The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-14

Alexandria, Va, Aug. s.-To Maj. Gen.
w. 8. Hancock, Mount McGresor: Your
telegram received. Iaccept the position, BIO.
cause by 80 6Oing can testify my respect
Tor tho memory Of n great soldier, and thus
return as far as can the generous feeling
he has expressed toward the soldiers OF tho
south. FlTzHUaH LEE.
Seven-eighths Of the callers at the White
House como for political purposes.
The distance from the city hall in New
York to the site Of Gen. Grants tomb 10
nine miles.
Albany IN. Y. }, by the recent census, has
a population OF 10000 gain Of 6. 600
since 1880.
Lowell. Mass, has, according to recent
official figures, property valuation Of
SOL ,31S,915.
| Appointments Of postmasters Of the low.
er grades are made at the rate OF one
hundred u day.
| Reuben Casperwas shot and killed at
Berlin, Ncb., by Thomas Williams, son ofa
| we'll known farmer.
Two hundred and forty appointments to
iourtll-class notwithstanding were recently
announced in ono day.
| Ex-President Arthur will resume the prae.
Icc OF law In New York, Oct. I, combining
| himself to Office work. He is worth 100.
600.
Burr Blair OF Cincinnati saws That fifteen
months ago he could have bought the old
| Grant house ut Point Pleasant, Ohio, with
the land, for $500.
| Workmcn are putting up 172 additional
lightning rod tips on the Washington monu-
lnent. The iron stairway to the top will
not be completed for several months.
Atrain struck q carriage at crossing at
Morristown, N. j., instantly killing Mrs.
Edward j. Brown, Miss Mary Brown and
an infant child ofMrs. Irving II. Brown.
Tho verdict OF the jury in the Riel trial il
looked upon Mt Toronto as q just one, and
the opinion is freely expressed that Riel
law.
Worth, tho man milliner, says Paris
dressmnkers do q business OF $50, 900, 900
year and lose $2,OOO,OOO by bad debta.
Very little is lost through American Gus.
toners.
Secretary Manning says that no change
will be made in tho Office OF clerk Of the up.
pointment division, and it was never con-
templntcd that Mr.. Albright should succeed
Higgins.
An Easton, Pa, dispatch says that ter
| rifle storm passed over that part OF the
state recently, doing great damage to grow.
ing crops, railroads, etc. The loss will not
be less than 100000.
During n revival service ut Centre Valley,
Pa, a veterinary surgeon named Maritime,
| i'll endenvOrng to reach the altar to mako
confession, sank to the floor and expired
before medical aid could be brought.
Col. Fred. Grant states that all the writ
| ing for the first volume Of his fathers book
was done with the generals own hand, and
there il not q line in either volume which il
not his own individual composition.
A special from Smyrna, Del, says ter
riblc cyclone visited that section recently
totally destroying property for miles in q
stretch 3OOfeet wide. Stock was killed, and
orchards and cornfieldsw were destroyed. No
lives lost.
Althea Hail. who claims to he the wife OF
Senator Sharon, pointed q pistol the other
| day Mt ex-senator Stewart, remarking: II
am bound to kill Stewart before tho trial
Is over, and don't know but what had
better do it now"
Mime. Gailhartl, wife Of one Of the direc-
tors OF the Paris opera, recently died after
being married thirteen months, and aftera
sickness OF thirteen days. She was buried
on the 18th day Of July. The husband
tainted on the coffin ut the funeral.
Thsre has been a startling increase Of
outrages on girls OF tender yearsin England,
which is attributed to the influences OF tho
Gazette contends that there has been no
increase, but that cases Of outrage are SIM
ply brought into greater prominence.
Advices from various points throughout
the state OF Maryland show the recent
storm to have been the most disastrous
that has Mt any time visited this section.
A cyclone swept u path 200 yards in width
through Creil county. Houses, mills and
bridges were carried away Tho loss u
roughly. estimated at $4,000, and may
hp considerably more,
Mr.. Francis, the retiring United States
minister, had a farewell interview with
Count kalnoky, the Austro- Hungarlanfo
eign minister, recently. Count Calnoky as
sired Mr.. Francis that the present slight
cloud in the relations ofAustria and Ameri-
ca would soon disappear. A dispatch from
Vienna to the London Telegraph, however,
says TINT Austria has formally notified the
United States government that Mr.. Kelly 10
not acceptable as American minister to
Austria, and has expressed the hope that
he will be recalled and another appoint
ment 10 made.
Daniel Dudly Field has been giving an.
other dinner and taffy without limit, to
British nobs. Among those present were
Minister Phelps, Joseph Pulitzer OF the New
York World, and many representatives OF
telegraph companies and news agencies.
Mr.. Field WAS supported ON the right by
Chief Justice Waite, and on the left by the
lord mayor OF London. Senator Hawley
| in his speech, which was q response to the
toast to the peace and friendship existing
between England and the United States,
thanking Canon Farrar for his kindly trib.
ute to Gen. Grant during tho Westminster
Abbey memorial service, and spoke in
praise OF John Bright for the support he
gave the North during the war Of the Rebel.
lion.
General commentator is given fthe Wig.
orous letter OF President Cleveland, in which
he vigorously dcnounces those democrats
who betray his confidence by recommend
ing for appointment to Office bad men who
seek to shirk responsibility for their en-.
dorsements by declaring they signed on ac-
count Of partisan policy. The case dis.
closed by the presidents letter is not sin.
gular. A case recently occurred where a
man who was appointed a postmaster who
was discovered to have been convicted and
sentenced Tor embezzlemeut, and who Mt
the time Of his appointment was in jail,
with two months Of his time to serve. This
mans petition contains nearly 100 sigma
lures Of reputable men, who doubtless
were ignorant Of the facts.
The article in the North German Gaxette
Of Berlin, attacking Franco in connection
with the advice OF the Paris Temps, that
the French cavalry ON the frontier he rein.
forced, has seriously affected the Berlin and
Frankfort bourses. It is supposed in ofIl-
cial circles that the object oil tho article is
to prepare the public for a large increase in
the military budget. All the German news.
papers, following tho Gazette, dwell upon
the fact that the approach Of FRANCE and
Russia toward each other is coincident with
increasing good will between England and
Germany. The rector OF the University Of
Berlin, at celebration in honor Of the
founder, Frederick William, toasted the
health Of Emperor William in the following
words: Let us live in peace. Should, how.
ever, the arrogance Of our ncighbors pass
| from daring words into daring deeds, they
will learn that the old spirit still lives.