vol. LXXVII,
NO. 47.
CENTRE COUNTY
idegiment, P. V,
CHAPTER IX
{To be Continued |
Kor several days we were quite busy
in arranging our settlement with
Government During the forenoon of
June 7th we turned in arms, accoutre-
ments, camp equipage, ete, ete,
counting for every gun and other arti
cle with which
we had a clear bill, ‘and did not owe |
the Government a cent. In the afier
noon ( June 7th, 1865) we received our |
discharges, dated June lst, full |
pay to, and iucluding June 7th, from a |
United States Army paymaster. Writ |
ten across the face of every discharge
was, “Paid in full, June 7th,
B. Mendenhall, Paymaster,
States Army.”” If we had
charged Juve 1<t, would we have been
paid to, and including June 7th ? Mus- |
ter out and discharge mean the same |
thiog. Troops are not discharged till |
after they settle with their govern-
ment, and surrender their
coutrements, camp equipage,
one will claim that we made this
tlement and surrender of arms, at
other time or place, than Harrisburg,
Pa. in the forenoon of June 7th, 1865,
and received discharges and pay in the
The
cruits of the 148: h were sent to the 53 1
P V. onthe morning of June 3
before the Regt. started for Washing |
ton, and home, and not on June lst, as |
the “ Records’ have it.
Why these well known
carried along in bistorical records, is]
beyond our comprehension. Through.
out this narrative, facts and true dates |
we were charged ; so
and
1865, W.!
United
been dis
Arne, ac
No
sel
ele.
any
afternoon of the same day. res |
rd, just i
errors
are |
are always given. All the boys were |
pow oi ¢e more ¢ivilians, and prompt-
ly started for their homes.
Toe story of the 148° h P. V
ished We have followed the
closely, in all kinds of weather,
is fin-|
boys |
oul
days bright and joy fal, as well as days |
of deepest gloom, sud terrible vicissi- |
tudes, from the day of their enlistment |
ment, to the day of their discharge, |
and return to their homes. [It
ouly remains to add the list of “En-
gagements ;”’ our ** Record of Deaths"
during the war ; the “Roster” of C
“A' and the “Itinerary of the
ment,” which will constitute the flual |
spler,
now §
i
Regi-
c
CHAPTER X
The following is a true list of battles |
and skirmishes, in the 148th |
participated, noted on the field at the
which
time and place of their occurrence, and
is correct. A numberof battles int
list, having more than one date,
ly signify so many battles
place, and often more. The
Gattysburg, Pa, for example,
includes six great battles, taking place
on three different dass, miles apart,
and no two of them the
ground, or at the same time. [Io
of these battles the 145th P. V
his
real
at that
battle
which |
on same |
two!
i
second day, in the “Wheat Field,”
“Devils Den,” “Death Valley,”
¢Little Round Toop,” where
thousand men were lost, over one hun- |
dred and fifty of the 148:h. The other,
the great battle resulting from the
charge of Pickett’'s twenty thousand
men on the Union Centre on the third
day, when ten thousand men
lost, including about fifty of the 148: h
In order that the reader may fully
understand, we will briefly denorite
the battles constitutiug the great Bat-
tle of Gettysburg,
1st. The great battle of July lst,
to miles north of Gettysburg and
many miles away from the main body
of the Union A my ; loss, about nine
thousand,
2nd. The great cavalry battle, two
miles east of Gettysburg, and two
milesawny from the main Union Ar
my, on July 2nd.
3rd. The great battle in the after
noon of July 2nd, which raged around
the Wheat Field, Devil's Den, Death
Valley, and Little Round Top, four
miles south of Gettysburg, during
which twelve thousand men were lost,
4th, The terrifl engagement result.
ing from the attack mnde by the Cone
federateson the Union position on east
Cemetery Hill in the evening of July 2
ending at nine p. mx. with a loss of over
two thousand men. Io this engage.
ment the Confederate organiz tion,
known as the © Louisiana Tigers,” nev
er before defeated, was annihilated,
sud never heard of afterwards as an
organization,
the The battle on Culp’s Hill, at
the extreme right of the Uslon line,
for the recovery of the Union Works,
foolishly abandoned, by order of Gen.
Meade the day before,
This battle lasted from 40 m. to 11
a. m., July 8rd, and five thousand men
were lost,
6th, The great battle precipitated
and
twelve
Yere
THE SHEVaERD KING,
Weight Lorimer In His Stupendons Produc.
tion—Chestnut Street Opera House, Phila
In the appearance of Wright Lori-
delphia, for a limited reason, begin-
a new star in the dramatie
common interest and forea
“The Bhepherd King’ is presented
by a company of over 200 players, and
special music of a grand and elevating
character is quite a feature of the pro-
All the leading events of
life are portrayed with won-
dorful realism and effect, even to his
battle with the giant,
Goliath of Gath, in which Goliath is
represented by a literal giant in stature.
in the Valley of
brook the
Saul
the running
I'be camp of
Elsah, with
with David's triumphal en-
the
of Eaodor, are
scenes in the
obtained universal
wonderment and admiration.
Daring
of the Witeh
have
the matinees
engagement
berdrawn to the Chestnut
dis
it announced
by mail will re-
and careful at-
within reasonable
Phil'a
received
villages
in
most prompt
tention.
——
Heduesd Hates to Erle
For the benefit of those desiring to
attend the meeting of the Pennsylva-
to be held at Erie, December 13 to
its lines in the
on
good to return until December 17,
fucive, at reduced rates { minimum
A —
LOCALS
The Indian Summer came to a very
The season for legally
closed Wednesday,
killing deer
from Previous Column, | i
a, First Live defenses |
June 15th
Va., Firat Line “Redans,’
Now 4-15.14, June 16th i
Va, First Live to Becond i
June 17th. |
Hteadman,
vo defenses, June 18
House, 2d line de-
f
fenses, June 22
Petersburg ’
Line delens #,
At Hare House, later Fort
to 24 li
tare
234.
Piains, Va, north of
James River, June 30th,
Va, North of James
Liver, Aug. 14-15-16th.
miles south of Petersburg, Va., Aug. 25.
Nort Rice, night of Oot,
Crater Fort, attack and capture of,
by one hundred men of the 148th, P.
V. evening of Oct 27th.
“Bh.
Oct, 28th
Fort Metkle, Petersburg line, Oct. 81
Frout of Fort Morton, Petersburg line,
Midnight, Nov, 5th.
Front of Fort Morton, 10 p. m. Nov.
6th, one hundred prisoners taken.
Nov, 8th, truce from 9a m. to 4p.
m , during which the dead were bur-
ied on the field of the night battles of
Nov. 5h and 6th, and the wounded
brought io.
by Pickett’'s charge and attack on the
Union Centre, in the afternoon of July
3rd, which lasted over three hours,
and over ten thousand men were Jost
Home troops were engaged in three and
four of these, yet they are credited
with ohly one, in the list of engage
ments,
Ho all great battles run, and all lists
of engagements are short, aut do in-
Justice to the fighters,
Battles and skirmishes of the 148th
PV.
1863.
Chaneelloraville, Va , May 1.2.84,
Hay Market, Va. , June 25th,
Gettysburg, Pa, July 2.34 h,
Waoping Heights, Va | July 234.
Richardwon's Ford, Va., S«pt 1st.
South side Rappahannock, Oct. 12th.
Autrn Mills, Va , Oct 14'h a. m.
Bristoe Biation, Va , Oct 14, p. m,
Kelly's Ford, Va , Nov, Tih,
Mie Ran, Va, Nov. 27 30-Dee,
1864
Morton's Ford, Va., Feb. 6.7th.
Wilderness, Vu, May 50 Tih,
Po River, Va., May 9-10 bh.
Hpotsylvanis, Va, May 12:13-14th.
Mitford Bistion, Va., May 20 h.
North Anva River, Va , May 23d,
Jericho Ford, North Auvoas River,
Muy 27h.
Tolopotomy Creek, Va, May 28 81st
Piolemy Run, Va., June Ist.
North Auna River, Va, June 24,
Cold Harvor, Va , June 84d.
lst,
{Continued on foot of next 0umn.)
Could Harbor; Va, June ib.
Republican senators and members
are mournfully telling their friends
in private that they are “up against
it,” that Prerident Roosevelt is going
to be pretty near the whole thing for
the next four years,
They say indications multiply that
the President means to have his own
way, and they fear it will be im possi-
ble for them to head him off, except at
# cost to the party likely to prove too
great.
Ou the quiet, senators und members,
in common with most other people,
have begun predi ting that the Presi-
dent would take the bit in his teeth as
soon as the astonishing results of the
election vecame known,
The unmistakable tendency of even
this, sinee election, has been to demon-
strate the correctness of those who
made these predictions,
The policies that President Roose-
velt personally believes to be right will
be carried foto effect, if he has the
power to enforce his will on Congress,
and the personnel of his admioistra-
tion will be made up of men selected
by himself and known to be in full
sympathy with his alms.
He will not reject candidates for of-
fice presented to him by senators, but
he will iosist from the outset that all
conform to certain
general Roosevelt specifications,
by let.
known that he did not ask
candidates must
He has already made a start
it
for suggestions about the construction
ting be
of bis new cabloet,
He
suggestions, but
was not gawilling to listen to
he would resent at-
tempts to influence him io bis choice
of his advisers in the manner that bad
been done with other Presidents,
Without
members of his cabinet, he decided
consulting any one but
to
TWO ARBITRATION sUHEMES
I'wo methods of
international arbi
tration were suggested by two eminent
of the
Kx.
Secretary Loog's ides is an internation-
should
statesmen Muassachusells on
same day, but in different places,
al tribunal whose decrees He
executed, if necessary, by employing
the combined forees of sll the Powers
agaiost the deli quent state, Ex-% cre
tary Olney suggested ss most suitable,
for Eu Americs, a
al least gland and
the
try, to hear
members selected from highest
iu
arbitration,’
{ the
of purpose atid
true basis of all
marked, “i= confidence o parties
in each other's honesty
fairuess of dealing.” Toe two Eaglish
io their
Judges, aud the Alsskan Boundary ar-
bitration in which “he Lord Chief Jue
tice of Euglaud gave the castiog vole
against his own side showed Lhat the
impartiality of the judiciary could be
depended upon.
No argument is required as (» which
would be the better plan-—arbitration
backed by force or arbitration having
for its basis confidence in the integrity,
nonpartisanship and wisdom of the
Judges, An arbitral decree should
leave no rankling bitterness behind ;
and a schewe whereby it would be
possible to secure an award from arbi.
trators whose good faith is above tue
breath of suspicion is as high as the
heavens above a plan wherein coercion
would play a part. The latter would
be more likely to provoke war than to
promote peace,
——— A
The decision of the Superior court
sustaining the constitutiovality of the
prire food law and that the adulteration
of liquors 1s prohibited by it
strengthen the hands of the officers
charged with the administration of
the law, The decision
will gratify the people of the Siste
generally. The adulteration of food is
a crime for which there is no excuse
in these days of plentiful crops, nor in-
deed at any other time, It fuvoives
and the probable shortening of
lives of a considerable number. Wise
the people,
evade such legislation solely by plead-
fog its uncoustitutionality there will
be no sympathy, and adequate punish-
ment should be weted out to such of-
fenders,
A —— A] MH ———
Killed Deer in Alleghenions,
Not content with the hunting
grounds on the Beven Mountsios
Messrs W. H. Lucas and H. F. Mus
ser, of near Centre Hill ; W, O Rear
lek, of Milroy, aud Rev. W. W.
Rhoads, of Mexico, Juniata county,
hunted over a large territory on the
Allegheny Mountains, between Nove
ember 100 and 24 h, Their luck wis
one deer killed by H F. Musser, They
opened thelr campaign Iu the moun:
talus near Glenn Uulon,
trausfer Genersl Black, a gold Demo-
crut, from the civil service commission
to the head of the pension bureau,
He offered to make SBenator Cockrell,
of Missouri, a member of the civil ser-
viee commission, the isthmian canal
or the interstate
merce commission,
learned that Indian
Commissioner Jones desired to retire
on January 1, he offeréd the place to
Francis E, Leupp, 8 newspaper corres
pondent, with whom he has been on
terms of friendship for several yesrs,
and who wrote at the beginning of the
campaign, very appreciative
sketches of the President,
With these examples as starters, i
is not difficult to see what course th
President intends pursue ino the
matter ol filling Federal positions
Fhey will be filled with Roosevelt
men wherever possible,
Hundreds of officials
from the McKinley administration
Assistant secretaries, chiefs of bureaus,
of commissions,
high-salaried clerks, will be got rid of
in one way or other,
commisston COL~
An soon us he
late
Lo
come down
members various
Where they are protected by the civ-
il service regulations they will be let
out for the good of the service and
their places filled by promotion of
in minor positions who have
demonstrated ability according to the
Roosevelt standard.
tien
The expected changes will far
{took
the
second inauguration of McKinley and
his death.
be
that
place in the few months between
more numerous than those
will be almost 88 numerous as the one
McKinley. The
going to have their day.
Roosevelt men
WHEN TERMS OF OFFI E WILL BEGIN,
d
elected November 8th, will be inaugu-
rated
be President a: Vice-President
into their respective offices at
Washington, D., C the 4th of
March, 1905
Pennsylvania's
Ou
thirty-four electors
will be notified of their election before
the Nov
They Harrisburg on
second Monday of January, at noon,
aud Cougress will
Inst Wedoesday of
will meet at the
tree
of February, to compute the returns,
Each elector will be paid three dol.
lars a day and three cents mileage io
going to and from the State Capitol.
take his sat on the first Monday of
OU® YORrs,
4th of March next, and
following, unless called
di
inlo extraor-
nary session earlier,
Fhe new Assemblymen will take
their seats the first Tuesday of Janu
ary, and will serve for two years
Fhe pewly elected county officers
will begin their terms the first
Monday of Javusry.
on
pe ———— i ———
A strong eflort is being msde to
raise the sum of $2000 000 to endow
the University of Virginia. The
fund is to ve called the Jeflerson fund
in houor of the founder of the univer
sity. The committee or advisory
counsel in charge of the work of rails
ing the money numbers over one hun-
dred prominent citizens, including
Grover Cleveland, Chief Justice Fal
ler, Cardinal Gibbons, Elihu Root,
Admiral Dewey and Robert T. Lin
cola, President Roosevelt has writ.
ten a letter of cordial endorsement of
the project to raise the fund. The
university has performed a notable
educational work, but has always
beet) hampered for lack of funds. Now
that the South in eommon with the
rest of the country is prosperous there
is good ground to hope that the effort
to give the institution an adequate en-
dowment will prove successful.
A ML MARIA
Kelth's Chostnut Street Theatre,
Unusually strong features will make
up this week's bill at the above popu
Inr house, Pniladelphia, this week.
Among others are, Fred rtallen and
Mollie Faller, presenting George Co
han's comedy masterpiece, entitled
“Election Bets’ One of the very best
comedy sketches on the vaudeville
stage,
W. H. Bloan & Co. Mr, Sloan is
conceded to be one of the very best
German comedians ia vaudeville. He
has a new offeriog to present for your
apunroval,
The Five Mowatts—A club juggling
net,
Basque Quartetto—~A really high-
class voosl act of unusual merit,
AA PAU ARN
LOCALS,
Many a light-weight weighs heavily
in the social scale.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs
Johu W. Evans, White, South Ds
kota,
UNFAIR USAGE BY GOVERNMENT,
The Granting of Holidays to Hors! Route
Mall Unrriers an Imposition.
The ruling made by the postoffice
department which grants holidays to
the mall carriers over the rural routes
ts an Imposition on the people living
in the country districts. It isa dis
crimination against a class of people,
who, becsuse they are not organized
us other business men and tradesmen,
do not insist on obtaining their rights,
but rather yield to these impositions
and discriminations as the sheep to
the shearer,
The cities and larger towns have
daily malls—week days and SBunday« ;
the country districts and smaller
towne, prior to the innovation of the
rural mail service, had dally maile—
Sundays excepted ; 1oday the country
districts, including thousands of littl
in which there are located
business places of every description,
have no mails on Bundays ant legal
holidays. The business man is ham-
pered in the performance of his busi
he is denied the delivery of his
daily sod weekly newspaper; the
saute is true of the farmer and laborer
who chances to be served by this new
system of mail delivery.
villages
ness
Who dares to eay that it is not as
important for the business man, the
farmer, the laborer at Potters Mills, at
Fusseyville and the thousands of
others similarly situated all over the
United to receive his daily
newspaper, his weekly newspaper, bis
lives ip
service Lo
Nines
the man who
The mail
letters, elo. , as
citizen ; the message from
or son to father is read
matter where
the located—and why,
when the whole postoffice machinery
mails
be sent over the rural mail routes
Why should the postoffice
department carry the mails to Centre
Hall and not to other points ?
There is no complaint entered here
against the rural mail service, when
~it is the suspension of the
that is complained against,
Or sorrow, no
recipient is
is in operation, should not the
on
holidays?
’
iu foros,
delivery
the maile
week day.
Fe government has no right, from
a standpoint of justice, to grant holi
mail carriers so that
be delivered every
*
Up in arms, ruralites ! Petition the
postoffice department to deliver your
m———— or —
Potters Mills.
William Beir lost & floe horse a few
His son, some time ago was
from Allison's mill,
when the horse got to backing and
went down ioto the tail race on top ol
day & Ago.
It was the
fastest horse in this section.
David Bohn, last Friday, while ou!
bunting deer with his regiment, was
the lucky one to see a fine young buck.
Bsug went Davy’s gun, but the deer
went on, his aim, however, was ocor-
rect. It was Iate in the evening and
they could bot trail it, but the nex
morning the party found it dead.
One day last week Louis Fousl's
house was found to be on fire. The
fire started from a curtain hanging too
near the stove pipe. The contents of
the room were nearly all burned and
had it not been for the people return.
ing from Mrs. Bible's funeral no doubt
the house would have burned to the
ground,
Thanksgiving Day passed off in this
town to the delight of nearly every
body, Oa the avove day the old eat
came back in full regalia. She had »
postage stamp on her head and a R.
F. D sttsched to ber tail. This hob
ored old eat has had a hard time to get
back on sccount of some other cats and
dogs that kept her treed for some time,
We know of two old codgers who haa
a paw in the matter. Now they bad
better go way back under their baros
aud look for mice or some other ven
win, which is good euough for tiem.
William Bweeney was surely surprise.
ed last Saturday evening when he en-
tered his house and found about forty
of his friends ready to greet him, ano
congratulate him on his thirty-ninth
birth day. Mr, Sweeney's wife had
the whole mstter set up and it worked
hike a charm ; i received many pres
ents, some of which were cash, The
wusic was furnished by the Potters
Mills orohestra and William McKin
ney, with his famous graphophone,
which rendered some oomie pieces ano
kept the party fo a jily mood until
cakes caine roll od, which were many,
wond of vadous kinds, At eleven
o'elook all returned to their homes,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
J. W. Wolf, of Ardmore, is employ-
ed in Wanamaker's Philadelphia store,
Prof. John D. Meyer and niece,
Miriam, Bunday returped from their
Southern trip.
The Union Sunday school at Farm-
ers Mills will hold a Christmas service
Saturday evening, December 24,
The winter schedule of the Pennayl-
vania railroad went into effect Sunday,
I'nere are no changes on the branch,
Charles Burris is now located in
Lewistown where he holds a clerkshin
in a clothing s ore conducted by Mr,
starr.
Turkeys retailed at thirty cents in
Philadelphia before Thanksgiving,
and hen’s eggs sold for forty cents per
dozen,
Five to six inches of snow fell in the
vicinity of Altoona Bunday morning,
and sleds and sleighs were brought in-
to service.
Capt. H. B. Taylor and Prof. John
D. Meyer were among the Bellefonte
people who witnessed the Army-Navy
foot ball game.
The Thanksgiving supper was a de-
lightful affair, although the bad
weather interfered with many people
reaching the hall.
Mrs. W. E. Fischer and son Will-
iam, of Bhamokin, are arranging to
spend several months in the south for
the benefit of the latter's health,
Mrs. Alfred Durst, Monday morn
ing, started on an extended visit to
her daughters at Maytown, Laocaster
enunty, Pa, and Taneytown, Mary-
land,
Rev. J. W. Beckley, an evangelist,
ff Lebanon, was a caller last week.
He is m king a tour of the central
part of the sta'e siding local pastors to
conduct rel gious revivals,
Recorder John C,
Philadelphia Friday
his wife home
wwe went to
to sccompany
from the German hos
pital where she had been receiviog
treatment for several weeks
Mrs. 8. F. Boyder and son Floyd,
of this place, visited at the homes of
George Graham and Milton Shuey, at
state College. They were
eral days, returniog home Wednesday
of last week.
Miss Lucy Trsuger, Pleasant
Unity, was the guest of Rev, and Mrs,
Gress at the Reformed parsonage, last
week. Miss Trauger is a member of
the Junior class of the
Bucknell University.
Frank Shutt, the Hoffer street binck-
smith, announces that be i= prepared
to do all kinds of wood work connect.
ed with wagon building and repairing.
If you are in peed of work in his line,
te seks that you call to see him.
T. G. Wilson, D. W. Bradford, Chas.
Arney, John Heckman, Cyrus Brun-
gart, and J. A. Bweetwood, last Fri.
day and Baturday were up in the Bar
rens, near State College, hunting for
rabbits. They succeeded in bagging
ten rabbits.
Mr.and Mrs J. B. Kreamer, of Re-
bersburg, and their daughter and hus-
tand, Mr, and Mrs. 8. 8. Frank, of
Harrisburg, last week visited Rev. and
Mrs. David A. Bolly, at Wayne, a
suburb of Puoiladelphia, Mrs. Solly be-
ing a daughter of the Kreamers,
Rev. W. H. Walsh, of Williamsport,
will assist Rev. J. F. Shultz to conduct
aseries of religious meeting at Lemont,
beginning Sunday evening, coatiou-
ing for two or more weeks. Rev,
Walsh is a talented vocalist, which
will add to the interest of the services,
Mrs. William Turner and Aodrew
Carver, of Milesburg, niece and neph-
ew of Mrs. W. H. Schuyler, and Misses
Helen and Susan Potter, of Milesburg.
visited Dr. and Mrs. Bebuyler, Friday
and Saturday of last week. The Misses
Potter also visited Misses Clara and
Rosie Krape.
Rev. and Mrs. David A. Solly are
very nicely located at Wayue, near
Pniladelphia, where Rev. <olly is the
pastor of the Baptist church of that
place, having ocome there from
R muoke, Virginia, beginning of Ooto-
ber. The Wayne Baptist church and
parsounage are decidedly pleasing in ape
pearance, and there is little doubt but
that both pastor and people are well
plensed with each other,
Reeser, Kessler & Wieland is the
uname of a new firm recently inoorpo-
rated with a capital stock of $50,000,
in Sayre, the latter member of the
firm being Al. P. Wieland, formerly of
Linden Hall, and more recently lo-
cated at Nordmont. The vew firm
will open a department store, in
March, in a new block, under the most
!avorable circumstances, with Mr,
Wieland as its manager, Sayre is well
looated, and has a large nomber of
wen employed in railroad shops of 11g
LV R R Us, that company hav
Amen pov.
of
seminary,
wishing Mr. sud Mis. Sweeney mm y
v wd duri i
oR id ue ai ml pd