Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-07-31


people TO General Grant found express
sion in numerous and valuable gifts.
On July %, 1865, congress having crea-
ted the grade in the army, hitherto un-
known in the army of the United States,
he was commissioned general the same
day, and Major General Sherman pro-
NOTED to be lieutenant general. Differ
ing in his views from President John
son, whose policy had alienated very
many Of his former friends, GOODNESS
sprang up between the president aud
the general; this was aggravated by the
/ attempted removal of Secretary Stan
ton by the president, and still further
by the nomination of Grant for the pres
idency by the republican party in May,
( 1868. and from that time till the close
of Mr.. JOhnsOn's term of Office in March
1869, their only intercourse was official.
General Grant was elected president in
November, 1868, receiving pa out of
the 294 ELECTORAL votes of the twenty
six states then organized as belonging
to the Union. lie was inaugurated
March 4, 1859. His administration was,
upon the whole, highly satisfactory,
and in 1872 he was nominated for !
second term of four years by the repub-
lican national convention. But in the
mean time dissatisfaction had grown
up among some of the leading men,
bers of the republican party. These,
/ taking the name of "liberal republic
cans" nominated for president Mr..
Horace Greedy, the editor of the New
York Tribune. The democratic nation
al convention also nominated Mr.. Gree
ley, although he had always been a
strong opponent of the democratic
party. At the presidential election held
i'll November, 1872, Grant received
26S electoral votes and Greedy so. But
recokning by the actual votes cast for
each candidate the election was much
more close.
The whole number of the votes cast
was g, l3l, l49; of these there were for
Grant 1857 ,O70, for Greeley 2,S34, O79,
giving for Grant 4 majority of 1872, 99l.
Mr.. Greeley died November %, 1872.
just after the result of the election was
evident.
During the second administration of
| President Grant grave difficulties arose,
growing mainly out of the financial
questions and the disturbed condition
of the south. The elections held in the
autumn of 1874 resulted generally in IA
vor of the democratic party, who secur-
ell majority in the congressional house
of representatives, which convened in
December, 1875, while the. hitherto
large republican majority in the senate
was greatly diminished. Still Grant
was by many considered the strongest
candidate whom the republicans could
present ut the next presidential term.
But X has come to be usage, almost
equivalent to positive law. that no
person shall be made president for
more than two quadrenial terms, and
Grant was not formally pressed for a
denomination. Soon after the expira-
ton of his term, on March 4, 1877, he
set out upon an extended visit to Eu-
rope. After his return he made his
| return he made his home in New York
City and engaged in several private en-
terprises, but lost his entire fortune by
the downfall of the firm of Grant &
Ward in the spring of 1884. Some time
before that he slipped on the sidewalk
and hurt his hip so severely that he
was compelled to use crutches for over
year. Latterly he has, under great
physical difficulties, been engaged in
writing book on the part he took in
the civil war.
MIRA. Grants Fortune.
Mrs. Grants share Of the proceeds
OF General Grants book, Personal
Memoirs Of u. ). Grant will be be-
tween $500 900 and S5OO,OO0. The pub
Usher, G. Webster, says that the guar
antee sale Of 10000 Of books have al
ready been made and these have assur-
ed her S300.0O0. Four hundred agents
are now gathering subscriptions and
the number will soon be increased to
5000. The work will be issued in two
volumes, to be published separately
about tho first days of December and
March next respectively. They both
will be sold exclusively by subscription.
Mr.. Webster starts for Europe on Aug
ust ] to arrange for the publication of
the book in England, France, Germany,
italy and Austria. Norwegian and
PortuSees publishers have made over
lures TO publish the book. Mrs. Grant
VIII have large percentage on the sale
OF the book in foreign countries"
Besides this, the fund raised by the
friends of the General several years ago
yields an annual income of about Sl5,-
600. And congress, following the ex-
ample set ~ granting to the widows
OF presidents pensions, will give
her 5000 per year. The lady will not
be in want in her reclining years and
will be able to support her worthless
sons and their families, and Mrs. Sar-
toris. who was imposed on by foreign
scoundrel, in grand style. And no
doubt there will be other funds rails
ed by private subscriptions, and other
wise, tor the American people are wild
In the matter of hero worship. and
they are as liberal in their donations as
they are wild.
Governors Proclamation.
STATE OF KANSAS.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
TOPEKA, KAN, July %, 1885.
~ telegram announces the death of
ULYSSES 5. GRANT. This intelligence,
although anticipated for many months,
will be received by the people of this
AZ 70 with m Tho el,ool-