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VOLUME XIII. MONROE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1878. NUMBER 88.
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GRANT'S MILITARY CHARACTER.
A recent article by Gen. D. H.
A. Maury, in the Southern Historical
Society's papers, on '"Grant as a Soldier
and Civilian," says:
In estimating Grant's claims as a
general we must admit that one prin
,oo ciple by which he achieved his success
,50 s a new one. It is known in this
country as the ,"principle of attrition,"
00 and being a newly announced principle
,0o of war, may be appropriately discussed
in a paper like this. Whatever the
military student may find in Grant's
ne career to admire, he should not unad
ch visedly adopt this "principle of attri
y. tion." Humanity revolts at it, and
or history will arraign Grant for the reck
er lessness with which he dashed his
men to death.
In Virginia, he either could not or
would not manoeuvre, but knowing
15 that for every thousand men who were
slain by the rifles of the Army of Vir
is ginia, he could within ten days receive
50 an equal number of recruits, he perse
vered in a criminal manner in this
30 new principle of war. It is quite re
markable that the tactics of the late
commander of the army of the United
States and his successor,Gen. Sherman,
were so at variance, and yet carried
both men to such substantial personal
rewards.
Grant announced and acted on the '
s principle, "I never manoeuvre." Sher- '
man never fouglit when he could avoid
it, except at Chickasaw Bluff, but is
the greatest of living manoouvrers.
a Without doubt Grant must be held
responsible for the stoppage of the ex
e change of prisoners, which was the
most cruel act of his plan of attrition.
r. No parallel can be found for this double t
r, crime against humanity.
4 After Grant came to the Army of the
a Potomac it never left the field. It was C
punished more severely under him
than it had ever been under any of his
predecessors. Some accounts show that
it lost 100,000 men ! - one hundred
thousand men from the first movement t
in May, 1864, till the battle of Cold
Harbor closed, in June, 1864! Yet
SGrant never suffered it to get beyond
his control. After this repulse at Cold
Harbor, he could not get it to fight a
any more there, but he held it near
the victorious army, and marched it in a
1 order by flank to his new base on the ci
James, where he kept it till the end. P
This was what no other commander of e
that army had ever done, and stamps
him an able general.
Grant has been severely criticised for
fighting all those battles and losing so a
many men to gain a position which he
might have reached without any loss P
at all. But, in justice, we can say he
was not chargable with want of mili
tary capacity for adopting that plan of r
campaign. It was a moral, and not a 81
strategical error, on his part. From a'
unquestionable authority we know
that when Stanton first told Grant that a
he was to be placed in command of the s1
s armies of Virginia, he was well pleased, u
and said, "I shall at once change the ce
plan of campaign, and make my base 0
f of operations upon the James river
r south of Richmond." Stanton said, tl
"No, you must operate from the other t'
direction." "But," said Grant, "if I r
do it will cost us 100,000 men before la
we can get to where we can take Rich- 01
mond." "WVell," said Stanton, ",you n
shall have the 100,000 men to lose
rather than this administration, by l
abandoning its plan and route of ope
rations, in which we have so long per
sisted, shall be convicted before the
country of having persisted in error."
Said Grant, "'If you furnish me the
men to do it, I will execute your plan." di
So that,while he had military capacity in
to appreciate the surroundings of the ba
Secretary's campaign, and to foresee pl
the tremendous slaughter of his men I
which it would involve, he consented of
to be the instrument of its execution ! in
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PAYING TAXES.
su
At this season of the year it is, in to
plain talk, just simply out oflthe ques- to
tion for many good people to pay their es
taxes. With many their meat and tic
bread must come out of the merchant's at
storehouse, and issued on the faith of at
the incoming crop. This condition of in
the people is too familiar to require be
any further statement. And the trum- he
peting Auditor and the tax gatherers at
are as well advised as need be in the pc
promises. hc
Then what good can come of these di
flaming, threatening tax notices ? It
Will our devoted people be made bet- is
ter thereby? Vill they become more in
"patriotic" by such dictatorial and vc
"reasonable" exactions ? Or has it be- is,
come popular of late to Iharrass the or
tax-payer because some men can thus sh
employ their useful talents? pr
We shall say to our readers, though us
remarking parenthetically, that such are
does not apply directly to those in to
Bienvillo, to give no time, trouble or co
attention to these tax edicts. If you th
are depending, as many necessarily or
are, on the growing crop, pursue the w<
even tenor of your way, and pay your
taxes in the fall. Let the menacing
"tax hounding" fall stillborn. All to
good people pay their taxes, and so do va
our citixzens. But tlhis envenomed lgi'
atmosphere, this fiery threatening of fo,
the penal laws, is at this time as futile to
and unnecessary as it is mean and qu
devilish. If this be treason then the ge
umajorities are responsible and must wv
carry the weight upon their own de- an
voted necks.--,S~)artu 1i,se.. trm
THE INDIANI IOSTILES.
[Chicago Inter-Ocean, 15th.]
The movements of troops on the front
er ier seem to hint that unless the gentle,
untutored lord of the plains and moun
a tains isn't a bit cautious there'll be
a- some fun and Are this summer. That
5 hostility that has become personified
is so as to rend Sitting Bull doesn't exist
n as it did two years ago, but there's no
1e doubt that a very general restlessness
d prevails in the lodges of hearty "buck"
1e and promising young thieves who
is want to rise to the rank of wearing an
. eagle-plume. One of the causes of this
.- uneasiness comes every year when
d things goe as they should, and when
d it arrives It is usually called spring,
is and that means plenty of good grass
and some game. The preparations
r made for heading off the untamed
g show that the military authorities
mean business, and the Ishmaelite of
r- the plains had better stand from under
or he'll get hurt. It is understood that
· there are three different columns to
1 take the field, one in addition to those
already mentioned in the Inter-Ocean.
e The third command will be provided
d by General Terry, commanding the
Department of Dakota. The other two
are to be under the command of Gen.
] Bradley of the Ninth infantry, and
Gen. Merritt, of the Fifth infantry,
a respectively. The troops in General l
Terry's department will move to the
I neighborhood of Bare Butte, which d
is not far from the Big Cheyenne, a
little north of east of the Black Hills. c
Glen. Bradley's command is ordered
to proceed to the Little Missouri river I
D to a point about one hundred miles t
north of the Black Hills, while Gen.
Merritt with his forces will cover the 3
territory west of the new diggins of
e Dakota and Wyoming Territories. To
complete the defensive work, General
Miles will remain at his poet, Fort
B Keogh, on the Yellowstone, and if the
t hostiles succeed in crossing to the south
i bank of that stream they will have a
t lively time of it. It will be noticed c
that Gen. Crook has provided fully for "
t the protection of the new settlements
I in his department, and that General
1 Terry has also been deligent to look
after the Interests of those in Dakota. I
Gen. Bradley's command rendezvous a
at Fort Laramie, May 25, and will 0
consist of the following troops: Com- P
panies A, B, F, K and D, of the Third Ir
cavalry, the latter troops being at Fort b
Sanders; also Companies B, C, H and tl
I, of the Ninth infantry. Major E. F. a
Townsend will command the infantry, si
and will be accompanied by Maj. A. u
S. Burt, who, as usual, takes an active v
part in the coming campaign. Major I
S. A. Storroi, Surgeon, and Assistant ti
Surgeon C. V. Pettys are ordered to li
report to Glen. Bradley as the medical a
staff. All the signs point to a warm V
season for the hostiles if they cross the s
Yellowstone. To stay where they are b
across the line looks a good deal like t
starvation, for there's little or no game f
up in the British possessions; and to t
come south is to stand the best chances 1
of being "corraled." The disaffected
Indians at the agencies are keeping
the "grapevine telegraph" open be
tween them and the hostile camp, and
runners are constantly carrying the
latest news fromAmericky to the lodges d,
of the Uncpapa. Sitting Bull will T
never be a good, handsome Indian un- w
til he climbs a tree-that's the way i,
they bury 'em out in the Northwest. ki
w
NEW ELECTRIC LIUIIT. t
It
[Now Orleans City Item.] pi
Crowding the great thoroughfares of id
discovery in this wonderful age, right tli
in the wake of the telegraph, and side b<
by side with the telephone and the at
phonograph, comes the electric light. se
Heretofore the difficulties in the use hr
of the electric light for ordinary illum- er
inating purposes have been insurmount- vi
able. It could not compete with gas ca
owing to its extraordinary cost when pc
supplied by batteries, while the bat- kr
teries as constructed were found not dc
to be reliable. And much additional id
expense was incurred in the construe- fu
tion of the electric lamp. But there oil
are improvements in progress which su
afford assurances that all difficulties by
in the way of its perfect success will m
bespeedily removed. An electriclamp th
has been patented which can be sold M
at $3. The carbon points are kept in loi
position and the lamp will burn for wl
hours without being touched. The or- ba
dinary electric light is so daszling that ve
it pains the eye, but the mechanism ny
is now adjusted so as to lessen the do
intensity of the light and increase its be
volume. The light of the new lamp Hla
is, hence, softer and not less brilliant tri
or powerful. It is promised that we
shall have the electric lamp soon at a
price within the cost of kerosine. The Ili
uses to which electricity is being put (Ir
are wonderful, indeed, and the inven- w
tors are yet upon the threshold of dis- di,
covery. No conjecture could follow wi
them Into the interior of the temple, rs
or imagination conceive the fabulous do
wonders of the era that is upon us. in
Considerable attention is being turncd thl
to the catalpa of late years, and to its all
value in resisting decay. Instances arc un
given of catalpa trees remaining sound sul
for great periods of time. It is equal wi
to any of the cedars in these valuable he
qualities. Why has this fact been so tre
generally overlooked here in the South ha
where the catalpa grows so rapidly, sitr
and can be propagated with so little foi
trouble ? tih
CASES NOT PARALLEL.
[Mobile Registor.]
t The New York Commercial Adver
e, tiser, an extreme Republicah paper,
a. asserts that there is more honesty and
be less corruption and hanud in high places
at to-day than could be found in public
,d life during the first fifty years of our
at government. "We are better people,
0o and, despite the calumnies ofpretended
s reformers, our politics are purer. and
,, better. President Hayes, with all his
o infirmities, is a much more honest
in man than Jefferson or John Quincy
is Adams, who, it was alleged,, secured
in the Presidency by bargain and fraud."
,n This is an encouraging view of pro
fs gress, but to do justice to the living
a it is not necessary to malign the dead.
,s "Fraud" was as convenient a charge
d to hurl at John Quincy Adams in his I
3 day as at President Hayes now, but
,f it will have to rest on some more sub
,r stantial foundation than "It is alleged"
*t to make it stick. In the case of Mr. I
:o Adams it was long ago exploded, and C
no one in this generation believes it,
ot even the Commercial Advertiser. I
d In regard to Thomas Jefferson, the c
e Advertiser ought to partlcularize in e
o what respect he was a dishonest man.
1. Neither the case of the younger Adams a
d nor that of Jefferson is similar to the r
case of Hayes. When Adams was e
i1 elected by the House he obtained a
Smajority of the State, and was un
doubtedly elected. Even if Mr. Clay
had used his influence for Adams in
order to obtain the Secretaryship of
d State, that fact could not affect the
legality of the election, but it has never C
been proved that there was an under
standing between' Clay and Adams.
e It was a fatal step in Mr. Clay to take
o the office under an administration
o which came into being at his hands,
LI but that step is not to be compared to
rt the degradation of Sherman, Noyes,
e Stoughton and the others who manu
h factured an administration by fraud.
a There was nothing of fraud in the act e
Sof Mr. Clay and his friends. They had
ra right to vote for either Adams or
· Jackson and they chose to vote for
Adams.
And so of the case of Jefferson.
There was a tie vote between Jefferson t
s and Burr, both having been voted for l
I on one ballot (the then existing law ri
- providing that the President and Vice h
I President should be voted for on one n
t ballot and the person who received tl
I the highest vote should be President
and he who received the next highest li
should be Vice President) and it being c
understood by the voters that they ii
voted for Jefferson for President and h
r Burr. for Vice President. When the .
t tie was announced ft occurred to Burr a
, that he might be elected President t
I and he began negotiations to that end, d
i which finally failed and which de- u
a stroyed Burr's popularity forever. But e
a Mr. Jefferson had nothing to do with ,
a the matter, all of the conspiracy and a
e fraud was on the part of Burr. He at- v
a tempted to reverse the wishes of the u
s people and he failed. t
FUNERAL OF A SIAMESE UOD.
The Times of India announces tlhe
death of one of the living idols of Siam. fr
The oldest of the white elephants, iii
which was born in 1770, died recently at
in its temple at Bangkok. Every one
knows that the white elephant, before
whom a whole people bow the knee, is a
the emblem of the kingdom of Siam. si
It is honored with the most beautiful c
presents, for the Indians, full of the su
idea of metamorphosis, still believe on
that so majestic an animal could only tt
be animated by the spirit of a god or it
an emperor. Each white elephant pos- sp
sesses its palace, a vessel of gold, and ou
harness resplendent with jewels. Sev- a
eral mandarins are attached to its ser
vice, and feed It with cakes and sugar do
cane. The King of Slain is the only ur
personage before whom it bows the to
knee, and a similar salutation is ren- the
dered it by the monarch. The deceased son
idol has been accorded a magniflccnt to
funeral, a hundred Buddhist priests we
officiating at the ceremony. The three of
surviving white elephants, preceded fel
by trumpets and followed by an im- gri
mense concourse of people,accompanied to
the funeral car to the bank of the the
Menam, where the king and his noble the
lords received the mortal remains, en
which were transported to the opposite thn
bank, for burial. A procession of 300 the
vesse!s figured at that curious ceremo- na
ny. All the floating houses, ranged in
double file on the Menmam, to the num
ber of over 60,000, were adorned with
flags of all colors and symbolical at- an
tributes. «g
.,-- - . . he
Extract from a recent speech by Tt
lion. J. A. Garfield : "le thanked en
God, however, that in America there tol
were no classes; that American society eol
did not resemble the crust of the earth Is
with its impassabld'barriers, but rather ex
resembles the waters of the mighty sea; to
deep, broad, boundless, but yet so free "T
in all its parts that the drop which to- Th
day mingled with the yellow sands at
the bottom was free to move through '
all the superincumbent mass of waters Th
until it gleamed and flashed on the
sunlit crest of the highest wave. There
was no boy in America, however poor ou
he might be, who, under the light of
tree institutions, might not rise, if he
had a brave heart, a cool head and a
strong arm, until he was among the
foremost of his generatin, andu amrong tie
the best of his people."
ALBERT EDWARD AT 'PAIS.
A Paris letter says of the Prince of
r- Wales:
The truth is the Prince has taken
a his Presidency of the Royal Commis.
i s lon seriously, and rendered, and con
rr tinues to render, invaluable services
e to the Exhibition. I think I have al
d ready mentioned instances where his
d personal request had Induced men to t
Is exhibit who had not meant to exhibit 1
st -two agricultural machine makers, c
ty among others, spent $100,000 on their r
d section, and Mr. Colman, who has
,, spent $50,000 to show the world how
he makes mustard. It is not less true
g that the Prince understands all the t
1. ceremonial duties of his position ex
-, tremely well, and that he has the most
], perfect command over the muscles and I
it expression of his face. He never look
i ed bored. He was never Impatient, h
, though one or two exhibitors were
r. possibly a little exacting. A number
dof presentations wore made to him by
Mr. Owen, and his manner to each
person was what we should call most
civil, and what Englishmen would G
Scall gracious. I don't know what the
proper word Is, but I may safely say ]
s extremely well bred, for it was such a]
e manner as put other people at their
Aease. You have heard a hundred
times that the Prince never forgets a t
face, and that he never omits to shake
hands with a man whom he has met
. before, whether at levees or in private. C
I Be has had the good sense to see that
e this exhibition gives him an excellent
opportunity for strengthening his posel
tion and popularity at home, and he
has made the most of it. HIs father
e led the way in lS51,and his son is, per
Shaps, entitled to the more credit for
imitating so good an example, since
Prince Albert really cared about the
matter, and the Prince of WVales cares
. for it only or mainly, in an Indirect t
. way, as affecting the Industrial and 1
"t commercial prosperity of his kingdom.
r BALD) MOUNTAINS PLIT IN TWAIN. 81
r 1'
AsHIEVI ii., N. C., MIfay 2o?.-Two
years ago, residents of this section of
the famous Bald Mountain were thrown
r into great consternation by continual o:
rumblings and inexplicable noises o
heard in the bowels of the inmoense
3 mountain. The phenomena attracted
I the attention of scientific men in all tl
t parts of the country. The rumblings
t lasted for about two weeks and then o
I ceased. They had the effect of render- 1
F ing the real estate in the neighbor
1 hood, that had been valuable, almost
e worthless, and the inhabitants hastened
r to move from the neighborhood of
t the mysterious mountain. Last F"rl
day night the noises began again; tlihe
mountain shook as in the throes of an
earthquake ; immense trees and rocks
were hurled down the mountain side,t
and sounds like Intermittent thunder
were heard during the night. This
e morning those who venturedl near saw
that the mountain had been literally
split in twain, leaving a chasm of 300 d
foot in length and from 8 to 10 feet In
width. Sio far as has been ascertained, I
the chasm is a bottomless abyss. As I
yet no smoke or lava has been thrown a
from the crater, but early in the moran
ing there was a strong smrel Of sulphur
about the place. In
,Vhy it should be desirable to have ni
a smnall weak foot, any more than a w
small weak brain, is not easy to :on- oil
celve. for the purpose of lhaving be
such small feet, not a few wear boots tit
one or two sizes too small, anud about fin
two-thirds of the width of the foot as in;
it would be at the ball if allowed to TI
spread as it does when standing with- bil
out the confinenlent of the boot. As oi(
a natural and necessary result of such luaj
pinching confineUent, tiho foot bIeorlionus ti
deformed and largor lthan it woulhd at- b"
urally grow, witll elarged joints, thi till
toes turned fron ia line plarallel with ste
the loot, to say nothing of the trouble- col
som11e corns o annoyilng and cripplingl
to a large class of youIng women. The
worst results of this crippling customrn
of wearing smaIll aond narrow boots is D4
felt by children when allowed to out
grow their hoots. It is poor econolrmy
to allow the young to wear hoots when H
the feet have biocomno too largo for Me
thenm, since (deformity of the, lictt is
easily produced at this timne. \Vhell
the boot is too short for the wearer andt
the heel too high, the ingrowing of the fli
nail is a perfectly natural resull. "t
tin
Tributes to tihe (otmfedierate lt ;:l sol
and to all those who fell wearing the II:;
"'gray and the blue" during the war ISr
between the States are over being pait. sol
The theme is a fruitful one, and can be tni
enlarged upon by the priest, poet, ora- ri
tor or literary writer. We liand the
following lines, the nuthorship of which
Is unknown to us, but lime sentiments 01f
expressedl are like the ballm of (;ilu:tIl sl
to hearts still mourning lost ones: of
"They foil devoted hIt muIlying, ('I
The very galH tlheir IIIfrtnio are. iglifg, lth
Trho wvigoer., mflrflufr of tliitr iU , tli(
The wofods are pooeled wit h thtW i h I'imr ;
'rhilr splirit. wrap tihe dusky ffiil n ul thml,
Thelr Ifffffiory sparkles o'f'rIe fIii ltrin; ii f
Tho fmfeaisti ril!, thi if'f htiiii t riv r vga
1-loll fminiglingf witif their lf' o f ri0 iver.
lIonpito fvf:ry iyoki iho Ii i rs,i r I
Our landi in glh)ry's s1till ani thlifu kel
'Tin still ft wvtfL: i hwordl tf, th( ; 'nalrth y
When mnn wouil do a deoedl of world."
Politeness is like an air cllnshion-- lu
there may Ibe notthing wfifl in it, hut it he
eases jolis wonderfully. fe
A HISTORIC FAMILY.
Lf ilaton tougo Advocate.]
There lately died at his quiet home
in this cityone who was the last living
n bearer of a name intimately linked
' with the early history of this city and
'- the Florida parishes. Louis Grandpro
Sas the lineal descendant of Gov.
M Carlos Grandpre, who represented the
King of Spain. in the government of
0 the section of oountry bounded by the
t Manchae, Maurepas and Lake Pont
h chartrain, on the south by a line run
a ning east from the mouth of Thomp
a son's creek to the north boundary of
v Florida. on the north, and the Missis
0 bippi river on the west. While the
e territory of Louisiana was held- by the
United States this little province was
still under the Spanish flag, and Gov.
Grandpre with a few recruits of all
nationalities (the European garrison
having been recalled to Join in the
wars of the mother country) kept the
r post at Baton Rouge for his sovereign.
!A revolt occurred, and under Gen.
Philemon Thomas a force of volunteers
surprised the fort, and in the meleeo
lov. Grandpre, refusing to surrender,
was killed. The district of West
I Florida then quietly allied itself to the
r United States.
! From the female branches have do
tcended many of the first fimniles
throughout the State, and of the male
representatives bearing thp name of the
gallant old Governor, one, Charles
Grandpro, fell at Port IHundson, and the
tlist now closes with the death of Louis
t Grandpre, who, like the others who
- bore the name, upheld it through life
r without reproaclh.
r DEATH OF EARL RUSSELL.
e The death of the voteran Whig
a statesman is announced. He was the
third son of the sixth Duke of Bedford.
All his years of activity were spent in
office. lie was, in short, the Hannibal
Hlamlin of Great Britaiun, in more re
spects than one. lie was elected to
Parliamont in 1813, and sat from that
time down to his last sickness in one
house or the other; and yet no man
can name any great measuro that he
originated. But he was the champion
ofllceholder of England. Nearly every
WVhig Ciabint since 1880 took him in,
and on the death of Lord Palmerston,
In 1865, he became prime minister for
the second timeo. Mr. Gladstone was
one of his colleagues, and in the effort
to extend the elective franchise the
Ministry wore defeated by a majority
of cloven. They rosigned, after less
t than a year's service. This terminated
the dead statesman's official services
outside of the House of Lords. 1He
was long known as Lord John Russell,
but when he was raised to the peerage,
in 1Sil,ho became known as Earl Rus
sell. During the late war ih this coun
' try he was Secretary for Foreign
r Altiirs, and as such pursued a policy
of neutrality and nonintervention in
American alliirs. Hie, however, bo
lieved that the Union was doomed to
dissolution, and if hIe had had the sup
port of his colleagues, it is though tthat
he would have favored a recognition
of the struggling lConfdtleracy.-~iltlArdt
(bti/rletion.
'lThe telephone played at singular part
inl the lire at the offico of the )etroit
FI'ro Plress the other day. Th'lo Instrut
minit connecting the cdlitorial roomsa
willI the house of the mlalanagilig editor,
one and at half mihes away, rang the
bell at the residence violently, so that
tlie intcreasig and dirnliishfig of the
flanes eotuldl be calculated by the ris
ing and falling of the anger of the boll.
Tho clamor at last becamei so unbltrlt
ble in the room that lthe bell was mtull
ed with cotton, Willhi fronm the spcak
lng tube caine the swish of the water,
the roar of tie fire tihe crackling of
Ilurninlg thimbers, and atll the sounids of
the conflahgratlon, until tihm thddern
stoppage of all sound showed 1t 1rl I he
cotllnunlication was brokenl.
''lTh following claHsses of pIersonsl) are
entitled to pensionsili ulnder the iiL of
March i, 1878: First, honorzably dis
clcharged soldiers or ftife war of 181x2,wlh,
served 14 dalnys and I~9s Illan (0 ,loays.
ISecolnd, honoranbly dlis4hrlltlger~ slie·
who setrved lets. thIln II ldays ll weirsc
iln can eigaglenilt with th;e enemyl.
Third, widows, withlout (regir lit th li
dlate of their ,a:trri:ge and Who hil'ave
not runmiarried, of iholnoritbly elischitrgelI
soldiers ofsaid Wrui d,.escrihb l In clauses
one and two, "tiltlhe widows tf such
m 'arri ('d sullb. eq uen t to *Fhbru ltry I;,
18Il. Iourtll," ,wi s of r(evollaion-:uiry
soldliers who served I I liays, or wer,. in
:tny engagement iii the. war of the
revolution.
An old soldier, relating his xpierni
(Sic it at tcnpalin an meetinig, in i own,
sa(id t.hat{, Ut o(31( ti m hli got 5O'ssMSsion
of two kegs of whisky, took tliiii to(
c(lSlll, pult a faucet. into o01e, atlll Ilpassel
tihe whisky roulnld lamongll thie boy:s till
tht'y all got pretty full. About tihe
tlhno Ih lL kIg Was m ,llpty, h11( siul, for ii
iiomniriit hi. (oni.('.'i(]nc to011 him lh
'.as 'hoitig wrung. Hito picked up tn
alx andl kllockcdl tile head of tl(3 jtLiher
keg in and- (I [re hie was ilnterrupted(l
by the deacons starting the cry of
"Ametn!" -'Thank (leod!" ',(*lory bho
to (Al l!") After t10 house became
lqulet hle continued: ,,I knocked in the
head of thl:t keg, gave the boys a tin
€'ll tilo l a toIld tletal tt hell, thticn. 1Vs'!'4(
