The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-03
THE LUNATIC WITNESS.

THE LUNATIC WITNESS.
One OF the investigating committees
now at work in Washington, recently
listened to most remarkable account
of pertidy against President Grant.
The witness testified that Grant had
come to him at all hours of the day
and night to pray on his Bonded knees
for pardon for a nameless wrong done
to the witness atfianced bride. AS a
| final question he was asked how the
President managed to see him at GER
| tain places named. Perhaps the feel
ings of the committee can be imagined
| when the witness replied that the
wrong the President had done him was
only in the spirit-he never appeared
to him in the body!
The President tells the story that
for many weeks he was conscious that
he was being Swallowed that he could
never leave the. white-house without
finding the maniac turn upon him at
some corner, and glover upon him
| with his roaming eyes; that the es-
piOnage became intOlerable. and one
day he stopped the man and told him
| it must cease, or he would have him
arrested. 1t did not cease, and the
President in his walks carried a cane.
The mad man still continued to haunt
the white-house grounds and the
| streets, and was finally taken to the
asylum. He had been there but
! short time, when his friends told the
| authorities that they would take him
to his home in Ireland if he could be
| released. The request was Immediate
ly granted, and he was sent to Ireland.
By what means that mailman was
brought here is left to the readers
imagination.
ABSTINENCE IN NEW ENGLAND.
The following facts relating to the
total abstinence cause in New England
were report ed in the recent conven-
ton in Boston: In Rhode Island H.
cense law offends the societies, no dis
! elimination being used in licensing.
A series of mass-meetings are in pro-
gress. Gov. Buckingham leads the
movement in Connecticut, and the &C
tive work is mainly done from pulpits
and in Sunday schools. Three cities
have decided against licenses, but there
are three thousand groggeries in the
state. Vermont has Il prohibitory law
which it tries hard, with only partial
success, to enforce. The preachers
are hesitant about attacking intemper.
ance. OF 342 cities and towns in Mas
sachusetts, only l12 granted licenses
last year, and the number will be less
next year. New Hampshire's liquor
laws are not enforced, but there is, as
part of the general religious revival,
a renewal of total abstinence agitation.
Reform clubs are coming rapidly into
existence. Maine enforces it's prohib-
tory law with strictness, as a rule, and
the preronderance of public sentiment
sustains the cause.
+ STARVING SIOUX.
kilograms from the Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail agencies, state that. no
supplies worth mentioning have been
issued to the Indians at those points
since the 10th ult. The Indians are on
| the point of starvation, owing to the
failure of congress to vote all appro-
priation and on the part Of the govern
ment to forward the supplies needed.
The Indians would undoubtedly have
left on raid ere this had it not been
for the moral effect of the late expe-
dition against Crazy Horses band,
but, there can be no question but that
they will be forced to raid unless sup
plies are promptly forwarded. Gen.
Crook has been and is now urging the
the necessity of supplies and holding
to: the agencies those Indians who are
disposed to be friendly, but is appre-
hensivc that the hostile Indians will
be largely reinforced from those at
the agencies on account of the lack of
supplies.
| PULLED HIS NOSE
The following is charge recently