St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-24
GENERAL NEWS.
Death of Mrs. u. y. Grant.

Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant wife of former
President Grant, died at her residence in
Washington Dec. 13. Death was due
to heart failure. Mrs. Grant having
suffered for so many years from valvular
disease of the heart which was aggravat.
ed by severe attack OF bronchitis. Her
daughter, Nellie Grant Sartoris, was the
only one of her children with her at the
time of her death. her three sons, who
had been summoned all being out of the
city. Mrs. Grant spent last summer at
Coburg, Canada, but her condition at
that time was far from good. She was
| taken i'll in October, and, on the advice
of her physician there, went to Washing
| ton in a special car. She has been con-
! fined to her bed most of the time since
| then, although on several occasions she
has succeeded in walking about the
house and hiss been out OF doors once or
twice. She was II years old. Mrs
Grants name before her marriage was
Julia Dent. She was born in St. Louis,
February 16, 1924, and married Gen.
eral, then Lieutenant, Grant, August
%, 1878. She is survived by three sons
Gen. Frederick D., Jesse, and ULYSSES S.
Grant, and one daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris.
Harvard has 1861 Students.
This years Harvard catalogue shows
a total of 4,26l students in the univer-
sity, 120 more than a year ago, and the
largest number in any American institu-
tion OF learning. Counting Radcliffe Col
! leee and the summer school, the total
number of persons enrolled during 1902
was 5,206. The number OF instructors
in the university proper is 534, or more
than last year. The greatest increase is
in the college, which has $500 students
against / ,033 in 1901, and the Lawrence
Scientific School, which has 534, a gain
of six per cent. The law school shows a
steady gain, this years total being 640,
including graduates of "a colleges. The
requirement of a college degree as a
qualification for admission to the medi'
cal school, the full force of which is felt
this year for the first time, results in a
decrease Of about so. The dental school,
however, shows an increase, with 112
students. The graduate school has SIC
students as against 312 last year. The
theological school shows neither gain
nor loss, and the Bussey Institution or
agricultural school, registers an increase
OF one.
Hoe. Coming TO Colorado.
Nearly 5000 Beers, it is said, are pre-
pairing to trek" to America and will
settle in Colorado, New Mexico and
Texas. The representative OF this move
ment is Cen Samuel Pearson, late quar-
termaster- general of the South africa
republic, whose headquarters are in New
York. Colorado friends Of the Beers
have been in communication with Gen
eral Pearson in regard to suitable lands
for the settlers and General De Villiers
who is now looking over the lands, has
expressed himself as very tavorably i'm.
pressed with that state.
Missionary Receipts.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-,
sions has made public its Cpd annual
report showing the receipts for the year
ha We been $S45, 1O5. Massachusetts
coutribu ed S22S,1 Connecticut
S167 ,553; Rhode Island, 500 900; New
Hampshire. $20,621; Vermont, $14, 1874
Maine, $17,573; total, $+77S11. The
report states that indemnitieS for prop
erty destroyed in China in 1900 have
been paid and adjusted under condition:
satisfactory to the missionaries.