| Show FA fali LJ ll 0 OF F tauni tau A NI TED S STATES TATES etoir enk toll L corres correspondent pol poi ident at atut st louis nouis writing to io hii hir an eastern journal aburn d narrates the following down chestnut street st louis oue day last week beekil 1 I was struck by the appearance of an old man past sixty who wore a threadbare coat coat eilf ella shiny ny with with constant wear vear and who whose s hajwas was bruised and seedy teedy his head was bent towards the earth and his walk was a tottering shuffle the the effect of whiskey whish whiskey ey and old age he reeled from one olie side of tho the pavement to the other and at ht last brou brought glit up against a lamp post on the corner when a lookin looking loafer coming along saluted him with rH hallo allo ailo jim come and take a n drink the old mans mana eye eyes brightened and arm in arm lie he sauntered along to the nearest grogg ery cry with his ills compan companion on five years ago that old man was james green united states sen ben senator atar from mis missouri and in the days of the kansas and lecompton compton Le matters he was next to stephen A douglas doug dias glas the ablest debater in ln Con congress cress buethe but the war broke out mr gree green n was sent fi to the rebel congress Con gresa roon goon oon lost his property pi his lus position and aud character and now he he is ia a poor drunkard I 1 and earns barely a pittance of a living as ag a shyster r jew the aho an inh inhabitants I 1 persia massacred a great number of jews in that town during tho the festival fp stival of bf mohar ml rem and have compelled the lat tat to adopt mohammedanism v sw tim tilt grasshoppers have passed on in hi a southerly direction leavin leaving n nothing thing aboveground above round but cotton cottonwood woo an and band sand burrs to tell the th destructive dk taid tao tae rv rn r V kearney |
