VOL. LXXVII §
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR,
i 18th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
1. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co.
ilegiment, P. V.
A., 148th
{To be Continued |
CHAPTER VII. SIEGE OF RICHMOND
A Halt on the
At 12 m. their arms and legs were
pinioned, and the white sacks drawn
over their faces; the ‘‘drop”
sprung and they passed into eternity.
It was a shocking sight; as the drop
fell, they dropped about five feet,
was
and
bounded high by reason of the spring
in the new rope; and then, all three
spun round in thesame direction, slow
at first, then faster, then slower again,
tili the twist in the rope started them
in the other, till again reversed ; this
twist
quiet forsome time ; when the surgeon
ing finally ceased, and they hung
in attendance, on examination, pro-
nounced them dead, and they were
cut down; a piece of the rope by
which each was hupg, was put in the
coffin with him, and buried,
before named graves,
in the
Repeated calls for troops had some-
the north of g
volunteering was slow, and
nD
what drained will
fighiilers;
it became necessary, in order to obtain
the requisite number of men to recruit
the Army, to make rigorous drafts.
These, however, were exceediogly un-
popular, and, in order to avoid them,
large bounties were offered to volun-
teers, who were credited to the quotas
of their respeetive districts, thereby in
many districts, and even whole states,
the dra
These high bounties, ranging from
five bundred to fifteen dol-
lars induced to enlist, and be muster-
ed into the military
w ho 1 ever had the
serve, and therefore shirked
fis were avoided
hundred
service, wany
least inte
all duty,
iu battle, and deserted at the first
Twenty of
ru
opportunity.
bought veterans, foreigners
the 64th N. Y. deserted to the
these money
mostly
f
of ene-
my in one night, which shows the
worthlessness of a money-bought pa-
triotism.
A general order granted a furlough
of thirty days to any soldier who shot
a recruit in the of desertion, A
sinall squad f recruits, deserting from
our lines on a very dark vight, started
for the Confederate lines, walked into
one of our picket Under the
impression that they had reached the
Confederate lines, they out,
“Johnnie don’t shoot, we want to sur- |
render.” They were arrested, sent to
Head Quarters, convicted and hung.
Canada furnished a great number of
these deserting recruits, commonly
known as ‘“‘bounty jumpers ;’ they
would come into the United States, en-
list for three years, and receive a boun-
ty, varying from eight haodred dol-
lars to fifteen hundred dollars, be mus-
tered into the service, aud sent to the
Regt. oi their choice, from which they
would desert to the enemy by the first |
opportunity, and be carried out of the |
country on *'Blockade Runners,” and
landed beyond the authority of the]
Unived States ; they would repeat this
performance, in which they realized
great profit. One of these bounty |
jumpers had taken nineteen bounties |
when he was caught and hanged. On|
Friday, Dee. 23rd, three more bounty
jumping recruits were hung, side by
side, in the formal way just described,
on our Division Gallows, for desertion
{+ the enemy.
They were recruits who had just
been sent to the Army ; they tried a
new scheme ; they deserted to the en-
emmy, and came back to our lines with
some “Johnnies,” and also claimed to
Iw: real Johnnies, and offered to take
the oath of allegiance, and go north ;
but tuey were recognized, proven guil-
ty and hung.
They met their doom heroically ;
from the moment they emerged from
th + “guard-house,” to the last awful
second before the “drop” Tell, that
they stood alone upon the seaflold, |
with their arms and legs fettered, and
the ghastly white cap, or rather white
sack, drawn over their faces, they never
faltered ; not even the quivering of a
muscle betrayed that | tense emotion,
with which humanity must approach
deuth, especially in this way.
On Friday, Dec, 80th, we were again
paraded to witness a single execution
by hanging ; the prolonged ceremony
act
posts,
called
was the same, and,
the Chaplain’s usual caution, be brave
—be brave, he broke down, and had to
be led to the gallows, assisted up the
steps, and supported while being pin-
ioned. He cried, and gave a long, pit-
iful wail, which was ended by the
springing of the trap and the strang-
ling noose, and a sympathetic moan
was heard throughout the mass of at-
tending troops.
By H. VW.
A few weeks ago, while
across the Allegheny summits, from
Snow Bhoe to Karthaus, the driver
reined his horses on the highest point,
to show me, far in the distance, the
famous Knobs of Clearfield county,
three peaks of almost Alpine aspect,
which pyramid-like the
surrounding ranges.
I told the driver that I had often
seen the Knobs before, and had climb-
ed to the top of the middle and largest
one, and that I had spent a night rev-
eral years since with an old French
rise above
hermit, now dead, whose cabin stood
the mountains’ base,
It was a walking trip through the
investigation, thal one
the Knobs and the heavy
Road —'* Rest."
We will speak
from the enemy to us,
of desertions
which was all
right ; and we encouraged them with
all the influence bring to
bear ; fed and
’"
How
could
hung our own and
we
we
clothed the ‘Rebel Deserters,
We fanned the flame of discontent,
and discouragement burning in the
Confederate Army, by every opportu-
nity.
timent
There was a strong Union sen-
the Confederate
Army, and many of the deserters from
their Army ofiered to take the ath of
allegiance to the National Govera-
ment, and at once mustered into
the Union Army, to fight against the
cause of This,
throughout
be
Necession, however,
was discouraged, as, if by any chance
or accident, they would have fallen in-
to
w
the bands of the Confederates, they
wild have been hung without cere-
mony
In the C at this
time, as stated, discontent, discourage-
ment, it
cause, threatened the disintegration of
e
ynfederate Army,
fi be loss of all hope in their
their Army They ue
with t and «
that
rapidly drawing near, and
longer fought
f former |
end |
that their!
losses and sacrifices henceforth would |
the spiri lash o
days; they knew the was
be absolutely to no purpose,
—
WORLDS FAIR
First Great § searsion
via Pennsylvania |
Railroad, May 10,
The
dents
srded resi-
of the
possible
St
ity afl
selon
iOwWest
ol
'
rates, World's sir at
will
real
opens April
the coach excursion of the Penusylva- |
nia Railrcad Company, May 10. A
f
special train of standard day coaches |
Louis, which be
will be run on
the following schedule
wets, good RODE only i
on special train, will be sold from the |
aud excursion tie
stations narued atl rates que
= 00)
15.77
¥ 14 60 |
from other |
stations ou the Penovsylvania Railroad |
east of Pittsburg and south of and in |
cluding Elmira, Olean, and Mayville,
and from stations on the New York |
and Long Branch Railroad, Cumber- |
land Valley Railroad, and New York,
Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad, |
good going in coaches on regular trains |
to point of connection with special
train. The following rates will apply
from the stations named :
Lit
Tickets will also be sold
$15.5
15.85
17.00
dHiameport, Pa 17.00
Proportionate
points,
Returning, tickets will be good in
coaches on regular trains leaving St.
Louis (Union Station) on day of ali-
dation and not later than May 19
For rates of fare from other stations
and leaving time of connecting trains
consult nearest Ticket Agent.
rates from other
a te—
Grange Program,
The following is the program for
Progress Grange, which meets Satur-
day, May 7th:
Could the Grange influence uni-
formity of prices of farm products?
John Heckman,
Recitation, Christ Keller,
Music, by the Grange.
should corn be harrowed before if is
up out of the ground, and what kind
of harrow is best adapted to this pur-
pose ? N. B. Behaffer,
The advantages the Grange offers to
farmers. J. A. Kellgr.
Recitation, Bertha Garver,
The best time to plant raspberries,
the preparation of soil, and after prun-
ing and cultivation. Harry Dinges,
I A A,
“The Hermit of the Knobs,"
Harry W. Bhoemaker, of New York,
whose storiettes are familiar to the
Reporter readers, contributes “The
Hermit of the Knobs! to this issue,
np MASI
rugged landscape, and cold gusts blew
from the mountain that I
came upon the little by the
creek-side, where the hermit resided.
gorges,
cabin
I found him sitting on a stool by
*lerre Bayle,
his corn-cob pipe, his eyes
the cabin door, poor old
smoking
blinking in time to the
bling «f the
black stones,
low and started to pass on, as | was on
but
musical tum-
wth,
I spoke to the old fel-
creek over the smo
5 %
1€ UsK~
the last lap of my journey
ed me what my hurry was in such
tones of politeness that I dropped my
canteen and stopped to talk with him,
His conversation ledd me to believe
that, while not a man of education, he
possessed more than ordinary intelli
gence, and a slight accent caused me
if
i
he
and more, a
formed bim that] had visited in Paris,
could speak a little French, and had
been on the Rue Berri, where he said
fri
iTie
to inquire if be was not a Frenchman,
to which ‘Ye
promptly replied
Parisian,” so when 1 io-
il
he was born, we 1d
and talked of
of!
politics, until I I
that
DeCcate goo
Paris, then
Europe and
huntiog, timber aud
woked
it
awitched Lo
jocal al my
watch and discovered was 10
o'clock and too late to reach wy dest
i old
cordial invitation to spend the night
nation, accepted Lhe man's
wo
After lighting a smoky little lamp,
he led me into the room, where | was
struck by an air of old fashioned nesat-
ness and comfort, but especially with
the
one window which faced rough
mountain height, as it was decorated
by pink silk curtains tied with r
3
1oOns,
and before it was a gilded wire stand
fil
covered with an array o IWers grow-
ing in gilded tin cans, gilded earihen
pols I'he re
wild
and gilded vases, were
ginseng,
ort
violets, geraniums,
touch-me-not, a rose Lush W110
fact a bewildering profusion of flowers
and queer looking plants which gave
{
the aspect Ol &
shrine. looked through the window,
expecting, perhaps, to see a charming
viata before me, out there was nothing
more to be seen but the rough moun-
tain’s precipitous sides, covered with
chestnut
charred logs and whitened
sprouts, a scene typical of lost hopes
I made bold to ask old Mr.
the meaning of this elaborate window
Bayle
little sun where it was, and he faltered
and tried to explain it away ; but see-
ing my continued interest and air of
sympathy, he sank into a rickety
arm-chair facing the window, and
gazing into the now impenetrable
darkness of the njght, profound in its
awful stillness, he told ne the tragic
story of his life, wrecked from senti-
mental ignorance and mad desire,
“I was born in Paris, in the Rue
Berri,” the old hermit began. “It
was many, many years ago. I really
Io fact I never lived
at all until I was 18, so everything that
went before is best forgotten. I might
be in the Freuch capital still but for a
single moment's joy. 1 was a gun
maker by trade aud worked in a little
shop not far from the fortifications. 1
earned good pay for one so young, but
as I had little schooling had no ambi-
tion.
standing by my forge near the open
window, working and singing, watch-
LOCALS,
Don't pawn your opportunities,
Dr. Musser removed a cancerous
growth from the face of W. K. Stover,
of Haines township.
moved to Gainesville, Florida. He
will engage in teaching school.
Joseph D, Winters, of New Berlin,
has given up the road, aud is engaged
in the insurance business,
John L. McClensban advert
wheelbarrows for sale. He guarantees
the stock and workmanship.
Masters Wallace and Clarence Hor
ner, sons of George Horner, called to
Centre Reporter, $1.00 a year,
see the Reporter one day last week.
John P, Elkin told the Indiana
|eounty Republicans that he had not
| retired from politics, and still would be
{at the service of his friends whenever
the horse-chestnut trees, unconcerned | be could do them a favor. This is
and thoughtless, when down the wide | truly an edifying declaration to come
Boulevard 1 saw a splendid carriage | from a candidate for the position of
approaching—I can see it yet; the |Judge of the supreme court of the State,
handsome horses with banged tails 1 bat it will not cause astonishment
the bewigged coaschman and footmen - | 8mMong these who are acquainted with
the silver trappings of the coach—and Mr. Elkin’s public career. Asattorney
when it drew near I saw, leaning back | general of the Btate he was ever ready
on the cushions, the most beautiful |t0 serve his political friends and to
New York,
ing the breezes sway the blossoms on
young woman I had ever seen, or ever
will—a perfect brunette, with clear
complexion and bright eyes! The
other workmen, filled with curiosity,
for coaches of this kind seldom passed
{give any opinion which they demand-
{ed of him. Bome of his opinions were
even the un-
afraid to act
If Mr. Elkin intends to
ists among them to curse and grum-
and amid the racket | heard some one
elte-de heard
no more, but stood transfixed with in-
Nemours-Perigord.’ |
until
after the carriage passed on its leisure-
ly way.
stant love, rooted to the spot,
asked
WRN
shook me violently and
Part of
forge in the gun shop, but the rest of
the Better Part, I it,
with the Princess Irene LaFayette-de |
me
where | was me at
me, call went
Nemours-Perigord, never to return.
“After day
mechanic, I neglected
forts to disc
; |
that I became a poor |
my work in ef- |
wer the home of the Prin- |
I did
palace was situated,
cess, and when |
learn where her
wpe nt my evenings |
neighborhood, not |
in any hope of seeing her, but to know |
i
ays and |
hovering about the
I was near her,
I lurked
yard, hoping tosee her again, but in |
i
that On Bund
holidays around the court-|
vain, until I was finally chased from |
Porter,
h which the iron gate |
the premises by the armed |
with the bar wit
was clamped. At last I was discharged |
) i
from the gun shop and | was not sor- |
ry, as I hoped to seek
ere |
belter employ- |
might educate myself
ody, I knew 1
ment, wi
¢
{0 become somel i0t what.
So I became a watcher a book-stall
2
$
al
pear the Nels
, where] I read books o
all Kinds at my leisure
but my Better
d
dreams, the]
Part was still wandering,
aay
stall was robbed and |
al one aft-
ernoon, daring my
Was again turn. |
ed loose, | saw au vessel on the river
{ the
idence of
for
and there
ana, gaining Lhe con
Bn, became a helper my pass.
thought |
myself and for.
going
I worked my way across as
the coast
would make a man of
get my he
America.
ypeless love oy {tO
a deck-hand, reaching New York just
Civil War, and
adopted count
before the served my
ry in» Zouave regiment
¥
The new country, instead of diminish-
f the beautiful Princess |
it, and after
officers became disgusted
ing my love for
Irene, only
Lie
sggravated
a while
and bad me mustered out for ipefli-
I took to al
tramp, snd my wanderings brought |
ciency drink, became
mie to Clearfield county, where I met
French with whom I!
spent a winter, supporting myself by
workiog woods : but when
spring came I decided to strike out fo
the west
some people
in the
ri
The first night I stopped at |
the house where I now am, then a de- |
serted hunters’ camp in the virgin for- |
est. It was in the month of May and
thoroughly exhausted, I laid down on |
the earthen floor, gazing through the |
window which you admire at the aw- |
fil blackness of the night. All at!
once my troubles seemed to vanish, |
the sun-light, in great golden beams, |
poured through the broken panes, and |
I felt myself back at the forge io the
gun shop, the birds were singing in
the horse-chestnuls across the way, a
great carringe came lumbering along,
drawn by stately bay horses with
brnged tails, and I could hear the rat-
tling of the silver trappings ; raising
my eyes I beheld the face of the beau-
tiful and long-lost Princess Irene La-
Fayette«de Nemours-Perigord, The
carriage passed on, the sun-light grew
dimmer, and I found myself once more
lying on the floor of the miserable hut;
but I resolved to stay and every night
since, towards the mid-night hour, I
take my place iu the rocking chair
and watch with eager eyes the splen-
did carriage go by, and feel the pres.
ence of my lost love, the beautiful
| Princess Irene LaFayette-de Nemours.
{ Perigord.
LOCALS,
| Magazines now print their cereal
(stories in the advertising pages,
{ The United Brethren church, at
Millheim, was sold to Dennis Luse,
who will remove the structure, and
| erect a dwelling hoase on the site.
moved on the Wagner farm, north-
east of Tusseyville, vacated by David
Glasgow, Jr., was in town Friday, and
subscription list,
James Bmetzler, section boss at Cen-
tre Hall,recently attended the Seventh
Anniversary Banquet of the Penn'a
R. R. Veteran Employes Association,
be the part of wisdom for the
people of the State to permanently re-
ingly defeating him.
ee fr ————
I'he Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
fied and impressive manner one of the
most interesting and significant events
in the national history, was formally
opened on Baturday. All that careful
ture of money and American brains
and energy can contribute to a splen-
in the hundred years elapsing since
the purchase has been eflectively ap-
plied to make the exposition a great,
and possibly an unparalleled, success,
the imagination of every American,
aud it is fitting that it should be mem-
ed on a magnificent and colossal
orializ
ft
he wave of
Irish emigration which carried nearly
the exact fig-
to foreign
tween the years 1551 and 1903,
A potato famine started t
rishmen
ures are 3,961,011 lands be-
This is
equivalent to 74 per cent. of the average
population of Ireland during the period
The cotton
Lavcashire, Eugls
like effect if long
Two thousand persons week-
famine in
nd, may produce a
it shall continue
enough.
hands, are
up farm
A dislocation of population is
follow upon
ly, mostly Lancashire mill
ling for Canadas to take
work.
bound to any restriction
the means of subsistence,
i
Bo
I'he
ed the
Fift
unique
yv-eighth Congress has gain-
distinction of being a
Congress with three short sessions and
no long one. The alternation of long
and short sessions has proceeded #0
or that it
bas seemed to be part of the constitu
But
Constitution itself
regularly 1 two generations
tional order when the written
has Ln give way to
dent there is not much chance fora
mere unwritten custom.
Attorney General Kpox declares
Governorship of Pennsylvania. So
for Penusylvania,
of Gubernatorial
week be
there is added reason for
making him Governor. jut he is not
much the worse
Mr. Knox isa man
gine Because he does not to
(sovernor
lican Machine dotes upon or willingly
selects,
The newspaper, like a first-class ho-
tel, spreads a varied table. Some dish-
relished by one class and de-
spised by another, The wise reader
commends itself to his
judgment and leave the rest for other
patrons who have different tastes. No
one person consumes the whole bill of
fare at each meal.
——
State Treasurer William L. Mat-
theus, who assumed the dulies of his
office Monday, announced the re-ap-
pointment of T. Steward Pearce, of
Haltsburg, as cashier, and John E.
Stott, of Coataville, as corporation
clerk.
¢8 are
I ——— A A
Whether Congress adjourved in
obedience to Theodore Roosevelt or in
fear of John Bharp Williams is a prob-
lem that is non® the less interesting
for being insoluble,
sn AA US —
Cunard May go to Ustiyshurg.
Itis likely the division encampment
of the National Guard this year will
be held at Gettysburg, that being the
choice of National Guard officers, but
the selection will not be made untila
meeting of the general officers of the
guard is held. It is unofficially an-
nounced that the guard will go into
camp on July 23rd remaining until
Mra. John Peters Recovers,
Some weeks ago it was stated in
these columns that a tumor, weighing
was removed from Mrs. John Peters,
of Wallaceton, at the Philipsburg hos-
pital, and Inst week the lady was dis-
from that institution. A re.
markable feature was that the Iya
held at Wilkesbarre,
weighed more than the did
weighed those indy
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
Farmers are sowing oats and barley.
Very little sowing was done previous
to this week,
Teachers’ examination for Centre
Hall and Potter township will be held
at Centre Hall, May 19.
Lands in the vicinity of Philipsburg
are being leased by parties who pro-
pose drilling for oil and gas,
Miss Mary Fetterolf, of this place,
has found employment Mins
Ellen Woods, of Bellefonte,
with
Miss Laura Keller advertises person-
al property and real estate for sale Sat-
urday, May 7, 2 p. m
at Tusseyville,
, at her residence
Mies Rebecea J. Moyer, who is teach-
ing a primary select in this
place, spent Bunday with parents
near Rebersburg.
school
her
Rev, and Mrs. Edgar R. Heckman,
of State College, are among those from
Centre county who joined the Califor-
nia excursion last week,
of Millheim, who for
the past two years had given up
making for “art preservat
bas opened a shoe shop near the
ser House,
Frank Kister,
shoe-
the ive,”
Mus-
Mrs. Kreider, wife of Rev, H. R.
Kreider, pastor of the Pennbrook Re-
formed charge, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Moyer, of near
Rebersburg.
Rev. Daniel
morning went to Lancaster where
will attend the commencement
of the Seminary.
The graduates number eleven,
Gress, Wednesday
he
exer-
Cises Theological
New Berlin is calculating the cost of
extensive water works and an electric
light plant in anticipation of the build-
ing the Wabash railroad, which
survey passes through that town.
of
gl
The Howard Creamery Corporation
has opened a retail departmen
quarters | i Fres
t at its
h eggs,
the mar-
ip-to-date
refrigerator, reddy at all times for the
customer,
in Bellefonte.
butter, poultry, ete,
ket affords, are stored in an
ti
the Dest
MeClures Magazine |
the most ca
makes
p and think.
s» rage of bu-
man interest but the impressive
May
AEUAl reader slo
As usual it covers a wi
effect
another
results of our
of the number is produced by
ture of the
appalling pi
industrial wariare,
The Review of Reviews for May pro-
ine
vides a group of entertaining
and in-
structive articles on the Russo-Japan-
In addi-
treatment
of i in “The
Progress of the bere a
sketch of the great sea-fighter, Admir-
al Togo.
ese war and cogoate topics
tion to the careful editorial
of the events mont
the i
t
7 ocndsd 39 :
yOrid, is
From present indications Bellefonte
will expend something like $30,000 to
build an addition to the stone school
building on Allegheny street. If this
borough will have an iu-
debtedness, for purposes,
$55,000. Itis the wish of the present
board of 8chool directors of the county
seat to put their schools on a footing
with other towns of its size, N\
The Reporter had a genuine surprise
on opening & letter from William Mus-
ser, of Jewell, Kansas, to find that it
contained a cashier's check in the sum
of forty-one dollars, and a letter stat-
ing that the same was in payment for
one year’s subscription to the Report-
er. There is no doubt the Reporter
is worth more than that sum each
year to more than one-half its readers,
but the subscription price is fixed at
one dollar, in advance, which obliged
the editor to return} the check with
thanks,
is done that
school of
The most prosperous town is the one
where there are the greatest evidences
of local pride. It doesn’t require man-
sions and great lawns and the trap.
pings of wealth to make a prosperous
town or city, but order, cleanliness
and the evidences of civic pride are an
absolute essential. The neat, clean,
well kept home with the evidences of
personal interest, clean streets and
back alleys free from rubbish, the
things that may be possessed by all
but the really unfortunate are the
things which make a town inviting
and upon which prosperity in a large
mensure rests,
F. A. Loug, formerly of Spring
Mills, but now of Cambridge, Ohio,
writes : “Enclosed please find check
io payment for one year's subscrip.
tion to your bright, newsy paper, (The
Reporter.) Iam surethat your paper
gives me much satisfaction, to learn of
all interesting news back in old Cen-
tre county. We have a fine town here
of 12000 population and a good, up-to.
date manufacturing and mining town,
the chief industries being the manu
factuting of tin plate, sheet steel and a
large glass plant. Hoping that I may
have the pleasure of meeting you in
our town al some time, I wish youn
success with your paper.”