Show 4 OUR CAPITAL TOPICS t Continued from lhircl Page JOURNALISTIC f That crippled and almost defnnc i journal the Hartford Telegram about S to obtain a new lease of life under at p entirely new management I saw ant f chatted with the new editor and proprietor proprie-tor and he is the same old Pat Sheed he always was He believes he cal make the Telegram a success and he i t patting money into it with very lavisl hand If the management businesslike business-like it will probably pay but if Pat i surrounded by his old gang of pugilistic cronies and runs the sheet under Marquis Mar-quis of Queensbury or London Prize < T Ring rules then it will fail even it Hartford which is decidedly the onlj sporting village in the diminutive bu > I thoroughly Democratic State of Con 4 I neoticut If John L Sullivan recovers from his illness he will prol ab y b3 installed in-stalled as fighting editor COL SHERIDAN It hai been stated in a number ol newspapers that since the dearth of General Gen-eral Sheridan his brother Colonel i i Sheridan who served on his staff as his military secretary wonld soon be ordered or-dered to join his regiment the Seventh Cavalry This is a mistake however The Colonel has been provided for and will not have any regimental service tc perform When in April 1878 be wa made an aide on his brothers staff i he held the rank of captain in the Seventh Cavalry In 1833 however President Arthur expressly to provide for the Colonel in case of the Generals death appointed him a major and assistan adjutantgeneral He still continued tc serve on his brothers stall however and considerable comment was caused by this fact for other army officer complained that he was filling two soft positions and keeping some one else out One high official in the Adjutant Generals Department is said to have been very much provoked and to have declared that it has beneath the dignity of an adjutantgeneral to serve on any bodys staff THE PRESIDENT AT EASE Same Washington people who were summering at Eagle Rock when the President stopped there to fish while I on his recent visit to West Virginia tell some interesting stories of his visit He seemed to have laid aside all the cares of his ofrce and laughed and w chatted with the country people in a manner that delighted their hearts He held infonaat receptions each evening even-ing and invited the local postmaster and one or tvo of the more prominent promi-nent residents to dinner in bin private car He made the acquaintance of some pretty country cuts with whom he chatted mot informally and told one of them that his eyesight was failing being noticeably weaker now titan it was a few years ago One of the fishermen who piloted the President to the fishing rounds treasures Mr I Clevelands match box and another I man bought for tw nfyfiv cents a plug of tobacco which was siii to bear the imprint of the Presidents teeth I |