The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23

10 eNllQOerS. 10 e1eclFeif ull ne enforce
the laws during the first year Of his term
that toward the close the police courts had
little or nothing TO do. Mr.. Campbell has
been an extensive traveller. Moreover, be
has nearly always Travelled alone. and can
find his wav about a large city with little
more difficulty than the ordinary stranger.
+ at home be always goes about unattended,
and it is his one bOas that he never forgets
q voice or a name. Mr.. Campbell is a man
of courteous aud pleasing address, ana one
of the most popular men in Youngstown.
He has an elegant and costly home, OBJ
| tanned by his own efforts, aud during the
past six years has built up large aad
lucrative practice as lawyer.
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Besides Judge West and ex-Mayor Camp
bell, OH has a third extrao binary blind
man il 5. 5. Rickly, president of the Capt.
tai City Bank Of Columbus. Mr.. Rlckly
| has been totally blind for the LAST tea years
The tragic incident by which he became 50
is hest told by his own words. Zone day in
the summer Of 1850, " he wrote not long ago,
"a man came into my private room in the
| bank Of which l am president about noon
| time, and presenting a certificate of a trustee
of a bankrupt coal firm, which called for
/ about 500. roughly demanded that | should
| give him $50 upon it | looked at the GER
/ tificAte and saw that several payments had
/ teen indoTsed upon it, leaving but $40 still
| due. / knew the man, and calling him by
| name. told him that / did not know what
the certificate was worth, aid that did
not want to take anything from him if it
was worth more than $50. He then de-
! maudet that should give him S35. | told
him had not the money to spare, and was
turning away when, quick as thou ht, he
presented revolver TO my forehead and
fired. The last thing / ever saw was
that revolver within an inch of my fore
tt 1oI Iaft 10 i
passed through both my eyes, lodging
against my right cheekbone. Two thoughts
flashed through my mind as / lost con-
sciousneSs. One was: is this fataiP
the other, Shall 1 fall9 When my
son AID a clerk, who were in the
next room, rushed in they found me
lying on the floor inseusib!o, with my
woud-be murderer beside me stone dead.
Thinking he had killed me, he had shot
himself through the heart. finally re-
covered from my injuries, but my sight was
gone from me forever" Though thus ter
ribly affected, Mr. Rickly did not lose heart
He has ever since continued at the head of
the Capitol City Bank, and with the aid of
an amanuensis daily disposes of a large
volume of business. He is a shrewd and
successful business man, and, hampered as
he is, still he is accounted one OF tae most
capable bankers in Ohio. His bank is
looked upon as being as sound as the fed
eral treasury.
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Every visitor to Middletown, N. Y, has
Alfred VI. Horton pointed out 60 him as one
of the wonders of the place. Mr.. Horton
is now 90 years Of age, and has been totally
blind since he was a boy of II. Born poor,
he made fortune as a farmer and CON
tractor, and for the last seven years has
been a wholesale grain and feed dealer, sup
plying the retail trade in Orange and Sulh-
van counties, New York. He does all his
own buying, and by the sense of feeling can
instantly detect whether a consignment of
grain or feed differs in the slightest particu-
lar from what the invoice calls for. He
also buys and sells horses and cattle in the
same manner, and the most skilful whyo
finds it a bootless task to attempt to
impose upon him. Mr.. Horton keeps only
mental record of his business transac-
tions, and acts as his own collector deter
mining the denomination of bills and the
value of coins by touch. He is an exte1-
sive owner of real estate, and is expert
enough il the use of tools to perform all
needed repairs upon his buildings without
assistance. Mr.. Horton never has need OF a
guide in his goings and comings in and
about Middletown, and frequently goes to
New York city alone, making his way
| across the ferry aud to his brothers Office
on Sixth avenue unattended The princi-
pal coal dealer of Sswickley, q
little town near Pittsburg, is Alden
F Hays, a young man of 80.
a heroic soldier who fell in the battle
of the Wilderness, and has been blind from
birth. He goes backward and forward be-
tween his home and his office alone, and
conducts an extensive business without
clerical aid. He makes out his own orders,
keeps accounts Of the cars as they arrive
from the mines, weighs the coal before it is
delivered, collects and receipts the bills of
his several hundred customers and posts
and balances his own books. He is an expert
| typewriter, and his work equals in neatness
| and exactnesS that of the most skilful COPY
ist In addition to his other accomplish
ments, Mr.. Hays is trained and gifted
| musician, and for nearly twenty years has
been the organist of the PRESBYTERIAN
| church of his town. Before his coal bust
ness grew so large as to occupy his entire
time and attention he taught music
with great success. blind peo-
pie need not be helpless or miser
able" said Mr.. Hays short time ago. s.
am perfectly contented with my lot, ant
my home and office are as happy places a,
can be found in the country" Tn,
chaplain of the lower house of con
| gress is a blind man, the Rev. w. II
Milburn. The famous blind preacher. VIII
is now verging on TO- has been for half {
century one OF the most active and success
ful members of his pI ofes5ion. He lost hi
sight when child, but so great were hi
energy and zeal that he studied for and wa
ordained to the ministry before he attainet
his majority. In the course of ten years h
Travelled nearly 100000 miles filling mis-
sionary appointments in the south He ha
been an untiring ministerial worker all hi
life, but has found time to fill various posi-
tions of trust and honor, and to write hal
a dozen books, which have met with larg
sale and won enduring popularity.
~
The most notable blind man now livin
yet remains to be spoken Of His name i
John B. Herreshoff. He lives at Bristol
r. l.. and he is at the head of one of tn
largest shipbulding firms in the Unite
States. He has been blind since his fit
teenth year, but he has designed and su
perintended the construction of some o
} the finest ste am yachts now afoat S
, completely is he the master even of tn
smallest details of his vast business tina
/ when the representative of a South Ameri
: can government called upon him few
years ago, and asked for what sum he coul
: build and deliver three torpedo boats of
peculiar size and pattern, he requested onl,
half an hours time tor deliberatio
5 before giving his answer. Befor
the half hour was up he had men
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