The sun., 1898-01-16

Jsspits in the reign Of Louis XE., i7ea.
Bishop John Carroll was ordained in i75o at
dsrScs sssrS fnS mcthsa 81 spgS %s
nse ~ oTaneys, 9 Brooke. and she sent Carroll TO
should seek Michael h0 TsneT S 81 s 1S
20 5'oE f. thesS dr dstes Gath9lo pnpg had been going
Ing Es our popish youth to % edpcatod AZ St omcr
tSwn hCt,I in 17sl, Michael Teney sent. his son to
Gn,nson To- slnSoa, C9l,eEe Presbyterian foundation.
a. Education had boon so much neglected by
ednog eae pfogrietors Of Maryland that Legislator
school ,shS John Dickinson, formerly. Of Mary
native csthoiiSs Of Maryland were rostPaneS ned
were taken OF BY the Independence Of the coun.
sayyo, sspy they were and are more liberal than the
while The Irish and French Catholics were anti.
politicsl life by the Joffersonians.. Both
been Federaiist impiacsbies S
After his defeat In his native county Roger
" loya lists The eblost OF them was Philip Bar
ton Key, British officer during tho Revolution,
Mrs. Taney continued to hor death an Eplscc.
paiian, while the Chief Justice attended mass
with ThnaI his negro @ m man ..l slave: ,..,.. .
teech his sons. but was q reader Of ali the books
the country afforded. .He drops his autobiog:
Tyler says no no more ore about @ Michael Taney. But
the tfs,. ayidity with which Taney pursued tho
as wilful and domineering as his fathers. His
rival In that warfare was Francis Thomas, q
9oomv asa sae , Sr ana
suit and late in life passed the Maryland act of
o%Tenoipatien recorded on his tS tombstons s
years after his death a Maryland ex.sieve Of
me me ny literary soeompiishments was Marshal OF
little after daylight saw from from the ss deck as
home Of Tsney; II was a good way back from
the the water perhaps half or three, Of
AND my III sH h
creek, and the, point between tho two. The
tensions and sheds like planters houses OF that
day and placed back beyond the the malaria OF
Upon both eapes of Battle Creek were land
inRs, but Williams wharf; f1rthost from from
was hO traffic Sn wharf and had nan s sn
1t for freight and some horses and OK teams and
greeting her home, you've been drinkingi"
Q native, but of the Swedish stock which moved
from Delaware after the Dutch reduced. the
MARYLAND with them. 1t was easier for Balti-
more to- draw immigrants from his neiRhbors
III The living Hanse had lately obtained forfeit
for a farm he sold which tho purchaser did not
Worh to Be
to height Of 12o feet and more, and was
Taney's birthplace, on closer approach. was
seen to be n square wooden building OF two
the
square porch Is in the middle, two windows
on each side Of the porch. and tiyo windows in
and the roof is low.pitched.. Another small.
square porch is at the end. nrolonging the front.
which are cellar ventilators. In. this house
TSsE sbs oa hS Iesor His
look up az that wide low, whitewashed
house on the distant hill and see its historical
scion. ono of the mournfu.faced. tide water
Marylanders, with lean, straight nose and q
cheek bones, withered eyes. forehead narrow:
smia fhemy many is sepe and an
hopeless face. the expression that =, Of one pre-
the shroud like skin Of the face to the pins Of
the little lid. heavy eyes.
fsory
nSss' Sas sm h
his wife and that he murdered while his sister
was his housekeeper and he distraught from
the violence 3 s% Of his own passions: ;, -
Taney land returned home some years before
tho commencement of the American Revolu-
sion Of his estate and married my mother,
Monica Brooke. about the year ITO"
landwhS1ee Bsttei Gpeek, 1885,
| 1t docs not seem that the senior Taney, though
all through the war hc was in Maryland, entered
whole weeks with other neighbors and their
packs, drank egg nogR freely at breakfast, re.
His frequent election to the House OF Dele
gates had given him a taste for public life and
Of FL as
stSae to P9tSG SdS lived to
| advanced age" and had seven children, four
sons sons, and three daughters. was the third
the Sheriff presiding, the election lasting four
days, and the votes being viva yoee: The can:
and all surrounded each voter as he arrived
| to get his vote. Tnney alone OF four candi,
dates Gould make a speech. He bad morbid mo- ..
want Of ply steal frmness." Such men have
also thin skins and feel attacks keenly. Taney
society. When defeated for re-election In 1900
his father and himself were both sufficiently
Baltimore he preferred Frederick and went
there the month he was "A.
her home in 1879 and lived Under her SON roof
until her death. in ls14. Not one word p said
land, Ian fancy wrote in 1855. you are are the only
ono left Of the name from whom ever receive
letter." Tyler says indefinitely, In early life
he manumitted ali the slaves he inherited from
his father" The author of the Dred Scott de-
cision invested ''all his very small fortune" In
Virginia State stocks and after January, 1861,
received nothing from it, His biographcr does
not state when this Investment was made.
Tho Tyler biography is not frank with the
reader. though Its author waited eight years
before publishing his book; The pathos OF the
mention OF tho fact that his parent made one
dread mistake and suffered for It,. Gov. Thomas
johnson of Frederick is referred to as ian in
timate friend Of his father"
II Taney's mother left Calvert county al the
date of the murder, her husband would then
have been over go years old.
Hungerford wrote from a, ,hearsay knowledge
over with grown sons. and did not mention
daughters or widow. The date Of Mrs. Ia
survived tho crime, and that, II the occasion OF
4 is correctly stated by MI HungerfomEd m Michael
make 1t doubly difficult for tho sons political
defender in his biography TO defond the father,