The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-12-28
with me through the Burch divorce ease,
in which he WAS LAWYER. and / was a

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with me through, the Burch divorce ease;
in which he WasSa lawyer and ! was a
law student. So,y when / was made an
army correspondent, Mr.. Key-Judge
Key, as he was bered me
and gave me much valuable. information.
a day and a half before the battle OF An
tietam, after / had secured quarters in
the comfortable house Of the miller at
Keedysville, Judge Key came to me and
said: Mr.. Paige, l have such q nen-=
sralgia that cannot sleep. and 4 left my
tent to come and share your bed, so we
can talk He seemed to be under some
excitement. After we lay downshe said:
MIR. Paige, we are going to fight Lee to-
morrow or next day. But we came near
facing the other way and marching to
Washington city to put down Stanton and
clean out the powers there. l. saved
them, I think He took great credit
upon himself that the army was not to
be employed against washington city. I
wondered what it meant. Perhaps the
meditated proclamation OF Lincoln to
free the slaves had leaked out and given
,umbrage. Something took place there at
Headquarters which formed a critical
time in the war. Key lived but a little
while after the war, and think Stanton
came down upon him. McClellan's CO.
terie intensely hated Stanton.
Old Joe Hooker, after the war para
lytic, with grievances. was leading sort
of hermit life at Garden City, Long ISL
and, in the hotel there, when was intro,
duced to him. He then said, in serious
kindness of Mcclellan: Mcclellan was
a kind, merciful man, who hated to kill
anybody @
Edward Mcpherson. l6 years clerk Of
congress, who died Dec. 13, had visited
Oct %. Though a successful man, in
heriting some money and saving more, so
that he probably accumulated 100000,
Mr. Mcpherson lived the life OF pure.
clerical, ministerial neophyte. Though
frugal he never exerted himself for '1big
money" and postponed the Life Of
Thaddeus Stevens" for whom he was
business and literary executor, because,
as he once told me, the issues OF Stevens
time were still in imperfect solution.
That book at one time would have sold up
to Blaine's, Grants, or any of them. Nc
Pherson had not the romantic loyalty to
q political decease- which the same sub
ject, living, may have inspired. Stevens
was a fervid impulse, and MCPHERSON a
JuuSlACul clCPCuH " Lo Gil
enthusiast, and to some extent a law
breaker, and his follower was a religious
ly bred man. with moralist scruples. The
Pennsylvania quality of Mcpherson prob
ably outlasted the influence of the ana
baptist New Englander. The kirk could
not indorse the French revolution in
Stevens character.
Mr.. Mcpherson was Of the extreme
nervous temperament, red-haired, felni-
-cuticled, spare, business based, re-
spectacle. reliable He was a good poll
tician, but no wire-puller. He belonged
to the long class of faithful parliament
ary secretaries whose tone, in general, is
more elevated than their employers. He
believed in Stevens and in Blaine, but not
so much in Grant. He was aVerse Ito
men who came out of ,pl, ysical profes
sions. The newspaper, he thought, es-
pecially the country weekly newspaper,
was the best influence in the nation prop
erly exerted. / had a letter from him
with present Of his manuals three
weeks before he died, and an annotation
giving his own career, which now reads
like an epitaph.
l sat at theater in Washington at q
recent matinee. That light comedian
who can do anything but sing, Francis
Wilson, was doing the little of The
Chieftain" that he can invent for himself,
and a beautiful young woman, apparent
ly not more than 80, sat in a private box
next the stage, laughing with delight, SO ]
that the comedian seemed to- be animated
to thrice his natural good spirits. Before
the lady were three unusually handsome
children of tender years, two boys and
girl. They were beautiful and refined,
eyes large, skins pure. hair aff1uent, col
ors rich, flesh sound; and the mother was
of profile hungry and fine, with a feel
ing nervous and mischievous together,
the type of the late Mrs. Bowers, the act
ress, or of Kate Sprague, Chase. The
mystery of the lady cleared. up when a
reddish haired, demure, settled man ap
peared and took the vacant seat.
It was Donald Cameron, the retiring
Pennsylvania senator. The lady was
Mra Cameron. daughter of Judge Charles
Sherman, who was taken to Ohio when a
baby, on pillion before his mother, who
rode horse. She came to Washington
to see her uncle, John Sherman, who was
rich, after her father had lost his sub
sistence by resigning as. judge. Charles
Sherman fed we'll. and the product was
beautiful posterity. You must supply
something to the soil if you would see it
blossom beautifully. Mrs. Cameron S
sisters married General Miles and Mr..
Hoyt. There is no branch Of govern
ment so we'll neglected as the prepara-
tion of it's brides To this Mahomet gave
his special attention and put seventy
black-eyed houri in every warrior S COM
partment OF heaven. Thus guaranteed,
Mahomet's young gentry conquered ev-
cry empire in sight.
Some men have so little i'll their public
lives that their domesticity is their fame.
l thought Don Cameron's second crop Of
children better than anything had ever
read about him, for he has a married
daughter as old as his wife, and probably
grandchildren as old as his children. He
had no children indeed, for some while
after his second marriage.
As Mr. Cameron has just written the
inevitable letter withdrawing from fur
ther senatorial honors. recall that ] was
present at Harrisburg when the legisla-
ture in compliment to his father, elected
Donald to the remainder of Simon S term.
Said Hugh Young, a member thereof,
and twin brother Of Gov. Tom Young. OF
Ohio, This wilt be his only term = 81
Cameron has enjoyed under that cam
els nose intrusion three full terms of the
senate besides the old mans residue.
They have been undemonstrative terms
but think he has closely attended to his
duties. He has been a good citizen Of
both Washington and Harrisburg, and he
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