The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-23
VOL. 1O.-'-NO. 8.
Mrs. Grants Diamonds.

WASHINGTON, Sept. & .o.--Gen
Grant is expected here about Octo-
Der 1st. He has been offered th'
Presidency Of the Western Unioi
Telegraph Company. Jay Gould
who is the managing power of tina
corporation, made Grant the ofel
on his own hook, being confident 9
his ability to deliver the goods
should Grant accept. The coinpa
nv holds. its annual meeting in the
early part of October There is n'
telling. however, what Grant will do
He wants job of some, kind, but
so many have been offered him he
does not know which to accept.
Since he became lukewarm on the
Interoceanic Canal scheme, almost
nothing has been heard of it, except
the Treasury Department statistics,
recently sent out, showing that the
canal cannot pay under any circum-
stances. ~naiiast-E gnituiH fu .,i
General Grants particular busi-
ness here this time is to look up the
facts in regard to a robbery. The
particulars Of this robbery are made
public for the first time in this let
ter. 1t appears that soon after the
Khediye of Egypt sent Gen, Sher-
man. daughters their presents of
diamonds, one ofthe high potentates
of Japan struck on the idea of SEN
ding some diamonds to Mrs. Grant.
They were accordingly selected and
sent to Washington; but, strange as
it may appear, they never reached
Mrs. Grant, although it is known
they reached this city. If man
ever was cursed with private Secre-
taries, bad brothers and worse
brothers-in-law, that man is Z. S.
Grant. And it is to ascertain which
particular private Secretary stole
these diamonds that he comes here
now. The diamonds came, and
were received by some one about
the White House, who being hard
pressed for money, sold them for
$4,000. Gen. Grant never knew of
the present being sent to his wife
until quite recently. Nothing was
said to him about 1t when he was in
Japan, though the japanese Prince
who made the present thought that
under the circumstances Gen. Grant
should certainly have acknowledg-
ed the receipt of the same. Some
months ago this japanese Prince
wrote to the Japanese Minister here,
asking him to ascertain whether or
not Mrs. Grant ever received his
present. The inquiry was made of
Gen. Beale, who was known to be an
intimate friend of Gen. and Mrs,
Grant. From them he learned that
no such present had ever been re-
ceived. l
They were then informed, for the
first time, that the diamonds had
been sent. Grant kicked up a ter
rible row about it, and sent numef-
Gus kilograms to the gentlemen who
were employed sbout the White
House at the time when the dia-
monds were supposed to have ar
rived there. None Of them knew
ANYTHING about it-or at least claim
ed to be ignorant. Grant then tele-
graphed friend here to investigate
the matter and let him know the re-
suit. This friend found that the
diamonds arrived here, and that
they had been turned over to a gen
tleman at the White House, to be
given to Mrs. Grant. How the rest
of the story came out | don't know,
but it is to the effect that the gen
tleman soon thereafter sold the dia-
monds for $4,000. They are still
held by the party who purchased
them, and he, it is understood, is
perfectly willing to surrender upon
receiving his advance and $1,000
additional for his care of the same
and secrecy. u.