St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-29
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

The temporary presence of number
or Short-haired women in the city, says
the Washington Post, has driven Sena-
tor Blair to retirement from the ranks
of lOng-haired men. He marched to his
seat yesterday with his fine name
locked so close that only the memory of
its glory remains. There must be in
f1uenees to be conceived alone by long
haired men that enter their lives at Ger.
tam stages to produce reform. Now
Senator Voorhees,, whose leonine locks
and flowing chin beard are parts of his
very fame, has removed them, and looks
as violently out of himself as the great
Napoleon might with red throat-beard
or Cesar with tufted chin. There are
several senators, however. who, while
they may pervert their whiskers, can
never tamper with the hair upon their
crown, for the sad and salient reason
that they haven't any.
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During the war, says the Washington
Post, when patriotism and sentiment
were at tlood-tide, the rolls of the two
houses OF congress were increased al
most weekly to make room for wounded
soldiers, who had been discharged from
service. Doorkeepers, messengers and
Watchmen were so thick around the
capitol that they were in each others
way. Judge Holman happened to be in
the basement one day, and endeavored
to go through doorway, guarded by a
One-legged veteran.
Cant get through there" said the
guardian of the portal unconcernedly.
81 am a member of congress-" said
the Judge, quietly.
II don't know that that makes any
difference" said the doorKeeper, s'un-
less you came from district where the
people can walk through wood. That
door is screwed up
"Then what are you doing here?" in
quired Judge Holman, whose curiosity
was naturally excited.
''Fm here for $500 day. There's
fellow from the Sixth PENNSYLVANIA
cavalry watching the other side of it.
ana mebbe he can tell you more than |
can"
By a circuitous route through CON-
mittee rooms the judge reached the
other side of the door. Sure enough,
there sat another veteran leisurely
reading newspaper. He was equally
frank in announcing that the door was
screwed fast.
"You see," he said, by way of expla-
nation, "both me and my partner ale
subject to rheumatic since we have
been in the army, and we screwed up
this door so we wouldn't be in the
draught."
Judge Holman thought that if the
government was paying two men $3.50
day each for Watching door that
could not be opened. il was time that
somebody proposed retrenchment. He
threw himself into the breach, secured
a reduction III the house rolls, and ever
since has been the determined enemy of
sinecures and extra salaries.
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Turning over page of his private
memorandum book, "Bill'' Jones, the
detective, SAID to an Atlanta Constitu-
ton reporter:
Here's the case that gave me my
title rs Swamp Fox of Georgia"
"What is it?''
sin '6s safe was blown open in
Macon and about S11, 900 was taken out.
The case was put in my hands and
followed the man into the swamps near
where Lumber City now is. | found
him there working at the mill, and got
work too. In short time he and l
were quite friends and were sleeping
together. He had a habit of leaving the
bed about daybreak every morning, and
l began to follow him. 1t was slow
work and required several weeks. One
morning I'd go certain distance
and then back, and the next
morning. little farther. Final
ly l went to the end of his rope.
l followed him to the heart of the
swamp and saw him take a package
from stump. He handled it awhile
and then put it back. l guessed what
it was, and Iguessed well. That night
l went to the stump and pulled out the
package, and found over $4,000 in it.
That night we went to bed together,
but about midnight 1 got up, and,
securing an officer tor whom 1 had sent,
went to that stump. The next morning
he came at the usual hour, and, as he
stopped to reach for the package. we
sprang upon him, and he was ours"
What became of him?'
HE. got twenty years and I got
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