Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-09

U. S. Grant, IT,, in the hearing before the
referee last Saturday, said Ward told him the
day after the failure THAT he bad been a very
great rascal that he had robbed every mem
Der of my (Grsnt's) family; that be had
robbed us totally, and that he himself admit
ted it," Young Grant told him in reply that
he believed he was a scouDdrel, and the most
he could do would be to tell the truth.
Monthly statements Of profits we're made out
by Ward and handed to members of the firm
aud we're divided in thirds, until Gen Grant
came into the firm in November, 1888. The
firm first bought and sold mining stocks, and
later railroad stocks. The witness supposed
his part Was to find business, but he soon
found he was reduced to the position of do
ing nothing. Gen. Grant seldom came TO
the offices, but each month would ask how
they were getting along. Ward was the only
man who acted for the firm. On one occa-
sion he took young Grant down into some
vault and showed private box packed with
securities worth, Ward said, 81, 50O0OO
Boston is infested with filthy tenement
houses and in view OF the possible advent Of
cholera next summer people have begun to
get frightened about them. A meeting was
held at the associated charities building last
Friday, at which Robert Treat Paine, jr.,
presided, and speeches we're made by vari-
GUS property OhucIh anu utdub VI tue DOhIua
of health. Mrs. Il. @. Lincoln, who is ac-
tive in tenement-house reform, told how she
had succeeded in keeping tenement house
clean by constant watchfuness, and other
speakers insisted that the worst rookeries
should be pulled down. The chairmen Of
the state and city boards of health opposed
this because it would leave the poorest ten
ants no place TO go, and because the build
ings could be improved by repairs. More
meetings will be held, and the city will prob
ably be awakened into activity by spring.
A Tennessee court has decided, in a case
where colored woman, holding a first class
ticket, was elected from railroad train be-
cause she would not go into the smoking car,
but insisted upon riding in a coach reserved
for white passengers that the railroad COM
pany is liable in damages-and the woman
was awarded $780, The case was tried under
a state law, aud the decision was rendered
without any reference to Federal statutes,
strange to say but what is still more remark
able, the judge declared that even il there
were no statute upon the subject, the plsiu-
titf's right to recover would be equally good
at common law.
In the article on "Shiloh," which will ap-
pear in the February Century, General Grant
describes the anxious night after the first day
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torrents, and our troops we're exposed to the
storm without shelter. / made my headquar-
tiers under tree a few hundred yards from
the river bank. My ankle was 80 much swol-
len from the fall of my horse the Friday
night preceding, and the bruise was so pain
full that could get no rest. The drenching
rain would have precluded the possibility of
sleep, without this additional cause. Some
time after midnight, growing FESTIVE under
the storm and the continuous pain, moved
back to the log house on the bank. This had
been taken as a hospital, and all night wound.
ed men were being brought in, their wounds
dressed, a leg or an arm ampulated, as the
case might require, and everything being
done to save life or alleviate suffering. The
sight was more uncomfortable than encounter.
ing the rebel hre, and returned to my tree
in the rain"
The Senate foreign affairs committee on
Wednesday reported the Niearaguan treaty
with a recommendation that it be ratified. The
more it has been examined, the more favora.
bly, has this enterprise been regarded, and it
is now admitted at Washington that the pros
pect of its ratification is strong.
During the cholera epidemic in Italy there
were 2l 246 cases, of which II, 072 resulted ia
tally. There were 1920 deaths in Naples alone.