Daily Evening Bulletin, 1881-12-15

business other than that of Odd Fellow Fellowship - ship Fellowship to which he gave the remaing years of his long active and useful life At his death he was in his sixty fourth year A man of indomitable will aggressive pains painstaking - taking painstaking and as his career proved possess possessing - ing possessing inventive genius of a higher order Beginning a clerk he eventually became the surveyor of the projected great over overland - land overland route of the Trans continental Tele Telegraph - graph Telegraph lie was therefore essentially a self made man HIS MARRIAGE And now comes what should have been the happiest episode of his eventful life but unhappily its short duration has made ita sad ending Having formed through many years of association in Odd Fellow Fellowship - ship Fellowship a warm attachment for W W Mor Morris - ris Morris Esq and through him with his family and believing that a kind Providence who had so long watched over him would spare him many years to live he married Eva the daughter of his friend Mr Morris last April and who now has in her young bereavement the sincere sympathy of evry heart that breaths ODD FELLOW AND II A SON He joined Chosen Friends Lodge in 1839 and the Encampment in 1840 He was also a Mason being a member of Mount Moriah Lodge F and A M Mount Horeb Encampment Chosen Friends Lodge will send a committee from their seperate bodies to night or Wednes Wednesday - day Wednesday morning to meet the remains at In Indianapolis - dianapolis Indianapolis As he was Grand Representa Representative - tive Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge from the Grand Encampment of Kentucky it is expected the Grand officers of that body

Louisville Commercial The astounding news of the sudden de demise - mise demise of Tal P Shaflner at Troy N Y Sunday evening last surprised ns well as grieved his numerous acquaintances in Louisville apart from the members of the Order of Odd Fellowship of which he had been a prominent member since 1839 He left this city accompanied by his wife last Wednesday afternoon and before do doing - ing doing so visted many of his old friends all of whom congratulated him on lookingand feeling so well and hearty His tall and portly form was apparently as lithe as twenty years ago uis CAREER Col Shaflner came to this city about 1832 from Cumberland Md and engaged as salesman with the old firm of Sol Hart on Market street between FourthJandFifth Afterwards he was admitted to the bar at which profession he was rariously engaged being also a Notary Public which at that time was quite a responsible office He engaged in telegraphy at its inception and put up the first telegraph in Kentucky from this city to Bardstowr in 1845 which was in time extended to Nashville His many enterprises were unsuccessful up to this but now fortune seemed to smile and with his great energy he devoted himself entirely to perfecting the telegraph system Leaving Louisville he put up telegraph poles all the way to Paducah St Louis and finally arrived at New York after traversing and erecting the telegraph all

will officiate at his obsequies A Look Ahead Nashville American A south Nashville man laid in his win winters - ters winters supply of coal yesterday His next door neighbor looked over the fence os ho was shoveling the last load into the cellar and asked what reduction he got by buy buying - ing buying ho large a quantity at once None at all was the reply as a large lump went rolling in and sent the little lumps scattering in every direction His neigh neighbor - bor neighbor seemed surprised then asked how it was he got it all at once if he had to pay full price for i Well you see said he work is getting a little scarce My credit is good now but I dont know how itsgoing to be before the winters over See And he brushed in the last scraps of the eight loads and locking the cellar door stood erect with the proud conscious consciousness - ness consciousness and air of a man Too 14xru again Toxas Sittings Rev Aminidab Bledsoe of the Austin Blue Light tabernacle met Sara Webster yesterday and asked how he was off for wood I reckon said Sam Ise got about two cordB Dats gwino ter last yer plum fru de winter said Bledsoe who wanted to bor borrow - row borrow somo fuel No it wont parson fur de whit3 gem man in whose yard dat wood ia burns it up jess as if it didnt cost him a cent The hotels at Memphis are to bo raided for deadly weapons supposed to ko on do posit

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to lay a cable in that far off region He remained many years in the North of Eu Europe - rope Europe returning to this country just previ previous - ous previous to the civil war Experiencing the glory as well as the hardships of wars alarms in the northern clime the rebel rebellion - lion rebellion then beginning gave him an oppor opportunity - tunity opportunity to offer his services to his native land which was so much appreciated by Gen Grant that he appointed him on his staff He was present at many battles in Vir Virginia - ginia Virginia and had the crowning glory of wit witnessing - nessing witnessing the surrender of Lee at Appo Appomattox - mattox Appomattox When Gen Grant was in Louis Louisville - ville Louisville a fevr years ago ColShaffner happened to bo stopppiiig at the Gaoilt house The meeting of the two veterans is vell re remembered - membered remembered by many For several years past he has not been engaged in active

during thePrussian and Danish war where he espoused the cause of the latter and where he signalized himself for bravery to such an exent that he won the admiration of the King of Denmark and received from him medals decorations eic as marks of his special regard besides being made a noble of the Kingdom of Denmark for his services to the army After the Danish war ho surveyed the overland route via Greenland and Bearings Strait for the purpose of connecting the American continent with that of Europe and although this route was proven to be practicable yet no attempt was ever made

through the country At New York he became a partner of Morse Kendall Co the famous telegraph operators and by them was sent to Europe Proceeding first to Russia in the prosecution of his enterprise he next turn3 up in Denmark