The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-29
GENERAL PRESS
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The only two great commanders
now living who faced each other in
making the thrilling and crimsoned
annals Of the late civil war are Gem
eral William T. Sherman and General
Joseph E. Johnston. Grant lmet Lee,
Joseph and Sidney Johnston, Beaure-
regard, Buckner, Bragg and Pember-
ton in battle, as chief commanders,
and of them Joseph u. Johnston,
Beauregard and Buckner aurvive.
Meade, who met the terrible ehock
of battle at Gettysburg, was borno to
the City OF the Silent within a short
time OF the imposing Southern pa
geant that committed The dust Of Lee
to the mother dust; and Thom0s and
Hood, who fought the last great bat
tie OF the war At Nashville, both sleep
the dreamless sleep OF Tho dead.
Sherman ana Johnston alone remain
of the great commanders who locked
horns with each other in the flame of
battle. Their campaign from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta and from Atlanta to
the sea was the most brilliant OF the
war, and they are the only two great
commanders who are left TO sit down
and talk their battles over, as they
often do in the he3rtlest good fellow
ship.
OF the many commanders Of the he.
roic Army of the Potomac none re-
main, with the single exception Of
General Mcclellan. Scott, Mcdowell,
Burnside, Hooker, Meade and
Grant, who in turn com
manded that magnificent army,
have all gone to Join the great majority,
I % r.,,g, 4 M
geat ieutenants who linger with the
living. Jackson, Hill, Ewell and Stu
art, who were in every great conflict of
the army of Virginia, rest with their
great chieitain Of Arlington.
Joseph Il. Johnston and Ct. r. Beau
regard are the only surviving Confed-
crate commanders who leu great
armies to battle, and they are whitoned
by che frost of time. Johnston has
been in Congress and is now at the
head of the National Railroad Bureau,
while Beauregard is bartering his
fame in the market place where lottery
swindlers rob the multitude
General Grant retired from the Office
of general Of the army March 4, 1869,
when he qualified as President of the
United States, thus holding in his
hands the nominations Sherman 80
his successor and OF Sheridan as Sner-
mans successor.
The Office Of general expires with
the death OF sherman, and the Office of
acknowledgement expires with the
death of Sheridan, Sherman is now
retired on full pay, az Sheridan can DO
retired at tho age of 81,
General Grant was reappointed gon-
eral of tho army on the retired list,
with full pay, Oh the 3D. Of March last,
as the last message Of Arthur and the
first commission of Cleveland show.
That Office expired with Grant yGster-
day, and its emoluments cease with
his death.
The death of General Grant loaves
only two ex Presidents of the United
States among the NATURALIZATION
3. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur-and
neither of them was elected to the
Presidency. Hayes climed into it by
a fraud that has stamped ineilaceablo
shame upon his history, and Arthur
succeeded 20 the Presidency by the
murder Of Garfield.
There are now four widows Of eX-
Presidents living. Mrs. Tyler, who
was married when her husband
was President, vet lives in
Georgetown; Mrs. Polk, who en-
tered the White House ae it's
mistress more than forty years ago,
still lives in the Polk mansion in
Nashville, Tipo in years and gro0n in
the affections ofher people; Mrs. Gar
field and Mrs. Grant are fresh IN tho
memories OF the country and the
world.
II is now custom that has become
'crystalliZed into law that the widows
OF eX-Prssidents shall receive annui-
ties of 5000 during their lives. Mrs.
Tyler, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Garfield
receive such annuities now, and Con-
gress will promptly add hrs. Grant 10
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HOW LIQUOR FLOWS IN MAINE,
No sincere prohibitionist who Is no.
customed TO travel about tho streets OF
our city, possessed OF two tolorably
good eyes, or even one, and n diapO-
sition to use It, could feel any satisfac- |
ton with the way Mayor Deering has
been enforcing the law for the last |
three or four weeks past. II Is no. |
torious fact that during encampment |
week all kinds OF liquors were sold, !
and with very little concealment, at |
all the hotels and saloons that have
been accustomed to deal in LIQUOR. |
The agency was closed by order OF the |
mayor, so that rum shops enjoyed not |
only the illegitimate trado, but the |
legitimate also, 10 is afact, too, patent
70 everybody who has taken the
trouble to use his eyes, that liquor has
been freely dispensed over SINCE
Portland Press.
THE BIG THREE.
Dorman b. Eaton was O narrow, con-
ceited, and sumptuous old man, who
had used tho scissors and paste pot TO
compile history of the civil service
OF Great Britaia. In doing this he DO.
came Thoroughly IMPRESSED with the