The National tribune., 1895-02-21
PERSONAL.

comrade sends good story which he heard
/ the other day about an ex-rebe during the At
lanta campaign. The man was always looking
out for chance to steal something, and he
called at house one day and asked for some
thing to eat, and the woman of the house was
all alone She went is the kitchen. and when
she came back the man told her he was sick,
and she told him he did look badly. and she
thought he ought to take something" He
said he had taken two pair of socks he saw
hanging on line while she was getting dinner
for him, which he thought sufficient.
s. s. Belcher, old soldier in Crawford
County, Kan, had his pension cut off because
1t was not believed tho old man had heart
| dlsease "a the papers claimed When Belcher
received the news o. the loss of his pension he
fell dead with one great throb of his poor old
suffering heart.
The Rev. Isaac d. Newell, of Manhattan,
Kan, personal friend of the late Gen. Alfred
'" Elicit, who recently died at FL Dorado.
Kan. said of him: "Tall, erect and stately 10
his carriage, he was the ideal military figure
and the pride of his followers I shall never
forget, upon one occasion during the war, walk
ing with him down Fourth street in St. Louis.
Both were in full uniform, he wearing the in
sigma of his rank, with the hat and plume pre-
scribed for general officers. He seemed utterly
unconscious of what soon discovered, namely,
that he was the center of observation. Reeog.
MIXING al old friend, liveryman of the city
across the way. be called to him, and passing
out into the middle of the street, greeted him
with warm hand shake and tarrisd for q mo-
ments conversation. i waited on the curb
stone and listened with delight to the expires
sions Of admiration of my commander. dropped
by passers-by."
Mrs. Grant has reputation for being an ex-
cellent story-teller She is said to have an
inexhaustible supply of stories always on hand,
most of which are based on some personal
"reminiscences of her husband.
James Wooded. of Jackson, Pa, exhibited
razor in an excellent state of preservation
which was owned by Henry Clay about 1888.
The instrument shows the name of its former
owner finely engraved on the handle.
Upon retiring from the Senate Gen. Mander-
son will become General Attorney for the Bur-
lington Railroad for Nebraska.
Four officers holding high rank in the Army
will go upon the Retired List this year. viii
liam Smith, Brigadier- General, now serving as
Paymaster- General, will retire March 90
Maj.-Gen. McCook will retire April o. There
are six er-Generals-Ruger, Merritt
Brooke. Wheaton, Otis and Forsyth, all of
whom desire promotion to the vacancy that
will be created by Gen. MeCook's retirement
Thomas L. Casey, Brigadier.G General, now
serving as Chief of Engineers, will retire MAY
10. The date of Schofelds retirement is Sept.
90.
The Goth anniversary of the birth Of Gen.
John A. Logan was celebrated last week by the
Logan Club New York. Letters of regret from
the following, who were unable to be present,
were read: Gov. Morton, Lieut.-Gov. Saxton,
Speaker Fish, Thomas G. Platt, Senator Ed
mund O'Connor Silas B. butcher, Abel e.
B,ackmar, Murat Halstead. Among those pres
ent were DIR. Lyman Abbott, Chas. s. Francis
William Barnes, jr., Secretary of State John
Palmer, Controller James A. Roberts Senator
Clarence Lexow, Mayor Schieren, John s. |
Kenyon, Police Commissioner Welles and J.
Sloat Fassett.
William s. Upton, who has been the personal
campaign manager of Gov. Evans, of Tennessee.
Gen. Grant in the National Republican Con-
vention of 1880. and was United States Marshal |
for East Tennessee in the Harrison Admins |
tration.
1t is said that Henry Clay once owned the |
lot in Washington on which the Blaine man.
sion stands. He traded it to Commodore |
Rodgers for an Andalusian jackass, one of the |
four animals of the kind brought to the United |
States by the Commodore, and which he sent |
to Virginia, where it became the ancestor of /
mules famous to this day.
The death of Marshal Canrobsrt recalls the
fact that We owe to him the remark: at is
magnificent, but 1t is not war" The words
were uttered as he watched the famous charge |
of the Six Hundred at Balaklava.
The Emperor of Germany recently delivered /
a lecture on "The Necessity Of Co operation be-
tween Land and Sea Forces. with Special Refer
ence to the War in China" aud compelled a
large number of his army and navy officers
to be present.
Gen. E. Fl. Hobsou, of Greensburg. XIV, will
be presented to the National Encampment at
Louisville for the Office of Senior Vice Com
mander-in- Chief. He was born in 1925, and at
the breaking out of the Mexican war was in
business at his home in Greensburg. He enlisted
at once in the I'd KY. and was elected Second
Lieutenant. He conducted himself with such
skill and gallantry at Buena Vista as to win
promotion to First Lieutenant. When the re-
bellion began he was President of branch of
the Bank of Kentucky at Greensburg and was
the only banker in Kentucky who brought the
funds of his bank out of reach of capture by the
rebels, and deposited them safely with the
in Louisville. He took firm
stand in favor of the Union. raised and COM
manded the 18th Ky, and assisted in organ
izing the 21st and 9th Ky. He displayed great
ability at Shiloh, and was promoted to Briga-
der General. He was assigned to the COM
mand of Southern Central Kentucky, with
at Munfordville, where he had
number of encounters with John Morgan, and
inflicted several defeats upon him. His last [