The National tribune., 1892-08-04

stone, while that which was in the bottom of the
cavity fine sand. The walls of the cavity
were also covered with the stony substance. Every
particle of the stone was removed and the wound
covered and dressed. Twenty four hours after
ward Mai. Towne had improved wonderfully. aud
there is every prospect Of his recovery Nothing
similar has been reported in medicine. Maj.
Towne was a soldier in the llth H.. and is promi-
nent in Grand Army circles in Chicago.
The late Cyrus c. Csdy. whose death occurred
recently in Denver, was an old time railroad con-
ductor and one of the pioneers in the service in the
West. He n friend and sdmirer Of Abraham
Lincoln and ardent hater OF Lincoln's rival for
Senatorial honors In Illinois-Stephen A. Douglas
During the historic oint-discussion campaign be-
tween Lincoln and Douglas the latter at
time passenger on Cady's train for Quincy, and
when Cady discovered the fact he approached the
Little Giant" and said: "Steve. II had known
you this train would have run 1t to the
bottom of the Mississippt River. God save thu
Commonwealth" Mr.. Cady a soldier Of the
war Of the rebellion He will be best remembered
in the West from the fact that he was Of the
builders Of the Northern Cross" Railroad in Ili-
nos-the road Of which the late Gen. Singleton
was one Of the early managers and which 10 now
part of the Wabash System. Another distinction
of DIR. Cady was that he brought the first moving
machine 10 Colorado-hardly 80 years ago.
Of the death at Mount McGregor of Gen. Grant.
Although no special commemora.ion took place,
there was unusual number of visitors at the
cottage. and the children decorated with wreaths
of daisies the bed on which the General died.
Gen. Sir John Bisset, K. c. B.. for years tho
British commander at Gibraltar, entertained Gen.
Sherman at that point when the latter visiting
Spain. The hero OF The March to the Sea" sent
Sir John, in acknowledgment subsequently, a
handsome rife which the recipient has directed TO
be heirloom in his family. Thereafter, every
year in time for Gen. Sherman's Christmas dinner
he received from his British friend pair of pheas-
ants.
pension fraud. giving The name Of A. H. Raum,
and claiming to be a of Gen. Raum. was
arrested at Waterbury, Conn. last week. He was
fined nearly $500 in the Police Court. and being
unable TO pay was sent to Jail. He has been work.
ing soldiers in Connecticut for several months.
Detroit paper says that Mrs. Logan Is said to
be the historic woman who drank out of finger
bowl to save the feelings Of an embarrassed guest
from Podunk, and the statement, If true, proves
the claim Of her friends that she is the most
teous woman I'm Washington. No such sacrifice to
politeness has been made since Lord Chesterfield
drank without wineing and with words OF praise
on his lips, the glass of vinegar thievish butler
had substituted for the prime old vintage the host
intended to set before his expectant guests.
Gen. Carl Schurz ia said to be at work on sew
eral speeches to be delivered in the approaching
campaign. He cannot speak extemporaneously,
and it Is necessary for him to write out and COM
nit to memory all his addresses, but as a result
they gain in force and elegance of diction.
Gen. James 3. Weaver, the candidate for the
Presidency the Peoples Party ticket, had
royal welcome from his old friends In Davis
County, Iowa, on his return home from the Nomt-
mating Convention at Omaha. The Bloomfield
Courthouse was packed and Gen. Weaver made
speech. After expressing his qualification at
meeting his old friends and neighbors Gen.
Weaver remarked that on the first day of next May
Il would be so years since he moved into Davis
County, and II he lived until that time he would
lock up the White House and come back home and
hold picnic " Bill" Dodd's Farm, where his
father first settled.
Gen. z. Burd Grub began the prosecution Of
the Jersey City ballot box suffers, whose summary
conviction has given that city its first glimpse Of
good Government and honest elections; and he
has now entered upon the work of fighting their
attempt to get Judge Lippincott's righteous SEN
tence reversed in the New Jersey Court Of APP
peaIs.
Comrads James Auble, of Garfield, Ne5., says
that it was not Gen. Scott but Gen. Taylor, "Old
Rough and Ready" who gave the order for "a
little more grape Capt. Bragg" at the battle OF
Buena Vista. At that time Gen. Scott was in front
of Vera Cruz, and could not have given the order
to Capt. Bragg at Buena Vista