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, As the morning's light broadened
into day (January 3, 1777) he met the
British detachment at Princeton in the
way, and drove it back in a decisive
rout, a keen ardor coming into his
blood as he saw the sharp work done.
"An old-fashioned Virginia fox-hunt,
gentlemen," he exclaimed, shouting
the view-halloo. Had his troops been
fresh and properly shod to outstrip
Cornwallis at their heels, he would
have pressed on to New ' Brunswick
and taken the stores there; but he
had done all that could be done with
dispatch, and withdrew straight to
the heights of Morristown.
The Patriots Winners.
Cornwallis could only . Hasten back
to New York. By the end of the month
the Americans fwere everywhere afoot;
the British held no -posts in New Jer
sey"" but Paulus Hook, Amboy, and
New Brunswick; and Washington had
issued a proclamation commanding all
who had accepted General Howe's of
fer of pardon either to withdraw with
in the British lines or to take the oath
of allegiance to the United States
Men loved to tell afterwards how
Frederick the Great had said it was
the most brilliant campaign of the
century.
Congress took rteps before the win
ter was over to secure long enlist
nents, and substitute a veritable army
for the three months' levies with which
Washington had hitherto been strug
gling to make shift.
Pledges His Private Fortune.
After the affair at. Trenton, Wash
ington had been obliged to pledge his
own private fortune for their pay to
induce the men whose terms of enlist
ment were to expire on New Yecr's
day more than half his force to etay
with him but a few weeks more, till his
plan should be executed. Now he was
authori-d to raise regiments enlisted
till the war should end, and to exer-
r
else almost dictatorial powers In
everything that might affect the disci
pline, provisioning, and success of his
army.
There was need, for the year wit
nessed fighting of tremendous conee-J
qnence.
Brave British Plana,
The British struck for nothing less
than complete possession of the whole
state of New York, throughout tlve val
leys of the Hudson and the Mohawk.
General Howe, who had about twenty
thousand men In New York city, was
to move up the Hudson; General Bur
goyne, with eight thousand men, from
Canada down Lake Champlain; Colo
nel St. Leger, with a small but suffi- j
cient force, down into the valley of the
. Mohawk, striking from Oswego, on
Ontario, and the colonies were to be
cut In twain, New England hopelessly
'separated from her confederates, by.
the converging sweep of three armies,
aggregating more than thirty-three
thousand .men.
But only the coast country, it turned
out, was tenable ground for British
troops.
Ticonderoga Falls.
Sir Guy Carleton had ; attempted
Champlain out of Canada the year be
fore, and had gone back to Quebec
withont touching Ticondergsi, so dis
concerted had he been by the price
he had had to pay for his passage up
the lake to a small force and an ex
temporized fleet under Benedict Arn
old. This time Burgoyne, with his splen-
AA armv mnrtA short WOrk Of Ticon-
deroga (Jmly, 1777), and drove Gen
eral Schuyler and his army back to
their posts beybnd the Hudson; but
the farther he got from his base upon
the lake into the vast forests of Jhat
wide frontier the more certainly did
he approach disaster.
No succor came. St. Leger was baf
fled, and sent In panic back -the way
he had come.
Howe did not ascend the river. -The
country swarmed with gathering mi
litia. They v would not volunteer, for
distant campaigns ;-ut this Invading
nost, marching by their very homes
into the-deep foreBt, roused them and
tempted them as theyjiad been roused
at Concord, and they gatheired at its
rear and upon its flanks as they had
run together to invest Boston.
A thousand men ' Burgoyne felt
obliged to leave in garrison at Ticon
deroga; a thousand more, sent .to Ben
nington, to selid th stores ttre, were
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overwhelmed and taken (August io.
Quite twenty thousand provincials
presently beset him, and he had but
six thousand left wherewith to save
himself.
He crossed the river, for he still
expected Howe; and there was stub
born fighting about Saratoga (Septem
ber 19, October 7), Jn which Arnold
once more made his name in battle.
But the odds were too great; Bur
goyne's supplies were" . cut off, his
troops beaten; there was nothing for
it but capitulation (October 17).
He had been trapped and taken by
a rising of the country.
Washington Outgenerals Howe.
Howe had not Buccpred him, part
ly because he lacked judgment and
capacity, partly because Washington
had thwarted him at every .turn. From
his position at Morristown, Washing
ton could send reinforcements to the
north or recall them at will, without
serious delay; and 4Iowe, in his hesi
tation, gavte him abundant time to do
what he would.
It was Sir William's purpose to oc
cupy the early summer, ere Burgoyne
should need him, in an attack on Phil
adelphia. On the 12th of June, ac
cordingly, he threw a force of eighteen
thousand men into New Jersey.
But Washington foiled him at each
attempt tr advance by r-anins; always
upon his flank in such a position that
he could neither be safely ignored nor
forced to fight; and the prudent Howe,
abandoning the march, withdrew once
more to New York.
British Come to Philadelphia.
But he did not abandon his project
against Philadelphia.
He deemed it the "capital" n the
insurgent confederacy, and wished to
discredit congress and -win men of
doubtful allegiance to his standard by
its capture; and he reckoned upon
some advantage in drawing Washing
ton after him to the southward, avay
from Burgoyne's field of operations
in the north. Though July had come,
therefore, and Burgoyne must need
him presently, he put his eighteen
thousand men aboard the fleet and
carried them by sea to the Chesa
peake. Washington Puzzled.
Washington was sorely puzzled. He
had taken It for granted that Howe
would go north, and 'he had gone
south!
"Howe's in a manner abandoning
Burgoyne is so unaccountable,' he
said, "that I cannot help casting my
eyes continually behind me?' and he
followed very cautiously, ready upon
the moment to turn back, lest .the
movement should prove a feint.
But there was no . mistake. Howe
entered , the Delaware, and, being
frightened thence by reports of ob
structions in the river, went all the
long four hundred miles about the
capes of Chesapeake, and put his army
r.shore at Elkton for its advance upon
Philadelphia. " .
Defeat, But Not Rout.
It was then the 25th of August.
Washington met him (September 11)
behind the fords of the Brandywine,
and,' unable to check Cornwallis on
his flank, was defeated.
But for him defeat wa8 never rout;
his army was Btill intact and steady;
and he held his foe yet another fort
night on the road ere "capital" could
be entered (September 27).
Burgoyne was by that time jeep
within the net spread for him at Sara
toga. On the morning of the 4th. of
October, in a thick mist, Washingtpn
threw himself upon Howe's main
force encamped across the village
8treetof Germantown, and would have
overwhelmed it in the surprising on
set had not two of his own columns
gone astray in the fog, attacked each
other, and bo lost the moment's op
portunity.
But an Empty Success.
General Howe knev very soon how
barren a success he had had. The
end of November came before he had
made himself master. of the forts up
on the Delaware below, the "capital"
and removed the obstructions from
the river to give access to Tfla fleet;
the British power was broken and
made an end. of in the north; and
Washington was still at hand as Men
acing and dangerous' as ever.
Dr. Franklin was told in Paris that
General Howe had taken Philadelphia.
"Philadelphia has taken Howe," he
laughed. . , ,
Winters at Valley Forge.
Philadelphia kept Howe safely
through the winter, and his officers
made themselves easy amidst a round
of gayrfties in the complacent .to wn,
while Washingfbn went to Valley
Forge to face the hardships and the
intrigues of a bitter season.
A deep demoraliiatlon fell that irin
ter, like a irtight, upon all the busi
ness of the' struggling confederacy.
The congresn, In its exile at York, had
lost its tone and its command in af
fairs It would have lost it as com
pletely in Philadelphia, no doubt, for
ft was no logger the body it had b,
Its best members were withdrawn
to serve their respective states in the
Critical business, now everywhere in
hand of reorganizing their govern
ment' and it itself was no government
S a l', but simply a committee of ad
vice, which the states heeded or ig
nored aa they pleased. . -(
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Congress Without Power.
Oftentimes but ten or twelve merq
bers could be got together to transact
its business.. It suffered itself to fall
into the hands of intriguers and sec
tional v politicians. It gave commis
sions in the army not according to
merit, but upon. a plan carefully de
vised to advance no more officers from
one section than from another even
men like 'John Adam3 approving.
Adams denounced claims of senior
ity, and Bervice as involving "one of
the most putrid corruptions of abso
lute monarchy," and suggested that
the officers who did not relish the
idea of seeing the several states given
"a share of the general officers," pro
portioned to the number of troops they
had sent, to the army,, had better take
themselves off, and see how little
they would be missed.
Plot to Displace Chief.
Worst of all, an ugly plot was
hatched to displace Washington; and
the various distempers of different
men for a brief season gave it a chance
to succeed.
. Some were Impatient of Washing
ton's "Fabian policy," as they called
it, and would have had him annihilate,
instead of merely checking, these in
vading hosts.
"My toast." cried John Adams, "Is
a short and violent war."
(TO BE CONTINUED.
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CORRESPONDENCE
News That You Can't Get Elsewhere
SILVER CREEK
Mr. Owsley Farris is out again, after a
two weeks illness.
Mrs. West of Speedwell visited her son
W. C. West last week.
Miss Laura Underwood of Williamsburg
is the guest of T. J.- Underwood.
Miss Carolyn Ashcraft of Louisville is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jas. B. Nantz.
Mr. Walter Nantz of Louisville was the
guest af his brother Jas. B. Nantz Sunday.
Mrs. Barbara Roap and little granddaugh
ter Elsie visited relatives in Lancaster last
week. -
Mrs. Emma Montgomery of Parkersburg,
W. Va. is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Martin near Caleast.
Mrs. B. F. Tevis, formerly of this place,
but now living in Muskogee, Olka.. is the
guest of Mrs. M. F. Arbuckle and of reia.
tives in Lancaster. , , .
Mrs. C. E. Gaines and little son, Charles
Edward leave this week for lawrenceburg
where they will visit friends and relatives
for, a couple of weeks. .'. . v,
Miss Madrue Farris entertained Misses
Ellen Miller, Nancy Shearer, John Cor
nelison Azbill, Nannie Mae and Cynthia
Davidson of Richmond, from Thursday un
til Monday.
Miss Madrue Farris attended Miss Ellen
Gibson Miller's Boatparty last Tuesday.
There were about 75 guests, and all report
a delightful time..- They .bad dinner and
supper on the Boat, and plenty of music
for dancing. ?
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CoL W. P. Walton has Se
vere Attack
News was received here Mon
day morning that Col. W. P. Wal
ton, of Lexington; had suffered a
severe heart attack Sunday , night
and for several hours, it was fear
ed that he would expire. He ral
lied, however, and is now believed
to be. out of danger. His brother,
E. C. Walton, was here on a short
visit, but left early Monday for
Richmond and thence to -Lexington,;
to be with him.-Interior
Journal.
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- Lucky Strike
Thomas Park, Jr. , a brother-in-
law of Miss Bessie Park, of this
city, has struck it lucky. A vein
of fine barytes has been found on
his farm which will make him a
rich man.
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Sheep Killed
Seven sheep were killed for
Martin Gentry, of Moberly, by
lightning Friday.
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Beautiful Cantata
At Berea last Saturday night,
the Christian Church of that place
gave a cantata for the benefit of
the . church. ' The subject x was
"Jeptha's Daughter." The lead
ing characters were: Mr. Clinton
Early, representing Jeptha, Miss
Stella Bicknell, representing Jep
tha's Daughter, and Mr. Blaine
Gabbard representing the Prophet
The chorus consisted of thirty
voices' with Miss Laura Christ
man as accompanist.
.The play was beautifully staged
and the players handsomelv cos
tumed. The audience showed its
appreciation by repeated . encores
and other manifestations of ap
proval. The players showed
marked histrionic talent
An effort is being made to in
duce them to go to Paint Lick
and other places..
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N arrow Escape
Lewis Herrington, Jr. had a
close call for his life Monday
afternoon; He was on the rear
of an ace wagon when "a motor
cycle driven by Carrier Snowden
came by. Young Herrington, not
seeing the cycle,jumped off the
ice wagon directly )n the path of
the same. Not anticipating a
move of that kind, Snowden yas
unable to stop his machine which
knocked the child down and ran
over him. Fortunately no serious
injuries were sustained.
Colored Baptist Association
The colored Baptists of this
county have been holding an as
sociation at Silver Creek Church
for the last few days which has
been well attended. Some able
divines from this State and Ohio
have been in attendance and have
delivered some able , addresses.
Much enthusiasm was manifested
and great good has been accom
plished. The City of . Richmond
sent many of its good citizens to
the meeting daily.
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Miss Noland To Succeed Miss
West
The trustees of the Graded
School have elected Miss Marga
ret Noland of Richmond to suc
ceed Miss Knapp West, who re
signed as a member of the Fac
ulty. Miss Noland will teach the
eighth grade. She comes highly
recommended and is expected to
add much to the efficiency, of the
already splendid corps of teachers.
Lancaster Record.
Institute
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-The Madison County Institute
which commenced - its Annual
Session Monday is being taught
by Prof. T. J. Coates of Frankfort
former superintendent of schools
for Richmond. An interesting and
profitable session is anticipated.
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,Nor Support
Jim Hisle, of Clark County has
been arrested and placed iii jail
on a charge of failing to support
his family consisting of a wife and
an infant child. His trial is set
for Friday before Judge W. R.
Shackelford! v
Christopher Appointed -
John, D. Christopher, of this
city, has been appointed game
warden for the county of Madison.
He has received his commission
andhas gone to work examining
the streams of this county.
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Big Dinner
There will be a Basket Dinner
at the Methodist Church at-Red
House tfie Fifth Sunday Aug. 31.
Preaching , by O. J. Chanler.
Everybody is invited to come and
bring a basket arid their pocket
book. :
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General News
" it1 .
Stanley Beechmann, aged seven
was. drowned wljile. bathing at
Howard's Mill.
McRoberts in Letcher county
has been incorporated and A. B.
Patten named as Police Judge.
Two hundred and thirty seven
pensions were lately granted un
der the Confederate Pensions Act
making the total todate 741.
The jury from Madison county
which tried Red Tom Davidson
failed to agree and were dis
charged. It stood 8 for acquittal.
Carl Grober and Miss Bessie
Adams, of Ruckerville, eloped to
Louisville and were married there.
The groom is 16 and the bride 14
years of age. "
Elder J. W. Harding, of Win
chester preached at the Christian
Church on Fairfax St in that
city last Sunday. He is about 92
years of age and is still active.
J. Will Clay was nominated for
Senator in the Clark, Bourbon
and Montgomery District by sev
en majority over J. W. Hadden.
A contest will not be made.
Clay carried Montgomery, the
home of both candidates, but
Hadden carried Clark and Bour
bon by large majorities.
The State has sued the Farmers
Bank of Frankfort for $31,000.00
which it claims the bank paid
Chas. E. Booe illigally. And yet
the State Parole Board turned
this gentleman loose on the public
in a short time after his convic
tion. A petition for him was lib
erally, signed by people of this
county.
Floyd Day of the Day Lumber
Company has sued Chas. Doherty
of Louisville, for $42,880, for false
representation as to Bank stock
sold to Mr. Day of which Bank
Mr. Doherty was a Director. The
action seeks to charge him by rea
son of a statement of the Bank
sworn to by Mr. Doherty who was
a director.
Hon. E. E. Hogg, who was de
feated in his race for the nomina
tion on the Democratic ticket for
Senator for the Owsley, Breathitt
and Morgan county District, will
not contest the right of his oppo
nent, C. O. Arnett, to the certifi
cate of nomination, saying that
a nomination will not be of any
benefit to either. The District is
largely Republican and the Demo
cratic party is badly split
A monument has been erected
at the grave of John Fox, father
of John Fox, Jr., who isburied in
the Paris cemetery. Prof. Fox
was well known for his love of
nature and birds and the monu
ment erected over his grave is- a
crystal flowing fountain j which
will give water for the birds that
he loved so well. He was a na
tive of -Bourbon County, but lived
and died at Big Stone Gap, Va. .
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THE Investment Department af a Bal
timore" stock ' exchange house had a
caller who wished to buy fifty shares
of a certain investment stock. While the
customer waited; the manager called up the
firm's Philadelphia agent on the Bell Long
: Distance Telephone and secured the stock,
with the promise of delivery next day.
Quick trades are often made by, the
Bell Telephone service.
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- XXCOSPijxiA.TED
j Mrs. Thomas the wife of Con
, gressman R. Y. Thomas, has filed
. suit for divorce, alleging in her pe
j tition cruel and inhuman conduct
on the part of the husband.
Thomas has made himself
somewhat notorious for his ruf
fianism while at Washington, and
he assails'his wife, alleging that
she had become a violent partisan
and a Republican, and also al
leging 'that she was always a
Texas Democrat, until three years
ago and is now an enthusiastic
supporter of Roosevelt and vio
lently opposed to Champ Clark.
Mr. Thomas alleges that he will
run again for Congress in order
to vindicate himself.
It would appear to us that the
best vindication than he can have
will be to behave himself.
Geo. B. Hale
Our genial friend Geo. B. Hale,
has been chosen to take the 3rd
degree in the Fraternal Order of
Owls. This is a high compliment
as there are only fifty third degree
members in the United States
and these are chosen for some
service in behalf of the order.
The degree will be conferred at
head quarters in South Bend, In
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