The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-06

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And melt In her own nre. proclaim NO shame
when The compulslyc I'd - give the charge.
You cannot ca II love, foi Ut your age
Tao htyday in the blood l. tame
hmm htp and waits uTuu tic Judgment.
Pres,deu, Grant Gives Awuy "A Horse.
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Mr.. .Toncs-I shall be the happy posscssor
OF a buggy horse, presented TO me 10y President
Grant. during my recent Wat to Long branch.
ICxpoct MN tonight. az | received note from
the President, from s.. louis the dav before
yesterday, notifying me that unless claimed the
animal IN time he would be sold al the safe and
proceeds appropriated to some legitimate pur-
pose, and Immediately sent man thither with
tneorder, ne note Is u qulet fohk oi'n" resi-
dent +, and refers To apleNlous nor lranshctioh
| had with him during the war. he had present,
81 me with the horse he rode a. Donaldson ana
Shtoh, and had been at considerahle eApcnse
to bring MIN to Chicago. About TINS tune me
SANITARY Fair was in progress here, ana Mrs
Gen. sherman wrote to ten. Grant Tor some
trophv, ncrsonally connected win him IN some
way. which she could nut ~ at rattle and realize
largely from, expecting to receive sword, or
something OF the kind. lhe General replied that
he had nothing suitable about his ptrson'nul mat
lie LCrsc he mad given to me would lie iIat the
thing, az IL had "A bloody record, and suggested
T. Mrs Sherman that no doubt would oheer-
fully give it up. OF course had to comply and
When called on the President at Long Branch
Oh my return from Brussels AS No were enloY-
! ing an afternoon cigar on the vernndah, asked
| him how many horses he had. Fourteen" he Ic-
piled. / remarked to him that Providence some
| times ordered things strangely in this world (;
| and added that / had oeeh working Tor my
| country nearly all my life, and now Mt my al
vancod age, had to travel around on foot, " lie
| he, who had never done anything EXCEPT Tor
! himself, had AN unlimited number of steeds.
| which horse do YOU want said Grant, quick
| as lightning. told him would take Butcher
| Boy, hut insisted that he should give ne writ ,
| ten order for him, SO that | might not be gullcd
out of him as was out Of his first pre- cntatiOn.
| Tho President replied that he knew would
| se,ect Butcher Boy, and that he would rather
| have giyen me almost any other morse III ms
| stables, bat at once wrote tho order Tho way
| he came in possession ~ Hatcher boy Is ,har-
acterstt. Il was while be was General of tue
| army, and had his headquarters on | street IN
| Washington. Driving NJ toward his ho 4,
| quarters one morning, he met horse attached
| to "a butchers wagon, charging down street lie
| glanced at him, hurried to his office, called an
| orderly, described the horse, and tuld him u
| follow, find, aud buy him. After time the
| orderly returned aud reported hncing tie am
| NAL, but sand buying him " 8 out of thr GUS
| lion, as the owner asked 500 for him. The Gen
| eraI immediately handed him the money. and
| presently the orderly returned with the l'ise
| lie turned out magnihcontlf, aud ~ a lew Wr'N,
| would have sold for $3.50. lie IS old NOW, but
| am assured that he is as good gs ever.
The lungs are strained and racked 10y per
cough general strength wasted, tul an pa