Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-12
NUMBER 6.
WASHINGTON TALK.
The New Postmaster General '.The Scent OF the
Roses win Hang Round it Still," Ben.
Butler-A Peck OF Diamonds.
Special Correspondence.

sonal fitness of the appointee, there is
further cause for congratulation in his
entire disconnection with any factional
or other political complications. Dur
ing the war Gen. Gresham's personal
relations with Gen. Grant were very
friendly, and when the latter became
President for the first time in 1869 he
appointed Mr.. Gresham district Judge
for the district of Indiana. This posi-
ton he stills holds. In 1881 he was
strongly urged for place in the cab
met of President Garfield, and there is
reason to believe that the representa-
tions of his friends in his behalf were
regarded with much favor, but that he
was not nominated because his party in
the west failed to agree upon him.
Observation-Disclosures his appoint
ment, but will not be ready to assume
the duties of his new office for several
days, and in the meantime Mr.. Hatton
win temporarily fill the position which
he at one time hoped to occupy during
the remainder of President Arthur's
term.
Governor Ben Butler was before the
Supreme court again the other day as
counsel for the Washington market
company. A good deal of surprise is
manifested that Mr.. Butler does not
give up his law practice while acting as
governor of his state, but apparently it
is both to lucrative and too congenial
to him to be relinquished. When here
he was looking in the best of health.
and not day older than when he de-
Tended Cakes Ames in Congress. He
wore, as usual, his button-hole bou-
quet. This bright ornament he has
worn every day for the last ten years
II was Governor Ben Butler who edu-
Gated Congressman Springer up to
wearing a button-hole bouquet every
day. The amiable governor slept
soundly in court during the first half
hour, when the justices were reading
their decisions. The sight of the re-
doubtable Ben in the Supreme court re-
calls story he told during the old days
of the Potter investigating committee.
He was member of that committee.
He was very much delighted when the
testimony all ran against the republi-
cans, but when it began to gather in
the democrats too he was displeased.
He said the committee reminded him
of machine once invented by an Irish
friend to save trouble in eating meat.
The machine would take all the bones
out and throw them over the right and
left shoulders of the eater, while it dis
charged with precision the seperate
meat into the open and expectant mouth
of the Irish gourmand. One day the
machine got out of order, and the meat
was sent flying to the right and left,
while all the bones were fired down the
Irishman's throat. killing him before
the machine could be adjusted.
Everybody remembers the peck or
half bushel of diamonds that were pre-
sented to Miss Sherman, now Mrs.
Fitch, by the Khedive of Egypt several
years ago, when Gen. Sherman and his
daughter visited the glorious east The
then Khedive was one of the wisest and
best informed rulers of the world, and
he watched our civil war with the eye
of soldier and a statesman. There
fore he knew Sherman, the simple, mod
est old soldier and knew what was in
him and what he had done. The
Khedive paid our old warrior UMPIRE
cedented attention, and, to more prop
erly show his liking for him, the ruler
of Egypt sent the warriors daughter
diamonds enough to decorate queen $
drawing-room. Somebody recently
asked what had become of these dia-
monds, as nothing has been heard
about them for a long time They were
for years kept locked up in the custom
house or some other safe place, until
they became nuisance. Mrs. Fitch
could not wear them because they were
more snowy than any lady in the Unit
ed States could produce, and besides
they invited thieves and robbers. But,
above all, the Shermans took no pride
in them. The Sherman family is not a
diamond family. They are by no
means poor, but they hate display, and
do not care to MASQUERADE in diamonds.
They stand on their own families-the
Shermans and the Ewings-and they
are worth all the diamonds of the
world. After many years of anxiety
and annoyance, the family not knowing
what to do with them, the diamonds
were sent to Tiffany. The stones were
taken from their crude Egyptian set
ting and examined. Many of them
however were not the gems that they
were taken for, though they were found
to be very valuable worth probably
$50, 900 or more General Sherman has
four daughters-Miss Lizzie. Mrs.
Fitch, Mrs. Thackera and Miss Rachel.
The diamonds were divided by Tiffany
equally among the daughters-fou sets
OF solitaire earrings and four necklets
Nothing so strong can be said about the
simplicity Of the Sherman family as to
record the fact that none of the
Khediye's diamonds have yet been
worn, and that they are still more of a
burden than pleasure, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they are more beauti-
full than will be- seen in almost any
drawing room.
JUNIUs.
C0rked Up.
CoPENHAGEs, April s. The Socialist
Congress, in session here, was treated
m an rinwQlcnrua SurpriSa from, 4ha