The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-03-29
MEN AND THINGS.

of Governor McLane an eminent American diplo-
Inatst has said that he Ia the most thoroughly
equipped dipomatst in The United States, In the
European sense of the term"
1t doesn't seem occur the United States Senate
that the best way to prevent the public from knowing
what Is said and done in session is TO have no
secret sessions but that is the way to do it-LO,CeH
(NuSS.) Courier.
It is reported that Richard Grid, OF San Bernardino
County, proposes to donate the Chico ranch to the
st ate. and erect thereon State Industrial school mt
his own expense The ranch embraces 81, 900 acres,
and has upon 1t 10000 cattle and 800 mules and
horses The gift, IN made will reach the munitlccnt
value of nearly 81 900 ,OOO.-- Vfsdffd tCdi) Times.
According to the Boston gazette, "the pecuniary
disasters which have visited the Grant family APP
pear 10 have extended across the water TO Mrs.
sartoris Gen. Grants son-in-law is said to have
been unfortunate IN his recent gesses supposed
favoritcs Of the turf that he was not able to pay the
expenses Of his wifes journey to the sckbed OF her
fatheI.h
There are at present large number Of Mormons
moving southwark through Utah. They are COM
posed mostly Of polygamists, and tell that they
bound for Arizona. which, to extent Is the truth
but after they arrive in Arizona they continue 10
move southwark and will not make permanent
rest until they get on Mexican territory, where they
will make homes for themselves.-Sdn Francisco
ana.
Gen. George II. Gordon, by the way,ured lect on
Wednesday evening at the st. BotOlph on THE
American Army Before the city OF Mexico; with the
10 me that the furnishing up Of the knowledge
OF martial history so fashionable this winter has
been carried rather too far, II we expected TO go
into all the details of the Mexican campaigns A
society for the cultivation Of judcious ignorance
would not be a bad ihlng-BOStDH Cor. y. y, Ieie-
gram.
Senator Edmunds is the peculiar character in
public life to-day. Some ought to write maya
zine article about him, for 1t IL subject too rich
and varied TO he dismissed in a newspaper article.
lie "a the greatest man on great matters and the
most persistent on small ones In the Senate. The
object OF respect and terror among his colleagues
| In his actions perfect enigma, 80 that those who
have served longest with him. In the Senate years
ago gave up trying 10 iathom his motives or TO nn-
| deTstand the various workings Of his mind The
others regard MIN az an Indispensable adjunct OF the
Senate, hut not one knows whether he IL friend or
an enemy, or pretends to predict what he will do To-
morrow. But he H. 80 far as one person be- the
auOcrat nf the Senate, and whether he takesup Cen
tra America or the newspaper reports OF secret
sion, the rest generally fan In behind rather than at
tract his unfayorable notice Washington CORE
SDoadem Ithe SDrtalaeid tNass) Repubitcan.
Englsnl's proposed concentration Of troops at
! ouetta, on the southern border OF Afghanlstan
iaboTs under the heavy disadvantage OF having only
a single line Of transport over nearly 1000 miles Of
! country. From the moment Of their departure from
Lahore the Anglo-Indan troops viii be wholly de-
! pendent upon the Indus valley Hallway ana III
branch line across northeastern BelOOchlstan. the
latter. quitting the main line at kuk Junction, Boz
miles from Lahore crosses the Indian border lust
| yond JacObabad. aud runs 1873 miles n0rthwestwarC
across a dTeary sand waste, whose only "statlOnH
| are the water-tanks that feed the locomotive. II
crosses the Afghan frontier at Slbi, only seventy
three miles east OF Quota, In direct line through
the Bolan Pass, but at least 100 by the circuitOui
route which the track thenceforth follows through
the Selstan HIS. sudden obstruction at any par
| Of this long struggling route, the breaking OF th'
enormous bridge over the Sntlej AT Adamwaham,
delay In crossing the Indus between kOhri and suk
lur BundeT failure Of water IN the Bco0chi Deser
would at once check the advance Of the troops, anC
might possibly produce very serious results