Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-07

has become bishop since he presided at Grant 8
funeral, aud he waS especially anxious to be
present in the room when Grant died. He is,
you know, all. fine looking man with great
head and great frame. His blood is full OF
iron, and he can Outsleep auy of the noted
preachers of the country. He likes good living,
is FOND of q Turkish bath and appreciates the
good things OF this life to their full extent.
Here at Mount Mc6regor he stayed up night
after night waiting for Grant to die, snd the
watching wore upon him. 1t was said at the
time that he had a contract with some publisher
to write up the death-bed scene for $500, but l
doubt whether this was true. He was, know,
very anxious to be present at the time of Grant S
death, and the night that Grant did die, mas
much as the general appeared to be better than
usual, DR.. Newman concluded to &C to he hotel
and get little sleep. He left instructions that
he was to be called if The general got worse, but
in the excitement he was forgotten. He made
however, nne funeral Grafton over Grant, and
had here good chance to display some of that
ability which he really possesses. This much
by way of preliminary. Well, few years after
this Gen. John A. Logan died at washington.
and Newman was present at his death bed just
as the breath left his body the Rev. Dr., with
gestures that would have fitted better to b >
stage than death chamber, moved his hands
from Logan's body upward and in grandilo-
quent words stated that he waited the great gem
erals soul into the arms Of its maker. 1tstruck
me at the time that it was greatly out of place,
and doubt not but that Parson Newman had
this scheme cooked mp for Grant and got it off
Logan. II was not out OF character with the
man, who, in euloglzing young Stanford, the
millionaire son, compared him with our Sa-
vior. 1t is said that DR.. Newman received So,
0l0 for that sermon. es o present from Leland
Stanford. l don't believe this is true, for l
asked the reverend doctor as TO the fact, when
he was here at Mount McGregor ald ne told me
1t was false.
meet everywhere tn e lady clerks of the gov
eminent departments at Washington. They are
of on their vacations, and they enjoy them
selves as well any class l know. Most of
come OF blue booded families. Each clerk re-
ceives 8 months leave during the year, and
most Of them take the time in the summer. At
some Of the watering places you may see
number Of them together. All, however, seem
to have one rule, and that is not to talk shop
away from Washington. Quite number do not
care 10 be known as Uncle Sans girls. You
would never imagine that many OF the appar-
emily most frivolous Of them hold good positions
and maze from $1,000 to $500 year by their
brains and hands. Some of them are very sill II
in their being ashamed of their work, and a
few pretend to wealth that they have not.
saw one OF these 10 a very extravagant
thing in of the leading iewelry stores
here yesterday. She came in with friend and
asked 10 see some pocket TASKS OF solid silver.
She was shown a beautiful half pint bottle en-
cased in silver. She cooked at it a moment and
asked the price. The storekeeper told her it
want TO give the flask TO my 'fellow'' and Il
must be of solid silver. - But, - said the man.
1.-The solid TASKS are so expensive tn at we don't
viii cost you $40 IAN right said the
young thousand dollar year maiden, II want
1t and you may order it. - It struck me at the
flask and I'm wondering what dude in Wash
ington will carry it. 1 would not be surprised
but that the young lady would bear watching:
don't mean to say that there are many de-
partment girls who are this foolish. Many OF
them are the incest girls in the world and there
is more good marriageable material going to
waste in Washington than anywhere else in the
country. Massachusetts and its 50, 900 old maids
not exec tes. Now and then one goes off like
Brewster's wife, and this re-
minds me that the young lady who married Mr..
Jones OF the St. Louis Republic is having gay
time In Paris. The two are doing up Europe IN
style, and private letter from Paris states that
Jones has just bought pair of earrings for her
which cost 10 st twice what the young lady made |
in whole year while here She is getting lots |
Of dne dresses and she will probably be one OF
the best dressed women at Washington durin z |
The next season. Miss GRUEDY, ia.