Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-06
1t Was Offered at Odds Of Fifty to One
and Was Promptly.
Accepted.
Capturing Manipur Fort With
Only Eighty Men and
Routing 1000.
An Incident Of the Recent Rebellion
and Massacre of Her Maiesty's
Eastern Possessions.

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vents, says Richard Harding Davis in Har-
pers Weekly. Its scene is laid in Mr.
kipling's own territory, and it deals with
decoys and iungIes and the little darling
Goorkhas of whom Mr. Kipline is so fond
ard with native princes aud rajan
and hand-t0-hand fighting and the glory
of the British arms.
In the early part Of April the Associated
press, under the unfamiliar date line Of
Calcutta, told of massacre in Manipur,
wherever that may be, where seml-bar-
barOus native Indians rose against the
representatives Of the empress Of India
and killed them treacherously while they
were negotiating terms of peace, and try
ing to put the right rajah on the throne
from which troops Of the wrong raIah had
driven MIN The news was partly rumor,
partly horrible fact, and the names Of
many co am ssiOners and officers were
given as dead and as butchered after
death. And at the end of each newspaper
account was the brief statement: Lieut.
Grant, who left Tamur for Manipur with
eighty men, has not been heard from. He
is believed to be dead. 1t was a most un.
important ending and an anti-climaX
Nobody but the Grants, of Grant, in the
Highlands of Scotland, who raised the
BLACK Watch. knew or cared about this
unidentified and unknown Lieut.. Grant,
What was one lieutenant and eighty men
to three commissioners and colonies and
the commissioners wives and the picked
troops Of the Forty-foarth Gookhas?
But on the days following came fuller
and more accurate accounts of the massa-
ere; and it was told how the Manipuri had
shelled the Residency with the same can
non the empress Of India had sent them as
a token Of her royal good feeling; and how
the young officers and Mrs Grimwood had
escaped In The night, and travelled on fOo5
by Jungle paths for 10 miles iiv-
ing on roots. to be rescued at the last by
Capt Cowley hurrying forward with re
Inducements; and how Mrs. GrlmWood S
husband and the others who had left the
Residency to arbitrate, had reen cut
into quarters, and thrown into the moat
for the parish dogs to mangle as they
pleased 1t read like a page from the
history of the Sepoy mutiny, like a
modern version Of the terrible stories OF
Cawnp0re, Delhi, and Lucknow, and it
was a blow at the British rule in India,
and a trial to the hearts OF every one who
read it whether he read it in Eng
lish or translated into foreign tongue,
But there was one saving clause, one
paragraph THAT lightened the rest for
every one who read it, for Lieutenant
Grant. the unknown, marching, uncon-
scious Of mass acres, between Tamur and
Nanipur. had at last been heard from.
His paragraph came at the end, as it had
on the day before, modestly, as became
his rank, behind the colonies and commits
sioners. Lieutenant Grant, it read,
with so men, has defeated 1000 Mani.
puri, and has taken Fort Thobal, Now
nobody knew whether Fort Thobal was
brsthng with cannon or a mud embauk-
ment, but every one could appreciate that
80 into 1900 goes fifty times, and that
lIeuteuaut's Grant S chance was only one
in fifty when he charged NJ the wall Of
Fort Ihobal, and drove the ManIpuri
across and over the other side. And all
over the world, thanks to kilograms
and cables, the name and fame OF Lieu
tenant Grant became m0mentous aud
familiar, not only In the clubs Of
London. bu. in the elevated cars of New
York, and at breakfast tables from Paris
to Portland, Oregon For if all the world
loves a lover, 1t loves a hero next, and the
chance that came ia Lieutenant Grant
and the way lac rose 10 it, became
q brilliant spot in the gloomy tale of
traachery. butchery, and laundering ot
the MduIpurl massacre. Lieut.. Grant
held Fort Fhohal for three days, and then
repulsed the Mauipuri again at Along.
tang i'm fight that lasted three long hot
hours, during which the Senaputty prince
gtfl b H. fry, comm ay1nre yrnra Ellia9 and