Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-27

Proceed at n slow walk to the grave, a
moderate gait being preferable: and that
the custom of sitting up with the corpse
should pass into disuse-
The wealthy Missouri women who have
teen alluded to in recent dispatches as
having in contemplation a gift of S'"',wo
&c the University of Chicago. are said TO
be Mrs. Martha L. Smith and Mrs. Sarah Il
Cotton. of Sedalia. daughters of General
George r. Smith. the founder of that
town. who was one of the richest men i'll
Central Missouri. and left his entire es-
tate to his daughters. While they are
wealthy in the general acceptation OF the
term a Sedalia correspondent of the
Giohe-Democrat says. lit is thought S'O'.-
WJ is an excessive figure in estimating
tfeir possessions. They have no near re-
atives, and much speculation has been in
dulSed III as TO what disposition would be
made OF their possessions eventually.
Both ladies are members of the Christian
church, while the Chicago university Is 4
baptist institution. and for this reason
their Sedalia friends are not inclined TO
believe they will assist the university TO
anything like the extent the Chicago ed
uoators anticipate. The ladies positively
refuse to discuss the matter. or 10 give
any intimation as TO what their intentions
SlS W ltStTu 10 lNc matter.
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An interesting story has reached Missouri
from Washington. the Republic says, con-
corning the election there the other day
of the Missouri member of the national
Democratic congressional campaign COM
Hittee. 1t was brought to st. Louis Mon
day by one of the state committeeman
and told by him to some of his confreres
with great enjoyment. 1t appears that Con-
gresham NJ. f. Benton was Slated for
the place. and tia, none of the other Mis-
souri, members had been mentioned until
the delegation met to elect the representa-
tive on the congressional campaign commit
tee. Mr.. Bland was in the chair. and soon
after he called the meeting TO order and
stated its object Senator Cockrell arose TO
place Colonel Benton in nomination. Before
the senator could speak a word Champ
Clark strobe majestically toward the chair.
His hands were uplifted in deprecatory APP
peal to Senator CockreIl to give way a mo-
ment to the Ninth district member. This
the senator courteously did, not knowing
what Clark desired to say. Then Champ
made a rafting half-hour speech, dwelling
upon the vast Importance of the work in
hand and winding up with an eloquent
euiogy OF Congressman r. n. Bodine for
the position which Congressman Benton
had been urged to accept, and which it was
generally conceded he would fill with emin-
ent satisfaction. Champ Clark's speech,
though. knocked out all previous calcula-
tons, and not wishing to witness a scram-
BILE in the delegation. which might perman-
emily threaten harmony, Senator Cockrell
did not present the name of Benton. Bodine,
1t Is said. was about the most heartily sur
priSed man in the delegation when he
learned that he had been given the place
Tor which Benton had been slated by mu-
tual consent. and was so startled b. the
suddenness with which the honor over
whelmed him that he failed to deliver a
speech of thanks
A letter from a Mr.. c. Disbrow, of Clay
Center. kas.. to the st. Joseph News, tells
q most interesting story in connection with
the career of s.. S. Goode, who, in the early
days. was a young lawyer in St. Joe, but
before the outbreak of the war located in
Illinois and became colonel of a regiment
in the command of which he was superseded
by Ulysses S. Grant: AT the breaking out
of the war;" says Mr.. Disbrow, IS. S.
Goode was a resident of Decatur, Ill. Two
companies were raised in Decatur for the
Eighth Dick Oglesby' regiment. Goode
raised another company. but not in time
to get in under the call for the first 1000
men. The state then organized and
equipped ten regiments Of militia. Goodies
company was the first of our Seventh reg
iment to reach the camp at NATION, so we
took first letter and, to be first all around,
We elected our captain to the rank of colo
mel. Goode had had some military expert
ence. having been with Walker in Nicara-
qua. and We thought to elect our captain
to the colonelcy was to be near the throne.
But We were terribly mistaken. He proved
to be a whisky-drinking windbag. He had
no control over the regiment NM pooa nf
us respected him. At the end of thirty
days Governor Yates te~legraphed him to
bring the regiment to Springfield and the
boys all got there within a day or two.
We were then mustered out of the state
service and reorganized as the Twenty
first. In 1862 Colonel Goode was still in
Decatur and helped to organize and drill
the One Hundred and Sixteenth regiment,
but he got no official place. From that time
on l lost track of him until after the close
of the war. He was then keeping a sa-
loon in Mexico. Mo. There he had trouble
with the government officers, refusing to
pay his revenue taxes. He finally made an
assault on a federal collector, who took
Goodies pistol from him and killed him
with his own gun. Thus ended the career
of the man who Paved the Way for Grant
He might have had honor himself had
he kept the straight path and made use
of the material over which he was given
control. Goode was never colonel of the
Twenty-first Illinois regiment, having been
at its command only while it was a part
| of the state militia Immediately after our
reorganization Grant was made colonel and
we went to the front without waiting to
| go in style. 1t was the same body Of men
| Goode had commanded, and by his reck-
~lessness he really did pave the way for
Grant"