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HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A PEERLESS EIDER. How He Demonstrated the Superiority of American Horsemanhhip, James RobJnson was probablv the "So terms except unconditional and immediate surrenaer can oe accep.ee. propose move immediately upon your works." The terms were complied with, and the Stars and Stripes soon fluttered over Fort Donelson. General Grant was at once promoted to be Major General and appointed Commander of the District of West Tennessee.

Immediately after the capture of Fort Donelson, Grant fell under General Halleck'g displeasure, and was kmg of the trade. Joseph Wheelock. the actor, who was the boon companion of the rider, once told me the incidents in the career of his old friend during a visit he paid to England about fifteen years ago. Robinson had been engaged at a salary of $2,000 TflE BERG'S GRAVE. The Family ot General Grant Select ATew York City as His Last Restinj Place.

Mayor Grace Gives Assurance That All "Will Be Arranged Accord- 1 ias to the Dead Man's Wishes. The Remains to Leave Mount McGregor Tuesday Week, and to Be Finally Interred August Arrangement Practically Completed For the Final Obseqaiei Private Ceremonief to Be Held First. weeK to ride in Astlev roval It Is said 1 on good authority that chloride of lime freely used about their holes and runways, will drive rats away. Hyou would be "way up" in the latest parlor decoration craze, ladies, confiscate your husband's or your father's milking stool, paint and varnish its three legs, cover its top with embroidery, ornament with ribbon bows, and thus rescued from ignoble nses, consecrate it to the sacred best parlor. The Bazar tells how to seal up Jellies, so as to keep them from mould, without the trouble and expense of using paper wet in brandy.

Cut circular pieces of thin brown paper two inches larger than the glasses to be covered. Make a paste by stirring a tablespoonful of flour and' a table-spoonful of water into a smooth mass, and thinning with more cold The Children's Kindness to children should not be made obtrusive or burdensome. The child on its holiday, or in its everyday half hour or whole hour of recreation, desires nothing more than to be left free to pursue its own pleasure in it own way. In the following of its-own devices (innocent of course,) and the attempt to carry out its own plans, childhood is happy. Just so much interference as will save children from doing themselves harm is necessary.

Anythiffg further than that mars their sport If they are attempting little impossibilities in their play, let them alone to find it out themselves. Andi if they are making a long circuit to eftect what may be accomplished by a short cut let them try the excursion uninterrupted. The "superior wisdom" of fathers and uncles takes a considerable quantum of the poetry out of children's play. The man ini the play who shouts "Alone I did it!" expresses what every little fellow of either sex desires to be able to amphitheater in London. For weeks before he arrived he was heralded as the greatest bareback eastrian of the setts and New Hampshire, the mayor of Philadelphia and tU Louis and the citizens of BUlinsrsmont seat mess ages of sympathy during the day.

VARIOUS MATTERS 07 The cheeks and face of the general, by the process made use of in the embalming, have been made to assume a fullness, the deeper furrows and lines have been filled out, and the expression of the face is now one of peace and rest. On Monday the remains will be placed in a casket and near friends will be permitted to View them. Senor Romero was with the family to-day, as were also Dr. Newman and his wife. General Carr paid his respects at the cottage this morning, The disposition of the cottage in which General Grant died rests with James W.

Drexel, and the Associated press is authorized to announce that the cottage will never ara be occupied by any family or persons. Mr. Drexel will in due time present it to the state or the notional government. The house will he presemcd intact, with all its present belongings, furniture, fixtures, etc, as a gift to the nation or commonwealth. The invitation from the city of Springfield, I1L; was not eeriously considered, thouirb before his death General Grant named Illinois as one of the three states in which he would desire to be buried.

General Sherman, who has been summering at Lake Minnetonka, on his arrival in New York will find waiting him a message request amuse himself he took over with him a team of American trotting horses and alight buggy, but neglected removed, but in about a week was oraerea to resume his command. The great battle of Shiloh was fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and 7th of April, 1862, and resulted in a victory for the Union soldiers. It was in this engagement that tbe Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnson was killed. At the siege of Corinth Grant was second in command to General Halleck, and when the latter was called to Washington, Grant was appointed to the command of the Army of the Tennessee. He captured Vicksburg July 4, 1863, and defeated Bragg at Chattanooga in November following.

In March, ltH, President Lincoln appointed Grant Commander-in-Chief of the armies in the field, with ihe rank of Lien-ten ant-General. On the 17th of that month Grant issued his first general order assuming command of the armies of tbe United States, and announced that headquarters would be "in the field, and, until further orders, with tbe Army of the Potomac" At midnight, May 3, GTant began the movement against Richmond, which, after a series of hard-fought battles, resulted in the capture of the Confederate April 3, 1865. On the 9th of the same month General Lee and his entire command to Dnng such horses as he would need to ride. This oversight rather as The Great General Prepared For the End Telegram of Condolence Hatters Concerning the Death. Central Park Selected.

Mr. McGregor, N. July 24. It was finally decided this afternoon by Colonel Fred Grant, acting on behalf of 'the fa silly of the dead general, that the body of the distinguished citizen of this country should be placed in Central park, the authorities of New York tonished the English managers, who thought their contract of course included the furnishing of horses. Robinson made light of the matter, and said he could break the animals to his liking in the fortnight intervening between his arrival and the date of his debut.

There was nothing left for the managers to do than to swallow their water until the paste seems no thicker than water. Dip each piece of paper into the paste until it is wet through, drain a little and spread over the top ing his presence here at his earliest conveni- cry. And if "alone I did it" is-nearly as satisfactory. They are satisfied with their own experiments, and -do not desire that their kind advisers of the glass, pressing the edsres firmly down on the sides. When dry the General John A.

Logan will doubtless also attend the remains from here to New York. surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court-House. Va. In July, 1SC6, General Grant was commissioned General of the Army, a grade especially provided for him bv act oi Congress paper will be as tight as a drum head. should deprive them of the unalloyed pleasure of self-assertion.

Philadel disappointment and provide him with horses. These he rehearsed day after day at the circus with skill and assiduity, but to find at last that they were beasts far inferior in intelligence The label may be laid on top of the paper as soon as put on the glass; thero will be enough paste on the phia Ledger. having, after considerable correspondence, ac. ceded to the: condition imposed by General Grant before his death, wherever his remains should be placed there should be reserved a place beside his grave for that of Mrs. Grant when it should be decreed that she should pass from this earth.

Mayor Grace's chief clerk, Mr. arrived here this morning and at once consulted with Colonel Fred Grant He formally and DIARRH(EA, worst cases relieved and cured paper to hold the label when dry. 1 General Grant Was Beady te Die. Mount: McGbeoob, Y. July 24.

While sitting on the hotel verandah this afternoon. Dr. Douglas chatted at length about General Grant and the long trial of suffering just ended. "Do you- remetaber," said Dr. Douglas, "that during last week I said that there was a hy Deity's Pure Malt Whiskey, $1.25 per to tne rventucky thoroughbreds with which he was accustomed to deal.

The night of the first appearance of the American champion arrived. The Marv Wager Fisher, in the Rural Dotue, sold Dy and tirocers. New Yorker, tells how she makes In company the other evening Henrietta what she calls a "swab," which she uses instead of a dishcloth: "The heard some one across the room quote the familiar phrase: "Man proposes," and turn in person for Mayor Grace urged the accept- tissues on the right side of the neck, and that nee -of a burial spot in any one of the parks I said on the day I spoke about it that I had handle is a round stick the size of a been able' to examine, the general's throat of New York city. There was a strong feel broom handle, a foot long, with a hole in one end through which a string is passed to bang it up: around ing to a siBter wall-flower she remarked that she was tired of hearing those old sayings that didn't have a single word of truth in them. Somerville Journal.

the other end a groove is cut. Pkicklt Ash Bitters is not an intoxicating wound the strings around my four lingers held flat, slipped a stout cord beverage, but a pleasant, mild laxative and' efficient Tonic, acting directly on the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. through the whole left when the fingers are withdrawn, and tied the August 12, 1867, President Johnson suspended Secretary Stanton from oflice, and appointed General Grant Secretary of War ad interim. This ottice Grant held until January 14, 18b8, when he returned it to Mr. Stanton, whose removal the United States Senate had refused to sanction.

At the Republican National Convention held in Chicago, May 21, 1868, General Grant was nominated on "the first ballot fcr President. He was elected In the fall, whtrthe late1 Hem. Schuyler Colfax ias Vice-President. In tbe Republican National' Convention held in Philadelphia, June 5, 1872, rant was renominated by acclamation, Henry Wilson; of Mtoisaclill setts, being nominated for VicePrefldenL He received a popular majority of nearly 800,000 vo'cs over Horace Greeley, the Democratic nominee. Shortly after the expiration cf his term in 1877, the General and Mrs.

Grant mde a tour around the world, landing in San Francisco, in September of that year. He was received everywhere with the highest consideration, the Governments and peoples of the Old World vying with each other in doing honor to the American soldier and patriot. General Grant was a very prominent candidate before the Chicago National Republican Convention In 1880, for the nomination for President for a third term, but did not succeed in getting the nomination. Since then he has lived in New York. His financial troubles are too recent to need mention in this connection.

In the last hours of the recent Congress, a bill was passed placing the old hero on the retired list of the army, with the rank and pay. of General, i. great building bearing the historical name of Astley was packed to suffocation to see the performance of the reckless rider from over the sea. Robinson had. however, in the short time allowed been utterly unable to train the English horses to his acts, and as a consequence was at a sad disadvantage in what he attempted.

The best features of his acts, including the vaulting, he failed in. The audience hurried his exit from tho ring with hisses. A more dismal fiasco could not have awaited an artist. The Englishmen! naturally took keen delight in the failure of the American, whom it was announced would eclipse the best exploits in horsemanship as illustrated by English and French riders. The disgrace humiliated Robinson to the dust.

That very If Sullivan should ever repent and ally loop firmly around in the groove; himself to the ministry, he would he looked then cut the bottom of the loop ot upon as a great expounder. Tonkert Gazette. strings, which results in a heavy fringe falling all around the bottom When you visit or leave New York CItv. via of the handle. New strings can at Central depot, save Baggage Expressage and 6 carriage Mire, ana stop at the urand union Hotel, opposite said depot Six hundred ele any time be added to replenish the swab, which needs to be large and full.

I have been thus specific about much deeper and with greater ease than in a long time! Well, I am going to tell you of an experience I had with General Grant on the afternoon of Thursday, July 16, at tlie time I had observed the indications about the throat which 1 have spoken of. During the afternoon of that day the general wrote this," and Dr. Douglas drew from his pocket several slips written by the general, and read what the sick man bad written, which was as fellows: I feel sorry at the prospect, of living through the summer and fall in the condition I am. I do not think I can, but I may. Except I do not gather strength I feel quite as well from day to day as I have done heretofore, but I am losing.

strength. I feel it more in the inability to move 'around than in any other' way, or rather in the lack of desire to move. "When I had read that." resumed Douglas, "1 turned to the general and tried to cheer him by telling him of the apparently improved condition of his throat and neck, to which in reply the general again wrote "After all that, however, the disease is still there and must be fatal in the end. My life is prec 'bus, of COursi, to riiy family and would be to me if I could recover entirely. There never was one more willing to die than I.

I know most people have first one and then another little thing to fix up and never get quite through. This was practically my case. 1 first wantel so many days to work on my book so the authorship would be clearly mine. It was graciously granted to me after being ap the swab, as there may be some un gant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars: $1 and upwards per day. European plan.

Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best Horse cars, stages and elevated rail-, fortunate dish-washer 16ft in the world who still clings to a dish-cloth, nignt ne went to the manager road to all depots. Families can live better, for less money at the Grand Union Hotel1 than at any other first-class hotel in the city. and if so, she may be hereby induced of the circus to release him from his contract. "All.

I ask," he said, "is that I may be retained in the estab "We are like a like a clock," said a labor lishment on the salary of the tumblers agitator. "For when the proper time we strike. Pittsburgh Chronicle. to make lor herself a swab, and wonder evermore that she lived so long without one, for it saves the hands from being burned with hot water, the dishes are cleaned more thoroughly and quickly, and the swab never degenerates into a dish-rag." with whom i win appear at each per formance unannounced. Then I want The ourest.

sweefett and bett Cod Livar Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy the privilege of practicing in the morn- be relieved from the heavy cost of the ing in the family of General Grant tht the New York proposition was one thut would have gratified the general, but the condition that Mrs. Grant should be buried beside the general was one that the -mayor's representative could not acted i to, and telegraphic communication was opened between here' and New York on that point. 1 NEW YORK'S OFFER FINALLY ACCEPTED. This afternoon Mr. Turner, chief clerk, received a message which determined the question of General Grant's burial place in favor of Central park, New York.

It was. as follows: ''Your two telegrams just to hsnd and I understand the matter now to be definitely settled that the general is to be buried here. We cannot take any more definite action in re-Card to the matter of Mrs. Grant until a later date. The faith of tbe president of the board of aldermen and mv own is pledged that we will see when a little time has passed away HaaJ oj the family are gratified iTa I6raal resolution 51 the board.

Answer immediately so that I may appoint a committee to make my quota for a grand national movement. R. Grace. Upon the receipt of Mayor Grace's telegram Mr. Turner repaired at once to the cottage, where a conference was held with Colonel Fred Grant.

The colonel read the major's dispatch and retained it. At the close of the conference Colonel Grant assured the mayor's representative that he and the family thus formally accepted the tender of place for General Grant and Mrs. Grant in Central in of New York and that he and the family would -now proceed -with all- the funeral arrangements with reference to the aboe conclusion. The mayor's messenger then telegraphed to Mayor Grace the result of his 'mission'. i i i tutitre disposition of the remains, if Tit remains will lie qutotly at the cottage In the room where the general died until one weekjfrom Tuesday alternoon next, when the funer'aJr cortege will be placed on a special train and conveyed directly and without demonstration to Albany, reaching there in the The remains will be borne to the' capitol building, where they, will lie in state until Wednesdiy noon.

Then the dead general will be conveyed by a funeral train to New York, arriving there Wednesday -even ng. The body will be then conveyed to the City hall, where it will remain in state until Saturday, when if will be borne to Its last resting place in Central park. This programme is the one now prepared. Mr. W.

3: Apkell has' arranged the following time table for the removal of the remains from Mount McGregor one week from next Tuesdav. August 4: Leave Mount McGreeor livers, npoD the sea-shore, it is absolutely pure and Bweet. Patients who have once taken it pre. fer it to all others. Physicians have decided it snperior to any of the other oils in the market Made by Caswell, Hazard New York.

Jobn Brown's Scaffold for Sale. When Mr. Barnum took his mail from the postollice tho other day he handed a number of letters which he had received to a According to these letters a two-legged hog in Tennessee wants apposition," or.f Could be bought -In a letter from Ohio a six-legged hog is described and bargain, accepted the conditions. The next day Robinson had disposed of his trotting horses and vehicle, as well Chapped Hands, Face, Pimples and rough skin cured by nsine Jnniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard New York. as other traps and jewelrv.

until he had enough to purchase six horses of parently mucn lower man since ana witn a capacity to do more work than I ever did in the game time. My work had been done so hastily that much was left out and i did it all over from the crossing of the James river in 1S64 to Appomattox in 1865. Since that I have added as much as fifty pages to the book, I should think. There is nothing more to do and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment." the best blood attainable, none of oliered at a reasonaole i A lady here in Connecticut, who has been married eight years and has Old Style Bric-a-brac. "The business is about as dead as I am," said a white-haired dealer in old style bric-a-brac.

The place was a second floor front, on the Bowery, used as both store and living room. "Fifty years ago there was lots of money in it, but there's none now. We can't compete with machinery and new-fangled notions. Hero's a samp-lar, appropriately framed. The fieMis white silk, and on it lnblack which had ever been ridden in a ring.

The selection of the animals occupied some time. VV hen at last the troupe was completed he began breaking This is tfie age of ocean travel, the steerage. PitUburqh Chronicle. If you are tired taking the large old-fashioned griping pills, and are satisfied that purging yourself till you are weak and sick is not good common-sense, then try Carter's Little Lfver Pills and learn how easy it is to be free from Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, and alV Liver troubles. These little pills are smaller, easier to take and give quicker relief than any pill in use.

Forty in a vial. One a dose. Price 25 cents. them to his business, a task which re 1 quired great patience and an absolute insight into the nature of the silk lloss a tomb, a willow, and a be beast. Weeks passed.

James Robin I 1 reaved husband. You see the iuscrip son, who had in the meantime been tion is worked with a coarser and three babies, wisiies to raise money enough to buy 110 acres of land, that her husband "may gi into' the heW business. Her husband comes of a who for hundreds of years "have never drank, smoked nor chewed.1' An Alabama fortune hunter desires topart with a half-breed Jersey -calf, 6 weks old, having a leg attached to each side of its neck. Mr. Barnam is asked to purchase from a Massachusetts speculator a five-legged heiter calf, 1 weeks old, with three separate toes on the fifth leg.

The few neighbors who have seen it would not leave until they had the butt of ridicule was forgotten, looser stitch than all the rest. That Nightly he was turning flip flops in The bilHardtst's letter Q.SU Paul Herald enables the owner to pick it out and sawausr witn a pacK oi mountebanKS, have some other name inserted. It Heart Paine. Palpitation, Dropsical SwelllnRd, Dizziness, Indf-gpstlon. Headache.

Sleeplessness cured by "Wells' Health Renewner." used to take three weeks' hard work by a first-rate sewing woman to make some oi wnom uiti not Know mat among their number was the best rider in the world. About the time that the menials about the circus es tablisbment began to whisper that they guessed that "blarsted Yankee' could ride a little bit after all, Robin Farmers Try It! Wells, Richardson Improved Bntter-Color will be found to be the only oil color that; will not become rancid. Test it and yon wilt prove it. It will not color the bntter-milk; it ive the brightest color of any made, and is the Strongest and therefore the cheapest. "Rong-b.

on Come." Ask for Wellf' on Corns." 15c, Qntct complete cure, llardoa-softcorns, warts, bunions. I Mm. son called on the manager. "1 wish," he said, "that you would bill me one, and it would letch trom io to $50, according to tho fineness. Sometimes a husband would have an 'elegant as wo call this sort of a thing, made" from his deceased wife's hair.

On cardboard it didn't cost much, but on silk it was expensive, llow did we mako the hairs lie flat? We soaked them in hot water, and ironed the whole thing with a very hot, heavy flatiron. The samplar I showed you I sold in 1842 for $30. I bought it back at an auction last week for a half-dollar, and I was the only reappear next Monday night. I would paid naif a dollar each. An Indian Territory resident hag twenty athletic Indian ball1 players under his eve, and the novel manner of their playing would prove successful if Mr.

Barnum would only give the ball the first pitch by an investment. From Pennsylvania comes "the discovery of an invention" that wilL in like to try to redeem mv reputation. ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. atl p. m.

August arrive' at Saratoga at 2 p. m. leave Saratoga at 2 :30 p. m. arrive in Albany, "at 4:30 p.

leave Albany at 12 o'clock noon Wednesday, August arrive 1:30 p.m. in New York. privatr services held first. The funeral obsequies will begin on Mount McGregor. The family fully recognize the claim of the people and nation to do honor to Blographical Sketch of the Most Noted Char If I don't succeed I'll pack up and go home." With more than a miseiving the posters were pasted up over London's dead walls.

Again there was an unusual throng to have there sneer at acter of the Century. Ulvsses Simps Grant whs born at Point the projector's mind, surprise the people. He proposes to build in New York an ice skating rink, freezing a surface by means of pipes containing Pleasant, April 27, 1822. His ancestors were Scotch. His parents, In 1823, removed "When Baby waa sick, we gave her CMtoris, When he was a Child, she cried for Castori, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Whan ahe bad Children, she gave them Castoriav to the village of Georgetown, where his boyhood was passed.

a cnemicai mixture, it Uaruum will At ine age ot seventeen uenerai ijrant en go in" it must be a success, as it is tered the Military Academy at West Point He "very simple." naa been chrtstenea liiram Ulysses, but the bidder. "South sea and West India shells and corals used to sell well. They were for the mantlepiece and for whatnots. Whatnots are gone out of fashion now, along with what they had to have on them. Handsome shells would bring in the old days from 25 cents to $1 apiece.

To-day you can have that case there, containing 250 A calf with two perfect heads and a Congressman who procured his appointment, by mistake, wrote him down as Ulysses 8. lamb with two perfect bodies may be bought cheap for cash of a Connecti "Ronh on Rati." Clears out rata, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers, 15c. Druggists. Grant. The authorities at West Point and the Secretary of War were petitioned by the cut lad.

the presumptuous fellow, whom everybody thought had long before gone back. But the dashing American made them laugh on the other side of their mouths. The display of equestrianism which he gave threw the house into an ecstacy of delight The way he vaulted on and off the backs of the flying steeds electrified the frigid hearts before him. Recall after recall made him famous in London town. The newspapers rang with his praise and spoke of his previous failure as a remarkab'e reminiscence.

The Astley people were glad enough to renew the original contract to retain the American rider, who returned home two years later, with a European reputa The scaffold on which John Brown the remains or (general Grant, but there is a feeling that before all the pomp and pageant of burial, the family should have their dead all by themselves for a season of services. Thus the first ceremonies will be held here in the cottage at such a time as may seem best Dr. Newman will be with the family and conduct with them the service over the dead. The president is anxious, and has so expressed himBclf by message, that there should be a national funeral and that under the direction and care of th? war department beginning when the remains are started from the mountain and ending at the place of sepulchre. A SPECIAL BODY GUARD OF VETERANS.

General Gates, Colonel Barber and H. W. Wright, of Brooklyn, called upon Colonel Grant this morning and stated that the Grand Army Post No. 327, of Brooklyn, had become U. 8.

Grant post. Upon the death of the general they had assumed his name and de-Bired to tender a private body of thirteen men who should come, ununiformed and unarmed. It was also desired that the detail on the day Halford Nance used at all first class hotel Makes your food more uutrltlous. young cadet to correct tue blunder, but no notice was taken of the request. Ulysses S.

Grant had been recorded, and Ulysses 8. Grant he remained. Toe study In which he was hung can be had for a consideration not named in a West Virginia letter. Bridgeport Cor. New York Sun.

PATE WTS obtained by Louis Bagger Co. Attorneys, Washington, D.C. Est'd 1864. Advice free. rhowed the most proficiency was mathematics.

He graduated in iwenty-nrst in a class oi thirty-nine, and was commissioned Brevet good ones, for $20, case and all, and the case cost $12. "Corals were all the go in the old times. The high-toned folks wanted skeleton coral, because they thought it grew that way. But it didn't. We'd take a branch of cheap coral and put it in a pan or trough and cover it with "The Order of the Bee." Early in the war a number of ladies eecona Lieutenant, ana assigned to the rourtli Infautry.

sojourning at Washington undertook in the summer or IMS tbe regiment wa or organize an association caned med Star tradebeomark; 'The Order of the Bee," which bound water in which we'd put a little mu dered to Texas to join the army of Gem-rdl Taylor. He Mas commissioned Lieuienaut September 30. His first battle was at Palo Alto, May 6, 1846, and be subsequently look part also' in the battles of Resaca de la Palma tion and hfty thousand dollars to boot Syracuse Standard. its members not to purchase any imported goods until peace had been conquered. Mrs.

Lincoln, on being of the funeral should constitute a special body guard and guard of honor to the remains. Colonel Grant thanked the gentlemen and accepted the post detail for a body ruard. asked to join, expressed much interest As to Mrs. Grundy. This potent personage has been al and Monterey, and the siege oi Vera (Jruz.

In April, 1847, he was made Quartermaster of his regiment, and after the battle of Molino del Rey, September 8, 1847, he was appointed on the field First Lieutenant for his gallantry. in the proposed reform, but said that she should like to consult her husband There will be over two thousand representatives of Grand Army posts from various parts nf the country here to-morrow. Thev will lowed to rule too despotically in the feminine world, and the ladies say that it is time her tyranny received a check. But not even Mrs. Grundy has dared to speak against the value of before signing.

She invited the committee to accompany her to ask him, and after they had explained the pro ue was especially mentioned in uoionei uar-land's report of the battle of Chapultepec, and was brevetted commission dating from that battle. After the capture of the camp in tents pitched on the mountain and WLU taue tneir meats on me noiei veranaa. UNDER GENERAL HANCOCK'S CHARGE. ject to Mr. Lincoln, who heard them City of Mexico.

Grant returned with his regi with his usual patience, he asked: Brown's Iron Bitters as a strengthening tonic for ladies who suffer from Adjutant General Drum arrived on the ment and was stationed first at Detroit and af Absolutflu mountain this evening. He was the bearrr of terward at Sackett's Harbor. But how is this to affect the public a letter from President Cleveland to Mrs. In 1848 he married Miss Julia T. Dent.

debility. It enriches the blood and completely restores failing health. Grant tendering a lot in tbe soldiers' home revenue, ladiesr vovernment needs just now every dollar that it can rake daughter of a merchant In St. Louis and sister of one of his classmates. In 1852 he accom riatic acid.

At the end of a week all the lime would be dissolved out and only the skeleton was left. It looked just like a big cobweb. We'd leave it white or stain it red with cochineal, dry it, and mount it in a glass case. The wives of old sea captains and shipping merchants were our best customers. Another popular class of ornaments were carved ivory and ebony articles from China and Japan.

These cost then, as now, a good defd. in the east, and were very expensive. Once I had a carved ebony box, which contained another, and so on to twenty boxes. The last one had inside four or live little men and women not much bigger than beans, but beautifully carved. The late Sam Bradford Fales had a number of them in his collection in Philadelphia, and I believe there are samples in the Barlow, Garrett, Packer, and Green collections.

But I never see them nowadays, "Then there were the relics: Piejes of wood from the favorite war ships of grounds as a burial place for the dead general, If it should meet the views of the family. panied his regiment to California and Oregon, In conversation General Drum said "I have and in 1853 was commissioned Captain. In 1854 he resigned his commission fn the army to-day transmitted to General Hancock an order from the secretary of war directing Gen ana rcmovea to uravois, near oi. Liouis, wnere he operated a larm. rnere his daughter or ahd those very imported goods that you propose to' dispense with form a large item of the receipts at the treasury How do you propose to make up the deficiency which you will create?" This was a poser, and the proposed "Bee" did not "improve the shining hour.1' Boston Budget.

lie, now Mrs. Sartoris, was born. In 1859 he eral Hancock to take entire charge of the military arrangements of General Grant's funeral from tbe present to the day of burial, and all military of anv kind here will be under his di removed to Galena, 111., and engaged in the leather trade with his father and his brother, Free from Opiates, Emetics and Poison; A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE For Congta, Sore Throat, Ilonneness, Colds. Bronchitis, Cronp, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Qulnaj, Pains In Cheat, sndouwr afffrtltm orth Thrant Lungs. Price 50 eents a bottle.

Sold hv Dnurztsts and Peelers. ParUt unable to induct their dealer to promptly get it for them Kill rereire. two paid, by tending one. dollar to tuc nuRt.rs a. vonr.i.ER ronpisr, MKiiufat-turtri, Bolllor, B.rrU.S.

C. S. 1. TXI3E3 WESTERN Stained and Ornamental Glass. 100 W.

7th KANSAS CITY, Manufacturers of STAINED and ORNAMENTAL GLASS for Churches, Public Private Dwellings, Banks, CHURCH WINDOWS KEPAIKCD. urviue. On the 13ttf of Apra 186J, Fort Snrhtef fell. rection, and to him applications must be made by all military organizations that may desire to take part in the observance." President Cleveland and the members of On tbe 15th. President Lincoln made his call Miss bailie rauies, ngntsviiie, was cured by Brown's Iron Bitters of backache, kidney trouble, and liver complaint.

The Value of au Education. "Education, my dear friend," said a minister to a convict in the penitentiary, "is a powerful lever for good. You should devote what time you can fet to obtaining knowledge. If you ad improved your opportunities when young you might to-day be a respected and useful member of society. But even now it is not too late.

What brought you to this unfortunate placeP" "Forgery, sir," replied the convict "I was too handy with the pen." the cabinet will attend the funer' New for troops, and on the 19th Grant was drilling a company of volunteers in Galena. Fourdavs later he took It to Springfield. From there he wrote to the Adjutant-General of the artny, of Xork, eaturday, AugustB. MORE LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE Manv messages of condolence were receiv fering nig services to me uovemmenx in any America and England, and bullets, capacity In which It cared to make use ot Mm, ed by tbe family this afternoon, and among bayonets, and pieces of shot and shell from famous battlefields. These paid inem tnese Mrs.

U. S. Grant: Grant remained at Springfield and helped to organize the volunteer trooi of the State. Alter five weeks of this work, which his military education bd specially fitted him for. Governor Yates offered him the Twenty-first a Tin i't well, because we could always make Washington, D.

July24. Her majesty the queen requests me to convey to yourself and family her sincere condolence "on the 'em when we didn't have them on hand. The demand for them is not JOSEPH jveguueub ui xiunoiB imauixy. He took command of his regiment early in quite dead yet. Then, in the old days.

death of General Grant. Signed by tbe British minister. Mrs. U. 8.

Grant: BIS lGILLOTT'Sl London. Julv 24. Accept our deepest vm- How Miss Cleveland Signs Her Name. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the present lady of the White House at Washington, seals her notes with wax on which is only the letter in plain text. The 'seal is quite a small one, only about the size of a silver three cent piece.

She uses plain colored wax. but not red. She writes a very pretty and easily expressed note, brief and to the point, yet courteous, and signs it "Elizabeth Cleveland." She is Very business liko in her methods, and, large as is her correspondence, always replies promptly to any letter requiring an immediate answer, writing personally, not making use of one of the President's clerk or secretaries to answer her letters, as has been the case with some other ladies in the same position she now holds. The eldest daughter of the Sectela-ry of State, Miss Bayard, uses the coat of arms of her family on the wai with which sho seals notes. people liked horrors to ornament their parlors with the ropes with which criminals were hung, the knives and June and marched to Missouri.

Reporting to Brigadier-General Pope, he was stationed at Mexico, about fifty miles north of the Missouri river. On August 23 he was commissioned patby in the loss of your distinguished bus-1 band. We shall always look back with gfati-flcatlon at having had the advantage of know Brigadier-General of Volunteers, his commis Bold by ALL DEALERS throughout the World. Gold medal Paris Exposition, 1878 pistols with which murders were committed, and the jimmies and picklocks eion being dated back to May 17. His first military achievement was the seizure of Padu- ing film pernauy.

Kignf prince and princess of Wales, Mrs. U. S.Uant: of celebrated thieves. Women were can, which commanded tho navigation of both the Temiesee and the Ohio. At the battle just as crazv for such things as men I Sure relief ictmTrai A Hotel Man's Discovery.

San Francisco, Cal. Mr. George H. Arnold, proprietor of the Occidental Hotel, says that as the air is purer as we ascend, a man should not object to being assigned to a room on the uppermost floor; that he shouldn't mind taking a room-attic, as it were, in view of the fact that St. Jacobs Oil so promptly cures the rheumatism.

He states that throughout California it is regarded as the great pain-cure of the age. Montreal. July 24. I am greatly grieved and paid very high prices, for those of Belmont, November 7, IKfll, Grant com KIDDER'S PASTILLES.S.,Tct tWnmSSfmmiSmmmwhuliisUtwa. Mass.

I to get the saa news oi tiie general's acatn, times, for some particularly bad manded in person and nau a norse stiot under 1'ray accept my most, sincere Bympamy. CnETER A. Annum. him. February 6, lie captured Fort Henry, and weapon.

i3ut there no use of com W. J. j. 31. tn dnv iHter Kurt DcnipUim mirrptnlereii to him.

Ills reply to the Confederate General Buckncr, in command of Fort Donelson, who sent to him asking terms of capitulation, was plaining. Chromos, modern bric-a-brac, and domestic art have killed my business forever, and there's an end to it." New York Sun. To Mrs. Sartoris: Washington, July 26. Accept our sincere (pndolence.

West. governors of Rljode Island, Massaehu- I3ffln applying to nny of the above, advertisers, do not torgret to say you caw tbe advertisement in tois paper, eminently ctmraccrltUc of the great tolUler.

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