The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-01-24
PERSONAL.

father being an iron founder at Ashton Under
Lyme. Shortly after his birth his father emf
grated to Des Moines, Iowa, and went into bust
ness. When George grew into boyhood he
became printers devil in newspaper Office
at Dakota City, Neb. lie afterward "held a
case " in the office OF the Council Bluffs Non
parea At IL he ran off to join the army, but
was brought back home. lie staid but a little
while till he found a chance to enlist in the 4th
Iowa battery. in which he served till the close
of the war. Then he went back to his trade,
published papers in the boom towns of Kansas,
set type on big dailies. and finally settled down
in the paper business in st. Joe. Mo. The Re-
publicans took him up and he was twice elected
City Treasurer. In 1892 they nominated hin
for Congress. He cut the plurality down froG
$500 to !, 259; was rsnominated last year and
won the race by a plurality of 1.661. He Is q
live. energetic man, highly educated, forceful
speaker, aud has much personal magnetism.
The st. Joe people think that he will make a
shining mark in Congress.
Gen. Arson c. McCook has been in demand
lately. Mayor Strong proposed to appoint
him Commissioner of Public Works of the City
of New York, but there appeared some diff
culties in the way of this. A delegation OF
Republican Senator'S went to New York to Of
fer him his old place as Secretary of the SEN
ate after March a, but Mayor Strong decided
to give him the place OF City Chamberlain,
which has salary of $4,000 a year, from
which to pay his staff of clerks etc. Gen.
McCook preferred this place.
ct is with deep regret" says the Philadel-
phia Record, "that old residents of German
town witness the gradual disappearance of the
old Colonial buildings from that charming SUBJ
urb. One of the last of this class RACED to the
ground to make way for the march of improve
ments was the house in which it is said Will
liam Penn preached. This was located on
Penn street. east of the Reading Railroad. aud
not far from Wingohocking Station. 1t is a
matter of history that Penn went out from
Philadelphia to Germantown frequently and
talked to the residents there. Sometimes he
would address his hearers from the rock upon
which the house was built"
Mrs. Florence M. Schuyler died suddenly at
her home, in Saratoga. N. Y, Jan. Is. She
was the widow of Maj. William s. Schuyler of
Corcoran's Irish Legion. in the civil war. Mrs.
Schuyler was daughter of the late Oliver L..
Barbour, compiler of Barbour's Law Reports,
and her husband was grest-grandson of Gen.
Philip Schuyler, of Revolutionary War fame.
One son, Philip Schuyler, survives her.
Gov Hastings, the new Governor OF Pennsyl-
vauia, is alreadyin receipt of about 600 appli-
cations for Office.
Commander-in Chief Lawler, of the Grand
Army, proposes to visit this year every Depart
ment Encampment in the United States. His
date for Washington is Feb. o.
The present Governors of the 13 original
States were invited to be present at the Clover
Club dinner in Philadelphia last week, given
to celebrate the 18th anniversary of that club.
It is said that the Governors of North and South
Carolina were seated sufficiently near each
other to take part in the traditional pleantries
of their office.
Gov. Morton and his staff have accepted the
invitation of Lafayette Post, New York, to be
present at their great meeting at Carnegie
Music Hail, Jan. %. Other speakers will be
ex-President Harrison, Joseph III. Choate, Seth
Low, Chauncey NJ. Depew, John s. Wise and
Gen. Nelson A. Miles. The object of the meet
ing is to promote military drill in the public
schools.
J. III. Wilson, Ogalalla, Neb, was Gov. Hol-
combs first nomination sent to the Senate.
He was to be Commander of the Soldiers Home,
but the Republican Senate declined to confirm
him. This ia a part of the Senate's plan to
hang up all the Governors nominations until
he has pledged himself not to remove any Re-
publican officials until their term is finished.
A young girl of Medford, Me-, found in an
old reticule some dingy-looking stamps, which
on examination proved to be- the three cent
pink issue of 1861. They are valued in the
new catalog which is just coming out at SIS
each. In the old catalog they were offered at
has been put up. Although they could prob
ably not be sold to dealer for that price, they
are sufficiently valuable to make it q lucky
find.
Commander Shots, of the Department. of
New York. GAR, says that he was royalty en-
tertained at Louisville when, with his Adju-
tant- General and Quartermaster- General, he
went there to see about arrangements for the
National Encampment to be held there next
SopLemDeF. COmTduo OuObLS Is sure tnAb q
magnificent welcome awaits the Grand Army
in Louisville.
At the dinner of tho Me rchants Club in
Philadelphia last week Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
Capt. J. g. B. Adams, ex- Commander-in.Ch Chief
of the GAR, and Capt. John C. Wyman were
the speakers. Gen. Miles spoke on "Ovr Ma
tive Commonwealth in War and in Peace"
Capt. Adams told the thrilling story of his prison
life and escape, and Capt. Wyman told about
1.-THE Trials and Tribulations of the Home
Guard" Many prominent military men were
present.
A portrait of little Phil Sheridan, the SON of
the General, who is now about IL years of age,
recently appeared in Washington newspaper.
and the friends of his great soldier father are
greatly pleased at the marked likeness between
father and son.
Col. w. C. p. Breckenridge is going on the
lecture platform. What in the world is he
going to lecture about-"Si Years of Sue
cessful Hypocrisy ~? or How Not to be Found
OUT? or THE Perils of Aged Statesmen from
Inscriptions School Girls"s