3 Corpses
Vater in
hich
#
Hill Farm:
last, After
fire, water
uperhuman.
brought to
tal of the
iteful June
ere found.
tion. - For:
lay in the
hand raged
sh on the
eto decay.
n who went.
day of the:
ve will ever’
nm mine at
norning of:
rs lost their
mp. The
ine Inspee-
es of those
at. was ‘in
to liberate
latives and:
's mouth.
athered by:
“rescue, but.
entombed
turned into
Superinten-
eir lives in
| 23 of the
npleted the
two years
nbled over
or Duncan:
received’ it
is as fol-
n we found
ick work as
Binltes we:
all lying
They were
ourse, un-
dy of the
, when we
. He hadi
drun down: .
r men who-
feet below,
NE Narrow
roof have
the black:
ré resting.
n that they
g place too
8, 3 4
"the 29 ens +
on, Robert
er Dewey,
A Patrice,
avana
Ane.
hill, Wils
0a Da-
' McClea.
lamp Hrod
Courtney,
in McClea~
arnan, Da~
mains of
nine ware:
Tr the sur-
efore. the
ought ‘out:
WO | years,
the Cath-
NED.
burn the
hey have
slime. in:
t. few.
dies were
rtakers the
water was
to wash
touched!
unctured
led to a
rds ‘dust
rn,’ have
y has com-~
2. is. not:
ntification.
Ss.
book place:
ladey, the:
ed of the
It was the
n wait un-
see their
to wait ab’
oung man,
eTY Woman
heir homes:
tte county”
ch «trouble
1 the jury
the 23
| been’ 1ift-
affering toe
the intense
ine. It is
hot'steam
great fire:
party de-
odies lay.
one being:
en men ali
sped tools
t clasp.
t lay an-
—gix more
on fingers.
other lay
The latter
fallen and
Two boys
the faces.
the other.
flickering:
inquiring
n he com-
he ju
Srdic oF
ed to be
1ith, John
or Delvin,
s' ‘Shearin,,
chard Bigs
Kiernan,
hill, John
evanny
ris, Daniel
m Cahill,
hose of”
p igley,
1st. HAAR
1t 200 feet
e latter is
irgue that.
thmen. |
e of com-
noved the
eight-hour-
fect 581,
ya vote of
0b know
n good
EE mn i mies
y oa
i+. dong in the cases of Johh
“Star, who were sentenced
: ory was chased
the other day.
on {hat
Anon, a bill in equity was filed to:
he county commissioners from
e provisions of the Baker
~ps and B. P, Cosgrove
it against the Kingston
filliamsport- to recover
and minerals taken from
Aland claimed by : The will
be arbitrated on Ap:
A 3-vrar-orp child, suppose
en from an emigrant train on th
0), 1
railroad, was found walking on the tracks
fsa: Connellsville. and taken tothe home of | 8t
ol ;
xpectedly ran out. y
_ reaching for his gun, young Shaffer drew it
toward him, muzzle foremost.” It went off,
the shot tearing away a portion of left
shoulder.
Jupce GusrsisoN handed down a dedisfory
at Erie refusing to dissolve thé“ injunction
restraining Prof. J. A. Cooper from actin
- as principal of the Edinboro State Normal .
School. Cooper talks of appeal to the Su-
preme Court. jo
BurorArs Cedar Ross and Elmer Barnes, |
of Rochester, were sentenced by Judge Me-
Michael at New Castle to the penitentiary
. foreight and seven, years respectively, for
the Mahoningtown burglary. 7
Trae Johnstown Agricultural Works, with
a capital stock of $100,000, has recently been
organized and will soon begin to manufact-
ure a patient har Pi i
Ar New Castle, Con Reich | pd
_ yicted of sellin thou cense in
* this county. Reieh a _teamster, and
Jacob Cline, a brewer in Beaver count
hired him to drive a brewery wagon. Rei
drove into Lawrence county without know-
ing he had crossed the Beaver. line, and
sold two legs in this county. The court in
gentencing him, stated that the circumstan-
«ces of the case were to be deplored, but
there was no other way than for the court
to pass sentence. Reicht was sentenced to
pay the cost of prosecution, a fine of
and undergo imprisonment in the ‘county
jail for th=ee months. e >
VENANGO eountyh theoldest postmaster
in the United Stafes. Jesse M. Perrine, of
Utica is aged 79 years and has been post-
master ya oy 30 Jorn © is:
bale and, and good for many
Fearsyet. & bb 4% uh LF OF
Tur board of pardons recommended par-
1 cas A. Mellon ‘and
William H. Porter, publishers of the Beaver
recently to six
anonths’ imprisonment for libeling . Senator
Quay. }
SENsaTIoNAL: Froop - PROPHEOY.—George
Howe, of Pine Grove,and old raftsman,who
ig particularly: mel xnown {a8 having pre-
* dicted floods in the Allegheny river, states
- (hat ihis dpring will witness. the greatest
“Hood ever known in the ‘histo: !
Jizan, He gdys that from President, mear.
regiklin, to the headwaters of the Alle-
heny of Fiber side and extending miles
ack into the country, the ground is covered
with from 6 to 20 inches of snow, and when
a warm spell of three or four days strikes
this great watershed the deluge will be upon
the flats; and: all. oil - wells, dwellings’ and
‘mills'on. the banks of ithe river will be
swept away from the face of the earth. Mr.
Howe says, in contradiction to the Weather
i Bureau, that all ns Jpoiat fo 4 sudden
thaw within the next few days, and advises
all lumbermen, oil'iproducersiand ‘mill men
to prepare to get in out of the wet.
Jomx Beck, of Shenandoah; aged Seiten
gears, eniployed as a driver boy at Kehley's
un colliery, met with a horrible death. He
was riding on a mule, when the animal
threw him. The boy’s foot caught in the
harness, and the frightened mule ran back
through the town, dragging the boy. When.
‘the mule was stopped ‘Beck's ly. was ‘a
mass of bruised and bleeding flesh.
Samus PERSHING'S store at New Florence
was robbed of $500 worth of goods, part of
which were recovered in a coke oven.
Miss Lowgry, a New Castle ‘paralytic, has
spent 30 years in bed. 2 8
ONE hundred Pennsylvania lumbermen
met at Reading and ora ized a protective
-association, electing ¥. H. Heller president.
Braxcee RusseEin, a colored girl from
Suterville, was committed to jail at Greens-
burg, to await the result of an attack made
by er on an old Polish woman of the same
place during a drunken row. During a
quarrel Blanche plunged ia case-knife into
“the old woman's ‘back, inflicting a’ fatal
wound.
Two children of Prof. Johuston, president
of Geneva college at Bever Falls, aged 4 and
2 years respectively, died of scarlet fever,
their deaths being only a few moments
apart. The disease is very bad here,
Othe Baltithore | & gnio Railroad at
Demmler, one train ran into’ the Tear of
fnather and demolished ten cars. No one
ABRAM Swank, of Derry, a well-known
Pennsylvania Railroad conductor, fell from
his train at Lilly and 17 cars passed over his
body. RB :
Creep H, HAYDEN was arrested and jailed
at Uniontown on several charges of forgery
and pretences. He has been arrested several
times before on similar charges, but escaped
prosecution.
TaE boiler in the steam laundry of Hill
Harold at Uniontown exploded. Three girls
.employed on the second floor jumped from
the windows to'* the pavement. Annie
‘Owens, an English girl, fell on her back and
is seriously hurt. 3 ¢
'h
A Litrue, child of Andrew. Sherot, o
Johnstown, drank a quantity of concens
trated lye. 'It will die. !
"Tur Keystone Brass Works at Erie were
badly damaged by fire; Loss about $5,000
covered by insurance. «©
A LITTLE dé ghter.of Colonel Vernon of
| gh art SES
3 Uurg, 118 clo
. grate while His mother wasabsent.
gran oe nother wasabsen | chilasen in one day.
i EARN ears , Was a hldien In ;
"Da us of James Keith, & 16-year-old boy, in | and at Inst Accounts all were alive. "This ih
Altoona, The pistol wasn't oaded. ‘said by eminentidocto + ‘whe Veco
“termediate afrangefiiénit—may a
| whole have declined £ of 1 per cent, during
'hé ‘others ‘eséaped un-
tween Great Britian and the
—that as to arbitration and that
sealing in “Behring sea. The
Sl eran
therefore, urgent,
“Inform ihe President that we ¢
must adm
come vested.in the otber whic
to protect. Westhink that prg
sealing if it stands alone will
British sealers if the decision &
tors shonld be adverse to the
ETS
ion,
ive: to Great Britain should
the damages which the limitation of
atughter shall, during the pendency of
arbitration, have inflicted on the United
: r ages ‘as 1
trators may assess in case of a decision’ ad- |
verse to Great Britain, the arbitrators to re-
ceive necessary authority on their behalf. In
this case a restriction of slaughter on the
islands will not in point of equity be neces- |
#y: Her majesty’s government are unable
“see any other than one of these two
would be suitable to both panties.”
A later note from Lor
1 Pauncefote, dated March 26, says:
TiaWith further reference to your telegram
of the 23d inst. I am not prepared to admi
as I gather that the President thinks, thal
‘we have objected to the arbitrators having
jurisdiction to damages inflicted by the party
against whom the award is given. I only.
objected to her majesty's overnment to b
de liable. for thay i
ritish government tha
ask them further to decid
80
amages. incurred = thereby. That
case the arbitrators shall
in favor of the government of the United
States that government may ask them to
decide further whether the British govern--
ment have since 1885 taken any action in
Behring sea directly inflicting a wrongful
loss on the United States or their lessees, an
ere eee.
THE CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
Confidence: Unabated in the Face otf
! 4 Conflicting Signs,’ 3
says: 4 {
With unusually conflicting signs theconfi-
still nnabated. Prices of commodities as a
| this week, and’ are now 18 per cent lower
_thana year ago ab this time. + :
At Boston bad weather affects the dry
: Cotton machinery is well employed, the boot
and shoe factories busy with a large num-
ber of buyers in the market, rubber ‘goods
very active with works employed over time,
the market favors buyers. At Philadelphia
sales of dry goods are smaller than of late,
though equal to last year's, wool Very quiet,
trade in chemicals steady and in oils fairly
active, but other trades are quiet, with plate
glass extremely low ig price. At Baltimore
manufactures of cotton duck and architec-
tural iron are busy with abundance of |
orders. Se :
At Cincinnati machinery is brisk, sur-
assing trade of former years, and retail
Posiness brighter, At Cleveland rolling
mills are full of work; though at prices 10 to
5 per cent. lower than ever before. Busi-
pes in dry goods and hardwareis good, and
n ether branches fair. At Detroit trade
js/equal to.last year's, but has no snap. At
{ Te:
0 increase is seen in receipts of bread-
butter, but
Chi
Stuf dressed beef, cheese and bu
decrease in plovisions, cattle, hides and
wool, Merchandise ‘sales are equal tolast
year's. At Minneapolis trade is food
though flour isvery dull, and abtSt anl
business is brisk, at Omaha very active, and
at Kansas City improving in retail business,
though receipts of cattle and hogs are light.
Improvement is seen at Denver and also at
Louisville, but Memphis reports no im-
rovement. At New Orleans business’ is
quiet, though there is a better movement of
cotton, and sugar is active...
The woolen manufacture is doing unusu-
ally well for the season, though very low
prices and sharp foreign competition in
some branches are seriously felt. The.
cheapness of cotton Helps the manufacture,
the more because the ‘demand fairly sus-
tains the priceof goods.
But with the uncertainty how far foreign
relations will affect money and business
here, the general confidence in the future of
trade would seem to e justified.” © ©
“The business Tail | ogcurring through-
out the country during the last seven days,
as reported, number for the United States
200 and for Canada 31, or a total of 231, as
compared with totals of 240- last week ‘and
256 the week previous tothe last. For the
corresponding week of last year the figures
‘were 250, representing 228 failures in the
United Statesand 28 in Canada. ’
Suicide in a Cemetery.
Troy, N. ¥., March 23.—Mrs. : Christian
dlsen, wife of the keeper of Oakwood cem-
etery, committed suicide by hanging her-
self to a running-off ladder placed against
one of the cemetery vaults. One of.the two
daughters discovered her dead mother and
which had started out in search of the wo-
man; who had “been missed from home,
came upon the prostrate daughter and hing-
‘bg body of the mother. ‘The Woman re-
cently had the grip, and it is thought she
Was insane.
“suis Seven Bablesat a Birth.
«Marie Juneau, a French woman living in
the outskirts of Guayaquil, South Am rica,
cable’adyices say, has birth to. seven
| statistics, to be thie, f child-
DENVER; Col., is to hava a belt line raii-
_Seaso
for gold. w
‘crop
of good crops.
“States
| fulbottom price...
) being made in Europe.
saving banks in Maine. @
Cars are run on one rail.
| Five MILLioN dollars’ worth
| being buiis on the lakes,
wherever the Czar raizas,
‘burning guestion abroa ! just now,
again assumed large proportions. -
THR losses of cattle and sheep by the late
' \CINCINNATL is to have a sixth bridge be-
tween that civy and Covington, Ky.
off Newfoundland twenty-five were lost.
o mous, and ;show *svonderful
ona
| methods of restricting seal hunting in the A
disputed waters. during arbitration which |
Salisbury to Sit |! Sw BERT
SENATOR STANFORD, of California, has re-
fused an offer of $110,000 for the stallion
4 Advertiser... rE
decide |
1, 50, to assess the damages incurred. there- |
BG. Dun & Co's Weekly Revie v of Trade 3
‘dence which prevails in business gircles is |.
Jar oraing. The four weigh twenty-
‘children are % & vi od
» na icuous
Sharacter a Indiansgibee by ut Dal
have committed 8 number of murders among
‘whites, but the
goods trade; which if yet ‘uite satistastory. oe
and sales of wool fair in: amount, though |
. from $1.25 to $1.75 per ton, and that will be
0]
fell in'a'swoon:: Shortly afterward a party | Un
when they disappeared one day not much
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
CUBA has a large sugar crop.
FROZEN gas is now used for fuel.
TrERE is & grain blook sin Kansas
SCOTLAND. s on having Home Rule.
a REVOLUTION, is ih piogress in Venes
Marne packed 1,800,000 tons of ice this
n. vA
RussiA and Austria are drawing on us
FRANCE is apprehensive of a war with
Ooroceo..
O=:o will not raise half the average wheat
THE spring sowings in Russia give promise
THERE is $7,000,000 in cash” in the United
Treasurys g :
COTTON continues od its way toa doubt
EXTRAORDINARY shipments of cereals are
TaerE are fifty million dollars in the
CHicaco has. a bicycle electric railway.
veswsls are
. NON-ORTHODOX churches are being closed
. SEoRETARY FosTER says silver is the
Tae outflow of the precious metals has
reach
OF the 200 fishermen eanght in the storm
_ IN many parts of the Madras Presidency,
India, famine has been averted by rains.
. Exports’ of braadstuffs contin 18 enor~
gages - i
A SYNDICATE i8 going to cultivate tobacco
large scale in the Congo Free State,
" GuirEAy, President Garfield'sass in, is
declared to bave been drunk when he was
nae zw
EIGHT THOUSAND unknown dead were
buried in the Potter's Field of New: York
City last year.
THE coal agents
. Fice of
of! New York have ad-
chestnut “coal twenty-
" CARNEGIE, PHIPPS & COMPANY, of Pitts
burg. Penn.. have a 110-ton steel saw which
will cut throu zh «nickel stel armor plate
twenty inches thick. 0 Boies fo
Mgrs. Josepa NiILER, of North Range,
Nova Scotia, was delivered of a boy, mak-
inz the fourth within four days. he first
arrival was on Tuesday.noon, another cama
‘Wednesday evening, and the third Thurs.
nun
her own countrymen and the
crimes could not b -traced to her. . Jennie
would shoulder a rifle and go on the warpath
with as much nerve as any of her brothers
and ‘was as quick on the trigger as any of
the Penob-
Icx harvesting opérations. on fl :
soot In Ma a for the season, and
ated that about 800,000 tons have
heen housed. The ice is thinner than usu
from ten to fourteen inches in
year’s harvest was never surpassed. Ibis
likely that all holdings will be dig
paying business. The crop will furnish
cargoes for about five hundred sail of large
schooners, .
THE SEALS IN THE SENATE.
Bering Sea Trouble Reaches a Serious
Point, :
‘WasHINGTON, March 26. —Lord Salisbury
may now renew the modus yivendi, keep:
his hands off while the United States pro-
tects its property and jurisdictional rights
in Bering Sea, or have a fight on his hands,
That is a summary of the situation in the
Senate at the close of an executive session
nearly four hours long. Senator Sherman,
chairman of the Committee of Foreign Re-
tions, reported the treaty providing for the
arbitration of the Bering Sea matter in the’
Benate with ‘a recommodation that it be
ratified. In addition to the report on the
treaty Mr. Sherman reported a resolution,
in line with the argument put forth by
President Harrison in Ris response to Salis-
bury’s latest suggestion, stating that haying
submitted:the case to arbitration the Senate
would support the President’ in any course
he might adopt for protecting the property
-and rights involved in the arbitration.
« /There was no'yiolence in the discussion at
‘any time it is said, but a deep earnestness
born of the serious possibilities that con-
fronted the Senate. One thing was made
manifest in the course of the afternoon,
which was that anything the President de-
termined to do for the protection of the seal
and the maintenance of our claim, pending
asbitration, would meet the approval of the
enate. 4
‘Without taking action on the treaty or
the resolution reported from the Committee
on Foreign Relations the Senate adjourned
with the understanding that the matter will;
be taken: pagan wie sais mi
PROTECTING THE SEALS.
The instructions to the commanding offi-
cers of the naval and revenus vessels which
SEDI CIE
sealing industry during th ping seas
son, are not yet. Fuoly a d, Last
yak the ore: a of gse yessels wete
confined to Bering Sea. It is now proposed,
however, to extend them also to the waters
within the three-mile limit along the entire
‘Alaskan coast, north of latitude Jogreed to
‘Un imak Pass, south of Bering Sea. In this
“way the seal herd on its way
ies on Pribyloff Islands will be protected at
least to a limited extent from 3 chers
along the entire course usually followed by
them.
The Skeletons of Thres Missing Miners.
Dusuque, I1a., March 34.—Over 85 years
380 three men, named Harris, [Dancombe
and Williams, started to work in a lead
mine near hear. They were strangers, and -
was thought of the matter and they were
soon forgotten, * Retently the Sehalker
brothers begun to work the old mine again;
‘and yesterday ‘came across three” skeletons.
110 feet below the surface. Theremaias were |
genius.
inspiration.
the sins of others.
without exercise.
not great sympathy.
tastics of the ancients.
little circle in which we live.
throwing away friendship, in a world
where friendship is so rare. 3
ardent man not to: have from the onset
some paramount object in life,
the inspiration of his labors will beready
to work for humanity as if the fortunes
of the world depended on personal en-
deavors.
well as of the heart; and in old age we
feel as much remorse if we have wasted
our natural talents as if we have per-
verted our natural virtues.
perament and tastes of genius without its
creative power.
system, but something is wanting in the
intellectual.
press tamely.
thought and noble impulse by the nama
of inspiration? After otir subtlest an.
alysis of the mental process, we must still
in | say that our highest thoughts and our
best deeds are all given to us.
‘| and wooded, how awkward the majority
WORDS OF ‘WISDOM.
Inspiration is the burning lamp of
No man was ever great without divine
Envy is simply puniehing ourselves for
The worst fatigue is that which comes
Thers is little influence where there is
Iuspiration developed the noblest fan-
The great world is to all of us the
There is no folly equal to that of
Is is a bad thing for a clever and
Whovever thoroughly accepts faith as
There is a conscience of the head as
Some people seem bern with the tem-
I'hey have its nervous
They feel acutely, yet ex-
Do we not sll agree to call rapid
cnet Sey
Lifting an Elephant,
London has been entertained lately by
feats of strength that are certainly re.
markable and probably unsurpassed in
modern times. * First there was a man
named Sandow, who was an enormously
powerful’ man; he was succeeded by
Sampson, and he in turn by an Irish-
American named Sullivan, Curiously,
the three names begin with the letter 8,
which is also the initial of ‘‘strength,”
and of the Greek word for strength
(sthenos), Sullivan, the latest comer,
is thirty years of age, stands 5 feet, 8%
inches in height,and weighs 168 pounds.
His appearance presents little that is un-
‘usual in the way of muscular develop-
ment, and his biceps are neither very
large nor wonderfully rigid. It isin his
neck and jaw that his strength chiefly
lies, and the majority of his feats are
such as to bring this peculiarity into
special prominence. ' At an exhibition
given in London, he fastened a chain to:
a 56-pound weight, and the other end
being gripped betweeen his teeth, swung
himself round and round until the twirl-
ing chain -assumed a nearly horizontal
line. The feat was repeated with the
weight doubled, and as the performer,
with both hands to his hips, and using’
every sinew in his frame, swirled round
and round, the audience wondered with
anxiety what’ would happen if one of
the links should fly asunder. - The most
remarkable feat, however, which Sulli-
van performed, was the lifiting of an
elephant by his teeth, It was a ‘‘baby.”
'is true, but it weighed about 1800!
pounds, and was lifted a clear three in-
ches from the ground, its whole weight
pendent from the jaw of the man above.
Sullivan was not successful in an attempt
to break a chain with his arm, having in.
jured this limb on the previous night.
He succeeded, however, in proving that
his prowess was not entirely confined to
feats with his teeth, by lifling a barrel
of water, weighing 560 pounds, with the
middle finger of his right hand. —Har-
per’s Young People. :
————— er eset.
The Grace of Aceepting.. = *
We hear a great deal about a gracious,
wige and notable way of giving, but
people rarely speak of ways of accept-
ing, be it gift or favor.
also wisdom, affability and generosity,
or their opposite qualities, may be very
conspicuously displayed. If but few of
those who have ‘a liberal spirit are
dowered with that ¢‘talent” for giving
which cheers the recipient like a sun-
beam, there are sfill fewer who under-
stand how to accept with grace and
dignity. Where great sacrificies are
offered the person for whom they are
made is so overwhelmed by gratitude
that all ceremony vanishes, and the ex-
pression of thanks pours unstrained from
the heart. : But in the thousands of little
everyday favors one cannot help noticing
how few persons possess the faculty of
accepting graciously. So at this time of
general interchange of gifts, the majority
trivial, but all, let us hope, possessing
the genuine value of being the expression
of kindly feeling, perhaps a little lecture
on the art of acceptance may be timely.
‘Which of us cannot recall some occa-
sion in the past when the curt refusal of
some trifling gift or favor, whose offer
was prompted by the kindliest impulses,
has cus deep and lingered in the memory
for many a day, though, doubtless, the
blunt rejection was due merely to brusque-
ness of « manner, with‘ no thought of
inflicting pain? ;
Even when no hurt is felt, how stift
of people are inJaccepting any little at-
tention or present. Either they pour
forth a torrent of thanks so utterly dis.
roportioned to the matter in question
hat the giver is. uncomfortably embar-
rassed,or they receive it with a display ot
-She Tugs formal courtesy.— Washington
Irn Ice
A ‘Pet Rhinoceros.
The most curious of pets is that pos.
sessed by some Binghslese children. It
is nothing more or less than an immense
rhinoceros pith, Plates of Sovgh hide like
hunters who have penetrated the jungle.
But this big fellow is as gentle as Mary's
lamb, and allows children to play on his
a
\ BumcnamE were operating dt Jobnsonbu
: AD Dn he a shot er Tes
will likely die. CE ate
ren born to a civilized woman st a single |
identified as those of the missing. miners. fi
workshops to go to the front and aid
And yet here |
GRAND ARMY COLUMN
ON THE PICKET-POST.
An Incident that Occurred With Forrest's
Cavalry near Memphis.
In the month of September, 1864, a
United States transport landed at its
wharf at Memphis, Tenn., 700 bold,
brave, and brawny men to fill up a
Jersey regiment lying there, known as
the 2d N. J. Cav., which regiment, by
its long and efficient service, had
dwindled in numbers. These men
were mostly new ‘recruits from New
Jersey, and had left their farms and
those that had so long been fighting
for their country and its flag. A few
days after arriving there the men were
divided off and sent to the different
companies, each company then num-
bering 100 men, while the regiment was
about 1,200 strong. Horses and equip-
ments were then furnished the men,
and the 2d N. J. Cav. was again ready
for duty, and, as I will inform the
readers of this narrative later, they
did their duty well,
The rebel General Forrest and his
brave followers vccupied the country
east and southeast of Memphis, and
they annoyed the Yankees very much,
making bold and daring. dashes into
our lines, capturing and destroying
men and property, and it was) almost
impossible to keep our front picket
line established, men and horses baling
killed and captured every night,
had been drilled and put through th’
Captains of each company inquired
there were any of the new recruits wh
‘had seen service before,'and if so, t
step to the front. Myself and John 4
Rose, both of Sparta, N. J., were, tb
at once told to report to Headquarte
to Colonel Karge, which we did.’ H
questioned us in regard to our fir
service, and then told us that Men
rest and his band of guerrillas, an
would be allowed to do picket dut,
there, and that he could put confidenqy
in us, and we could return to o
company and report to him in o
hour, mounted and ready for duty.
We did s0, and with a Sergeant an,
proceeded about two: miles from ot
camp out in the country, to a roa’
known as the Coal Mine road, whes
our advance cavalry picket was st:
tioned, and myself and Rose webh
placed on the post to relieve ‘the tw
-gentinels there.
The picket post was situated att
foot of a steep hill near the edge of}
wild and dismal swamp. We remain
lieved Dy the second relief. Whilst qo
duty Ithought I would investsgate o;
‘surroundings, and going up on the n3Ps
well cultivated fields and large alg ¢
rounding it: I returned to my po
and Rose again went on the post, ang,
emergency. Darkuess soon ‘began ig
quiet,
lently, something unusual. He hey
had alarmed him, and while watching
my horse’e movements I saw about 03
whispered to Rose and asked Him if lg
saw the rebels coming. His reply wie
post if necessary.
Who comes there?”
I told them to stand fast until we call-
ed the Sergeant of the guard, which
we did, and he soon made his appear-
ance with the others and demanded
their business; and was told by the
rebel Captain that he had business
with our General. The Sergeant told
him he could not see the General that
night, but he and his men could come
morning, when the General would see
him. They did so and camped near
‘us by themselves, nothing further
occurring to alarm us that night. They
proved themselves gentlemen, and we
showed them the same respect.although
we did not sleep much; for in numbers
they were 13 to our 7, and white men
sometimes are treacherous, especially
in war times.
‘When morning dawned we conversed
with them for a time, and presently we
saw three ladies with baskets coming
down the hill from the house mention*
ed above, and to where the Johnnies
were seated, shaking hands with them,
crying with joy, so unexpected were
and the ladies spread white table-
potatoes, roast chicken, etc. They then
invited their friends, the Johnnies, to
be seated around their well - filled
tables, and one of the ladies came over
to where. Rose and I stood and invited
us to partake of some breakfast with
her and her friends. We thanked her
kindly, telling her that we had our ra:
tions with us, but she still insisted,
1 and plead for us to eat with them. We
back or squirt sweetened water into his
ik
saw a large house not’ far away, Wiki
cast its gloom over us, and all ‘wig,
pers. It
third of a mile from us a squad of releces that § is hor
els cautiously advancing toWard us, bn, The knives,
forward and remain with us until
kisging each other, and some of them |
their meeting. Finally all became quiet.
| cloths down on the grass and began to:
unload their baskets, which were well-
filled with biscuit, cornbread, sweet
| finally accepted her ‘invitation, and
went with her; but I can assure the
reader of this narrative that it was
quite an undertaking to go and sit
down to that table, so nicely prepared,
and so bountifully supplied by those
‘Southern ladies, and sit and converse
with them and our foes,
These ladies were very. intelligent,
and while we were all eating ome of
them looked up at me and said :
“Mister, here you and my friends are
eating and conversing together as
friends; perhaps before another morn;
ing dawns you will again meet as ene:
mies, and try to kill each other.”
I replied: “Madam, I am sorry to
think and say your words are true. I
would not at this present time allow
any man to do you a wrong or. harm
any of these your friends, but after they
transact their business with our Gen-
eral and depart from our lines, thes.
we perhaps may meet again in deadly
conflict; for we are each one, both
Confederate and Yankee, sworn to do
our duty.”
After breakfast Rose and I bid them -
all adieu and left them, the ladies soon
leaving their friends and going home,
with tears streaming down their cheeks.
The Johnnies were escorted to the rear,
where they met the General, and after
the rebel Captain conversed with him
a while they returned to our post, and
bidding us farewell returned the way
they came to their command.
I do not know whether we ever en-
countered them again, but we lay at
Memphis nearly two months, scouting
and doing picket duty, and this same
party or their friends were very active,
causing us lots of trouble.—Wu. H,
| RocreLLE, in National Tribune.
said to have been especially fond of
ministra-
manual of arms a few days, when th his bread, and during his Ad
tion it became such a fashionable bread
for breakfast and tea that some facetious
itician of the op arty dubbed
se mbeondi i, Sie
This is a good recipe by which to
only two in our company, and we Wel oka it: i gill of liquid ye oF
hall-ounce cakes of compressed
yeast and a teaspoonfui of salt into a
guar of lukewarm milk and water, mixed
! lin equal ‘proportions; then ‘stir in saf-
phis wat surrounded by General FO ficient flour to make a dough somewhat
than ordinary bread. Add a
none but trusty and reliable soldiey y 10s contul of melted butter and three
well-beaten eggs. Pour into a pan and
it rise six or eight hours, or until
ughbly light, then bake in an oven
Iof the same temperature as for bread.
‘When done split.
three or four layers,
four privates from other companies outer generously, replace so the loaf
1 assume its original shape and serve
arm 1 slices.—Chicago News.
THE CHINA CLOSET.
A woman who has pretty "china and
0 deserves to have it, because she
tnows how to care for it, has a way of
ding against ssratches and b
her ware by making dozens of mats of
ed cotton flannel, which she uses
two hours on post, and were then rf i herein her china closet.
very plate when ‘it is "piled away in
closet has one of these soft mats laid
pon it; every saucer and small flat dish
a mat laid over it before another is.
upon it; mats are laid over the tops
ureeps before the covers are put on
handsome trees and shrubbery shan and the cups and tamblers, instead
and the day passed. quietly with Bri Hilo vpen each other, are set
At 6 o'clock that evening mys Quite as careful is the way she puts
silver away. . There ia a lot of it end
we watched the swamp diligently, wipg ait 3
our carbines cocked and ready for peal solid, Agaci opal yy ut
+ Nuremburg chest and uses plated
instead. But the way in which
Presently my horse's ear wey packs so : Fe
to the front and his heart moved Vig bags a am of Tuell. Thee
with draw-strings into which the
detected something in the swamp theger pieces are slipped, but these are
uncommon among careful houses
kets for the small
respectful admira-
forks and spoons are
packed away in families, but each
has its own apartment. She doubles
yes, and I then told him to be prepardarge piece of cotton flannel, sews it
and we would give them a warm I¢ except on one side and then stitches
ception and then retreat to the relifinto a dozen little compartments, one
tr each piece.
‘We watched their every movemenlly glipped into their places she rolls
and they at last came within haltile pocket together ana ties it with =
distance, and I found there were 18 pe strings like an old-fashioned needle-
then. Rising up in our saddles, wink, ~~ ' 2
both of our carbines deliberately airBut this care the little mistress
ed at them, I called to them, ‘“‘Haiasts that her silver doesn’t have to he
Their reply Waaned oftener than twice a year. But
“Friends,” and at once they flung ? always forgets to say that she doesn’s
white flag to the front, a flag of trud it oftener than twice a year. as
‘When these are care-
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