The National tribune., 1888-11-22
PERSONAL.
army.

When Gen. Grant was in Japan Prince Kung, the
Premier, endeayoring to compliment him by as
surfing him that he was born to command, said:
Sire, brave Generate, you vos made to order"
Gen Harrison now receives so much mail every
day that an express wagon is required to haul it
from the postofice to his residence. This requires
the employment of numerous secretaries to open
and answer it, as the General tries TO answer
every communication which comes to him. These
letters are upon every possible subject and from
every quarter of the United States, but most of
them are requestsfo for appointment to variOusoices
within his gift
Gen. John G.. Parkhurst of Michigan, Minister
to Belgium was presented to the Secretary of State
on Thursday morning by Postmaster General
Dickinson and afterward waited on the President.
He spent the afternoon at the State Department. re-
ceiving instructions. lie will sail for Europe from
New York on the LIST of December.
Gems sewell, Black. Franklin and Hartranft,
members of the Board of Visitors of the National
Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. started on
their annual visit to the Homes in the West on
Friday last. They will visit the Homes at Dayton,
o.; Milwaukee, Wis and Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
1t is expected that their trip viii occupy about two
weeks.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, the famous author
of Uncle Toms Cabin" who has been i'll for a
number of weeks. appears almost well again. She
was afflicted mentally rs well as physically and
her recovery will gladden. many hearts. Her works
have been translated into every known tongue,
and she has had, perhaps, the largest number of
readers of any writer the world has produced.
Col. D. S. Alexander, formerly Sixth Auditor of
the Treasury and Commander of the Department
of the Potomac GAR. says that he has not been
offered the position of Private Secretary to Presi
dent-eIect Harrison and cannot of course, refuse
or accept it until it is rendered him. but he has
aspirations in that direction. He went to Buffalo
to engage in the practice of law with his old class
mate, James A. Roberts, and finds that connection
very pleasant and profitable. He does not desire
to leave it to accept position of much response
bilty and work which lie may have to relinquish
in four years, without having made his position in
i life substantially better.
Senator sherman, of Ohio. arrived in the city on
Sunday last and is looking remarkably well for a
/ man who has been speaking almost constantly for
the past three months. He would not talk regard
| ing the rumors to his being Secretary of State,
saying that should the position be offered him
| there wonld be plenty of time given him in which
to accept decline. He thinks the victory OF Har
rison and Morton glorious one. and that protee-
| ton TO American industries the keynote of
/ success,
| Carter Harrison, who was a Member Of Congress
/ from Illinois, and who obtained notoriety more
/ his trip around the world, and was given recep-
1 ton on Friday night. Nov. 10 by the citizens of
! Chicago The greatest act of Carriers career as a
| Member of Congress was his speech upon the Ma
rne Band His name in this city for the balance of
his term was " Marine Band Harrison"
| All the Republican Presidents since Abraham
| Lincoln have been born in Ohio The list is Grant
Hayes, Garfield and Harrison.
Gen. William Henry Browne was married on
Thursday last in this city to Miss Louise Waleott
as Second Lieutenant under Gen. Scott in Mexico
| and was twice brevetted for galIantry. After the
| Mexican war he resumed his law studies, but en-
tered the army again when the rebellion broke out
He was commander of a brigade of the Sixth Corps
and was twice wounded. He was a gallant sol
| der.
Gen Nelson A. Miles, o. s. A., received formal
notice from the War Department on Thursday las
of his transfer to san Francisco. Call where he i.
to take command of the Military Division of the
Pacific, vice Gen. o. o. Howard who is transferred
to the command Of the Military Division of thC
Atlantic.
Private DaIzeu announces himself again a candi
date for the office of Postmaster of the House o
Representatives aud says that his viii b,
presented by the Ohio Members, unless the new
Speaker shall be an Ohio We hope the Pri
vate will succeed this time, for he has done grea
work for the soldiers Of the country, well as FOL
the party which will come into power March f.
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, of New York. for
merIy Colonel of the SOth Ne, has given to Me
mortal Hail. of Bowdoin College. a bronz
| tablet containing the names and military rank o
| the $50 Bowdoin alumni and undergraduates YhS
| served in the army during the war.