Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.

Robert T. Lincoln Will Go to Great Britain, and Halsted to Germany, President Harrison has appointed Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. Robert Todd Lincoln is the only survivor of the family of Abraham Lincoln. He was the eldest son and was born at the old Globe Tavern in Springfield, 111., Aug. 1. 1843. He attended a private school at Springfield aud the State University until the year of his father’s election to the Presidency, when he entered Harvard. He graduated in the early summer of 1864 and the following autumn entered the law school of the uni-versity,-but in February, 1865, was appointed to a Captaincy on Gen. Grant's staff. He served until June of that year, when the war closed. He witnessed the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and was the first manto carry the news in person to his father, the President. Mr. Lincoln first appeared in politics in the south town of Chicago, where he was elected Supervisor in 1876. In 1880 Mr. Lincoln was a delegate to the Republican State Convention, and was selected a delegate to the National Convention, but his place was filled bv Stephen A. Doug-

Jas, Jr, Mr. Lincoln had been mentioned for tho Presidency, and received a few votes at that convention. He was chosen a Presidential Elector for Illinois in tho campaign that followed, and when President Garfield was making up his Cabinet Mr. I,in coin was placed at

tho head of the War Department. He alone of the Garfield ministry remained in office during the administration of President Arthur. Leaving tho Cabinet on the accession of President Cleveland Mr. Lincoln retired from politics until this appointment.

Murat Halstead, nominated by President Harrison to be Minister to Berlin,

was born in Paddy’s Run, Butler County, Ohio, in 1829. He spent the summers on his f ither’s farm and the winters in school until he was 19 years old, then, after teaching for a few months, ; ie entered Farmers’ College near Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1851. He had already contributed to the press.

and after leaving college became connected with the Cincinnati Atlas and then with the Enquirer. He afterward established a Sunday newspaper in that city and in 1852 worked on the Columbian Weekly. He began work on the Commercial the Bth day of March, 1853, as a local reporter and soon became news editor. In 1854 the Commercial was reorganized and Halstead purchased an interest in the paper. In 1867 its control passed into his hands. After pursuing for a time a course of independent journalism he allied himself with the Republican party, which-he has since supported. The Cincinnati Gazette was consolida ed with his paper in 1883, and he became President of the company publishes the combined journal under the name of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.

The monkeys are so thick in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, that it is almost impossible to build a telegraph line. They all get on the wire and swing until it breaks.

ROBERT T. LINCOLN.

MURAT HALSTEAD.