- VOL. LXXVI. CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR, 148th Regimen, Pennsylvania | Volunteers. | i By 1. P. Meyer, A., 148th | Le ime nt, FP. Sergeant Co. V. {To be Continued.} CHAPTER 111 About one o'clock p. m. the white powder smoke and fire of all their guns suddenly flashed forth all aloug their line and we quickly dropped down behind our parapet. In a few | seconds the dreadful roar and scream- ing shells reached us. Shells came fly- ing thick aud fast from one hundred and twenty guns, and exploding over and among us doing fearful execution amoung ry-men and Along our corps front nearly a bun- dred guns responded most actively. horses Including batteries to right and left of our corps, we about equaled the ene- my in the number of guns, in sll about three hundred. In the concus- three hundred guns and ex- ploding shells earth and sky trembled for two hours, during which time Was along our sion of nearly dreadful line. havoe wrought | A thousand horses and men were Killed and wounded About thiee p. m. firing and soon after the Confederates slackened their furious cannonade, under the that they had permanently silenced our batteries In a few minutes we saw great ci umns of the enemy moving out of the woods, and forming battle lines for a| our As | artil- many our guns ceased | impression i 0 grand charge on position as they in sight our lery opened a terrific shell them, but they moved bravely forward thot of artillery, diagonal- S000 came fire upon sand with about strong, several batter twenty & hit fields. 0pen ly across! baiteries dashed forward and fire of guns Cheir at short were 01 us range, quickly dis- I'he entire lose opened a number mounted by charging force our artillery, of grape down by the gaps in their columns and we shouted i the batchery. hey a halt and mir batteries, range of fire Was ino © by a terrible mowed them which, and canister, thousands, tearing great with glee at sight of this awful] wed these came steadily gaps | cle without and | rapidly on, Figt our double charges o firing as they marched. range commenced now with f grape and canister. charges sent the by the 145th | iting at close guns Were loaded Chese brass | battery guns supported P. V. recoiling twenty feet to the rear, and ringing like A terrific ex- plosion now knocked halfa dozen of us sprawling. The rest jumped up while I lay still, Are you hurt? my comrades asked, | an done for, I said. Look at my They carefully examined my back, and as- sured me that I was all right; that my coat was not torn. I crept back to my place, thanking my lacky stars that my new coat was not torn although I felt as if I were broken in two. Heavy bells. guess | back We were fearfully stunned; many similarly stunuoed by exploding shells suflered instant death. But the relief I experienced when teld that my coat was not torn, I can not describe. The charging enemy was now in reach and our infantry joined in the fight which became more desperate every moment. The poise of battle mingled with the shouts of forty thousand desperate, maddened men was somethiog ap- palling. Gen, Armistead led the van of “Pickets charge’’ and struck our line a little to the right of the 145th near the “Clump of Trees,” at the ‘Bloody Angle,” so ealled by reason of the heavy losses on both sides in the ters rible fighting which took place at this point, and which is known as the “High Water Mark’ in the battle of Gettysburg and the Rebellion itself, The “Bloody Angle’ consists of a sharp turn forward by the “Clump of Trees,” the objective point of Picket's charging column, to a stone fence, not two feet high, mostly bowlders. Here Picket's line under Gen. Armistead struck and broke the Union line in a most desperate hand to hand conflict that ebbed and flowed back aud forth over this stone wasil while the 148th, being close observers of this desperate fight, shouted and cheered our men whenever they crowded the enemy back, over and beyond the stone wall, The crisis had now come and for a Jittle while it seemed as if our centre was permanently broken when we saw Gen. Armistead leading, with & rush, a body of his meu through our Hoes, Our men seemed stunned at this bold move, Firing had slackened ; Armistead rushed up to one of our guns, laid his hand upon it and shout- ed to his men: “This is our gun, pome boys!’ This was his last com mand ; that instant he fell mortally wounded, The men that had so brave. THURSDAY. 1903. NO. threw down their guns This was the end, | hoarse, loud shout that seemed to thrill earth and sky. For a brief period a fierce artillery Hundreds of them threw down their arms before the Becond Corps, whose of Plum Run not a shot was loudly shouted : we will fire stood still on our side Hollow, undecided ; fired at them. We Come in and surrender or you! Still they hesitated. An aide was sent out to tell them that they must come in at once, or receive the fire of artillery and infantry. Hundreds of them now rushed up the slope and over our breast-work, and passed to the rear, as prisoners of war, and the battle of Gettysburg was ended and won. No troops ever marched more brave. ly to their death than did these chiv- alric of the “South Land.” I'heir undaunted bravery merited and received the admiration and applause It was the Union (Burn- on BONS of our men. Of all the great battles of the war, Getiysburg was the battle of great blunders on both sides. It was all over by four o'clock p. m. was, what next? The balance of the afternoon and the major portion of the night was spent in repairing damages; caring for the wounded, and burying the dead, men and which thickly strewed the ground. All night candles and torches dimly way of ipcoming stretchers, the wounded, mostly Coufed- gathered from the slaughter Pickett’'s charge, the instru- ments and operating tables of the sur- and feet and bands, horses, bearing erates, field of # of arms and legs, that had already been amputated, lying in fusion. While the stand on their feet, their geous, the heaj promiscuous Con. could their never surgeons and move aris, gruesome work ceased. CHAPTER IV. On the morning of July 4th, accord- ng to orders, I reassembled my pi- f Pickett's the Ihe field presented a dreadful sight ; the dead were already in an awful state of putrifaction. Faces black as charcoal and bloated out of all human forehead and f putrid welling, twice the normal size, with bere and there great blisters of putrid of a muan’s fist, on face, while the bod- ies were bloated to the full capacity of the uniforms that enclosed them, It was a rare thing to fiud one who had not been robbed by the battlefield ban- dit or robber of the Generally the pockets were cut open and rifled through the incision. These battle-fleld robbers were well known by the large amounts of mon- ey tmey had, and the watches, pocket- books, pocket knives, and other trink- ets of value they had for sale after a battle. All regiments had them. The 148th bad at least a score of them. This work was never done during a battle ; but during the nights follow. ing, and mostly by skulkers and cow- ards who shirked the battles. A fifer belonging to the Drum Corps of the 145th P. V. was in the business on the Gettysburg field ; he thrust his hand into the pocket of an apparent- ly dead soldier, but the soldier began to move in an effort to get up, which frightened the fifer, add he ran as if the Devil was after him. We divest- ed the dead of their accoutrements and arranged them in rows, as usual, laying one against another, heads one way, Union and Confederates in sepa- rate rows. Then some would collect, while the majority of the men buried them. A shallow grave, about a foot deep, was dug against the first man in a row, who was then laid down into this grave and his face covered with any- thing that could be found. Often there was nothing even to cover the face. Iteeemed hard, even to us, at this time hardened soldiers almost de- void of human feeling, to shovel the ground upon the bare face of a dead comrade, though distorted and putre scent ; for the majority there was no other way. The ground was then dug from where the first man was moved, and formed the covering for the first man, and the resulting diteh consti- tuted the grave for the second man, and go on, charge and fight, to bury vend, semblance, eyes, chieeks, all one general level water, some the size neck and wrists, dead Hedediontion at Greenburr, The Reformed church at Greenburr, Bugar Valley, Rev. F. Wetzel, pastor, was re-dedicated Sunday. The church was enlarged and extensively repaired, Rev. H. L Crow, of Hublersburg; Rev, M. M. George, of Harrisburg, assisted ’ ly followed him seeing this, seemed i in conducting the dedicatory services, FROM OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, 8S. J. Krader Tells His Experience Galued While in North Dakotas, B. J. Krader, of Mountain View, Oklahoma Territory, under recent date, writes the Reporter as follows : Let me give my experience I had in Dakota in 1893. I went to North Da- kota to sell mill machinery in August of that year, and a pleasanter climate, during the summer months, I never experienced. August was a decidedly cool month, and on the sixteenth of August I saw icicles as thick as lead pencils on the eaves of a house roof. Bix days previous to that date, I help- ed to eat ice cream frozen with ice that was taken from a well, the ice having been formed during the winter of 15862, This well was five feet square and six- teen feet deep. During the snow storms, the snow that falls resembles sand or granulated sugar. It is necessary to make prepa- ration for these storms—fuel and pro- visions must be on hand as they can not be gotten during the time the storm rages. There is no questioning the possi- bility of raising the finest kind of crops —w heat, rye, flax, oats, barley or any other crop. Noone who has been in the Dakotas will dispute that. Giive your experience in the North West to the Reporter readers next January. S——————— A — Great Fall of Rocks A dozen men had a narrow escape from being crushed by a fall of rock and earth at the Bellefonte Lime Company's quarry at Salona Thurs. day afternoon. While the men were at work about 3:30 o'clock there was a slight fall of rock and they all ran far enough away to be out of danger, A few moments later a mass of rock and earth estimated to weigh 5,000 tons came tumbling down. The top of the ledge from which it fell being over 112 feet high. Later in the afternoon there was an- other mass of rock the total weight of all that fell being estimated at 12.000 tons. Trucks, tools and the men’s hats and coats were buried un- der the rocks and operations for the present greatly interfered with. A new supply of tools was obtained from Lock Haven Friday morning before work could be resumed. The escape of the men was almost miraculous. —————— fell, A Changed Sitaation. Joseph Chamberlain, who is secre tary of Btate for the colonies in the British cabinet, married Miss Endi- cott, a daughter of the secretary of War Endicott, of Mr, Cleveland's first cabinet. Now the Duke of Marlbor- ough has been made under secretary of state for the colonies, and he married Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New York. Making the legimate assump. tion in each case that the wife exercis- es great influences it is an interesting retrospect that after 127 years Great Britian relies upon Americans to con- duct the affairs of her colonies, when at that remote period she spent seven years of obstinate war to prevent Americans from having any control over their own. sn ff ————————— Reduced Hates to San Francisco and Los Angeles, On account of the National Encamp- ment, G. A. R., at San Francisco, Cal., August 17 to 22, 1908, the Pennsylva- nia Railroad Company will sell excur- sion tickets to Ban Francisco or Los Angeles from all stations on its lines, from July 31 to August 13, inclusive, at greatly reduced rates. These tickets will be good for returu passage to resch original starting point not later than October 15, inclusive, when ex- ecuted by Joint Agent at Los Angeles or San Francisco and payment of 50 cents made for this service. For specific information regarding rates and routes, apply to Ticket Agents, ———— ee ————— Possibllites for Pleasant Gap. It is rumored that the American Lime and Btone Company is about to purchase an extensive tract of land in and about Pleasant Gap, says the Daily News, and will open up lime stone quarries there which will give employment to several hundred men. They have already closed a deal with John Herman for 40 acres of land and itis alleged paid $4000 for it. The other land which they are negotiating for belongs to A. V. Miller, John Bil- ger, Mrs. Hartsock and Mike Spicher, ——— i rin After the Paid Solotst, In the crusade against violators of the “Blue Law,” in Wilkinsburg, a new feature has entered-the fair solo- ist. Druggists, who have been pros- ecuted from week to week for selling soda water and cigars, turned the tables Sunday and sent “spotters’’ into all the churches employing paid sing- ors, and later caused their arrest. Home wag now suggests that all church choirs be placed on the paid list, pro. vided the "Blue Laws’ will | bo stale) LY ouloron. NEW RURAL MAIL ROUTE, Koute from Centre Hall Will Give Ideal Nervice, Inspector Frank I. Taylor, on his recent visit here, recommended a rural free delivery mail route that will give its patrons ideal service, The service will begin Tuesday, Beptember 1st. The carrier will be William Keller, son of James A. Keller, The length of the route is twenty-two and seven- sixteenth miles ; area covered eighteen square miles ; number of houses on route one hundred and one; popula- tion served five hundred and five, Following will be found the names of heads of families on the route, as well as the distances and directions of the same : From post office south cast to Stump corner, Yistane qaistance 2 miles George Durst, Lowis Sunday John Conley George Koch North to P John Taylor, Elmer Ishler David Keller, Eliza Stump W. Brown corner, distance 7-16 mi, Oscar He oman Stump corner, distance 7-16 miles » Youngmanstown pike, distance figler Shaffer PF. A. Auman corner, distance 558 miles D.C. Keller Andy Rote east to Smith corner, distance He ward Durst Philip Durst John Durst James MoeCHntic Isaar Si Witmer Grove Arth ir G3r0vy MM ker roorge Gsingerict 10 Brush Valley road, 1 hese North west distance 516 miles uth westerly tance, 5 7-16 mi ames Grove to Centr ii post office, dis. jes Misses Bille Adam Neos George H. Emerick Harry W. Dinges B. H. Aruey Byron Garis domew's corner listance muel Bross Lanson Burris Jolin D. Moore G.W. Glace VV. Houser John Synder ober Bloom yvosarge Earhart George Heckman B. Houser John Heckman Aaron Luts Wm Parker Fimer Harshbarger own road 4 ¥ 1 ith east to Early distance 1 35% mi, ohn Rishel, tung AMINILR. onwt distance 3-4 mil Johu Frazier John Rishe! 10 Bariges corner, distance 2 3.16 mi ¥ Yeager CW Groge ries Neff ner, distance § 1-4 miles Wm Grossman Arthur Sie Wray corner, distance inkie Frank Fi ih west to wa road, 4 i 8. Glasgow D. W. Bradford James Lytle Wn * R Earl stance yi North east Ww ort, distance 1 mile LoorRe Blover Abner Alexander Eimer Rover » post office, distance 15-16 miles Goorge Brad rd Thomas Grove J. A Kerstetter Two routes have been laid out from Bellefonte, to begin on the same date: Route number one will start at Belle- fonteand go southwest on Buffalo Run road to Tresslers thence west to H. Armagasts; thence retrace to Tressler corner; thence southwest to Fillmore: west to Greene corner; north to Hoover corner; east and south easton Moun- tain road to Post Office. This route is twenly miles long, covers fifteen square miles of territory. There are one hundred forty-six houses on the route and seven hundred thirty people receive mail. Route number two begins at Post Office in Bellefonte, southeast on pike to Axe Mann; south to Dale corner; southeast and south to Blue Spring corner; southwest to George Klines; retrace to Peru; south to Zimmermans; retrace to Peru; northeast to Pleasant Gap; southeast and south to Bilgers; north to Comleys corner; northeast to Bilger cross roads; southeast and south- west to Bmetzlers; retrace to Bilgers cross roads; northeast to Gentzels cor. ner; northwest to Axe Mann road; southwest to old pike; south to Weav- ers; northwest to Post Office on old pike. Route number two covers an area of fifteen square miles and is twenty-two and a half miles long. There are one hundred seventy houses on the route and the population is eight hundred and fifty. The establishing of these two mail routes will mean the doing away with the post offices at Fillmore, Buffalo Run, Axe Mann and Pleasant Gap. Coleville district will likely be a part of Route number one which will take a big load from Letter Carrier Ardery. The Beale Works and Forge will be on Route two which will relieve Letter Carrier Ed, C. Woods. Three More Oars of Ustiie, This week three more cars of live stock will be shipped from Centre Hall. The shipments will be made eon (Thiaraduy dod Friday by W. J. Mitter- ng, Frank Rabler, George Brad- ford & SBchwenck. MORE RASCALITY, Machen's Suceessor Dismissed-—He's un Four Dollar Man. The solution of the post office ques- tion seems to be in the old ery: “Turn the rascals out.” A new scandal has broken out in the post office department. Charles Hedges, superintendent of the free de- livery bureau, and the successor to A. W. Machen in that position, has been dismissed for drawing a per diem of $4 for alleged services in different cities when it is proved that he was hundreds of miles away. He confess es that he took this method of bringing his salary up to a respectable level, and brazenly asserts that his dismissal is without warrant because the ques- tion has never been tested whether he cannot charge the per diem as matter of right. Of course the question has never reached the courts, because Mr, Hedges has the unique distinction of being the first official discovered who thinks it honest to charge the Gov- ernment for bogus services. Padded expense accounts in his view have not been declared illegal, and hence doubt exists us to the venerable principles of honesty that conscience decides for most men for callousness to its decrees, The Hedges disclosure is rather petty, but it adds to the conviction that the department is so honeycombed with fraud and theft that Congress must clean it out. S————— — ——————— Convicted of Selling Deer Becretary Kalbfus of the State Game Commission, reported to the Harris burg Patriot last week three prosecu- tions recently brought under the game laws, One case was the conviction of J, L. MeNitt, of Milroy, by Justice John R. Longwell, of Milroy, for selling a deer to a party of hunters. The purchasers were from Coatesville and were Willis R. Best, Joseph Trego, Joseph Miller, George Miller, Robert Curry, John Pitzmyer and Frank Baletine, Mc Nitt claims that the deer had been run by the dogs and was played out, then caught it and sold it to these hunters. He further says that he will pay $25 but not the $100 imposed by the magistrate. He has made an appeal to the County Court. The deer cost the hunters §125 they paid $25 he -) BS for it and were fined $100. a————— LOCALS, Mrs. H. F. Bitner Monday went to Lancaster where her son Harry is ill in the hospital with typhoid fever. Isaac Miller, of Tylersville, died Friday eveniog at the age of eighty- seven years. Butchers Dauberman, of this place, and Kerstetter, of Pleasant Uap, Thursday gota car load of western cattle from Lewisburg. Joseph H. Hollis succeeds J. Fearon Mann as superintendent of the Amer- ican Axe and Tool Company, near Reedsville. Wealthy Westmorelandeounty sport- men have purchased a tract of moun- tain land containing 1500 acres in Havice Valley, near Milroy, on which they contempiate making a game pre- serve, Mrs. Brungart, wife of ex-SHeriff Cyrus Brungart, of Bellefonte, ac- companied by her daughters, Misses Sallie and Cora, Monday arrived in town and are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs, James Alexander and other relatives. The west-bound freight train collid- ed with several cars of prop timber at Coburn, one day last week. The engineer and fireman jumped from the engine and escaped injury. John Moyer, who was on the caboose, was somewhat injured. The engine was pretty badly wrecked. The fiction number of MeClure's for August is a triumph of editorial selec- tion, and a clear case of the survival of the exceptionally fit. The leader is a delightful little story of child life by May Kelesy Champion, “The Method of Charles SBtuart’’, with illustrations in color by Jessie Willcox Smith, of exquisite charm and feeling. The carpets of the adjusting room of the United States Mint, a* San Fran. cisco, have been taken up and treated to a process for removing the gold dust A bar of gold valued at $9,000 is the result. The carpets were laid six years ago. In the adjusting rooms the coins are filed down to proper weight and the finer dust sinks into the car- pets. American cities present the most re- markable feature of the rapid growth of this continent in population and riches. There has been nothing like it in the whole previous history of the world. The stories of Terre Haute, Columbus, Youngstown and Harris burg, crisply told and fully illustrated in the National Magazine for August, drive this fact home in the mind of even the least observant. These arti. they and what they are doing. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Miss Lula Btover, of Aaronsburg, sister of John Btover, is the guest of G. H. Emerick and family. Miss May Rhone, daughter of Hon. I. Rhone, i» in Harrisburg where she will remain indefinitely. The collections of internal revenue for the last fiscal year were $250,740, 382, a falling off of $41,127 607. Mrs. James H. Lohr, of Philadel- phia, arrived in Centre Hall last week, Baturday her husband is expected. Mrs. Robbins, of Loganton, at the age of ninety-two years, is quite active, being able to do all kinds of house work. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bellers, of Oak Hall, Bunday were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, west of Centre Hall. The Penns Cave property will be sold at the court house, Bellefonte, Wednesday, August 12, at 10 o'clock. Bee adv. in this issue, Dr. Wm. Frear represented the U. 8B. Food Btandard Commission at the meeting of the National Association of State Dairy and Food Commission. ers, at Bt. Paul, Minn. Mise Roxanna Brisbin, who for several months had been visiting her sister in Hartford, Conn., and friends in New York, I and places, returned home Saturday. joston other Charles Zerbe was bitten through the thumb by a mink while endeavor- ing to loosen the animal from a trap. The jaws of the mink had to be pried apart before the lad could release his thumb. Dr. John Bouse, of Chambersburg, son of Rev. Bouse, who served the Methodist church in this place during the decline of the seventies, the state board physicians for the Roy- al Arcanium. is one of I.. Ray Morgan, who has been the efficient and courteous clerk in the State College Post Office for ten years, says the Times, terminated his con- nection with the office last Saturday aod will seek other employment. Among the visitors recently at the home of F. P. Geary were Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Geary and Misses Mary Hartman and Estie Young. The former took home with them little Flossie Geary, who was in town for a number of weeks. The large bank barn owned by Daniel Clinger, about a mile south- west ofl Milton, was struck by light- nivg, and was totally destroyed. Several head of cattle and pigs, with a lot of grain and farm implements were burned. The loss is about $5,000. Blacksmith Wilbur Henney under- took and successfully completed a dif- ficult piece of repair work on the traction engine of George H. Emerick. The work included replacing the old cleats, on the main drive wheels, with new ones, which necessitated the cut- ting of many larger rivets, Judge Auten handed down a decis- ion last week refusing a new trial to Farmer Hood, of Bnyder county, con- victed of offering for sale rabbits out of season in the Sunbury market. Hood will now have to pay a fine of $10 for every rabbit, nineteen of them, or un- dergo a day’s imprisonment for every dollar, J. B. White, of Piteairn, accom- panied by his wife and family, are spending their vacation near Penns Cave, their former home. Mr. White bas been at Pitcairn for four years, having a position in the car building department of the car shops. For the past year he has been in charge of six car builders. Samuel H. Quackenbush, special agent for the Achen and Munich fire insurance company of Germany, in company with Insurance Agent Hoov- er, was in Centre Hall Thursday of Inst week. Mr. Quackenbush is from New York, and came here for the ex- press purpose of re-adjusting the insur. ance rates in this place. While painting at the United Evan- gelieal church, in Howard, Lot Neff met with quite an accident, says the Hustler. He had just stepped from the ladder to the seaffold, which was twenty feet above the ground, when it gave way, he fell, alighting on the steps, and received a very badly sprained ankle and was otherwise bruised. F. M. Pletcher, of Blanchard, repre- senting the Rand McNally Company, publishers of geographies, was in town Monday, aud Tuesday met the Potter township board of school directors at their meeting at Centre ' Hill. Mr. Pletcher will teach the school next term, having been re elected for the fifth time. The school isa Township High ehoul and ab institution of which Liberty
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