Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-29

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Ii The Worcester Gazette says Mr..
,Hoar told an aIlecdese of Grant in his
speech the other night which. does not
appear In the published report, printed
rom his manuscript. He remarked in
inr0duciHg it that he felt some hesital
tion for obvious reasons ia. repeating
the story, but tthefe.Would perhaps be
no impropEietgin relating to his friends
and neighb0rs what Fhad, appeared to
him remarkable illustration of the
modesty and generosity of Grants
character. The, lanecdote is so fresh
and interesting that we take the liberty
of Reproducing it In our columns; we
can see no reasons why lit should be left
hurled till some. antiquarian, fifty years.
hence it may be, digs it. out from the
mustyl correspondence of somebody
who happened to. be present with, Mr..
Hoar on the OCCASION Mr.. Hoar reiat-'
ed the story substantially as follows: Z =
5rsI had the honor q short time ago of
dining at the house of a friend, then
and now 8 member of the Cabinet, In
company with the President. There
were about. twehty) gaests,i bat they
constituted, perhaps, the most distini
guished Assem- blage that it! ever has
been or ever will be my fortune to see.
Several members of the Cabinet, sever
al of the. most distinguished members
of the Senate, the Chief JustieeGof the
United, States, Gems. Sherman and
Sheridan, some officers efhigh rank in
the navy, two or three eminent nen Of
science, and perhaps the, most famous
poet of the country, Mr.. JAS Russell
Lowell, were of the company. Com;
modore Alden remarked, VI half In jest,
toa gentleman who sat near him that
there was inut1ing: beedisliked more
than subordinate he eiMays obeyed
orders. what isNthAtty yea were saying,
Commodore stds said President Grant,
across thetable. The Commodore re-
peated what he bad said;aitTherei is a
good deal of truth I'M what you say
said Gen. Grant. .0ne Of the virtues
ofTGen. Sheridan WAS that he knew
when to act without orders. Just be-
fore the surrender of Lee, Gen. Sheri-
dan captured some dispatches from
which he learned that Lee. had ordered
hissupplies to q certain place. l. was
on the other side of the river, where-he
could not get communication from me
tillthe next morning. Gen. Sheridan
pushed on at once without orders, got
to the place fifteen minutes before the
rebels, and captured the, supplies Af-
ter the surrender was concluded, the
first thing Gen. Lee asked me for was
fstiDns fOrlhis men. fissued to them
the isarilei provisions which Sheridan
had captured. Now Ill, Sheridan, as
most men would have done, had wait
ed for orders from me, Lee would have
.gotoffl / listened with wonder to the
generous mod desty which. before that
brilliant company could remove one Of
the prOudest laurels from his own brow
to place It on the brpy of Sheridan, pr a,.
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81 DRINKATORIA.I-Ari Jubilee corres7
pondento of the NewYorka World writes
as follows of the musicaltieHne, Just
before Madame Leutner left the room
she took a draught of ice water from
our tin cup, and / noticed that all at
once most of the gentlemen of the press
became unaccountably thirsty, and in
their libations they were careful to
drink all around the cup, so as not to
miss the place touched by those rosy,
melodious lips! There is q tin cup at
press headquarters today, but it Is not
the old one. That has been borne away
as a sacred relic. .nng4fK T'iit r aa.af 80.
This reminds US Of the Jenny Lind
lunacy many years ago, when the cham
Der furniture used by the songstress
was sold at auction, bringing fabulous
prices, and when New Orleans mer-
chant, the lucky purchaser of a sporce-
lain utensil-we forget whether It was
q wash basin or slop-urIi- filled IL with
champagne punch. he passed Ii around
among the unsuccessful bidders. is
A stsam street car. Is running success
fully In New Orleans. The engine Is
double cylinder, five inches in diameter