Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — ULYSSES S. GRAFT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ULYSSES S. GRAFT.

Celebrating the Sixty-third Anniversary of the Great Commander’s Birth. Gen. U. 8. Grant was sixty-three years old on Monday, the 27th of April, and the anniversary of his -irth was celebrated in many cities and informally observed throughout the country. Flogs were displayed, and cannon boomed as when the people celebrated his great victories during

the war, or when they gathered in great ■crowds to welcome him on his return from his trip around the world. Thousands of congratulatory messages were sent to the old commander, and his name was on all lips. The event was quietly observed by the family of the stricken General at their home in New York. Gen. Grant’s Family. It is a curious fact that the General and his wife, formerly Miss Dent, never lost a child. Of the four that bless their union all are alive, and have been with him throughout his dangerous illness. They are Col. Fred Dent Grant, aged 34; U. S. Grant, Jr., oommonly known as “Buck" Grant, 31; Nellie (Mrs. Sartoris), 28; and Jesse Grant, youngest, who is but 24. All of the children married, and all have children. Col. Fred Grant mimed Miss Ida Honore, of Chicago, in 1874 or 1875. They have two. lovely children, a little girl of 5, Julia, and a little boy, who bears the name of his grandfather, U. S. Grant. Ulysses S., Jr., married, in 1881, Miss Chaffee, a daughter of the Senator. They have two children, one a boy and the other a girl. Jesse R. Grant married Miss Chapman, of San Francisco, within three months of the marriage of his brother, U. S., Jr., ,to Miss Chaffee. Jesse has a charming little daughter about 3 years of age. Mrs. Sartoris has three children—the eldest, a boy of 9, is named Algernon after his father. The other children are a little girl of 5 and the “baby,” a strong, healthy child, 2 years old. The vigorous blood of the Grants asserted itself in the third generation, for they all have the marked physical attributes of the General’s family.

Three Score and Three. X. , Three score and three! Oh, God. to Thee We render in onr gratitude t Warm thanks, for truly Thou art good. > . Thou’st swept the clouds from out our skies,’. Thou’st wiped the tears lrom out our eyes; ' Thou’st s i ared to us our Grant, the great, The good, the ornament of state. n. Thiee score and three! Happy are we. The nation is happy to-day; The great God heard the nation pray And answered, and has given us peace; And given to his life a lease Who went down to the gat s of death And tasted eternity’s breath. m. Three score and three! Land of the free, Thy banner floats high on the breeze! „ High o’er all the land and the seas. Thy captain, thy savior doth live Who gave thee all. Now thou dost give Homage to the God who gave him And hast heard our prayers to save him. rv. Three score and three! Behold, we see All wounds healed, and all gulfs bridged o'er; , All united from shore to shore; For the stone has been rolled away And the angel of love to-day Presses her white feet on the sod Redeemed by man and blessed of God. — G. W. Croft, in Chicago Inter Ocean.