Show I TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES I A Kansas wnterspout Mr John P St John I i i To3klr Kelley in Austria Ah there stay there Republican kicks are the spasms of defeated de-feated rascality There is a growing suspicion that John A I Logan already playing peekaboo with the i Presidential campaign of 1888 The last lot of torpedo boats ordered by I Russia looks as if the Czar were going to play a little 4th of July with John Bull i after all Henry M Stanley is attacking his old 1 journalistio love the New York Herald in jj 1 his new journalistic affiliation the London Standard j The Paris Telegraph has a sensational dispatch dis-patch from St Petersburg saying that war j between England and Russia is certain directly after the elections in England i Emma Nevada is announced to be engaged to Mr Chas Hall Mrs Mackey will place I her house in Paris at the disposal of Miss j Nevada for the marriage and will provide v the wedding breakfast 1 Colonel Robert G Ingersoll and George l Francis Train are prominent figures in Madison l Mad-ison Square New York but they never speak as they pass by It is one of Trains idiosyncrasies idiosyn-crasies not to notice adults in public 1 John McCulloughs conduct in the asylum I I for insane is said at times to closely resemble resem-ble his marvelous impersonation of the mad scene in Virginius Perhaps the forecast of imbecility lent a more than fanciful realism I real-ism to the stage scene In the Kiel trirl yesterday the case for the I defense was opened by Mr Green Shields who said the chief line of defense would be Ito I-to prove the prisoners insanity to which I several medical men testified lliel was much excited during the examination as to I his sanity 1 The principal New York newspapers here announce their willingness to receive subscriptions i I sub-scriptions for the Grant monument toward I which 7000 was subscribed yesterday It is i proposed to limit the time for subscribing i I so as to guard against a repetition of the Bartholdi statue experience I I I Connecticut farmers are becoming alarmed I on account of a new kind of potato beetle which has just made its appearance in different dif-ferent parts of the State The bugs are en tirelv unlike the Colorado beetle They are black and somewhat longer than the common com-mon bug more active and fly more readily The pests come in colonies and destroy a whole plant in a very short time I Sixty criminals says a Moscow despatch who had been sentenced to exile to Siberia while en route rose against their guards and although unarmed began a desperate fight II for liberty The battle lasted for a long I time and the soldiers were absolutely unable to conquer their manacled assailants Twenty of them were shot dead and of the other forty thirty succeeded making good i their escape Mark Twain writes in reference to Grants j I burial place How did our predecessors I i come to bury their great dead in this deserted place But as long as American I I civilization lasts New York will last I observe I ob-serve that the common and strongest objection objec-tion to New York is that it is not National I ground Let us give ourselves uneasiness j about that Wherever Grants body lies I I that is National ground i There did not remain to the Grant family a single uniform in which to clothe his remains re-mains Not even a sword was left to lay upon up-on his coffin Grants personal trophies and effects were taken by the Government The Government did not leave the semblance of I a military emblem with the Grant family Thus far the officials at Washington have i made no sign of their having thought of the lack of uniform and sword for the dead 1s I soldier < The President and Cabinet will leave I Washington for New York in a special car I August 7th Apartments have already been I secured at the Fifth Avenue Hotel It is I not likely that the President will return to Washington immediately after the funeral i as it is his purpose to take a few weeks rest I and recreation in the Adirondack mountains as soon as he can get away Dr Ward and Colonel Lamont will probably be his only I companions in the mountains Action will soon be taken for the organization organiza-tion of committees to represent the entire country for the erection of a suitable monu went above General Grants grave Pending this the Grant Memorial Committee calls on all newspapers railways telegraph and j express companies postmasters banks bankers churches and municipal authorities I commercial bodies and exchanges manufacturing I manufac-turing and business establishments to cooperate co-operate in the immediate collection of I contributions to be forwarded to Drexel Morgan 1 Co for this committee or to the mayor of New York all contributions to be acknowledged The tribute of the Mobile Alabama Register to Grant is this Grant conquered ins i-ns but he did not subjugate us He caused no man to pass under the yoke He spared I us the final disgrace He took us by the I hand gave the officers their side arms left I with the men their horses and mules to till j the ground and sent us home to our families 1 fami-lies to remain iu peace unmolested The North opened Pandoras box upon us but Grant left Hope within it He grasped the hand of our Lee and protected him from the political hyenas God bless him for what I he did for us when the sun went down at Appomattox For that act may God bless l lam in the spirit world to which his brave t soul has winged its flight I The funeral car to receive General Grants body on arrival at New York is being constructed i con-structed The canopy will be of broadcloth broad-cloth panelled with satin and lined with Jrhe to be twenty silk The whole structure is I feet high and the most imposing thing of J It will I the kind ever seen in the country be drawn by thirty black horses each led lv a colored groom The route of the I funeral as now fixed will be from the City Hall up Broadway to Fourteenth street through Fourteenth street to Fifth Avenue Fifth Avenue to Fiftyseventh street up thence to the Boulevard and up that thor mihfare to Seventysecond street through Seventysecond street to the Riverside drive m which the procession will pass to the site up the march of the tomb The distance of will be about six miles Dr Newman says Only a perverted I Rtor of the Generals baptism has thus far story of it bEn published and a correct account o ouoht tn to be given > On the 2d day of A1nl hv called me at Ii oclock in the morning lh y physicians thought he would last but Jive minutes Mrs Grant and the Getlerals had sister came to me and Mid the General ncver been baptized I expressed niv stir wise he having been brought up m a lUeth the dist family I learned that he was only son in the family who had not beep baptized After speaking with the General s lust If he were I ROllS I said I would baptize consclOUS and desired d After prayer Fred went ihto an oingroom and brought silver pitcher with water in It I spoke out a to the General about the matter He opened i and said Doctor I thank you I his eyes The had intended to take that step my elf It rites of baptism were then performed was a most impressive scene |