Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 4, 1885, Page 4

P [ —— THE DAILY BEE. 014 AND 916 Fanvam St Roost 66 Trisone Buino: Omana Orricr N New Youk Orrice, Pub'ished every morning, except Eunday. The only Monaag morning daily published in the state. TRV BY MATL One Year $10.00 | Throe Months Six Months 6.00 | One Month.. The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday L8250 Ono Yoar, with premium One Year, without p 8ix Months, without p One Month, on tria CORRRSTO All Communications relating to Newsand Editorial matters should bo addressed to the EDITOR oF THR Ber. DUSINESS LETTRRS. All Business Letters and Remittances ehould be addressed to Tim Brr PUiLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA. Drafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- able to th order of the company. THE BEE_PUBLISHING 0., Props A H. Ti Nebraska, Mz Hazex has the thanks of a long- sufforing people for that cold wave. Onrvt nn;;;e;ove’rrt'wenty millions on account of her rallways. Me. Gould's proposed vlsit to Chlll isnow explalnable Ax Evarts boom for governor has been started In New York. If Mr. Evarishas tho good senso not to crush it with one of his famous long sentences there is sald to be good chances of its materializieg. TasyANy I8 likely to have a new leader, Charlos E. Loow, who has been elected as a sachem. It Is predicted that he will bo the controllng splrit of that powerful organization, and that Boss Kelly will have to take a back seat. INCREASED correspondence on account of the Grant obsequles is tho latest ex- cuso from Washington to pacify the hun- gry offica ssekers. Bat evon this fails to bring satlsfac:ion to twenty thousand ap- plicants for vacant country postmaster- ships. —— Cor, Serr Manry, of Kansas City, thinks that as all the cattlemen in the Indlan territory are enthusiastic demo- crata the president’s order for the re- moval of thelr herds will be cheerfully obeyed. At last reports it would tzke a large s'zad tolescope to dlscover the choorfulness of the southwestern cat'le kings, who rarely allow polltics to Inter- fers with busine AxorHER griss of scandal comes from England. This timo It s amoag the young bloods of famous old Eton school, within right of Windsor castle and park, About thrae hundred of the students have been detected”n immoral condact, and they wlll notbe allowed to return to the school next term. They would have been expelled were 1t not for the fact that they are the sms of the srlstocracy and that expulsion fromEton forever bars them appointmont In the army, navy or church. When and whera this epidemic of scands] wlll end there Is no telllng. Tue plea of ineanity in the case of Riel was unsuccessful, He has been convicted and sontenced to be hanged on the 18th of Septembar. The prisoner addrested the jury at great length, prefaclng his speech with an earnest and affacting prayer. In the course of his remarks he arralgned the governmentfor failingto do anything to satlefy thepeopleof tho North- west, Although petition after petition had been sent to the government appeal- Ing for rellef, the authorlties had not answered once or glven a sign of re- sponse. Thie fact, sald Riel, would In- dicato absolate lack of responsibility and Insanity complicated with paralysls. The jury, although returning a verdlct of guilty, medo an earnest appeal In bohalf of the prisoner and recommended him to ths mercy of the crown, It was an affccting scene, much sympathy being ex- hibited for the unfortunate man, His gentonce may poussibly be commauted to life Imprisonment, which would have a tendency to gatn the good will of the dis: aflzcted half-breeds. SHorRTAGES In the accoants of our county cflicers are becomlng altogether tos common, Thero 1is no good reascn why publle officlals should not be abls to keep thelr acsounts perfectly stralght. They are the employes of the county, and hold the same relation to the public as & book-keeper does In a commercial estab- lishment to his employer. If the system of book-keeping is defective it should be remedied by the authorlties, and if the defiolencles are owlpg to careleseness or dlshonesty, steps should be taken to bave the amoun{s made good and the cffenders soverely reprimanded or punlshed, as thelr case may deserve. A competent county auditor would no doubt prove a valuable officer In checklvg up the sccounts of cfliclals and the proposition of the county commissloners to create the cflice of auditor will no doubt meet with general approval, The business of the county has grown to euch proportions as to demand the eutlre at- tention of such an official, Besldes supervisleg the accounts of the county stated Intervals, or at such other may be directed, will' audit and report the publle accounts, maske & record of all vouchers allowed by the commissioners, keep an itemized account of all work done vpon ths order of the commlission ers, and perform such other duties as may from time to tlme be assigned to him. Suchan officlal will find plenty of work to occupy hls attention, and will nc doubt save the county a great deal of woaey. We now have a splendid and commodicus bullding for the transaction of the county buslness, which should be dons on s'rletly bueinees princlples. The sppolutment of a competent county anditor will do much towards bringing abut such a result, NORTHERN NEBRASKA. A dealer from the north writes us to know what Omaha merchants are doing to control the trade of northern Nebrae- ka and what they propose to do In view of the rapid railroad extension along the northern boundary of our state. This 1a a pertinent and timely question. Omaha has occapled well the trade ter- ritory along the Unlon Paclfic and Bur- lington rosds In Nebraska. Her mer- chants are now and have been for some time supplylng a large portion of western Towa aa cheaply as Is done by Ohicago houses. In the territories she Is pushing her olalms as far west as the Paclfic slope. The splendid aggreeslveness of our whole- salera In the past five years is something of which the city may be proud. It has advertised Omaha as a great supply depot and has been one of the many factors In forwarding her wonderfal growth. That northern Nebraska has not been a8 thoroughly occupled by our wholesalers has been chiefly due to two ocauses. Northern Nebraska has not been as thoronghly cccupled by rallroads as southern Nebraska, and the rallroads that have supplied her have found It to thelr Interest to ofter special inducements to tho morchantsalong their lines to deal elsewhere than with Omaha, Our mer- chants too have been less familiar with the country than thelr own interests de- manded and than the rich Inducements which It oftered for a pushing trade, called for. In conszquence Chicago ana Sloux City have attalned a foothold In a terri- tory which s rightfally our own and which ovght to be and can be wrested from their control, fNorthern Nobrasks s more than wlil- ing to do the bulk of her buslness with Omaha the moment it can be shown to her advantage to transfer her trads to this city. This is evidenced by the tone of her press and the frequent letters of her mercha; There is no antegonism to Omaha's entire occupation of this te:- ritory. There are, however, cbstructions which must be rcmoved. Chiof among thene 18 the lack of a thorough advertise- ment of Omaha’s resources and capaclty to fill tho demands of the retsllersin that section. The same thorough canvass of every town in northern Nebraska which has been glven to the rest of the state by our wholesalers would result we sre confident In a stimulation of trade which, In spite of past rallroad discrimination, would at once turn the tlde In our direction. The first traveling men to reach a new town should bs from the metropolis of the state, not from a clty five hundred mlles distant. Oar northern nelghbors have had some reason in the past to complain of commerclal neglect on the part of Omaha merchants, They should forever be debarred from the same complalnts in the fature. Let it once ba known that Omaha, with fair dealing on the part of the railroads, 1s more then able to meet every ccmmerclal demand made upon her by the merchants of the state at large, and railroad dls- crimination against her interests will soon be met by a strong local pressure In evory town along thelr llnes, which, if not efficlent in removing the trouble, will materlally aesist in backing efforts on the part of our merchants which wlll do 80. Omaha is too large a city now for any railroad eyatem to Ignore. Omaha’s mer- chanta are too powerful patrons of the railroada to be antagonized with lmpunl- ty or without fear of the consequences, Holding In theirown hands the remedy for discrimInations agalnst thelr Interests on the part of most of the rallroads cen- tering at this polat they can well afford to make thelr just demands for equal trade privlleges as againstany rival which enters thelr lawfal territory. Push and pluck are two good old Anglo-Saxon words which have solved miny a com- mercial problam, They are commended to the wholesale morchants of Omaha as a solatlon of the problem under discus- sion, 3 OmAHA, no less than Trinity parlsh, is to be congratulated upon the arrival of the new and beautifal chime of bells, which were heard for the first tlme last evening ay they rang out thelr notes from the church on Capltal avenue and Eighteenth street. No clty of onr size can boast of as large or melodlous a col- lection of bells hung in a single belfry. The product of the best foundry In this country, they are sald, ln purity, strength and number, to be equalled by but few chimes in the United States, and form an elegant and touching memorfal of Mr, W. A. Ogden, one of Blshop Clarkeon’s warmest and earliest of frlends, While adding much to the valua of the costly structure In which they are placed, they add at the eame tlme to 1ho attractions of Omaha metropolis, No doub! they will volce the sentiments of our paople in tlmes of joy and sorrow. Thelr sweet tones will doubtless *‘ring out the old and iIn the new” through many eucceed- ing years and add thelr mus'c toa natlon’s gladness on many a recurrlng anniver- sary of national {ndependence. They wlill bear at the eama time perpetual tes- timony to a wife's devotlon and a woman's munificonce. Tur publication of the ‘‘Dressmakers’ Black List” has resulted in a sult for li- bel agalnat Mr. Worth, the celebrated ladies’ tailor, and M. Garak, of Lz T'cls- graphe. All Paris Is naturally agog over this case, assome Interesting devel- opwments are expected. The lst con- talned the nsmes of many distluguished ladles, who were rated elther as good, wmediuw, or bad pay, while those who had been indebted to the dressmakers for a long tlms were classlfied among ‘‘dead beats,” Thel'st was pubilshed under the ausploes of a syndicate of twenty-one members, representlng 182 dressmakers [t was not Intended for the public, bat for private use among themselves, Soins THE DAILY BEE--TU one, however, farnlshed a copy to one of the newspapers which published ft. Hence the suit for Ilibel This 1lst, however, is nothing new, It having been the custom for alx years to annually publish such a cirealar, which was In every Instance marked “‘confidential.” Such a list 1s about tho same thing as a commerclal sgency confi- dential publication, which Is very com- mon in the United States. The Paris dress- makers do a business of 250,000,000 francs annually, and it is claimed by M. Worth that as they lote from seven to ten million franca annually they are obliged to protect themselves. One of the debtors of M. Worth presents the other side of the care, His name was printed at the top of the list among the swindlers, for which he demands 100,000 francs. He does not expect to get more than nominal damages, however, as he eays he is slmply prosecating the case to malntain the principle that a man may pay his bills Irregularly without betng a rogune. This is about the poslticn that most of the libelled debtora no doubt will take. The probabilityis that the authors of the black list will be compelled to pay somo dam- ages, 88 many of the defamed persons are of noble and anclent lineage, possassing more Influence than ready cath, Tae asphalt pavement in Omeha hsa withstocd the eeverest tests of winter and summer. Last winter was one of the coldest seasons known tor many years, and we have just had a remarkably hot spell of weather. Whila the pavement was cracked In numerous places by the contraction of the cold of winter, Its ex- panston durlng the summer has closed up the cracks and pui 1t into nearly a good condltion s It way when first laid dowo. Another noticeable fact s that durlng the recent Lot perfod the heavlest vehicles have scarcely made a perceptible mark or depresslon upon the pavement, while in some cliles, where the woather has has been no warmer than in Omahs, the asphalt has softened to such an extent that the wagon whesls and horses’ hoofs have left their markes on it to a constder- able depth. We do not hesltate to say, without suggestion or solicitation, that the asphalt pavement in Omsha has been well laid, and that so far It has given sat- isfaction. Sweer BiL. MauonE, of Virginls, has once more girded on his claymore and {a collecting statlstics of the number of his Virginian followers who have becn re. moved for “‘offensive partleanshlp,” Mr. Mahone's frlends say that he is bearing in mind the reputed agreements of re- publican senators not to confirm In cases where republicans had been removed on thia score and thelr places filled by dem- ocrats who had themselves been partisan, and that he expects to make 1t lively for many of the new appolntees in Virglala, We venture the prophecy that when the tlme comes to make lssuc against the president’s appointments, Mr. Mahono will be found somewhere In the senate with his head in the waste paper basket. AN effurt is belng made by the enter- prisiog cit!zans of St. Joe to induce Rev. Sam Jonee, the magnetlc revivalist, to hold a serles of meetings in that city. The expense cf the propoeed revival will be $5,000, and a committee Is now rais- ing the money. It would seem, however, that the St. Joe people do not care so much for the religlous good that may be accomplished, as they do for the money that they expect to make from the crowds that will flock from far and near to that clty to hear the Goorgia wonder. We are led to this conclusion from the state- ment of one of the St. Joo papers to the fact that “‘thera 13 n)>questlon bub that if the great evangelist comes thousands of people will visit the clty from all parts of the state, and cur me nts will de- rive great benefits,” Tue five ocesn steamship companies, acting under the leadership of the Pacltic Mail, having falled to force the distribu- tlon of the $400,000 by refusing to trans- port the mails unless thls money was handed over to them In bulk at once, bave found out that the mails can be car- ried without thelr aid, The postmaster- general propozed to award them both sea and inland postage, which s about three times what they had been recelving for the same service the past twelve years, and three times what s paid for mall transportation across the Atlantle. The American steamshlp companies have sim- ply bitten off thelr nose to splte their face, FERRAN, the Spawsu aoctor, 1s making a fortune ont of his system of Inocenlation, which he clalmy to be a preventive of cholera. No matter what the real merits of his discovery may be, the people of Spain seem to have great confidence In it, notwithstanding the dublous shakes cf the head on the part of other physlclans and sclentlsts, Ferran operates on four patlents per minute, and s raking in the money at the rate of 1,600 to $2,000 a day. We have no hesitancy In ssying that the inoccalation is & grod thing—for Dr. Ferran, THE recent expusures concerning army poker playlog do not ssem to have en tirely ebated the evil, Lieut. Pathe and Moj. Smith, of the 10:h Infantry at For: Clark, Texes, have lately baen indulging in numerons games of **draw” for which they are to bs court martialed. Itisto be hoped that they wlil be made an example of, a8 It s about time that the officere should be made to understand that the order against gambling can and will be euforced, ADMIRAL of the French navy, died In three hours after the re ©lps of the news of the Francc-Oblnese troaty, and the etatement was made that bo died of a broken heart, This is con Counner, firmed by Rear Admiral Davlr, command. Ing the United States tquadron In the Chinese waters, Courbet wanted the war prolonged so that he could dlstin. guish himself, and when his amblition was ulpped in the bud by the coesatlon of hostilitles, life had no more charms jor him, — Taere Is some talk of consolldating land offices inthe weslora states. Ac- cording to arccont dlspatsh from Wash. ington tho fiest state to be redistricted, if the plan is carrled ont, will be Wisconsin, and Nebraska will follow. The Nebraska offices are all maximum, except Beatrice, whish pays 81,283, and Lincoln, which pays $1,201. The offices at Niobrara, Grand Tsland, North Platte, Bloom'ng- ton, Valentino, and MocCook a'l pay $3,000. Mr. Bex Barrows, who has for elght years been the American consul at Dab. Iin, has been superseded by a gentleman from Misslssipp!, Mr. J. L. McCaskill, The several gentlemen In Omaha who were pulling the wires In hopes of being delegated to step into Mr. Barrows' bro. gans, will now have to set thelr pags for somo other office. _— New York is now perapitlng over the proposliion for a Grant monument, It may not be amles to mentlon that more than a thousind dollars s lacktng to oomplote the World’s Bartholdl pedestal fand which the New York cltizans com- aittee on that monument falled to begin to raise. Tuk edftor of the Republican aceuscs the editor of the Herald of being “‘a reskless libeller,” 1In the face of that lato vardict of tho distrlot court sgainst the Republican gang, the old provorb of pots calling kettles black seems to have a local application Samuol J. Tilden is a confirmed pie-eater, The sultan of Tutkey is taking music les- sons, John Roach, the hip-builder, is 77 years of ago. Lord Palmerston has caricature legs, and so did Disiaeii, Colonel Lamont's waste basket is large encugh for a bustle for the etatue of Liberty. Sinm Jones, the epigrammatic southern re vivalist, says that tho German 18 *‘hugging set to music,” Late hours and constant dissipation atten- dant upon he: high rank have at last told upon the princess of Wales, A Pole who paid his taxes in Detroit the other day has tho nams of JohnSczghwgznski —eleveu consonants in succession, Queen Victoria cares very little for fancy dishes. She mostly enjays boled haddock and a roast loin of Southdown mutton, Helen Gardner claims to be the only wo- man infidel lecturer in the world. She should change her Cnristain name to “*Sheolen,” The eon cf ex-President Arthur is doscribed tobe “‘a nice boy with the girls, bat has as yet developed no great tendencies elsewhere,” It is estimated that Miss Cleveland’s book will net her about 50,000, Her brother will have to work a whole year to make that amount, Governor Ross, of New Mexico, took the oath of offize at sunrize, It is safeto say that he had not been out wita the boys the night before. John O. Fremont says ho has camped where Chicago, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City now aro before the first iphabitant put up his cabin, Senator Edmunds is eaid to be the cause of the unusual number of icebergs this eeason, The royal old refrigerator from Vermont must be on the briny deep, A mon named Cannon, employed in a Pittsburg foundry, went off the other day ISDAY, AUGUST 4 1885 GRANT'S OHARACT its Most Prominent Traite, as De- victed by the Hon. Hamilton Fish, The Hon. Hamilton Fish Ia the New York Indopendent: His knowledge of men was generally accurate; but he wes apt In this respect, as In others, to reach his conclusions rapidly, and was thus not wnfrequently led to give his confidence whero It was not deserved, and It wi from the abuze of his confidence thus re- posed that arose most of the vensure which, after the clese of the war, was visited wpon him, Where he cave hls friondshlp he gave It unresorvedly whether frlendship or confidence, he gave it unreservedly—and was slow to believe snything to the dlscredit of thoee of whom he was fond. When he entered upon the presldency he did ro withont much, 1f any, previous experlence In clvil admimatration He soon, however, very soon, made himvelf thoroughly famlliar with all questions that were broughtto his consideration, and he may truly fbe sald to hava applied himself to the great problems of government, Iu his cablnet meetingsit was his habit to bring before his councilors such ques- tlons as might have been ,suggested to him either by frlends oz as the result of his own thought. He would generally ask of the members of his cablnet, In or- der or successively, their views, and would then reach his own conclusion and direct the course to be pursued which he thought beat. So far as his own depart- ment was concerned, he kept thoroughly up with all the questlons that srose, and. w0 far as Loould judge, ho was equally famlllar with tho queattons in each of tha other departments. He was very free to accapt the oploions and ylews of his cab inet, cften antagonistic to his own pre- concelved notlons. As an Inetance of this, when the inflation bill had patsed congress and was strenuously urged upen him for sppproval by many of his most fofluentisl frlends in each heuse of congress, nud a majority of his cabinet, ho at first reluctantly ylelded to o determlnation to approve tbe bill, and prepared s paper to be sub- mitted to congress explainiog his reasons for approval of the bill, which paper was lald before the cabinst, bat not read. had most nirenuous'y advocated his ve- toing the bill, and au evening or two previous to this csbinet mseting he sent for mo and read mo the paper. Having done it, he remarked: “The more 1 have loaded to the muzzle, and on his returned was promptly discharged. “Plunger” Walton hns eleven daughters, and he has taken them all to Long Brauch for the eummer, They cost him $350 a week for board and lodging alune, Colonel Higgingon on his tricicle, with his little daughter havgiog on behind, is said to bo the pretties sight in Cambridge on these pleasant summer evenings, King Lndwig of Bavaria is about to pay a portion of his debts with a windfall of $1, 760,000 left him by a kinsman, His tailor emiles upon him once more and says he is in no hurry, Said Misa Louisa M. Alcott recent! seasick on board an Atlantic steam name ships Asia, der why it doesu’s ceeur to somebody to name one Nuusea 2" H ewatt, ex-president of the Erle rail- way, return to Ohio to live, When he was at the head of the railroad he drew $40. 010a year for ten yeers, Iis successor, Mr, Kiog, voluotarily reduced the salary tc §25,000, % They call tho Princess Beatrice’s now hus- band ““Handeome Harry,” but if he lovks like the pictures we see of him _we should think he wus handsome for the efine reason that a Texan calls & plump steer 'a right han’some critter”—because he will weigh ko well, § e — Two Bto 28 O Liguiuen g, Chicago Herald, In the days of anslent Rome, when al- most every occurreccs was bolieved to have a supernatural significance, the fact that lightning had etruck in tho viclnity of an open temb as well as near the body intended for the tomb, within the space of twenty-four hours, would have been deemed a matter of the highest Import- ance and the augurs would have bean called on to explain and in‘erpret the will of the gods, On Wednesday after- noon the men who were at work In Riyer- slde park preparing the foundatlon for the Grant tomb were drlven under shelter by asudden and furlous storm, and they had scarcely left the excavation when lightning struck the earth at that point, destroying the work already done and uprooting sevoral trees that stood by, A day later and at a spot two or three hun- dred miles distant another stroke of lightnlrg prostrated half a dcz:n people who were standing in feont of the cottage at Mount MoGregor, where the body of General Grant now rests, These events, which pass as » elogalar colnoldence in this age, alerm and horror if happening there un- der slmliar circumstances two thousand yeais g0, e —— Election Day in Kentucky. LousviLLk, August 8.—The state election for treasurer and membera of the legislature is progressingquietly here, Tats, democrat, for atate treasur posed by Fox, pro hibitionist, who iving the republican vot A light vote ia being polled. I'he vote on calling a convention to revise the constitu tion will be small, owing to the lethargy of the people on the cubject Bold B rs in St Sr. Pavr, Mion, August 3.—A masked burglar with whow Mauager Takes had o wrrific steugglo Sunday morning, raided the resldence of Hon. W. A. Merrimemn this worning, met Mr. Mersiman iu the hall, cor nered him with a pistol, made hun poiat out his valuables, aud took diawond stude, shirt buttons and & gold watch, all valued at 50 0 There 18 m ach excitement and capitaliels wre clamoring for better police protection, would have filled all Rome with | jj written upon this tho more 1 don’t like it, and have determined to veto the bill and em preparlng a messsge sccord- ingly.” At the cabinet meeting he stated that he had propared a paper as- signivg the reasons for approving the bill, but had determincd not to present it, and had written another message ve- the bill, which he then read to the cikiuos and eubsequently sont to con- grees. He had covsalied hls own good senre ond hed given careful study by Biweclf to this tmportant queetlon af- fectiag the currency. Another illustratlon of his readinoss to ylold a preconceved opinlen is afforded by his action conceraing the tresty of Washington. After ths beginning of negotlattons about the treaty it became necoupary to determine upon commission- ers on tho part of tho United States. 1 felt it Important that the commission should not be partisan, and that there should be at lesst one democrat on it, The sugyeation at first did not strike the president as important, and it was op- posed by many of his confiGential friends; bat, on presenting the questton fully and strongly to him, he abandoned his posi- tion eni decided the question In faver of appointing Judgo Nelzon asone of the commissioners, Subiequontly, when an arbitrator wss to be appointed to the tri- bunal at Geneva, strong objectlons were urged from various quarters against the eelectlon of Charles Francis Adams, which made en impresslon adveree to him in the mind of Gcea. Grant—strongly ad- veree. But upon my urging upon him that Mr, Adams was moro femiltar than any other men with the Incldents attend- ing the essaps of the rebel craisars; that he had conducted the legation in London during the rebelllon with admlreble dis- cretion snd under a grost deal of por- sonal trial, and was entltled to recogoi- tlon, Gen, Grant cordlally ylelded his opposition and overruled the objections of many cloze snd confidential political advisers. So, too, wos ltin the appolntment of Mr, Evarts as counsel. Some things had occurred at the close of Johneon's ad- min'stration, while Mr. Evarts wes at- torney-general, which lefi a strorg)focl- ing of livitatlon in Gen. Grant; but, vn the representation of Mr, KEvarts’ sbllity and fituees for the position, he ylelded all personal feelings aud cordlally agreed to his appointment. As » goneral rale he aseeried his own views tonaclously and firmly. Until his election to the presi- dency I den’t thirk he had much intercst in party politics. He had been brought up—following the political views of tis father—{n sympathy with the old whig party. But while in the army he never voted until the clection between ¥remont snd Bachsnan, when, from want of confi- telilng it weil, I never hoard him use a profane or and obscene word. The hablt of pablic spesking came t» him after the end of his presidency. Whila he was president on one cosnalon n large hodyof clergymon eslled upon and made him & long address, to which he had to reply and which he always disliked to do. After a sentence or two I noticed that his voice faltered, and fearing that he might be ata loss what next to eay, standlng next to him 1 caused a diver: sion by beglonlog to csugh violently s> as tointerrapt his epsech, He afterward told me how fortuvato 1t was for him that 1 had that congh, ashe had felt his knees begin to shake, and did not thluk that he could have epoken another word. His Indignation was always Intense sgalnst any csse of martial infidelity; and I bave known an instance of his re- fasing conslderation of applications in favor of an Individual of high public posltion who lsy under such a charge. And once, where a man of political influ- ence who had been thus gullty recom- mended and was urglng upon him some actlon, the general remarked, after his withdrawal, “‘That man had botter take care of hisown moral conduct than come and glve advice to me on any question.” He was strongly Impressed with reli glous views, and wasa firm belleverin the fundamental principles of Christianity He was brought up in connectlon with the Methodist charch, which he attended in Washington. The Sundny each suc- ceedlng or preceding—I don’t remember which—hls second election, in 1872, he Invited his csbinet iaa hody tn accom- pany him to the Metropolitan charch, in Washlngton, which ho was in the hsbit of attending, to laten to a ser- mon from Dr. Nowmsn appropriate to the cccaslon. The moral side of ques- tions of a public naturo or otherwise, whother presented by his cabinet or by his frlends, always had influence with him. Bofore sirangers or before a large number of per:ons ho was naturally in clined to be taciturn. Bnt fow men had more powers of conversation and of ner- dence In Gen. Fromont's civil capaclty and baing then out of the army, he voted for Buchanan, And he often jokingly sald tomo that his “‘first sttewpts 1 politles had been » great failare.” He wass not Indifferent to public criti- clsm, but not uaduly excited byit, I never knew him but once to be led into an actlon of the plloy or expediency of which he had doubt by the criticiem of the prees or the pablie, It was not & very importent matter, rolating only to the employment of a certaln indlvidual in the conveyance of a meessge whom a hostile journsl had boastfully sald should never again bs thus employed. I never met any one who formed in advarcs bstter esthnates of electlons that wore about to take place than Gen Grant. The evenlng preceding the pres- Idenial election of 1872 I was sitting with him, and he gave the probable re- eult Incach of the states, I noted it down, end found that it earled in euch state almest Inappreciably, He was not a great reader., He wrote with flaency, tersly, strongly, and with great rapidity o wes methodical in his hablls and punctilions in the discharge of whatever duties might be before him. He had n. historleal models, but worked out hie own course from hils good senee and thoughtfalness, Ho formed h's oploims spparently from intmition, I tbink b was tae most scrupulous trutbful man 1 ever wet, He bad litie ides of the value of money, and hed 00 tendency to its acoumulations, He was Javiesh in bis exponditures and geuorous In bis oharl- tler, o gave to il wio asked of hlm, being often unnecassarily snd unwisely profuse in his donstions, I have not fofecqnontly kpown bim fo glve tums feom five toten tlmss the smount of what tho spplicanta could have resoa ebly cr probably expected. 12 his family be was the fondest and most indulgest and llberal of busbands sud fathers, He had s large fund of bumor, epjoyed a gocd story, and had the faculiy of telling a good story, and ofg ratlon than ho when in the company of tutimate frlends, withont the reetraints fmpneed by numbers. His memory was minate and accurate to a degreo, He was not fond of talking of the war or of his battles; but when he could bo Induced or lod to the sabject he would earry it through, elving tho inci- dents of a fight, stating minutely at the varlous stages of the engagement the lo- cation of each division, or eeparats corpe, or rogiment. STORIES ABOUT GRANT, Arrested Fast Driving—His Dog Impoundead, Early In Goneral Grant's first term as president a pafr of horses were sent to him to bo tried. They were thorough- bred bays, not large but with life in every movement. General Grantwas very fond of horse-flesh,especlally of the thor- oughbred, who could glve the dust to others on the road. One pleasant sum- mer evenlog he had the two bays hitched to alight road wagon and set out from the White house. Ho went out Thir- teenth street way, skimmed through the find roads in the Soldiers’home aud went at a very fast pace oat beyoad Bright- weod. The bays were warmed up to thelr work, and were evidently enjoying them- celves a8 much ss their driver., .. Gen. Grant held them in a little until he had come back down Merldan hlll, turned to the right snd entered Six:eenth street, which runs on a streight line to the white house gate. This splendid broad strect had just beon completed. 1t has & perczptible down grade. Nothing was in the way. 'The temptation was too great, Tho bays were pulliug on thoix bite, Gen. Grantgave them their heads, They falrly flow. Not a break was made. THE HERO'3 FATAL CIGAR, Dr. Shrady Gives His Opinion That the Oancer Camo feom Smoking, The Medical Record «f Saturday con- taloed & long article by Dz George F, Shrady on the history of General Grant's cace. It states that, so far as known, the first symptoms «f throat trouble ap- peated in June, 1884, when the general complatned ¢f orenees near tho right tonsll, In October one of the glands on the r'ght slde of the neck became en- largad, Dr. Barker referred the case for treatment to Dr. Douglas, who pro- nounced the malady epithelial cancer. From thia point on the artlcle treats cf the contlnued pregeess of the dlsesse, ro- latlog the encroachment of the ecancer and the treatment des'yaed, as much as possible, to prolcng lifs and to make the way to the grave as easy as possible for the illastrlous pationt. ~ Nomo but a fatal result was expected from tho first. The period f comparative ease during which the hope of a complete cure was freely expressod by the unprcferslonal publio and press was due to the partial clearance of the moath by the falling away of some of the destroyed tissue, After detaillny the treatment by drugs, with which the publlc hes become famillar, Dr. Shrady says regarding the caure of the dissase: The cauee of the dlsense In this caso Is largely conjectural. Eplthelloma, as a rulo, tarts from local irrltation, and, uvlike other forms of cancer, !a not ce- readent upon hereditary prodisposition to tho diccaso. Thero must, however, aslde from this, bo & latent toudency toward cancarous trouble which Is more pronounced in some individuals than in others; otherwise we should be unsble to explain why simple and continued irrita- tion would induca the disease In one cazo and not 1o another. It is, however, quite probabla that the ircltation of smoklug was the active cause of the can- cerin Gen. Grant's caee, or, at least, It {s fulr to preeume that he would not havo had the discase If this habit had not been carried to cxoees, Tafs mesumption i mado in the face of the fect that, of the thoussnds who emoke, but & very small proportion suflr feom the disoato, The patient had mush pain to endure, and ths doctor pays a h'gh tribute to the general's powers (f repressing any mur- muring. Still he seems to have been spared some of the most violent of the panga, Tho dector sy “‘Although thers was more or less con- stant pain of & goawing cheracter, the patlont was happlly rpared that agony of euflering which is often associated with tho Invasion of the decper parts of tho tongue by cavcerous diseases, Had the latter occurred, it was proposed to divida the sensitlve nerve of the tongue (gusta- tory) through the moath, which opera- tlon oftentimes gives absolute relicf. Such pain as exfsted, however, was kept under contrel by cocosine and mor- phine, 80 that the last wish of the patient that his doath ehould be a peaceful ono was fully reali. 2 The Favored Ravolver, Ohicago Times, Whenever a shooting affair fs raported great palos are taken to glve the sizs of the bullot, the name of the maker and the numbr of barrels in tho wospon. Thus we loarn that ‘‘Brown shot him through the head with a Smith & Wes- son’s 32-0slibro, fivo chambered rsvolver of the nelf-cocking pattern.” Why ora thes Interoating particulars omitted fn the caso of the usa of other instan- ments of destructlon? Why, for instance, is it not stated that *‘the moko drew from h's left hip packet a concave razor, of the Sheffield mike, with an inch and an elghth blade In width {and threo inches in length, and slashed his opponent across the salplustor radti lon- gus of his left arm;” or that ‘‘he kicked him from behind in his glafiens maximus Suddenly a mounted pollco officer was seen gallopiog a¢ headlovg speed acroes an {nversecting street—not much of that part of the city was then bultt up. He headed off Gen. Granvand commanded him to halt. General Grant, after a herd straggle, brought his horees to a standetill, The officer, who did not know him, placed him under arrest. A crowd had gathered by this time. Most of them knew the general. He was allowed by the officer to deposit with him §20 as collateral and thon go home, The general's drive to the white houss was at & trot, but not a fast trot, The cfficer who arrested kim was Br. Went, a colored man who bas been on the force for many years, and still does duty in the syme eection of the clty. General Grant's uame is on the police racorcs of that city. General Grant also had an experience with the dog catchers during his presi- dential incumbency. Mejor Shirpe, now of the army, who 18 a brother-ie-law of the late general, was U. 8. matshsl for the Dlstrict of Columbla, He llved on Corcoran street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streete. He had a emall ter- ricr dog of which he was very foud. Tho dog hed no teg ou t> show that he had paid his taxes. General Grant was & fre quent visitor at Major Sharp's. He and the dog were good fiiends, Onpe Sunday morning Gencral Gront was standing on tho geass in front of Major Sharp's houze emoking a cigar. Tho dc ¢ was there, too, and was very feisky., Mo ran in and out of the yard, and barked as if he was having a high old time, The deg-catchers’ wegon came along, The dog was on the pavement, The fiend who wields the net jumped down as tho wagon stopped. General Grant, without sppesrlry to do so, watcted the fiend out of the corner of his eye. The dog was all unconsclons. As the fiend was about to muks a cast the general called the doz, whioh ran icside the yard. With a slight lavgh General Grant turned and walked toward the house, Gen. Chetlain followed Ool. Littler, and the oceaslon began to assumo the as pect of & reunfon of vetera Gen Chetlain desired slmply to add his tesi mony 1o that of Cul. Littler as to the fidelity of the ertlst’s work, He took the oceaslon also to relate au auecdote of tien Grant. Late lo the afternoon of the first day, a few hours aftor the time of the paintig, Gon. Chetlatn found tdwself and his brigade beaten bick from his postidon in the rigat wing sud forced ) retreat to the river, Here ho met € Girant, who afier learning his subordi- note's misforiune, said by way of en- soursgement: “Well, I think they’ve done shout all they are golng to bo able to do.” The event ehowed with what ac curate Intuitlon the great general read tho future of 1he battle, General M It M. Wallace arcee es (icn, Ohotlain stepped down and testified to the truth- fulneas with which thoe artlst had troatec that portion of the field with which the speskor was most fawmiliar, viz., the Cor- inth road and Duncan ficld, These bricf addreeses sot overyone talking over the many mooted questions|whizh Shiloh s ill teats to hisiory, avd uoill the deors prasible to hear any ation of the famous problem of Graus allegid surprise on (e menorable moruing of the first day, L was with a Brown’s double-soled, screw boot, battoned at the ride, and caliber No. 13, with flat heele?” There is no especial reazon why one instrament of attack shoald bo 80 particularized aud no details given fn the cases cf all the others, e Qorrect, To the Editor of the Bk, 1n your iesue of the Ber of this date you publish extracts from the Chicago Hersld describing a paper published in Vicksburg, Mles.,, during the slege of that clty, called the Citizon. The writer, an ex-Towa nnion soldicr, has & copy of the Citlzan of the date of July 2, 3, and the dssorip’ion of 1t as gixon by the Chicago Herald end the Oyaua BEE is very correct as t» its editorlals and the material on which It was printed. The writer values the old Citizen very highly as a relle of the memorable Vicksburg campalgn. Yours Truly, Geonie V., HiNes, Omana, August 3, 1885 Yorgatting the name of the yourg lady whom be desired to marry, 8 young man in San Francisco had to leave the county clerk’s oflice without »btainivg the morrisge license he h:d gone after, —— Her complexlon s liks her name, Why? She uses Pozzoni’s Complexion Powder, and s a lily. — To eco hor husband for half an hour on the day cet apart for her semi-anoual visit, the wife of & convict at Portsmouth, Englaud, trudged all the way from Birmingbam, wheel- ing their crippled child, eleven years old, in a perumbulator, The journey cccupied twenty- one days, HAGAN'S Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. 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