The National tribune., 1893-05-18
PERSONAL.

Charles Rurriil died in Concord y. H.. on March
% He the principal in the BurriIl claim, which
pending before The Boston City Government
for % years II Was finally settled for $4,000 al
though i, originally for $50, GOO 1t ont
of an agreement made between Mr.. BurrIl and
Mayor F. w. Lincoln In May. 1864 by which Mr..
Burrill to raise Boston's quota of men for the
war. Mayor Lincoln made the contract his
own responsibility, and the contention that
it was not binding the city. Tho number of
men Mr.. BurriIi furnished was 1926 He spent
$3.50 900 in trying TO get back what he had spent,
and had counsel ut various times Gen. Butler.
ex Gov. CASTOR aud Henry W. Paine. When the
settlement was made he had only So 600 left, the
lawyers fees eating up the rest.
The late Dr. Andrew Peabody was abroad at the
time Gen. Grant made his journey around the
world. and while the two in Europe they
together much of the time. DIR. Hale says that
they conceived a very great admiration each for
the other; their intimacy eordial and main
tanned by correspondence until the death of Presi
dent Grant. DR.. Peabody's impressions of the
great General were vivid, and ii always inter-
esting to hear him speak of them. There would
be equal interest in hearing what The soldier said
and thought of the philosopher and scholar"
Adj't-Gen. Eaton, of the State OF Michigan, has
recently received a valuable addition to the many
war relics stored up in the State Museum at
Lansing. A letter accompanied the relics written
by Edward Hill. Lieutenant Colonel 10Th Mich,
dated New York April 10. which reads as follows:
u send you this day battle guidon of the 10Th
Regiment Infantry Veterans. lis work in The field
is DONE and it seeks sanctuary in your care
amidst tie sacred mementos of Mchigan's wRrlike
days II stood for the honor and loyalty of a State
whose brave followed it to many bloody
battlefield. May it still stand an emblem of pa
triotisn, always eyoking from younger the
loyal motto, / will defend"
L. S. West, of Charlotte, S. c.. went into the Oh
serrer office. in that village. few days ago and
left n small silver cross Sixth Corps badge) bear
ing this inscription: " L. N Cummings, Co. /, 4th
Regt. W. Vols" Mr.. West took the cross from
Cummings hat after the battle of the Wilderness,
near Fredericksburg, he thinking at the time that
Cummings was dead. He has carried it in his
pocket ever since. Thinking, however, that some
OF Cummings relatives might like TO regain the
cross he asked the Observer to mention that 1t
in his possession. Cummin gs, however was not
dead when the badge was removed. but prob
ably unconscious, he was wounded. taken pris-
oner paroled and finally mustered out of the
service July 49, 1865. He lived but a short time
after returning to Vermont. dying at Wilmington
April 30 1867. aged 81 years. G. G. Peterson, of
Burlington, saw the notics in the Observer wrote
the editor of that paper and in return received the
bndge which looks bright and the engraving
as plain rs it was the day Cummings wore it to the
battlefield. Mr. Peterson has forwarded it to the
relatives of the dead soldier, who now reside in
Nottingham, VT
Ex-Presdent Harrison is to be made member
of the Virginia Historical Society at the next meet
ing of the Committee Membership.
Gen. George G. Greene, the oldest living grad
uate of West Point celebrated his 93d birthday on
Saturday May s, at the residence of his son. in
New York. He entered the late Colonel of
the 6Oth N y and came out Major-GeneraI. He
graduated from the Military Academy in 1928. and
fterward took up the profession of civil engineer
ing.
The baptism of Baby Grubb, son of ex-Minister
10 Spain, Gen. e. Burd Grubb, at Burlington n. j.
was the most Respondent cerem opy in the social
annals of that Jersey town. Indeed 1t was second
in splendor only to the marriage of its illustrious
parent when the City Troop of Philadelphia lent
glory and dignity to the OCCASION After the rite
was over 1.-THE beautiful boy carried through
the lines for the soldier heroes to feast their eyes
upon"
Public attention has been specially directed to
the late Capt Wiltse by his conduct as Captain of
The Boston in connection with the proposed an-
he Ration of the Sandwich Islands. His conduct
before during and after the hoistng of the Ameri-
eau flag at Honolulu was such to receive warm
approval, and in a conversation with the Editor of
The ArJny and Nary Journal n few days before his
TAI al Illness the Captain spoke with pride of what
he had done, aud gave expression to very earnest
American. feeling on the subject of annexation.
lie also expressed his qualification that he had
not been rndc the instrument of hauling down
the Gag. When he was at Honolulu British
naval officer said to him. II an English officer
had done what you did. cir, we would have made