Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1509, 18 November 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

General Adam Badeau has among his possessions an old, and worn, meihorandumDook^ tierl; aroimd ; with'^ i bit ot string. Valueless as it looks, one of the most important documents of American Majtofy'is written m pencil a'ceross 'one «ofjtslpages:/3[tuis the oi one of General Grant's despatches to Secretary Stanton-, annduncing the surrender of Qerioral Lee ? s « ajrmy at Appomatox. ' General 'Grant-was riding t6 his headouarters from the farmhouse wneffc Lee had surrendered, When he suddenly remembered that he had made no official report of, tjie u surreu3e ; n' He halted at once, and, dismounting from his liorse, sat down on .a waysirle stone,. and asked for)a^sit bf/p^er.iV&enl saj. Bajtea^Ho *' was sta'ndihg by, offered him Kil mem- J orandum-boolc. Grant took it, and lay- ] ing it ,on his, knee v v^ro,te,thp, memorable desjJatcH, j and h'andetf it ■■to ! General Badeau to give . to the telegraph general Badaau asked,, if ; he ! tiligCrc^/tni aesfrkHh-MthV operator and: keep the,. original, and to this Grant assetftedi The. memorandum-book is vow ja'.the k,eeping of the jCmturn.; From j Arizona .comes some fearful tidings brought r»y those v who ' have been an eye' wiT,ne9s^to the uprising of the Apache Indians, who are raiding^|Ke\coufa|ii i yvin ; >, feartul; rijanife'p, rdUmhg anii'lßlaying tlie white settiers wholesale^ ., A r jind Mrs Phillips were moat ci*uelly killed and mutilated. Her eyes wore first gouged out, her bosoms cut off, her ears and hei' nose also, with other appalling indignities; Miss Phillips was flung tip to a tree by a meat hook thruat into, the back of her head, and , ttiere left /to die. The atrocities kre beyond belief, and the whole -country is up m arms. The cowboys have taken the matter up. They number 120, all of whom are dead-sliptf and trailers. They w|ll| fpljow* ana fight to Vile dpatb. Bucks, squaws, and^papqoses will be alike shot down; " No quarter 1 ' is tho jndtto to these daring men. „

M^hi < .'*.|H It- mi ii . I (J"i sliUicilUiv U $»•., Hi llll'il" I'tuilllK Hit hatllld'y |i«'Xt Hi 'i p 11.. 'I ii« Ni*iv Kuijtii Wwi'H l*.u' -ijini' nl nb« mihlik'tl yfnt»-r*l«y. Tin* t>j:j»o»*ii imi hhmiilioih alii m i> uuiji'iily. Inn tltf ci.tiisii of icftiuii thi-y will 't'lii|iC lian uiit t l'Ulivpi r«-i|. Sir Mi-niy I'mfc- ■: lnu, (Ik; . iipp.iiri.iiiiiiy to retiiiMu'ti it.is clatiu to tin.' PliMiiUlslU|l. Al ."» i. m li)-il iy iln* sli'iui^r W.iilii r.ui into i lut Miilialc.-i lit a sharp turn m tlio Wiiiro.-i river, llic latter vessul'foiui; ilt:riu<( m n fww miimlft*. The rtleaiiuMS w«ro goiii£ m op|iosit« ilirevlioiiH. The Wenin^tiin LiuofiiMsil Victual-l«-r« are agitating to have tlie existing Licensing Act modified, Mr F. Y. Lethbridge has been eleoted Mayor 6f Feildiug without opposition. We understand that Miss T. B. Chapman the celebrated leuturess will visit Feilding m about a fortnight. She ib now m Nelson from whence she will go to New Plymouth, Wringanui, Feilding and Palmerston. — Star. ,Mr Adams, the present Mayor of Patea has been re-elected without opposition. This will muke his fourth consecutive term. It is satisfactory to learn that an expedition fully Mimed and equipped will shortly start from Thursday Island for New Guinea, to prosecutn a diligent search for ~ "the... Geographical Society's expedition. Ttie ■ Victorian Government have also taken steps to urge the Imperial Government to empower Sir F^tet Scratchley, High Commissioner of New Guinea, to punisji thqmurderersof the AustrahaQ Geographical Society's Exploring Expedition. -Thd Tost apologises for having inadvertently been guilty of ! that "terrible and mysterious offence known as contempt of Court, m having published, an abstract of the-' petition tiled' Hn'^the divorce case of Wright v. Wright. We understand that some Canterbury farmers are looking about for land m the Campbelltown district. : Mr E. Perett, of Campbelltown, Manawatn, has sold his property to Mr Mem"beryj 'late of the Rans'itikei Line^ foU a little over per acre. The^ death of Genefal Gfant leaves only two ex-presidents of the United States ampng the Kving- i rßutb.erfordvß; " Hayes and Chester A. Arthur. ' There are four widows of ex-Presidehts4fving —Mrs Tyler, Mrs Polk (who entered the 1 White House as mistress more than 40 years ago), Mrs Gartield, and Mrs,Granti We (Wellington - Press) *■ are; requested ; tostate that there was no foundation, fpr a paragraph that. a judicial separation would be applied for by Mrs Mulligan against her husband for cruelty , qn his part towards her. ■ . ■ ! . . Telegranis received from . . Sir Julius Vogfel state that lie is progressing favour-; ably since hjs recent severe accident. : The direct .steauier R^apph.u , preached Capetown on the /13th inst;, and left noxt day for Axickland viaYoxi phalihers Heads.. ::. .i :"■ ,• '. ) '■■■ . .'/•': ■, .». | French engineers have finding water in||the desert country, of Southern Tunis. At the depth of ;mor«j than 300 feet, they ; struck a, current whichrushed forth to the surface witn such velocity as , .to ; 'carry,, hoge, stoned high into the air. • ;