The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-06
NEWS CONDENSED
Concise Record of the Week.


A Saratoga special says: One reason
Mrs. Grant does not give TO tho public the
letter the General left for her is that il men.
tons the names OF a number OF men now
living, telling how the General had been de-
ceived by those he supposed to be his friends,
and explaining how he was drawn into the
meshes of Ward. The letter would make
fully eight pages, closely written. OF
large-size writing paper. About the first
labor OF Colonel Grant after all is
over and the family is settled down win be
TO begin biography of his father OF
course, no one else has such ample mate
rial for giving picture of General
Grants character and habits OF thought.
Speaking of books, it may be said that the
reports as TO the profits the family expect TO
derive from the Generals memoirs have
teen exaggerated. All that can be expected
from the guaranteed sales up TO date is Si2,
600. Probably the very most that will come
10 them will not exceed 100000. Colonel
Grant himself is left without anything
whatever.
A dispatch from Mount MacGregor
says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the
Generals pocket when he was laid in his
collin simply read: Farewell we meet
again in better world" 1t also contained
a lock of Mrs. Grants hair. Mrs. Grant Wis
tied tho remains Thursday morning, and re-
IN aimed alone with them seven or eight min
utes. Then she went to her room and re-
manned there until evening" when she again
visited the remains.
DIR. George L. Shrady, one of Gen.
Grants medical advisers, publishes in the
NedicH Record OF Aug. l an extended re-
view of the ''surg ical and pathological as
poets OF Gen. Grants case" He believes
that the disease had its inception in the
month of June. 1854, and gives a
succinct history of the progress
and treatment of tho case from the day in
October last when Genera. Grant first cal cd
on Or. Fordyce Barker, his family physician,
up to its fatal termination. II suggests no
new theories i'm regard TO the case, and is
rather intended to lie connected narrative
for the benefit OF the medical profession, be-
ing largely couched in terms familiar only to
that body.
An effort is being made by Col.
James +. Coogan, of New York, TO buy the
Point Pleasant, Ohio. now tue property OF
Michael f. Hirsch. In answer to an inquiry
from Co.. Cocgan, Hirsch offered TO sell the
house for $4,000. Col. Coogan replied that
he would give $4,000. Mr.. Hirsch has been
offered more than this and evidently real
lies the value Of his possession.
Stanley Huntley, newspaper writer
well known in the West. having been con-
nected with newspapers in Chicago and ST.
Louis, and later achieving reputation in the
East by the popular "spoopendyke Papers, -
died in New York last week.
A deficiency of sac, goo has been dis
covered in the accounts OF Henry Conover
late Assistant Cashier Of the Manufacturers
and Traders Bank of Buffalo. n. Y, who
died suddenly last week. The officers Of the
bank claim that its soundness is unaffected.
The American Benefit Association"
and the american BENEFIT Society,"" of Bos-
ton, have been declared fraudulent concerns
by the State Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts, and will be suppressed 10y the
authorities.
A Mount MacGregor dispatch of the
LIST INST. says: a considerable number of
people came 10 the mountain to-day 70 view
the remains of the dead General. The cx-
preston of the face remains very natural.
magnificent floral memorial was received
from cx-Gov. Leland Stanford, of California,
and Mrs. Stanford, representing the Gates
Aiar,' composed of two gates six feet high
10y FIVE wide, composed OF white and purple
immortelles. spanned by an arch inscribed
with the name ~. S. Grant" and with a
flight OF steps ascending 10 the haf-opencl
gates.
A New York dispatch of the 1st
inst. says: Preparations for the great mil
itGry pageant. which is TO be the principal
feature OF the Grant funeral on the Sth con-
tiuuc with great zeal. With the exception
of the vast number of details which will
now take care of themselves these prepare
lions may now be called completed. Gen.
Hancock has appointed al his ails, and is
now occupied during every working hour of
the day in receiving and answering applica-
tons for place in the line, One hundred and
fifty dollars has been offered for
the use OF single window on
broadway on the day of the funeral.
The decorations Of the City Hall, where the
boiy is TO lie in state, were finished to-day
and arc very imposing. The building is be-
ing girdled with electric lights so that the
somber center of interest while the remains
lie there will be constantly illuminated.
General Hancock issued an order charging
Major General Alexander shaler with the
formation of the escort column of troops, in
which the army and navy and commissioned
State organizations Will be represented"
WESTERN.