The Press., 1891-02-19
The president Saturday afternoon sen

The president Saturday afternoon sent the following message to congress
 "The death of William Tecumseh Sher- man, which took place today at his resi- dence in the city of New York, at one o'clock and fifty minutes p. m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen. No living American was loved and venerated as he. To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have ones love of country intensified. He served his country not for fame, not out of a sense of professional duty, but for love of the flag and of the benefcent civil insti- tutions of which 1t was the emblem.
 He WAS an ideal soldier, and shared to the fullest the esprit du corps of the army, but he cherished the civil institutions or panized under the constitution, and was only soldier that these might be perpet- uated in undiminished usefulness and hon. or. He was in nothing an imitator. A profound student of military science and precedent, he drew from them principles and suggestions, and so adapted them to novel conditions that his campaigns will continue to be profitable study of the m1li- tary profession throughout the world. His genial nature made him comrade to every soldier of the great union army. No presence was so welcome and inspiring at the camp fire or commandery as his. His career was complete; his honors were full. He had received from the government the highest rank known to our military estab- ishment, and from the people unstinted gratitude and love. No word of mine can add to his fame. His death has followed in startling quickness that of the admiral of the navy, and it is sad and noble incl dent that when the department under which he served shall have put on the usual emblems of mourning, four of the eight executive departments will be simul- taneously draped in black, and one other has but today removed the crape from it's walls. :"
 The trusts are having hard time these days. The latest to suffer from judicial decision is the National harrow company, 8 recently organized combine of harrow manufacturers. One of the parties to the combine was the Clipper chilled plow com. pany of Elmira, N. Y. Wishing to with trary fixing of prices, it sought legal per- mission. Judge Walter Lloyd Smith grants the request and in hls opinion roundly denounces the combine as a con- spiracy indictable at common law. The effect of the decision is to cancel the con- pany's contract with the trust and to per- init any individual company in the com. blne to sell it's products at such prices IS it shall determine. The trust is hydra headed evil, but the hercules of law is ap- parently able to deal it extinguishing blows.
 Hartford Courant: According to the New Haven Register the city officials in that place failed to have the flag at half mast in honor of Gen. Sherman because it was damaged to the tune of $45 when 80 displayed for Gen. Terry. The city aud itor, John w. Lake, is quoted as saying that after that experience he does not pro- pose to put the flag out in stormy weather s'except on the most extraordinary occa- sions." Three days ago General Sherman was the greatest living soldier in this country. Now he is dead, and his services remain-as they were-above all price to this nation. When it is proposed to do the common honor to his memory, an of fcial of Connecticut city finds that there is no occasion extraordinary enough to jus tify risking a few dollars damage to flag It is to be hoped there is some mistake in this story.
 The mutual confidence in each other, the deep affection which existed between Grant and Sherman from their first meet ing until the close of their lives, is one of the loveliest things in the whole history of the war. Many will recall the incident re- lated of Sherman soon after be had con- pleted his march to the sea. A distin- guished civilian who visited him at at Savannah endeavored to induce him to speak disparagiDgly of Grant. Ut won't do; it won't do, Mr.-," said Sherman in his quick, decided way, ''General Grant is 8 great general I know him well. He stood by me when was crazy, and stood by him when he was drunk, and now, sir, we stand by each other always"
 Henry M. Burt calls the Springfield Unions attention to paragraph it pub. hshed, saying: 'Such coincidence as the deaths of Gen. Sherman and Admiral Porter within two days has not happened before in this generation, nor perhaps in the history of the country" and adds in correction elf you will turn to the Am erican encyclopedia you will there find that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the great central figures in the events connected with the revolution, both died on the same day, and what is still more remarkable as coincidence, oD July 4, 1926, just 50 years from the signing of the declaration of independence.
 Judge Elisha Johnson, 83, one of Hart ford's most prominent lawyers, died yes terday morning after two weeks illness with bronchial pneumonia. He had served more terms in both branches of the legis- lature than any other man in the state, had been city, police and probate judge, one of klan ol ,o1s Soos1r noosn