Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-16
State News.

The Catholic Total Abstinence Union begins it's 11th convention at Danbury next Tues day.
 The golden wedding of MT. and Mrs. Ava Fenton was celebrated September 8 at their home in Windsor.
 The Hartford Sisters of Mercy of St. Jo- seph's convent have bought the Toohy farm, outside the city, and are begging the benevo- lent for $5, ,0O0 with which to fit it up as 1 home for the aged and destitute.
 The 14th c. V. will hold their annual re- | union at Rockville, Ct, on the 17th inst The | New York and New England railroad will | furnish free return tickets over their road to l members of the regiment and their families The funeral of the late George Dudley, of Winsted was attended from the Second Con- gregationaI church, of which he was an active and prominent member, Tuesday afternoon. As token of respect to the deceased the places of business throughout the borough were closed from 1 until o'clock. The new mill of the Willimantic Linen com ! pany, the biggest and most comfortable cot ton mill in the country, is to be opened Sat urday, with 8 Republican mass meeting in ! the afternoon and social entertainment for 1 the work people and their friends in the even | ing The mill is on the south bank of the ! Willimantic river and is one-story building,
 92O feet long by 174 wide. The whole vast | f1oor-is unbroken by any partition and is ca
 pablo of holding over SO,OOO people The roof used up 570 tons of gravel and it requires 30,O00 panes or three quarters of an acre Of
 glass to light it. Space has also been left by the windows for growing plants. It will | be lighted at night by ffty-one electric burn ! ers The mill will take the cotton at the | picker and turn 1t out thread for the market. I The shafting is out of sight, under the base l ment foor from which belts run to the ma ! chimes above, leaving the upper part of the
 room free from the usual pulleys and shaft ing. The railroad runs through the base
 ment of the mill, and the equipments for re
 ceiving and shipping freight are very handy. Anna Ella Carroll md General Grant. From the Albany Law Journal.l
 There is now lying before us pamphlet ' entitled: National Citizen Tract, No. 1. Who ! planned the Tennessee Campaign of 1862 !? ! or, Anna Ella Carroll against Ulysses s. Grant: | few generally unknown facts in regard to our Civil War. By Matilda Jos1yn Gage" ! The substance of this pamphlet is that the l plan and suggestion of that campaign, execu- ted by General Grant, were made by Anna
 Matilda, then "a young girl of Maryland" /"
 Her Upright wit'' and ''transeendent military genius" taught 1t to her, and she laid 1t before the War department, and they foully adopt ! ed it without giving her credit, and General , | Grant jumped into fame on the execution of 1 it. Pity that Anna Matilda was too modest l to sign her name to the original communlca- } tion. Here is a second Joan dArc, and a 5 ! conclusive answer to the E0eaaing Posts standing query whether woman ever invent
 ed anything.
 Anna Matilda prints first class recommen- dations Chief Justice Chase thanks her for her ''great and patriotic services,' without , specifying them. Gerrit Smith calls her the
 countrys "wise and faithful and grandly use-
 ful servant without saying in what employ
 ment Reverdy Johnson ''never heard it doubted" that she ''the first to advise ! the campaign on the Tennessee" Nor more 3 did we Ben Wade says her services were so l great as to ''throw a shadow over the reputa-
 ton of some of our would-be great men," No
 doubt, if she did anything at all. Cassius M. ! Clay says her case stands out unique, for she } ''towered above all our generals in military 7 genius" But Ben Wade is her right bower, . for she has five testimonials from him. As for I the rest, we know of no similar tributes to . genius, except in the case of the newspaper ! press on the Sweet Singer of Michigan. " 7 But why is all this thus? Why, Matilda Ann
 wants pension, and Congress is so mean it will not grant it. Now our advice to Matilda
 Ann is to drop the pension notion and to strike for the Presidency. We hereby nomi- nate her for 1884. We shall not expect any thing more than the attorney generalshiP.