Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-31

The Grant Funeral Car.
New York, July 30th.-The funeral car,
which is to receive General Grants body
upon its arrival at the Grand Central Sta
| ton, to conduct it to the City Hall and sub
sequently TO the place of burial, is being
constructed. 1t will be a platform car, the
wheels being entirely concealed by drap-
cry of heavy black cloth, fringe and tassels.
| This platform car will receive the casket.
! The catafalque will be draped with black
| broadcloth, trimmed with heavy fringe,
and will probably be three feet high.
I Above the catafafque and over the caSket
| there will be black canopy, supported by
| four dark mahogany posts, deliberately
carved and carefully finished. The canopy
will be of broadcloth, paneled with satin
and lined with silk, and the whole sruct-
ure to be twenty feet high and the most i'm
posing thing of the kind ever seen in this
| country 1t will be drawn by thirty black
horses. each led by colored groom.
Route of the Grant Procession.
| NEW YORK, July 30th.-Thc route of the
| funeral, as now fixed will be from the City
| Hall up Broadway to Fourteenth street,
| through Fourteenth street to Fifth avenue,
up Fifth avenue to Fifty-seyenth street,
thence to the Boulevard, up that thorough
| fare to Seventy-second street, through Sew
enty-second street to the Riverside drive,
up which the procession will pass TO the
| site of the tomb The distance of the
march is about six miles.
Pail Bearers Named by the President.
WASHINGTON, July 30th.-The President,
! having been requested by Mrs. Grant to
name pail bearers for General Grants fu-
neral, has appointed the following: Cen
eral William T. Sherman, Lieutenant
~ Sl,os, l. u, s,.,t
| David Porter Vice Admiral Stephen c.
| Rowan, General Joseph Johnston, of Vir-
ginia, General Simon Buekner of Ken
| lucky Hamilton Fish, of New York,
| George s. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,
George W. Childs, of Pennsylvania, John
| A. Logan, of Illinois, George Jones, of
New York, Oliver Hoyt of New York.
| The Cabinet to Attend the Grant Funeral
in Body.
WASHINGTON, July 3Oth-The Cabinet
meeting to-day was attended by ali the
members. Reference was made to the
Grant obsequies, and it was decided that
the President and all the members of his
| Cabinet would attend the funeral ceremo-
MES in New York. The party will leave
| Washington in a special car August 18th.
| Apartments have already been secured at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. 1t is not likely
| LDub the 1IGSlUplll Will return 10 w dSUlIG-
| ton Immediately after the funeral, as it is
| his purpose to take a few weeks rest and
recreation in the Adirondack mountains as
soon as he can get away. Dr. Ward of Al
! bany, and Colonel Lamont will probably be
| his only companions in the mountains
Grand Military Spectacle.
New YORK, July 3Oth-The Tribune this
morning publishes an interview with Gen
eral Sherman, in which he says: The
| parade will be the grandest military spec
| tacle this city ever saw. General Hancock
is magnificently fitted to organize, and is
| hard at work. He will leave nothing I'M
| done. 1t was good thing to do to place
all these things in his hands" General
sherman gave this explanation of why he
| thought New York had been given the
! preference over Washington as a place of
burial: The Grant family will continue
to live in New York. They want the Cen
erals tomb to be there. / think that is the
feeling Of the family, and when the coun-
try comes to know Of it the selection will
be honored as reasonable
Struck by Lightning.
MOUNT McGREGoR, July 30th.-A severe
thunderstorm occurred on the mountain
| this evening. The electric fluid entered
| the cottage, tearing off some pastering and
extinguishing the electric light above the
castet. Colonel Beck, commanding Bat
terry A, Fifth Artillery, from Governors
Island, and General 4. H. Jackson COM
mander Of Fort Columbus, Governors
Island, were rendered insensble by the
shock from bolt, and it was feared for a
time that the latter would not survive
Both men, however. are pronounced out of
danger. Two or three others were also
more or less severely hurt. The mountain
.a1o
patches have to be sent to Saratoga for
transmission.
Caustic Comment from Chicago.
New YORK, July 30th.-The Chicago
Gljbuac'S special philippe against New
York yesterday-that it is the most I'M
American, unnatienal city in the United
States Tory during the Revolution, Cop
perhead during the Rebellion. with not
enough Americanism in all its society life
to make man of General Grants robust
quality and therefore unfit for the latters
resting place-has stirred up our editors by
its nearness to the truth of some of its in
vectiyeS and this mornings papers are
quite hot over it. 1t can hardly be denied.
however, that no city in the Union CON
tains prOportionally so many bitter ma
ligners Of General Grant nor no city where
so many have forgotten him as the savior
of the Union and remember acutely the
firm Of Grant & Ward.
Prediction by Mark Twain.
New YORK, July 30th-Mark Twain thus
writes to the SIN about Grants place of
sepulcher. He says: We should select
grave which will not merely be in the
right place now, but which will still be in
the right place in all years from now How
does Washington promise as to that? You
only have to hititin placeto kill it. Some
day the West will be numerically strong
enough to remove the seat of Government.
Her past attempts are a fair warning that
when the day comes she Will do it. Then
the city of Washington will lose its conse-
quence and pass out of public view and
public talk. 1t is quite within possibilities
that century hence people would wonder
and say, How did our predecessors come
to bury their great dead in this deserted
place. But as long as American civiliza-
ton lasts New York will last | observe
that the common and strongest objection
to New York is that it is not national
ground. Let us give ourselves no uneasi-
ness about that Wherever Grants body
lies that is national ground
Mrs. Grants Condition.
Mr.. MtGREGoR, July 30th-Mrs. Grant,
who has remained in the upper rooms of
the cottage since the Generals death. last
evening descended to the parlor where she
viewed the remains of her husband after
they had been composed in the casket. To-
day she is as usual, her mind distressed but
physically well.
The New York Herald" and the San
Francisco Chinese Report.
New YORK. July 30th.-The HeraldS
editorial on the report of the committee of
the Board OF Supervisors to explore China
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