The National tribune., 1906-06-21

enlisted April 25, 1861, in the 29th
Mass. He became Lieutenant-Colonel
in command of the regiment. and was
commander of the First Brigade, First
Division, Ninth Corps, from May. u to
Sept. IA, 1864. He was brevetted a
Brigadier-General and discharged Oct.
9, 1864. He joined Joseph Hooker Post
June 23. 1868, and was Post Commander
in 1869.
Comrade H. G. Sawyer. who served
in the Sth n, H, now represents the
Pelican Cracker Factory at New Or
leans. He recently ran up from New
Orleans to his old stamping ground
around Port Hudson and furnishes some
interesting "reminiscences to the San
bornville IN. H) Pioneer. Port Hud-
son has just had new railroad built
and is taking on little more life,
which it much needed, as an island has
been formed in front of the town and
left the old place high and dry. At
Fayette Miss. Comrade Sawyer ran
into a Confederate Camp which at once
recognized him as the old Blue Belly
Yankee" who used to run locomotive
through that section until the times got
entirely too hot for man of Northern
birth The old Confederates rave him
a royal entertainment, and if he had
not been a Prohihitionist there is no
telling the condition in which he would
have returned to New Orleans.
Postmaster Sheppard s. Hudson. one
of the best-hii,i--n citizens OF South Jer-
sey. died at Mays Landing, y. j., June
z. He had sailed the seas for over 60
years continuously until ne was ap-
pointed Postmaster a little over a year
ago by President Roosevelt. During the
war he was in command of transports
mostly sailing out of Hampton Roads
for the South Atlantic coast.
Garrett A. Hobart, of Paterson. n. J..
son of the late Vice-President, was mar
ried at Auburn, Me, June 6, to Miss
Caroline Frye Briggs granddaughter OF
Senator William P. Frye.
Comrade and Mrs Christian Borner,
of Pittsburg, celebrated the t0th ami
versary of their marriage, which took
place June 5, 1866. Comradc Borner IS
one OF the best-known residents OF the
South Side of Pittsburg, and for many
years conducted a butcher shop there.
He is a native Pennsylvania and ser:-
ed through the war as a volunteer, and
is a member of Post ISL. Mrs. Borner
is a native of Pittsburg, and the couple
have six children and nine grandchii-
dren. all living and present at the cele-
bration.
interested in everything that relates to
Col. Eugene F. Ware. late Commission
er of Pensions. and comrade of most
attractive personality. His daughter.
Abby Huntington. will be married June
20, in the First Baptist Church, Topeka,
Kan. to DIR. Frederick Harold Mes, and
the friends of the father all over the
country will wish the young couple the
utmost happiness.
Col. John E. Thompson. of Harrods-
burg one of the best-known politicians
in Kentucky. has announced his candi-
dacy for Democratic nominations for
United States Senator against Coy.
Beckham and Senator James ID. Nc
Creary. Thompson's friends say he does
not fear the Democratic State machine,
but VIII fight it through the campaign.
His campaign will begin actively the 1st
of next month.
1t is now beginning to be believed
that ]. Pierpont Morgan has the most
magnificent art collection in the whole
world
Chancellor Day, of the Syracuse Uni
versity, is now quite much in the lime
light. The disclosures recently made in
regard to him by a resigning Professor
are therefore of interest. 1t appears
that Chancellor Day is an autocrat of
the autocrats, a personal exponent of
the individual power. He is it in the
institution over which he presides. He
controls the discipline in minute detail.
He regulates the athletics. He dictates
the curriculum and the educational poll
cies. He sweeps aside the recommenda-
tions of the instructors in the matter of
promotions and graduations. Even when
the entire faculty has voted to expel d
student Chancellor Day has reinstated
him. He is, in short, trust
The disquieting report comes from
good authority in Tennessee that ex-
Gov. and prospective Senator Bob"
Taylor is far from being the great artist
with the fiddle that he has been repre-
sented. There has been no notably good
violinist in public life since Jefferson,
and there was a pleasing hope that
Bob" with his violin would bring the
soul of music to enliven the staid and
sober gloom of the Senate Chamber by
strains that would be more convincing
than the profoundest constitutional ar
gument. That eminent musical author
ity, the Nashville American, says with
cold fnality that Bob" is not much of
fiddler of any kind. He can play a
few tunes well enough to keep 'em GO
ing at country dance. but the woods
are fun of better fddlers than Robert.
As fiddler he is hardly the equal of
Jim Taylor, of Winchester, and Jeems
is no Ole Bull or Paganini, though he
does manage to consecutively assemble
most of the notes in 'Cracklin' Bread,
Arkansas Traveller 'Natchez Under the
Hill and Old Gray Hoss Came Tearing
Down the Wilderness In his earlier
days Bob officiated as fiddler at fee
puncheon floor shindigs in the Watauga
settlement but he can talk of the fiddle
more eloquently than he can play 1t.
II he should object to this statement we
are ready to withdraw it."
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor. has been
in Representative Littlefield's District
making speeches against his reelection.
but Mr.. Littlefield seems quite undis-
turbed about IL, and says that the work
ing men in his district are entirely too
fair-minded and independent to vote
against a Congressman simply because
he declines to take orders from the
President of the Trades Unions.
Since his retirement as Minister Ia
England. Robert T. Lincoln, the son OF
the great President, has devoted all his
attention to the great business of the
Pullman Company, of which he Is Vice
President, and is very popular with all
with whom he comes in contact
Robert Pitcairn, assistant to Presi.
dent Cassatt, of the PENNSYLVANIA Rail.
road, has retired, at the age of 20, upon
a fortune estimated at $4,000, 600
Where has politics any such rewards?
Another crushing turn OF the wheel.
OF justice over high" financiers. Al
Minneapolis, June 16, Judge c. F
Brooks sentenced DIR. Jacob F. Force
formerly President and Director of the