VOL. LXXVIL.
CENTRE COUNTY
IN THE CIVIL WAR, |
Volunteers.
iy 1. P. Meyer,
tegiment, P.
A.,
Se rage ant 0.
{To be Continued |
CHAPTER VII, SIEGE OF RICHMOND
They saw their own of
thousand men, unpaid, destitut and
poorly fed, surrounded by a
veteran host of two hundred thousand |
the ¢
an i
+ det
of
army
te,
almost
men, waitiog
sSpri ng
War
only ‘or ning
end
ermined
the war.
f the U
single
to rush forward the
by the most energetic
and relentless campaign
It was not the object o
Army
bayot
case,
the
We encouraged and expec
“er, not
to kill or injure a
d the absolute
person
necessity of the
war favorable
National Government.
of ending the
their
skir-
sig
“sub
only along the line of
defenses, but in every battle or
mish watched 1
nals of surrender,
dued”’
that
ti
we constantly "nw
tl » te!
80 iA Lue
might vot be jured, ko
many of them
1e in'' when opp
Aud when they surrender
ed them Kindly,
and clothing with
them to the rear
fall an
owing
ready
offered.
ed we
were
rtunity
to
Con
receive
and shared
them,
where
equal rations with u hess
charitable sentiments we made k
to the
nown
vickets of the enemy by every
opportunity.
Daring the
became
forti
there was an abundance of
whi
both armies at times,
tral ground, in perfect
wood,
er of
1864-5,
#
Wii wood
very scarce back t line« of
ae
fications, while Delween Lhem,
+
+
imber,
oldiers of
mel on this neq.
a “truceg’’ lasted, th
amity, to get
some “Johunies''
for wood with
instead of
wood,
as
rend red, and sold the
Une day came out
u four mule team, but,
of
8 na fast
going back witli load
they
i
drove into our lines
e mules were willing to run, sur-
mules and wag-
quartermaster
dred dollars, and
Toa ard spring of
passed during
surrenders from the Confederate
on to the for eight hun-
passed to the
rear.
night
were
1865,
thar
hh there
not a
whic no
lines,
At times they came in sqliads of half a
SCOre or more.
During the night of Nov. 664, over
one hundred came in and surrendered ;
the greater number
said they had lost all
ed i war ended «
reported the bankrupt ;
that they bad received no pay in two
years, and many no clothing in that
time. The condition of their ragged
and variegated uniforms confirmed
their statements, Some were so rag-
ged that their clothing scarcely cover
ed them, and their shoes so badly torn
that their feet were absolutely unpro-
tected.
or less of the blue, Union
clothing, odds and ends pick
former battl- fields
They stated that the Confederate
money was 80 heavily discounted that
nobody eared for it,
Ou Dec. 24, 1864, the 145th was reliev-
ed at Forts Hampson and Gregg, re
united under Col. Weaver, late Cap-
tain of Co. “B,"” and moved about ove |
mile south-west of Fort Hampson,
Fort Cummings, of which the 145th
became the garrison,
A new camp was laid out and the
boys once more went to work on win-
ter quarters ; this was the eighth win-
ter cap we built,
Sunday, Dee, 25th, Christmas pass
ed like all other days in war, and was
simply Buanday, Dee. 25th. Bat it
was not a quiet Sunday for the 145th
boys worked hard all day, building
winter huts ; these we had about fin-
ished, when, on Dec, 25th we were or-
dered to “pack up;” this we did,
growlingly, for the weather was very
enol’ ; snow was falling fast and the
wind was blowing a cutting gale. We
Continued at foot of next columu,
at one point. They
want.
hey
hope, and
I any fem
Confederacy
uniform
ed up on |
VETERAN THEOLOGIAN DEAD
| President ¥ V. Gerhart, of Lancaster
Reformed Theological Seminary, Dead,
The Rev.
D., LLL.
Emanuel Vogel Gerhart,
ID D., professor of theology
the Reformed Church of the
United Btates, died at his home in
| Lancaster Friday morning. He was
hty-seven years,
| nary of
| aged eig
Dr. Gerhart was
faculty 1868
f connection with
th
teformed churches
tucky, Wisconsin
he prof
member of the
Previous to
«eminary he
since
the
ranization of
Ohio,
engaged Ory
in
in Ken-
aud Indians
wsir of
became
ul
president of
ology in the theologie
Tiffin,
¢
His< death
i {
seminary ut |
Ohio, and Heidel
berg tHlege at the same place
was due tao old hinstern
edd |
nie,
ed by Injuries sustain v 4 fall down
thie Seminal eps
Dr. Gerhart has been a fre
fiteratur
gy and philoso- |
yvelopedias, and
everal notable
of which
and
ligion'
“Tasti-
sroduction
2 } {f 1
VOTRE Of redigiohn,
tue
ft
i
ia
t+ meeting of
WO days prior to
decided to
astern
sei
Ary
his death, iI was reconm-
that Dr.
professor emeritus
health.
mend to the Synod
be made
g
a — sie
Missouri Sarcasm,
about to
support,
that
wor-
Ww ho
lack of
remarks in parting
editors don’t need money : Don't
| ry about the editor. He has
| from the state
editor
for
uri
Is
i pt hs up snd leave
sarcastic ally
a charter
to act
He'll
and stand
offices
ed daug
*
the
up for,
ore
=
you when
run for and lie about your
hter's tacky wedding,
blow about your big footed sons
get a $4 a-week job, and
you
eleased from
mir graspiog body,
are nd marri-
Lord only |
will get}
ile an ou wife's sive
age He
Enows
The
hov
there som
»o-
Capital
f Harri
May tet Athright College.
Albrig
ht Col-
$ §
Hil Myers
i fils proj (p=
sition 1 } * wl meeting of the
Board
ommitiee «
tow!
gen the of
1
i
rade nm
CHS
sed from | Hams
formed our column and moved
and halted ; stacked arms
for
out,
wailed
other,
and
hour, tussling with each
8 Rr
ging the arms to Keep warm
Inid
hundr d
AF »
the frozen und, snd
SW
ward noon 8 new camp was out!
oss five
had
went to
for us,
from ti
than
Wwe finished,
work
camp Just
RU ODOS ILO: Wwe
winter huts, Again the axes rang and
trees fell rapidly,
for the
by
standing on the
town of winter cabins
We worked
moat of t
lo
hard, and
he lenis were
£ Walls; we gi
our tents, which were usual
four men to
the size
seven by twelve fret, a
tent
In afew days the camp
crevie “ehucked daub
the chimneys built and plaster-
was finish
edd
t
ed ;’
‘all “4 and
ed, and we were again fairly comforta-
ble, though mercury hung around near
zero, aud wind
tinued.
Stern with rain,
and impassable roads again halted all
military movements ; not a regiment
stirred.
light. during
both day and night, some of our heavy
guns to ou right would roar out a re-
I minder to the “Johnnies,” that we
| were still there. At prolonged inter.
vals the pickets would break this mon-
{otone by opening a sharp musketry
fire, moved thereto by no visible cause,
Sometimes, perhaps by the accidental
discharge of a single gun, which fre-
quently was the precursor of heavy
{skirmishing
January 18656, came in cold and
snowstormy ; the wind blowing a gale,
a few jnches of snow covered the
ground, Moderating somewhat on the
Hth, the 6th came in with continuous,
very heavy rain, so that low places be-
came lakes, and ravines and brooks
were rushing torrents, This condi
tion did not dampen the patriotism of
the officials, who ordered the men out
and did not need go themselves,
A detail of fifty men of the 148th
was assigned to me, and we were or
dered to dig an intrenchment and
build a dam wseross a ravihe, to the
right of Fort Cummings, down which
flowed a small brook, which, by rea-
won of heavy rain, was a rushing tor.
rent.
cold and snow cone
winter, its snow,
Now and then,
HALL,
PASTOR'S FOURTH
PA.,
ANNIVERSARY
Historleal Events Conneglted with
Local Presbyterian Church
Sabbath May
niversary of the pastorate of Rev,
Hchuyler over the
churches of Binking Creek (Centre
Hall) Spring Mills, As illustra-
tive of his text, I Cor. 3:9, and
troductory to brief
Ist was
Ww.
and
as in-
a review
last four years reference was made to
those who had planted and watered on
this fleld during the 129 vears of its ex
i
First William
thoug
enme Hey, Linn,
who preached what
the
hit Lo Le
red in Cen-
any preacl t the
Potter, July
August 6, 1775,
preach d
delve
first sermon ever
county by er, &
house
1775
of Capt. James
23,
I'wo weeks later,
Fithian
Philip
with only ten minutes inter-
mission, on a most violent, bolster
The! { tion of
suppl BIN
known,
day
Presby
O14 p1ries Diy
es, Ww ® Are
and
James Martin
April
jritied
at
til
intervals of
Rev
ttle
two
months
Wine Lhe
15, 1789 iu
tii
t ai ¥
first se 1 pastor,
which rel
JUL
Hay
Wil
wid M
his death,
Davi
Btu
CARE 10 sUcoession
AY, Rev,
I
William
av. Robert
cKinig
Adnms
Hawai fc
Rev,
Years,
years, BR wr 20
Years,
Thomas A. Robinson for 4
lev CW K. Foster fc
Horner Kerr for 3 yes
Baskerville
vears,
J.
oO
ir 2 years, Rev
H
J ates
, BK
ev,
i
for 21 years,
§
a i i
Boal for month
Mr. TF.
the present pastor has just
w s ae supply,
Christine for 3 years, and
comple
i years
1870 Bpring
rest
Presb)
¥
From 1841 to Mills was
separated from the of the field
#8 New
This
Hehool terian church.
little cultivated
Harris
for 2
garden was
y Rev. F. D
[.. K. Berridge
Blake
Loong
in
Rev,
tay, (C. M.
Ray. J. E
months.
Bet
years,
yng
ween the pastorates of
were sometimes
cases long inte
:
them. The names
reviewing
wn that, a
church had lost
removals, thers
Kain in 88
aa th
ils Own in
had i
menls were
numbers
there een great
nade more
I
nevolent contribution
a debt of over $1000 at Cent
been paid, and great im Semen
prov
he property had been made and po
ie
for. The hog
hind been a
Was
eX pres
rresponding
$
in those spiritual ti
gol be meas ired by
the very
{ God's estimation.
¥
Upon the whole the churches have
for th
s and |
\
thus
Many reasons ati RK fuines ir
encoursgetne nt
——— -
Our White Eiephant
A Philipg dier
his home paper:
sine sol writes tO
as bad out here some fel
The
bughouse’’
or bino,
It isn’t
lows say
as
out bo
drink
it ia soldiers “re
ing
which consists
fifteen
man, all for ten cents Mex,
he
building trenches, smoRing cigars
making Their
ment is cock-fighting
porta are hemp and dead
The chief imports are coffins
wine,
twenty-seven fights ans
of killing a
The chief oce upation of t
3
*
Ways
natives i=
ind
chief amuse
chief
bolos
I'he eX-
soldiers
to kill more of them The native
house is built chiefly of bamboo and]
landscape. The Filipino is very friend-
rifle. The cli-
mate is pleasant for ants, mosquitoes,
centipedes, scorpions, cockroaches and
alligators They bave established |
communication between the different
islands by substituting mosquitoes for |
carrier pigeons, they being so much |
more powerful and better able to stand |
the long journeys. The Philippine Is |
lands are on the west coast of civiliza-!
tion aud are bounded on the north by
hoodooism and smugglers, on the east
by typhoons and monsoons, on the
south by cannibals and earthquakes,
The soil is very fertile, and large crops
of insurrectors and treachery are pro
duced. The islands are an appropriate
present for a deadly enemy.
A
To the Young Man Without a Job
The editor of a southern exchange
says : “Let the young man in town
out of a job try a year on the farm,
Plowing behind a brindle mule will
take the kink out of his top knot, the
frog out of his throat, the gas off his
stomach, the weakness out of his legs,
the corns oft his toes, and give him a
good appetite, an honest liviog and a
sight of heaven,”
sn ss ANAS SAAS
Centre Reporter, $1.00 a year,
"HURSDAY,
SIX CENTS DA
MAY
MAGES
Awarded Arthar
Station,
Mitcheltres,
in Suit for Libel
of Fine
An echo of the Clendennen murder
mystery comes from Poughkeepsie, N.
| Y., where Arthur W. Mitcheltree, of
| Pine Btation, has just awarded
i Bix cents damages in a libel suit he in-
stituted the Poughkeepsie
News "Company.
been
against
It will be remembered that a number
{ of papers throughout the country were
libel
of publishing articles regardin
{ threatened with sills as result
n
*
Eg Michel-
wr
Hl
f
ree bein tnken into custod
fun
oul dispatch os
3
endennen’s eral,
PER pssociatlions sent
gr of the affair, and among other
News-Press
“Attended
He Killed,”
pRpers Poughkeepsie
I'he headlioe,
of Man
the
printe
the ¥
piace
Pres
tuted the
The plaintifl,
+» that
uneral
d on
offices
dispateh in the
and the neadline e¢
libel.
nowever, failed
had
the judge
he damaged by
been
ing: ructs
¢re bound and
judgment
Kl
ton
£3 ’
juagmen
{arris Township.
Rebecca Kremer is vi
Joyd Hoover tr
bie 4
ansacled business al
allege on Saturday.
tients who are sick with mea
Horus
pent
number,
Belle
Rebecca
easing io
and {
Jared wife, of
a day with Mrs,
Spars
Mrs
P{
. Hews,
GUS ess
Hall,
Boalsburg
of Linden
tended in
ue wins .
f
cHen RHishel mn fe
Miss Laura
spen w days
Keller, at
Odes Corl and family, and Mrs,
Lhrisiel
¥
Pine
ia Cramer tors
Hall.
Foe
were vi
jward My-rs and daughter,
tt a jew
gays 1
.
{
am pbell, of
if
ions
Hau
belle
udmother, Mrs,
tn t
BIAVILE
Walker is
¢ HIOTLE of a W.
township.
Kep-
Ferguson
Meliuvier, 03
i in the Presby
jnday alts
number ople
attendal
i iveniion
e B ber
and
Heodor Mal and alls
Miss Sarah Bu
Pen
yrus
na Davis
us Cave,
Durst
spent
1
yed ndaj
Mrs
y Guyer
al
wud % sud
Durst, i
a
ith rienas at eulre
» Waguoer and dauglite
y ho spent a oui in
eturned to their owe ino Al-
toons
Lert ate
., pilus and pears
sominug profusely ; many of the
tres were Killed by the sever
a few blossoms are seen
y © will
minunion
John's Re
Munday al len
! §
2 IE L503
brated in st iormed
next o'clock. Prepars
| ernoot.
| William Kuhn,
the Zimmerman saw mill in the Shin
was kicked by
to Edward Zimmerman, He
git town Cap,
belonging
| had his nose broken and other injuries
on his fad
i NV heat flelds have rather a discour-
| sing appearance ; some of the farmers
are harrowing them over and sowing
| them in oats, Quite a pumber are still
plowing for oats sand corn, while a few
| are planting corn.
| Rebersburg.
| Harry Johnson, nephew of T. E.
| Royer, visited here several days last
| week.
W. H. Limbert is working io the
ods for Mr. Brinning.
The Lutherans held a donation on
| Tuesday evening for their new pastor,
Rev. Bixler,
The Livonia band serenade! the
town on ‘=aturday evening, and they
played very well. Come again boys.
Mrs. Charles Weaver, of Renovo, is
visiting at G. B. Weaver's,
Ammon Weaver and lady friend
visited D. B. Weaver over Bunday.
Mra, Charles Conrad (nee Ida Web-
er) is visiting her many friends here.
Levi Wolfort is improving his house
by weather-boarding it.
J. A. Meyer is getting ready to re
model his house,
A. E. Strayer, the painter and paper-
hanger, is busy hanging paper for our
town people,
J. A. Heller has been suflering from
neuralgia the last few days.
ISA ANA.
Bad
June Grange Festival,
Progress Grange will hold its annual
June festival on the 18th of that
| In ten months of the current fiscal
| year the civil and miscellaneous ex-
penses have been $10,000,000 more than
those of a year ago ;
$17,000,000 more, and
000 more.
the navy has cost
pensions $2,000,-
Expenses for the War De-
Indians and interest have
, and the net increase of ex-
penditures for ten months is more than
$18,000,000. There has been a decrease
of $21,000,000 in customs revenue, par-
tially offset by in
partment,
decreased
increases
and miscellaneous revenue,
The
has fallen from
£55,000 0040 to
being nearly $15,000,000
surplus of
ten months
more than
500) OO wee
I.
for next year,
jess than $2,-
and on such a showing as this
mgress increased the appropriations
So fp ny
month,
+ Pennsylvania railroad, with its
faith
“err ie
t. Ht
ement
i stockholders, has kept
in in declaring its usual
dividend of 8 per cen
wi wise and prudent
thi
manny
« has been done ith a decrease
1
i
arnipge of § 900,000 compared
But
to
e same period of last year,
# ure still
old rate
ig
large end
of dividen
+
pre fit ugh
ds, not-
sums raised for
the of
profits
for the
» Vi
Hrougi
igh
sale
amount of the
rel
ders
"n large BUN
tt
Fi Pansma
isthmus was de-
Ww eek,
trausaction
he
DOREERK]O
rmal
jar ©
i
$y
In
the
ited
3
Catal riy on
liveres y the Ut Miates last
property in
t, subject to the
Whatever
tment
treaty
litigation may
of the cangl
affect tl
ile
United
a position
cannot
ossession of the
atier i= Dow in
hi the 3 35 compiet-
{ walerway, as { Ww do
ahead
oe
RO
ig Lhe grea ii
®
Al BI ear)
Road Commissioner Hunter
uble for himself
Snyder eounty, by
urse of the to be bull
t
iL
new road aw A
wi people
ot fi irget
t
IAW Was meat
inl
d satisfactory
itutionality
ut fur-
:
ie
with
Or opera boul
law, involvit
the conscience and the
judiciary
Wily
he Phi Grad-
ily the Supreme Court is wiping out
fat pickings of ¢
decision
ladelphin Press says :
aunty (reasurers.
of Judge Lynch,
the treas-
entitled to
for col-
Next!
zerne, it has declared
at not
county is
lias been
fie
the
receiving
mercantile tax.
A
LOCALS
Derry Mifflin county, will
issue school bonds to the sum of $17,000,
Misses Anna Mary Mitterling and
Mamie Emerick, of this place, went to
Bellefonte, where they will remain for
some time,
The Rebekah Lodge,
nounces that they will hold a festival
Memorial Day, on the lawn of Mrs.
Lucy Henney. All are invited,
The Encampment and Exhibition
of the Patrons of Husbandry of Cen-
tral Penneylvania, Grange Park, Cen-
tre Hall, will be held the week of Bep-
tember 16th.
township,
I. 0.0. F,, an-
These commencement orators of
Pennsylvania State College have been
selected : C, 8, Bomberger, T. J. Bry-
gon, J. D. Elder, P. J Morrissey and
M. J Rentschler.
Rev. and Mrs, Ward K. Shultz and
Mr. and Mrs, Charles D. Bartholomew
Thursday afternoon of last week re
turned from the honeymoon trips. In
the evening the buys gave them a
good-natured serenade, to which the
grooms prowptly responded.
M. L. Rishel, Eeq., of Farmers Mills
Inst week, rounded out his twenty-
fifth year as justice of the peace. Dur
ing that time ‘Squire Rishel has tran-
sacted a great amount of business, and
this is especially noteworthy because
his location was in a strictly rural
eommunity.
Charles A. Hess, a tailor in Lewis
burg, had a needle removed from his
arm Saturday which had been imbed-
ded there for thirty-five years, The
needle penetrated the arm just above
the elbow, when Mr. Hess was six
months old. Not until lately did it
NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS oF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Cateh it
Rev. Dr. Bixell is pastor of
Serb a Lutheran charge.
A. A. Dale
$e the prine pal
Day at Centre Hall
19.
Thespirit of improvement,
the Re-
will
Memorial
a delle fonte,
i
$ of
arator on
The organization of a rural telephone
company
One
in Bnyder county is assured,
township has ecd forty
phone “
Th
railroad
regular
per
Mr
Baby
fonts people wi
Sunday.
Mr
Reedsville
guarant
« of
Pen
Penney
idend
directors the
have
vania
the
4
ii
company
a
o
semi-annual div
cent.
and WwW
Philip were
Mrs, Giross Mingle and
dul g the
g 3elle-
Centre Hall
#1101
o drove to
M vs
BEVEOrsd
D h ir were in
returning
u, Charles
and
Monday, guests
H. Meyer
Prof. H
town Frid
{ 1A,
Was
for
on
& here
ALre
a stone
ng house on
Alexander
din 3 } ' four
Ming Lh i I i
or a similar
In
Wai
Misses Bessie ( and Bessie
Hall,
Week,
oney
were call-
now
of the
Taylor, both of Centre
ers i
the fi
Ben
hep
Mr. and Mrs. Bi
one evenit and
rmer
reader
rter.
n P. King, of the
Musser House, and Mrs.
Crawford, asl, we through Cen-
Hall ! addy afternoon, presums-
i d Penn
with a froutispiece general
World's Fair
fi
134%
Millheim,
Lre
al having 8 Cave,
Hy
Opening
w of the at St. Louis
May offers
f timely and interest-
special articles and poems.
l. Edward R.
xd to his i
Auditor
LF ‘hambere has been
appoints resent position un-
The new
of his of-
AI DErs
the
al Lox
and Mr. Ch
re-appointed.
I Auman,
severed his
IR charge
jast week was
jintlely
¢
formerly
pnnect
Win. of
ion
sand Val-
"4
rate of the
im, has
bh the White
tf
Haven and
- oO accept a past
£e hurch in
in White
learfield,
Haven for
8) ye ars,
Messrs
chased the
Brisbin
tim
Lit
ford pur-
t known
near
Potter. The
rawed
ber on ti
as the “Suup-meet ng grounds,’
Linden Hall, fr
main portion of WAS
oul some years ago.
Warrer
alighti
sy (Nt fifteen
Pi
ear
dit
from a
train
on, years old, in
and
Iusti-
night,
severed an artery
to death.
Og iiladeiphia
Reading Jucknell
tute, Lewisburg, Saturday
stiuck a bridge and
He bie
iy
in his arm
Town was live night.
surroanding
i and old,
, came to the borough
after a
Saturday
people from the
country, young,
snd female
Fhe
middie aged
isle
on business or pleasure bent,
week's uninterrupted w
of weather conditions
The large barn on the Cassey
pear McVeytown destroyed by
fire last week. The tenant, James
Gahagan, removed all his stock, but
lost considerable feed and some farm
implements were burned. The origin
of the fire is a Chis the
second time within four years that far.
mer Gahagan burned out.
Robert Reitz, son of Henry Reitz, of
Boalsburg, was a caller Saturday. Mr,
Reitz bas been employed by a pros-
peeting party and bas operated in
various portions of Penusyivania and
Virginia. He is anxious as to the out-
come of the test wells to be put down
near Centre Hall in the near fature,
and states that prospecting is to begin
anew on the Reitz tract, near Boals-
burg.
William L. Runkle, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Runkle, of this place, it is
informally announced, will be mar.
ried this month to a Cincinnati lady,
who for the past few years has lived in
Pittsburg. Mr. Runkle was promoted
to the superintendency of the ice plant
operated by the Knoxville Improves
ment Company, which company is
one of the most important concerns,
politically and otherwise, in Pitts.
burg.
farm,
was
mystery. is
of the Allegheny Hospital to Jacob
From, in this place, states that Forest
From, an inmate of that iostitution
whose death occurred a short time ago,
underwent an operation the day pre-
vious to bis death. The young man
was a sufferer from typhoid fever, dur-
ing the course of which disease perfo-
ration of the intestines developed. The
perforations were successfully closed,
and it is maintained by the physician
give him any trouble.
a result of the operation.
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