Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-24

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 gloom Long before noon it was the one theme that filled every mind. The President | and his Cabinet had taken official notice of | the event, the courts adjourned and sadness | had settled over every department. Among | the people in the usually busy theroughfares | there was cessation of activity while men | talked of Grant ard mourned his death. In | the quiet portions of the city the same feel | ing of sadness prevailed and little children | even prattled General Grant is dead.
 New York offers . nuriaf Site.
 NEW YORK, July 23-It was impossible to | obtain a full attendance of the members of | the board of aldermen at a special meeting l to-day. Mayor Grace sent the following tel | egram to Mrs. Grant: - Tn advance of official action am instructed to | the eonlmon council of the municipal authorities of am also authorized by informal action of the au- | thorities which will De made officially tomorrow Grant in any of the parks of this city you may se ecs a am t als9 % agth9rized a M to offer the the body to lie in state.''
 The board of aldermen will meet in the I Governors room in the City Hall tomorrow and pass resolutions suitable to the occasion. | The public buildings will be ordered draped | and the departments closed as at the time of | President Garfeld's death. Judge Ingraham l holding the Superior court chambers to-day | adjourned court out of respect to the memory of General Grant. !
 A meeting of the directors of the Cotton Exchange is called for il o'clock tomorrow to take appropriate action in regard to the l generals death.
 About 4:3O the mayor received the follow iug reply Mayor Grace, New York:
 Thanks Can you send someone to confer with uss Yours, FRED D. GRANT.
 Mayor Grace decided to send his chief clerk, Mr. Turner, to confer with the fam fly.
 Lees Son Sends Coincidence. WASHINGTON, July 25.-General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, sent telegram to Mrs. Grant this morning in which he says: 'As the of General Robert E. Lee send my most R profound ,Z sympathy The whole South General Shelby of Alabama, fourth audi tor of the treasury, formerly of the Confed- ate army, also sent his condolence, express l ing the belief that all the Confederates will mourn the death of Americas greatest soldier and statesmsn
 Honors at the Military Posts. WASHINGTON, July 23.-Adjutant General ] Drum this afternoon issued the order which | it is customary to issue on the death of an ex-President It directs the suspension of 1 work for one day at all military posts, the l firing of thirteen guns at sundown and at ! half hour intervals during the day and thir- l weight guns at night, and orders all officers to wear the customary badge of mourning. | An Intimate Friend Dies at the Same Hour.
 BROOKLYN, July 23.-General Samuel I Roberts, an intimate friend of General ] Grant, died at his residence, 716 Herkimer street, this city, about the same time Gen ! eral Grant died. The deceased was at one l time postmaster of Brooklyn. His death was rather sudden, as he attended the funer- | al of a friend yesterday.
 l Mourning In Canada.
 MONTREAL, July 23.-Nearly all the flags which waved yesterday welcoming our gal lant citizen troops home, are to-day at half mast out of respect for the death of Ameri- cas- great general. The majority of the af- 1 ternoon papers here show emblems of mourn 1 ing.
 The -ScaIpel Used on Garfield. | NEW YORK, July 23.-In the window of 1 surgical instrument store on Chatham street ! @ small case was placed on exhibition to-day. It contained an ordinary white handled seal l pei. On the case was engraved: Presented to George Tiemann & Co.,, by D. w. Bliss, M. D., December l. 1ss1'' On the ivory handle of the scalpel was the inscription, ''Used in the operation on President Garfield, | O became known hundreds of passers-by stopped l at the window and inspected the sinister re- | hinder of the untimely death of one Presi- dent and the sad termination of the brilliant l career of the other. The exhibition of the
 knife was condemned as being in utterly bad
 taste.
 USi.er.al Sorrowin the South
 ATLANTA, Ga., July 23.-A profound feel ing of regret exists everywhere in the South over General Grants death. The Constitu- tion editorially tomorrow will say that Gen eral Grant was the greatest man since Wash 1ngton, the greatest military hero of the age | CHARLESTON, s. G., July 23.-The News
 and Courier prints long editorial, conserva-
 tive but eulogistic.
 voice to the sentiment of profound sorrow
 that exists everywhere in this State. Rese-
 lutions of regret and condolence
 were passed by the various city
 councils and boards of trade all through
 Georgia and the Carolinas. Public
 buildings will all be put in mourning. The
 State legislature in session at Atlanta ad-
 journed on receipt of the news of General
 Grants death. Representative Harrison
 made big sensation by violently opposing
 the motion to adjourn, but after
 making a. speech against Grant he
 senept sanesaed of the sad speota
 tors.
 JEFFERSON Cry, Mo-, July Ex-Governor
 Marmadnke to-day issued proclamation or
 dering all flags hal-masted in respectf to the
 memory of General Grant, also that a nation
 al salute be fired during the day of the obse-
 auies.
 Tributes From over The Water.
 LONDON, July 23.-The Daily News to-mor-
 row will say in regard to General Grant:
 ssThere have been few braver men. England
 will sincerely regret his death. It is as a
 soldier that he will be remembered and his
 fame will rest chiefly upon his eminent mili-
 tary services. After the death of Lincoln
 General Grant was decidedly the most popu-
 lar man in the United States and his stand
 ing as such was not injured by his quarrel I
 man of action, not of speech. His name must ever be associated with the memory oi that struggle of which Lincoln was the brain
 and heart and Grant the arm and weapon" The Telegraph will devote two columns to g
 review of the military career of the general In an editorial to-day that paper says: "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 sym pathy and regret than in England Reyono all others he was best fitted to cope with the
 tremendous crisis which made him famous
 and when the grave closes over all that was
 mortal of Ulysses Simpson Grant it will bt
 felt that he leaves behind him no man cast il
 a simpler, sincerer, more heroic mould"
 The Post to morrow, referring to the deatl of General Grant, will say: "The American : republic has lost one of it's most illustrious
 citizens. General Grant will be best remem
 bered as an able soldier, who prevented the
 final severance of great republic. Thus h.