The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-29

afternoon three years ago Grain and
John X. Fellows Of New York started
for thar suburban haven Of rest known
as Cabin John Suddenly they came on
a rustic person who, in his Infinite wis
dom and mercy, was beating his wife.
Fellows drew up the horse and remon-
strated with him for his brutality. The
rustic vigorously resented this Interior
ence of Fellows in what was purely
family affair, and crowned his speech on
TINS occasion with oHering 10 whip that
statesman If he would get out OF the
buggy. This proposition Fellows declined,
as he was needed TO hold the horse.
Grain, however, had nothing on his hands
or mind. He had listened with some in
dignatiOn. Grain was from Texas and
therefore pugnacious geographically. He
would teach this hardy rogue lesson.
What do you mean by this insolence
to Col. Fellows?" said Grain, in spirit
of lofty heat
sponded the vulgar one. You aim more'n
thirty years old. You get out o here an
I'll fix you
''Crafn sprang lightly out and the war
like hayseed fixed him in about a min
ute. Fellows said it was the greatest
sporting event he had ever attended. Eel
lows conveyed what was left of his fellow
congressman to the Emergency hospital,
where he was secluded for some four
days. Col. Sterett, who visited Grain in
his exile, reported that he looked as
If he had been caught in a cattle stampede
The affair was regarded as good joke
by everybody but Grain. Fellows said
that as he drove away from the field Of
battle with Grain he heard the lady in the
case observe in a tone of tender interest
to her victorious husband.
. Did he hurt We, Bill2'
Nav responded Bill; i could lick a
corniield fun of him.
'sThe rusuc's correction of his family
thereupon was resumed by him at the
point where Fellows had interfered to dis
turb it. And the walls of that woman,
said Fellows, were music to his ears as
he drove away.
the duello. In a high way he always as
sumeS to be ready to shoot 1t out Atn
men who hurt his feelings.
Johnson of Indiana is a splenetic per
son, with a taste to abuse southern mem
bers, and he talks, so House stenograpn-
ers say, 200 words minute. Maintaining
such a verbal gait as that IL Is no wonder
johnson every now and then says some
thing rash and scorching.
zone warm day johnson was on his
feet and as. usual flashing away at the
south at forty clip. Grain listened and
became very much incensed. Johnson
knew nothing of the wrath he had arous-
ed in Grain. He was still speaking evil
of the south when page laid Grain S
card on the desk before him. On it We're
printed Grains name and hotel address
and that gentleman had inscribed on il
IN ADDITION vague Yet naughty intima-
ton that he could be found by johnson in
the future should that gentleman need
him.
johnson was too fun Of his subject to
understand what this card play meant
lie looked vaguely at the pasteboard a
moment and then kept on applying the lu-
mar cauSuc TO the south. When he sas
down he had time TO appreciate Grains
The gentleman from Texas no sooner
dispatched his card TO the offensive John
son than he went to Culberson. who is the
DADDY of the Texas delegation in the
House, and confided to him his truculent
purpose touching johnson. Culberson NJ
once arose and led Grain to the cloak
room, where he bestowed upon him much
ice water and good advice. Yielding to
one or the other or both, Grain concluded
at last that he would not shoot johnson
that session.
Johnson, when the full purpose Of
Grains card trickled into him went
eagerly to Reed with il. He was for yank-
ing Grain before the bar of the House
and dealing with him vigorously for his
abuse OF the rules. But the Maine Ajax
would not have 1t, and shook his wise
mead with an air of stern contempt for
cram and all that was proposed about
MN. Johnson went and sat down and the
country was spared the turgid spectacle
81 TWO statesmen seeking each other
life, or of the House sitting in judgmest
over a dpellst discovered in its midst
another gentleman prone to stand deli
cately upon bis honor is Hutcheson of
teNas. Hutchinson is a slight man phvst-
caliy and of a most urbane and beneVo-
lent disposition. But he quickly resents
what ne holds 10 be an insult, and his idea
OF Datue IS TO cut and slash somebody
one day Tim Campbell Of New York
IN the room Of the claims committee,