San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-08
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Christian or Surnames Commenc-
ing with the Letter ~

Gle from the New York Graphic, Civ
ing list OF eminent men whose Chris
tian or surname began with the letter
"W," and closing with challenge tC
anyone to produce an equal or superior
list of names with any other letter in
the alphabet. L have accepted the
challenge, and herewith hand you a
list of names containing the letter "J''
as the first letter of the Christian,
middle or surname. My list embraces
the names of the most eminent men
of Rome, Poland, France, Scotland,
England and the United States and
serves to explode the theory advanced
by the Graphic with so great flour
ish oftrumpets. Yours,
A. w. DILLARD.
Junius Brutus, julius Caesar,
Juvenal, Julian, Jamblicus, Justinian,
Jerome and Justin Martyr, among the
Romans; Joseph, Joshua, jeremiah,
Joel, John, the Baptist, John, the
Apostle, and Josephus, among the
Jews; John Huss and John Sobieski,
among the Poles; John Gerson, John
Calvin, J. J. Rousseau, Joan of Arc,
Josephine, Joachim, Murat, Jerome
and Joseph Bonaparte.
Sir John John Talbot, the paragon
of English Knights, John Wyekllffe,
John Hampden, John Milton, John
Dryden, John Churchill, better known
as the Duke of Marlborough, Joseph
Addison, Jonathan Swift, John
Arbuthnot, Sir John Vanbrugh, John
Collins, Samuel Johnson, John
Wilkes, John Scott lord Eldon), John
Wesley, Charles J. Fox, James Som
erville, Sir John Hawkesworth, John
Harvey, Jane Austin, Jeremy Taylor,
Joseph Hume, John Bright, Lord
John Russell, John Ruskin, Sir
Joseph Banks, John Gay, John Stuart
Mills, John Golden, John Bunyan,
John Kean, James Sheridan Knowles,
Sir John Havelock, John Locke, John
Hunter.
John Knox, Sir James Melville,
James Murray, the regent, James
Douglas, earl of Morton, also regent;
John Graham, earl of Dundee,
James Furgerson, James Hogg,
John Legion, John Wilson, James
Thompson, James Graham, the poet,
Lord Jeffrey, Sir John Herschell.
Sir James Macintosh, John Stuart,
Lord Bute) James Blair, preacher
and poet, James Boswell among the
Scotch. John Philpot Curran, Charles
J. Parnell, among the Irish.
John Winthrop, Jonathan Ed
wards, John Hancock, John Adams,
James Wilson, John Carrollton of
Carrollton, John WitherspOOr, Robert
J. Breckenridge, John T. Moffitt,
jeremiah Mason, Joel Barlow, John
Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, John
q. Whittier, James Russell Lowell,
John Jay,(the first CHI. justice) John
Rutledge, John Marshall, James Ire
dell, John Sewer, Gen. John Coffee,
John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, James
Buchanan, James X. Polk, John Ty-
Ter, John Bell, John J. Crittenden,
John E WOOL, John A. Dix, John
Van Buren,, James Gorden Bennett,
James Watson Webb, James Brooks,
John w. Forney, Andrew Jack
son, James Fennimore Cooper, Jo-
seph Story, Joel R. Poinsett, John
Howard, Payne, Andrew John
son, Reverdy Johnson, John NJ. Clay
ton, James A. Pearce, John NJ. Niles, |
John NJ Benson, JohnMilledge, John
Forsyth, Robert J. Walker, James
A. Garfield, John Quitman, John |
Letcher, John MinOre Bolts, John |
C. Calhoun, John G.. Fremont, Jeffer- |
son Davis, Jacob Thompson, Jacob |
Collamer, John A. Logan, John Sher-
man, Joe. Hooker, James Longstreet,
Jubal A. Early, J. f. B. Stuart, Jud-
son Fitzpatrick, John A. Rawlings,
John A. McClermard, John A. An
drew, "StOnewall" Jackson, John G.
Breckenridge J. G.. Carlisle, S. J.
Randall, James Beck, John J. Ingalls,,
J. r. Hawley, John r. Morgan, John
H. Morgan, John A. Campbell, Joseph
f. Brown, Julian Hawthorne, John
&. SAKE, James @. Blaine, Joseph |
E. Johnson, Albert Sydney John
son, Richard NJ. Johnson, James
Barton, Cave Johnson. John G. Spen-
Ger, James Guthrie, James Spred,
John Catron, Gen John NJ. |
Palmer, George J. b. Steadman,
John Mckinley, Joseph q. Baldwin,
Johnson J. Hooper (Simon Suggs)
James A. o. w. James Chestnut,
James H. Hammond, Hirschell U. |
Johnson, Jessie d. Bright, Spencer |
flanagan, John B. Floyd, John P.
Kennedy, John McCulluch, Joseph |
Jefferson, John c. Heenan, John |
Msrrisey, John L. Sullivan, Jake
Kilrain, John Slidell, John Bigler, |
James NJ. Mason, John Y. Mason,
rohn w. White, John w. Jones,
James A. Seldom, James NJ. Harlan,
Joseph C.. Brady, Stephen J. Field,
John H. Eaton, J. Pinckney Hender-
son, Thomas J. Rusk, John H. |
Reagan, John Ireland, Joseph |