The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-01-21
PERSONAL.


Of the expiration Of his three years of
service. la three more years from the expiration
Of his service he will be retired by operation Of
the age limit law. Ina the AdmirllPs case there is
apparent absurdity Of setting fixed legal limit
TO the usefulness d any large body Of men, for he
is as hale and hearty many men Of only half his
years. This stout Old tar present in the Ian
caster when the British bombarded Alexandria,
Egypt, and saw HiPpoIyte capture Port-au- Prince.
Chief Garry. Of the Spokane tribe Of Indians
died on Thursday. Jan. a. at Spokane Wash. He
n very old Chief, and led his tribe At the time
the eonfederated tribes met and defeated Col. Ed
ward J. Steptoe, Of the OH q. s. Inf, in 1853.
Later i'm that year Col. Wright met the confed-
Grated tribes near the Falls Of Spokane, and COM
pleteIy routed them. warning them never TO again
take up arms against the whites, which admoni-
ton old Chief Garry observed to the last. His
people have dwindled terribly since that time,
there now being bat a handful Of them, and they
ara left without reservation lands Of their
own.
Lieut.. George T. Langhorue. Sd U. s. Cav, who
has been distinguishing himself on the Mexican Dor
der IA the efforts which the United States troops
making to capture Garza the Mexican rsvOIutionist
leader. Is the who had the historic fstie en- I
counter with brother cadet from Baltimore at /
the West Point Military Academy. The difficulty 1
grew out Of the assignment by Lsnghorne who I
officer Of the corps Of colOred cadet 70 the |
BaItimorean's mess table. Langhorne was the 4
victor in the mill " which followed fought ndsr /
prize lighters rules. and which ia said TO have /
lasted two hours, both eombatants being badly /
punished.
The Grand Jury ut Hannibal Mo-. on Thursday, |
Jan. "A. found true bill against Lieut.. James f.
Dodge. nth U. s. Inf, charged with robbing Ed l
ward DOnsheds store several months ago. Lieut. /
Dodge is a nephew Of " Gail Hamilton" the cee- |
brRted writer and Mrs. james G. Blaine, vito Of
the Secretary Of State Dodge WAS born in Mime
sofa. and enlisted ia the Army several years ago,
and was promoted Second Lieutenant in the I4th
Inf from Sergeant in the general service. ia 1890
His career in the Army has been anything but an
enviable one. and he will probably be cashiered
the military authorities get him from
the civil authorities.
Judge Walter O. Gresham had an experience
with crank in the United States Circuit Court
Chambers in Chicago last week. When the Judge
entered the chambers he found the man talking to
Judges Blodgett and Jenkins. The crank ap-
preached the Judge and asked for some man
whom he did not know. and told by the
Judge. The crank then said the man he look
ing for had promised to meet him, and ought 20 be
there. Surprising the crank had business, the
/ Judge paid no further attention 70 him. About
o'clock Ia the RfIsrnOon the man again approached
Judge Gresham, saying the Marshal had that money
locked up and would not give It him. as the Judge
| had ordered him to do Not realizing that the
| man crazy, the Judge asked him what money
! he referred 10. and told by the crank that it
was the s.. 900 Jay Gould had paid and had order
/ ed him tO have. The Judge then examined the
| man closely and observed a wild expression of
| countenance, and then told him to go to the Mar
| shall again. and he would that he got what hs
| was entitled 10. The crank declined, saying that
/ the Anarchists wanted to kin him. and were after
/ him. The Judge managed to get between the
| crank and the door. telling him to sit down, that
/ he would be back in a moment. The crank sat
| down and the Judge went to the Marshal, who
had the police remove the man and have him cared
/ for He asked the Judge IL he was a cIairvoyant,
and said he was constantly receiving messages
from people OF that kind aud said he had just had
| a message from jay Gould about the 5000. The
crank will be placed where he can do no harm.
August r. Dppell. Trumpeter of Troop B. 5th o.
| s. Cav now stationed at Fort Reno, T. T., has
eeived official notice from Germany that he is sole
heir To n fortune Of $4,000 Ieft by his uncle who
died recently ia Prussia. He enlisted last April in
| Chicago, and was 81 years OF age jan IL His
| home is ia Joliet, ILL., He will apply for his dis
charge in order to go To Germany 10 live.
Gen. b. F. Butler processes ignorancs Of the
$4,000 libel suit brought against him by the pub
fishers. Estes & Lauriat. He adds that he il not
| only unconscious of having said anything libel
iOus but is unable to understand how firm can
bring such an action. 1t Is not the same. he says
individual.
| An equestrian statue Of Gen. George d. MoCiel-
Ian In bronze By Heny c. Eiiicott. of Washington,
will be erected in Philadelphia on Sept. II. 1892 the
sOth anniversary Of the great battle Of Antetam.
The statue is now being made for the Mcclellan
Memorial Association of Philadelphia. The sculp
tors design shows a foreeful gfoup-the spirited
| horse tense with excitem ent as he pauses at the
crest of slight rise of ground, with the quiet, Inn
passive Little Mac" on his back, as his soldiers
saw him on the day that some Of them claim he
saved the Nation. One of Philadelphias leading
journals makes inquiry in this connection, why
Hancock native Pennsylvania and the hero
| Of Gettysburg il not Likewise remembered" A
statue Of Meade already OverlOoks the Schuy kill,
and one OF the gallant Hartranft is assured and
better subject could be found for a statue by the
! people Of Philadelphia than the great soldier Gen.
| Winfield Scott Hancock.
| George W. Bou4man, Of Stafford Kan, recently
| poye hi. experience in a local paper as a member
of the II6lh Ind. six months organization, raised
| in the Summer Of 1868. Although Comrade Bous-
man served a year in Co. H. s7th Ind. and from
July 1861 10 May 1863 in the 5th U. s. Cav losing
Ie in the latter service at Winchester Va, Sept
10 1861 he says that all his suerings and priva-
/ nous while iu other services dwinded and paled
= / into insiguiGcance compared with his services
, / while with the Persimmon Knockers" brigade,
~ ne dubbs the brigade composed Of the ll5th
II6th: II7th and lISth Ind. which service in
r Kentucky and Tsuuessce in 1863 and 1864.
Not the least remarkable thing In the truly re-
marketable career OF Gen. Ulysses 5. Grant is that.
in addition to being Of the greatest Generals OF
his era he should, in his declining years-indeed,
in his dying days, 20 speak more defnitey-havo
become the most successful author of that epoch
His family lave been paid the enormous sum Of
sIL s552s for the book he then wrote. Before
Gen. Grant took ND his pen 10 write his Memoirs
IL seemed almost as unlikely that he would gain
this distinction in authorship IL had seemed be-
fore the rebellion that he would become the most
celebrated General Of his time and the President Of
the United States His career was a MARVEL and
il dehed intelligent prediction with regard to the
events that characterized IL.
Gen Dan McCauIy, the appointment Clerk ofthe
Treasury has had a barrel Of fun out of the story
that he was captured and held for ransom by the
Mexieans Someone who knows the General says
that he captured, but escaped by telling the
Greasers a joke. The gentleman evidently knows
. the genial Dams qualification. Secretary Foster