The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-31

ings were at once placed at half-mast and
arrangements made to drape those structures.
BUFFALO, July 24.-The veterans of the
Twenty-frst Regiment were on their way to
take steamer to Sour Spring Grove, where
they hold their annual reunion, when the
news of General Grant death reached them,
They at once folded their colors, tied them
with Grape and will hold their memorial
meeting on their arrival at the grove.
DETROIT, July 24.-The news of General
Grants death was received here at $40 a.
m. All the papers got out extras. Flags
are at half-mast, bells were tolled and some
buildings were draped in mourning. His
death was anticipated and created no sensa-
ton. Vice President Hendricks is here to-
day and spoke feelingly of the death.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 24.-Bells were
tolling from every public building and every
church tower. Flags are at hal1-mast
The evidences of genuine and general SOL
row are everywhere to be seen.
AsHEvILLE, n. c., July 24.-AR parties
unite in expressing regret at General Grants
death, and sympathy FOR his family. Flags
on all public buildings are at half-mast.
WILMINGTON, Del, July 24.-News of
General Grants death was received here
with universal evidence of sorrow. Many
public and private buildings are draped in
mourning.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July 24.-The
NelUS and Courier prints long editorial,
conservative but eulogistic.
SAVANNAH, Ca, July 24.-The Times Of
last evening gives voice to sentiment of
profound sorrow for General Grant that eX-
lists every where in the State.
PETERSBURG, Va, July 24.-Grant's
death called forth from all expressions of
sympathy with the family of the dead
hero and of admiration for bis grand char
acter.
ATLANTA, Ga, July PA profound
feeling of regret exists everywhere in the
South over General Grant death. The At
lanta Constitution editorlally this morning
says that General Grant is the greatest man
since Washington and the greatest military
hero of the age.
THE NEWS N ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 24.-The news Of General
Grants death, although not unexpected,
created profound sensation here. Imme-
dately upon receipt of the intelligence
draped American flags were placed at half
mast upon the prominent buildings of the
city, both public and private AT the Amer
lean legation the American Consulate and
the American Exchange, evidences ofmourn-,
ing were profuse. Portraits OF General
Grant, with black borders, were hung out
and the doors and windows were covered
with Grape.
Minister Phelps expressed his profound
grief and ordered the building of the Amer
lean legation to be draped in mourning and
the American flag to be placed at half-mast.
On hearing the story of the last hours and
death of the American hero, Mr.. Gladstone
appeared much shocked and said: Il will
willingly pay my humble tribute. Let me
write rather than speak it." With hand
trembling from the emotion he felt, Mr..
Gladstone wrote: 'Mr. Gladstone has heard
with regret the sad news of General Grants
death. He ventures to assure his bereaved
family of the sympathy he feels with them
in their affection at the loss of one who had
rendered his country such signal service as
a General and statesman
Shortly after the announcement a reporter
visited Mr.. John Bright at the Reform Club.
Mr.. Bright said: 81 desire to express my
sympathy with the family of General Grant
in the sorrow through which they are pass
ing"
All of the afternoon papers contain long
obituary notices of General Grant and ac-
companying editorials paying high tribute
to his memory.
"A meeting of American residents OF Lon
don will be held at Gillig's American EX-
change to-day, at which committee will be
appointed to wait upon Minister Phelps and
consult him in regard to the most appropri-
ate method of observing the occasion OF
General Grants death and burial.
Henry Irving has telegraphed coincidence
to the family of General Grant In an in
terview he expressed deep sorrow at the
Generals death. He had greatly admired
the noble courage with which the General
had borne his sufferineS.
COMMENTS OF THE LONDON PRESS.
The Dolly Nel0S this morning says In
regard to General Grant: ''There have been
few drawer men. England will sincerely
ragret his death. 1t is as soldier that he,
will be remembered and his fame will rest
chiefly upon his eminent military services.
After the death of Lincoln General Grant
was decidedly the most popular man in the
United States, and his standing as such was
not injured by his quarrel with President
Johnson He was essentially a man of
action and not of speech. His name must
ever be associated with the memory of that
struggle of which Lincoln was the brain and
heart and Grant the arm and the weapon"
The TELEGRAPH will devote two columns to
a review of the military career of the late
General Grant. In an editorial last evening
that paper says: 1.-THE greatest and most
successful soldier that the United States
have produced has breathed his last In no
portion of his country have the financial
troubles which marked the close of his
career been regarded with more sympathy
and regret than in England Beyond all
others he was best fitted to cope with the
tremendous crisis which made him famous,
and where the grave closes over all that was
mortal of Ulysses Simpson Grant, it will be
felt that he leaves behind him no man cast
in simpler, sincerer, more heroic mOuld.'
The Standard say: Though his death
was expected the event is not the less to be
deplOred. We can only share with his
mourning countTymen the sense of the one
whose career was so notable, so honorable to
himself, so useful to his native land. His
popularity rose, if possible, when the Ma
ton saw how he faced poverty and ruin.
He was of simple and modest nature, never
cast down by reveTseS nor elated by pros
perry. AS General he was never a great
strategist. He knew only one course, name
Iy, to fight. To-day from Cape Cod to the
Alaskan Isles the land will once more be
stirred by the fading memories Of the war"
The Post, referring to the death of Cen
eral Grant, says: 1.-THE American republic
has lost one of its most illustrious citizens.
General Grant will be best remembered as
an able soldier who prevented the final
severance of a great republic Thus he will
be known to posterity, though not as Ma
poleOn or a Wellington. He handled large
armies and led them to victory"
VANQUISHED BUT BY DEATH.