The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
A DAY OF REJOICING.

| General Grant Heartily Congratulated or
His Sixty-Third Birthday - North and
South Unite In Expressions of Sympathy
| In His Direfui Extremity-He Returns
His Acknowledgements to Those Who
Remembered the Day.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-General Grant
was sixty-three years old yesterday. There
was no formal celebration of the anniver-
sary of his birthday by the family on &C
count of his feeble condition. Costly and
| beautiful gifts were sent to his house, ac-
eompanied by congratulatory messages and
well-wishes. Flags were hung out of the
| windows of number of the residences
near the Grant mansion, and bunting was
displayed on the Generals house. There
were fewer callers than was expected.
Those who desired to tender their congrat-
ulations did so either by messenger or by
| post not caring to disturb the family in
their quiet thanksgiving over the improved
| health of the husband and father.
| There was occasion for rejoicing, for Gen.
eral Grant was as we'll as on Sunday, when
he was remarkably well for him, He en-
| jOyed his fifteenth bright day and celebrat.
and seemingly without fatigue. AT noon
he started for drive in the park, accompa-
MED by his wife, Mrs. Sartoris and
Ulysses S. Grant Jr. He was absent
only half an hour and on his re-
turn looked less pale and feeble than when
he started. Less time than usual was spent
in his sick-room and office and more of the
day with his family in the parlor. At 4:45
O'Clock. accompanied by Colonel Fred Grant
and Harrison, he walked to Madison av-
enue and back, seeming to enjoy it very
much. He required no assistance, and on
the way stopped twice to chat with some
children playing on the walk. Later he
Joined the family at dinner, and in the
evening conversed with a number of friends
in the library.
The doctors are jubilant over the Gener-
ais maintained improvement, and while
they refuse to predict the number of months
he may live they say that all immediate or
sudden danger seems passed.
General Grant sends the following for
publication:
ITO the various army posts, societies, cities,
public schools, States, corporations and indi-
viduals, North and South, who have been so
kind as to send me congratulations on my
sixty-thlrd birthday, I wish to offer my CRATE
full Acknowledgements. The dispatches have
peer peen SO numerous and SO touching in tone
that it would have been impossible to answer
them if had been in perfect health.
"U. S. GRANT"
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Appropriate SEN
timents were expressed yesterday on the
occasion of General Grants sixty-third
birthday at Louisville, KY, Galena, ILL.,, AL
bany, N. Y, all of the Eastern towns, and
throughout the principal cities and villages
of the West. The Colorado towns fired
guns.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.- The celebra-
ton of the birthday of General Grant took
place last night in the Metropolitan NJ. E.
Church, where the General formerly wor-
shipped. The meeting was presided over
by Senator Henderson. Addresses were
made by Commissioner Black, General S.
s. Burdette, General II. E. Colston, Judge
Shellabarger anu others.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April ga meet
ing of representative citizens was held last
night at the United States courtroom in
honor Of General Grants birthday. Gov
ernOr Gray presided, and addresses were
made by Senator Harrison, ex-senator
Mcdonald, Ex-Governor Porter and SUI
preme Judge Niblack. A letter to General
Grant was reported by committee consist
ing of Hon. John G. New, Judge w. E.
Niblack, District-Attorney Holstein, Gem
eral Il. S. Foster and Hon. w. II. English,
and adopted by q rising vote. The letter
says:
'Your deeds are consecrated by the great
cause in which they were wrought, and they
are ennObled by the grand results attained in
new birth of freedom for the Nation and its
establishment upon foundations whose
pie by the people, for the people, shall not
perish frolIi the earth. You conquered to
save, and the victor and the vanquished
share equally in the rich fruits of the vic
tory. The peace of Heaven is theirs that
lift their swords in such great and charita-
BILE war;
The meeting was very large one and
full of earnest feeling.
AUGUSTA, Ca, April Memorial
Day was observed here by parade of the
different military organizations. All bust
ness was suspended, and the ladies deco.
rated the soldiers graves The Confeder-
ate Survivors Association unanimously
adopted the language of an Grafton by Col
Onel G. c. Jones in reference to General
Grant, which concluded as follows:
Remembering him now as the generous vic
tor who, at the ever memorable meeting at
AppOmattoX our immortal Lee and the glOri-
Gus eight thousand veterans. the surviving
heroes OF the ArIDy of Northern Virginia on
the 9Th day of April. 1855, conceded liberal and
SIldillIuOuS IeIHlS OF SURRENDER 30 we,
standing by the graves of our Confederate
dead, and mindful of the memories which the
observance of this occasion is des gned to
perpetuate respectfully tender to General
Grant assurances of our sincere and profound
sympathy in this the season Of his diref1l ex
tremity."
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 29.-Under the
auspices of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie and Sons Of Veterans, large mass
meeting was held last evening in honor Of
the sixty-third birthday of General Grant.
The exercises took.place at the courthouse
and addresses were delivered by James
Connolly, Thomas S. Mather, ]. c. Smith,
Charles L. Mooney, John NJ. Palmer, SEN
ator w. S. Morris and others.
CINCINNATI, o., April ga large meet
ing was held at Turner Hall last night to
celebrate the sixty-third anniversary of
General Grants birthday. Speeches were
made by ex-Congressman Samuel F, Cary,
Hon. John Simkinson, Hon. Michael Ryan
and others. Every reference to General
Grants name brought forth deafening
cheers. Among those who attended were
scores of the most prominent citizens Of
Cincinnati.
CHICAGO, April 28.--There was no gem
eral observance of General Grants birthday
in this city yesterday. Dispatches from
Yankton, d. T., Lawrence, Kan, Leayen-
worth, Kan. Danvitle, ILL.,, Kankakee, ILL.,,
and Ottumwa, Ia, announce that the day
was observed with appropriate ceremonies.