The National tribune., 1893-03-16

/ WIS. Ii. ~. Llncoin, Oh washington, recently
was presented with relic by Mrs. o. NJ Spot
| ford, of Pulaski, Tenn. The relic consists of
/ blocks of wood from tree on Lookout Mount
! ain. in which is embedded bullet over which
/ Is engraved Lookout Mountain" on a silver
plate, the whole forming an exquisite ink
stand. 1t is not known whether the bullet is
! from a rebel or Union gun
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The Department of State has been officially
notified that the Government of Paraguay has
appointed DIR. Gseser Gondra Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the
! United States. 1t has been several years since
| Paraguay has been represented at Washington
by n Minister. The United States at present
combines Paraguay and Uruguay Though those
| countries are separated by the Argentine Re-
| public) in one mission.
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| The Secretary of State has received dis
patch from Quilted States Minister Lincoln. at
London. England, inciosing communication
| from Mr.. Horace S. Folker, General Honorary
| Secretary of the National Fire Brgades of
England. inviting the fire departments of the
| United States to participac in proposed
| Grand International Fire Congress and Exhi-
bitioa which is to be held at the Royal Agri-
cultural Hall. London, from the 18th to the
| 18th Of June next
Gen. w. II. Jackson of Tennessee brother of
the newly appointed Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. accompanied by
the celebrated Tammany leader, Croker. Mrs
/ 70 fvvp dana md faff Wnr3ai lin
ton "Wednesday. March s, in Mr.. Croker's
| private car for the South. The party will
spend few days at Lexington. KY, in the
| heart Of the celebrated Blue Grass Country,
| and viii then proceed to Gen. Jackson's cele
| brated stock farm, Belle Meade" which is
near Nashville. Tenn., and is one of the hand
soonest properties in the South.
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The credentials of Lee Mantle, appointed by
Gov. ]. E. Richards, of Montana, as Senator
from that State to succeed Senator Sanders,
were presented in the Senate on Thursday.
March 9, By Senator Teller, of Colorado and
| read They were then laid on the table to be
referred to the Committee on Privileges and
| Elections when that committee shall have been
/ formed. In presenting Mr.. Mau:Ie's credentials
Senator Teller said that there were several
other credentials of like character to be pre-
| scented, invoiving question of law. which
would have to be decided at an early day.
A friend of Secretary Carlisle says that it is
the petty vexations of life that annoy the secre-
tary, and that big questions disturb him very
little While he was Speaker of the House it
became necessary for him to appoint two ele-
vator boys, and the worry entailed On him in
his endeavor to select the fittest two out of so
applicants upset him more than any other event
of bis whole term of office. II wish that ele.
vator would sink" he said one day, after rum
ming the gauntlet of q dozen beseeching
mothers. a. never could understand the need
of an elevator in the House. anyway"
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Secretary o. State Gresham, like many other
men in public life, has wife who attends to a
great deal of his correspondence for him. It ID
said that Mrs Gresham is very fond Of Wash
ineten, but likes il best when it ia most de-
serted. Secretary Gresham limps little when
he walks, and one of his legs Is crooked. This
is the result of wound received on the Doth
Of July. 1864. while commanding the Fourth
Division, Seventeenth Corps, in front of At
lauta- The General was out On the skirmish.
line when struck by Q rebel bullet, which
ended his campaigning with the Army Of the
Tennessee.
cablegram from London, dated March g.
announced that Senator Morgan, one Of the
representatives of the United States in the
Boring Sea Court Of Arbitration, is confined to
his bed at southampton, suffering from the
effects of mishap on the voyage from New
| York. During storm encountered by the
steamship New York Senator Morgan wa.
thrown out of his berth and his head was in.
iured. On Saturday, March T. slight attack
Of eryspelas set in. He was examined by
three physicians Monday afternoon, and they
state that they expect that he will be able in q
week to attend to the business which brought
him to Europe.
So
DIR. George yasey, the venerable botanist Of
the Agricultural Department, died on Friday
March B. Had he lived until Wednesday
March s, be would have been IL years old
The Doctor was formerly practicing play siciaz
at Round Lake. H., but much of his attention
from youth Wac given to the study Of botany
and he soon abandoned his profession for th,
purpose of engaging exclusively in research
Dr. vasey was the chief authority for th,
prairie region Of the great Mississippi Valley
Twenty-oue years ago he was appointed th,
botanist of the Agricultural Department. sue
eeeding DIR. Parry. His publications were en-
tensive, and constitute q standard authorit,
wherever in the world botany is cultivated.
Just at the close of the SGD Congress . bill
was passed which provides for placing Rear
Admiral Jouett, Of the u. g. Navy, on the Re
; tired List with full sea pay. Rear-Admira
JoHett is one of the few remaining naval heroc
of the civil war; and his service in the navy dur
ing the conflict was both gallant and dis
5 tinguished, and the passage Of this bill is tn
first recognition he has ever received frog
Congress- But two other naval officers hav
ever received the distinction which was con
I ferred upon him by the passage Of this bill, hi
: making the third in the history of the country
. The other two were the late Vice. Admins
. Rowan and Rear-Admiral Worden.
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The Springfield (Mass) Republican, says tina
r hon. John E. Russell arrived ut Gibraltar Eel
Il, after q ins voyage, and he now eonfesse
| that Mr. Cleveland not ONLY offered him til