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FRIDAY KVEXIfG, APRIL 24
TILE PITY OF IT
THE gigantic stupidity, the un
speakable folly of the Wilson
administration's policy of
"watchful watting" in Mexico
muit be apparent now to everybody.
Recklessly removing the embargo on
arms Imported across the border Into
Mexico, permitting the rebel forces to
buy guns and munitions of war in im
mense quantities In the United States,
the government now finds that It will
have to send our own soldiers in to
Tace guns of our own making and bul
lets of our own manufacture. We
have provided Carranza, Villa and
their allied bandits with rifles with
which to fight us.
For every American life laid down
before an American-made gun in
Northern Mexico the Wilson Adminis
tration will be accountable.
The gross blu.idering of the Presi
dent and his advisers has plunged us
Into a situation from which we can
not honorably retire without even
tually pacifying all Mexico. There is
not one chance in a thousand of us
getting out of that country within the
next three or four years, at the earli
est. It promises to be a case of the
Philippines over again, but without the
lustiflcation.
Like good Americans, we will fol
low the colors and our young men
will respond by thousands to a call for
volunteers. The pity of it is that so
much blood and treasure must be
poured out in such an unprofitable
undertaking a'n undertaking that
wise statesmanship and experienced
diplomacy in the White House might
have avoided.
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh's friends
ell over Pennsylvania are coming to
his support in such numbers as to in
dicate a practically unanimous vote 60
far as the Republicans of Pennsylva
nia are concerned at the November
election. His petitions on file at the
Rtate Department constitute the most
formidable alignment of part- strength
In a primary that has ever been ex
hibited under the new electipn laws,
with the possible exception of the
enormous petitions filed in the Interest
of Senator Penrose. Dr. Brumbaugh's
petitions number almost a thousand
from sixty-five counties, and contain
the names of 72,00tt voteri. Men of all
parties seem to agree that his election
la a foregone conclusion.
GETTING TOGETHER
PERHAPS the most significant
speech in the interest of Re
publican harmony recently de
livered was that of William A.
Prendorgast, Comptroller of New
York city, at the Republican State
convention in Indiana. He made a
sweeping arraignment of the Wilso.i
Administration and called upon the
Republican Progressives of the State
to forget their differences and work
under the same banner. He attacked
the Democratic Administration for its
tariff changes, for its foreign policy, its
Interference with business and the
general incompetence that has charac
terized the conduct of affairs at Wash
ington.
Mr. Prendergast Is not In harmony
with some of the Progressive leaders
who are striving to interfere with the
rehaollltation of the Republican party,
but he argues that time is a great
healer and has already produced re
markable results In alleviating much
of the bitter feeling that existed less
than two years ago.
There seems to be no doubt that the
utter failure of the Democratic party
in the national Administration, after
having been given full control of the
government, is responsible for the bet
ter feeling now existing in the two
camps of Republican voters. Mr.
Prendergast suggests that those lead
ers who refuse to see the handwriting
on the wall will be left to lead them
selves while the rank and file of the
party return to the Republican fold.
He also intimates that the independent
action of the Progressive element of
the party in 1912 has resulted in ac
complishing much of the reform which
justified the movement.
There is an increasing sentiment
among Republicans of all shades of
belief that the time has come to for
get the matters and things which di
vided the party in 1912 and to har
moniously work together for the
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FRIDAY EVENrNG, F4.RRISBURG TELEGR IPH APRIL 24,1914.
restoration of public confidence and
prosperity for all the people. How
ever good the Intentions of President
Wilson and those associated with him. i
there has been only disappointment
and discouragement since the change
of administration.
Starting right here in Harrisburg
Rnd in Dauphin county, men who have
always been affiliated with the Repub- j
llcan party, as well as those who for
a time aligned themselves under an
other banner, should get together
upon a platform of mutual concession
and as one formidable organisation
opposed to further distraction of busl- 1
ness by the party in power. It will
not do to simply criticise President
Wilson. Those who are posing In
hi* name in Pennsylvania and. aro
striving to ride into power upon his
approval must be given to understand
that this State, of all others, has had
enough of experimental and theoreti
cal Democracy. Whatever may be
said by the irreconcilable leaders of
the Progressive element, It Is clear
that the large majority of those who
left the party in 1912, whether they
admit It now or not, are ready
to stand shoulder to shoulder with
their Republican brethren,
j But It must be understood by the
I leaders of both sections of the party
[ that there Is to bo no retaliation on
j either side. Bygones must be bygones
and any individual or group of indi- j
viduals who shall endeavor to pro
long the party division by stubborn In- *
slstence upon lines of policy or party
management contrary to the manifest |
desires of the majority will discovert
that they are out of touch with the
real situation and will soon be leaders
without followers. Any so-called
leader who takes any other course Is
suffering from defective vision and is
not in harmony with the real sentl-1
ment of Republican voters.
County Chairman Horner and City j
Chairman Oves had a conference at Re
publican headquarters, last night, with
the active workers of the party pro- |
liminary to an effective registration of |
the party voters next week. Republi- ,
cans are forgetting their foolish dif- j
ferences of a year or two ago, and j
every day brings about a more harmo
nious situation. While the reorganiza
tion element of the Democratic part>
in Pennsylvania Is printing yards of
stuff about the virtues of its leaders
and the honesty of their motives, not j
a word is being said about the barter j
and sale of post offices and the de- J
bauching of the civil service principle ,
throughout the State. Prating of hon- j
esty and high purpose the caravan |
moves on to Its Inevitable smash-up.
GET OUT
DON'T fool yourself into think
ing that you haven't time for
an "afterroon off" these pleas-i
ant days A walk through the
country—Wildwood park, for in
stance —will leave you with a fine ap
petite for supper, the smell of the
woods in your nostrils and the sense |
of having been away from the job for J
a week.
The worst fooled man In the world
is the fellow who makes himself be
lieve that his job requires his pres
ence 365 days, ten hours to the day,
throughout the year. Truth is it's a
pretty poor job that won't conduct it
self for a half day at a stretch, some
times.
At any rate get out into the open !
while the Spring Is young and fresh ,
and absorb some of its youth and (
high spirits. You owe it to yourself—
and to your Job, too.
GUARD EFFICIENCY
THERE is no hurrying and scur
rying about the Adjutant Gen- j
eral's Department or the State j
Arsenal. There is no excite- j
ment around the National Guard ar- j
i morles. The Guardsmen are going,
I quietly and undemonstratively about j
: their daily duties.
I Yet each of them —from General |
I Stewart to the company cook—real- I
|izes that it is probably a mere matter'
of hours until the call to arms shall
| have been sounded.
' There is no last minute rush be
cause, as General Stewart put it to
|an inquiring newspaper man the other;
I day—-The Pennsylvania Guard is al- |
[ways ready."
! Political malcontents are fond of ■
i railing at the State Government of j
j Pennsylvania, bu' there must bo morel
I than a grain of efficiency in an ad-1
| ministration that can produce a j
I militia trained and equipped like reg
j ulars and able to take the field on a ,
notice of three hours.
; Those ambitious Democrats in Penn- j
j sylvan la who are pleading for support :
ion the score of an endorsement of j
j President Wilson are likely to discover
; in the very near future that this is one I
|of the old-fashioned Commonwealths
I that believe in home rule and the selec
| tlon of their own State officials. The
1 fact that President Wilson picked a
| slate for the Democracy in this State,
1 as he has endeavored to do in other
I states, is certain to prove more of a
' handicap than a help in the campaign.
j Dispatches In the Palmer-McCormick
• bulletin in this -city state that the
i "flying squadron" punctured four tires
| and was compelled to take a trolley in
a dash from fence corner to fence cor
ner in Montgomery county. War is
| certainly what Sherman described it
| in a certain classic statement.
A. Mitchell Palmer declared in a
1 sptech in Philadelphia that he had
1 nothing against Mr. Ryan, one of the
Democratic candidates for Governor,
"but judged a man by the company he
keeps." By the same token Mr. Pal-'
I m er will probably be judged oy the
j Democratic voters.
General Maas Is reported to be plan
ning an attack on Vera Cruz. But we
venture the guess that he Is keeping
' his carriage In waiting.
We take consolation in the fact that
the Mexicans are probably having qulto
as much trouble pronouncing our
names as we are having with theirs.
, This Mexican situation promises to
develop Into a gigantic clean-up week.
Those marines may have worn orange
■ colored uniforms, but none of them
s showed a yellow streak.
fEVENiNG CHAT
Appearance ui lings on sonic ol the
buiiumgs and in trout ol resiliences in
| the (juy since the Mexican crisis be-;
| came acute brings bacK the days of
this ween fourteen yea is a«jo. It will
be recaneu mat tue bpumsn War be- <
gan on April 21, 18»», and tbat lor'
j ten days or so belore it started there
were growlings ot tne uogs ot war,
during winch ume the cluzcns of inej
country manifested one of ine great-1
est oi patriotism In the way
ol ever known, in every hairnet, i
\ilia B e, borougu ana city, anu in mauy i
sections ot tne rural districts, the
Siais and Stripes were displayed, and
when war became a fact nags were
shown by the huiiurcds. liusiness
builuings, residences and every sort of
buuuing aanost, new the nag, and
When the soiuiers went out to tile
camps there >\as a renewed display.
Some oi tne streets in the cities were
marked by liags on every house and
Market and Tlntd streets were a mass
oi ieu, wiuie anu blue iroiu the mid
dle oi Apul. The Pennsylvania Hail
loau was one oi the lirsi to make a
display ana the huge stanuards re
mained hying irom the wont of the
Union Station until the war ended.
Many of the business houses oi the
city kept (ueir nags hying through
out the war and when they wore
I finally taken down they were faded
| and storm torn. Foreigners who were
l in this country at tnat time were
gieatly impressed by what they saw,
and some of the books written since
that tinie.reier to the manner in which
the great mass of the population evi
denced its let ling.
| Since the days of the former war
! the display ot the flag has become
more general and there are few build
■ ings in any city, public or business,
| which do not have the standard of the
nation floating trom masts. The dis
play, which has started this time, will,
be more or less from private resi
dences and such places as have not
shown the colors. In the days of the
outbreak of the Spanish War the men
who deal in novelties promptly put
lout thousands of small flags which
were worn on the lapels ot the coats
iof almost everyone. It was a tine
I thought and it netted its originators a
i good many dollars. The Spanish war
also had "Remember the Maine" as a
slogan and perhaps this war will have
i some similar phrase.
j The war moves have caused a big
i run on books on Mexico at the stores,
' and maps of the Southern republic
showing the cities and gtvlng the dis
tances and poulation are in demand.
l..any of the maps published by the
newspapers have been posted in school
rooms and In business places and every
i day are surrounded by juvenile and
adult "boards of strategy" discussing
j the next moves and trying to get the j
■ outlandish names pronounced. All of j
the war talk has resulted in the use
of names of places which were little
! heard of a few years ago and most
je\ery one knows about Torreon, Tarn
pico, Jalapa and Acapulco.
The operations of the Harrisburg
Railways Company in reconstructing
its tracks in Derry street are being |
conducted in about as expeditious a 1
manner as uny similar work ever un
dertaken. The company started in by
I ripping up six blocks of track, ana
there were many head-shakings over
such a large job. It did upset the
running of the cars, but in less than
three weeks all of the track has been
I laid on one side, practically all of the
[concreting In place and the paving of
the sides and center under way. An
[other stretch of six blocks will be
tackled. In the old days it often took
a month for half a dozen blocks.
Some of the displays of tulips and
hyaohinths in the '-ards of residences
of the city have attracted much atten
tion, especially along the river front,
where flowers were carefully protect
ed during the wlner. Probably more
tulips are blooming in the city than
usual, because there were extensive
! planting of the flowers, especially the
, brilliant red and gold ones which made
their first appearance at the Capitol
ihalf a dozen years ago and which are
an annual feature of the flower scheme
on the "Hill."
Some of the bulletins displayed an
nouncing the progress of events in the
Mexican imbroelio spread , with re
■markable rapidity and correctness.
I The telephone does this work, of
j course, but it is rather startling to
| hear people who come into the city on
I trains say when they pick up the
papers that they heard it at the station
1 in their home town or the place they
j happen to come from an hour or so
| before. Yesterday people who came
' in on a train from up the Juniata val
| ley were as well posted as those In
the city, because some one had tele
'phoned bulletins up the line to friends,
who spread the news on the train.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
| —J. H. Landis. superintendent of
the mint, says that sobriety must reign
among government employes,
j —Judge Frank M. Trexler. of the
| Superior Court, is president of the
j Allentown Young Men's Christian As
sociation.
I —lgnatz Green, an Allentown First
| Defender, put up the first flag In that
city after the Mexican fight began.
I —Chief Fillman, of Norristown,
i wanted an auto patrol. When council
i refused it he set out and raised the
j money.
BERRY IS STILL OX THE JOB
[Trom the Philadelphia Inquirer]
! Collector of Customs Berry is still on
the job. Not the job of collecting cus
i toms duties. Oh! dear, no, but the
job of stumping for Palmer and Mc
. Cormick. It is a singular business for
the chief Federal officer In Pennsyl
i vania. but it must be said for Berry
that he does not do things by halves.
It must be remembered that Palmer
and McCormick were for Berry for
Collector of Customs and it is only rea
sonable that Berry should be for Pal'
1 mer and McCormick for the things
1 they want. He does not propose to
lay himself open to the charge of ln
-1 gratitude. The office of Collector of
1 Customs is purely a business one. That
officer comes in personal contact with
i shipping men who belong to all po
i litical parties, and in many instances
. the Collector Is compelled to act as a
' i judge In deciding vexed questions oon
icerning the administration of the tariff
law. As a consequence of this, Coi
-1 lectors, during the last two decades at
I 'east, have abstained from open and
s -tlve participation in politics. But
Jerry Is not that sort of a collector.
! lie knews his friends and his friends
» know htm, so what are you going to do
about it?
! : The other night Mr. Berrv made the
| welkin rinz at an old-fashioned rally
'lield by the Democratic club in the in
■jterest of Palmer and McCormick. His
s : fervor for Mr. McCormick knew no
c bounds. According to the published
reports of the meeting, he declared
that McCormick was "no skate," but
that he was a man who "had asso
-1 ciated with kings and had never losl
3 the common touch." This will be good
r news for those Democrats who believe
in the surrender of the canal to Great
Britain. To have as their candidate a
, man who has "associated with kings'
is a tare privilege and one that will
" surely be appreciated. This moment
ous fact in the life of candidate Mc
e Cormick has hitherto been kept in th'
i background. Few, if any, of his sup
porters had known of it before. Wit*
HEW POSTAL SCMIBAL!
BEING RUMORED
Trepidation Reported About the,
Offices in the Democratic
State Windmill
SPEAKERS ARE HARD AT IT
Dauphin County Progressives Do
Not See Much Use of Worry
ing Over Jobs
From all account there is consld-1
■ erable trepidation about the Deroo
' cratic windmill in Market Square over
rumors that a new post office scandal
, is due to break out in an interior j
. county, which has thus far been J
, classed as one of those safe for the>
[ machine cause. It is said that the
i bosses have had men go into the dis
, turbed district in an etiort to quiet It I
down and not allow any such eruption
1 us the Alattern affidavit from Snyder
, county to occur.
, i Acting on orders from the men
I "higher up," Wilson Bailey has ceased
conspicuous activity aad is to be seen
. t considerably about this city, wher*
j there is no danger of trouble. Proml
. nent Democrats In interior counties
have been insisting that Bailey stay
, away.
IJ The campaigns for the various
. nominations are getting hotter and
. hotter and the way the Democrats are
J lambasting each other
, Is affording no end of
_ amusement to people Campaign
i all over tho State. ticu Into
, Ryan last evening Noisy Stage
j went Into Bradford
L county and addressed
. a big meeting in the courthouse at
k I Towanda, and Is going Into other
, counties where McCormiek encoun
tered the early Spring frosts.. Mean
! while McCormiek and Palmer are
, rushing about in Philadelphia and Its
' suburbs bearing the heaJquarters
! flag and rapping Ryan and his back
ers with ardor. Dimmlck is in Lan
caster and Chester counties to-day
and Dean Lewis is up in the moun
tain counties. Judge Brumm shows
signs of taking to the stuinp to say a
few things about the Lewis wing of
the Bull Moosers and everything Is
I noley and Joyous.
' The Dauphin County ProKressive
League had a meeting last night for
.free and wideopen discussion of the
campaign prospects
in this city and
Bull Moosers county, and It was
Determine to arranged to send
Go Very Slow some scouts Into
|. Cumberland and
Lebanon counties to
determine the extent of the demoral
ization which exists among the ranks i,
of the Progressives. Dr. J. H. Krei
, der, the candidate for Congress, has |
: no opposition for the nomination and i
is said to have decided to conserve his
energies for the. campaign in the Fall.'
; None of the Progressive aspirants for
; office has any fight on for the nomina
tion and the whole plan is now to let
[ things go until August. The fear that
1 there will be no cash haunted the
| headquarters last night.
I Henry Wilson Bergey, Democratic
member of the Legislature from the
' Third Montgomery district, has pre
ferred charges of
1 violation of the civil
; service laws against New Row on
■ K-"iy For- Among the
nance, of Norris- Democrats
Uwn, a deputy ap
[ praiser of merehan
: dise under William W. Roper.
| The principal char«e is that Mr.
| Fornance in November last received'
! ,and disbursed moneys, obtained from)
j Federal employes, mostly postmasters, ;
and filed no account thereof, as re
■ quired by law, nnd that If he is found
! guilty under this allegation the pen-1
' alty can be $5,000 fine or three years!
• in iall. or both.
The charges are addressed to Stew
' art Wilson, secretary of the Civil Ser
-1 vice Commission, Philadelphia.
; ["POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS ~1
I —lt must be awful to try and run a
, campaign for publicity with a war go
. ing on. And the worst of It is when
( the defensive has to be assumed.
—Dimmick had a fine time in Lan
caster yesterday and is in Coatesvillo
to-day.
—And here's Bergey smashing into
one of the reorganizes. And they
were so nice to him at the windmill
last session,
i —One by one the conspicuous re
formers are being handed straight
> jabs.
> —Wilson Bailey can still be ad
• dressed at Democratic State head- !
quarters.
t —Apparently the McCormiek cam- j
t paign party was not the only one that
discussed the labor question in Phila
. delphia last night. Judge Bonniwell
I had a few to say.
i —Our old friend, Colonel J. M. Guf
fey, must be getting a good bit of
enjoyment out of the campaign.
—There are two sets of candidates }
for Democratic State committeemen in
almost every district in the State.
—People who have filed supple-
I mental petitions at the Capitol will
' | at least be able to use them as me-
B t mentoes.
rj MARY MAKES AN IMP'tESSIOX
•'I [From the St. Joseph Gazette.]
»I Miss Garden was as fresh and bright
r as the great American Beauties she
r wore. And, by the way. Miss Garden's
. hair is if the shade which teasing
schoolmates must have called red, but
which critics the world over now rave
8 about as glittering gold, ropes of bril
o liancy, or tresses which catch the strav
- sunbeams and scatter them abroad
f again. At any rate, her hair was last
, night her most conspicuous asset. An
immense red nose, her brilliant hair ,
II and naturally rosy cheeks were the
- only colors she wore.
|
a characteristic modesty he had failed
- to mention It. It remained for the!
t admiring and enthusiastic Mr. Berry I
- to bring the fact to the attention of a
t waiting world.
ci The Collector of Customs, who dis
t dains to confine his activities to the
•. prosaic business of collecting customs
s duties, not only glorified the candidate
o who had "associated with kings" but
took occasion to throw a few bricks at
o Mr. McCormlck's rival. Mr. Ryan, ho
y said, was a good man, but he was por
- mitting a "descredlted bunch to hide
s behind him." He even went so far as
o to name a few members of the "dis
d credited bunch," and it Is evident that
d not one of the number ever had the
it discretion of associating with kings,
i- It must be confessed that Mr. Berry
)t has given a touch of color to the cam
d ; palßn Most of the other orators have
e i discussed such dull topics as the tariff,
it the currency, the canal issue and the
a Mexican situation. But the eloquent
i" Collector has lifted the contest to a
11 higher plane. Ho has given us some
t- thing to talk about and to think about.
:- and only the confirmed grouches would
ie expect him to confine himself to col
>- lectlng the revenues of the govern
h ment.
! - '**•*;<■-, -KyTTg -•.■
OUR DAILY LAUGH J
VVlfey What think appeals
S r th vea.-' generally.
! Hnhbv The art or literature?
Hubby ine Art. Almost
same old man anvbodv would
I You know he has „ n i c _
the combination ™t t st . card
furn°ture? UmP *°
E THBSB WOMBN
First Suffra- Helen and Grace
gette Have you always greet each
converted your oth>;r with the
husband yet? most effusive cor-
Second Suffra- diality.
gette No; but Yes. Each takes
I'm going to put pride in showing
him under the the other how ar
starvation treat- tistically she can
ment to-morrow conceal her real
and I think ho feelings,
will be with us iu vi
il f, W <layS
that ' we y women
CRITICISM win never rest
She comes from until we get the
a very old family. vote.
One would know I know, and
that to look at that isn't the
her. worst of It—you
won't let us men
rest, either.
THE CIRCUS IS CO SI IN*
Dy Wing Dinger
Of all the glad words that come from
tongue or pen
—The kind that will ward off the
frown, ...
The gladdest are these, at this time of
I the year,
j "The circus Is comin to town.
' This morning billposters got out on
I the Job,
! And plastered the boards up and
down.
With pictures of acrobats, Hons and
such, . .
And the side-splitting, mirth-making
clown.
What If there are war clouds a-hang
lng o'erhead.
What if we may have to enlist,
They'll have to hold for a few weeks,
because
The circus must never be missed.
From now on there's one, though,
who'll be much distressed,
The circus bores him, don't you
know,
It's father, who "If It were not for the
kids
Wouldn't think of attending the
show."
UEADUUAHTKIIS FOB
SHIRTS
SIDES & SIDES
Inflexible Resolution Must Supersede Pedantry
Ik : .
[From the Philadelphia Ledger.]
The Mexican situation has passed
from the arena of diplomacy Into the
field of action. It can do little good
now to rehearse the long series of
blunders, stubbornly persisted in.
which led up to, if they did not Induce,
the lamentable condition which now
exists. In vain publicists urged the
administration to forsake its fatuous
policy, to abandon its untenable po
sition. looking toward the avoidance
of intervention and the rehabilitation
of Mexico by Mexicans without ob
struction by this nation. Futllely this
newspaper. In common with others,
for months deplored the program of
drifting toward the Inevitable, the
academic phrase-making of those re
sponsible for our conduct, the soplio
moric endeavor to apply Ideal inter
national ethics to a very real and
practical problem. Without result the
administration was besought on all
'sides to withdraw from its inexplicable
support of the brigands operating in
the North. Into whose vengeful hands
have been put American weapons. In
! vain the Secretary of State was called
on to come down out of the clouds and
stand on solid ground, that this nation
might be saved from the fearful obli
gation which threatened. The peace
makers were too intent on explanation
of their purpose to put it into exe
cution. While they talked the situation
ran away from them.
That stage of the proceedings Is
over and done with. The nation has
been dedicated by its responsible offl
j i cers to a definite course, and that
11 course, without quibble, is war. Only
s i Providence can guide events.
• 1 The nation has been dedicated now
to a new policy. There is still a qulb
* ble as to the name of the condition
\ existing, a hope expressed that our
l differentiation of those against whom
l our arms are employed will be ac
cepted by the Mexican people, who
are or are not to be our enemies ac-
I cording to their view of their domestic
/ politics.
If that hope is Illusory, since it
takes no account of Mexican patriot
ism or of the swift march of events
the nation expects that the adminis
tration policy hereafter, whatever It is
will be characterized by decision and
vigor.
The maudlin diplomacy which has
brought us into armed conflict must be
definitely abandoned. There must be
an end of the strange purpose to call
a spode something else. Humanltari-
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anism and simple Justice demand tha
there be no toying with the mouse
Quick, definite, determinate action, b<
it the final plunge Into actual war o
a simple blockade, must now be taker
with inflexible resolution.
The nation stands by the admlnls
tration, the more so because of the de
cislveneßs of its action In Its nev
course. A return to the empty senti
mentalism of previous months canno
be tolerated. The strong arm has beei
invoked and It must be made hence
forth the distinguishing feature of ou
policy. It will be mercy to strike hard
If we must strike, that Mexico and th
world cannot doubt any further th'
seriousness and fixity of our purpose.
I IN HARRPSBURG FIFTY
I YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, April 24, 1864.
GET "MASHEEN"
The Hope Fire Company Is to re
eelve the new ateam engine about be
ing purchased by the Citi Councl
The "Hivers" will make good use o
the "masheen."
ANENT THAT STEAMER
The steamer that passed down th
river the other day was the "Susque
hanna" formerly used as a ferry an
towboat at Sunbury.
I
[From the Telegraph, April 24, 1864.
CAPTURE PLYMOUTH
Army of the Potomac, April 24.-
The Richmond Sentinel of April 2
says the following dispatch has bee
received by General Bragg:
Plymouth, N. C., April 20. —To Get
eral Braxton Bragg: I have storme
and carried this place, captured on
brigadier, one thousand six hundre
men, stores and twenty-five pieces (
artillery.
BOTH FEET SHOT OFF
, New York, April 2J.—Captain Chai
. man. Judge advocate on Generi
j Franklin's staff, had both feet shot o
I above the ankle, and is believed I
. have been left In the enemy's hand