* "VOL. LXXVIL. CENTRE COUNTY 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., Regiment, P. V. {To be Continued | CHAPTER VI. THE PRISONER'S STORY The the people of the south, as well as the Confederate Government and people of the north, eontinucusly, ye vainly implored thé National Govern ment to «tand by the Cartel of July 22ad, 1862, in order that the oud dred and fifty meén of both their friends, and thus effectually put hun- ag thousand imprisoned sides, might return te an end to suffering to military prison on both sides, It was said at the time, ti our generals, determined best efforts to reinaugurat. fe it and have all prisoners re upon Edwia M Stan War, at Washington, matter, and, ou becoming Stauton told him to go to and abruptly left the room had vo time for him on this sutject Oo ' dativ ial 3 it Early in the forenoon the Dies’ deck of the “New York” LO: were transferred {i deck of their own at, the Allison,” the lower deck of the while our crowd moves Al lower deck of the City of This transfer was quickly ed, with the precision of I'he “City of New York” meudous bowl, slowly whi the James, while at “Williaa Allison” stream, the “Jounuies’ bye, and waved Lhe ly, while buudreds grou pe chavuel avd start per deck, were (0 and wildly Land,” erate flag ; a sare Confederate flag was on the waio staff, We would here nole the Confederate Ste lison, wuiet bro Liat time afterwards blown moud to Aikens’ federate torpedo, while 01 trig from City Poiut. The James ed’ aud set wi a+ & protecti squadron of U menaced Richmon Que of these mooriugs aud fat er, where ad Siruc SW Athi up su id went Lo Lhe wieck. AB 80 down Lhe It w Atl As We Jainvs iou meal of w Fes asivdd U i aud bot e¢ thing port News'" 11 f he al up for a brief stop, th “Hampton Roads" conflict between the ) Merrimac, the first clad ships, which navies of the world, Fortre od for FOU LIC We made a landing at roe, aud carried out our de there. This Point Coufort, iuto Chesapeake aud had our Yankee Haofi bread,’’ pork, sud hot coffee, doue we second Ou account of furious st! bead wind, we got by day-break we passed “Pain Our'’ light | bread, boiled pork aud a quart ¢ stlee, Breakfast over, a negro can the Kitchen of the Steamer. wi large sl. p bucket full of table leas to throw overboard : no sooner r the a RiOobg siowi aud had a ren hl did we! see him than we rushed bucket | for something to eat, This rush fright. ened the nigger terribly He t when we yelled and ran at hb we intended to throw him Bo he instantly let go of and ran. I was the first bucket, and secured a roasted mution,” it ail, while the rest of my comrades cleared the bucket and ate everything there was io it, At3p. m. we reached Annapolis, Maryland, and immediately disem barked and marched to “College Green | Brracks,” where we received uniforms entire, and were sent b ¢ barrack bath hoyse, containing fore ty wooden, plank bath tubs or water troughs, all in one room, arranged along each side, two feet apart, ends to the wall, with an aisle through the centre. There was plenty of hot wa. ter, heated in a row of ninety-gallon, laundry kettle stoves, standing in a row in the aisle, passing through the centre of the building from end to end There was, also, plenty of strong laundry soap, cakes, of great size, As we stripped we threw every stitch of the old uniforms out of the windows, pud scoured the dirt of half a year's Woutuued at fout of pext column. gent that overboard the one into LE bucket the “eg of | entire ; a big bite, but [ ate Hew inton! Irintele Convention &t Lemont, I'h unday School OC at Lemon nthe afterns ine of nary at si y pronounced by of the heat attend 1aday ‘Hi vores ie he the evigas Presbyterian ih had direct of the =un- B $ interests of Lirnost t : Luey had hemes will doubt meetings LO UBIrousey { NEWS PLAIN | | tirent | { i | | | i | [1a y of the jag i | utr gr le | Owing to the g | | i | . ray “lr ie ¥ ! { oue ol HpaArative 1 14 ained, und that all the dislodged. fiat saying that the twfore » bat h-house, Lhe Satie " carry itn o i Kola, led with great variety of articles conducive lo stnusement of the sol s hooks, Zines, testa. iwvelopes, ink, slaps, diets, such sn fing ments, bibles, paper, « ead peo te, posiage enmbe, playing cards, matches, tobae- pipes, ele, all was sly aud liberally distributed We had money reason of this timely which on, e10., of gratuit Ho to buy + but Liy hundreds of letters were written and staried on their way Here night at "home that the we digress to “Hy sud “Chris. tian Comtuissions' were splendid ex- amples of organized mercy, furnished by the people of the North. They de vised and provided every possible com. fort for the sick snd wounded, beside distributing religious reading to every soldier fu the field. They provided smbulnuees, stretchers, purses, medi cines, bandages, clothiog, bot eoflee, with an endless variety of delicacies and general provisions for the siek and wounded, ana Uhristian burial for the dead no want of body or soul was overlooked, in catup, hospital, or ne- | ovsmible Selde alter battle. UManitary” In Leeginlntur din [RUN erin, a SUC he W ae Read ti 2, Tus WwW. Nw af Among the call office Colyer, Reporter Jordon, of id was |” urday MM. Hil years, the oldest male resident of Mill | “I8quire’’ G 4, aged eighty Hall, celebrated his birthday recently, | and among the gifts was eighty dnl. lare from his son, Philip, livieg in the weal, George WW. Wiagonseller, editor of the Middleburg Post, is a candidate for (Congress in the Seventeenth distriet; That district is represented by Thad, Mahon, who is also a candidate for re- notuination, J. W. Mitterling, the cattle dealer, shipped a fine ot of cows to College ville, near Philndelphia, Tuesdny morning. Mr. Mitterling ie careful to have his ear in the best possible condi tion it ean be put in order to protect the cattle from the severe cold. A series of meetings will be begun in the Presbyterian church of Hpring Mille Tuesday evening, February 28rd, closing with the ecmimtnion on Bane day, the 28th, at 10:80 a. m. All wre eordinlly tuvited wf be present, NEWS FROM BOALSBURG, Loonls nnd Versonuls from the of Harris Township William Rankin, of JUND., Soemle, Samuel Rive and Mrs, William the Fisher home. to the a penny.” ready hear s ive me George, hn Wilson, West manager of the ty ar} home of Homer to the to be given again been postponed te “t, due Lhe Hull time William smong his friends, “*H to will not bw Fe Mlewart will resume tl} Weber's store f April n and in Le attend Acad faition Hs ' R arge i ring term of the { of free to the generos joanl should Ix Millhelm, i wi URIDess fut inte {to enchied his morning audience. ty tioes all around town, ids. tiitam Douty in fie are being and cut GRY In PAD pis day inthe schools cote to the work 8B ale juvited to that day, and see ng done harlea Haines, ven by who the Baltimore conflagra- y this town last week to] tion, came I'he United Evangelicals observed | Holy morning The pastor was assisted by the presid- | Commuuion Sunday ing elder, Rev. Cromley. H. G Clearfield, f M. {. Gephart this! k. Mr finds that sales men like Mr. Krape are a scarce article. Ww wee Gephart All the gossip of the stores and post office now ia the far eastern war. The | post office is always crowded at mail time with those anxious to hear the War news. - ——— Not So Easily Swindled, It appears the farmers are not so easily drawn into investing their cash in eanning factories of treble or more the capacity necessary. An effort was one of these indus tries at Centre Hall, Coburn and Mif- flinburg, with no success, made to establish AAP AAAS After Game, William Rossman, of Pleasant Gap, had quite an experience while hunting foxes in MeBride’s Gap, last week, His dogs took a trail that he supposed to be that of a fox, but proved to be that of a wild cat. The animal was treed, snd Mr, Rossman opened fire, The eat jumped a distance of about sixty feet to the ground, and ran down the mountain, A trail of blood was followed, which led to a deep cleft in the rocks where the ferocious little beast Gould be seen Lut not reatlvwd, Cuarieus Time tring slick COTTe- and The he an thint Number Seven, d and taught d the world and unting for the be seven holes of the senses, The the seventh daughter of a daughter en- dows such a person with magical gifts and Amo ents seven planets rak inhabitants, thug acco eo dave of the ok. t the head, tin Oe {he in i colors Epectrun |Meat uperst and seven ition attaching to seventh nek noted events awd things that bear this in ital number are the Sev. n Ir ys WwW grat conflict for Oi ie seven church nn sivepers of Ephe- wd seven wonders of the American Queen, Pincing Them. Man 'leasant and Bore. ning to visit me next week. at whall 1 do with them? 1 have 80 fe y iy beni] unin oud good suprewa va of Asia. the sev fuss ai wvorld the Busy og AEE 4 thi The lutroduce Pleasants it a elub and wi {oa club. -Xew urleaus Times-Detnocrat. A OO iin Bore Wise Advice to the Widow, Widow (teagfullyi—Yes, my daugh- TODS Are now my only resources, Friepd—Take my advice and husband NO. 7. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL IN FROM ALL PARTS, TEREST Wiki pul a team « {UP produce, anda i orders for and general { store, | In giving an s cheers’ { local justi Was | reciialion Dy Mise Kromri | Haven Niate Normal schoo ited { female teachers in | cout on { h best The entertait given by the Grange, assisted 1 wd to be ¢ members of Progress others, LL wen bg of the books, organ. sae by postponed indefinitely, owing ditions under the « organization, Those papers, etc. belonging to the ization are requested to return to Hon. L. Rhone. too Hot wtrod havi Ravi ¢¥ Ee) of Hon tows ship, The announcement J. W. Kepler, of Ferguson as a candidate for the legislature, was re. ceived last week just prior to going to press, and too late for any farther no- tice. Mr. Kepler is, according to the custom, asking for the second term. His record as a legislator during the first term is all that could be desired of any one, Mrs. Charles Duck, of Clearfield, recently arrived at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Frank, ear Centre Hill. She is home owing to the fact that Mr. Duck was recently sent from Kerrmoor to Munson Sta. tion by the Northern Central ralirond company, at which place he was given a very desirable position, having no work except atthe telegraph fnstra ment. Assoon asa bhouss oan be se. cured, Mrs. Duck will join ber bus nud to We uriviog Ulesideld ww.
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