The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-07-20
PERSONAL.

The resemblance OF Col. Fred Grant TO his dis
ting uished father Is said be much more striking
since his return from Europe.
Comrade p. G. A. Orr, Pension Agent at Buffalo
n. Y, Is making n fine record for himself, by
breaking that OF all others i'm the rapid payssnt
OF pensions. He has invented a system, which
greatly facilitates the work and shorisns the time
Of making the pay ments He pays out every quar-
ter over 81, 1900 to about 5000 claimants His
first payment took place shortly after he assumed
the Office and. with all the disadvantages connected
with It, occupied about two weeks. His next pay
ment he got through with in seven days; while
his last, which took place recently, completed
and everything cleared up in six working days.
This Is uDheard-of rapidly in making so large a
disbursement to so many different payees.
At the recent dedication of the Lowell (aTsss)
Memorial Building f. T. Greenhalge delivered an
eloquent address. In speaking of the future gen.
Grafton. he sad AS this peace security and quiet
came by the sword 1t Is fitting that the image of
the soldier OF 1861 should be forever in the students
mind. When In coming years the sons and daugh-
tiers OF veterans and their chdren's children come
to this library to CLEAN wisdom from its treasures.
they will hear the steps of their fathers through
the history OF the rebellion OF the 10Th century and
as the blazing page of suffering and triumph
opened, the stainless soldiers on the walls will
seem to be alive; the modering banners will be
waved by unseen hands, the eager eye Of studious
youth will trace again the march of liberty and
Union through defeat, through victory, through
hospital, through prison and over battlefield from
Baltimore to Appomattox. from the mountains to
the on land and water till the Stars and Stripes
are seen waving not only over Lowell, Boston,
Philadelphia, and New York. but over Charleston.
Savannah. New Orleans. and Richmond"
A lifelike picture of Mai. Gen. William Wells has
been presented by his widow to the Stale of YER
mont. and has been hung in the Capitol beside the
portrait Of Gen. Philip II. Sheridan, with whom he
did efficient service during the OF the rebellion
Gen. Wells went out Lieutenant in the Ist VT.
Cav. and was rapidly promoted. He died in
April, 1892.
John Jones, now residing in Portsmouth, n. H,
received recently from the Navy Department. in
Washington a bronze medal which was awarded
to him by Secretary Welles % years ago. It bears
the inscription: Personal Yslor. John Jones,
Landsman, United States steamship Rhode Island.
Loss of the Monitor. Dec. 81. 1862"
Gen. Ely s. Parker, lneal descendant of the
famous Indian Chief Red Jacket. the last surviving
chief of the Seneca tribe of the Six Nations FORM
erly a member Of Gen. Grants staff and now clerk
at Police Headquarters, in New York City, was
stricken with paralysis while ut his desk shortly
before noon July Il. Gen. Parker is "a years old.
and lives with his wife and daughter at 253 West
in the West. He has been clerk in the Police
Department since 1876. He was born Indian
reservation in the western part of New York, and
early in life showed apt ude for study, and at
tended the Polytechnic Institute at Troy, n. Y. He
graduated at a law school, but not allowed to
practice at the time because of bis Indian blood
He then studied civil engineering and at the out
break OF the civil war held Government position
under Gen. Badly" Smith At the surrender OF
Cen TIpa at Apno NIT Gan parLr al
Grants dictation, drew up the conditions of the
surrender.
John 8. Moser tells an anecdots of Gen. Grant.
ComrAde Mosier, one hot morning in front of
Petersburg. was watering horses at a spring when
a mounted soldier pushed his horse up to the
spring, regardless OF Moser's prior right of pos-
session Turning angrily the newcomer he
going 10 say. What the are yon crowd
ing for? but stopped short at the" touched his
cap, aud said: GOOD morning, General" for it
was Grant himself Very dusty this morning."
responded the great Captain, wiping his face
his sleeve. Somewhat treasured by his friendly
manner. Mosier asked, General why do you let
the Johnnies build that fort right under
noses?" pointing TO an earthwork the enemy
were building. "Ob" replied Grant, when they're
working at that they're not doing anything else"
The next morning. however. $50 guns were turned
loose that earthwork, and before dinner the
Johnnes had their two weeks work to do over
again.
Ex-Mnister Robert T. Lincoln has taken a cot
tage at Rye Beach, N. H.. always q fayorite resort
of his since his boybood days. when he was at
school at Exeter, not far away, and he will pass
the Summer there.
Gen. Lew Wallace gave reading the other night
in indianapolis. He read selections from his forth
coming book. "Gen. Wallace" says friend, has
always had able helper in his wife; and am
told that another of his literary advisers Mary
H. Krout, the author of Little Brown Hands,"
Mrs. Lewis Rice, of Frederick, Nd. has collected
enough money to place a more imposing monu-
meut upon the grave of Francis Scott Key, author
of The Star Spangled Banner" than the fiat
marble slab that marks it in Mount Olivet
Cemetery. Washington. d. c.
The sofa that Grant and Lee sat upon at Apo
mattox when they arranged the surrender stands
in the West Virginia Building at the Worlds Fair.
It belonged to Alexander McLain. at whose house
the Generals met 1t comes from Harry e. Still
man, who married Miss McLaiD, SO there is no doubt
about It's genuineness. A secretary accompanies
the old highback mahogany sofa. The tradition
is that the papers drawn up this secretary.
Yet another tradition has It that table carefully
preserved in the War Museum was the piece of
furniture which the signing was done by the
two Generals. Southern women anxious to sit
the sofa where Gen. Lee sat-" One visitor
studied the situation for several moments. pumped
herself down on the right-hand end e1claiming:
"Fli bet anything this is where he sat" and point
ing to the other end, that is where Grant sat-"
VIM. L. Walters a mine boss in one of the Read
ing eollieries, died at Ashland, Pa, recently. He
the Queens medal for meritorious services in
the Crimean war.
The widow of the late Capt James Sheppard
Thornton. the Executive Officer of the Kearsarge
during the fight with the Alabama, is to build fine
memorial in his honor in Merrimack, N II. Capt
Thornton was a lineal descendant of Matthew
Thornton one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence from New Hampshire.
MUSTERED OUT.
Veterans of the COuntry's Grandest Army
Who Have Answered the Last Call.