General Grant Mount McGregor funeral day on the mountain
On Mount McGregor August 4 gun salutes signal General Grant's last day on the mountain. Troops packed camp, crowds gathered, and funeral rites began with services at the cottage. The procession moved from the cottage to the station and down the mountain as the funeral train departed for Saratoga and New York.
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Grant Cottage
Hancock
Harris
Sherman
Senator Evarts
Saratoga
Smith
Wilton
Delaware and Hudson
New York Central Railway
New York Central
Woodlawn
Guard of Honor
Brooklyn Guard of Honor
Loyal Legion
Whedler Post
Grand Army of the Republic
Thornton
Grant Post
Mountain Guard
Jesse Grant
U.S Grant, Jr
Spencer Street
Hany
Governor Hill
McEwen
Gillett
Newman
Douglas
General Sherman
Porter
Fifth Artillery
Tenth Battalion
Catafalque
Albany
Capitol
Senate Chamber
U.S. Grant Post
Brooklyn
Stackpole
State Street
Central Railroad
New York
Grand Central
Senate
Assembly
Jesse
Grant, Jr
General Hill
Mapriv
Spain
Washineton
Marine Hospital Service
Delaware
John Gilson
Clen Fuegos
Manserixs
Marseilles
Montreal
Riel
State News Roundup From Across Texas
Statewide notes report illness in Hempstead progress in Fort Worth and Dallas trading, court actions in Longview and Tyler, railway pooling talks in Texas, new building in Glen Rose, Knights of Honor in Houston, and memorials for Sir Moses Montefiore. Cattle losses near Harold and trains for fall stock. Elocutionist Jennie Scott Wilson cited. Fort Worth Confederate reunion set for 25 000 attendees.
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Hempstead
Bosque County
Lampasas
Greenville
Finlay
Fort Concho
Glen Rose
Brazos
Knights of Honor
Grand Lodge
Houston
District Court of
Longview
A. Shaw
Wim. Hampton
Vinson Chaineworth
Marlin
Waco
Aisk
Internal Revenue Collector
Henderson
Sulphur Springs
Galveston
Moses Montefiore
Tyler
Calvert Colored Institute
Variety Theatres
Dallas
Harold
St. Louis
Texas Lines
Texas and
John Holt
Catharine Robinson
Frisco
Texas
Jennie Scott Wilson
Gainsville
Fort Worth
Lord Rothschild Opinion on Real and Ideal
A London note recounts an anecdote about the new Lord Rothschild where ladies discuss the real versus the ideal. He weighs in saying the real is a Spanish coin, while the ideal is the Spanish bond, reflecting finance keenly.
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Lord Rothschild
London
Rus
Prospect for early completion of road to Goliad
A meeting with A Lott president and Captain Polk chief engineer outlined a plan to build a road to Goliad for 75000 dollars in cash land and bonds. Subscriptions would fund 10000 per mile. a citizen committee led by Wilkinson Burke Boyd Brooks Bettus Tippen was set to solicit funds and push the project.
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Goliad
A. Lott
Polk
Court House
Mr. Lott
Harmony Club
Messrs. Lott and Polk
Lott
Wilkinson
James A. Burke
J. M. Boyd
F. A. Brooks
W. A. Bettus
M TY. Tippen
Goliaa Guard
Texas Patent Grants July 28 1885 List
Patents issued to Texas citizens documented by Louis Bagger Co include items such as machine for building and re rolling wire fence by Edge Bryan. fence by Ferguson Lewisville. cotton dipper by Miller Branchville. seeding machine and sulky plow by Miller Hico. can opener by Micener Waco. transposition illustration device by Neill Rusk. mechanical movement by Pickle Palestine. cotton stalk chopper by Woodard Grapevine. others noted from Ennis Bastrop and more.
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Texas
Louis Bagger & Co
Washingon
D.C
J.T. Miller
Branchville
T. P. Miller
Hico
R. O. Micener
Waco
J. F. Neill
Rusk
A. Pickle
Palestine
J. A. Woodard
Texas Colonel Ochiltree slated for lecture platform
The report that Colonel Thomas Pythagoras Ochiltree of Texas will appear on the lecture platform next season is likely alarmist fiction. Ochiltree is firmly involved in the railroad business with a four year contract as headlight for a locomotive on the Texas Pacific railway.
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Thomas Pythagoras Ochiltree
Texas
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