A COOL TRIO. UNDER FIRL FROM A FEDERAL "RAIL~ | ROAD-IRON" BATTERY, A: Ex-Confederate Tells an Story of His Experience in the Artillery Service A Couple of Visitors in White Clothes, "W. 4 EK in Chicago Trib ine Last February, while in Virginia, 1 met with a geuath man who was in the artille ry service during of the war, being al first in Held ser ice and then shut up in mortar batterivs at do. crent places When was invested he, a sergeant, and a hieuten aut, were in a mortar battery situated pear old Blandford cemetery, his brother being in charge. ‘Their priccipal duty was to fire pl the Federal batteries and draw their five When the Confedera es made a demonstration y had prools to run into of course; but one can not stay in a bomb prool and fire a mor tar at the same time, and, might be supposed, they became mote faminne with dis days than they cared for. There was {non battery in particu ar that always gave them trouble whenever they | red at in It was Kkuown as ihe “radroad frou” badery, and was very heaviy armed Moreover, the gunners therein bad the exact range of the Blandiord battery, which twice too large, and it rarely requ red more than ten minu'es to run tue Confederates their bomb proof “Ove nght,” says Fergt LEgeles on “we were working there in the battery firing away in dierent directions, but taking care to keep cur hands of the railroad -iron battery, and watching 1h shells as they ew around, occasionally jumping into the bomb-proof when one would light our when two fine-looking men, whom wo all took for general officers, sud denly walked into the works We could not tell their exact rank, because they wore white waistcoats and coats, but they looked as though they were rank o.1 cers They walked up to George, addressed him as lieutenant, as though they knew him, and said that they had come some mortar-tiring, and hoped that Le would accommodate them, if it was not inconvenient replied that Le would be bappy to show them any thing in that and turning to altost the Whol y Qleisoury bis brother, } { SOLID ns pyroie huic one Wis in plac e, LO Se out George line, said *Touch up the railroad iron battery, Joe.’ Well, 1 wished that chaps had stayed in their tents; but | thought that it would not be very long | efore they would be glad to get into the bomb proof, that the rest of SO 1 Ct road- iron plac “Those know that the one, und they were determ all that we couid The shells were dropped into our battery like bursting all sround I like footballs; but oflicers and C corge, piece of timber and they were leaning away from a pie came along and « two, and scattered place; but ail that t nuninst a fresh piace | tn 43 me, these andl us could g un the 150 {i to tou ! mmence h up that ra Hows « OCCcns) ned to give us ask fo bailistones $1116 con The next day who the Wer had been that clothes to wear out 1her believe white ny of only thought a minute he known that none of them wou g arou. d at night tl could st fo sev in AY I camd A But he ou'd ver though thing of that those men ma s tl ou “About \eAars Ge rge was on an Ohio la.king toa man in the gentleman came up and not the licuter ant who was in command f a mortar battery near Blandford cemetery at eters! urg? Yes, he suswered ‘And dont remem | two offi ers coming your Lattery one night and that they had come out to see morta firing es; and | for them ever since “Well. 1 am ose of them. 1 am Gen of the t nion army at that time, and my companion was Gen also of the Union army ‘1 am very glad to meet you, said | feut. Fggleston, ‘but if | had known whe you wereat tat tio would not he talking to me now reply two oO ron er to saying some have been looking ou So | We did Just "Y | fo go on knew, then, was th start out to see mortar firicrg told you and we also intended to the skirmish line. But we got into the wrong battery. You remember that our skirmish ine ran up to what was a marsh when we first got to Vetersburg, sud that it really pointed behind your line Well, we got to the end of our line at the marsh but it bad dried up, and after we had wandered around there for a while. con fused by the shells flying in di erent di rect ons, we suddenly found our selves right at your baltery We ant there in the for almost two hours, wondering what we could do; we could _hear every word that your men sald Hid we been in uni form we should have gone right in and fs wich into | es —— a ——— —————— ———— THE LOST LAND, [fla Wheeler Wilcox in New York Sun. | | There is a story of a beautiful land, Where fields wore fertile and where flowers were bright, Where tall towers glistenad in the morning ight, Where happy hand, Where lovers wrote thelr names upon the sand They say it vanished from all human sight; The hungry sea devoured it in a night You doubt the tale! Ah! you will under stand; For, as men muse upon that fable old They give sad credence always at the last, However they have caviled at its truth, When with a tear limmed vision they be hold 4 Swift sinking in the ocean of the Past Tue lovely lost Atlantis of their Y uth children wandered hand in Naval Service In Shallow Streams, be China Cor. (3 The naval ser: Democrat ice of the delta, with its many hundred miles of shallow channel, is done by seven or eight small gunboats of peculiar pattern aud half a dozen steam launches, irtving a Hotehk French, sakeos rut, aod manned by six hit The gunboats are ealled eannoniers They are nearly all of them of the same pattern, broad, flat bot tomed, and drawing more than three feet of water, even when heavily loaded The idea is a peculiarly American one, borrowed entirely from the little shallow steamers that have for the last half cen tury mearly been running on the upper Mississippi. and Mis each { IS or cight sailors 1.01 waiters of the Ohio sour, and more directly from the tin-clads that did such excellent service during the rebellion The boilers are in front, protected by a thin steel plating su lcient to turn any fire to be expected from hosti'e forces in the delta. The engines are aft, and simi larly protected I he quarters of cers are amidships, or if the varied, wherever The armament is the of patiern 1s convenience det usually two medium steel guns forward on a revolving plat form. with a range of two miles, the gun ners being protected by semi circular stes plates at the edges of th platform two or three Hotehk ss guns at the or on a mast guarded in similar fashion I'he wheels at the stern masked b uation of arm i weal on | the most ¢ patnted gray br Ves are svmelimes a contin The a I Avy Frene are Lid tes of sleel, the sini hese ve ssels built in Francs 5. and put toget Haiphong cient They ught out in piece wers either al Saigon or Moroceo Frison A room own where Su Dord ual bas aw had f Im appear f ochineal wan used to be ce and millions an extensive brought & reve 10 Guatemals ¢ cheapness of the ana nit out of the market #8 cultivated only f r and extensively ned ose cotton and ed, and the waler or sun iarve which of that » Woolen colors will feeds native s and t it makes a id or, when the thas is crushed ars it was the base of die stu Ts all . world. and 1 engaged io | s cultivation shipments from ( amount IX) EER) Or $00,000 po nds each in 1884 the had fallen thousands of peo nti Ix untemnlna export pounds Promoting Small Farms lin vipondencs The schemes of a “Small Farm ) y it irendy { om England is wsuming The general se Of of to buy up land and to in small parcels by a system of annua! payments. In so doing the com pany will, it is hoped, meet the particu'ar wants of several © asses of people - such for | the following 1y (om mun ties of agricultural! laborers whom would own w. uld Ix to in common ! fetinite sha will be the company re-set ance, ns each of who lows, elo rate plots, bu horses, p Small farmers. willing to farm hol not more than thirty ACTes $ Tradesmen aod other immi grants from nei hboring towns wishing t added to their resources by various kinds of | petite culture gardening Lore ping, poultry and the like It Is an excelent scheme. and its progress deserves to be watched with close and pra tical interest able 180 ings of muarxet 0€ bree 1 surrendered; but we kuew that our white | clothes wou'd be taken as disguises that we would have been arrested a spies ‘Undoubtedly,’ wid Lieut FE Yo we concluded to go in and pretend that we were all right, but withovt telling ow names. After we got ow’ of your bat tery we went back to ow lines ensily enough. While we were standing there talking to you we were g tting our bearin 0 as to get back have thought of that night a thousand times, and wondered If 1 would ever meet that leutenant who made us stand under the fire of our own batteries for half an hour without saving a word abou bomb proofs. And as acon as 1 heard your voloe I thought that | re penized the one that sald “Touch up the rilrond iron battery Joo "'" and | The “" Age of Horn." Setentific Joarnal A variety of prehistoric object such as amulets, cups, k rings, buttons, bracelets in horn, daggers, have been Ives ole found in a stratum, existing at a depth of | feet in the mud I ake | Neuenburg, Switzerland. The finder, Herr G, kaiser, believes them to be older than the stone and bronze implements of the same locality, and he proposes to call the period to which they belong “the age of horn ” | about five of A Vagus Noaponse, Asoajisetieal knowledge is not thor oughly distributed in our schools A boy, ! ng smked: “What is mist?” vaguely | responded: “An umbrella. ” ——————————— ws —- or ——— ' A NEW FIRM. McCalmont & Co. Accesso tat ALEXANDER & BHO.) othe yaid or Chestnut inl Move sid nll f Aunthineite Oy wt the nt short 1 oties COAL te who sedi y C() AY. Jen id for wale del « In town SNOW SHO) We theonly lors fo Maedlef hie Bunow Fhoe cond Sotery ie i man tfsot alin Bpow Bhos sitinne to make the bes Lin veut prices LIME ~We fa the market and sell at the ) This taanch of our baslness is ¢ ler the supervision ¢ Mr Wi Ehortiidge who ¥ bey a successty! ! for n ethan twenty yours, ANDGROUND PLAS TER HONEST FERTILIZERS { keor's Celebrated Ker till Centre ounty siutisfactory nfacte ERS m FERTILIZ CROCKER'S We have the sale of ( gers which have Leen used in for nm number of years with the most results, PLASTFR. —Onondago Laud und. for sale at Jowest price yard in qoantit urchasers at out } Jes aro furnished at the Warchouse The abs it cond yard IMPLEMENTS, &C CONKLIN wAGONS. «Cortland "la Spring Wag Miver Chilled P Hench Cu vliers, Gelser Bepern mW full Yaart win, Hug tivators, Carn Si I Mowers and RB rs, togethe ¥ line of Farm Implements AXLE GREASE The in the market MACHINES We sell dhe latent | Sewing» Machines at the most reasons best wagon axle lube ator SFWING that ean be purchased anywhere AND GARDEN SEEDS SEED We wll good prime Sood Weare the only dealers in choice Clover Sead and and louver deal in bushel Bellefonte who sell 64 pounds to th TIMOTHY SEED.--0 Grass and Red Top, ole CORN other varieties BARLEY ~-8ecsd Barley of best gq Seed Oats furaished to order; Wheat, wkwhoat for seed furnished ter a ———— - ———————-——————— GARDEN SEEDS ~Hetnde son's Garden Seods Also Fi A splendid Linseed Meal. ellent feed for ial natn hard Grass Reed, Blue Booed Corn from Gen Beavers farm { Booed Corn ality Rye n great variety, wer Reeds ‘011 Cake or E AND STORE “Summit Poultr tention give to pruduce the be sults sl amp A. 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When the nerves are once strengthened as they are by the use of the HOWARD GALVANIC and MAGNETIC SHIELD and our other appliance these symp- toms disappear Address to AMERICAN GALVANIC CO. 1103 Chestawt St Phila, « Best furniture and Bedding for tle east money at Brachbill's Sons. awa, | ra with a | pain and | i no | —————_——— — Hai'voads, B22 EAGLE VALLEY Time Table in effect M y WESTWARD box i r Lenve Lock Huven AP EEE. Od i Flemington id jecch Creek |, visas i ds Engleviih Howard Sensnnnssnne i 4 Mount Eugle, . | i CIE isrnsi ven 24 4 bt Mile Bellefonte Mile Snow Shoe burg... wurg 5 7 y <A) y 46 bh 49 Mnilonville......conee Julisp Murthu... hernans Port Matilda........ Rannsh.....cooss Fowler PRT Bald Engle........ \ 1 | EPO | Arrive st Tyrone........... . | EASTWARD | Leave Tyrone.........c... Eunst Tyrone, Yul). conecsinss Bod tar ith, nesses sness Hannah ERAT Port Matilda....... Marthe Julian... Unionville Snow Shoe Milesburg........ Bellefonte...... . Milesburg...... . 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PP. & W.RR ; sat Emporium with B, NY. &P {wood with A. V. RR. R. NEILSON, Gen’! Supt CANCER CURED. No diseases have so thoroughly baffled tha skill of the medical mncerous affections and ae they have al ways been considered incwrable, it has been thought disreputable to adopt their treatment as a specialty ; and hence physi. cians have. neglected their proper study But of Inte years new and important dis. with certainty, without the use of the knife or caustic plasters. We have a treatment that is comparatively mild. It is not poisonous, does not interfere with ths healthy flesh, can be applied to an part of the body, even the tongue. 0 take nothing for our services until the eancer is cured. Address D. J. 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Hour sanes iting Blood, and 1isonses inflamed Lungs ip, Sg arising fr A In private practice fl to ar 1 T™ € sha Fhrosl allect I'SING Pure Veoetable health and RYMAN’S Columbian or Liver Pills, n—— Th Pills have been props . ’ rence to ba ming a General Family Medicine, For Purifying the Blood. Curing Rs ver £ mp! Ache, Bil whi! IO | ompisint and for the Females are particularly li ; 1 which cases they have becoma be. me deservedly popular. Acting on all the Glands of the Body, + And Espec willy the Liver. "his Pill t a drasti Strengthening the various organs of the body, removis worn-out particles of matter from the blo Cleansing and Rene i$ 1 purgative, but an Alterative Catl wa LA AYMAN'S CARMINATIVE ' <4 R - - -~ > ~N a | ~~ A “ | \ E. For Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Cholera Morbas This Carmisitive, founded on just g re med y offered to the public bond reds other ren nis cal incipie i 1" 4 he omen Urea Ny have dies have failed. A fair trial will prove its « FOR CHILDREN TEETHING It is the most pleasants reliable and safe remedy for ol Griping, Paios, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, &¢., vo the public. A trial will prove the truth of this assert No mother should be without it. FOR DYSENTERY. most violent cases of Dysentery have speedily yielded 1 power of this carminatives If taken according to directions cess is certain. Ryman’s Worm Syrup, For the removal of worms no medicine was ever more deservedly popula: than this. Hundreds of cases of the most distressing character have been cured, and the lives of many children saved, and some of them afier other remcdies had been tried in vain, and almost every hope had fled. Dr. Ryman’s Catarrh Snuff. This is one of the most reliable and pleasant remedies for Catarrh and Cold in the head ever discovered. Under the ir fluence of its 1.1d and curative properties the disease soon yields verdict will be, not one of the best, but the best. RYMAN’'S PAIN CURE. This general remedy, for both internal and external use | surpassed by any like remedy before the public, for Colic, Pain in the Breast, Side or Back, Pain in the Bowels, Headache, Colds, Sick Stomach, Dyspepsia, &e. The steadily increas ing demand for it is unmistakable evi. dence of its popular favor. Ryman’s Nepenthe or Magic Liniment A Sovereign Remedy for the cure of Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Sore Throat, Mumps, Croup, Quinsy, Neuralgia, Burns or Scalds, de. FOR HORSES AND CATTLE. For Sweeny, Sprains, Sore Shoulders, Sore Back, Cats and Sores, it is the most reliable remedy before the public. For sale by Druggists and Country merchants. healing Try it, and we lelieve your not H. A. MOORE & C0., Propriotors, * vol 1-8-1y, HOWARD, Pa, \ \ -
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