Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-06-16

CoEwIN AT %.
opportunities towed before the death OF
her father, bat refused them all and
whcn he was gone sl,c had passed tie
1naTri:geablG sGe.
Some years ago, o,l thc suggestion OF
the late President Garfield, spent some
! time III the collection Of material with
the end ii Wow cf writing all adequate
biography Of the man who ii lis day
was the most popular AID the Incst talk
ed of OF any Ohio statesman st that
time I visited Lebanon and secured
much data. DR.. William H. Ccrwil, the
statcs-nan's S only son, was then alive,
and he furnished re many roiilil1is-
cences that, except III my notes, arc now
lost
Why Miss Cor5vin Sevez, Married.
The following aneclote written out
for me by Dr. Corvin explains why
Hiss Corwin never married: ''I'Ilc love
which father cherished for his thrc3
daughters was so illtaisso th2t it partoois
OF the na-&1ro Of jealousy when they be
gan 10 be courted by the aeii..,iring young
men Of the vicinity. At the marriage
of lis oldest daughter, Eva, to III.
George R. Sage, q young lawyer Of Gin
cinnati, who is ROW United States dis
trict judge, he I!ai.ifestei so much feel
ing that the occasion partoolz moro OF
the aspect OF a funeral thar; Of Ii we'd
ding. During the ceremony he shed
tears, and at the wedding supper, after
a prolonged silence, he finally broke cut
as follows: Now, want it distinctly
understood that this thing is never So
ing to happen il THIS house again. There
will never be another wedding here. ]
will get a niggcr feet tall and give
him q pole 10 feet lo2g and post him at
the front door end instruct him to
knock any young man i'll the head who
comes to sec niy daughters. -
An Interesting letter which, received
from Genclal Garfield at that time also
bears upon the same subject. viii
give it III full, as it contains several
other points that are very interesting,
and that have never been made public:
WASHINGTON, March 2, 1S.3
My DEAR EoBERTscN-Iours of tho .5th uit.
came duly to hand. am not able TO give you
much iii regard to Corwin beyond tie point
you already refer to. | will however, mention
a few things in ORDER rs they occur to me:
First-He was si2Sulariy affyction;ate toward
his family ard friends. | remember he told
me that at the marriage OF e;,ci If Lis daug!i-
ters lie had suffered the lanss Of jealousy to
think that his daughter could love another
man better than she loved Linn; hat when his
first daughter married. though the man
she married was q notle fellow, yet C1rwin
shut himself up in his room for day Two
before the marriage, and the family Rad much
difficulty to get him to 90 down stairs and at
tend The ceremony. The occasion Of Lis tell
ing re this was shortly before Liz desth. when
he had just ret Erned from the marriage of Lis
youngest daughter. lie sGi; tac old feeling of
jealousy revived. and he had horrible time
till thc wedding was over.
Sccomd-IIe remarked very sadly one even
ing that it was The greatest Llstalc Of his lie
that he had ever cracked q joke or made
funny speech, for people would never believe
that a funay man coull have any solid abili-
ties, and if he did net l.22lo a funny speech his
audience was disappointed.
Thirl-'Tic story of his frst election to con-
gress or what he called the nightshirt ISSUE
| think you viii remember sufficiently without
my repeating it.
Fourth-A large partyof Ohio people had C..
itary agent of Ohio, AID Cc1Nin was in his
ha ll)iest vein of arccGotc. lie occupied q sofa,
with a friend seated On each hand AID as
many seated in front of him could get with
in reach. They were listening to one OF his in
Initial e stories, IN the course of which lie
arose to Illustrate some point Of the anecdoe,
and while making gesture with both hands
was stricken with paralysis and fell forward
! caught Lin IL ny arms as he fell, and V hite-
law Reid, who stood beside 1lc, aided in carry.
Ing him to a bed In an adjoining room. He
spoke once Or twice on the way and as we laid
him down, but never spoke aGain lie died
ie:it day. Very truly yours,
j. a. GARFIELD.
A Peculiar Issue.
Tie nightshirt issue" to which
General Garfield refers in his letter,
was enc Of Corwin S favorite stories,
and General Garfield told ne that he
had heard Corwin repeat it Oh two sep
aratc occasions. 1t was to the follow
ing effect:
When Eorwin first ran for congress,
he was at first somewhat put to it for q
satisfactory issue He accidentally
learned that his opponent Wore a night
shirt, which was rather unusual in
those days and in that locality. He re-
ferred to this fact in one Of his speeches
end noticed that it created quite a sen,
sation. He then proceeded in subse-
Guent speeches to e:patiate in every
conceivable way upon this subject, pic
turing TO his hearers a man clad IN q
nightccHa such as honest grandlnothers
wear. He remarked that the shirt wet
with the sweat CT toll was good enough
for most men to wear at night, but
there were certain among them who
thought that they must wear night
gowns. I1e asked with apparent sofl-
ousness. il they thought that man who
would wear q nightgoWn would make a
good law.naEar. Corwin was confident
that this was the principal issue IN his
first canvass fer a seat il congress.
Corw'in had bat oie son, and he was
very fond OF him When that sea vas
a student at DenEison university, III
this state, one Of his teachers wrote to
Mr.. Corwin that his son vas studying
too hard, and that be was i'll danger OF
his health. On receipt OF that
letter mir. Cocwin wrote his sOn as fol-
lows. saw the original Of the letter,
which Dr. Corwin still retained In
1878:
My DEAR soS-I am informed that yo1l are
seriously iniurins your health by stHdy. very
few young men nowadays ere likely to be In"
jured in tAi5 way, and all have to say 70 you