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SI1KUMAN. WILLIAM TM< TMSKI1. 



but it was ii><> lute. Tin- ppipoMiioii that H!I 

 might ruini- In NT via twice a year anil ! n - 

 : \vil li royal honors she also seemed dispoM-d 

 to accept after first refusing. Aflrr coming 

 to S-rvia in ISNllshe took a course that was fulfil 



tu her own object* Mid dsjOgMoos to UM dynasty, 



by addressing a memorandum tothe Skii|ishtiiui 

 attacking the regency, I hi- Government, ami the 

 iiiftn>|iolitaii. lluis attempting to make political 

 capital for the Progressist ( (pposit ion, and delib- 

 erately placing herself at the head of a political 

 faction. Her action brought King Milan to 

 Scrvia, and the regents and ministers saw no 

 way to avoid civil disturbances except by getting 

 thi'mlxith out of the country ; for if Milan should 

 feel impelled to reassume the royal power, lie 

 would receive the support of a large part of the 

 army, and by his political dexterity could enlist 

 in his cause a party of considerable strength, and 

 could draw to his support a part of the Radical 

 party, which fought strenuously for years against 

 his absolute rule that the Progressists, now his 

 bitterest enemies, upheld, and organized rebell- 

 ion.* against him when he was king. M. Kistich 

 and the Archbishop Michael, once the (Queen's 

 stanchest friends, were now her implacable foes ; 

 and the Liberal party, though it had turned 

 against the first regent, whose guidance it 

 formerly followed obediently, withheld the sup- 

 port that the Queen expected. The violent dem- 

 onstrations in Belgrade originated not so much 

 in partisanship for her as in hostility to the 

 (iovernment. which had made itself thoroughly 

 unpopular by imposing the <x-/x>i duties. The 

 Queen vainly sought to obtain the interposition 

 of the Russian (iovernment, and after the de- 

 parture of the royal pair affairs in Servia quieted 

 down, lu August the young King wont to Rus- 

 sia to pay a visit to the < '/ar. accompanied by M. 

 Kistich and M. Pachich. On his return he visit- 

 ed the Austrian Hmperor at Ischl, and then went 

 to Paris to pass some weeks with his father. 



Change of Cabinet. Dissensions in the Radi- 

 cal Club led to the resignation of M. Gruich on 

 Feb. 20. INM. and the formation of a Cabinet by 

 M. I'achich. the president of the Skupshtina and 

 leader of the moderate faction of the Radical 

 party. Most of the ministers retained their 

 portfolios, and the Cabinet was constituted on 

 Feb. 23 as follows: Minister-President, without 

 portfolio. X. I'achich : Ministerof Public Works, 

 I'. Velimirovich ; Minister of Finance. Dr. M. 

 Vuich; Ministerof Justice. G. Gershich ; Minister 

 of Agriculture and Commerce, K. Taushanovieh : 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Djonljevich : 

 Minister of the Interior. .1. Djaia : Ministerof 

 Public Wor-hip. A. Xikolieh : Minister of War. 

 Col. Miletich. The ultimate aims of the section 

 of the party which asserted its influence in tin- 

 overthrow of M. Gruich embraced the abolition 

 of the standing army, the reduction of expendi- 

 tures by 20,000.000 francs, the adoption of a bold 

 Great Servian foreign policy, and the restoration 

 of the Karageorgevich dynasty. The most im- 

 portant measure of the Skupshtina. which ended 

 its sittings in Ihe middle ol April, was a bill to 

 impose firtrni duties in order to n:ise on (In- 

 security of the new tax a loan of 10,000,000 

 dinars or francs for paving, draining, and light- 

 ing Belgrade. The Austrian Government had 

 negotiated with for a year and a half, but had 



refused to aMnent l<- (he mea>iin. and wh<i. <.< < 

 bill wa* panned, although the dun Mi-re only 

 half an much as had been contemplated, il nn- 

 nounccd that if they wen- collected on Ai. 

 goods the existing commercial treaty would be 

 icgarded as null and void. The German and 

 British governments joined in tin- | 

 Nevertheless the Servian Government promul- 

 gated (he bill, giving out that it wa> con-trained 



to le\ y the new illiln- tc. meet the inlen 



the public, debt, most of which wax held abroad. 

 The (iovernment had to meet a deficit of r_'.- 

 OOO.(KK) dinars, and among the nieasun-a-. 

 in the emergency was one reducing bv 8 |x-r 

 cent, the salaries of all state officials, which were 

 already very low. In addition to the Cabinet 

 difficulties that occurred during t.ie progress of 

 the affair of Queen Natalie, the Minister of \\..r 

 ship and Instruction engaged in a conflict with 

 the metropolitan, who refused to confirm the a|>- 

 ! .Mint ment of an active Radical politician a.s 

 vicar of Belgrade. In August the Finance 

 Minister. Dr. Vuich, could not obtain the con- 

 sent of his colleagues to the summary collection 

 of arrears of taxes, amounting to 19,000,000 

 dinars, and as without these he saw no way of 

 averting a deficit, he resigned on the return, in 

 September, ot the Prime Minister, who himself 

 took charge of the department, ad interim. 



SHKKMAN. WILLIAM TKCIMSKH, an 

 Anieiican soldier, born in Lancaster, Ohio. Feb. 

 H, 1820; died in N.w York city. Feb. 14, 1891. 

 lie was a descendant of the Rev. John Sherman. 

 of Kssex, Kngland, who emigrated to Ameiica 

 in l(i:54 and settled in Woodbury, Conn. A 

 brother of the lies. John Sherman, who emigrat< d 

 at the same time, was an ancestor of Roger 

 Sherman. Some of the family removed to I^an- 

 caster. Ohio, early in this century, and Gen. 

 Sherman's father was a justice of the Supreme 

 Court of that State from 1824 till his death in 

 1820. The General's mother was Mary Hoyt. 

 and he was the sixth of eleven children. After his 

 father's death he was adopted by the Hon. Thomas 

 Kwing, I'nited States Senator, who a few years 

 later appointed him a cadet in the Military 

 Academy at West I'oint. There he was gradu- 

 ated in 1*40. standing No. 6 in a class of 42. 

 Among his classmates were Gen*. Ge. Tge II. 

 Thomas and George W. (Jetty, of the Xational. 

 and (Jens. Richard S. Kwcll. Bushnxl Johnson, 

 and Thomas Jordan, of the Confederate service, 

 lie was commissioned second lieutenant in the 

 Third Artillery. July 1. 1840. and ordered to 

 Florida, where the Seminoles were still hostile. 

 He became fn>t lieutenant N"\. :!0, 1841, and 

 in 1*42 was ordered to Fort Morgan. Ala. In 

 ls|:; 'I'', h.. \\a> at F-.rt Moultrie, Chariest.. n 

 harbor, and at Bellefontaine. Ala., and in 184f 

 was on recnii 1 ing service at Pittsburg. I'a. 



On the breaking out of the war with Mexico 

 he was a-M-ned to Company F. Third Artillery, 

 as junior first lieutenant, when the company \MI~ 

 ordered to California. They sailed from Xew 

 York. July 14. lS4(i. in the United States store- 

 ship " Lexington." commanded by Theodorui" 

 Bailey, afterward famous as one of FarrHgut s 

 ablest lieutenants. Among the officers wild 

 Sherman were Lieiits. K. (.). C. Onl and Henry 

 W. llalleck. afterward generals. They mad. 

 the passage round Cape Horn, calling t KW df 



