The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-04-11


cerument that Is natural 10 him A good Judge OK
character. he is generous aud cordial toward
friends, aud very sympathetic and earnest in his
domestic life"
Grover Cleveland was not allowed to remain or
the public payroll very long Last week Judge
Patterson appointed hun Commissioner At "a a
day to buy the land for High Bridge Park. New
York City.
A letter from New Haven says that Capt. William
H. PisTpoHt, 9TH Conn. and crippled veteran,
who was dismissed from the Custom House under
Cleveland offensive partisan, is not eandi-
date for reinstatement TO his former position bas
for appointment to higher office. that OF Col
lector OF the Port. His competitors are two men
who were never In the service,
The case Of Herman Kempinskf, The naturaIized
American citizen who was arrested ia Poland last
December, has features which make It very prob
able that he viii soon De released by The Russian
Governments and allowed to return 70 the United
States. KemPinski was charged with having
evaded military duty which was claimed he owed
TO Russia, and tho State Departments requested bis
release through the Charge d AfTaires ad interim
at st. Petersburg.
Col Fred D. Grant, who was recently appointed
Minister to Austria Hungary viii sail for his Doss
OF duty on April Il. His family and mother will
accompany him. MFs. Grant the elder, will IN all
probability, spend the Summer ia England.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, the nswIy-appointed
Minister to England, was in Washington last week
ana called cpon President Harrison and Secretary
OF State Blaine and ormail y accepted the positfon
He viii leave the United States about Nav 15 a,d
VIII be accompanied by his entire family. The
English press express themselves as highly graft
led with Mr. LineolH's appointment and predict
that he viii make one of the best Representatives
this country has eyeFsent to She Court of St James
/ Gen. Franz SigeI, the Pension Agent in New
/ Aork city, has made good the losses to the Gov
/ eminent which have far been found that were
stolen by his son his deputy up to the time OF his
conviction; but letters are being eonstantIy "a
eeived which state that various sums have been
deducted from pensioners, and two Special Agents
have been detailed to examine into these com
\ plants, and if found to be just the Governments
/ viii reimburse the pensioners
Since the ex-Presidents prompt acceptance OF
+ another Office, some New Workers speak OF his
wife as . Mrs. Park Commissioner Cleveland"
Gen Neal Dow has been appointed as Names
Commissioners to The Paris Exposition
Gen. and Mrs. Butterfeld gave dinner last
week at their residence in New York to Col aud
HRS. Fred. Grant
Gen. Jacob Sharpe has resigned as Governor Of
| the National Soldiers Home in milwaukee,. Wis.
and Gen. Kiburn Knox succeeds him in that rosf,
ton. Gen Shapes resignation was the result OF
/ ill-heallh.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy LEFT Washington az
| O'Clock on Friday evening last, to inspect the
League Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia. He
was given reception by the Union League Climb
OF Philadelphia Friday evening, and went
through the Navy Yard Saturday, expressing
himself as being well pleased with the manner in
which the Yard is conducted
Commander George H Marden, OF Abraham
Lincoln Post, No. II, GAR. Char!estown. Mass.
was presented last week by associate letter carriers
OF the district, with sword and an Aids-de- Camp
belt and badge.
Gen. s. Wylie Crawford. o. 5. Army. retired.
writes from Paris, France where he has been
spending the Winter, to friend. and says that he
met Gen. Boulanger tvgho has been occupying so
much space on the political horizon of Europe for
the past year. ON several occasions, and that he
was in every way delighted with the celebrated
Frenehaan. Gen Crawford IS in excellent healsh
and suffers but little from his old wounds.