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al arms, Grant sprang at once into national era cortege will 'be placed on a It reportedthat mudh damage has celebrity. He was immediately special train, leaving 2ft. McGregor at been done to wheat by the rains and commissioned major general of volunteers il p. m., Aug. 4, arrive at Saratoga at NEW ULM, MINN. hot weather of the past ten days. The and took command of 40,000 to :2 p. m. leave Saratoga at 2:50 p. m. make an expedition up the Tennessee. damage takes the form of blight in ttte &z In the celebrated battle of Shiloh, arrive in Albany at-&0 p. ni. leave JOS. BOBLETER, Editor & Proprietor. northern and rest in the southern part April 6 and 7, where both sides lost -Albany at 12 o'clock noon,Wednesday, of the State. about 12,000, he was slightly wounded. Aug. 5, and arrive about 4:30 p. m. in Wednesday, July 29, 1885. Gen. Halleck was called to Washington 'Cleveland," "Hendricks" and 'Re- -New York in the interval, from 4:30 and Grant became commander of the form," are the names with which the department of W est Tennessee. He p. m. Tuesday to noon of Wednesday, $SAI-$8 ZV won a complete victory Sept 19 at luka wiiecf a Virginia Democrat recently Aug. 5, the remains will lie in dtate at ,4Reform" and was attacked at his position at Corinth. DRY GOODS & burdened her triplets. If the capitol, and from the time of arrival On October 16 his department lives be is doomed to a sorrowful life RAN i in ISew York on Wednesday afternoon extended to Vicksburg -and was designated with his brothers. the department of the Tennessee. until Saturday, Aug. 8, the body After his seige and capture of Vicksburg will lie in state at the city hall. The July 4, 1863, he was promoted The hot weather the past week has public obsequies will take place on Saturday to the rank of major general of the caused an increase in mortalities NOTIONS at such time as the civic authorities regular army, and was placed in command in New York city. For the seven days of the Mississippi, comprising may arrange, and the interment He Sleeps the Sleep That ending at noon last Saturday, there the departments commanded by Sherman, will then follow in Central park. Thomas, Burnside and Hooker. were 1094 deaths. In no week in 1884 Knows No Waking. After his victories at Missionary Ridge did the number of deaths reach l.QOO. and Lookout Mountain, congress voted him a medal and passed a bill reviving Professor Dodge, of the Washington STATE OF MINNESOTA, the grade of lieutenant general and agricultural bureau, says that,although JEWELHJ He Passes Away at Monnt Grant was immediately nominated. He ADJTJTAM GENERAL'S OFFICE, Embroideries the world's wheat crop of 1885 is below received his commission from President St. Paul, July 23, 1885 an average, yet the amount of old Lincoln and on March 17, 1864, assumed McGregor, Calmly and GEXSBAL ORDERS command of the armies of the United wheat on hand is so extraordinarily No. 10. States, with headquarters at Potomac. large it will be a number of months before With 700,000 men under him he The Supreme Commander-in-Chief LACES, any scarcity can be felt. planned two campaigns, one under has summoned to the eternal field of White Goods. Gen. Meade, to operate against Lee at rest and glory America's greatest soldier, Richmond, the other under Sherman The Supreme court of Michigan has The Nation that Ee Saved against Atlanta. On May 3 Grant and to-daj the nation mourns the gone on record as classifying the threecard moved on Richmond crossing the Rappadan departure of Gen. U, S. Grant. The monte men with common thieves. Moras tie Death of the with the army of the Potomac, hero of Appomattox is no more, but the As an exchange says, this decision with 140,000 men pushing* through the wilderness, where the bloody battle of luster of his name and the memory of Heroic Soldier. shows an amount of common sense that the wilderness was fought which foiled his heroic deeds will ever shine forth in is in refreshing contrast to the judicial Grant's attempt to interpose his army the annals of America, to cause the hair-spliting through which criminals between Lee and Richmond. Being JOtil 5, 1 American heart to throb with gratitude, often escape the clutches of the law. repeatedly repulsed by Lee with bloody Gen. U. Si Grant, the hero of Appomattox results, he sent the famous message the American mind to emulate his unselfish and the savior of this nation, which closed*with, "I propose to fight The intense suffering of Gen. Grant devotion to country,and the American it out on thish line if. it takelossel al sum- has fought his last battle and bows at is silently but effectually portrayed in An did Hi were mer/1 will to copy his heroie courage and his wan face and emaciated condition. last to death's inexorable decree. He 54,551, and Lee's 32.00Q. indomitable loyalty to the eause of liberty. Ladies'and Gent's His splendid stature of bone structure, battled bravely,against the inevitable, The grief of his companions in arms After the evacuation of Richmond muscular tissue and flesh fiber of a full and the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and died as he liveda soldier. The is softened by the thought that their old and flush manhood was reduced at Court House April 9 Grant fixed commander is at rest from all care and last taps have been sounded and the death to less than a hundred pounds. his headquarters at Washington and on FURNISHINGGOOD S strife, and has left them and his country July 25, 1866, was commissioned general lights are out forever. His death occurred Relief from physical pain came finally of the United States army. He the heritage of an unblemished soldier's from exhaustion. at Mount McGregor, in the State was made secretary of war during the record.^ Their prayers for their chief suspension of Stanton from August 12, of Neitf York, on Thursday, July 23, 5 The Dispatch truthfully says: "A find responsive echo in the hearts of a 1867, to January 15, 1866. 1885, at 8:08 o'clock a. m. He met his good many workingmen voted for grateful people. He was unanimously nominated on wottee* conqueror without flinching, and he Cleveland because they thought a the first ballot for president at thelRepublican SecondUntil after the day of interment convention held at Chicago change would make times better. The passed away silently and uncomplainingly, the flags on the capitol and armories May 21,1868, with Schuyler Coifax vice reward of Mr. Cleveland's administration leaving behind him an immortal president. The ticket carred 26 states. of the state will be displayed at to the workingman is the breaking He was inaugurated March A, 1869. half-mast. name. To-day the nation is draped in down of one of the largest manufacturing In 1871 President Grant urged the WE COMMENCE NOW TO REDUCE THE PRICES OF ThirdThe usual badge of mourning deep mourning, and sorrow is expressed annexation of Santo Domingo, but the industries in the country and the senate withheld its approval. A commission will be worn for thirty days by all the on every face. The blue and gray direct throwing of 2,500 men out of of five British and.five American MOST OF OUR GOODS, IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR officers of the military forces of the employment-" stand with uncovered heads around the members.on May 8,signed a treaty state,and where possible they will participate OUR on the* subject of navigation and the bier of a great and magnanimous soldier. A lady in Milwaukee recently gave "Alabama Claims." The latter was with their commands in such IMMENSE FALL STOCK, None biu) words of praise are submitted to a court of arbitration at birth to female twins, which died immediately memorial services as may be held at Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept 14, 1872, after. They presented an heard now. There are no enemies their respective stations. and the sum of $15,500,000 was awarded abnormal deformity, both being grown or critics. The voice of calumny is to be paid by the British government FourthOn the day fixed for the obsequies, i together with their breasts. They have WHICH IS EXPECTED ABOUT SEPT. 1st. to the United States for damages silenced in the presence of death. His the Emmet Light artillery, St, to American commerce by Confederate two heads, four arms and four feet, but Paul, will fire a gun every half hour, name will never again pass the lips of cruisers fitted out in British ports. The only three ears, but are otherwise normally CALL IN NOW AND SECURE SOME RARE BARGAINS. Eu-Klux bill was enforced by a presidential from sunrise to sunset, and at the hour true Americans except with reverance. and splendidly developed. All proclamation. He appointed a of interment a salute of twenty-one minute physicians have examined the curiosity, Ho nation has -contributed to the history commission to inquire into civil service AVE HAVE A FULL STOCK OF guns, in honor of the late ex-president, and remedy it and pronounce it a wonderful case. of mankind & name onore exalted general and commander-in-chief of Crockery, Glassware, It has been put into alcohol. He was nominated and eleeted to another than that of Ulysses S. Grant. term in 1872. In 1874 he vetoed the,United States armies. a bill to increase the volume of currency. A proposition is being considered by By command of Gov. L. F. HUBBABD. the State fair managers to maintain the Knives, Forks and Spoons, Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth president C. M. MCCARTHY, At the close of his term accompanied exhibit of the coming State Fair for of the'United States, was born at by his family, he made a trip around Adjutant General. thirty days, instead of according it but Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. the world, and everywhere received His ancestors were Scotch. In 1823 his with the highest honors ever accorded a single week as heretofore. The proposition Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed Pocket Knifes, Pipes, Purses, parents removed to (Georgetown, O., a citizen of the United States. His return in some localities because comes from St. Paul and where his boyhood was passed. He home was a perfect ovation from Washington was not chosen as Gen. Minneapolis and is of course made in entered West Point military academy San Francisco, where he landed, to his Grant's last resting place. the interest of those cities. However, in 1839. His name originally was Hiram home at Galena, whence he had started ETC., ETC., ETC. Ulysses, but the appointment was on his brilliant career. if the Fair is self-sustaining, and exhibitors The Nicollet House in Minneapolis blunderingly made Ulysses S., and so He.afterwards removed to New York are satisfied, we see no valid objection it had to remain. The study in which was damaged by fire last Saturday and engaged in business, which resulted to the proposed prolongation of DON'T FORGET THE PLACE, he showed most proficiency "during his disastrously. His last days were morning to the amount of $10,500, the Fair. course at the academy was mathematics. burdened by regret that his honorable None of the guest of the hostelry suffered .He graduated in 18&3 at the age f'r. Kuetzing, name should go down to posterity with loss. of 21 years, ranking 21st in a class of the blot he fancied the exploits of his MINNESOTA NEWS. 39 and was made brevet second lieutenant partner Ferdinand Ward had cast upon of infantry, and attached as supernumerary C. F. McDonald, editor of the St. it by his business transactions. lieutenant to the 4th regiment Mr. Peterson, recently appointed to Cloud Times, has been appointed receiver In the summer of 1884 Gen. Grant MINN. ST, NEW ULM, MINN which was stationed on the Missouri visited St. Paul and Minneapolis as the the Receivership of the United States of the St Cloud land office. Editors frontier. guest of Henry Villard on the celebration land office at Worthington, was at one Our War Cry is Boots and Shoes. are coming to the front in spite of In 1846 ithe regiment wae ordered to of the opening of the Northern time Secretary Lamar's coachman. the decree that no editors need apply. Texas, and Grant was commissioned as Pacific railroad. Of all the notables of a full lieutenant. He first saw! bloodshed that auspicious day Gen. Grant was the The "Minnie Cook," the pleasure King Dahomey's army has recently at Palo Alto, May 8tb, 1846. He cynosure of every eye in the vast multitudes steamer at Minnetonka, on which the took part in every battle oftheMexican that thronged the line of march. captured 1,000 French-men, and an imperial 'TIS NOT IN MORTALS TO COMMAND SUCCESS BUT Rand family were riding last Sunday, war. After the battle of Molino del On the 3d of February last congress order has gone forth that the Ray he was appointed first lieutenant was recovered in fifty feet of water. accepted the war relics and mementoes WE'LL DO MORE WE'LL DESERVE IT. prisoners should be fattened for the for his gallantry and was breveted captain of the famous hero, upon which he had When found the throttle was open boiling pot. It is quite evident that for his conduct at Ghapultepec. placed a mortgage to Wm. Vanderbilt showing that the b6at was under full After the capture of the city of Mexico, King Dahomey and his soldiers propose to secure a loan of $150,000, and which headway when she went down. he with his regiment was stationed at Vanderbilt presented Mrs. Grant, she to subsist off the country. Detroit. 1 accepting on condition that they be Simon Prescott and S. H. Baker of Ten Minutes is not a very long time, but it is suffi- presented to the United States. The In1848 heiittarried Julia X, Dent, J. W. Diesel's cottage at Mount McGregor, Minneapolis, while driving past a farm mementoes have been placed in the daughter of a merchant of -St Louis cient for us to convince you that we have in which Gen. Grant died, will government building. residence in Anoka county, were thrown and sister of one of his classmates. In never again be occupied by any family A PRIZE! 1852 he accompanied his regiment to On the 4th of March Gen. Grant was from a buggy, the team being frightened or person. Mr. Drexel will in due California and,Oregon and in 1853 placed on the retired list of the army by dogs barking at them, and Mr was commissioned full captain. In with rank and pay of general, and the time present it to the State or National Prescott was killed and Mr. Baker received 1854 he resigned and removed to a first official act of President Cleveland government. The house will be presented TO OFFER EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD THAT a broken hip. Other occupants farm near St. Louis. There his daughter was to sign Gen. Grant's commission. intact, with all its present belongings Nellie and one.of his sons ((Fj?ed) of the buggy escaped unhurt. WISHES TO SAVE MONEY. A VISIT TO OUR STORE AND and furniture. were born. jHe subsequently removed to^St. Louis where lie fought the wolf Simon McBride, of Erin, near Faribault, Gen. Grant's Final Besting AN INSPECTION OF OUR GOODS WILL RESULT IN YOUR from the door, being unable to obtain Upon application of Col. Bend, has been badly hurt by falling employment. Placef Investigation! Negotiatio! **d the Fumeral through his attorney, Chief Justice Gilfillan, from a hay rack upan a pitchfork, the In 3.860 he moved to Galena, I1L, Obsequies. of the supreme court, has issued tines of which went through his lungs where his father was engaged in the Admiration! Gratificati o! a write of prohibitition against the and liver. leather trade. When the civil war Bend court martial. The hearing of The question of a burial place for broke out, Capt, Grant, who was then Your prize will be sectored, our success assured and Kasota is going to have a church at 39 year* old and the fatherof 4 children, the writ can not occur until October Gen. Grant has been decided in favor last. The material for the foundation the eldest of whom was then 11, was and the court martial has adjourned of Central Park, New York. The decision your trade procured, because an Investigation of our chosen to command a company of volunteers is nearly all on the ground. The until that time. In the interim Col. was made by his family, under with which he marched to dimensions are, upright, 46x28, wing, Bargains will excite your Admiration, lead to a Nego- Bend remains in arrest. the guidance of some general expression Springfield. There he acted as mustering 16x22. officer and on June 17, 1861, he of his wishes before his death,and, tiation and result in your immense Gratification. was commissioned colonel, joined his Gen. Sherman evidently is not prepared it must be presumed, under some sense The Winona Republican saj farmers regiment at Matoon and marched to to shake hands across the bloody A BIG BARGAIN! of responsibility to the nation to which of that county have been notified they Missouri. Reporting to Gen. Pope he chasm with the leader of the rebellion. his fame belongs. Gen. Grant named was placed in command of the troops will be required to pay a royalty on all He said in a recent interview: "If Jeff at Mexico. three places where he was willing to be the Glidden barbed wire they have in Davis is a patriot, I am a traitor, and I On August .23 the president commissioned that will interest and please you, now awaits you in our buriedWest Point, New York, and use. ain't If Jeff Davis is a patriot, Abraham him brigadier general of volunteers, Springjleld. The first was his first A farmer living about half way between a promotion he first heard of Lincoln is a traitor,* and if God ever choice, but he forsaw difficulties in the through the papers, and assumed command Zumbrota and Pine Island, has made a pure man Abraham Lincoln way of making a family vault of the at Cairo. He seized Paducah, aM a baby girl two months old weighing was he." Gen. Sherman talks just as the mouth of the Tennessee, on Sept. military cemetery, and he made it an of Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, only two pounds. One can hardly he shot during the late unpleasantness. 6 which was his first military achievement imperative condition that a burial imagine how small she is. A lady's and occurred three days after he i- place should be chosen where his wife Slippers, etc. Styles New! common finger ring will go over the assumed his new command. On Nov. could one day lie beside him. This reduced 7 with two brigades he fought the battle little hand and slip clear to the shoul- Some singular effects are reported the choice of fitting and available Goods the Best! Prices the of Belmont where he commanded in der.^ It is perfectly formed and as from different parts of the country in & person and had a horse shot under places to New York city, and the healthy as can be. connection with the recent heated term. him. John A. Logan was with him as Lowest! tender of a resting place in Central $ colonel. Grant then was given command At Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as a A man in Faribault ordered a set of Park by the municipal authorities crystallized of the district of Cairo, one of number of men were unloading fish teeth made by a dentist and after they the choice of his family \ipon the largest military divisions of the H: from the hold of a steamer, they were country. After a reconnoisance he Lohaydefc.-*"*'~V,-".... **Til. were made the man failed to pay for that spot The funeral arrangements h\'. suddenly prostrated by the heat and started on Feb, 3 from Paducah with a them. An execution was issued and are announced as follows: The remains force of 15,000 men for the capture of v1- blinded by ammonia, which the heat the teeth siezed by the sheriff and extracted will lie quietly at the cottage, in Forts Henry and Donaldson. The capire had generated from the fish. Two were the room where the general died, from the defendant's mouth. latterhad that crowned the feder brilU- oft the being the first completely blinded. It is believed that vicor until next Tuesday, when tbo fun- The Faribault Democrat contains the $& The Leading Boot and Shoe Merch. the sight of all will be restored. sheriffs notice of sale of said teeth. $*m. ^v^^m^^^^MmiiSi^M I I mSMSm ms** MhitiHMiiMt umm Tpl-l