Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-08
EASTERN NEWS.
Thousands Of People Again View The
Nations Dead.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO be WIRED
OVER the CONTINENT.
An Inhuman Father Tries to Starve
His Children.
A NOVEL MEETING" OF MILITARY
TELEaRAPHERS.
Secretary Whitney Forfeits Certain Con-
tracts With John Roach.
MORE SOUTHERN REGARD SHOWN FOR
GENERAL GRANT.
A NOVEL MEETING" OF MILITARY
TELEaRAPHERs.
Secretary Whitney Forfeits Certain Con.
tracts With John Roach.
MORE SOUTHERN REGARD SHOWN FOR
GENERAL GRANT.
The Nations Dead.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENrINEL.l

The Nations Dead.
New YORK. Aug. THE City Hall gates
were closed at l O'Clock this morning and
the remains of Gen. Grant left alone,
watched by the guard Of honor. Between
4 and s o'clock the crowd had become
o throng.' and it's line reached from the
fountain along Park Row to Center street
and turning the corner OF Chambers street.
Every train on the big bridge brought re-
cruits, who hurried across Chatham and
Center streets to the point where the loose
crowd was being made into q solid process
sion. AT some relative hours to-day there
were thousands more in the stream than
yesterday. This fact was due to the belief
and experience that the early ones had yes
terday the least time to wait; 30 1t was that
the early downtown cars, between 5 and 6
o'clock, brought hundreds Of ladies and
gentlemen who thought themselves TO be
in advance of the great crowd. The City
Hall clock marked 5:25 o'clock when the
covers from the casket were lifted. st.
Paul's bells were tolling at 6 O'Clock when
the iron gates were thrown back. The
first to pass through were. as on yesterday,
women. It looked like old war times at
the hotels in the city last night. The great
crowds Of strangers arrived on every train
and boat, in anticipation Of Saturdays
funeral pageant, but it was in the hotel
Hobbies that the most extraordinary
sssemblAges gathered, and friends Of
twenty years ago who were made
enemies by war shook hands and
made it all up. Some Of the scenes be-
tween the soldiers of the North and South
were heart-stirring. and there were group
ings of grand old figures or all sides. In
the midst of the scene stood General Phil
| Sheridan. Suddenly . red-faced man ad-
vsnced, leading General John B. Gordon,
Of Georgia, toward the Union soldier.
| Then he introduced them, and the two
| old warriors seized hands with q firm grip
and looked at each other fair in the eyes.
| Then their hands trembled, but they cid
not release the friendly grasp, but stood
there looking at each other with sparkling
eyes. General Belknap. the ex.Secretary
| OF War, came up with General Curtis, the
one-eyed conqueror of Fort Fisher, and
formed part of the group. 1t was . picture
worthy of q great painter, as the Southern
Generals pressed the hand OF the famous
soldier of the North. This is how the
soldiers of the North and South meet to-
day. Said General Curtis: God grant
that it is only an emblem of what is com
ing to the whole country" The number
Of churches throughout the country have
signifed an intention of tolling the city
bells when the funeral cortege leaves the
City Hall tomorrow. and again when ii
arrives at Riverside Park. In order
that they may be promptly notified,
the Western sUnion Telegraph Company
has arranged to announce over the wires
throughout the country of the starting OF
the funeral from the City Hall tomorrow
morning and the first moment of the de-
posit Of the remains of Gen. Grant in the
tomb. The floral remembrance from Gen.
Grants old home at Galeua, ILL.,, was
| placed near the remains to-day. The in
| spector this morning states that he has
orders to close the gates at l O'Clock to-
| night. and that the remains will then be
turned over to the undertakers. The pub
lie will then not again be permitted TO see
them. At noon the line had extended up
Broadway above Leonard street, and up
TO that hour 35 900 persons had visited
the remains. Midday passed, and there
was no diminution Of the constant train Of
people SO anxious to see the u~nrecogniz.
able face of the dead General. At l O'Clock
the line reached up Broadway to q point
near Canal street. The tide was flowing
past the remains at about 100 per minute,
as on Yesterday, and at 2 O'Clock nearly
so, 200 persons had viewed the body since
the gate opened at 6 this morning.
An Inhman Father.
LYNoHBURe. Va, Aug. Z. - William
Parks, q negro, residing In Amherst
county. Virginia, has been arrested on the
charge Of starving his family to death.
Within the past five months four OF Parks
children have died, and the remaining
three, ID is charged, are emaciated for
want OF food, their father not only refus-
ing to provide for them but prohibiting
the neighbors from giving them food. II
Is charged. further, that Parks wants to
marry again, and that the woman he as
pires to win refuses to accept him while be
has SO many children.
A Novel Meeting"
CHICAGO. Aug. Pursuant to the call
Of VIM. R. Plumb, President Of the So
ciety of Military Photographers of the late
war. to take action on the death OF Gen.
Grant. . telegraphic meeting Of the surviv.
ors OF the corps was held to-day over the
Western Union lines. The prominent
members Of the society being stationed al
all the principal cities OF the Union thew
transacted the business Of the meeting by
wire. Col. R. O. Olowry, the General Su-
perintendent OF the Western Union, repre-.
scented the meeting at San francisco. and
". b summerville at New York. Resolu-
lions OF sympathy were adopted.
Contracts Forfeited.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Secretary Whit
ney yesterday notified John Roach that
under the terms Of his contract for build.
ing the cruiser Chicago, work was to be
completed at the expiration Of IS months.
Ho declares the contract forfeited, and
said that the chiefs Of the Bureaus of Steam
Engineering and Construction would take
! charge Of the vessel. looking to its final