half as bad as Joe
Brown"
SENATOR cOLQUIT.
Senator A. H. Colquit whom the New
York Sun called "a dry, uninteresting
old gentleman" has a warm place in the
hearts OF the people OF the State and
has been successful In obtaining any po.
sition he has Aspiled 10. Perhaps the
reason the Sun denominated Senator
Colquit as "uninteresting'' Is beChuse he
has pursued a consistent course instead
Of dealing In pyroteChnical and yindiCa-
tive oratory such as Characterizes the
average Southern Congressman. In every
contest and in all his passages at arms
in debate his opponent has always found
him a very worthy and interesting
champion.
Senator Colquit lisa digniaed, pleasant,
smooth faced gentleman, with complex.
ion clear as frost, black sparkling eyes
and gray hair. His face has a classic
mould and In general appearance resem-
bles that OF Edward Everett, the dis.
tlnguished orator who eliminated his
active public career as Vice Presidential
candidate with John Bell on the Con-
stitutional.U Union ticket in 1860.
VANILLA JONES.