Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

usages of elegant society, and the
son of q woman who is one of
the brightest ornaments of this
State.
On ono occasion the elegant
and ahablc Charles ID. Jacob,
Mayor of Louisville, was here,
with his Chief Engineer, to adj
wise us about sewer system, and
he and Mayor Foushee were put
face to face in the Mayors office.
Moses Kaufman, one of the most
cultivated men in the city, who
was present as an Alderman, said
it made him blush.
But Mr.. Foushce's cons are
liquor dealers and Mr.. Mulligan's
father is a saloon-k keeper, aud
this is the bond of union.
Mr.. Foushee is perhaps a good
artizan and has succeeded in
business. l honor Putnam, and
Roger Sherman, and Franklin,
aud Elihu Burritt, and Lincoln,
who came from the plow, the
shoemaker's bench, the printing
press, the anvil, and the ma,.>
and wedge, to reflect glory upon
this country; but they didn't
swear in bad grammar and if
! Mayor Eoushee in his twenty
years eating out of tin bucket
as a painter, as he told me, had
accomplished himself as those
grand models had, / should have
put it to his credit that he did it
through adversely, and should
have been for him in preference
to Mr.. johnson or any other pet
ted child of fortune. Nor do l
now blame him for being in his
position so much as l do the ac.
complished scholar and orator,
Charles j. Bronston, for putting
him there.
In some of last pages of the
old "Blue back spelling book"
| learned some of my religion
while the boys around me were
studying the catechism. There
| learned a moral which through
life has stuck to me closer than a
brother, or "gray back" 1t
was that good Tray got beaten
because of the company he kept.
On one election day in this
city | saw in one carriage, evil
IDENTIFY in pursuit of a common
purpose, four men. They were
the Honorables G. j. Bronston
and Preston Kimball, and DR..
Robinson and Mat Benckart.
DR.. Robinson is the proprietor of
the saloon that was kept by Sui
livan, lately elected to office here,
and, for killing in which, DR..
Robinson was lately fined one
dollar and costs, which in justice
to DR.. Robinson l must say |
think was excessive, as killing is
the natural and legitimate result
of the saloon business, and this
business is licensed and sanction
ed by the city. DR.. Robinson
was also for a while the proprie-
tor of a saloon on Short Street,
from which |, as a reporter,
know of four instances of blood
shed. None of them were seri-
Gus. l reported the first one for
the Transcript, and was ordered
out of the saloon for so doing
when | went to hear of the sec
oud one. The third one l re-
ported to the Transcript when l
was a reporter for that paper.
Its editor suppressed the publ
cation, and the fourth one | new
er reported at all, because /
knew it would not be published.
Mat Benckart was at the time
a Councilman of this city. He
kept grocery and saloon.
When | was getting up a peti-
tion to the Council to have the
houses of i'll fame put off of a
street along which the boys and
girls had to walk in going to
three big schools, Mr.. Benckart
declined to sign the petition on
the ground that the women who
occupied the houses complained
of, were his patrons.
| presented this petition to
nearly all worthy people, black
and white, male and female, that
lived on that street, and there
was only one other who did not
sign it. lie was a prominent
business man who does business
on "silk-stocking row." He has
frequently acted as usher in find
ing seats for my wife and myself
in one of the popular churches
of the city.
He assigned the same obiec-
ton that Mr.. Benckart did,
namely. that the women COIN.