The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-19

It is thought in diplomatic circles that the
British government is really good deal more
offended at French aggressons in Southern
Asia than about what happened at Tamatave.
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John Kelley is reported to be once more
looking about for district from which to come
to Congress in 1884. The experiences of Kelley
when here, many years ago, afforded almost as
much amusement as did Tabor's brief career as
Senator from Colorado. At one time he shipped
some English race horses over, intending to
take them to Saratoga. The customs officers
wanted to collect the duty, but Mr.. Kelley de-
INJURED, on the ground that they were not
imported to remain. but would be sent back in
the fall He went to the White House to lay
the matter before the President General
Grant heard his story, and then said: Mr.
Kelley, you must see the Secretary of the
Treasury. 1t is matter with which he alone
has to do"
Kelley was disguised, and rising, blurted
out: What in - does Boutwell, know about
horses? / came to you because you are the
only man connected with the administration
who knows horse from a mule. If I had
known l had to go to Boutwell, I should not
have bothered to come up about it."
President Grant smiled and said: "What
strain are your horses 2"
Kelley told him, giving the pedigrees at
great length.
. am sorry you took them from that stable
They are not equal 10 our Kentucky breed"
Then he went on to tell Kelley more than he
had ever known about the merits of various
famous sires of English th0roughbreds, till the
New York statesman forgot ali about his huff.
and rising 70 gcid H. all r. I
don't think l shall enter this lot | VIII send
them back and try some from another stable"
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Some weeks ago story started from Wash
ington to the effect that Queen Victoria was
about TO abdicate. 1t has been traced to its
source, which relieves the country. 1t appears
that one "C0l" Roberts, who claims to have
commanded the Louisiana Tigers in the late
war. and who IS now contributor to a local
Sunday paper, furnished this draft upon his
imagination. The Coionel" is one of those
men scarcely less famous than the noted but
Honorable 0ehiltree, of Texas, for the vigor of
his imagery.
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The rumor that cholera had appeared about
the India docks in London causes profound
uneasiness in official circles The Marine hos
pital service is preparing to extend its opera
tons to the great ports where the vast number
of emigrants arrive. Every effort will be made
to prevent its introduction. said an Old-timer
to-day: - remember well the great cholera
epidemic forty years ago. / do not fear il half
SO much as scarlet fever or typhoid. It made
great ravages then, but our sanitary conditions
have changed We have an enlightened med
ical profession now, which is rapidly reducing
medicine to a science. If the pestilence visits
this country, you will see that after the first
scare it will not do half the damage YOU think
The chief dread of it has come from tradition
This generation has grown up listening to ac-
counts OF the deadly plague very much as our
grandathers We're told ghost stories when they
were children. 1t is not desirable visitor. of
course but outside the great cities among the
poor and foreign-born population the losses
would not be heavy. The people must die of
something. and if the cholera killed certain
percentage most of the deaths would be of
those who would die, any way, of some other
disease" 1t is feared that this school of phi
losophy viii not become very popular, even if
founded upon correct principles.
1t is matter of much concern to the friends
of Secretary Lincoln that his lovely wife, who
was known in her girihood as Mary Harlan, has
been in bad health for the past two years. 1t
is feared that she has some pulmonary trouble
that is undermining her strength. She is
about to leave the capital for the Red Sulphur
Springs in West Virginia, whose famous waters
are SSttti 10 eLScb marvellous cuseS OF DFOnchlAl
and lung difficulties The springs are owned
and managed by the millionaire, Levi P
Morton, now minister to France.
as
cold Rosy" as Gen. Rosecrans was known
in the army, still fingers at the capital. He is
detained by the illness of Mrs Rosecrans. The
veteran has many story to tell of the war,
and loves to go over the scenes of twenty years
ago in which he was so prominent an actor
Whart ciyur and had y, h
never fails to tell some story of the Second
Kentucky, which was really an Ohio regiment,
but credited to the sister State in order to get
into the service, Ohio's quota being full.
Once in the early part of the war, when sta
toned at Gauley, in West Virginia, the boys
were so exceedingly hilarious one night that
the commander was scandalized. He called
up the colonel the next morning and said
sternly: "Sir, your regiment was drunk last
night"
The colonel had TO admit that the boys had
been feeling pretty good but declared that he did
not know where the liquor came from. The
general went 20 the sutler, who had been an old
casSmate of his, and said: " Campbell, that regi-
ment was in most unsoldierly condition last
night. hold you responsible. ifyou care moth
ing for the cause in which we are enlisted i be-
seech you for my sake not TO allow this TO hap
pen again. If it does, / shall send you, bag and
baggage, down to the landing forty miles
away and put you on steamboat and you can
go your way"
The poor sutler protested by all that was
sacred that he had not sold or given away a
drop of anything intoxicating, but the general
was only half convinced, as it seemed impossi-
BILE for the liquor TO have come from any other
source.
That night the orgies of the previous evening
were redoubled. The next morning the gem
erals wrath was unspeakable. He peremp-
torily ordered the sutler to pack up and leave
In vain he protested. 1t was of no USE The