Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A New York telegram of July 28, says: “Col. Fred Grant, Jesse Grant, Mayor Grace, and Gen. Perry, as the representative of Gen; Hancock, met in conference at the City Hall in New York;: and afterword visited Central Park; to view the proposed sites for Gen. Grant’s sepulture. The New York Legislature has been invited to meet at Albany Aug, 4, to take action respecting Gen. Grant’s death. There is much feeling against the proposed interring of the dead hero in Central Park. From all classes, except perhaps the less thoughtful of the people of New York, who seem willing to have the great General’s grave in their leading park as an additional attraction to a public show, come the same expressions of a belief that some cither point should be chosen.” A Philadelphia dispatch, says: “The uprising all over the country which has been caused by the selection of Central Park as the resting-place of Gen. Grant finds considerable venl in this city,. where resides the dead hero’s most intimate friend, Mr. Geo. W. Childs, who is in constant receipt of letters and telegrams from public and private citizens voicing their disappointment at the course proposed. Though uo appeal can be made to the family, Mr. Childs and the other friends of the exPresident in Philadelphia are decided in their convictions that the remains belong to the nation and should repose in one of the national burying grounds, like' Washington or West Point.” A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ga., says that at Suwonee, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a ditch train ran over a cow. throwing one car from the track. In the car were fifteen negro train-hands and six bars of iron. The car turned on its side and the iron fell on the negroes, killing seven and wounding three more. The track has been cleared. There is no.doubt that General Grant’s death was hastened by that unfortunate trip to the eastern outlook, says a Mount MacGregor dispatch. It completely exhausted his little strength, and left him already prostrated when the terrific burst of heat came. That he would have died soon is beyond question, but had he husbanded his strength scrupulously he would most likely have been alive now and for several weeks to come. It was General Grant’s own wishes that caused the journey. All through his sick; nesS, whenever he made us his mind to" do a thing, and particularly when he said he wanted., to do it, it worried and annoyed him very much to be thwarted. He resented his own weakness when it interfered with his wishes at these times, and chafed under the restraint. Dr. Douglas had told him that if he felt equal to it he might undertake the ride to the lookout, and on the morning of the day he went the General wrote on his pad that he felt able to go. After that the matter was as good as settled with him, and he went. From the moment he returned, bent,over and utterly exhausted, to the cottage, he commenced to go steadily down hill, with the horribly oppressive weather to help drag him downward.

The ravages of the cholera in Spain are appalling. It has now invaded every seacoast province of the kingdom from Barcelona to Cadiz, and from the latter port is spreading into Portugal, while from the former it threatens to cross the Pyrenees into France. It has also invaded the interior far to the north and west of Madrid, until at last more than three-fourths of the provinces are infected with it. Its fearful progress is attested by the figures. Up to the 20th of June there had been 1,273 deaths; to the 27th. 4,280; to the 4th of July, 9,000; to the 12th, 13,000; to the 18th, 18,000; to the 25th, 25,0(T0. The average number of new cases daily is now over 2,500, and of deaths nearly 1,000. Such destruclion argues that Spain presents all the essential conditions which promote the diffusion of cholera, and that it will go on increasing till th&supply of those liable to be attacked gives out or it is arrested by the cold of winter... .Advices from London and St Petersburg state that little progress is being made in the negotiatious between England nnd Russia touching the Afghan boundary dispute, neither Government being disposed to yield its claim... .Steps will be taken by the British Government to relieve the garrison of Kassala.