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VOL. LXXVL. &
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR,
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
REVIEW OFMAJOR AND MI
NOR EVENTS,
GENERAL
Experiences of the Kank and Fille—-Anec- |
dotes and Observations.
By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co, A., 148
Regiment, P. V.
{To be Continued. |
On Jan, 16th one hundred and twen- |
ty of us from the 148th P. V, were sent
on picket duty to the Rappahannock
weather was exceedingly
midoight three Johnnie
nd waded the icy waters
river. The
cold: yet at
Rebels swam a
of the Rappahannock and surrendered,
saying that they had beeu impressed
into the Coufederate service, but they
had resolved not to fight for secession;
that there twenty more
who had agreed to come with them
but failed to be on hand at the appoint-
ed hour and they would not wait fer
them. We made them and
fed them full of crackers and pork, and
gent them to the rear to Headquarters,
On Jan. 19th marching orders were
circulated through the entire
army to be ready forextended move
and next morning the Left Grand Di-
vision, under Maj. General Franklin,
whose camps were five miles below us
by and through our
were some
coffee for
again
began to meve
camp, noril on all available roads and
fields, presenting a magnificent
Endiess
open
sight. columns of soldiers
with flags aud b
trains; wagon trains, the head and rear
extending out of sight lost in
aud hills iu the
alike, with white canvas govers; battery
Anners: ponton bridge
woods
distance; all warons
after battery of artillery moved labor
iously along 1h
That vers
in and ¢
pUUAy roads,
uing heavy rains
all plight and
day, reuderi roads
impassable. The roads were cai
liquid mud, axle deep. Just ab
Ad oni §
heavy field guu HOCK
y-lout
camp a
mud, sand
tweet
not, or would pot, puil it
horses were all taken away,
and a half rope
3 i 1 :
One puuarea sua
feet long was attached
of soldiers lined
the rope,
few miuytes §
and (00K Ht Ora
stood guietiy in the ud: on
ready t
.
that ali were
the command -—Gio
eued like np iron rod
and, though the axi
BOW pushed the mud, then i
rising high over rock «
down ot He oF both sides Lhe
loudly
halted not till it
off the road: in
BEES |
king in the box, it |
stood on solid ground |
this
taken out of
fi
Ktio bub
the
the
: tl } tre
thgoniy way Lue Leavy
w hole
mud
guns |
way
ballery was
This wa
be raoved through «1
were or coud
out of deep mud, or up steep hills. But |
it was wonderful how a8 regiment!
would move those heavy guns through |
mud of any depth or up any hill,
On Jan. 2158 orders instituting this
3 :
campaign were countermanded, and |
|
The Story as Told by an Old
Seneca Indian in “Wild Life in
In the days when the West Branch
Valley was a trackless wilderness of de-
fiant pines nud submissive helmlocks,
ment beyond Sunbury, a young Penn- |
County, named Malachi Boyer, alone
Bellefoute now stands,
[ie history of his travels has never
been written, partly because he had no
white companion to observe them, and
partly because he himself was unable
to write, His very iundentity would
now be forgotten were it not for tradi-
tious of the Indians, with whose lives
he became strangely entangled,
A short, built fellow was
Malachi Boyer, with unusually prom-
inent black eyes, and black hair that
hung in ribbon like strands over his
yet
conciliatory, he escaped a thousand
times from Indian cunning and treach-
stockily
broad, low forehead. Fearless,
ery, and as months went by and he
penetrated further into the forests he
numbered the redskins among his
cherished friends.
Why he
wilds he could vot explain, for it was
ex plored these boundless
not in the interest of science, as he
scarcely knew of such a thing as REeOR-
raphy, and it
he lived by the
ed his path, ever aloof from
for trading, as
forc-
own
was not
But on he
his
i
giert lor Lae sirange scenes
1
?
Lim day by day.
¢, Lhielre is
HO one can ted + exact veur, found
Malachi Boyer camped uu the shores
of Bpring (res + Mammoth
Spring
cecuapants
£3 Meowepd
Malscnl, who in
with a
steel, And in
chieftain
ttiest
ul earne tospend more
about the Indian
distance at
¢ geremonies,
i ride was cen-
iwart goose, Hum-
Oslin,
Rin, Ko-lo-pa-kin
Mi=CRE0,
Isughter, Nita-nee,
terolved themsel-
nor for their sis
uitors, among
chief, E-faw,
iribe of the
N ita-nre gently
igh firmly repu sed her numerous
father
marriage to one
I blood,
A-caw-Ro-taws But
Suttors, until such t¢ her
Ime as
3 3 oo i x
should give fier in
worthy of her reg
ree nf! Indian life
Fhus ran the enn
NemiocE oolighs b ihe gurgling wa.
# » =
And it
washing a deer skin
t
fteR
was the
ingratiate himself with
her father's tribe
Pew were the words which passed
| some pair meet in the mossy ravines
near the camp ground. But this was
all clandestine love, for friendly as In-
dian and white might be in social in-
tercourse, never could a marriage be
tolerated, until—there always is a turn-
ing point in romance—the black-haired
wanderer and the beautiful Nita-nee
resolved to spend their lives together,
and one moonless night started for the
more habitable east. All night long |
they threaded their silent way, climb-
ing the mountain ridges, gliding
through the velvet soiled hemlock
glades, and wading, hand in hand, the
splashing, resolute torrents. When
morping came they breakfasted on
dried meat and huckleberries, and
bathed their faces in a mineral spring.
Until—there always is a turning point
in romance—seven tall, stealthy forms,
like animated mountain pines, stepped
from the gloom and surrounded the
eloping couple. Malachi drew a hunt-
ing knife, identical with the i
had given to Chief O-ko-cho, and seiz- |
ing Nita-nee around the walst, stabbed
right and left at his would-be captors,
The first stroke pierced Hum-kin's
heart, and uncomplaining he sank
down dying. The six remaining
brothers, although all recieved stab
wounds, caught Malachi in their com-
bined grasp and disarmed him : then |
one brother held sobbing Nita-nee, |
while the othersdragged fighting Mal-
achi across the mountain. That
one he
Was
ABSIGNMENT OF MINISTERS,
i
{ Contral Pennsylvania Mody Adjourns when
Thess were Made Known,
The ninth
Central
the United Evangelical chnreh, in
i session at Baltimore closed Tuesday
night with the announcement of as-
signments of the ministers to the va-
rious stations, a list of which appears
below,
annual meeting of the
YORK
W. Messenger, pre
DISTRICT.
iding elder
ri, Grace--J, Hartzler,
wore, Grace
nkbinder
ISLE DISTRICT
mer
CENTER DISTRICT
residing elder
the last the lovers saw of one another. !
ley, from the center of which rose acir-
cular hillock, and it was to this mound i
the savage brothers led their vietim
As they approached, a yawning cav- |
ern met thelr eyes, filled with greenish |
limestone water,
the mouth of the
higher than the
There is a ledge at!
cave, about six feet
water, which |
the arched roof rises thirty feet, and it |
was from here they shoved Malachi
Boyer into the tide below. He sank
for a moment, but when he rose to the |
surface, commenced to swim. He
proached the the brothers |
beat him back, so he turned and made
for some dry land in the
cavern, Two brothers ran from
entrance over the ridge to where there |
is another small but though |
Malachi tried his best, in the impepe- |
trable darkness he could not find
or any other avenue of escape. Every |
day for a week he renewed his efforts |
of escape, but the brothers were never
absent. Huoger became unbearable, |
his streugth gave way but he vowed
he would not let the redskids see him |
die, so forcing himself into one of the |
futhermost labyrinths, Malachi Boyer |
breathed his last.
Two days afterward the brothers ene ;
tered the cave aud discovered his body |
They touched the coins ip his |
pockets, but weighted him with stones
aud dropped him into the greenish
limestone water, Aud after these
guy years those who have heard this |
legend declare that on the still summer |
nights an unaccountable echo rings |
above
ap- |
ledge but
rear of the!
the!
opening,
this
nol
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® Has : t Ww. N Wallis
1903.
TEACHERY BILL RECOMMITITED
Bent Back to the Sennte Commities on Ju
diciury Genernl To Be Amended,
With an inimical Benate determined
to harry it to death if its passage was
insisted upon without amendments,
the friends of the Soyder bill fixing
the minimum salary for teachers at $35
8 month discreetly outflanked the
movement Tuesday and by quick work
succeeded in having the bill sent back
to the Committee on Judiciary Gener-
al, where an effort will be made 80 to
amend it that it will meet any objec-
tions that are now made to it,
This was not done, however, until it
was developed that the opposition had
materially strengthened its lines, and
that there was some secret force work-
ing that the friends were at first unable
to locate. Later it was known that the
silent force was the Legislative Com-
mittee of the Btate Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, through whose influence
resolutions have been adopted in the
local granges and sent to the various
Benators protesting against fixing the
salaries at $35. These protests are print-
ed and in the form of resolutions, and
there are hundreds of them to come,
Hundreds have already arrived, and
they are having their effect,
The resolution referred to is printed
in full below. Thesame was endorsed
by nearly every local and County
Grange in the State and sent to the
State Senator of their distriet,
deprive 8
It was decided that the next confer |
Keech open 1
day in March 1904. The selection of a |
place was referred to a committee coms |
posed of the presiding elders.
Che members of the
ited Washington Wednesday and were |
President.
Advertise in the Reporter,
In unity there is strength.
ain, rain, back |
£0 come
some other day.
Mrs, Ed
away ;
Robison will not move to
kirk property after April lst,
There will be no new state at least
samuel F, Snyder Monday returned
stair builder by a large contractor,
Bev. G. W. Kershner will make sale
8 Ti
WENT WEST,
Wm,
Homes in the Wear,
Johu A. Strank and Homan Seek
Two tamilies, well known in Penns
Valley, today (Thursday) are about
{settling in their new western homes,
One is John A. Strunk, of Pleasant
Gap, the other Wm. Homan, of near
Asronsburg. The former selected Ver-
non, Kansas, the latter Scottland,
South Dakota.
NO. 11.
OWN AND GOUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
The Manns will erect a large depart-
ment store at Mill Hall.
Christ Keller, of Penn Hall, was a
caller Baturday to renew the Reporter.
H. W. Petrikin, Esq., is the first
Democrat who was ever elected bure
gess of Huntingdon.
Miss Virna Emerick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. (3. H. Emerick, of near
town, visited Bellefonte last week,
Miss Katie Keller, who for the past
few months had been at Munson and
Osceola, returned home a few days ago,
Mrs. John A.
Jlanche Durst, both
visited in Bellefonte
last week,
nei
iss
of Potters Mills,
ct
Black and
the latter part of
Under the head of Child Training,
in the April Delineator, are a number
of valuable suggestions for Keeping the
house pure.
The engagement is announced of C.
M. Parrish and Rose Fox, of
Bellefonte, their marriage to take place
in the near future.
Prof. H. ¥. Bitner, of the
ville Normal School, Monday atte
the funeral of his
Derr, at Laurelton.
Miss
iillers-
nded
L.
uncle, {(se0rpe
Miss Flora Love, Friday of last week
went to Watsontown WAS
the guest of Mrs. Foster, wife of Rev.
where she
W. K. Foster, until Monday.
Wm. Brooks, of Linden Hall, was
pleasant caller Tuesday, He pl
{ District
Attorney N. B.
idl Attorney Thomas Bext
i move their office to Crider’s Excl
recently occupied by W. E. Gray, E
deceased,
Ellis Horner, of near Pleasant Gap,
Bellefonte,
fur-
also secured em-
i
} wb . «511 § ff aut $3
{ where he will be employed at the
ce. His sone have
i
{ J.B. Bhuman, of State College,
considerably inju
{by a wagon to
was
struck
IINAWAY
horse was hitched. He was pi
unconscious condition.
ked up
inasn
8. Ward Gramles
tysburg, will open the
of Get-
spring terms of
Academy, April 13th
lwo courses, one a preparatory for
college, the other a normal co for
{ teachers,
The fact that F. W. Sweetwood. of
Nymerton, lilinois, renewed his paper
for another year, is evidence that he
has not failen out with the world, and
is content with has lot in his Illinois
home,
vrndiiats
« ETRGUA
the Boalsburg
uree
In another column is a poem by
Wm. Grimm, of Pittsburg, dedicated
to Wm. L. Runkle, formerly of this
place. Both are connected wiina the
Knoxville Land Improvement Com-
pany, and together some weeks ago
visited Centre Hall.
{ Harry Fye, who Tuesday of last
week moved to Centre Hall, from
| Spring Mills, is more than pleased
| with home
between Malachi and Nita-nee, mavy through the cave which sounds like | of his personal property Baturday aft- his new since Sunday
the glances, and often did the hand “Nita-nee, Nita-uee!” ernoon at the Reformed parsonage.
the entire movement was halted; the
\ Mr. Strunk purchased a quarter sec- | morning, at which time a little girl
army could not be supplied in this|
tion on his visit to Kansas last spring. | came to his home and engaged per-
gotidition; they must get out of the]
mud or s'arve; therefore, on January |
22ud the troops were ordered back to |
their former camps; to get back was as
big a job as to go on. [It rained every
day until the evening of the 285th when |
the rain changed into snow, and on
the morning of the 20th we had a snow
eight inches deep, and the weather |
turned very cold; the snow began
thaw on the 3lst and by the evening |
of Feb. 2nd was all gone into mud,
A Have Bargain, LOCALS,
Considerable garden truck was!
planted last week in Northumberland
county, [un Montgomery county some
farmers had their entire oats crop
sown previous to the latter part of the
week.
The marriage of Miss Harriet R. Fel-
{ty and Harry Bhugerts, both of near
mouth, a waliguant fever and for some | Boalsburg, occurred Wednesday of last
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Our regular $4.50 Cabinets for a short
time for §3 00. A discount of 33} per
cent. “This is not an sdveriising
dodge but a straight tip. If you went
pielures now is your opportunity. At
Centre Hall every HEriday except Fri
day, the 13
WW: W. smith,
Rev. J. F. Bhultz Monday returned
from the Conference of the United
Miss Sallie Lee, of Linden Hall, for
several days this week was the guest
af Miss Margie Firohm, at Centre Hill.
Mrs. John C. Bible, of Centre Hill,
Saturday returned from York, where
she visited her daughter, Mrs. Daniel
C, Rosaman,
Horses, cattle, machinery and wares
| The section has a good house, and
ity. Mr. Strunk took with him some
implements, a cow, hogs and house-
hold goods. He made the tour with
his goods, while his wife and son trav-
eled as first-class passengers,
The other family, that of Wm. Ho-
man, brother of Henry Homan, of Old
Fort, consisted of wife and eight ro-
bust children. Mr. Homan had also
and
manent quarters,
| Miss Maude Runkle, of Middleburg,
{ is the guest of her cousin, Miss Laura
| Runkle, in this place. Mies Runkle,
who is a daughter of John Runkle,
| one of the most progressive merchants
| in Snyder county, is a very amiable
young lady, and, well, pretty,
Dr. 8B. C. Musser, of Aaronsburg,
was a passenger to Bellefonte Monday
to attend the regular meeting of the
visited his new home last spring,
while there rented a farm. Mr,
| time the soldiers vied rapidly in great | week. The ceremony was performed
rhsink w at hi ling: two | i . of all sort, are bringing fair prices at Centre County Medical Association.
which was something astounding; tv 0! sumbers; in the 148th it broke out the | by Rev, Sioneaypher, of the Boals- '
and
weeks passed before the army was |
again fully settled ino their former)
camps, and this movement went into |
history as ‘*Burnsides Campaign in |
the Mud.” :
The appearance and condition of the
goldiers can not be imagined or de-
goribed; they were sosked from head
to foot and so completely plastered
with mud that they realized that no
more could bang on and they no long-
er cared for it; they marched with abso.
lute indifference through it, making
no effort to avoid it whether it was
shoe deep or knee deep.
This was wae most demoralizing
esmpaign of all.
On Sunday morning, Feb, lst a
heavy detail from the 148th, myself
included, plodded through the eight
inch snow and the deep mud under it,
four miles down along the Rappaban-
nock river on picket duty; we remain.
ed on post twenty-four hours, without
fires; cold, our shoes full of snow, mud
aud water; it took us the greater part
of the day following to get home,
through the awful mud and complete-
ly worn out; many contracting colds
which it required weeks to cure.
Rain and snow alternated rapidly,
with a few fair days until the middle
8th and Sih. Itdid not spread by eon-
tagion, but seemed to attack all at the
same time; very few escaped. The
every company established a company
hospital. Co. "A" establighed its com-
pany hospital the second day, and ten
men were carried and led into it, and
Captain Forster appointed comrade
Heury Crouse as nurse; he escaped
and tussel with his delirious patients;
with his coat off, and his white hair
parted down the middle of the back of
his head, brushed down tight to the
scalp, working day sod night with his
troublesome patients without a mur-
mur. In forty-eight hours more, howe
ever, every tent was a hospital; there
were hardly enough soldiers remain
ing well to take care of the sick and
bury the dead, and we had nove for
“duty.” This was the darkest period
in the history of the regiment,
During this epidemic and resulting
effects the regiment lost nearly one
hundred men in dead and permanent.
ly debilitated. Among the dead were
the following members of Co. “A :"
Henry Wolf, Griffin Garret, Geo. &.
Lose, Samuel Crape, James Meirley,
Samuel Wolf, Daniel Shaffer, Martin
of February,
An epidemic of sickness broke out in
Grove and Bimon Stover.
| burg Lutheran church. ‘
John H. Martin has not yet been
confirmed as postmaster at Clearfield,
It has been desided to leave it to
| vole of the people of Clearfield. They
{ will vote on March 14th. John M.
| Chase, Jr., is the other candidate.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall Reed died in
Renoya, aged sixty-six years. She was
the widow of Prof. John T. Reed, and
| daughter of the late T. Miller Hall, of
i
Milesburg, who atone time was sheriff
of this county,
F. M. (irawford, salesman for the
Potler-Hoy hardware company, Belle
fonte, was one of the callers at this of-
fice who willfully planked down sub
scription money. Mr. Crawford is
particularly well suited to his business,
and applies himself very closely to
his work.
The Pittsburg Dispateh gives free a
Mother Goose Paint Book to children
who secure five persons lo take The
Sunday Dispatoh for ten weeks, You
don’t have to collect any money from
the subscribers. The book is- a great
educational wovelty and gells at $1.50
each. Every gbikd should have one,
aud anyone can get fl ve persons to take
Pittaburg’s great Sunday newspaper
for ten weeks. Write to The Dispatch
for blanks.
public sales, No particular fancy prices
have been paid thus far for either
hgraes or cattle,
An examination for mail earrier was
eld at the hotel Wednesday morning,
The applicants were Messrs, James 8,
Htahl, James Decker, P. Fisher Keller,
Wm. F. Floray, D. Keller and Wi.
F. Keller.
Miss Roxanna Brisbis Tuesday
morning went to Harrisburg, where
she will remain several days prior to
golog to New York City and Hart
ford, Conn. Bhe will be absent for
some time,
H. G. Btrohmeier, the marble cutter,
Wednesday went to Union county in
the interest of his business, Mr.
Btrobhmeler ships monuments, ete, to
various points outside of his home ter
ritory on account of the cheapness and
superiority of the work.
Rev. W. E. Fischer, D. D., of Sha-
mokin, was tendered a call to the
Lutheran church at Ardmore, a short
time ago, but the proposition was not
considered by him. Dr. Fischer was
present at a special meeting held in
the interest of Foreign Missions, and
the congregation was so much pleased
with bis manner that without hearing
him preach, he was given the call.
has now secured a
Mrs. Homan are especially well pre-
pared to seize the opportunities pre
sented in South Dakota. The eight
bright faces, and willing hands, will
cause difficulties, otherwise insur-
mountable, to vanish.
Buccess to both parties.
a AM A AA
Bills Passed the Senate,
Requiring nonresident hunters of
the State and unnaturalized foreigner
resident hunters to procure a license
before hunting in the State,
Amending the Judges’ disability act
#0 that Judges retired because of phys.
ical or mental disability shall receive
full pay instead of half pay.
Marriage Licenses,
Clarence Stover, Penn Hall,
Jennie Moyer, Penn Hall.
Stuart Dillen, Julian.
Flora Boyer, Julian.
James C. Markle, Warriors Mark.
Lera Way, Stormstown.
John T. Wagner, Bellefonte,
Gertrude E. Meyer, Boalsburg,
Charles Davis, Butler,
Effie M. Kramer, Aaronsburg,
Jacob B. Houser, State College.
Carrie I. Houser, Rebersburg.
Clarence Heimes, Potters Mills,
Dr. Musser is wrapped in his profession,
takes great interest in the local society
and is in step with the advance in
medical science and surgery,
Charlie and Miss Louise, son and
daughter of Wm. R. Brachbill, of
Bellefonte, Sunday were entertained
by Miss Laura Runkle, at the Centre
Hall hotel. Mr. Brachbill isoff ona
furlough from the School Ship Sarato-
ga. He is a popular young fellow, and
reflects credit on the ancestral “boot.”
John D., Lucas, of Potters Mills,
whose marriage to Miss Blanche Heck-
man took place last week, was a caller
Monday to have the Reporter ordered
to Spring Mills where he will take up
housekeeping within a few days, Mr,
Lucas is a carpenter by trade, and is
one of those young men who has push
and energy.
A prominent feature of commences
ment at Pennsylvania State College
this year will be the Class Day exer
cises to be conducted by the Seniors,
Class Day has been observed by some
former classes but has been omitted for
several years. The committee in
charge consists of E. R. Norris, North
East; 8. E. Miller, Lancaster; C. 8,
Freeman; Pittsburg; R. R. Baillie,
Millersburg; B. H. Sharpe, West Ches-
ter; I. C. Palmer, Manito; and RB. LL.