Show IT is pleasant to know that General Gen-eral Grant has not failed as reported in some of the eastern newspapers The story had its foundation in the fact that he had transferred a valuable valu-able Long Branch property to his wife Ulysees S jr the New York broker asserts that his father has sufficient property to keep hiffi in comfortable style and that not fceH ing in business or engaging in anything < H any-thing of a speculative nature it would be next to impossible for him to fail It was thought that the announcement an-nouncement of the old mans failure was intended to help through Congress the bill for his retirement or that perhaps another begging project was about to be born and a little impetus was needed to make the thing go |