Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-06


Mrs. Julia It. Grant, the wife of General
Grant, is oneof the most conspicuous women
of our day. Apart from being the wife OF
the great soldier of his day, she possesses
qualities which alone would place her above
! the level of her sex. Her constant watch
fulness during the Generals sickness and
her noble action in refusing the offer of Mr..
Vanderbilt to create trust fund out of the
proceeds of General Grants real estate,
which had been assigned to the millionaire
after the failure of Grant & Ward, will long
be remembered. Mrs. Grant is the daugh-
ter of Judge Dent, of Missouri, and was
born on his farm at Whitehaven, in that
State. She first became known to General
Grant through her brother whose life Grant
saved during the Mexican war, and who
was the latter's chum at West Point. The
union of the young couple was at first op-
posed by the elder Dent, but the saving of
his son annulled all objections, and the mar
riage took place August 22nd, 1913, at ST..
Louis. The first winter of their married
life was spent at Sackett's Harbor, where
Grant had been ordered. In 1849 they COM
menced housekeeping in Detroit, but in 1850
Mrs. Grant returned to her fathers house in
st. Louis, where their first son, Frederick
ID. Grant, was born. During the civil war
Mrs. Grant stayed alternately with her faith
er's family, in St. Louis, and her husbands
family, in Covington, Ky. She, however,
lost no opportunity to visit Grant in the
field, notably after the fall of Fort Donelson,
his first great victory. When Vicksburg
fell, which made the name of Grant a house.
hold word, she was serenaded by an enthu-
siastic populace in st. Louis. After the
war she lived with her husband in Wash
ington, and when the latter became Presi-
dent, became mistress of the White House,
from which her only daughter, Nellie, was
married to Algernon Sartoris, an English
gentleman, of old family. The marriage
attracted universal attention at the time,
and was fully described by the newspapers.
Upon General Grants tour around the
world Mrs. Grant accompanied him.
SKILL WITH THE LAssO.-It is no credit
to a cowboy to catch bull by the horns,
says Fort Keogh letter, for he cannot be
thrown by them and is simply held as a
prisoner but the skill in throwing lasso
Is to pitch the moose in front of an animal
when he is going at full gallop, so that the
next step he treads into it, The cowboy
tried it on a bull while both of our ponies
were jumping along a dead run. The old
fellow was going about as fast as we were,
but the fatal loop shot through the air at
tangent and fell, wide open, just in front
of him on the ground. The left fore foot
plunged square into the circle, the rope
was frightened with sudden jerk and the
steer rolled over in the dust, as cleverly
caught as anything ever saw. The brOn-
cho too, understood his part of the business
thoroughly, for he bore at the right moment
in the opposite direction, else he might have
been thrown instead of the bull, to which
he was much inferior in weight.
AIRING BEDS AND RooMs.-The air of
a sleeping room should be constantly re-
newed from without, yet it should not be
icy cold. 1t is amazing to see in otherwise
we'll informed people the lingering preu-
dice against night air, which makes them
willing to breathe vitiated air all the night
long. Attention to the airing of beds and
bedding cannot be too great, and it ought
to be insisted upon in every house. The
hurry to have rooms in order early causes
beds to be made up before they have been
thoroughly permeated by air, and sunlight,
and gives them that close, stuffy smell
which is Il sure index of deficient cleanli-