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Show The Call for Grant's "Memoirs." New Toek, December 2. A large crowd assembled to-day to witness the first distribution distri-bution of General Grant's "Memoirs." One of the publishers said : "Our agents in this city and Brooklyn have already disposed of between 15,000 and 20,033. We have been shipping books at the rate of 8.000 to 10,000 SS hK&reSrribution throughout Illinois, Indiana and 'part of Ohio, Slre in San Francisco for Paifio fttel and the agent guarantees double that nSrtf Slefronfwork eady done. New England has taken about 40,CS3 so tar. Pennsylvania and' Delaware have 50,003. NorthXna, Virginia and the District of Slumbiadid well. The sales inthe Gulf States were few, not exceeding 6,000. lews was an exception, however, as it took fully half of that 6.C30. - . A third presentation copy, bound in the same style as those for General Sheridan and Sherman, bears the inscription; "Grover Cleveland." . |