Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-30

- ----------- :. been in this city several days with his brother. Representative Stewart.
 Mr. Stewart has aaso been In consulta- ton with General Biesell concerning cer- office.
 Registrar Carr and Sheriff Manning of | New Haven have been among the late ar- rivals in the oity, on pleasure bsnt, they l say.
 Charles G. Watson of Bridgeport. private | secretary to United States Treasurer Dan iel N. Morgan, is away on ten days hsh- ing trip in the Litchfeld hills.
 KALFIDoscoPIo.
 With Coxey, Brown and Jones in the district jail, each serving . twenty dsys' sentence, the senate meeting at 10 o'clock and the senate committee investigating the sugar scandal, it looks as If at last some- thing was to be done in the way of reliev- ing the long-suffsring people from the present financial crisis and epidemic of cranks and lobbyists.
 COMMON GENERALIZATION SAINTS
 With the avowed purpose of coming to the capitol and breaking the laws of the land, Coxey, Brown and Christopher Ooi- umbus Jones left Ohio and proceeded with Q gang of tramps and loatsrs to march across country to this city. They came, they saw, but they did not conquer as did Ceser, but are now lsn- guiahing in the district jail with the other criminals, posing as dethronei saints, in the hopes of more notoriety.
 They all had fair and impartial trial and got, through the kind d-hesrtedness of Judge Miller, but one-third of the sentence which might have bsen imposed.
 | SAVED $65. GOO.
 The committee on appropriations, of which Mir. Dcckery is the house chairman, have recommended the appropriation of
 but $95 ,000 for the printing of the Official | Gazette, for the patent office, being $50,- | 900 lees than any previous year, and 6 saving of the latter amount to the govern ment.
 l This saving Is due to the earnest efforts
 of Patent Commissioner John s. Seymour of NorValk, who in two years will have
 saved to the government over $$60, 900 on
 the photo-ithogrsphing work done for the office.
 | APKcuLIAR BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
 In looking over the congre ssional direc- | tory yesterday I found the following
 sketch of the life of Representative
 George Washington Murray of the Seventh
 district from South Carolina, @ colored
 member of the house. The sketch, evi-
 dently written by himself, as these
 biographical sketches are generally written
 by the member, is a choice bit of nters.
 ture, and reads ss follows:
 George Washington Murray was born
 September g, 1853, of slave parents, near
 Rembert, Sumter county, South Carolina
 emancipation found him 8 lad of eleven
 summers; bereft of both parents, throwr
 upon the rugged shores of early emancipa
 tion, after a cruel and dehumanizine
 war had deprived the population oi
 almost all the inner capabilities oi
 human sympathy and philanthropy; with
 ont friend upon whom to rely for either
 aid or advice, he entered upon the fierce
 combat then in progress in an impover ished section for the indispensable bread
 of life; among the waifs of his neiehbor hood in 1866 he picked up his alphabe and acquired an imperfect and crude pro nunciation of monosyllables; during th
 next five years he so industriously applied
 himself in efforts to improve his mea9e
 stock of knowledge that in January, 1871 he entered, while in session, for the frs time, day school, but ss teacher, no scholar; he taught until the fall of 1874 l when he successfully passed a competitiv examination and obtained @ scholarship @ subfreshman in the reconstructed UniVer city of South Carolina; having pssse, , through his alma mater to his junior year , the accession to power of an administration unfriendly to the coeducation of the race QS76) forced him without her doors; he re entered the public schools of his county a teacher, and was successfully employs
 until February, 1890; in the contest fo
 the nomination he was approved by sue = brilliant leaders and astute politicians 8 0 General Robert Smalls, Hon. T. E. Mile, 8 Hon. E. M. Brayton, J. H. Ostendortf, an : others; on the third ballot he was nomi z mated, having received 30 to 9 ballots; al t though he was opposed in the election b ? one of the wealthiest and most populs democrats in the state he was returned b 8 the managers of elections, nearly all 0 6 whom were democrats, by about 1000 ms 8 jority, notwithstanding twelve of hi 9 | strongest polls were not opened; hsvin f run the gauntlet of the various boards c 0 | managers and canvsssers, was elected ss ? republican to the Fifty-third congress, rs D osiving 4 995 votes against 4. 955 votes fc . E. W. Noise, democrat, and 42 votes seal 2 tering. CAPITOL.