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Show Brown, of Georgia. With the retirement of Senator Joseph fcmerson Brown, of Georgia, at the close of his present term, in March, 1891, drops out of public life another of the strong characters of the civil war. Senator Sen-ator Brown is not so very aged, having been Lorn in 1821. He is not so old by considerable as either Gladstone or Oliver Wendell EToliaes, and Senators Dawes, Evarts, Morrill and others are several years older than "Joe" Brown, But Senator Brown has had a way of looking about 80 or 90 years old nearly ever since he became United States senator, and may be feels as old as he looks. Men with war memories will recall how fiery a secessionist he was, how "Governor Brown's militia" were almost the only troops that opposed Sherman on his march to the sea. Those with more modern memories will remember always how energetically Governor Brown worked for the extension of Georgia railroads rail-roads and for the material development of the state. Many good wishes will go with him into his retirement. |