Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual reunion of the -Army of the Tennessee was held at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. The members of the society were called to order by Gen. W. T. Sherman, who read a brief letter from Gen. Grant expressing regret at his inability to be present. Before reading the letter Gen. Sherman feelingly referred to Gen. Grant's present feeble physical condition and to the recent financia. troubles in Wall street. The peaker saifi no one bedeved Gen. Grant was in the remotest degree personally responsive for the trouble, and said the respect and love he had won on the battle-field would survive long after Wall street was a name held to be synonymous with gambling in gold and credit. Gov. Hubbard, of Minnesota, delivered the address of welcome, to which Gen. Sherman responded. At the banquet speeches were made by Gov. Hubbard of Minnesota, Gen. Chetlain of Chicago, Bishop Ireland, ex-Senator Ramsey, Ignatius Donnelly, and Col. Jqcobgon of Chicago. Gon. Sherman was re-elected President, and the society adjourned to meet at Chicago on the second Wednesday of September next year. At the meeting of the Irish National League at Boston, the Treasurer reported receipts of $42,529, of which $29,762 had been remitted to Ireland, leaving a balance of $12,767. The resolutions indorse Parnell; protest against England’s usurpation of power; and deeply regret the death of Wendell Phillips. Alexander Sullivan was elected President, but declined, when Patrick Egan was choEen. Father O’Reilly wns re-elected Treasurer,and Father Roger Walsh Secretary. There were 220 business failures in the United States and Canada during the week. There were 232 failures the previous week.

Evidence tending to prove the charges of cannibalism made against the survivors of the Greely expedition continues to accumulate. There seems to be no doubt now of their truth, hut it is pleaded that under the circumstances cannibalism was Inevitable. Lieut. Powell, of the signal service, who was at the funeral of the dead at New York, and who talked with all the survivors, said in a conversation at Washington: Now, I have talked with Greely and the rest of the survivors and with officers of the recruiting party, and I’ll tell you my opinion regarding that story. There is no doubt about its truth, and there is no doubt about Greely’s honesty when he- says if there was cannibalism he did not know of it. When these men were rescued they were not responsible beings. They had undoubtedly subsisted on human flesh for some time. I have no doubt that, driven to despair by hunger, they would go out and cut some flesh off bodies of their dead comrandes and partake of it. Greely was in mighty bad condition. He was confined to the tent by extreme weakness. He was very popular with a majority of the party, and when the men obtained something to eat it was their nattral impulse to share It with their commander. He partook of human flesh without knowing what he was eating. His mental and bodily strength were too fat gone to know or care. There Is no doubt in my mind but some of those who died also partook of human flesh. I tell you it will be a long time before the horrors of Cape Clay are known thoroughly. The American Board of Foreign Missions makes an appeal for SIOO,OCO during August, to keep up its work. Sixteen deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Hermosillo, Mexico, and cases are reported at live adjacent cities. The disease apparently originated in germs remaining dormant since last year. Warren P. Sutton, Consul General to Mexico, reports a large emigration across the Rio Grande, and states that $50,000,000 of American capital has been invested in railroads, ranches, and mining in Northern Mexico within a few years.