HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

the General Assembly of 1889-90, and receiving in the joint assembly the unanimous vote of both Democrats and Republicans. While Public Printer he edited the Frankfort Daily Capital. Jan. 1, 1894, he retired from the office of Public Printer and at once assumed the duties of Special Agent of the United States Treasury, for the district comprising Missouri, Nebraska,' and Colorado, with headquarters at St. Louis. To this place he was appointed by Secretary Carlisle on the latter's own motion   no application having been filed and no recommendation asked.

In 1872, he was an alternate elector, for the Fifth District, on the Democratic Presidential ticket; in 1880, he held the same position on the ticket, for the State-at-large; was three times elected assistant clerk of the House of Representatives ; was one time elected its chief clerk ; was twice President of the Kentucky Press Association; and three times elected Vice-President of the Kentucky Society of Sons of the American Revolution. Gov. Buckner, at the beginning of his term, tendered him an appointment as Railroad Commissioner, but he was then managing editor of the Courier-Journal and preferred to retain that position. Buckner's first official act as Governor was to commission him a colonel on his staff, so he came fairly by his military title, though strictly on a peace footing, and not so proud a one in his estimation as that of sergeant, when " grim-visaged war" gave a sergeant something to do which made the title significant.

He and Mrs. Johnson have reared three sons and a daughter to bear their fair name.

As a writer he is piquant and forceful. When managing editor, the Courier-Journal had not alone his excellent judgment in determining the character of its daily issue, but even to the bulletin column, usually only a stupid index, he imparted a raciness which awakened interest and invited to further reading. As a speaker he is ready and unaffected, and rarely wanting in a certain spontaneous humor which never descends to buffoonery.

True to his friends ; loyal to his family, near and remote ; proud of Kentucky, with a Kentuckian's weakness for be! ieving that even the old State's faults "all lean to virtue's side; " faithful to every public and private trust; feeling still that spirit of the corps which keeps alive an interest in comrades, quick or dead; and with a fine scorn for small devices and low subterfuges by which little men seek to gain their ends and shirk their responsibilities,   his life as a man has been in keeping with his service as a soldier boy, and worthy of the regiment whose fortunes he followed and whose fame he shares.