} Q ‘nen = T +A RN Rovner VOL. LXXVII. [ Watch and Signal CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. By T. P. Meyer, Regiment, P. V. {To be Contin CHAPTER VII. S!EuE OF Rl On near Alexandria, the Regt dered before sa halted me for was given light can and when consider+d sufficient paired,” physically, I, hundred others, started f at Petersburg, Va. We Alexandria, Va., where we Sergeant Co. A. 1 reaching Camp Va. at the “Front,” w» Of our wav © Weie board of examiners “recuperation y duty for with wr transport ; we immediatels We Cruise loose,'! and were on our wa: good weather sand a fine the Potomne, t hesapeake Bay, b tress Monroe, Hampton | Newport News, up the James River > + toads, our * Hass City Point, ol Sh § we boarded a freight 8. Military R. R Fort train, Steadman, A fearful cannon we hesitated and glope for a while the performance, awful noise, Gre smoke arose fre slowly clouds of dust AWAY OD uch the points struck shells. This awful exhibi lime and fascinating; that my courades, { ble 148th P. V in it, I became ve Lhe idly into the * Regt. at Fort bad built, The good spirits, aud desire 10 Vv Arey some were digging io trene were weaving “‘gabions ing letters, and io bunch of them the Co, were pilehing pennies noue of them paying any attend ihe fight in progress between ion and Confederate foris, nor deafening flying cannon balls, or the ‘ exp § reporis of the guus and suells, which made the and trees tremble, i y ithg earth, the air, Look out ! some one shouted, as huudred pound for: stead man and ricoe an shell bounded ted th the camp and disappeared to the rear, Ver gn doing no harm to any ome, T gave he 8 Warm me out to the extreme front, me what was going on, followed the trenches to a detail of the 148 P, V. boys who were very busy in a skir- mish with the “Johnnies” | intensely interested and in a few hours more was again fully inured to the scenes and happenings of actual war fare. The campaign from the Rapidan, | through the Wilderness, Bpotsylva. nia, Cold Harbor, down to and across the James River, at a loss of eighty | thousand men, was finished and the army had settled down in regular siege around Richmond and Peters. burg, twenty- two miles south of Rich- mond. Gen. McClellan's plan of two years before, of approaching Rich- mond from the south, was now adopt- ed, and the work had become, in a measure, quiet and monotonous, come pared with former campaigns of long, hard marches and great battles; here four armivs were concentrated ; Gen. Butler's “Army of the James,”' Bherl- I oye and took ty reception show We became the army about Fortress Monroe, had mae,” making it one of the grandest gregating over tw) hundred thousand men ; its right resting some miles east of Richmond on the north, extending southward by Malvirn and Turkey Boud on the James River, thence east. Continuedint foot of next column, orram for Progress Grange, OGWino Wiig i« the program for the meeting of Progress Grange, Saturday, Mareh 12: made Harry be » gardening this itd market in locality 7 w temperature of the pres. injured seed corn? D., K. Miss Edith Lutz. » irange, Ly rs pay a higher rate of farms for governmental 1 that paid by other classes holders 7 Potter, place the most charitable non « Fergus ur neighbor's short- James A. Keller, Misa Elsie Moore. its pro- its fertile unpro- John anpnusl xamination superintendent county, lil, caminations of all irs. Questions are of envelopes, and The { each pupil are | the work | The idea committee ine tite, i, and to Dutch Gap th Port River, itles south of Weldon R. R of forts and in length, vw form of field ud main points of nied by abatis, stuked wires, so to x fii line miles ron g enough at ail thetand the at. make on them heaviest emmy mighnt fortifications was a sight A fi Were Of } interest d these tL crowned connected and breastworks, a contin- Home «¢ 3 every | : At by trenches Hous cain of the fis ever co ff Lthiese forts were field works their arma- ment Lt aud most modern, Lee had le fifty thousand men and the end of the war was in sight. Ouse more campaign outside of these fortifications would end the war, and we wrote to boy friends at home to take the big bounties still paid to recruiis and come to war, The Becoud Corps went on reserve, #0 we did a great deal of marching and shifting; to march anywhere and fight wherever ithe “combat deep ened.” . On the night of Oct. 25th, at ten o'clock the Div. was called cut; as ue ual in every movement, it is under- stood that we packed up everything we possessed, tents, clothing, blankets, overcoats, drese-conts, eatables, water, cooking utensils, hatchets, axes, brush. es, soap, candles, towels, books, sta- tionery, arms, smmuuition, ete. ete., weighing, generally over seventy pounds, all of which we carried on our backs, on the march and io battle, We would pack up everything in fifteen to thirty minutes, circumstances varying tthe time, Well, we packed up in great haste, ext and strougest structed, while wae of the bea « than our Steadman, where the 148th was order. We deployed on double quick, in deep darkness, and moved rapidiy forward through a brushy swamp, our repeating rifles “Joaded full” and ready. Advancing | some distance, and fluding no enemy, | the command to “hall” was quietly HEUNION OF 48TH REGIMENT Bellefonte tg Perfect Arrangements for Publieation of History. Lin i { Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, of the { Second Army Corps, was held in Belle- i fonte Wednesday of last week. | business sessions were | were served in the Gregg ing was held in Jumes A. } } dress of leaver, presiding. was delivered W. Harrison Walker Tavlor, Benator W, (, K. ' Adjutng ! welcome Burgess H. 8. Col. D Fortin J. WwW. The body publies tion of the wi principal business vefore Was Lo srratige meh history is to be exhaustive and will be written by a number of mem- bers of the regiment I'he following members of the regi- ment were present 145TH pi FOLLOW THE WAR, The North Ameriean's Chart Will Eoabile Yon to Keep Track of the Conflie? dis daily What means have you at your posal of Keeping pace with the to make up of the grest conflict that is being waged in the Far East between Russia aod Japan ? How permanently fix io your memory the losses and victories of the striving the ments of their and craft, the vessels that have march of events that go the fascinating history do you nations, move fighting been diss bled by the Japanese, the stations of the fleets as they ate sent hither and thither by orders from St, Petersburg or Tokio, or a% the wills of their com-] manders What strategic endeavors, consume mated in the investment of this town or that, or the transferring of a naval or land base from ove point to snother, did Japan or Russia make last Friday, the Tuesday before that, or during the preceding week ? To enable its readers to answer what has been suggested in these questions in a word, to transfer in miniature the theatre of war from Korea; Man. churia, Japan, or wherever it may ex- tend, into the home~The North American next Sunday will provide the necessary equipment, This will consist of a full-page map in colors of the territory embraced within the area involved or likely to be involved in the war. With the map will be provided fac similes of all the Russian and the Japanese battles ships, each corrently named, together with groups of Russian and Japanese soldiery, troops SA SAAT, Seed Potatoes, Rural New York seed potatoes oan be purchased from 8. W, Smith, Cen. tre Hall, Either home-grown or New York seed ean be had, The latter will be wold only ia lots of one hundred and sixty-five pounds. Cash must accom pany order. The Rural New York is | puewed along, and we halted, tive most profitable Potato grown. JURY LINT, [ Grand and Traverse i April Court, list Following is a of Grand | beginning Monday, April 26th : { GRAND JURORS Robert A, Pati Bradf in, Worth Centre Hall ord aver, Enow Bhoe , Penn r, Milihelm Parker, Philipsburg {0 ogee lefonts Lenker Be Carson, Potter clonte i | § { | | | = A i | | i | Th Hi Lewis Ye Lat 4 # y James Ardell Wm. 7. Lu Eis George M Ww Lowell G Sol John Bn w LR Frazier, Potter Confer, Gregg George Reese, Rush EE —— A —— — Death of Dr, Earnest, Rev. J. A. Earnest, D. D,, recently died at his home in Mifflinburg. Dr. Earnest retired from the active work of the ministry in 18087. He be- came a licensed minister in 1850, The deceased is survived by his sect ond wife, and six children, all born of the first wife, From Millheim Journal, . The heirs of Mra. Lavina Catherman, deceased, have sold her house and lot at Montandon to Mrs. Hannah Reed, of Coburn, consideration $450, At the sale of the real estate of Dan- iel Wolf, deceased, at Aaronsburg, the property in Aarcnsburg was bought by Dr. C. 8. Musser for $035. H. A. Detweiler, of Bmullton, hav. ing disposed of his real estate at that place will make sale of his personal property on Saturday, March 26, pre- paratory to moving to Gainesville, Florida. He will engage in teaching at that place. Luke 8 Swabb, formerly of Aarons burg, and Katharine A. Miller, of Al legheny, were united in marriage, Mr, Hwabb is in the employ of the Ft Wayne railroad. Centre Reporter, $1.00 a year, TEAUMING BELLIGERENCE, A profound (ruth, and one the disre- country heavily in {and blood and treasure national reputation, comes from | Professor Sparks, of the department of | history in the University of Chicago | “One year's teaching of American hi Lie say jtory in the public schools,” { “will undo the | commissions i work of a dozen peace or peace tribunals, If we want to have {tration Courts we will have 10 lenve out our histories,’ The child are bLe- It is humbug, refi of this country ing taught to be national bullies, {8 mere pretense, an arrant | that it is necessary, to teach patriotis if it taught by a Fie 3 and were, patriotism is bett good government and ti bility of a nation’s character and enreer than by tales of prowess upot Liistory of wi (1 land and Fhe Hsia ren, nol u Gf this country. countries others cinim victories ( bloody fi The grea been the ligious liberty gratitude { } % of the world rests fndividualism, its influence and its commercial expansion, much of histories? found in t! ed paliriotic | the true greatness ! {re irien s fatghit ¢ gard war as within wi pairiotism Bevoluti war of Orleans, the great encot defeat of Ny sildren, and this of the wo lncked potri wks are making i hery of wom ree tha t i J gi New York Fhe files rter show that in ves il bushel lower ths Philadelpi change has taken place wii ft ® a k and iin, (queer ———— | ————— “ont eress has balked at tion for the Government into the field of T! "si sum of $42,000 000 for thie purpose builds ill appropriating the stupend roads good been dropped into the waste the House by order of Speaker Cant who represents a strictly rural consiit uency. idl — An important business of the Wash- ington lobby is to secure appropriations from Congress for expositions of indus. try and art to commemorate pationsl events of importance. The Louis Exposition to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase has not yet been held, and there are vlready schemes of appropriation in Congress to celebrate the Lewis and Clark ex pe- dition to Oregon and the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. This appears to bean endless chain of the lobby for drawing money out of the Federal Treasury. Admitting that these and many other events in the history of the country are highly worthy of com memoration, is that any reason for using them as a pretext to extort ap- propriations from Congress, ——— AI A SA” Sarprise Birthday Party, A surprise birthday party was held Tuesday evening of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Jonas Bible, east of Centre Hill, in honor of their daughter, Miss Bertha Bible. The fol- lowing persons were present: Misses Cordelia Acker, Ray Bmith, Rhoda Royer, Mary Wolf, Mary Bible, Mar- jorie Bible, Joyce Bible, Bertha Duck, Muzie Frank, Lillian Frank, Bessie Dashem, Minnie Dashes, Bertha Bubb, Jennie Foreman, Jennie Sweets wood, Lola Heckman, Mary Stover, and Mrs. Emerick, Messrs, Elmer Hettinger, Lloyd Smith, Earl Smith, George Smith, James Goodbart, Harry Burkholder, Archey Decker, Wilbur Dashem, Wesley Foreman, James srover, Charles Lucas, St NO. 9. TOWH AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST anoou need & leader in unty. New fe « of her sister, Over of the tine | le shimmie ¢ engage- Naunie LL. to yu, New wuated from lege with elec the Subway York an ww of Iuterborough onstruction City. ‘EW Miss May Stump, das ter of Alvin , April Hib, mamercial cole tege in Harrisburg as the prom- ise of a permanent | in. Miss May several BEoO, became «pousor for Miss d gave the bDelween a DOP ai enurse, who could, with legs privations thao she, follow Miss Rhorve’s example in educating the deserving. Robert Cook Jo's, Howard caught fire Friday after- about 1 30 and burned to the ground. Buggies, harness and grain were destroyed but the live stock was waved. The fire started from an overs neated stove in the office. John Robb rented the stable from Sherrill Cook and carried on an extensive livery business. Bherifl Cook's house wis wi fire several times but was fortunates ly saved. There was no insurance. Stump, west of Hall vill graGuate fr Rhone, miump, at ' young lady the chojoe mal school and commerce Uhere are many others big livery stable at Hoon The many friends of ex-Bheriff Cy- ras: Brungart and family will learn with genuine regret that they intend to leave Bellefonte in the spring and focate at Centre Hall, Cyrus Brun. gart is one of those sturdy, upright men whotn any town can be proud to olnim as a citizen. As a public official his record was spotless and as a pri vite citizen he is above reproach, He is also blessed with a pleasant and agreeable family and Bellefonte's loss f+ certainly Centre Hall's gain in this instance, ~Dally News, The ex-Bher- iff will occupy the Wise house, owned
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