The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-06
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS AND
THE CABINET,
Together with An e1-Presrdents and
ez-vice PresideOts
And the Members of Their Cabinets.
TO be Invited
To Participate il the Funeral Services
of General Grant.
The Dead Chlsftasn.

The Dead Chlaftasn.
NEW YORK, July S0.-The Tribune
his morning publishes an interview
with General Sherman, In which he says:
sThe parade will be the grandest military
spectacle this city ever saw. General
Hancock Is magnihcentiy fitted 10 or
ganize it, and is hard at work. He viii
leave nothing undone. Il was . good
thing to do to place all these things In
his hands" General Sherman gave this
Of why he thought New
York had been given the preference
over Washington as the place
of burial: THE Grant family |
will all continue to live in New
York. The boys can not go to Wash
ington to live. What is there to be
found there for them? They don't ex-
pect, can't expect to be congressman or
senators. They couldn't accept clerk
ship. What else is there IN Washington
If Gen. Grants remains were buried
there, they would seldom or never see his
grave. The mother Will remain with
the boys. She would not go
to live In Washington alone.
Buck Grant is tied down on his farm
in New Jersey at Morristown. Jesse and
Fred are to stay in New York. They
want their fathers tomb here. think
that is the feeling of the family and that
when the country comes to know of 1t
the selection will be honOred as reason
able 1t is certain that eneral Grant
regarded Washington as no at place for
young men. He has often talked about
it. My opinion is the same.
Why army officers who have
been stationed IN Washington
long have never amounted TO anything.
Men who have come up high have made
their mark ON the frontier fighting
among the Indians Oh the far of sta
tions. Washington men become distIn-
guished as staff officers only. Mcclellan
is about the only acception and his case
Is so slight an exception as TO barely
prove the rule. Taylor and jackson
and those mcu came to the top from In
dian and bordc. fighting"
AT MOUNT McGREGOR.
MT. MCGREdoR, N. Y, July 30
The draping of the car that will Gerry
the remains of General Grant down the
mountain is being done to-day by two
men from the firm that made the casket
The car is run into the woods OF the
mountain, switched on a side-track and
secluded from view. The mountain
photographer Is this morning max.
ing a negative of the interior
of the cottage, where the body lies, show
ing the canopy and flag covered casket
Some time during the day the guests al
the hotel, most all of whom are new &C.
quaintances of the Grant family, will be
accorded an opportunity to pay theiI
last respects to General Grant.
THE PAIL BEARERS.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-The president
who at the request OF Mrs. Grant, vii
select the pail bearers for Genera
Grants funeral, recently photographed
her to know if she had any pre-
ferences or suggestions to make ii
this matter. He received reply iron
her to-day saying 1t was her wish tina
he should name the pail bearers ant
that The only suggestion that she wOult
make was that In case any prominen
Union officers were named she woul,
like to have Gen. Sherman or Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan selected; alsO, that
+ leading confederate officer like Gen
+ Johnston or Gen. Buckner be also in
6 cluded in the list. Mrs. Grants wIshe
q In this regard will be respected. TIL
list of pail bearers will be announced i
= few days.
= CONCERNING MRS. GRANT.
Mrs. Grant, who has remained in tn
upper rooms of the cottage since th
generals death, last evening descende
to the parlOr, where she viewed the re
mains of her husband, after they ha
been composed in lhe cAsket. To-da
@ she is as usual, her mind distressed, bU
4 physically we'll. 1t Is quite possibl
that Mrs. Grant, in order to spar
herself the fatigue of the LhrOngs alOn
, the route and two OF three days waitin
a In New York before the burial, ma
deem 1t wise TO defer her departure fror
a here until Friday, August z.
!, Cyrus w. Field cabled from Londo
= to-day thus.
To Mrs. U. s. Grant:
The Duke of Argyle writes me, wi
you kindly say to Mira Grant how muc
/ feel for her and how much l value tn
9 memory of her aud her husbands visl
/ TO us IN Scotland"
: The people of Manchester, EngIanC
T through their mayor, also cabled col
= dolence to-day.