Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

DURING the two terms General Grant
served as President he had twenty-four
Cabinet officers, seventeen of whom are
now living.
IT was decided on the 2Sth tina the re-
mains of General Grant should be inferred
in Riverside Park, New York, instead of
in Central Park, as at first proposed. The
site chosen for the tomb is a high plateau
overlooking the Hudson River, near One
Hundred and Twenty Second street. Mrs.
Grant was reported to be seriously i'll at
Mount MacGregor.
AMONG the appointments made by the
President on the 2sth were the following:
Robert Murray, surgeon-General of the
United States army; Francis M. Gunnell,
Surgeon General of the United States
navy, and Samuel Flower, Assistant
United States Treasurer at New Orleans.
The New York committee for the pur-
pose OF raising funds for a National monu-
ment to. General Grant was organized on
the 2Sth by electing ex-President Arthur
as permanent Chairman.
The remains of General Grant were on
the 29th dressed and placed in the casket,
and the formal transfer of the body to the
custody of U. S. Grant Post, of Brooklyn,
was made at nine O'Clock p. m.
A LADY made the first contribution on
the Doth to the Grant National monument
fund ut New York-6fty cents.
The Democratic State Convention of
Virginia met at Richmond on the Goth and
nominated Fitz-Hugh Lee for Governor.
HENRY A. PIERCE, ex-Ministcr to the
val Islands, and later Premier of the
Cabinet OF the King of those islands, died
on the 18th at San Francisco, at which
place he arrived in 1928. He was seventy
seven years old.
The committee appointed to represent
the United States Senate at the funeral of
General Grant consists of Messrs. Morrill,,
Sherman, Logan, Ransom, ingalls,, Cock
rell, Hampton, Brown and Henderson.
AN order for the closing of all post-ofices
in the States and Territories between the
hours of one and five p. IN. on August 8,
the day Of General Grants funeral, was
issued on the Goth by the Postmaster Gen.
eral.
AT the Cabinet meeting on the 30th ult.
it was decided that the President and all
the members attend the Grant funeral
ceremonies in New York.
HE Virginia Democratic Convention on
the 30th ult. nominated John e. Massey
for observation-disclosures and Rufus A,
Ayers for Attorney General. The plat.
form commends President Cleveland'slAd-
ministration; Endorses Civil Service re.
form, while opposing the appointment to
or retention in office of offensive partisans:
reaftirms the tariff plank of the National
Democratic platform; demands the aboli-
tlon OF the internal-revenue system, and
r%elterates the acceptance of the Biddle-
berger bill as a final settlement of the
State debt question.
a to the memory of Rebecca
who was hanged at Salem for
July 10, 1852, was dedicated at
Danvers, Mass, on the Goth ult., in the
presence of a large gathering of her de-
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the Both ult.
selected the following pail bearers for
General Grant funeral: General w. T.
Sherman, Lieutenant General P. H. Sheri-
dan, Admiral D. D. Porter, Vice-Admiral
c. Rowan, General Joseph e. John.
ston, General Simon B%uckner, Hamilton
Fish, George S. Boutwell,, George W.
Childs, General John A. Logan, George
Jones, of the New York Times and Oliver
of New York.
SURVIVING members of President Grants |
were on the 31st ult. formally In. !
vited to attend his obsequies.
Observation-Disclosures WALKS, RECENTLY /
by a naval court-martial for s.cul-s i
pable ineficiency" and ''neglect of dutyyp