davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Letter from Gen. w. L. Sherman.

ST. Louis, Jan. 12.-To Rev. George Nor
rison, Baltimore-Dear Sir: | have re-
ceived your letter OF the 7th with news
paper enclosed. Of course Ihave read care
fully the first .olume OF Gen. Grants
memoirs, and regard it as admirable in
every sense, and now await the second
volume, which | doubt not will be equally
valuable and interesting. From the day
reported to him from Paducah, till his
death, our relations were as brothers
rather than as commander and COM
manded, and it is utterly impossible
that | could have written the words as
quoted in the December number OF
the North American Review. | have a
very large correspondence and converse
freely with thousands OF people, and it is
natural, as often speculate. that l
should have considered what might have
been had Gen. Grant gone to the rear and
G. F. Smith fought the battle OF Shiloh;
what might have been had Washington ac-
cepted his warrant in the English navy,
etc; but that could have written the pos
tive expression that had {. +.
Smith lived Gen. Grant would have dis
appeare d from history is an impossibillty.
Personally | want to live in peace and
avoid all controversy; but | am confident
that in good time we shall learn on what
authority or heresay this publication is
based. enclose with this a slip contain
ing my last public utterance about Gen.
Grant when / announced his death to his
old comrades to the army OF the Tennessee.
/ don't believe any man living or dead has
borne more willing testimony to Gen.
Grants qualities, especially as demonstrate
ed at Henry Donelson, Shiloh and Vicks-
burg, than myself.
Yours truly, w. T. SHERMAN.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Foreign GOSSin.

Queen Victoria let's Son in Law Henry
amuse himself with gun at Osborne.
John Magee, who pleaded guilty to the
charge of attempting to procure money
from the prince OF Wales by writing threat
ening letters, was in London sentenced to
seven years penal servitude.
Seymour Bushe. the young barrister OF
Munster, Ireland, whose elopement on Nov.
2 with the wife OF Gerald Richard Broom
created so much excitement in fashionable
circles, has been mulcted in $5, 900 in the
Grim. con. suit brought against him.
There has been a veritable murder scare
in Paris during the past few days. Not a
day passed without the horrible details of
some horrible murder being made public.
The assassination of NJ. Barremea, perfect
of Eure, in a railway carriage as he was
leaving Paris. was only one OF an unpre ce.
dented series OF similar crimes more nota-
BILE than the Others because OF the high
rank of the victim.
The annual banquet in commemOration
OF the battle OF Y Gorktown was held at Hotel
Continental, Paris. Among those present
were United States Minister Mclean, the
Marquises Rochambeau, Noailles and Cour-
celes, and Gen. Bouanlanger, the minister
of war. Minister Mclean in his speech said:
81 congratulate myself on being present
DOlH dts lLlteu oidteS IillIllSt ttT III IcCOSiiiLc
the services OF the French in the American
revolution and as comrade OF the de-
scendants OF those Frenchmen. / AIN the
grandson of a soldier who fought from the
beginning to end of the war under Lafayette.
am also the bearer of the insignia OF the
Society OF the Cincinnati. In this two-fold
character l recognize how much gratitude
America owes France for the alliance gave
its powerful aid. / hope the people OF
France who have borne arms will. never
have cause to regret that her glory is in part
composed OF heroic deeds OF arms accom-
plished on land and sea in defense Of the
American people,"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Mr.. GladstOne's Irish Bill.

London Special: 1t has transpired
that dir. Glatstone's consultations with
leading colleagues have resulted in an
agreement on the general features of the
Irish measure. Mr.. Gladstone's bill as
finally drafted will run largely on the lines
of the state legislature OF America. 1t gives
Ireland real not a phantom, national as
sembly. There will be Il real ministry,
with absolute control over public offices,
public revenues and public service. The
legisla ture will be invested with the law
making authority. Ireland will have her
own elections and elect her own legislature,
which will pass its own laws. run its own
revenue and spend its own money. The
imperial functions will be similar to
those of the federal congress-name-
ly. control over army, navy. external
relations customs and internal revenue.
The question OF Irish representation in the
imperial parliament is undecided, but Mr..
Gladstone is stated to be in favor OF local
and federal representation, as IN America.
He does not share Mr.. I. p. O'Connor's
apprehensions OF Irish difficulties in the im-
to the restraining influence of parties i'll the
Irish national assembly to safely guard ma
tional and imperial interests. The bill pro-
vides for redistribution of Irish seats. 1t
will be seen that Mr.. Parnells Grattan
parliament scheme and Mr.. I. z. O'Con-
nor's colonial plan are alike rejected in ia
vor OF Il modification OF the American leg
islative system adapted to geographical
and chronological conditions. The Dublin
castle bureaucracy is to be swept away
and leave no trace. One part OF O'Con-
nor's colonial plan is likely to be adopted
namely, the appointment OF a viceroy.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Personal Mention.

Mrs. Langtry invested about Sc, 900 re-
Gently in New York real estate.
Ex-Mayor Prince of Boston dresses in
very old fashioned costume he is very
wealthy, nevertheless.
Mrs. Hood, mother ofthe famous Confed-
crate general j ohm 3. Hood, died Tuesday
at an advanced age, at the residence OF her
son-in-law, DR.. Graves, near Lexington,
Ky.
Henry De Voc of Livingston, Mont,
claims the honor OF being the youngest
soldier in the late war. He enlisted in
Company B, Fourteenth United States in
fantry as a drummer when only eleven
years and seven months old.
Clara s. Foltz San Francisco's lady law
yer, vigorously denies the story that she
takes no stock in female suffrage. Three
years ago she prepared brief on the con-
stitutionality OF proposed female suffrage
act before the California legislature warmly
indorsing the measure.
The funeral OF the late H. L. Dousman
took place at Prairie du Chen. Many per-
SONS from outside cities, including Milwau-
kee, st. Paul, Chippewa Falls and McGregor
were present. Gen.. ..Sturgis and family of
Washington were also present. The funeral
was held under the auspices Of the Catholic
church. OF which Mr.. Dousman was q MEN,
ber.
Miss Winslow, the American beauty who
has been dividing with Miss Chamberlain
the admiration of the gay world of Ham
burg belongs to well known Boston FAM
lily. Her father was the late George s.
Winslow, the wealthy drygoods merchant,
and her Mother is a member OF the Rox-
bury family of Train, of which the late
Enoch Train was in his day a conspicuous
representative.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Crimes and Criminals.


During the late heavy freeze in Kansas
whole car loads OF hogs were found frozen
solid.
Dr. Thomas w. Keene, member OF the
Virginia house OF delegates, dropped dead
OF heart disease on the floor of the house.
Fourteen citizens of Redfield, OAK, have
given bail for 81, 900 each to answer to a
charge Of purloining the county records
year ago.
At Jersey City, N. j., Rev. Mr.. Bristo,
who has been on trial before jury of his
fellow pastors, charged with criminal init
macy with Miss Ida Downs, was found
guilty.
DR.. E. s. Nelson, who was arrested
charged with completely with President
Mcneil in the embezzlement of the funds OF
the Lancaster (Mass.) National bank, and
who was arraigned and held in $15, 600
bail, was arrested in Boston on a United
States warrant for embezzlement. He was
taken before Commissioner Hallett and
placed under $40, 900 bonds, which he fur
nished.
John Heeseman, a merchant at Charles
ton, s. c., for forty years, died suddenly
Jan. t. 1t was found few days ago that
he had forged notes on banks there for S1O,-
900 and was a defauter to that amount.
He was treasurer OF the the st. Matthews
German Lutheran church, the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows and several other organiza-
tions, and was short in his accounts with
all ofthem.
On Dec 90 there took place at North
Bend, Neb., a brilliant wedding, the par
ties being II. Hayes Claire, a lawyer, and
Miss Nettie Dorsey, aged nineteen, daugh-
ter OF j. +. Dorsey, wealthy grain dealer,
and neice OF Congressman G. w. f. Dorsey,
OF the Third district. On the 14th inst,
the bride returned from an Eastern we'd
ding trip alone, a heart broken woman, her
husband being a fugitive from justice, a
horse thief, bigamist and forger. The de-
velopment has created d great sensation.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
General News Notes.

Emigrant rates from New York to Chica-
go have been reduced to 81.
Robin & Co., OF Halifax, the largest fish
merchants in the world, have failed.
Brown & Anderstone, brokers at New
York, failed with liabilities OF $50, 1000.
Prof. Fowler, the phrenologist. was ar
rested at Buffalo for practicing medicine
illegally.
Andrew Thompson, at Grand Forks,
feeling the disgrace OF being sent to jail, at
tempted to kill himself.
Canada's fisheries exhibit will be packed
up and shipped to London, for the
colonial and Indian exhibition.
The Springfield, Ohio, gas well has been
abandoned at 2,7OO feet, warm sulpher
water having been encountered.
The Canadian Pacific Railway company.
has presented a claim OF 500, 900 to the
rebellion claims commission at Ottawa for
transportation services during the war.
The city police will henceforth have
charge of Riverside Park and Gen. Grants
tomb. Thirteen patrolmen and two
mounted police have been stationed there.
John 8. Emery & Co., an extensive dry
goods firm at st. Joseph, Mo-, have exc
cuted deed OF trust in favor Of creditors
to the amount of $25, 900. The firms IL
abilities amount to that sum. The assets
are $50, 900.
The national convention OF journeymen
bakers at Pittsburg adjourned after adopt
ing resolution to boycott all proprietors
who refuse to reduce the hours Of labor to
twelve hours day. The next convention
will be held in Chicago, Jan. Is, 1887.
A sensation was created in Omaha by
the institution Of q divorce suit against
Hon. J. G. Hascoll. Mrs. Hascoll charges
him, with adultery with various women,
and also cruelty. Mr.. Hascoll, on the
other hand, charges his wife with in6delity
and cruelty.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Niceties of Discrimination.

'These quick changes in woman's
temper are funny, Bromley. The other
day heard crash in the yard next
door, then heard Mrs. Bines say: You
didn't want to break the pitcher, did
you, Tommy! Never mind it, little
dear!'
II would call her an amiable woman,
Mr.. Darringer."
s.Well, may be. Ten minutes later
she struck different key. Tom, you
good-for-nothing little rascal, why did
you leave that gate open? I've a mind
to box your ears. !"
THAT wasn't quite so amiable. I ad-
init, Mr.. Darringer. Increased provo
cation"
mo, Bromley, it was less of . provo
cation"
..How do you explain the inconsis-
tency, thenp''
Easily enough. The Tom who
broke her pitcher was my Tom. The
Tom who left the gate open was hers.
Philadelphia Call.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Baby Talk.

l myself heard year-old child say a
great many things the other day. was
calling on friend whose son was lust a
year old.
''Can he talk yet?' l asked
Talk exclaimed the fond mother.
with an injured look. l should think
so! He can just say anything, can't
you, ducksy daddie?"
boo, boo. bwe, We yar' scrceched
baby, growing black in the face with the
effort.
Hear him. cried the proud mother,
He said 4 guess can TALK"
This information surprised me little,
but / discreetly held my peace.
Now tell the gentleman your name,"
said the baby's mamma, coaxingly.
boo, boo, da. da, boo?'' Charles
Edgar Jones, just as plain as anybody
could say it. you little sweet" cries the
triumphant mother.
Ny surprise increased.
Now tell mamma whom you like best
in all the world"
boo. boo. bwe, da. dar'
''How cunning!' l exclaim. ".Da,
da, means papa don't it?''
''Mercy, no! Didn't you hear the lit
tie blessing say he liked the gentlemen
best? He meant you.
am tiattered. of course. and amazed
at my own stupidity. thought was
familiar with the Kings English" but
the English of this little king is new to
me.
Now say, Sing a song o sixpence'
for the gentleman"
''Yee, zee, boo, baa, bo," sputters
baby.
''Oh, no, dearyr' says mamma. re-
provingly. THAT was Little Bo-Peep.'
Now say the other"
Zee, zee, boo, baa, be-
That's it! that's it! You blessed old
boy! I knew you could say it! And to
think that the gentleman asked if you
could talk yet! l guess he won't ask
again.
l guess not, too. Either that baby or
I cannot speak the English language in
its purity, and am adverse to display
ing my possible ignorance. Phiiadei-
phia Press.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28

might not be observed in the mad
struggle to get there. At such mo-
ment, with slice of bread buttered on
both sides in one hand and fragment
of deceased fowl in the other, with my
mouth gladly dancing from one to the
other, feel that the world at large has
no rights which anu bound to respect.
If any son of hunger thinks / should
use fork at such a moment, bis ideas
are not likely to prevail unless he can
prove beyond all room for cavil, that
having one will expedite business.
After Moses had been in the wilder
ness long while-when he brought up
at farmhouse and was given plate
of corn bread and 'possum-what woald
he have thought of the vile wretch that
would look at him over his spectacles
and then look at his fork in the same
breath? Moses was very patient man,
but | will bet peck of green peas
against the United States Treasury that
he would have given the old etiquettist
a whitening look of scorn, and, seizing
the 'possum by its hind leg, reverently
here exclaimed, Come home!" and
gone right Oh with the matinee Spoons
nice. but a leg of mutton is more be-
coming in the eyes of man who eats
with some aim and purpose.
have never seen the time when
would 90 across the street to look nice
at well laden table. may be prize
beauty in my ordinary walk and con-
versation, but when it comes to mat
ter of posing at dinner table, prefer
to personate hog. l have seen people
who would sit down to table that look
ed as if all the good things in the world
had organized national convention
which was then open pursuant to adj
journment, and ready to proceed with
the business indicated in the call. and
stare at each other, and take every bite
as if doing so was a felony and they
feared detection, and wallow dainty
morsels around on their plates as if
they were trying to get them offin
corner by themselves where the bastard
ly outrage could be perpetrated unseen;
and then give it up as bad job and go
away from the table hungry, leaving
their plates full of good things, and
because they regarded etiquette as the
one great aim of life. 1t is needless to
remark that am not one of those per-
sons. l have too high regard for my
stomach to allow etiquette to estrange
me from it. While it has gone back on
me at times, it has in the main been
noble and self-sacrifcing friend to me
ever since we became acquainted, and
nothing can ever ALLEVIATE me from it
while reason and appetite sit upon their
respective thrones and agree that tac
country must be saved at all hazards.
1t has done me many good turn in its
day, and we are bosom friends, whom
the powers of earth and the wiles of art
can never separate until death; and not
then, unless my poor stomach should
arise to prove that somebody has deeply
wronged me.-F. E. Hsddle, in NeW
York Nercuru.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
London as q Social Forest.

London is large social forest, marked
everywhere by the rich, struggling free
dom, unregulated variety, and indefin-
ite limit which distinguish forest from
an artificial garden or walled orchard.
And, like great forest also, it has not
a few free green places scattered here
and there, to let in the light and give
currency to the breezes, while the long
lines of streets which we have mentioned
are like the green walks through for
est, which enable the woodman to use
his ak freely, and to transport the fruits
of his labor with ease and expedition to
their proper destiny.
The opposite style of this rambling
character of London may be best seen
in Berlin. The magnificent capital of
Prussia-or now, rather, of Germany
has more the aspect of a manufacture
than a growth. The streets run rank
and file, like the batalions of great
army. They are utterly without the
freedom, the picturesqueness, and the
ever-changing diversity which is the
great charm of London-of course, we
repeat here, of London taken as a whole.
There are parts and whole districts OF
London which are as bald as the most
prosaic lines of streets in Berlin or
Mannheim, and as destitute of any dis
tinctive feature as feeble curate's first
sermon, in which the skeleton of some
preachers help" has been tricked up
into the customary proprieties of the
pulpit. But these long rows of taste
less monotony in London are only parts,
which in other cities would make the
vvhn1o ord oro 1orro1u ro.
lieved either by grand sweep of the
adjacent parks or by those frequent
green squares of open ground which add
charm to the most prosaic architecture
of a town, similar to that conferred by
the bending river on the monotony of a
wide champaign. As to England gem
orally, the presence of this fresh and
fragrant green-not in strips only here
and there, but everywhere, in large, in
terminable sweeps-gives a charm to
the landscape with which neither Italy
nor Germany nor any fairest continen-
tai country can vie, SO in London the
glory of green trees, wildly fresh amid
the dullness of old bricky courts, and
beneath the pail of frequently cloudy
sky, brings the memory, SO to speak,
and certain afflatus of the country into
the town just as the arms of the sea on
the west of the Highlands run with
graceful willfulness up to the root of
the bens, bringing the strong breath of
ocean along with them. This strange
and unexpected combination of contrary
things fills the eye with changes of a
pleasurable surprise.
A great contribution to this delight
full intermixture of town and country
is formed by what was once the suburbs
of London, but what are now essential
parts of the city; for it is rule, with
few exceptions, that men who do busi-
ness in the city proper--that is, the dis
trict of which st. Paul's is the center.
with the Tower and the Strand as the
two wings-reside not in the city, but
decamp regularly about or 5o'clock
into those comparatively open circum-
jacent districts which are either separ-.
ate small towns or open green COM
mons surrounded with Villas CdsseWs
Family Magazine.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
MAvERIckITEMs.
New way to pay old debts: Run new

New way to pay old debts: Run new
ones.
Everything is adulterated nowadays.
A San Francisco man bought q cork
leg, and afterwards ascertained that it
was made of paper.
A San Francisco minister found
slice of dried tongue lying beside the
bible last Sunday when he entered his
pulpit. He took the hint.
If you would hit roller-skater with
barrel stave one half as hard as he
hits himself when he sits down uninvit-
ed, he would have you arrested for
assault.
A Kentuckian has recently patented
a gin-saw. We don't know what GIN
saw is used for, but suppose it is intend
ed to saw off his breath. Bet he'll
break every tooth out of it if he uses it
for that purpose.
A Tucson, Arazona, man, while pray
ing the other day was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. Sorry to
hear that he was killed. There is a
certain somethingness," as Oscar
Wilde would say, in knowing that there
was at least one man in Arizona who
prayed.
"Oh, Miss McSweher," said little
Lodi school boy to his teacher, II
heard pa talking to Mr.. Jones about
you"
Indeed" replied the teacher, archly,
"What did he say?''
HE said you were the hardest work
ing teacher he ever saw"
''And what did Mr.. Jones say?" she
asked, pleasantly.
HE said you didn't know anything,
and had to study hard to keep from
forgetting it.
Last Monday when it was raining vio-
lently, we had occasion to visit Oak
land. While on the ferrvboat Charley
Mccarthy remarked that it had been u
cold, wet rain all the week.
Young Oakdude, who had been sip
ping ginger pop, thought he would be
heard of a hot dry rain.
II did," responded Charley. The
good book tells us that rain of fire and
birthstone fell upon Sodom and
Gomorah."
''How much for these oysters?' quer-
ried an eastern man, as he stepped to
the cashiers desk in an oyster house on
Market street.
''Six bits"
Eyes, you struck it; six bits, and
mighty small bits they are! You ought
to get some Providence river oysters
out here"
Il mean the price is six bits, seventy
five cents"
"Oh, the devilr'-CalJormia Aaue-
ric
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-01-28
Condensed General News.
Kaiser William Makes a Speech.

Contrary to the advice OF his physician
Emperor William was present at the open
ing of the Prussian diet on the 14th. In
his speech, he said
am grateful for the love and fidelity OF
my people, and for the benevolent sympa-
thy which has been extended to me from
foreign countries. Our foreign relations
are friendly, and support fully our belief
that the peace OF Europe is sure to contin-
ne. The finances of Prussia are somewhat
improved, but it viii again be necessary to
effect loan. The loan, however. will be
smaller than that issued in 1885. The en-
peror concluded by ascrihing the depression
In trade to overproduction, which, he said,
1T wasimpossible to prevent by legal meas
ures. He announced that bills would be
introduced for the construction of rail
ways and canals, as well as other meas
ures that would be designed to assure the
development of the German people and
prevent the Polish element from pressing
Germans back.
The emperor delivered his speech in a
clear, firm voice. The business portion of
the speech was read by Prince Bismarck.
The absence OF reference to relations with
the Vatican is much commented upon.