Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 February 1891 — Page 2

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‘For rapid pronunciation: An anonywmous Ananias is an anomaly and an anarchronism.

Four trusts, the salt, oatmeal, harvester and window glass, have fallen to pieces within a few months. :

A FARMER in Kansas has twenty-six living children, all of whom are unmarriéd and live at the homestead.

Tue Chinese believe that the devil always walks in a straight line, and for that reason they make the streets of their cities crooked.

- A FARM at Pithole, Pa., which was brought some years ago during the oil excitement by Chicago speculators for $1,500,000, was sold recently at a tax sale for $lOO.

SPEAKING of railroad nicknames Chauncey M. Depew says he has heard the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago road called ‘‘Paddy Finnigan's Wife and Children.”

GuM-CHEWING will have to be classed among the manias soon. Axg Ohio teacher chastised a girl for refusing to give up her wad, whereupon she and her mother attacked him and gouged his eyes out.

A NEW YORK seal engraver says that people who want a coat-of-arms are mainly residents of New England and New York. Southern people have always had coats-of-arms, and Western people sneer at them.

'Mrs. WALTER BAKER, of Boston, whose bequests to charitable and educational institutions nearly reach $1,000,000, is said té have carefully studied the merits and needs of these beneficiaries during her life, and did not give at haphazard.

CHIEF ENGINEER SEWELL of the White Star fleet considers himself the greatest traveler that ever lived because, during his connection with the company, he has sailed 818,400 nautical or 941,000 standard miles, nearly four times the distance between the earth and the moon.

THE revised census statistics for Masssachusetts show a remarkable change in the details of urban and rural growth. There are now 47 cities and towns of 8,000 or more people, against 33 in 1880, and of the total increase of 455,858 in the population 402,941 must be credited te these 47 localities. i

MicHAEL DELANO, an Ttalian, died at the Alleghany hospital, Alleghany City, Pa. His corpse weighed forty-one pounds. He was thirty-one years old. It was the most remarkable wasting away of flesh the physicians who had watched his case ever heard of. A year ago Delano weighed one hundred and eighty-five pounds. o

THE greatest marvel of all the rich possessions of the maharajah of Baroda isa carpet, about 10x6 feet, made entirely of strings of pearls, with center and corner pieces of diamonds. This carpet took three years to weave and cost £200,000. It was made by the order of Khande Rao, who designed it to be a présent for a Mohammedan lady who had fascinated him. : |

TAKE a slice of the United States as large as Ireland, making New York and Brooklyn the eastern boundary, and forty tenants are evicted from dwellings and farms for every one in Ireland. New York alone turns out one hundred thousand non-paying tenants a year, and all are poor people. Brooklyn evicted fifty-three thousand last year. “Pay or go,” is the motto here as well as in Ireland.

THE death of a Cabinet officer during his term of office has been a rare occurrence in the history of this country. Mr. Webstér and Mr. Upshur died while filling the office of Secretary of State; Mr. Rollins, while Secretary of War; Mr. Brown and Mr. Howe, while Post-master-General; and Mr. Folger, while Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Windom was, therefore, the second Secretary of the Treasury who died in office.

Mgs. JouN A. LoGAN has erected a notable memorial hall in her house in Washington dedicated to her late husband. On one wall hang General Logan’s swords, sabertaches, stirrups, saddles, bridles, saddle-cloths and boots and spurs; on another his pictures—paintings, photographs, crayons and engravings—showing him at all periods of his military and civie career; on another his badges, decorations, sashes, regalia, uniforms and the like. 2

INn Cornell University at Ithaca; N. Y., there is an organization of students known as the “Mock Congress.” Ithas a speaker and committees like the House of Representatives. Its members represent the States and the opposing political parties. Bills are introduced and acted upon. It elects a functionary known as ‘“‘President of the United States,” who appoints his Cabinet and is empowered to send in messages. The ‘‘Mock Congress” affords an excellent political training to its members, and it is probable that an organization of the kind will be startedin New York. i

CREMATION is. becoming- daily more popular abroad. In Baden the Offenberg and Heidelburg city councils have decided to erect furnaces. The Government in Basel has granted to all citizens the right to choose between being buried and being burned. A crematory is being erected in Manchester at a cost of $37,500. The Italian friends of cremation recently assembled in Milan to consider the best means of burning bodies and of spreading propaganda for their ideas. This is the second congress of eremationists held in Italy since the Italians took the lead in pushing the cremation movement. e ———— THE oldest/ tree on earth, at least as far as any one knows, is the ‘‘Boo” tree in the city of Amarapoora, Burmah. It was planted, the record says, in the year 288 B. C., and is therefore nearly 2,200 years old. Its age is proved according to historic documents, says Sir James Emerson, who adds: “To it kings have dedicated their dominions in testimony of a belief that it is a branch of the identical fig tree under which Buddha reclined at Urumleva when he underwent his apotheosis.” Its leaves are carried away by pilgrims as relics, but these leaves can only be gathered after they have fallen. !

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session.

TrEsSDAY. Feb. 10. —A bill to divide the judicial districts of the United States into ten circuits was reported in the Senate, and the naval appropriation bill ($31,564,000) was considered. In the House the bill appropriating $200,000 for the extension of. the public building at Dallas, Tex., was passed over the President’s veto. Other bills were passed increasing to $lOO a month the pension of the widow of General Custer; for the transfer of army officers on the retired list from the limited to the unlimited list when they attain the age of 64 years, and to make Nashville, Tenn., a port of delivery. WEDNESDAY. Feb. 11. — Bills were passed in the Senate to construct a bridge g@across the St. Louis river between &sconsin and Minnesota; continuing the laws of Nebraska in force in the Territory of Oklahoma till July 1, 1891, and the naval appropriation bill. In the House bills were passed to establish a record and pension office in the War Department, and providing for the selection of a site for a military post at San Diego, Cal. 4 THURSDAY, Feb. 12.—1 n the Senate ‘bills were passed establishing pier lights at Ahnapee, Wis; for the relief of settlers upon certain lands in Iowa; granting a pension of $lOO a month to General N. P. Banks; establishing a port of delivery at Des Moines, la., and the District of Columbia appropriation bill. In the House the time was occupied in discussing the legislative appropriation bill. - FripDAY, Feb. 13. — Senator Stockbridge introduced a bill in the Senate to incorporate the National Guarantee Loan & Development Company of the United States, which has for its I object the amelioration of the condition’ of the poor. The copyright bill was discussed. In the House the legislative appropriation bill was further considered and finally passed.

FROM WASHINGTON.

Ox the 13th Admiral David Porter, the hero of many a naval battle, died suddenly in Washington of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was 78 years of age.

THE business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 13th numbered 297, against 306 the preceding week and 302 the corresponding week last year.

THE EAST.

IN Boston Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Rev. Minot J. Savage and others have signed an agreement to form a society for the investigation of spiritualism. ' THE New Jersey Legislature passed a bill exempting foreign insurance companies from taxation and imposing an additional rate on domestic companies. 'IxX a collision at Elmira, N. Y., four railway employes were killed. : TeE death of James Redpath, the Irish Nationalist, journalisb«; and lecturer, occurred in New York from the effects of injuries received by being run down by a horse car. He was 58 years of age. . | ! THE North Middlesex Savings Bank and the First National Bank, at Ayer, Mass., closed their doors. THE steamer Bruce and two tugs were sunk in the bay at New York and eighteen lives were reported lost. - THE death of 'Samuel Morey, who came into prominence during the Presidential campaign of 1880, and who was arrested in connection with the ‘“Morey Chinese letter,” occurred at Nashua, N. H., aged 68 years. AT the age of 105 years Mrs. Theodore French died at Syracuse, N. Y.

Ix Néw York 100 certificates for 100 shares each of the American Sugar Trust, aggregate face value $1,000,000, were pronounced to be counterfeit.

IN New York new counterfeit $5 Treasury notes were found in eirculation. The bill is signed by W. S. Rosecrans as Register, and J. N. Huston as Treasurer, and the work is poorly done. '

. At Dover, Del., Jesse H. Proctor and Frederick Young were hanged for murder.

WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Appomattox, Va., the old mansion in which Lee surrendered to Grant has been purchased by a Niagara Falls (N. Y.) company and will be made a museum for war relics. ) ;

Apvices from the recent cyclone in Alabama say that in Tuscaloosa, Shelby and Talladego counties stores and dwellings were unroofed, stables blown down, and a great many horses and cattle were killed. :

AT St. Louis the San Miguel Consolidated Gold Mining Company was formed with a capitali of $15,000,000. General B. F. Butler is at the head, and the object is to buy up and control all the free gold claims of the San Miguel mining district. - NEAR Sidney, 0., Jacob Weber was shot dead by William Cisso, a neighbor, while stealing corn from the latter’s barn. Weber leaves a widow and ten children. : :

THE notion store of Joseph A. Bigel & Co. at Cincinnati was robbed of $50,000 worth of silks and velvets. Tee North Dakota Legislature passed a bill to resubmit the question of a prohibition amendment to the constitution. : THE population of Michigan is 2,093,889. A FARMER named Allan M. Murphy, of Baraga, Mich., was fleeced out of $3,800 by New York ‘‘green-goods” men. THE steamer Thanemore, which left Baltimore for London on November 26 last, was given up as lost. There were forty-six persons on board. ! A BILL passed the Missouri Legislature prohibiting pool-selling in the State on horse races and elections. Tue Legislature of Idaho met in joint convention and elected W, H. Claggett United States Senator. He will contest the seat of Stziator—elect Dubois. JoHN BENTON and Hale Cooper were fatally injured in a quarrel over a girl at a dance at Palmyra, Kan. At Indianapolis fifty of the Indiana survivors of the Mexican war held a reunion. ; THE death of Daniel Looper, an exsoldier aged 101 years, occurred at his home near Carrollton, 111. TarRoUGHOUT Hale and Swisher counties in Texas prairie fires had destroyed thousands of acres of range. : At Pineville, Ky., Judge William Lewis, who had been suppressing bloody feuds in that region, was shot and k{ued by his own son, Sidneéy Lewis, whom the judge had put under bond as one of the unlawful gang. 8 - FrLames at Aurora, 111., caused a loss of $105,000. i

IN session at Columbus, 0., the National Miners’ convention adopted a resolution that all miners and mine workers in the United States demand the eight-hour work day May 1 next. A FIRE destroyed five hotels and four business houses at Wichita Falls, Tex.

THE death of Stephen S. Harding, Governor of Utah under President Lincoln, occurred at his home near Milan, Ind., aged 83 years. Four persons were injured, two fatally, by an explosion of natural gas at Lafayette, Ind. ; :

A RISE in the river at Cincinnati drove sixty families out of their homes. THE recently discovered mines at Florissant, Col., prove to be rich in copper instead of gold. THE explosion of a boiler in a flouring mill at Windsor, Mo., killed H. L. Smith, Thomas Thillberry, Walter Beaman and Charles Sturtevant.

BURGLARS opened.a bank vault at Shepardsville, Ky., and got $lOO, but overlooked $50,000. SAM ALEXANDER was fined $250 at Austin, Tex., for mailing lottery tickets. ¢ .

A sHORTAGE of $50,000 was reported in the accounts of Charles Ritter, teller of the First National Bank of Evansville, Ind.

MARY ANN REARDON, aged 50 years, and Mrs. Kehoe, 60 years of age, were suffocated by smoke during a fire in their home in Chicago. :

Mgrs. HEpwieé WENDLAND died at the Passavant Hospital in Milwaukee from the effects of the Koch lymph treatment.

THE population of Arkansas by races is reported by the Census Bureau as follows: WhitenBl6,sl7; colored, 311,227; Indians, 804; Chinese, 181; total, 1,128,170. _ |

Mrs. FRANK ALCORN, of Guthrie, O. T., killed her three children by accidentally giving them an overdose of medicine.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DispPATCHES from President Barillas, of Guatemala, and President Begran, of Hondutras, say that rumers of a revolution in Honduras and Central America are untrue. :

- TWENTY peasants were devoured by ravenous wolves on Baron Wodlauer’s estate in Hungary. AT Toronto a report was circulated that arrests of prominent politicians were pending on the charges of treason. THE poll tax on Chinese arriving at Victoria, B. C., during January was $3,817, an increase of $BOl over the same month last year. IN Toronto, Ont., 2,500 unemployed men paraded the streets bearing a flag with the motto: ‘‘Bread or Work.”

MirToN BrROWN, of South Colchester, Ont., aged 84 years, led to the altar Mrs.. Margaret Clickert, aged 97 years. The groom had buried four wives and the bride mourned the loss of five husbands Her last husband died two years ago aged 124 years. , MEessßs. DILLON AND O’BRIEN upon landing at Folkestone, Eng., were arrested, and they would be taken to IreJand to serve a sentence of six months for alleged unlawful agitation of the home-rule question. . : IN the Quebec Worsted Company’s factory near Quebec, Can., the boiler exploded, partly demolishing the works, and at least thirty-two persons were killed and more than a score wounded. i

Ix the Whitechapel district of London another woman was found murdered and horribly mutilated. @She was believed to have been a victim of ‘“Jack the Ripper.” : THE leader of the Liberal party in Canada, Mr. Laurier, said in Toronto in answer to Sir John Macdonald’s manifesto against reciprocity with the United States that the policy of the English Government was a failure and a fraud, which farmers and artisans alike should condemn. Sir Richard . Cartwright said that Canadians were' bound to have unrestricted reciprocity with the United States.

THE Newfoundland Legislature passed resolutions protesting against the action of the British Government in not permitting negotiations for reciproeity with the United States to be carried on.

NEAR St. Albert, Ont.,Mrs. La France and two children lost their lives in a burning dwelling and Mr. La France was fatally buarned.

LATER,

BILLs were introduced in the United States Senate on the 14th authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Red river at Alexandria, La., and across the Mississippi at South St. Paul, Minn. The resolution authorizing the select committee on relations with Canada to continue its investigations during the recess was agreed to. A resolution was introduced requesting the President to appeal on the ground. of humanity to the Emperor of Russia to inquire into the alleged wrongs and cruelties to the Jewish subjects of Russia and Siberia. In the House bills were introduced to repeal the McKinley tariff bill and to re-emact all laws repealed by that act, and to preventthe sale of fire-arms and ammunition to the Indians and to disarm all Indians under the supervision of an Indian agent. A BOAT capsized on the Oconee river at Armor’s Ferry, Ga., and four colored men were drowned. ;

IN a railway accident near Columbus, 0., Engineer Charles Bartwell and two brothers named Johnson were fatally injured.

Tk Government buildings at Yokohama, Japan, were burned, causing a loss of $250,000. :

CApTAIN FRANCIS L. NORTON’S steam life-boat, the F. L. Norton, in which the captain with his wife, niece and seven men left New London, Mass., for Toulon, France, November 23, has been given up as lost. : A FIRE at Rochester, N. Y., destroyed St. Mary’s Hospital, the 250 inmates barely escaping with their lives. GEORGE RoOUSE, aged 16 years, accidentally shot and killed his brother Edward, aged 19 years, at Leavenworth, Kan. THE stallion Elector, valued at $25,000 and owned by J. B. Barnes, died at Springfield, 111. . ' GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN died at 1:50 o’clock on the afternoon of the 14th at his home in New York. He was unconscious when the end came. The members of his griefstricken family were standing around his bed at the time. THE total production of pine lumbeér in Michigan during 1890 was 4,085,767,849 feet. : A COYCLONE in the Hervey group of islands in Australia destroyed over seventy houses, nearly all the cocoanut and bread fruit trees, and wrecked a schooner, causing the loss of fourteen lives. In Condobolin great bush fires swept a district thirty by sixty miles in extent and destroyed 20,000 sheep, .

A WARRIOR’S DEATH. Death at New York of General William: T. Sherman. 'fhe ‘Old Hero Forced to Surrender to the Conqueror of All—Scenes at His Death-Bed—To Be Buried in St. Louis. SHERMAN IS NO MORE. NEw York, Feb. 16.—General Sherman died at 1:50 p. m., Saturday aftera brave struggle for life. The improvement in his condition Friday, which filled his many friends with hope that he would win the battle, gave way to alarming symptoms which caused the attending physicians: to announce that the end was rapidly approaching. The members of his family were hastily summoned to his bedside and remained with him to the end. - The General was unconscious for some time before death. He did-not suffer any pain.- His respirations grew weaker and ceased entirely at 1:50. The end came so easily that for a moment it ‘was not possible to realize that he was dead. - :

The watchers beside the bedside of the dying hero refused to give up every thread of hope until the last moment. The famous patient had rallied so many times since he was taken ill that his friends believed he would again keep death at bay. Even when his head sank perceptibly to the right side and there was no respiration for fully a minute, at 12:35, the physician, Dr. Alexander, turned to Senator John Sherman and said: ‘“‘He is not dead; he will breathe again.” And the relatives and friends about the couch drew a breath of relief. The doctor’s

s /’: N N : V), s - NN i W % - R e~ T~ W - B = ffi' ) 1". — s :‘V W fi% i, It Qe 32 ) LR 2 NI i e W \>\©\\\\\\“&\' . GENERAL SHERMAN. . prophecy was correct, for the great warrior moved uneasily in less than a minute and he made a move as if to lift his eyelids, but for the first time his strength had deserted him, and after a feeble effort he sank wearily back upon the pillow. _ Dr. Alexander made two or three attempts to revive him, but did not sueceed, and although he did not communicate his belief to the members of the family -he expected the end and waited for it to occur every moment. : He was uhconscious all this time and had been since 6:20 o’clock in the morning, when he looked at his brother, the Senator, and his children, and addressing the former, said: ‘“There, there, John, it’s pretty hard; comfort the children.” These words, so far as known, were his.last. . At 1 o'clock there was a movement on the part of the dying warrior, as he lay on his camp-bed in the center of the large apartment where he has been confined since ldast Sunday, and a noise came from his lips as if he was trying to speak. The physician bent over him, but the noise had stopped. - He said it was the mucus on the lungs, and when it was heard a few moments later the doctor said, with his head on the grand old soldier’s breast: ‘‘The end is not far off.”

For nearly half an hour there was no movement on. the part of the dging man. ' About' 1:45, about five minutes before the end, there was just the suggestion of a movement of the General’s arm and a moan came from his lips. The sound was like that of a man attempting to speak, but changed to a low gurgling noise. The physician in the room reached over and watched the patient’s face closely for a moment. Then he turned tothe weeping relatives clustered about the couch and said quietly: ‘‘The General is dead.’ - At the bedside were his son, P. T. Sherman, his daughters, Rachel and Lizzie, Lieutenant and Mrs. Fitch, Lieutenant and Mrs. Thackara, Senator John Sherman, Dr. Alexander and General Thomas Ewing. The two daughters remained kneeling, one at each side of the bed, during the last hours of the ' life of their father. No priest or clergyman was present, neither were any called. No priest has entered the house since Father Taylor called.

The General did not suffer any pain for the last two days. All night long he lay in bed with his head high, but toward morning he worked his head lower, until at last he lay perfectly flat. Death came so quietly that those at the bedside did not realize that the General was dead until Dr. Alexander said: ““All is over.” Death came with one long sigh. Suffocation, due to the lungs filling with mucus, was the cause. Immediately after his death Generals Howard and Slocum, who were on General Sherman’s staff, were sent for. Some two weeks ago the General made known his wishes as to his burial. He particularly requested that his body should not lie in state anywhere. He also requested that the funeral be a strictly military one. He said that he did not care particularly for any military observances here in New York, but that he did want a military burial in St. Louis, which would be participated in by his old comrades in arms. He also requested that the funeral rites be not in conformity with any particular form of religion. He wanted a soldier’s burial. The body is now lying embalmed in the room where the General died—the back room on the second floor. The features are natural, with the exception of a slight swelling on the right jaw and under both eyes. The eyes are closed and the arms folded across the breast. Less than half an hour after the news of the General’s death was flashed over the country messages of condolence, began to arrive. The messages were received by Private Secretary Barrett and Senator Sherman. Senator Sherman said that nearly 3,000 dispatches had been received. There was one from President Harrison and one from each of the United States Senators, from members of the Cabinet, from General Schofield and from other army officers. Other dispatches received were from Chief-Justice Fuller, Henry M. Stanley, Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis, Judge Gresham, 'General Joseph B. Johnston, Vice-President Morton, Justice Ilarlan, General Alger, James G.

Blaine and ex-President Hayes. . In addition to these there were telegrams from the foreign Ministers and heads of various State departments from all over the country and Europe. The outward mark of respect that was shown'iu New York City upon the announcement of the death of General Sherman was the universal raising of flags at half-mast on all the public buildings, the newspaper offices and on many stores and private residences. Dispatches from all parts of the country state that Governors and State and local authorities generally have issued proclamations and have taken other official recognition of the death. :

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Preliminary arrangements for the funeral have been made. The cortege will form at 1 o'clock on Thursday next at the house on West Seventy-first street, and move promptly at 2 o’clock. The funeral services proper will be held in St. Louis. The funerel procession in this city will be made up as follows: The regular-army escort wille be under the command of Colonel Loomis L. Langdon, of the First Artillery. It will consist of all the infantry battalions located in the vicinity of New York harbor. The artillery will be made up of the First Artillery United States Army, Dillenbanks’ Light Battery and two four-gun batteries of the National Guard. The cavalry will consist of a troop of regulars and Troop A of the National Guard. The body will be borne on a caisson. An escort of honor from Lafayette Post, Grand Army of the Republic, will surround the caisson and the pall-bearers, who will be in carriages. Following them will come the family and relatives in carriages. Then the President and VicePresident of the United States, ex-Pres-ident Hayes, ex-President Cleveland, delegations from the United States Senate and House of Representatives, the Governor of the State of New York and the mayor of the city. The military part of the procession will follow the carriages in this order: The Loyal Legion, Grand . Army posts, corps of cadets, National Guard, S. N. G., delegations from civic societies, citizens. The line of march from Desbro®es street ferry had not been decided upon yet. The department of the Grand Army of the Republic will be under the command of General Floyd Clarkson; the National Guards under General Fitzgerald; the regular escort under Colonel Landon. General Howard, in command “of the military, designated General Butterfield as marshal in charge of the column. Veterans of the Seventh Regiment and those from other regiments will be assigned to positions at the Desbrosses street ferry to receive the cortege on its arrival there. At the New Jersey end of the ferry will be stationed posts of veterans from that State. G. A. R. posts at points along the route who desire to pay honor to the remains will be notified in season. The bearers will be: General J. M. Schofield, General O. O. Howard, RearAdmiral D. L. Braine, Rear-Admiral L. A. Kimberly, General Thomas L. Casey, General J. C. Felton, Prof. H. L. Kendrick, General Joseph E. Johnston, General H. W. Slocum, General Daniel E. Sickles, General L. L. Dodge, General J. M. Corse, General Wager Swayne, General S. L. Woodford. General Clarkson expects to have 10,000 soldiers in line from New York and Brooklyn and 2,500 from New Jersey. Generals Howard and Slocum were asked by the family to take entire charge of the funeral and to accompany the body to St. Louis. The interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, in the family plot, beside the body of Mrs. Sherman and those of his two sons, William, Jr., who ‘died when he was 9 years old, and Charles, who was born and who died during the march to the sea, and whom the General never saw. .

The funmeral in St. Louis will be strictly military in character. On account of the expressed wish of General Sherman when alive, it was decided not to comply with the request of President Harrison that the body be taken to Washington and there lie in state for a day. It will not lie in state anywhere.

The casket is oak covered with black cloth and lined with white satin. The handles are plain silver bars, and on the lid is a plate of plain silver on which is inscribed the name, ‘“William Tecumseh Sherman,” and the date of his birth and death. While being transported from here to St. Louis the casket will be placed in a polished oak box with silver trimmings. The body is now lying embalmed in the room where the General died. It is covered with an American flag.

TALMAGE’S TRIBUTE.

BROOKLYN, Feb. 16.—At the Academy of Music Sunday Dr. Talmage spoke as follows of General Sherman: ‘“The century has no grander soul to surrender into the eternities than the one who just passed away from us. Frank, honest, brilliant, gallant, patriotic William T. Sherman. Thank God that I ever knew, that I even felt the hearty grip of his right hand and had had the friendship of his great big heart. .I have no part in the question which is being agitated as to whether he was a Catholic or Protestant. I heard his profession of faith on a memorable occasion and under peculiar circumstances. In New York at the New England dinner three years ago I sat with him four hours. He on one side and the immortal Henry W. Grady on the other. ‘When in conversation he expressed to me his respect for the religion embraced by his wife and his own faith in God and his confidence in the future.. Simple as a child, brave as a lion, sympathetic as & woman, firm as a rock, wrathful a 8 a tempest when aroused against great wrong, lovely as a June morning among his friends.” THE PRESIDENT INFORMS CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The news of General Sherman’s death reached Washington in the form of a private dispatch to the President from Senator Sherman, which contained the simple words: “General Sherman passed away at 1:40 pom: , : The President sent the following message to Congress: ‘‘T'O THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The death of Willilam Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York at 1:50 o’cloek p. m., i 8 an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen. No living American was so loved and venerated -as he. To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have one's love of country intensified. He served his country, not for fame, notout of a sense of .professional duty, but for love of the flag and of the beneficent civil institutions of which it was the emblem. He was an ideal soldier and shared to the fullest the esprit de corps of the army, but he cherished the civil institutions organized under the constitution and was only a soldier that these might be perpetuated in undiminished usefulness and honor. He was in nothing an imitator, A profound student of military science and precedent, he drew from them principles and suggestions and so adapted them to novel conditions that his campaigns will continue to bo the profitable study of yttl;;), m!litar;; profes_gion throughout the world. His genial nature made him comrade to every soldier of the great Union army. No presence was so welcome ‘and inspiring at the camp-fire or commandery a 8 his, His career was complete; his honors were fall. He had received from the ‘Government e highest rank kmown to our

military establishment and from the people unstinted gratitude and love: No word of mine can add to his fame. ; *‘His death has followed in startling quickness that of the Admiral of the Navy, and it is a sad and notable incidept that when the department under which he . served shall have put on the usual emblems of mourning, four of the eight Executive Departments will be simulfaneously draped in black, and one other has but to-day removed the crape from its walls. : ; “BENJAMIN HARRISON." When the message from the President announcing the death of General Sherman was laid before the Senate Senator Hawley (Conn.) rose and offered resolutions reciting the profound sorrow of the Senate at the announcement, and renewing that body's acknowledgment of the inestimable services which he rendered to his country in the day of its extreme peril, lamenting the great loss which the country has sustained and deeply sympathizing with his family in its bereavement. The resolutions were adoped unanimously, and the presiding officer was requested to appoint a committee of five Senators to attend the funeral of General Sherman. The names of the committee were not announced. Before the resolutions were adopted, however, eulogistic addresses were made by Senators Morgan (Ala.), Manderson (Neb.), Dayvis (Minn.) and Evarts (N. Y.). ' BIOGRAPHY OF A HERO.. William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Lancaster, 0., February 8, 1820. He was the sixth child, and was adopted by ' Thomas Ewing, and attended school .in Lancaster until 1836, when he entered the Military Academy at West Point, graduating from that institution in 1840, standing sixth. in a class of forty-two members. He received his first commission as a Second-Lieutenant in the Third Artillery July 1, 1840, and was sent with that commandto Florida. On November 30, 1841, he was promoted to a First-Lieu-tenancy. 1n1843, on higs return from a short leave, he began the study of law, not to make it a profession, but to render himself a more intelligent soldier. In 1848, when the Mexican war broke out, he was sent with troops to California, where he acted as Adjutant:General to General Stephen W. Kearney. On his return, in 1850, he was married to Ellen Boyle Ewing at Washington, her father, his old friend; then being Secretary of the Interior. He was appointed a Captain in the commissary department September 21, 1850, but resigned in 1853 and was appointed manager of a bank in San Frat’icisco, but subsequently - took wup his residence in New York as agent for a St. Louis firm. In 183859 he practiced law in Leavenworth, Kan., and the following year became superintendent of the Louisiana State Military Academy. It was.while he was acting in this connection that Louisiana seceded from the Union, and General Sherman promptly resigned his office. On May 18, 1861, he was commissioned Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry, with instructions to report to General Scott at Washington. Sherman was put in command of a brigade in Tyler's Division. On August 3, 1861, he was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers, and was sent to be second in command to General Anderson, in Kentucky. On' account of broken health, General Anderson was relieved from the command, and Generdl Sherman succeeded him on October 17. Just after the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, in 1862, General Sherman was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee. In the -“great battle of Shiloh, Sherman’s division served as a sort of pivot. He was wounded in the hand duriog the fight, but refused to leave the field. General Halleck declared. that ‘‘Sherman saved the fortunes of the day on the 6th, and contributed largely to the glorious vietory of the 7th.” General Sherman was always conspicuous for judgment and dash. He was made a Major-General next, and on July 15 he was ordered to Memphis. On account of brilliant services in the Vicksburg campaign he was appointed a Brigadier-General. On October 14, 1863, General Sherman was ordered. to take his corps to the relief of General Rosecrans, who had heen forced back into Chattanooga after the battle of Chickamauga. On the morning of the 25th Sherman pursued the enemy by the roads north of Chickamauga and everywhere destroyed the rebel communications. During ‘these operations General Burnside was besieged at Knoxville. Sherman made forced marches to his relief, and, after supplying him, marched back to Chattanooga. After General Grant had been made Lieu-tenant-General he assigned General Sherman to the command of the military division of the Mississippi. On February 19, 1864, General Sherman received the thanks of Congress for his services in the Chattanooga campaign. On April 10 he received his orders to move against Atlanta. His forces then consisted of 99,000 men, with 254 guns, while the Confederate army, under Johnston, was composed of 62,000 men. Sherman repeatedly attacked the enemy, who gradually fell back. On July /17 Sherman began the direct attack on Atlanta. In a number of severe sorties the Union forces were victorious, and on September 1 the enemy evacuated the place. Sherman immediately moved forward to the works that covered Savannah, and soon captured that city. His army had marched 300 miles in twenty-four days through. the heart of Georgia and had achieved a .splendid victory. Sherman was made a MajorGeneral and received the thanks of Congress for his triumphal march. Sherman left Savannah in February, and soon flanked Charleston, compelled ' its evacuation, and entered Columbus on the 17th. He thence moved on Goldsboro, opening a communication by the Cape Fear river with Schofield. = Johnston, at Greensboro, received news of Lee’s surrender, and sent word to Sherman asking on what terms he would receive his surrender. Sherman made a hasis of agreement which was repudiated by the Gox:{emment as being too lenient. The General determined not to revisit Washington, but finally did so at the special request of the President. General Sherman took leave of his armyon May 30. From June 27, 1864, to March 3, 1869, he was in command of the military division of the Mississippi. Upon the appointment of Grant as General of the army Sherman was promoted to be Lieutenant-Gen-eral, and when Grant became President of the United States, March 4, 1869, Sherman succeeded him as General, with headquarters at Washington. At his own request, and in order to make Sheridan General-in-Chief he was placed on the retired list, with full pay and emoluments, on February 8 1884. For awhile after that the General resided in St. Louis, but some years ago moved 10 New York, where he became a great favorite, There was hardly a night that he did not attend some dinner, entertainment or theater party, and he became well known as an eloquent after-dinner - speaker. The General lived very quietly with his family at his house in Seventy-first street, near Central Park. : General Sherman leaves. six children—Rev.’ Thomas Ewing Sherman, Philomel Tecumseh Sherman, of the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman, Mrs. A. M. Thackera, of Rosemont, Pa., Mrs. T.. W. Fitch, of Pittsburgh, and Misses Rachael and Ellen Sherman, Mrs. Sherman died two yearsago. ° .

USELESS WIRES.

Telegraphic Service for Miles Around Cincinnati Paralyzed by a Storm. CINCINNATI, Feb. 16.—Last night for the second time this winter a remarkably sudden paralysis of electric communication prevailed throughout the greater portion of the United States. The first symptoms were noticed yesterday afternoon, when the increasing moisture in the atmosphere began to clog the telegraph and telephone wires in all directions. At 10 p. m. the trouble became inexplicably magnified, and for hundreds of miles in a great circle, with this city for a center, the wires on every route hung as limp and useless almost as somany clothes-lines. Up to 2 a. m. the situation showed little if any improvement. : v Given Up for Lost. : B New YoRkK, Feb. 16.—Captain L. Norton’s steam life-boat, the F. L. Norton, in which the captain with his wife, niece and seven men left New London for Toulon, France, November 23, has now been out eighty-two days. No reliable information concerning the boat has been received since the day it left port “In spite of the captain’s confidence in his boat it is feared it has shared the fate of many a larger vessel.

WaAT ashock it is to find out that the man whose conversation Hao;x have been adgnr%nil is not worth a dollar.—lndianapolis ournal, .

NoNSENSE is the straw that tickles huma;:%y the world over.—Pittsburgh Dispateh -

Do xor fjudge by surface indications. The wearer of a trained dress may herself be very wild.—Boston Transcript. =

r4PrecE be with you,"’ remarked the tramp as he left a remnant of his coat-tail with the bull dog.—Binghamton Republican.

. TAKEN by storm—A town swept out of existence by a cyclone.—Drake’s Magazine.

SweeTxess and ligéntf-The cake our mother used to bake.—Boston Transcript.

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