VOL. LXXVI,
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
GENERAL REVIEW OF MAJOR AND MI.
NOR EVENTS, i
{
Bxporiences of the Rank and Fille—Anec-
dotes and Observations.
By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A,, 145th
Regiment, P. V.
[To be Continued.] |
CHAPTER 11.
Others were ‘munching’ crackers, |
The majority however, occupied them- |
selves in digging a trench back of our |
parapet, with bayonet and hands for |
protection against what might be yet
to come at this point.
Time passed and we began to think
that this holy and beautiful day might
possibly be a day of rest. This was
not to be so. There was a sharp and
piercing report of a twelve pounder
gun, from a rebel battery beyond the |
woods, west of the Chancelior House, |
and the shell came screaming through |
the air, passing over us without doing
harm to any one, Instantly there was
commotion among the men.
We knew that this was the opening |
gun of an awful day. A short period |
of quiet suspense followed, and then
the Confederates attacked us all along |
the line, with all the energy they
could muster. The battle was steady,
and more furious than before, In
break in
an- |
ticipation of a possible the |
line at our point the 153rd P. V. was |
sent in to help us, which they did no-|
bly. We repulsed the enemy in our |
front. But a batch of sharpshooters, |
hid in the tree thps to our right, and a
battery to our rear, getting perfect
range of us, killed and wounded quite
a numberof our men, Against this]
attack we could do nothisg only en-|
dure. After pelting us for some time |
the fire of this battery suddenly ceased,
and the sharpshooters alone kept
their fire on us. Back of and
yond the Chancellor House, great
battle still raged with dreadful fury. |
up|
us bes
0
Above the noise of battle arose tremen- |
dous shouts and cheers. It was the
“Rebel Yell.”
We always easily distinguished the |
high pitched, pipy “Rebel Yell” from |
the strong, deep, hoarse cheers of the
This ** Revel Yell"
econting- |
northern men. be- |
came more earnest and more
ous as time passed and we knew that
we were With us it
was quiet; not a shot was fired, except
losing ground.
by sharp shoolers in the tree tops to]
our right, who now and then struck
some of our men. Captain Forster of |
Company “A’’ was shot through the
fleshy part of the neck, under thechin. |
His voice was he could only |
whisper. We hurried bim to the rear |
for surgical aid. Fightiog gradually
ceased. It became quiet in our front |
and we believed the Johnnies had!
gone away. Some one proposed to go
over and find out whether they had |
all left. I did pot know much about |
war and battles at this time =o I said, |
I will go for one. The boys laughed
atme. I climbed over the parspet
and the Zod Lieutenant of Compavy |
“A E. J. Burkert, followed me, He]
went half way and turned back. I |
was nervous and hid in a bush and |
watched for some time, half expecting |
to be shot or captured. I could net
seea living thing and thought it would
be great to go the whole way. I was
quite sure now that the Rebels had
left this point; I crept along and soon
entered their works, There was not a
living Reb. remaining. Greatly re-
lieved on this discovery I returned and
reported-—**No enemy remaining in
our front.”” This information was re-
ported to Head Quarters, But never
afterwards was I quite so highly in
quisitive, and never again ‘‘scouted’’
on “my own hook.”
It was now well on in the afternoon,
and the roar of battle around Chancel-
Jorsville continued unabated. The
“Rebel Yell” plainly told us that we
were steadily losing ground. We dis-
covered that the Confederates were in
possession of the entire Chancellors.
ville plain, and also of “Hazel Grove
Heights,”” rendering our part of the
lite also untenable. There was not a
rebel in might. But'their batteries had
perfect range of us and shot and shell
were coming thick and fast, doing
greater damage than before, knocking
down trees and brush and men. We
found that the entire left of our line
had been withdrawn and we were be.
fog cut off. The fighting here was fin-
ished and all that remained for the
rebs to do was to come and get us, In
o few minutes more we would all be
prisoners. We were in great suspense,
The "Rebel Yell” was rapidly coming
pearer and still we clung to our line,
awaiting orders to retreat. The few
officers that were left were undecided
in the absence of orders. Some one in
the ranks started an emergency call,
“Assemble on the left, pass it along.”
It was “passed along,” and as it pass.
gone;
CE
NTRE
The Legislature, which finished its
claimed credit for having finally killed
With the
smoke of battle cleared away, however
it is seen that in multiplying offices
and increasing salaries this Legisla-
ture has far exceeded that of any of its
predecessors, since 1805, at least,
The session of 1895 made extracrdi-
for party henchmen
wanting jobs; but it is improbable that
when the comparisons shall be finish-
ed the record of this Legisiature in
In extraordinary expenditures, as
Legislature of 1903 beats
limit of the unprecedented growth of
The one subject of new offices and
increased salaries is enough to demon-
strate that the Republican machine
managers cannot in coming campaigns
boast of financial economy in this Leg-
Three new departments—Fisheries,
Mines and Highways—are established,
g sigued the bills
In
other
departments ad-
many
for them.
clerks are provided for,
The of Commissioner of
Fisheries, § new,
:
and so is the provision of $1800 for his
position
with $3000 salary, is
clerk and stenographer. The late Mioe
Bureau, with Roderick as a $3000 chief
i ps intoa Depart-
Chis ! getting
t, two $1400 clerks,
derrick
with
r.
The Highway Department, to which
here has been comparatively little ob.
il
House smended it, is
the otitecome of 1}
bill. It will cost
for salaries it
je “proul Good Roads
about $8000 annually
1 the Harrisburg office, in-
3K) for the Slate Highway
Of the 88 500.000 to be
elodiog $
Commissioner,
youd
roads in the next six
will be used in each of
nt for g
:
the ensuing two years
bill alone
The Judges’ salary increas
rol.
In the Forestry
and a $1500
Department a $2500
clerk are added,
wpector's Department
additional deputies, with
expenses ;
gets 12 each
$1200 salary and traveling
clerk and two increased
clerical salaries,
In the
chief clerk’s salary is raised from $1600
to
Agricultural Departinent the
$1800, and proportional increases are
made in the § [ the stenographer
my of
and messenger.
In accordance with Governor Peuny-
paciker's wish for safely of archives, a
Public Records is
in the State Library. The
may appoint for this division
created
librarian
uch nas
aistants as the Legislature may author
ze. He begins with one such assistant,
The salary of the State Arsenal keep-
er is raised from $1500 to $2500. Em-
ployes who have been paid out of con-
tingent fund are made regular, as fol-
A $1200 stenographer and $1200
lows :
Librariav, and in
the luterual Affairs Department, a
$1000 clerk, a $1000 stenographer and a
$1400 clerk. Added to this department
is a $1400 superintendent of the New
Bureau of Railways,
The Banking Department is author-
ized to take out of the contingent force
and make regulara $1400 clerk ; the
Treasury Department a $2000 book keep-
er aud a $1000 clerk; the Public
Grounds-Buailding Department, a $1000
storekeeper and a $000 stenographer ;
the Agricultural Department, a $600
messenger, and the Senate, three addi-
tional pages at $2 a day.
In the Becretary of the Common-
the State
chief clerk's, $2200 to $2500, and several
contingent employes have been made
regular,
The "Attorney Goneral Is given a
$2200 law clerk.
with one empowering the Board of
Game Commissioners to appoint a
Deputy Game Protector in each coun-
ceive for similar service,
Proposed additional Btate expendi-
tures not yet warranted by Penny-
packer's signature are as follows ;
Increase from $5000 to $8000 in the
State Treasurer's main salary, for the
benefit of the slated Republican eandi-
date for that office, Prothonotary
Mathues, of Delaware County.
Full pay for the remainder of the
term of Judges who may retire on ac-
count of being 70 years old and hav-
ing been more thao 80 years on the
bench,
Cambria and Dauphin Counties each
suf Continued on Fourth Page,
to have sn additional Common Pleas
| Judge.
| A Division. of Horticulture, with a
| $2500 deputy and a $1200 clerk.
A $2400 chief draughtsman for the
Internal Affairs Department, and in
the same department these additions :
A $1000 assistant to the Chief of the
Industrial Statistics Bureau ; and two
$1600 draughtsmen,
Authorizing the Buperintendent of
Public Instruction to employ lecturers
at summer assemblies of associations
incorporated to promote education,
Increase from §3 to $6 a day of the
wages of the Senate and House
chaplains,
Five thousand dollars for the ex-
penses of a Water Storage Commission
of five men, to be appointed by the
Governor to investigate the causes of
the overflow of rivers and water courses
and recommend remedies.
Making the smallest calculation up-
on retired Judges and a few other
mere estimates necessary, the forego-
ing items for new offices and increase
of salaries amount to $354,500 a year
That is only a drop in the bucket of
extraordinary expenses, have
been made appropriating $25,000 for a
silver service to be presented by Quay,
Penrose and others to the war ship
Pennsylvania ; §50,000 the
Board of Health as an extraor-emer-
gency fund ; $300,000 for Pennsylvania
display at the St. Louis Exposition, to
be expended under the supervision of
the of twenty-five ap-
pointed by the Legislature's presiding
officers and Governor Pennypacker ;
$12,000 to the Free Library Commis.
sion for Traveling Libraries, and $10 -
000 to pay $2 per copy for any authentic
history that may be published of any
regiment, battery or other unit of a
military organization of Pennsylvania
Volunteers,
The only mopument or tablet bill
which the Governor has signed are the
appropriatioos for
lets at Antietam and for a $20,000 mon- |
Pittsburg to soldiers of the
Tenth Regiment, which Colonel James
E. Barnett commanded in the Phil-|
ippines
Awaiting Pennypacker's sigoature |
are a $5000 for transportation expenses |
of Pennsylvania veterans to the dedi- |
cation of the
ville, Ga., to Pennsylvania soldiers -
$2500 for Vicksburg memorial tablets |
of Pennsylvania commands: §75
Laws
to Mintle
Commission
Penusylvania tab-
monument at Anderson- |
$7500 to |
a Commission to buy ground for Mis |
slonary Ridge and Wauhatehie monu- |
ments to the Seventy-third and One|
Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania |
Regiments, and §7500 for a monument
at Hanover, Pa, in memory of the
civil war engagement there, !
Other monument bills not yet signed |
by the Governor are those for German. |
town battleground and Middle Spring |
Cemetery, Pa., and the fixing up of the |
Governor Ritver monument. He sign- |
ed the appropriation for the Pennsyl- |
vania monument at Shiloh.
The appropriations awaiting Penny- |
packer's signature include $5000 to the
“American Art Society of Philadel
phia,” and $50,000 to the Historieal
Hociety of Pennsylvania.
Unsigned extraordinary bills in the
Governor's bands include an appropri-
ation of $68,000 to the Valley Forge
Commission, mainly for laud ; $115,000
for the Free Hospital for Poor Con-
sumptives ; for contracts between coal
raise a fund which shall go into the
Btate Treasury for the establishment of
a Miner's Home, or homes for old erip-
pled and helpless employes of the coal
mines; $500,000 for Homoeopathic Hos.
pital for the Insaue, near Allentown ;
$40,000 for a Consumptive Sanitarium
at Mont Alto, and appropriation for
the purchase of an Eastern site for a
Hospital for Epilepticsand the Feeble-
minded, the entire cost of buildings
and grounds to be $500,000,
Exclusive of the $354,000 for new of
fices and increased salaries and of
whatever the Miners’ Home might
cost, the foregoing bills amount to
$2,642,500.
Among other bille of more general
importance in which the entire State
| is interested the following are now
‘upon the statue books as a result of the
| work of the Legislature: —
| Fixing the minimum salary to be
| paid public school teachers of the
| Btate at $35 per month.
| Prohibiting athletio exhibitions of
| longer duration than twelve hours in
| esch calendar day.
To the great surprise of scientists
several dourishing colon’'es of beaver
have beens found in the State, A law
has been engeted to prevent the cap-
ture or killing of these animals under
fine and imprisonment.
The soandal over attempts to patent
the coal innds lying within or along
navigable rivers for their great values
several years ago caused the repeal of
NO PAY FOR DIRECTORS
Senate Cats Out! Provision In the Associa-
tiou I8iN,
When the bill paying school direc-
tors §2 for each day's attendapce at
county directors’ association snd an
addition of 3 cents mileage came up in
the Senate. It was amended by Ben-
ator Patton, of this district, to strike
out the provision allowing the per
diem pay,
Senator Patton, who has been a
warm supporter of every measure ben-
efiting public schools during the ses-
sion, took the floor against the bill on
the ground that it made the office of
school directors an office of profit for
which politicians would eagerly grab,
He said that if the bill became a law
it would take from the school funds of
the districts of the State over $60,000,
Nearly every county in the State now
has a school directors’ association
which annually meets during institute
week. This bill provided for meeting
at other times than during the week
of institute,
Benator Patton had the bill amend-
ed go as to take from it the payment
per diem to the directors. He
tended that
con-
to
be u school
by
district and he be-
lieved that in view of the fact that the
Legislature had recently passed a law
fixing the teachers’ minimum salary
at $35, which he had warmly support.
ed, it would be considered by districts
a hardship if they were compelled to
pay #2 per diem to school directors for
attendance at the county association.
The amendment was carried,
Senator Patton's amendment
with the views of the
itor of the Reporter. When the
lution asking the Legislature to pass a
is in
accord ed
reso.
bill was
before Lhe State Directors’ Association
at Harrisburg during the winter, the
writer moved to strike out the per
county directors’ association
tied 4d Toot of next column.
clause,
The motion provoked
but was lost,
Thanks to Benator Patton for his
4 fren this —_
from third columt
of July, 1807, permitting that
to be done.
Continue
ae act
The nuisance of fence painting and
hideous signe is abolished by a law
which prevents the placing of such
signs or posters without the written
Providing for the appointment of
boards of visitation composed of six
reputable citizens for ipstitutions, so-
cieties, and sssociations caring for de-
and delinquent
I'his and several other bills
relating to the welfare of delinquent
pendent, neglected
oases of that class, Of this number
was the bill providing that no child
under the age of sixteen years shall be
committed by any magistrate or jus-
tice of the peace to any institution for
the purpose of correction or reforma-
mitment shall be made to the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the county. And
ancther act was that providing sepa-
rate places of detention for children.
Making it a misdemeanor for per
sons unlawfully to use or wear the in-
siguia or button of the Bpanish-Amer-
ican War Veterans, or the official dee-
orations of Spanish-American or Phil
ippine war societies,
Changing the form of licenses to be
issued to persons about to be married
so that the age, previous married con-
dition, if any, of the applicants shall
be fully set forth.
Reorganizing the National Guard of
the State by providing for the organi-
zation of a regiment of cavalry, the
establishment of regimental bands and
of a hospital corps of 450 men.
Authorizing the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board to use extreme meas.
ures in the killing, muzzling or re-
straining of dogs to prevent the spread
of hydrophobia. .
Making ita misdemeanor punish-
able by not less than $100 fine for any
person to sell cigarettes or cigarette
paper to any person under the age of
21 years,
Fixing the pay of clerks of Election
Boards at $3.50 a day.
Providing for the payment to Jus.
tices of the Peace of $8 a year for tak-
ing care of election boxes,
Providing for the publication of or-
ders or rules made by the courts in
counties having a population of less
than 300,000 to be distributed by the
County Commissioners.
To authorize and provide for the
commitment of persons habitually ad.
dicted to the use of alcholic drink or
intoxicating drugs to a hospital or
asylum for restraint, care and treat-
ment,
The total number of bills presented
to the Governor up to the present time
has been 621. The number now in
the Governor's hands is 412. Recalls
Hospital Ald Society,
The Hospital Aid Bociety met at the
20th at 7:30 p. m.
een. All present were most entbusi-
astic in their expressions of interest
and their satisfaction in
a small part in
an object,
promoting so worthy
The society voted to for-
members to the Auxiliary treasurer
pairs now in progress and to use the
dues of men together with any contri-
butions that may be made, for the pur-
plies,
letter from Mrs. A. O. Furst, president
of the Bellefonte Auxiliary, will inter-
est the readers :
“If we get an appropriation{from the
slate, which we are led to believe is a
certainty, and with the subscriptions
we hope to receive from our citizens,
& very complete hospital—but that
only a beginning. The expense of
keeping up the running eX penses
alone will amount to four of five thou-
sand a year.
able to pay but a small amount—a
some not anything.”
The following articles are
and the members of the society wi
be glad to forward contributions
trusted to them :
beds, old linen and
nd
needed
1
en-
dedding for single
muslin, kitchen
utensils, dishes, canned sand dried fruit.
fresh vegetables, groceries, table linen
and towels. Fresh eggs, butter
chickens are always in demand,
and
Any of the above articles may be
left at the Presbyterian manee, or with
any member of the society.
Meetings will be held on the
Monday eyening of each month.
next meeting isto be at Dr.
man’s and will be devoted to making
articles for the hospital,
first
come members may be presented
ss—r————— —
Odd Fellows' Day.
The nineteenth annual anniversary
of the Pennsylvania Odd Fellows’ As-
sociation will be observed in Milton,
Tuesday, 25th inst.
The officers of
President, William
tary, Heury B.
Harry T
H. Kiess:
Eberly :
sd
cal lodge.
The Pennsylvania Odd Fellows’ An- |
niversary association was organized in
1884, on the 26th day of April, in the
City of Williamsport, for the prime |
purpose of celebrating this day, and it |
has flourished from that time forth,
until to-day it is recognized as one of
the permanent auxiliaries to the cause |
of Odd Fellowship in the State of!
Pennsylvania,
cesin————
DEATHS,
JOHX LOVE MARTZ
Last Sunday afternoon, at three
o'clock, John, the bright little seven-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Martz, of Tusseyville, died after an ex-
ceedingly painful illness of one week.
The little fellow was first afflicted with
tonsilitis; then Bright's disease set in
and the end came quickly.
The funeral services were conducted
Wednesday by Rev, J. M. Rearick,
pastor of the Lutheran church, assist-
ed by Rev. Dr. Bchuyler, of the Pres-
byterian church. The friends met at
the home at nine o'clock snd then pro-
ceeded to the Tusseyville church for
the service. Interment was made in
the Union cemetery.
“‘Sufler little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not: for of such is
the kingdom of God.”
MISS MARY BARNHART,
Miss Mary Barnhart, who formerly
made her home at Williamsport, some
time ago went to Pittsburg to care for
her sister, Mrs. Stone, where she took
sick, she was taken to the hospital
where she died in less than twenty-
four hours. Her remains were brought
to Oak Hall, where the funeral was
held from the home of her parents,
Appendicitis was the cause of her
death. She leaves to mourn her death
her parents,one brother Frank of Pitte-
burg and three sisters, Myrtle and
Grace at home and Mrs, Stone, of Pitts
burg, this is the second daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart that has died
within six months,
Miss Ella Bricker, daughter of
Sheriff Bricker, of Mifflin county, died
in Trenton, N. J., at the age of twenty
two years, She was a trained nurse.
B. Z. Thomas, a
thirty yezrs, who
er,
NO. 17.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
{ April Court beging Monday.
| Mrs. Rebecca Bparr, of Joulsburg,
| visited Mrs. Maggie Harper last week,
Harry Furey moved from Potters
ployed in the car shops.
Porter Odenkirk has a good clerk-
Steel Works at Burnham,
Dr. Wycofl, who has been practic
medicine at Loganton for some
time, recently located at Glen Camp-
Mrs. Laura Meminger, of Chicago,
week were guests of Dr. and Mrs.
George L. Lee, in this place,
Miss Edna Reynolds, daughter
and Mrs. D. W. Reynolds,
Reedsville, assistant postmistress
that place, is ill with typhoid fever.
Dr. W. E. Park, who has been
cated at Nelson, Tioga county,
i
i
of
of
at
lo-
since
sl September, is enjoying a splendid
practice. He is well contented with
the location.
Friday night a son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. W,
fonte. The parents notonly are delight
ed over the babe's arrival, but there
seems to be visible signs of gratifica-
Gross Mingle, of Belle-
tion on the faces of the grandparents.
The centennial number of the Will-
lamusport Gazette & Bulletin is finely
pages,
The number is a splendid piece of art
and reflects great credit on the journal,
Wm. Reiber, of Colyer, elsewhere in
this issue advertises twenty colo ies of
Italian bees for sale. Mr. Reiber is an
experienced apiarist and finde the
business profitable. He has the latest
improved hives, and is up to date in
methods,
Mrs. Gettig, who last spring made
sale at her home near Linden Hall,
bas gone to Braddock, where a son
and Miss Elizabeth, are
George 1. Gettig, of
>. located.
draddock, assist-
ed his mother in preparing her goods
for shipment and accompanied her to
Messrs. Clayton Stover and Harry
Hagen, the former a son of Jeremiah
of John Hagen, of Farmers Mills, were
iu town Friday night. These young
men are the coming leaders in their
when their generation be-
comes the active force
The country press everywhere an-
nounces that the telephone girl is the
most promising maiden on the matri-
monial market. That condition sure-
ly prevails in Centre Hall. With two
exchanges in Centre Hall there would
not be a shadow of a chance for a new
customer to “talk sweet’ over the lines,
Richard Brooks and brother Cioya,
were callers Friday. Mr. Brooks is
farming under a plan that is likely to
become popular in the future. He and
his landlord, Capt. Boal, have a like
interest in all the stock and products
of the farm, and when sales are made
the cash is divided. The plan is work-
ing splendidly.
Send the news to the Reporter.
When you have occasion to write the
Reporter stale your occupation, how
long you have been at your present
location, ete. The Reporter is anxious
to become acquainted with its patrons,
and at the same time acquaint its read-
ers with your location, occupation,
business, ete.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shook, of Spring
Mills, were in town Saturday. Mr.
Shook is dne of the Bhook Bros, and
called at the Reporter office to arrange
for advertising the Sharpless Tubular
cream separator which the firm is sell-
ing. Among the recent purchasers of
separators were John E. Rishel, of
near Linden Hall;J. M. Heckman,
tenant of the farm of Merchant W. H.
Meyer, at Centre Hill, and Samuel
Homan, of Farmers Mills. The Shook
Brothers also sell the U, 8. cream
separator,
James H. Smetzler attended the
banquet at Williamsport Thursday
night given to employes of a portion
of the Pennsylvania Railroad who
had been in the continuous service of
the company for a period of twenty-
one years, he being one of the three
hundred and sixty who shares that
distinction. Mr, Smetzler began work
on the L. & T. at Spring Mills twenty-
six years ago, and in 1854 he was trans
ferred to Centre Hall and made section
boss from Gregg station to a point one
and one-half miles west of Spring
Mills. He keeps his portion of the
track in good repair, and has received