The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-02-16
! FUNNY INCIDENT.
A FRAGMENT OF HISTORY THAT IS
FULL OF HUMOR
Colonel Horns Letter To General Logan
Explaining AN Attack ON Grant Shan.
non, His Associate Was an Ambitious
Fried Chicken Eater.

Explaining AN Attack ON Grant Shan
non. His Associate. Was an Ambitions
Fried Chicken Eater.
Mrs, John \. Logan once gave To I
newspaper reporter III this city lette,
from southern editor that created 1
lot OF talk. Ii was Immediately after
tho death Of General Grant The re
porter had gone To the Logan residence
to interview the general about som,
matter then before congress. The gen
eral was i'll bed, and the reporter wa,
shown to his room. In the course of tn.
evening Mrs, Logan entered the bed
chamber aud took part i'll the converse
ton. In her hand she held letter, tn,
contents of which her husband knew
about. She wanted to give it to the re
porter, but the general objected Bu
us the newspaper man started to lcav,
Mrs Logan slipped the envelope int,
his hand. The next morning nenrl,
every newspaper in the country printet
n copy of 1t. 1t was n rare and racy
document
Colonel Alexander &. Horn Of Meridi
an, Miss. then the editor of The Daily
Mercury. was its author. The letter
was intended rs AN explanation of M
editorial that had appeared few weeks
before i'll The Mercury. Colonel Horn
and ]. J. Shannon were associates in
the publication of the aforesaid journal.
On the morning following the death oi
the hero of Appomattox The Mercury
| contained .,p ~ tl,, Il.
about General Grant over printed by !
press. 1t dared any truo southerner tt
grieyo or show signs of sorrow over hi,
demise. 1t called upon the people ul
Dixie land to exult and rejoico at tn,
death of the man who had slain theil
sons and burned their homes The PEG
pie of Meridian were aStounded. They
went to the editor Colonel Horn, and
asked him, in the name of peace, I,
writo another article withdrawing IT,
lilo was obdurHte and instead of doing
ne his neighbors wished dictated nnoth
CT ono equally us fierce rs tho first
At that moment the name Of Colone
Shannon was before the senate awaiting
confirmation MS postmaster mt Meridian
An enemy of his knowing the love TIM
General Logan had for General Grant.
inelosed copies Of the paper to him. eN#
peeting that Logan would oppose SHan5
non Il nomination Shannon and Horn
Ind II dispute over the editorial aud
their relations became so strained that
Il street duel was only avertcd Ivy tht
interference of mutual friends Coloncl
Horn letter to General Logan Was te
the effect that Colonel Shannon was in.
noccnt Of the article and bad lnovn
nothing about it until he saw it in the
paper. | cannot quote the letter With
literal exactness hut IL part of it was 1t,
follows.
NO; Shannon had nothing to d,
with 1t. In tho first place he hasn
sense enough to conceive such It senti
ment rs was expressed in the cdtora
and If he had he would be too coward,
to write it He Is my partner. | am scr
ry to say, but by making him postmastoi
you will afford me the opportunity o
getting rid of him
And why not take him, John. There
Is mighty narrow strip between The
radical rcputlicanism that You repre-.
sent and the Cleveland Mupwumpery
that Shannon tries TO represent lie is
not Democrat, never was and never
will be. predict that you viii toon
have him over ON your side. and God
speed tho day. We Democrats down
here don't want him,
- am growing old, but | am still IN
possession Of my mental faculties and
hope to live many years longer to toll
the truth from day TO day about the
despised Yankees aud their politics
am seriously afflicted with hemiplceia,
else | would have mauled HI out OF
Shannon long ago.
Logan you ought to remember me
as ono Of tho fellows that figured some
what conspicuously in the Kcmper
county trials. | guess | can take the
credit to myself Of having had the Dem
oorats who killed the Radicals there
acquitted before the courts. ] would
like another job Of the same kind
You and | ought to be friends OPP.
posites beget liking You have been "a
broth Of boy in your party, and | have
been a sheol Of fellow in mine, -
General logan replied good naturod
~ to this epiHtle, after which friend.
ly correspondence sprapg up between
the erratic genius at Meridian and the
senator. Logan read the Shannon letter
i'll tho committee room Of tho senate,
and then laughingly said that inasmueh
ns his friend Colonel Horn wanted
Shannon confirmed he didn I SEQ how
he could oppose him. Colonel Horn,
unreconstructcd, has long since passed
| into silence, aud II few years later Colo
mel Shannon was buried at his old
| home in Paulding, Miss. u town once
made famous by the publication Of Tho
! Weekly Clarion, many years ago, Of
! which paper he was one Of the founders.
During the Sullivan Kilrain trial at
Puryis some years ago ! sat at the break
fast table with Sullivan and Colonel
Shannon. Sullivan ate three fried chick.
ems, Shannon four. Charlie Rich, the
great sportsman, got the two To enter a
fried chicken eating match. Some ono
asked Sullivan how many be thought
he could get away with, mud Sullivan
tai1 about eight.
Eight" spoke up Shannon "Well.
you will have TO do better than that.
You may DO the champion prizefghtcr.
| but you will have to wbet up that ap.
petite Of yours before you can take
away the chicken eating champion.
ship.
The chickens were bought and cleaned
and were ready for the iron when the
colonel was taken violently ILL., Before
he could reeoycr Sullivan was out Of
the state james $. Evans i'll Chicago
Times Herald.
Artificial ice is made even III juneau,
/ Alaska, during the summer
Without A Rival.