Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — Page 2

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In a Jbrutal prize-fight between two professional pugilists near New York, the arm of one of thim was broken in two different places. I’y the burning of the grocery of W.II s Brothers, in Allegheny City, two persons were suffocated and two others were fatally injured by leaping from the upper floor«. The Bolton dyeing and bleaching mills u ar Fordham, N. Y., were damaged to the amount of $15 r, ,000 by fire and the explosion of drying-cases. A dispatch from Ashland, Pa., says: “Harry G 11, Michael Bohannon, Harry Marron, Daniel Finn, and Eben Francos were killed at the Tunnel colliery. Owing to an anticipated ‘run’ of ‘pillars,’the west gangway hai not been working for a couple of weeks. Notwithstanding all possible circumspection, the apprehended ‘run’ occurred, bringing down with the coal a volume of deadly gas by which the men above named and six mules were suffocated ” Fire destroyed the large factory building at Nos. !—3 to 227 Cmal street, New York. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Continuous rains in portions of Maine and New Hampshire have resulted in disastrous floods. Miss Alice Cobb committed suicide at Portland, Me., and left a note stating that her father was the cause of it, and that her spirit would haunt him as long as he lived.

WESTERN.

The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of Michigan has made contracts for the delivery this summer of eight million pounds of copper at the low price of 10 cents par pound. The Dakota Board of Agriculture has decided to hold the first fair at Grand Forks, the date being fixed for September 1317. It has also been arranged to hold trotting races at Grand Forks, Hillsboro, and Fargo. A west-bound train on the Northern Pacific jumped the track near Steele, Dakota. One man was killed and several people injured. Judge James Bradley, a pioneer and prominent citizen of La Porte, Ind., is dead at the age of 77. The gambling-houses at Toledo, Ohio, were ordered closed, test Sunday, which is the first move of the reform police board, and the result was the gambling material was all packed and shipped to Detroit Twenty-one buildings, including two churches and a number of business houses, were destroyed by fire at Kankakee, with a total loss of $45,000. The fires are attributed to incendiaries. The condition of the winter wheat in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas has improved during the past week, although in some sections the need of rain is still urgent Spring wheat looks promising in lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. George W. Eubanks, who is serving a sentence in the Milwaukee Workhouse for larceny, has made affidavit that three crooks named Murray, Flater, and Curley tried to hire him to help in the Rock Island express robbery, for which crime Schwartz and Watt were recently convicted. The attorneys for Schwartz and Watt will use the affidavit in support of a motion for a new trial. The will of Alexander Mitchell gives the widow the homestead in Milwaukee, $209,COO in such bonds or stocks as she may select, and an annuity of $50,000, to bo paid in monthly installments. To David F. Mitchel, a grandson, is left $100,0(0; to Isabella Mackie, a niece, $25,009, and in various educational and charitable institutions $5),000 tn grois. The remainder of the estate, except some bank stock, was given to his only son, and as soon as the will was promulgate! he was elected to succeed his father as President of the bank, and the capital stick was increased $590,00'. The coal-laden schooner Louie O’Neill was sunk in Lake Erie in a collision th the vessel Thomas W. Parker. The entire crew of eight souls perished.

SOUTHERN.

A negro named Foster, living in Harrison County, Texas, suddenly went crazy, snatched his 3-year-old child by the legs, dashed its brains out against a tree, and ran with the body to the creek bottom, where he was ineffectually followed by h:s family. Assistance was procured and he was finaily captured. When found Foster was rending the child’s body with his teeth, spitting flesh onto the ground. Vast numbers of people from States North and South and from the surrounding towns assembled at Charleston, S. 0., on the 26th of April, to witness the unveiling of a monument to the memory of John Caldwell Calhoun. The order of exercises included the unveiling of the monument by thirty-two young ladies, artillery salute of nineteen guns, and an oration by Secretary L Q. C. Lamar. James H. Marcum, who killed his cousin, Fisher Marcum, on the night of Feb. 10, 1886, was executed test week at Louisa, Ky. He was convicted on c'rcumstantial evidence, but confessed his crime when he was -told the Governor had pos.tively refused to interfere. The Galveston News declares that unless rain comes within six or eight days the com crop of Texas will be “very much of a failure,” while the cotton prospects are very bad, by reason of the prolonged drought Jobbing houses are withdrawing their salesmen from the dry district, “pending a solution of the rainfall problem.”

Edward E. Samuels, a St Louis merchant, jumped into the river at Nashville, Tenn., and was drowned He gave as his reason that he had broken his promise to his wife that he would drink no more intoxicating liquor. The bodies of three negroes, brothers, named Sylvester, were found hanging to a tree near Proctor, W. Va. Each body bore a placard on which was written: “Nigger thievery must be broken up.” The farmers in the neighborhood had suffered depredations at the hands of unknown persons, and it seems they finally settled on the Sylvester brothers as the guilty ones.

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Terry, in addition to other duties, has been assigned to the temporary command of the Department of the Missouri. It is rumored that Consul General Waller is to be recalled from London. A coolness is said to exist between Mr. Waller and Minister Phelps. Secretary Lamar said to a Washington reporter that he was fully in accord with the President in the Guilford Miller matter, and that there was no difference of opinion between them. He further said in reply to a question that he would try to carry out President Cleveland’s suggestions if possible. Treasurer Jordan has returned to Washington and resumed his labors. He reports the health of ex-Becretary Manning greatly improved, and that he will return from England June 1.

POLITICAL.

Mr. Blaine, after remaining in Chicago for a week, left last week for his Maine home, where he will remain until he sails for Europe in June. His health is much improved since his arrival in Chicago. A bill prohibiting the playing of base-ball on Sunday was defeated in the Illinois Hou’e of Representatives. The Pennsylvania Senate defeated a bill designed to reduce by $4,000,000 per annum the profits of the National Transit Company in piping and storing petroleum. Oilproducers were unanimous in support of the measure. The majority against the Prohibition amendment at the recent election in Michigan was 5,835. The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to restrict the right of aliens to acquire real and personal property. Milo H. Dakin, a member of the Michigan House, having been convicted of soliciting bribes, was expelled by a unanimous vote. A new liquor bill has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature. A feature of the proposed act is that a fine of SIOO js provided for any assessor, county treasurer, or prosecuting attorney, or other officer refusing to make complaints against persons violating the law. The Grant relics are being placed on exhibition in the National Museum at Washington.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

The Troy (N. Y.) stove molders, who had been out on strike, resolved to go to work last week, but the manufacturers held a meeting and decided to keep their factories closed till the difficulty at fit Louis is settled. The locomotive engineers on the New York Central Railroad are dissatisfied, and threaten to strike if their grievances are not redressed. ♦ \ The coal miners in the Hazelton district of Pennsylvania have decided to ask an advance of 10 per cent, in their wages.

AILROAD INTELLIGENCE

The Pacific Railway Commission, sitting at Washington, has been investigating the workings of the Union and Central Pacific roads during the past week. C. P. Huntington gave some interesting testimony. Among other things he said that the company’s lawyer in Washington was paid $20,000 a year salary, and was allowed from $30,000 to $4),000 to “explain” the advantages to the public to be derived from the approval of the Central Pacific schemes in Washington. Charles Francis Adams testified in regard to the management of the Union Pacific Company for the past three years. He expressed the belief, from careful scrutiny, that Jay Gould and Sidney D.llon had always been more than fair to the company. He reported the taxes annually paid by the road at $1,101,0 )0. A Peoria dispatch says: “The main line of the Santa Fe road has been located to run front Chillicothe, on the other side of the river, and will enter Peoria over the Peru and' Pekin Union.” Competition by the Grand Trunk line led the Indianapolis and St Louu road to return to the pass system for shippers of live stock, on the ground that men in charge are virtually empoyes of the railway. J. F. Goddard has been promoted to the management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and all its branches, vice C. W. Smith, resigned. Jay Gould is said to have purchased 169 acres of laud at St Louis, on which the machine shops of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain and Southern Railroads are to be erected.

REGULATING THE RAILROADS

A numerously signed petition from citizens of California was received in Washington requesting the commission not to suspend the operation of section 4 so far as the Pacific coast is concerned, until an opportunity be afforded all persons interested to be heard. Before the Interstate Commerce Comm ss on at Mobile, on the 29th ult, Col. W. Butler Duncan, President; U. 8. Depew, Traffic Manager, and Col. Talcott, Vice President of the Mobile & Ohio Road, testified as to the necess.ty of a suspension of the fourth section of the law in the case of that road. Mr. Depew explained that the rates to some intermediate points between East St Louis and Mobile were greater than the full distance because the competition of the Mississippi River boats

to New Orleans compelled it The Commissioners were informed that Memphis controlled the rates at competitive points by her low all-rail rate to New York. Petitions for a suspension of the fourth section were presented from the coal and lumber* interests from Mobile, Huntsville, and other towns. Louisiana planters, in convention at New Orleans, declared in favor of the strict enforcement of the law. The Union Pacific Railroad has asked for the suspension of Section 4. James Bauron, Secretary and Treasurer of the Tennessee-Alabama Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission at Mobile that his company had $16,000,000 invested in lands and property. The business of the company had grown and expanded under the effect of low rates so that before the interstate law went into effect the pig-iron products of Alabama were 630 tons per day. All this output bad to seek distant markets. Since the law went into effect the daily sales had fallen to 100 tons, mostly for shipment by water Petitions for a suspension of section 4 were received from Birmingham iron men and from representatives of the Southern Yellow-Pine Lumber Manufacturers' Association. A protest against the suspension of the law was presented from the Mobile Cotton Exchange The Commission then proceeded to New Orleans.

MISCELLANEOUS. The marine hospital service has established inspecting stations at Yuma and Nogales, on the Mexican border, to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases . The government’s repeal resolutions were adopted in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, and the resolutions opposing coercion for Ireland were passed unanimously. A hurricane swept over the northeast coast of Australia the 22d of April The pearl-ftshing fleet, numbering 490 boats, was destroyed, and 553 During a gale on the North Atlantic coast, boats in charge of lobster fishers of Tusket Island, N. H., were capsized, and six men perished. Many others had marvelous escapes. The steamer Benton, of Singapore, was sunk in collision with a bark off the island of Formosa, and 159 persons were drowned. The schooner Flying Scud was recently lost off the coast of Alaska, with the owner, C.iptain, and fourteen native hunters. The Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs says there is not a single case of cholera in Mexico or Central America. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade claims that evidences have multiplied during the last week of the harmful effects of the interstate commerce law, but nevertheless general reports of the condition of business are favorable, and it is cheering to note how hopeful a spirit is everywhere expressed, an apparent improvement being manifested in all the leading branches of trade.

FOREIGN.

Messrs. Short, East India merchants, of London and Birmingham, have failed. Ihe French-German war-cloud still hovers threateningly over Europe. * At the dinner given in London by the labor members of Parliament Mr. Gladstone declared his entire disbelief in the ac-cu-ation against the Irish leaders. He said that in May, 1882, immediately after the assassination in Phoenix Park, Parnell wrote him a letter and offered to place himself, without reserve, in Gladstone’s hands, apparently foreseeing that he would be associated with that crime. He wrote that ho regarded the murders with the utmost abhorrence, and offered to resign the leadership of the Irish party and retire altogether from political life if Gladstone considered such a step advisable in the interests of Ireland. A heavy snow-storm prevailed in Scotland and Wa e< oa the 26th of April Seven Turkish soldiers have been massacred by religious fanatics in Albania. Germany admits that the arrest of Scbnaebels was irregular. The Swiss State Council has ratified the copyright convention with the United States. The new Russian loan has been subscribed to the extent of two milliards of rubles. The English poet, Swinburne, publishes a hundred-line poem denouncing Gladstone’s Irish policy. The following reference to the ex-Premier is sent by cable across the water: The hoary henchman of the gang Lifts hands that never dew nor rain May cleanse from Gordon’s blood again. Grand helmsman of the clamorous crew, The good gray recreant quakes and weeps To think that crime no longer creeps Safe to its end, that murderers, too, Muy die when mercy sleeps. The German Government has ordered the release of M. Schnaebeles. It is understood that the French Government will place him on the retired list An agent of the Irish Woolen Manufadturing and Exporting Company recently organized by Messrs. Parnell, Davitt, and other National Leaguers has sailed for America to develop trade for the new company. The Petit Journal, of Paris, has just declared a dividend of 19 per cent on its last ye ir’s business. The profits for 1886 amounted to over SI,000,0.x). The Pope will shortly send out an encyclical letter on the land question in which, it is sad, he will unreservedly denounce the theories of Henry George. M. Scbnaebels, released from a German prison, has been enthusiastically received by his countrymen, and is likely to be retired on a pension. William O’Brien, the pugnacious editor of Imited Ireland, has started from Queenstown for Canada, where he proposes to make things interesting for Lord Lansdowne. France is still hot over the prospect of a war with Germany, and Germany is making preparations for the conflict by large financial appropriations for strategic railways, barracks, and hospitals, and for increasing the efficiency of the army. , -

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Interstate Commerce Commission devoted one day to its sitting in New Orleans, and a pretty busy day it was. Judge Cooley, in opening the proceedings, remarked: It miv be well to say at the outset that the scope of our authority in the premises is very much limited, and that we do not purpose to go beyond it. Our investigations are under tie act, but they are not for any purpose of questioning the propriety, justice, or expediency of that legislation. On the other hand, all that has been settled for us, and we are here simply for the purpose of determining the question whether, in pursuance of that legislation, we shall in certain specified cases which have been brought to our attention make exceptional orders, which shall give relief in these cases from the ordinary opera tions of the law. That is all we purpose to do, and all we have any authority to do." The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement issued on the 2d inst by the United States Treasurer: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4\ per cent > 250,003,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,797,500 Bonds at 3 per cent 28,u79,'Jk) Refunding certificates at 4 percent. 177,750 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,0<X), i K) Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal $1,094,678,712 Interest 8,780,655 Total $1,103,459,368 DEBT ON WHICH INxHBEST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $6,310,715 Interest 193,.>03 Total $6,504,015 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,183 Certificates of deposit 8,350,03 J Gold certificates 94,434,48 > Silver certificates. 137,740,430 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,948,472 Principal $594,211,573 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,695,231,000 Interest b, 9 >3,956 Total $1,704,174,957 Less cash items available for reduction of th* debt $ 261,118,459 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes. 103,000,000 Total ; $ 364,118,459 Total debt less available cash items. $1,340,056,438 Net cash in the Treasury 34,846,038 Debt less cash in Treasury May 1, I*® 7 -; $1,335,170,459 Debt less cash in Treasury April 1. 188' 1,318,223,553 Decrease of debt during the month § 13,053,038 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $94 434,485 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 137,740,430 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 8,350,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 15,284,672 Cash held tor bonds called not matured and balance of interest 8,335,950 Fractional currency 2,922 Total available .. $264,118,459 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts January 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $ 100,000,030 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver coin.... $26,891,076 Minor coin 137,582 Total $ 27,028,658 Certificates held as cash 34,0?2,740 Net cash balance on hand 31,886,038 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account. .$ 461,10",896 Three thousand Chicago hod-carriers are on a strike for an advance of tvages. The proprietors of shoe factories at Cincinnati locked out the members of the testers and fitters’ assemblies—women and girls—who had refused to send delegates to the Board of Arbitration for settlement of the annual scale of ■wages. David S. Fotheringham, the alleged accomplice of “Jim Cummings” in the famous St. Louis and San Francisco train robbery, was placed on trial at St Louis on the 2d inst. The points and affidavits in support of a new trial for Watt and Schwartz, convicted of killing Kellogg Nichols, were filed at Morris, 111., last week. They claim that new evidence has been discovered, that the Court erred in several instances, that certain of the jury were unbiased, and were later prejudiced by Dr. Axtell’s sermon, and that the closing address lor the people was not according to the evidence presented.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle $ 5.00 @ 5.75 Hogs 5.50 (a) 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White .97’6 No. 2 Red 94 (dl .95 Corn—No. 2 4816 4 .51 Oats—White 38 & .42 Pork—New Mess 14.75 (415.25 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.50 Good Shipping 4.50 >4 5.00 Common 4,00 (4 4.5 J Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.25 @ 5.7.5 Flour—Winter Wheat 4.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring Site® Corn—No. 2 37 (4 .38 ~ Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 • Butter—Choice Creamery...... .21 @ .23 Fine Dairy 13 @ .21 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. -.13%@ .14)4 Full Cream, new 13%@ .14J4 Eggs—Fresh 10)6 4 .UM Potatoes—Choice, per bu 75 & .80 Pork—Mess 22.75 (d 23.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 3 33 @ .38 W Oats—No. 2 White 30 (4 .31 ’ Rye—No. 1 » 59 $ .51 Pork—Mess , 15,25 @15.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—Lake Shore 84 & .85 Corn—No. 2 40 @ .41 Oats 28 .30 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.25 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep . 4.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red ... .83JA4 .84 Corn—No. 2 41)6@ 42’6 Oats-White ......... .32’6 4 333 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No.2 .32 @ .83 Corn—Mixed Oats—Mixed 28 ~@ .29 Pork—New Mess . 16.25 «j 16.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .83)6 Corn—No. 2 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 Pork—Mess 16.00 (£16.50 Hogs 5.00 ® 5.75 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 88l<j@ Corn—No. z Yellow 43’6 .4416 Cattle ! 4.25' @ ‘4.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 375 @5.25 Hogs 5.0 J @5.75 Sheep 3.50 .4 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .80 @ .80 ,'3 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .39' Oats—Mixed .28 14 .29 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.00 <4 5.25 Fair ' 4.50 @5.00 Common..., 4.25 <4 4.5 J Hogs 5.75 @ e. 25 Sheep... : ... ags. « 4

GRANT’S BIRTHDAY.

Celebrations at Pittsburg, Washington, Hartford, and Other Points. Governor Foraker’s Oration—A Characteristic Speech by Funny Mark Twain. The Americus Club of Pittsburgh commemorated the sixty-fifth anniversary of Gen. Grant’s birth by banqueting at the Monongahela House of that ‘city. Ths tables in the banquet hall were arranged sc as to make the initials “U. S. G.,” and were elaborately decorated with flower pieces containing the initial letters of the deceased President’s name and the dates 1822-1887. Gov. Foraker occupied the seat assigned Gen. Grant on the occasion of the reception given to him on his return from his trip aiound the world. After the tables had been cleared Governor Foraker was introduced and responded to the toast “U. S. Grant.” He sketched the life of the General from early manhood to the close of his honorable career. “That he was not a third time called to the Presidency,” said Gov. Foraker, “was due to considerations that had no relation whatever to him personally. On the contrary he wgis never more securely intrenched in the affections of the American people than he was at the very moment when the historic fight of the 306 determined followers ended in defeat at Chicago. It seemed as though he could not possibly do anything more o to increase th e esteem and afiectionate regard in which he was held, but he could —and he did. He was unwittingly involved and overwhelmed, by financial disaster, and practically at the same time smitten by a fatal malady. The unconquerable character of his nature was never' more clearly demonstrated than then. It would be difficult to exaggerate the heroic fortitude and true Christian patience he displayed in the pathetic, unequal, but successful struggle that, followed. Job cried out in his lamentations and said, ‘Oh! that mine adversary had written a book,’ as if that were, as it probably is, the most surely fatal undertaking any ordinary man can assume. Gen. Grant’s last work was to write a book. He had a double purpose to serve. He sought not only to record his recollection of the great events with which he had been identified, but also to provide against want for the faithful and deserving companion of his life and partner of all his joys and sorrows. It has been graphically said by some one that as he sat at one side of the tablewriting, Death sa' at the opposite side impatiently waiting and watching. “Without a tremor or a murmur, hed evoted himself to his labor of love. A merciful Providence lengthened his days and gave him strength until the last line and word had been written, and his heart had been gladdened by the assurance that both his purposes had been accomplished, and then, as ‘gently as day intonight,’ he passed into eternity.” Roscoe Conking sent a letter of regret, in which ho said: To jo.n in paying honor to the memory of a man so illustrious and so true to his country and friends, so firm set, so calm and enduring under calumny, suffering, and sorrow, would be a mournful and grateful privilege. I should feel at home in doing so with those who did not wait for the glorification of his death to show them the rugged grandeur of Grant or the honesty of his purposes, and his reverence for the rights of every fellow-creature. GENERAL GRANT’S ENGLISH. Mark Twain Defends the Hero AgainstMatthew Arnold’s Criticisms. At the Army and Navy Club’s celebration of General Grant’s birthday in Hartford, Ct., Mark Twain delivered the following address, which brought down thehouse: I will detain you with only just a few wofds —just a few thousand words—and then giveplace to a better man—if he has been created. Lately a great and honored author, Mathew Arnold, has been finding fault with General Grant’s English. That .would be fair enough, may be. if the examples of imperfect English averaged more instances to the page in General Grunt's book than they do in Mr. Arnold's criticism upon the book, but they don’t. [Laughter and applause. | It would be fair enough, may be, if such instances werecommoner in General Grant’s book than they are in the works of the average standard author, but they aren’t. In truth, General Grant’s derelictions in the matter of grammar and construction are not more frequent than are such derelictions in the works of a majority of th*, professional authors of our time and of aH time—authors as exclusively and painstakingly trained to the literary trade as was General Grant to the trade of war. In Mr. Arnold’s paper on General Grant’s book we find a dbuplo of grammatical crimes and more than several examples of crude and slovenly English. The following passage is a fair illustration : " ‘Meade suggested to Grant that he mightwish to have immediately under him Sherman, who had been serving with Grant in the West. He begged him not to hesitate if he thought it for the good of the service. Grant assured him. that he had no thought of moving him, and in. his memoirs, after relating what had passed, he adds,” etc. “To read that passage a couple of times would, make a man dizzy; to read it four times would make him drunk. “People may hunt out what microscopic motes they please, but, after all, the fact remains and. cannot be dislodged that General Grant's book is a great and, in its peculiar department, uniqueand unapproachable literary masterp ece. In. their line there is no higher literature than those modest, simple ‘memoirs.’ Their style is at least flawless, aud no man can improve upon it; and great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar. There is that aboutthe Bur which makes us forget his spots, and when we think of Geu. Grant our pulses quicken and his grammar vanishes; we only remember that this is the simple soldier who, all untaught, of the silken phrase-makers, linked words together with an art surpassing the art of the schools, and put into them a something which. Will still bring to American ears as long as America shall last the roll of bis vanished prums and the tread of his marching hosts. [Tumultuous applause.] “ VV hat do we care for grammar when we think of the man that put together that thunderous Shrase, ‘Unconditional and immediate surrener,’ and those others, ‘I propose to move immediately upon your works, 1 ‘I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer 1’ | Applause. j Mr. Arnold would doubtless claim that that last sentence is not strictly irammatical; and yet, nevertheless, it did certainly wake up this nation as a hundred million tons of Al fourth-proof, hard-boiled, hide-bound grammar from another mouth could not have done. And», finally, we have that gentler phrase—that one which shows you another true side of the man: shows that in his soldier heart there was room, for other than gory war mottoes, and in hrs tongue the gift to fitly praise them—‘Let us havepeace.’ ” [Prolonged applause and cheering.] Other Celebrations. A moderate-sized audience assembled at the Metropolitan Methodist Church, Washington City, to celebrate the sixtyfifth anniversary of the birth of General. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., and JesseR. Grant were present. An address by Senor Romero, Mexican Minister, on “Grant and Our Foreign Relations,” waff read by Gen. Colton, Senor Romero being, sick. Addresses were also delivered by ex-Postmaster General Creswell and oth.ers. The Grant Club of Des Moines, lowa, celebrated General Grant’s birthday by memorial exercises, with speeches by Gov.. Larrabee and several other leading liepub* ' licans of the State. *