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THE BOOMING CANNON RECITALS OF CAMP AND BAT TLE INCIDENTS. PS Survivors of tho Rebellion Relate Many AmuHlng and Startling Incidents. of Weary marches, Camp Life, Foraging Experiences, and Battle Scenes* It Wasn't Stealing. URING the •way great .mirfjy well a in '(persons on 'both sides of the contro versy earn Je de iplored." the tendency of the soldiers to lose the distinguish ing between meum and muum. But these people labored un der the disadvantage of not knowing if-How it was themselves. Put a man in |j the position that the soldiers were in -without anything to eat, with the lupply train many miles awav, ,witli- I out money to buy anything with, and. i'with notliing to buy it they had it, and bis ideas as to the ownership of what She needs to eat get wonderfully mixed. J. It can't be called stealing from si pure ly moral point of view, and if among if the commanding officers there were |, those who had peculiar views in re ,gard to the propriety of appropriating eatables, there was also the argument to fall back on that the stuff belonged jSk'to the imemv, and was subject to con iiscation anyway. In the early part of 1862, a young fellow named Berry was sent to the Tenth New York. He was a mere boy, and had never been away from the farm on which he was raised. He was literally green, and would havf* no more thought of taking anything that did not belong to him, than approach ing one of Uncle Sam's gunboats. But the Tenth was a good school in which to forget such youthful teucliings as led to the neglect of one's stomaoli, and it was not long before Berry was as active in foraging as the oldest vet erans in the regiment. The regiment then lav near Mechnnicsville, and |ji back of this positiou, toward the Rap pahannock was a section literally flow in milk and honey. The picket duty of the Tenth was frequently per formed on this front, and it was sel dom that the pickets failed to make a j|': bold foray into the enemy's country and return with the good things of earth. Berry soon became one of the boldest foragers, because, being anew recruit, he was not impressed with the danger of penetrating into a section 1' which swarmed witli the enemy's scouts.- General Warren, who com & manded his brigade, was not hide 8: bound iu his ideas of military moral |g ity, and yet was frequently compelled |fcto check t.he glowing tendencies of his command to forage on their own aj behalf and finally gave it out cold that the next time he received a complaint j|in regard to the Tenth he would make San example of the culprit. A day or Ktwo afterward Warren was ordered to Tftake the Tenth and reconnoitre the. Jcouutry lying between his position and p'the Rappahannock. Before starting Jf'he issued orders that there should be Ss^o foraging or leaving the ranks for »|»ny purpose whatever. The men were pup a stump. Fowl, lamb and stickling ijijjiigs were seen, in quantities along the Ifbute, but the commander placed a iiard on every farm house, and jratclied so closely that during the day (here was not a single opportunity to Replenish the larder with luxuries. Bpward evening,1' however, when the ggiment was on the return, the vigi fmce was somewhat relaxed, and as ]je column passed a well-stocked barn ird Berry was missing. When the lament reached the picket line War & halted and allowed the regiment to closely inspecting each man to if his haversack was suspiciously 11. When Berry came up, a side of Scon depended from his bayonet, two gickens had their heads stuck out of Be corners of his haversack, and in me hand was a two gallon jug. "Step Kt of the ranks, yonng man," said the (general, "and come up to my head jiarters." The boys sympathized with Jbeir comrade, but not a word was aid and Berry plodded on, ruefully ....Jfewailing the probable loss of his ^Blunder. pAt headquarters the general halted, ind, without dismounting, commenced Staestioning the culprit, enlarging on Tie .punishment due to such diso e^ience of orders. Berry didn't say Jword—he had nothing to say, and fhat would have been the result of Jpje conference he doesn't know to this |ay, for just as the general concluded, Jiere was a suspicious disturbance in |ls capacious saddle-bags, and thrust ing his head between the flaps, a young poster gave utterance to a vigorous Jrow. Officers and men. standing (pound, broke into a roar, and mutter jig a caution as to the recurrence of icli a breach of discipline, Warren ialloped off to the stableB, leaviSg Berry free to make the most of his good luck in foraging.—Rocky Moun ain Herald. Heroes Every One. \HERE are two "in I stances of noble ^-courage, the read O^fing of which sJiould stir the blood of ev iery American. One occurred at Freder icksburg, on the day when half the bri gades of Meugher and Caldwell lay on ie bloody slope leading up to the Oon iderate entrenchments. Among the assaulting regiments was \e Fifth New Hampshire, and it lost 16 out of 300 men who made the large. The survivors fell back be a fence within easy reach of the ipnfederate rifle pits. Jnst before reaching it the last of the color guard was shot, and the flag fell in the open. A captain, Perry, instantly ran out to rescue it, and as he reached it was shot through the heart another cap tain, Murray, made the same attempt and was also killed, and so was a third,' Moore. Several private soldiers met the same fate. They were killed close to the flag, and their dead bodies fell across one another. Taking advantage of this breast work, Lieut. Nettleton crawled from behind the fence to the colors, seized them, and bore back the blood-won trophy. The other incident took place at Gaines' Mill, where Gregg's First South Carolina Regiment bore the brunt of an assault upon a certain strong position. Moving forward at a run, the South Carolinans wore swept by a fierce and searching fire. Young James Taylor, a lad of six teen, was carrying the flag, and was killed after being shot down three times, twice rising and struggling on ward with the colors. The third time he fell the flag was seized by George Cotchett, and when lie in turn fell, by Shubrick Hayne. Hayne was also struck down almost immediately, and a fourth lad—for none of these men were over twenty years old—grasped the colors and fell mortally wounded across the body of his friend. The fifth, Gadsden Holmes, was pierced with no less than seven balls. The sixth man, Dominick Spellman, more fortunate, but not less brave, bore the flag throughout the rest of the battle.—Rocky Mountain Herald. Unbroken Friendships. 1LPATRICK was not only a brave of fleer, but he was also "^something of a wag, R\ 'always fond of a joke. When he broke through our lines on If the Rappahannock, on his way to Rich mond, he halted for a few minutes to feed and take lunch. He called up one of tho farmers who lived on the" road, a lame man, and said to him: "You tell Young I hear he has a little brigade hid over there in the bushes. I haven't got time to bother with him now, but I'll pay my respects to him as I re turn." The man told me. and grinned as he said: "Gineral, he's got enough folks with him to eat you up.. It -took 'em all night to pass my house." Well, poor Ktl, as we used to call him, was very glad to get back himself, with his command all torn to pieces, without having time to pay his resj)ects to "Young." He was an excellent soldier and an able man. It gives me pleasure to know that no imkind or ungraceful act was per formed during the war by any of the officers of either army, one to another, who served at the academy at the same time I did. On the contrary, every thing was courteous when they held any intercourse officially, and* even kind when it was possible. I well remember an instance of this at Savannah, when it became certain that the Confederate forces were to withdraw and that the city would be entirely in the hands of Sherman's army in a few hours. A lady requested me to give her tiomo letters to officers in the United States Army, with whom I had been acquainted before the war. I gave her two, one to Col. Audenried, on Gen. Sherman's staff, who was one cf my classmates, and one to Gen. Kil patiick, who was in comm'and of all the cavalry of Sherman's army, whom I had known at West Point. When the letters were delivered both of these officers called upon the lady, placing a young officer in the house for protection, and did what they could for her comfort, for whicli I shall jtl ways revere their memory.—Gen. Young in the Atlanta Constitution. A Cute Yankee Trick. Quite a good "Yankee trick" Avas played upon about thirty young seces sionist aspirants in this manner: They were anxious to ^pirit their way to Dixie, and agreed with a Yankee cap tain, owner of a schooner, to land them in Virginia for $150. This he agreed to, providing they should fork over the sum in advance. They agreed and did so. A given night approached when the sly craft was in waiting over the river some miles above Balti more The aspiring Dixieites arrived in due time, went on board in jovial spirits, sails were spread and,off went the schooner to plow her way through the briny deep, while those who had taken passage exclaimed: "Nor care what land thou bear'st us to so not again to ours." The night was long and dark and dreary, but while the stars were yet peeping the Yankee captain landed ut a point on the Marlyland shore, told his passengers to make tho best of their way toward Richmond, when he pushed off and was soon out of sight. Morning broke, but only to reveal the sad consciousness that they were still on Maryland soil, minus their money, and these recruits for Jeff Davis and Beauregard were uever no nearer Richmond than when they started. Every day or two one or more of (these cheerless wanderers will come back to his home in Baltimore in an awfully dilapidated condition. Whether or not our Yankee salt will succeed in getting another such cargo is problematic.—Mrs. D. B. Wirt's Scrap Book. in ifSI Couldn't Believe His Eyes. Porhap3 the moBt expressive opinion regarding the World's Fair was uttered by a Washington County farmer. His brother was at the Fair, and, after a number of letters praising the beauty of the place and numerous requests for him to come out and see it also, the Washington County man went. His brotlier met him in Chicago and took hinl to the Fair grounds, arriving in tho court of honor just as the electric lights on the buildings and throughout the grounds were being turned on. Ho surveyed the scene from one of the little bridges in awe for a long time. At last his brother asked him what he thought of it. He replied: "Why, gol riavn it,. John. don't JmliiwR it.!"— Pittsburg Dispatch VP**. /JEVHWC "(OK*' ADMIRAL BENHAM'S FLEET AT 1110. WINTER DIET. A Few Hints by Wh'eh Go id Health Ma? Be Attained. Few people seem to give any thought to the appropriateness of food to the season of the year, says the New York Ledger. With the coming cold weather many people re main a great deal indoors, occupying rooms which are often kept at a high temperature and with, of course, very much less fresh air than they are accustomed to during warm weather. This has a tendency to create a feverish condition of the system that should be counteracted by a free indulgence in fruits of all available sorts. For such purposes there is nothing better than good apples eaten raw. If children were permitted to eat all the fresh apples they craved through out the winter there would be fewer diseases and deaths while for adults, those who are of fairly quiet' habits and who remain indoors a great deal* there is nothing in the whole range of food products as useful. It is claimed that severe cases of gout and other rheumatic difficulties may be entirely cured by the free use of apples. In the absence of apples, raw potatoes, eaten with a little salt, are a most excellent corrective of bad humors. An eminent lawyer of this country claims to owe his ,excellent health largely to the habit of eating raw potatoes with salt. Whenever lie feels feverish or out of condition this is his medicine, and for years he has taken no other. Oranges, lemons, grape fruit, pine apples in their season, and all .acid fruits, are valuable for people of sed entary habits. Almost all persons might improve their health if they would but give a little attention to some of the most 6imple of nature's laws, and when this boon is so cheap ly purchased the wonder is that it is so much neglected. 1 "t The Santa Po Failure. Such an event as the failure of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, occurring in for mer times would have precipitated a panic in the midst of prosperity, or would have increased vastly the ter rors of ap existing panic. The fail ure of Jay Cooke and the half-flnish ed Northern Pacific Pailway in 1873 created the panic of that year. The interests involved in that catastro phe were not one-tenth as extensive or important as those of the Santa Fe. Yet this occurrence did not affect the money or stock market to the extent of one-half of one per cent, on the total volume of business. The loss on securities fell so lightly and were so widely distributed that the result amounted to but little more than a ripple along the shores of the business world. The disaster to the Santa Fe is the result of nothing but misdirected en terprise and errors in management. In 1881 the stock of the Santa Fe sold at 154J. From 1886 to 1888 the stock was but a point or two below par. The plan of extension then be gan. The line to Chicago was built and the immense terminal property on State street was acquired. The Chicago extension never paid, but caused loss of business to the main line. The business of the main line, which had been divided at the Missouri River among several roads, kept them all in a friendly spirit and the Santa Fe received their com bined transcontinental traffic. When it built a rival line to Chicago it lost all the Chicago and eastern traffic of other lines. Practically the same result followed the acquisition of all its extensions and subsidiary lines. Each step of enterprise excited the hostility or rival lines whose terri tory was invaded. The main line lost traffic and the branches did not do a self-supporting business. Every attempt to conquer other worlds im paired the value of its own world as a source of profit. In the bankruptcy of such great roads as the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Erie, the Santa Fe and other systems profound, lessons are to be learned in the science of railroad management, and especially in the morals of railroad financier ing. With good business principles and honesty as a basis of manage ment every one of these railroads should be solvent and paying good dividends on its stock. 44 'Gatoretl Mules." ,*'.r' The Washington News says that a "'gatored mule" is, according to Flor ida dialect, a mule that has been driven partially insane by "an alli gator. There are hundreds of such demented mules in Florida, and it is a fact that they are never the same after a genuine flight of this sort. I helped to 'gator one myself, writes a traveler. I had been stay ing at Ocala, and finally agreed with several friends to go hunting in the south. Some distance from town we located upon a small stream abound ing in game. After pitching camp, I went, for a walk, and before long I found a 'gator hole. From the strong, musty odor issuing from it, I knew the owner must be at home. I decided to capture him, and called my companions. Several times we rammed a long pole into the bur row. Finally we heard a snap like the report of a gun, and the pole re mained fast. The 'gator had seized it. We tried vainly to pull him out. Then some one suggested that we try our camp mule. The mule was led down to the hole, a chain fastened to him and the pole, and the fright ened animal was started. There was a creaking of chain, a roar, and an alligator fully seven fent in length came out with a rush, as the mule started on a wild run for the road. The saurian's teeth were sunken so deeply In the pole that he could not release himself, and away went mule, pole and all. The alligator spun round, hissing like a steam-engine: but he held on, while the mule, thinking himself pursued, snorted and ran. We followed. Into the main street of Ocala flew the mule and his queer load. Completely ex hausted, he was stopped by a party of men near the postoffice. The 'gator was dead. We skinned and stuffed him. The mule recover ed, but the sis ht of a swamp now throws him into a perfect frenzy of terror. Leaks ID Drain Pipes. Another piece of chemical knowl edge worth noting is the action of sulphide of hydrogen in the presence of a lead salt If a piece of blotting paper be soaked with a solution of sugar of lead and be held near or over a bottle of sulphide of hydrogen the blotting paper will at once turn dark-brown or black. That Is, a chemical change takes place and the sulphur or the sulphide of hydrogen unites with the lead of the sugar of. lead, and a sulphide of lead is the re sult, which is black or dark-brown. The practical application of this is the detection of leaks in drain pipeis. Almost all foul odnrs from cesspools and drains contain the sulphide of hydrogen. If a leak of these odors is suspected or noticed, a piece of blattlng paper soaked with a solution of sugar of lead and held at the joints of the pipes or where the odor is sus pected will at once turn brown or black if there is an escape of gas. Often at summer resorts some of tho bask rooms suggest an odor not too pleasant, and a bad drain rr leaky cesspool is suggested by a faint smell. Apiece of blotting paper treated as directed above and left to hang in, the room will detect a slight amount of this poisonous gas and prove con clusively that the room is unfit, for occupation. (fust the Opposite. An Irishman who was employed in the iron works in a Western town was advised by his physician to seek some employment where the laboi was less severe, on account of an en largement of the heart. He pro ceeded, therefore, to set up a small grocery, which was well patronized by his friends. He was not in the habit of dimin ishing his prospects of financial suc cess by giving "down weight," and one afternoon, when a customer asked for a pound of sugar, he added pinch by pinch until thescale barely turned. "Pat," inquired the customer, look ing up innocently at his careful weigher, "phwat was it the dochter said was allin' ye?" "Inlaargemint av the haart," an swered Pat with pride. "Well, thin," said the customer, "it's toime ye were chang in' yer doc ther Pat the wan that's tindin' ye now don't understhand yer disease, me b'y. Yer haart is gettin' smaller moighty fast, an' it's in great danger ye are!" EXTRACT from a new nove:: "Stand where you are, Reginald de Courcy! Advance one step nearer and I will tell you what I saw at the World's Fair!" "Foiled again!" hissed tho villain, as he faded from view Philadelphia Record. THE average waist of woman, a woman's journal asserts, has increased from 19 inches to 24 inches within five years. It looks elusive, but there are men who will endeavor to get 'round it.--Philadelphia Ledger. WORN ONLY AT CORONATIONS. Coronets mid Their U.«o Among: the Nobil ity of the British Empire. English noblemen are the only ones in Europe who ever wear coronets on their heads, says Vogue, and the sole occasion when they do so is at the coronation of the sovereign. They hold them in their hands through the ceremony, and at the moment when the Archbishop of Canterbury places the crown upon the monarach's head every peer and peeress present dons his or her coronet. Inasmuch as nearly half of the house of lords is composed of peers created by Queen Victoria, it is probable that none of them has taken the trouble to pro vide himself with the silver coronet, lined with crim-on velvet, of his rank, and were the Queen to die and the Prince of Wales to ascend the throne, there would doubtless be a run on the court silversmiths for baubles of this character. The baron's coronet, worn by the poet, Lord Byron, at the. coronation of George IV., and which was man ufactured for the occasion, is now in this country and in the possession of the proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, who lias converted it into a chafing dish for the humble vegetable known as the potato, having removed the velvet cap from the inside and turned it upside down, so that the four silver balls constitute the sup port of the chafing fish. ... A VENERABLE PILE. S Th© Old Gov. Crnddock Mansion at Hert ford, Mass. The oldest house in New England, if not in the United States, is the Gov. Craddock mansion at Merlford, Mass. It is generally known as the "Old Fort" and is a unique specimen of the architecture of the early set t'ers. Though the old pile has sur vived the blasts of over 260 New Eng land winters, time has dealt gent'y with the venerable relic. It is to day a comfortable habitation, though the first house built in Medford. I THE GOV. CRADDOCK HOME, MEDFORD. MASS. There is a tradition that it was once attacked by Indians, who drew off with thinned ranks, finding it im pregnable. The house was originally built for defense, and long ago was protected by a 'palisade. Its walls were half a yard in thickness, iron bars secured the arched windows at the back and the entrance door was strongly case:! in iron. Just Rjtort. In a certain New England town' some years ago there was a justice of the peace who, through a terrible accident, bad'lost both his legs. He had an acute legal mind, a ready tongue, and both kindness and gen erosity enough to make him beloved as well as respected. Nothing incensed his fellow-towns men more than any allusion to the poor man's misfortune or a„sugges tion that it incapacitated him in any way for the position he filled. A visitor from another town was loung ing about the postoffice one morning when the justice was wheeled past by his faithful servant. "Who's that feller?" lie asked, curiously. "That's Square Brown," replied the citizen whom he had addressed, "an' the smartest an' best jestice anywheres round these parts he is, I ken tell ye," he added, with a half defiant tone. "Well, I swanee," remarked the stranger, "that's kind o' cur'ous, seems's if. Jestice o' the peace with out no legs!" "Does it appear so,I want t' know," said the inhabitant of the place with a glance of withering contempt at the stranger. "I heerd you say you was fr'm Hillville way, if I ain't mis took?" he queried. The stranger nodded. "Well, now," said the native in a reflective tone. "I Ivjerd some folks remarkin' only a few r»ays back that over in your township they'd got a feller square that hadn't got no head! Now that doos appear cur'ous to me but o' course folks' tastes are alius diffi'rent." TnE people of the United States haven't the slightest objection to Admiral Mello blowing up all the ships the Brazilian government may purchase in this country after the aforesaid ships get outside of Uncle Sam's boundary waters. But if the rebel admiral attempts to blow up any such ships in United States ports before they're delivered and paid for, as is his alleged intention, it will become the pleasurable duty of our navy to go down to Rio and "bust up" Mello and his bloomipg in surrection. And that duty will be very conscientiously and perfectly performed, too. IT is high time that the crank problem was being dealt with in a practical and determined manner. The fact that one of these unfortu nates may be irresponsible only makes him the more dangerous and in creases the necessity for placing him under restraint. The death of such men as Garfield and Carter Harrison, the attempts that have been made upon the lives of other great men of the country and such threatenings as the kidnaping of little Ruth Cleveland, make more apparent the imperative necessity of providing some adequate means for the re straint of this class of oitueus. ?, '.'Ax GRATEFUL TO GEN. SPINNER. Washington Women to Erefft a Statue to the Benefactor of Their Sex. The women of Washington are tn erect a statue to the late General Francis E Spinner, the friend and benefactor of their sex. The statue is of heroic size, eight feet high, and is being executed by the sculptor, Henry ,J. Ellicott. Critics who have feen the work compliment it and give it high rank. Gen. Spinner was a pioneer in the advocacy of woman'* fitness for business employment. In 1862 he appointed seven women to. positions in the Treasury Depart^ tnent, some of whom are in office to day. There are now over five thous and women employed in the depart ments in Washington, says the Star, TBI PROPOSED SPINNER STAT UP. 'I and other thousands filling honorable and lucrative positions throughout the United States. Thirty years ago the work world of women was limit ed to the wash tub and the sewing machine. It is not thus now. Gen. Spinner was once asked what he con sidered his greatest acnievement. He replied: "The fact that I was In strumental in introducing women to employment in the offices of the gov ernment gives me more real satisfac-' tion than all the other deeds of mv life." A LYNCHED MAN'S GHOST. It Ig Scaring the WltB Out of N egroea iu Springfield, IU. The colored population of Spring field, 111., has been greatly stirred up of late over the reported Appear ance of a ghost in the negro quarter of the town. Over a dozen colored families have become so terrified that they quitted their houses altogether for fear of encountering the spook. The stranger from the nether world is declared by those who saw him to A TEIUtlFl-ING OHOST. be Seoy S. MiUer, who occupied a house in the negro quarter of Spring field, but who was hanged and burned for assault and murder at Bardsville, Ky., last summer. A few nights ago Mrs. Miller, who lived next to the Miller house, says she saw Miller's body burning and writhing in mid air. Next night Mrs. Benson says s»ie saw the burning body fall and enter the Miller house. This was too much for the majority of the colored folks and they beat a hasty retreat. It is regrettable thafthe great Yerkes telescope is not adapted to the climatic conditions of Chicago. The magnate of the traction car hoped to look through Chicago skies at things in space, when he made the munificent gift for the greatest of telescopes, but science decides that Chicago is unfit for telescopic purposes. There is too much dust, smoke, and, possibly, gas in the at mosphere of the great city of the lake. That is what the astronomers say, and hence it is decided that the big telescope shall be set' up in the clearer atmosphere of Wisconsin. But the average Chicago citizen will not worry about the change of plan. He will still be able to see strange things without the aid of a telescopic glass. ABOUT the only man who is able to start Voorhees to talking is Du bois. Every time the young man from Idaho makes a statement he provokes a reply, and sometimes a very sharp one, from Voorhees, whom he always calls "Uncle Dan," and who loves him like a son. Senator Hoar can remain in his seat as placid as a summer evening, reading a newspaper or a book of poems, in different to all that is going on about him, until Mr. Teller takes the floor. Then his attention wanders from his newspaper and his reading, and be fore long he is into the discussion with a question he cannot help ask ing or a sharp retort which is too appropriate to be suppressed. ORIGINAL sin is the cause of the fall of man, and now when a man falls it is the cause of a good deal of original sin. TIME'S swiftest flight is said to be taken on" the wings of a promissory note. -I