The Same Old Story.
She nit within an easy chair.
An open letter rprca'l before her,
80 bright ami dainty, round and fair,
No wonder all the ladn adore her.
Beaido her smoothly rounder! cheek
The rosea lose their tinted glory,
And, gazing in liia eyea so sweet,
The poet telle her awitetcat story.
Ami a she readn her lovely mouth
Pouts in a manner mi beguiling,
You'd think her prettier, jierhapa,
Than when her face is glad and smiling,
"Such impudenccl" aim says; "indeed.
This man moires severer schooling,
Kxpccting thus to have his way,
My hotter Judgment overruling.
"To steal a kiss, and then declare
Ho only longs to steal another;
Wlio would have thought hu'd lie so Isild ?
I'm half inclined to tell his mother.
' But if I will forgive,' ho savs,
He will at onco make reparation.
And gladly what h< took iu liaate
lteturn with more deliberation.
" 'lt was my beauty tempted him.'
Ah, that's the way they always Matter,
And think a few beguiling words
Will rectify the gravest matter.
Jlo'U find I'm not a silly girl,
To be cajoled"—but here alio pauses,
And BOOH her quickly changing mood
The soft relenting look indorses.
And then (the little fraud!) alio throws
Her glances upward, gently sighing.
And with a pretty saintlinca*,
Her dimples niutiuoua belying,
She lays her hamls uism her breast,
Ami eays demurely and benignly
" 'To err is human—to forgive ?'
Ah, then it is we act divinely."
A'nioral did you ask of mr
Before my story here is elided '
This : Tie so easy to forgive
When we are only half offended.
//. Tl.ay.r.
RETIRING FROM BUSINESS.
Ny ntti.T HAUTE.
What the colonel's business was
nobody knew, nor dnl anybody care par
ticularly. He purchased for cash only,
and ntver grumbled at tho price of any
thing he wanted; who could' 4° more
than that? X
Curious people occasionally woudefwd
how, when it hail lieen fnllv two
Bince the colonel, with every ono
abandoned Dutch creek to the Chinese, '
he managed to spend money freely
and to lose considerably at cards and
horseraces. In fact the keeper of that
one of tho Challenge hill saloons which
the colonel did not patronize was onre
heard to wonder absent-mindedly
whether the colonel hadn't a money mill
somewhere, where he turned ont eagles
and "sings" ('he coast name for £SO
gold pieces).
When so important a person as a bar
tender indulged publicly in the idea,
the inhabitants of Challenge hill, like
good Californians everywhere, consid
ered themselves in duty l>onnd to give
it grave consideration: so, for few
<lays, certain industrious professional
gentlemen who won money of tho colo
nel carefully weighed some of the
brightest pieces and tested them with
acids, and sawed them in two, and re
tired them, and melted them np, and
had the lumps assayed.
The result was a complete vindication
of the colonel and a loss of considerable
custom by the indiscreet barkeeper.
The colonel was as good-natured a
man as had ever been known on Chal
lenge hill, bnt lieing mortal the colonel
had his occasional times of d<'*]>ond
ency, and one of them occurred after a
series of races in which he bad staked
his all on his bay mare Tipsie and had
lost.
F.coking reproachfully at hi* beloved
animal, he failed to heed the aching
void of his pockets, and drinking deep
ly, swearing eloquently and glaring de
fiantly at all mankind were equally un
productive of coin.
The boys at the saloon symjiathizcd
most feelingly with the colonoL They
were unceasing in their invitations to
drink, and they exhibited considerable
Christian fortiearance when tho colonel
savagely dissented with every ono who
advanced any proposition, no matter
how incontrovertible. Bnt unappre
ciated sympathy grows decidedly tire
some to the giver, and it was with a
feeling of relief that tho boys saw the
colonel stride out of the saloon, mount
Tipsie and gallop furiously away.
Biding on horseback lias always been
considered an excellent sort of exercise,
and riding is universally admitted to bo
one of the most healthfnl means of ex
hilaration in the world. When a man
is so alrsorbcd in his exercise that he
will not stop to speak to a friend, and
when his exhilaration is so complete
that he torns his eyes from well mean
ing thumbs pointing significantly
into doorways through which a man has
. often peased while seeking bracing
influences, it is but natural that people
■honld express some wonder.
The colonel was well known at Toddy
Flat, Come Hand, Blazer's, Mnrderer's
Bar and several other villages through
which he passed. As no one had been
seen to precede him, betting men were
soon offering odds tbst the colonel was
running sway from somebody.
Htrictly speaking they wcro wrong,
bnt they won all tho money that hail
been staked against them, for within
half an hour there passed over tho same
road an anxious-looking individual who
reined up .in front of the principal
saloon of each place and asked if tho
colonel hud passed.
Had tho gallant eolonel known that
ho was followed, and by whom, there
would have boon an extra election hold
at tho latter place very shortly after, for
the purtmror was tho constable, and for
all officers of the law tho colonel pos
sessed hat rod.
On galloped tho colonol, following
the stage road, which threaded tho old
mining camps on Dutch crock, but
suddenly ho turned out of tho road and
urged his horso through tho young
pines and bushes, which grow thickly
by tlio road, while llio constable gal
loped on to tho next camp.
There seemed to bo no path through
tho thicket into which tho colonel hud
turned, bnt Tipsie walked between tho
trees and shrubs as if they were familiar
objects of lior stable yard.
Suddenly a voice from the bushes
shouted:
" What's up'!"
"Business— that's what."
"It's time," replied tho voice, and its
owner—a bearded siz-footor—emerged
from the bushes and stroked Tipsie's
nose with the freedom of an old ac
quaintance. "We ain't hail a nip sinco
last night, and there ain't a cracker or a
handful of Hour in the shanty. The old
gal go bock on yer?"
"Yes," replied tho colonel, ruefully;
" lost every blasted race. 'Twasn't her
fault—bless her -she dono her level
best. Ev'rybody to homo ?"
" Yon bet," said tho man. "All been
a pravin' for yer to turn up with the
rocks an' somcthin' with more color
thau spring water. Come on."
The man led the way and Tipsie and
the eolonel followed, and tho trio sud
denly found themselves before a log
hnt, in front of which sat three solemn
disconsolate individuals, who looked ap
pealingly at the colonel.
" Maek'll tell yer how 'twas, fellers,"
said the colonel, meekly, " while 1
pocket the mare."
Tho colonol was absent but a very
few moments, but when lie returned
each of the four was attired in pistol
.and knife, while Mack was distributing
w>me dominoes made from a rather dirty
Soar rack,
w/' 'Taint so late as all that, is it 7" in
quir.xdtho colonel.
" Pernor bo an hour ahead than a miss
in night," said one of the four.
"I ain't been so thirsty since we came
around th<qhorn in 'SO, an' we run short
of water. SVtuebody'll get hurt if there
ain't any bitters in the old concern
they will, or my name ain't Perkins!"
" Don't eonnt on Jjpnr chickens 'fore
they're hatched, Port/. V' said one of the
crowd, as he adjusts! under
the rim of his bU- there
should be too mar.* fnt^Hl"
"HtiiMy.. stiddy, ("ranks!" remon
strated the colonel. "Nobody ever
gets along if them 'low themselves to
l>e skecred."
"Fact," chimed in the smallest and
thinnest man in the party. " The Bible
says Romethin* might hot 'bout that. I
disromomber dzactly how it goes, but
I've hern Parson Buzzy, down in Maine,
preach a rippin' old sermon many a
time. Tho old man never thort what a
comfort them sermons wuz agoin' to l>e
to a road agent, though. Tho time we
stopped Hlim Mike's stage and he didn't
have no more manners than to draw on
me, them sermons was a perfect bless
ing to me—tli" thorts of 'em cleaned my
head as quick %■ a cocktAil. An'—"
" I don't want to dispute f,ogroller's
piona strain," interrupted the colonol;
" but ez it's Old Blaek that's arrivin to
day instead of Hlim Mike, and ez it's
Old Block oilers makes his time, hadn't
we hotter vamose?"
Tho door of the shanty was hastily
closed and the men filed through the
thicket until near tho road, when they
marched rapidly on in ]>arallel lines
with it. After about half an hour Per
kins, who was leading, halted and wij>ed
his perspiring brow with his shirt sleeve,
" Fur enough from home, now,'' said
he. " "Tain't no nso bcin' a gentleman
if yer have to work too hard."
"Safe enongli, I reckon," replied the
colonel. " We'll do tho nsual; I'll halt
'em, liOgroller tend to the driver, Cranks
take the boot, and Mack and Perk takes
right and left. An' I know it's tough—
Vint considerm' how everlaatin' eternal
hard np wo are, I reckon wo'll have to
ask contributions from the ladies, too,
if there's eny alioard—oh, boys?"
" Beckon so," replied Logrollcr, with
a chuckle that seemed to inspire his
black domino with a wrinkle or two.
" What's the nse of women's rights of
they don't ever have a ohanco of exer
cie'n 'em! Hevin' their purses bor
rowed 'ld show 'cm tho full doctrine in
a bran new light."
" Come, come, boys," interrupted the
colonel, " that's the crack of old Black's
whip; pick yer bush- -quick I All jump
when I whistle."
Kadi man secreted himself near the
roadside. The stage came swinging
along handsomely ; thoee inside were
langhing heartily at eomething, and
Old Black was just giving n delicate
touch to tho flank of tho off leader when
tho colonel gave a shrill, quick whistle
and five men sprang into the road.
Tho horses stopped as suddenly as if
it were a matter of common occurrence.
Old Black dropped the reins, crossed
his legs and stared into the sky, and the
passengers all put out thoir heads with
a rapidity equaled only by that with
which they withdrew them as they saw
tho dominoes and revolvers of the road
agents.
" SeoniH to he something the matter,
gentlemen," said the colonel, blandly, as
he opened the door. " Won't you pleasa
get out? Don't trouble yourself to
I draw, 'COH my friend here's got his
i weapon cocked an' his finger's rather
I nervous. Ain't got a handkerchief, hov
yer?" asked lie of tho first passenger
; who descended from the stage, " Hev?
Well, now, that's lucky. Just put yer
' hands behind yer, please—so—that's it."
I And the unfortunate man's arm* were
) securely tied behind in an instant.
The remaining passengers were treated
| with similar courtesy, and tho colonel
| an, l '*ia friends examined the pockctH of
I tho captives. Old Black remnined un
| molested, for whoever heard of u stage
| driver having money?
"Boys," saul the colonel, calling his
brother agents aside und comparing re
ceipts, " tain't much of a haul; but
there's only one woman, and she's old
euongh to ho a fellow's grandmother."
"Like enough she'll pan out more
than all the rest of the stage put to
gether,' growled Cranks, carefully test
, ing the thickness of the case of tin- Rold
watch. "Just like the low-lived deceit-
J fulness of Homo folk* to hire an old
; woman to carry their money, so it'd go
safer. Mebbe what she's got ain't
nothin' to some folk* that got bosses
that can win money at races, hut "
The colonel abruptly ended the con
versation, and approached the stage.
He was very chivalrous, but Crank's
sarcastic reference to Tipsio needed
avenging, and as he eouhl not con
sistently with business arrangement*
put an end to Cranks, tho only ladv
would have to suffer,
j "I ' ,f "K jour pardon, ma'am," said
' the colonel, raising hi* hat politely with
ono hand while lie drew open the coach
■ door with the other, " hut we're taking
up a collection for some descrvin'
objeot. We was goin' to make the
gentlemen fork over the hull amount,
but ez they ain't got enough, we will
have to bother you."
The old lady trembled, felt for her
poeketbook and raised her veil. The
colonel looked into her face, slammed
the stage door, and sitting on the hub
of one of the wheels, stared vacantly
into space.
" Nothin' V queried IVrkin* in n whis
per, and with a face full of genuine
sympathy.
No—yes, said the colonel, dreamilv.
I lint is, untie em and let the stage go
ahead," he continued, springing to his
feet. "I'll hurry back to the cabin."
Ami the colonel dashed into tho bushes
and left hi* follower* so paralyzed with
astonishment that Old Black afterward
remarked that if thero'd l>eu aiiyiiodv
to attend to the hnrscM ho rould have
cleaned out the hull crowd with his
whip.
Tho passengers, relieved of their
weapons, were unbound, allowed to enter
the stage, and the door was slammed,
upon which Old Black picked up hi*
reins a* if he had laid them down at the
; station while the hones were being
1 changed, then crocked his whip ond the
stage rolled off, while the colonel's
party hastened back to their hut, fondly
inspecting as they went eertaiu flasks
they had obtained while transacting
their business with the oecii|>ants of the
stage.
Great was tho surprise of tho road
agents a* they entered their lint, for
there stood tho colonel in a clean white
shirt ami in a suit of clothes made
from the limited spare wardrobes of the
other menil>er* of the band.
But tho suspicious Cranks speedily
subordinated his wonder to his pru
denee, as laying on tho table a heavy
purse he exclaimed:
" Come, colonel, business before
pleasure, let's divide and scatter. Ef
anylnxly should hoar about it, an' ketch
thetra|>s in our possession,they might—"
" Divide yerselves," said the colonel,
with s white abruptness and a great
oath, " I don't want none of it,"
"Colonel," said Perkins, removing
his own domino and looking anxiously
into the leader's face, "be yon sick ?
Here's some bully brandy which I found
. in the j>a*sengers' pockets."
"It hain't nothin'," replied the col
onel with averted eyes. " I'm goin' and
I'm retirin' from business forever."
" Ain't goin' to turn evidence V cried
Cranks, grasping a pistol on the table.
" I'm going to make a lead mine of
you ef you don't take that liack I"
roared the colonel, with a bound that
caused Cranks to drop the pistol and
retire precipitately, apologising as he
went. "I'm agoin' to attend to my own
business, and that's enough to keep
anybody bissy. Homebody lend me SSO
till I see him agin."
Perkins pressed the money into the
colonel's hand, and within two minntee
the colonel was on Tipsie's back and
galloped off in the direction the stage
hod taken.
Ho overtook it, passed it, and still he
galloped on.
The people at Mud Gulch knew the
colonel well and made it a rule never to
bo astonished at anything ho did; and
they made an exception to the rule
when tho colonel canvassed the princi
pal barrooms for men who wished to
buy n horse, and when a gambler who
was flush obtained Tipsio for twenty
slugs—only 81,' Xl", when the colonel
had always said there wasn't gold
enough on top of ground to buy her—
Mud Gulch experienced u decided sen
sation.
But when the colonel, after remain
ing in tho barber shop for half an hour,
emerged with bis face clean shaved and
his hair nicely trimmed and jmrtod, bet
ting was HO wild that a cool-headed
sporting man speedily made a fortune
by betting against every theory that hud
been advanced.
Then tho colonel made a tour of the
stores and fitted himself with a now
suit of clothes, carefully eschewing all
of the gorgeous patterns and pro
nounced colors no denr to the heart of
the average miuer. Ho bought a new
hut and put on a pair of boots, and
pruned bis finger nails, and, stranger
than all, lie mildly declined all invita
tions to drink.
As the colonel stoo l in the door of
the principal saloon, where the stage
always stopped, the Challenge hill con
stable was seen to approach the colonel
and tap him on the shoulder, upon
which all men who bet that tho colonel
was dodging somebody claimed the
stakes. But those who stood near the
colonel heard the constable sav:
"Colonel, I take it all back. When
I seed you go out of Challenge hill it
come to me that you might bo in the
road agent business, so I followed you
—duty, you know. But when I reed
you sell I ipsie 1 knew I was on the
wrong trail. I wouldn't MUHJKVI you
now if all the stages in the eountrv was
robbed; and I'll give you satisfaction
any way you want it."
" It's all right," said the colon d, with
a smile. The constable afterward said
that nobody had any idea of how curi
ously the colonel smiled when hi* beard
was off.
Suddenly the stage pulled up to the
door with a cra-h, and the male passen
gers hurried into the saloon in n state of
utter indignation and impetuosity. The
storv of the robbery attracted overv
liody, and during the excitement the
colonel dipped out quietly and opened
the door of the stage. The old lady
started and cried.
" George !"
And the colonel jumped in the tage
and putting his arm tenderly around the
trembling form of the old lady, ex
claimed:
" Mother!"
California 1 * Itig Tree*.
We hitched n couple of farm horse*
to a spring wagon, filled it with pro
vision*, tents and blanket*, and struck
out for the mountain*, travelin from
fifteen to twenty mile* per day. The
ftr*t place we reached of importance
woe the big tree* of Calaveras county. I
must admit that they staggered mv im
agination, and exceeded anything in
the vegetable growth that I had ever
before seen. In the stump of one of
these tree* a ball-room thirty-three feet
aero** i* built, and it require* a
ladder of eighteen steep* to a*cciid to
the top of the log, on which was built a
ten-pin alley. It ha* been burnt up
but the body of the old, charred mon
arch of the forest still remain*. Think
o—it—a hollow log. through which on
can ride on horseback one hundred feet
and come out through a knot-hole!
There are some ninety of these big trees,
measuring from fifty to one hundred
feet in circumference, and reaching up
to tho skiea—from JOO to 4. r >o feet. They
are the remnant of a past flora that one
time was more common, but are now
confined to some dozen groves
scattered from hero to King's nror—
granll old trees, that have withstood the
storms of thousands of winters, and
worn saplings when Moses was a little
lioy, found in the lmlmshea of tho Nile.
What a history could they tell! What
a monument of growth I Enough to
sliAroo tho vanity of proud Cheops, tho
builder of the Pyramids. They liavo
grown and lifted their head* higher and
higher, while the proud kings and
empires of Egypt, Persia. Greece and
Homo have |**ed away. Tboy
lived and flourished when Christ
preached utterances to the .lews,
and were full-grown trees when our
Anglo-Saxon ancestors ran wild In tho
woods and painted their faces like tho
Indians. From tho rings that donote
the annual growth of those trees scionce
has estimated some of them to be four
thonsand years old, while they stand
over the fallon bodies of s much older
growth, covered over with earth and
large growing treea, as it ia one of the
pocnliarities of this timber not to
decay. It ap)>oari to be a species of
redwood.- San Fmnciaco Kmmintr.
It ia an error to consider the Pata
gonians a race of giants ; the average
height is five feet ten.
LADIES' DEI'AIM'MKNT.
The fnlnl ||„|,
There in, possibly, nothing sadder in
tho annals of our city than the death
thi week of the young bride who. bo
fore her honeymoon had waned, fell
down u flight of stairs and received
such injuries that she died. The cause
wan a very dimple one, viz., the use of
the high and nharp heels thai are worn
by moat ladies all over America. It in
only u wonder that any young lady de
scends the stairs safely with them, and
while the wad event calls for the strong- '
est sympathy, it leaves a lesson behind
which young ladies will do well to heed.
—N'ln J'V'inciH' <i tfeu-n letter.
Womiiulr MiidrU),
.Man loves the mysterions. A cloud
less sky and the full-blown rose leave
him unmoved; but the violet which
hides its blushing beauties behind tin
bush, and the moon when emerging be
hind a cloud, are to him sources of in
spiration and pleasure. Modesty id to
merit what shade is to painting —it gives
l>oldne>; and prominence. Nothing
adds in ore to female I icant y than mod
esty. It sheds around the countenance
a halo of lignt which is borrowed from
virtue. Botanists have given the rosy
hue which tinges the cup of the white
rose the name of "maiden blush.' This
pure arid delicate hue IM the only jstint
'lirwtian virtue shonl 1 me. It is the
riche-t ornament. A woman without
mode -ty is like a fad"d flower, diffusing
an unwholesome odor, which the pru
dent gardener will throw from him.
Her destiny is inelati 'holy, for it termi
nates in hlianie and repentance. Beauty
|ra*scs like the flowers of the albe,
which bloom and die in a few hours;
but modesty gives tlie female charms
which supply the place of transitory
freshness of youth.
Si- una Sole* fur IVmnri,
Popp.'ei, wife of Nero, tised a mask to
protect her complexion from the sun.
Thecliair of Greek language and lit
erature in the I'niversity of Kansas has
Ixs-n fill's] f.,r three years bv Mi- Kate
Stephens.
It has l>e.-n averred that a lady with a
diamond ring will scratch her nose, in
a given period, four times as oft'-n as
any other woman.
A cape lately sold to a New York lady
was made of humming birds' breasts.
Each bird from whom the spot of emer
ald gold was take n was valued at five
dollnm.
In Han Francisco a handsome Italian
woman of eighty, with silver hair, is a
professional beggar, notwithstanding
that she owns three houses, for which
she receivt s sl*<l a month.
Helen Hunt Mrs. Jackson; left New
England a pale, delicate invalid, and
now in her Colorado home she weighs
-CO pounds. Kbe is engaged on her
work concerning the Indians.
riic Jlntuh ni Journal publisher
some hospital reports by " .Miss Clarke.
M. D." These are the first papers of
the kind ever printed in an English
medical newspaper of prominence.
The mother of the Hnltan Abdul Aziz
has addressed a letter to the Saltan
Abdul IlamiJ thanking him for having
revenged her son and purified his name
and dynasty from the stain of suicide.
"Mrs. Hicks Ixird, from America,"'
says an English society journal, " wa
takeu up by the Wst people in I. >ndon,
and is said to adorn herself with chains
of diamonds from shoulder to shoul
der."
The Empress Augusta, of Germany,
is a woman of great courage and pa
tience. For many years she has suf
fered tort n rev of intense pain from a
wearing disuse, and ha* borne it with
a remarkable energy, firmness and
quietness.
A home-car conductor, who had wait
ed five minutes at a crossing for a lady,
impatiently remarked: "I am of the
opinion that when Gabriel blows his
last trump that those too late to get
seats will all lie women."
At the lUgshot fancy fair, in which
royalty shared so active a part, a young
gentleman took a fancy to a certain arti
cle and remarked to a lady at the stall
that it was very pretty. Hho assented,
adding: " My mother sent it." " lteally,"
softly resumed the customer. " Why,
let me see; I almost think I must have
met your mother. Her name is—?"
"The Queen," replied the ••saleslady."
'fnsblM N •<**.
Striped grenadines are the most sty
lish.
Finger rings are not worn in the
street *
Black silk mitts are Hie favorite
gloves.
Lace and muslin fichus grow larger
snd larger.
Handsome parasols are edged with
Hpaniah lace.
Very little jewelry should he worn
with summer toilets.
Both high end low coiffures are worn,
but low ones are preferred.
It ia the height of feahion to hang s
piece of old fated tapestry on the wall.
Fantastic flgareft are eabsotd#ifi jti
■i
bright colors on artistic and fancy lawn
tennis costume*.
Puff* of mnll an-1 tulle illusion in
the nock bid fair to take the place of
jilaitings and ruches,
Cretonne fan* in Trianon design a
match parasols and miit* of printed sat
teon, cambric an<l foulard.
/f'trj>er' Iln.'tr tells of dr*-***-* that
have flounces composed of silk oak
leaves overlapping each other.
Red corraigos, rod hat and red fan*
and parasols are adopted by many
women i,l ((uy tastes at watering place*.
The fashionable artificial flowers ar<-
jonquils, rows, peonies, oxeye daisies,
white lilac* and hiinfiowcr* of various
sizes.
Iho muslin skirt composed of two
plaiting*, falling one over the other, is
as old a* the hill* or thereulrouts; sar
about fifteen years old.
Mull*- and batiste dresses in pale tints
of color, trimmed with imitation Valen
ciennes and Flemish |oint and Vermi
celli lace*, make lovely afternoon and
evening watering-place toilet*.
Much surah gowns made up with two
plaited flounces, a simple apron dra
pery, a perfectly plain basque, ami Span
ish lace trimming a! the throat and
wrists, are among the cbeaje*t of sum
mer dresses.
Hunches of roses as larg* as a fa]]
■ • iblmg* ar<- fastened above an<l in front
of the hip and below the breast of the
most fashionable women at Saratoga and
Long Branch whenever they are cos
turned for a carriage drive.
Artistic parasols have sprays of eg
lantine, daisies, golden rod, straggling
insects, and sometime* bird*- painted a*
if falling or flying, an nature), over the
gores on the outside, sometimes en
croaching on the lace border or fringe,
while the lining* show shade*] effects in
full, delicate tint* of blue, groen, rose,
cr'-am. pearl an 1 pur*- white.
How Mcl'herson Hied.
Generals Mcpherson and Logan, who
hod la-cn to General Sherman's head
quart* r i.<-f*,re Atlanta , r -de up to the
r<-ar of the Seventeenth Corp* and de
mounted in a clump of tree* in front of
an ojx-n stretch, which had probably
Wen a field at one time. This was
aWut 1" o'clock. Shortly after they
had dismounted jacket firing Wgun on
the 1* ft and apparently to the rear of
the u.a'.u line. After listening to it for
a few minute* Mcpherson said he would
go out in that direction and see what it
meant. Calling to Captain Kilbnrn
Knox of his staff to follow, Im mounted
" Blackie," Li* favorite horse, and gal
loj>ed down the lane or narrow road,
running in the r ar of the Seventeenth
Corps, at an angle of forty-five degrees
fr >m the main line, lowarl the point
where the firing was hoard. General
Dodge, commanding the S.xtcenth
Corps, had been ordered to the left with
instruction* to form nt right angle with
General Blair's line, but he had not had
time to get into josition, consequently
the firing could not be on his skirmish
line, which led to the conclusion that
something unusual wasgoing on. Hood's
tactics Wing well known to MoPherson,
h" was on the lookout for dashes, hence
his anxiety. It was not more than fif
teen minute* after Mcpherson and Knox.
a*oomf*ani**l by their orderlies, Ld
dashed down the lane until 41 Blackie,"
the general's horse, eiaie galloping
back with a wound in the shoulder, from
which the blood was pouring in a per
fect stream. The cry was instantly
raised that "The general fis !>een
shot. Close following the horse came
Captain Kuox and the two orderlies.
Knox dashed up and in an excited man
ner exclaimed, 44 He is dead. Get an
ambulance, quick " General William lk
Strong, now of Chicago, and Captain I>.
H. Buell, ordinance officer, started at
j once with the headquarters ambulance
down the lane, followed by several of
J the mounted men. Iluell rode ahead
and skirmished with the Confederate
pickets keeping them lack until Gen
eral Strong got the body into the am
bulance. Tliey drove lack with all
speed to where General Logan and the
other officers were. Dr. Hewitt hastily
opened his coat and discovered that the
bullet had passed directly through hi*
heart, killing him instantly. The body
was taken at once to General Sherman's
headquarters, from where it was aent,
in charge of General Mcpherson's per
sonal staff, to Marietta, where it was
embalmed and scot, with the same es
cort, to lho ho:.:e of his aged mother at
Clyde, Ohio.
Captain Kuox, who aocorajianied the
general, said that they had gone but a
short distance down the lone until a
shot was fired from on ambush, taking
effect in the shoulder of the general's
horse. They reined up, but had DO*
time to turn until another was fired sad
the general fell heavily to the ground.
He neither spoke nor moved a emsate.
After the fatal shot sever si skirmishers
made their appearance, one of whom
rushed up and took off the general's
waist belt As noon as be red red a
member of the Union Pioneer Corps ran
up and rifled the general's pockets, tak
teg a pwk"