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RECORDER
VOL. XXII.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. MAY 25. 1900.
NO. 22.
Down the canon of tho streot,
Heat tho muffled mtretting feet!
Hear the thousand-throated hutt),
A* tho soldiers m-arer come!
Eagerly the people crowd;
Faintly now, and now more loud,
While we listen, breathless, dumD,
Comos tho droning of tho drum.
Marching down tho western light,
Bursts the column ou our sight!
Through the myriad golden motes
Splendidly our banner floats!
Thou tho sudden-swelling ehoer,
Voicing nil wo hold most dear,
Wondrous, welling wavo of sound,
Till the whirring drum is drowned!
Now the marching mon havo passed;
Wo bavd watched them to the last,
Till the column disappears
In a mist of sudden tears.
Loves and hates before unguessed
Tremble in the troubled breast;
Loves and hates and hopes and foars
Waking from the sleep of years.
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T was in tho carly
part ol' the war, in
the summer ot' 'GI,
that -luck Killis on
lisied. There was
a recruiting office at
Lake City. In front
of tliis office a baud
..'. fy. ? ui iuib omeo ii uaui
, M was playing patriot
f . '?,- j0 airs; above ita
/m roof tho Stars aud
' y ., . ?'., Stripes were flying.
And thero Major
n ' ?: j 4 / J Seel y harangued
f w/'j ? tho young men.
?V|f?* ' .Tack llillia was
seventeen and a month, but ho was
tall and large and looked twenty. So
he signed his name aud was accepted.
It was a possibility that his mother
had never imagined. Sho was patri?
otic, though abe averred she belonged
to the peace party. Sho' did not be?
lieve in war. And now, not forty
miles from tho farm, was this loud?
mouthed, shoulder-strapped fellow
inveigling her boy and others into
Biguiug ms papers. She would seo
about ii.
Of Mrs. Hillis' four sous Jack was
her favorite. Simon, the eldest was
in business, and married. Ho was
already making great gains on his
merchandise because of the state_of
the country and tho fears of the fu?
ture. He would most assuredly not
enlist.
Eben had receutly graduated from
a medical college. He talked loftily
about going into the field asa surgeon
if Uncle Sam needed him. Bat as a
common soldier??"no, thank you."
Next there was Joe. It was the
general opinion in the family and the
neighborhood that Joe was good be?
cause be lacked strength of character
to be otherwise. No one knew his de?
ficiency better than did his mother.
.He had always beeu the'stupid one of
the family. He .was the drudge for
his mother and brothers.
Jack, the youngest of tho quartette
of sons, was the darling of the house.
He was the brightest of the family.
And now he had enlisted!
On the evening of the day that
Major Seely had released Jack, Joe
was comiug home from the Raynor
farm-house. The Hillis and the Ray?
nor farms joined. Jennie Raynor met
Joe in the shadow of a hedge. Of all
the girls in the neighborhood Jennie
was the only oue who had beeu kind
to Joe. On this evening, after talk?
ing over Jack for some time, Joe said:
"If I should enlist I don't believe
mother would try to get me off."
Jennie hesitated. She felt that Joe
spoke the truth. After a pause she
continued, "But you won't enlist,
Joe?"
"I don't know; I'd rather volunteer
than bc drafted. I don't like the
joe's fabevbiiL to na oiul uk left
bbhutd.
idea of being driven out to bc shot
at."
"Ho you think tho war's going to
last long?"
"I don't kuow. ll it does I'm
going-" . , -
"Oh, Joe!" aud Jenuie s face was
very white.
Joe, watching her, felt his heart
give a great leap and then stand still.
Could it be possible? He, tho stupid
of the family, the blockhead of tho
neighborhood, and she, the prettiest,
the brightest and the best girl in the
world!
There was a silence for a miuu'oi
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then Jeunio said she must go, home.
Joe detained her by the very slightest
touch on her sleeve. "Would you
care, Jennie? If I go to the war or
if I stay at home, do you care?"
"Yes, Joe, I care very much,"
Jennie answered, with flushing cheeks
and downcast eyes.
Sho lifted her eyos. Joe's face was
very near her own. The twilight was
deepening. Their lips met, aud each
felt that this was their betrothal.
Aud so it came to pass that within
less than six months from the time of
tho chance meeting in the shadow of
tho hedge Joe Hillis came home from
Bradley looking very thoughtful. After
supper he said:
"I enlisted to-day, and I'm going
into camp the first of next week, I
belong to Terry's cavalry."
general before long?" Eben asked,
laughing.
"No, I guess not," Smalley an?
swered. "But he's got the title of
hero if ever a man got it, and he'll
keep it, too. Future histories will
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LIEUTENANT HILLIS BORE THE COLORS
HIMSELF.
mention how Lieutenant Hillis, when
officer after officer was shot down,
steadily kept the men under control,
prevented a retreat, and at last led
them, bearing the colors himself, and
captured the battery that was doing
so much harm-"
"Then he'll bf* captain or something
higher?" Jack exclaimed, eagerly, and
springing from his chair.
"No, he won't be anything,"
Smalley said, sadly.
"But why?" Mrs. Hillis asked,
sharply.
"Because, Mrs. Hillis, I came to
tell you?wu thought it would be bet?
ter?and I got a furlough?and?I
brought Joe home with me, and-"
There was the sound of slow-mov?
ing wheels at thc gate. The father,
from where he sat, looked through
the open door. Thero was a hearse at
the gate, di apod Avith the Stars and
Strip cs.
TO MY SONS WHO DIED FOR HE
/776 -w /SOO
"Joe, why have you done this?" his
father asked.
"For tho same reason that other
men aro doing the same thing; be?
sides, it looks to mo as if a family of
five men ought to produce at least one
soldier."
Yes, it does look that way," bis
mother said, in a hard, unnatural
tone; "aud I don't see how auy of the
rest could be spared. I hope you'll
keep your wits about you, and try to
understand what's said to you, and
not. bring any-" she hesitated,
came near saying "more," but fin?
ished, "any discredit on us."
"I'll do my best, mother, as I al?
ways do."
Aftor Joe was gone he was missed
by the homo folks because of the work
ho had done. His older brothers
found it a continual joko that Joe had
gone to be a soldier.
There were letters, dutiful and
kindly, from Joe to his father and
mother. After a time he mentioned
skirmishes and battles ho had been
in. Oucehe was wounded, and wrote
from a hospital. His name was in the
newspaper lists. After seeing his
name in print Joe's family knew that
he was no longer a private. He was
mentioned as Lieutenant Joseph
Hillis. There was a general pause in
thc family conversation.
Tho mother said, "Siuco he was
the only one that could bo spared,
I'm glad he's doing so well."
lt was Sunday afternoon, and all
the Hillis family were at the farm.
There was a step on the porch. Mr.
Hillis arose aud met at the door a
mau in soldier-blue. His face was
pale aud thin and his right arm was
in a sling.
"You don't know me?" he said,
smiling; and then Mr. Hillis recog?
nized Jim Smalley, who had gone
into the army -with Joe. He was
warmly welcomed, but ho responded
coldly.
Jack said, "Well, I say, Jim, isn't
our Joe coming out in fiuo feather?
You ace bim ouco in awhile, even if
ho is an officer, don't you?"
"Yes, yes, I seo him sometimes."
"Po you think he'll bc a brigadier
"And did he remember us? Did
he send any message?" Mrs. Hillis
sobbed.
"Yes, he remembered; he mentioned
you especially. He said I should tell
you that he was glad it was himself
instead of either oue of the other boys;
that ho was sure he could be best
spared. But Joo always was modest."
Best spared! Mrs. Hillis recalled
her own words. He could be spared
at the time he went away, and the
others were so precious. But never
to see him again! This patient,
silent, unappreciated son!
The manner of Joe's death was told
over his remains, and each year as
Memorial Day comes little children
hear the story of the young soldier
whose grave is marked by a tall monu?
ment and a fiagstafl' where the colors
aro always flying.
A QnsCCfW Custom.
It is a graceful and beneficent cus?
tom which has been established of de?
voting ono day in the year especially
to the commemoration of the virtues
of the dead. Their memory comes to
us, bidden or unbidden. It comes
with the morning light; it comes with
the evening shades; it comes in the
stillness of the night. Whenever it
conies it is always welcome and
precious. Indeed, oue of our chief
companionships, which we cultivate
and enjoy more almost than auyolher,
is the recollection of thoso we have
loved and lost. ?
In ltevertiiro Trcail.
In reverence tread near the spot where
they lb*
Ami dei k it with garlands the fairest;
Let tears like the dews that ara wept lroin
on high
Refreshen its verdure, tho rarest;
For nearest to beaven of all earth is tho
sod
Where dust of our bravo boys reposes,
And nearest their souls to tho great throne
of God
When death their proud history closes.
When the Antietam 1
Was Red With Blood, |
OUBLY sacred to "tut
hearbs of many West
ern families are the
waters of Antietam.
because those water?
were crimsoned bj
the blood of father-,
brothers, husbands
and sons during one
of the most sanguiu
avy battles of the
Civil War. The pict?
ures herewith given
will be of special in?
terest to the veterans
of the Eighth Illinois
Cavalry, the 'First, Second, Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Twentieth and Twenty-fourth Michi?
gan Infantry; the Seventh, Four?
teenth, Nineteenth aud Twentieth In?
diana Volunteers, and the Second,
Third, Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, for they were all
most terribly mixed up in the many
bloody encounters of the 16th and
17th of September, 1862, along the
Antietam from Hagerstown to Sharps
burg.
God alone knows who owned the
good right arm, the photograph of
which is above, but it probably be?
longed to one of General Sedgwick's
commands, who made theil1 famous
charge through the cornfield just
north and east of the historic Dunker
Church, for it was plowed up in this
field five years after the battle, aud
has been siuco that time in the office
of Drs. D. Fahrney aud son, of
Hagerstown, Md. Its wonderful state
of preservation cannot be accounted
for, as a chemical analysis of the soil
in which it was fouud shows no pre?
serving or mummifying qualities.
The other picture is of the old mill
and falls just above the stone bridge
which was the scene of a bloody con?
flict between the Federals, who were
defending Hagerstown, aud the Con?
federates, who were endeavoring to
gain possession of the towu. lt is
said the slaughtor of horse and meu
was such at this cavalry fight that the
Antietam ran blood for several hours
below these falls. The ground in this
locality, especially along the banks of
the stream, is almost solid rock, and
the blood rau rapidly int'j the creek.
There'is a gentlemau in Chicago,
having an office in the Board of Trade
Building, who was a major in the
Federal army and provost marshal of
Hagerstowu at that time.
Just over the hill back of the little
brick house shown in the picture is a
female academy, from the balcony of
which the Confederate sharpshooters
were firing upon the Union offioers
down in the city, aud there are to this
day many musket halls bedded in the
walls around the public square at the
crossing of Washington and Potomac
streets.
The Eighth Illinois Cavalry was en?
gaged iu these skirmishes, and mauy
members of that organization, which
was under command of Colonel W.
Gamble, will call to tniud the hot time
in that old town.
?.Jratefully Kemeuiltereil.
The aimil al occurrence of the day
when the nation pays its tribute to and
reveres aud honors the dead who
fought toe the preservation of the
Union, who suffered aud slaved aud
sacrificed everything eveu life, for the
country they loved, brings te the at?
tention of all patriots tho fact that
those who serve the nation are not for?
gotten. Though they have patted
away, the boys who wore thc blue are
remembered, aud their graves are dee
orated by loving bauds, that appre?
ciate and respect and honor their
courage aud services.
An Occasion That U Uui<,ue.
No other nation has a Memorial
Day just like this of our own, save,
perhaps, Germany, which every year
renders to tho soldiers of tho Empire
certain honors modeled after our ex?
ample. lu spite of the occasion which
it offers for sports anil amusement*
?innovations much regretted, but
entirely inevitable?Memorial Day of
all our holidays remains tho most
picturesque, characteristic aud im?
pressive.
I .mn- That ls Deathless.
The Herominglos'lwith the dust,
But Glory shrines his deathless fame;
The tomb received its hallowed trust,
But unborn ages breathe His name!
Yes, mighty dead! In every breast
Thou still shall .live, to memory dear;
This turf, by virgin footsteps prest.
Shall witness Sorrow's dewy tear!
Bars **z-i Js-.v* u."i-i.
HOTEL BLAZE,
CHICAGO DISASTER RKSCLTS IN
DEATH OF Tn KKK PKOPT.K.
14 SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Karly Horning Coaftagnttloa Destroys
a Hostelry in the Windy City?Several
BallsMSl Rescues Were Reported, the
Heroes in Which were a 1'orter nnd
Several Policemen.
Chicago, III., (Special.V-Three person!
were killed and 14 were injured in a (Ire
which destroyed the Hotel Helene, at 110 to
114 Fifty-third street. Five of the injured
will probably die.
The dead: Charlotte Paterson, dining-room
girl; found In her roora, barned to a crisp.
Lena Pearson, found burned almost beyond
recognition In room with Miss Paterson. S.
G. McNaddln.
The seriously injured: W. E. Horn, burned
about face and hands and hody, 'eg brokeD.
will die; E. E. Tarbux, 1 urned about the
body, recovery doubtful; Elizabeth Florence,
Internally injured and skull fractured, un?
conscious, recovery doubtful; E. B. Alien,
both ankles sprained and Internally injured
in jumping from third-story window; Mrs.
T. Allen, back broken and internally injured,
jumped from third-story window, will die;
Helen Joseph, badly bruised and overcome i
by smoke; Stella Neilwolski, chambermaid.'
jumped from first floor, overcome by smoke
and injured Internally: L. James McNeil,
porter, bumed about face; Sarah Hutchin?
son, high school teacher, injured in falling
from second floor; James Costin, fireman,
out by falling glass; airs. Bruce and baby,
overcome by smoke; Thomas Morgan, polloe
raan, back Injured, and Mtv. Adella Lawson,
badly bruised.
The loss to the building and fiirn'shings
was $40,000.
The destruction of the hotel was replete
wifh daring rescues and nairne escape, in
which Jamas McNeil earned himself the title
of hero. Ho was a porter in the hotel and
the first to warn the sleeping occupants of
their danger. He carried Helen Joseph down
a swaying ladder from the third floor, and
thou, amid the cheers of the oulookers, re?
turned to the second floor, where a woman
was lying unconscious, her clothing on fire.
He carried her to the window and dropped
her into the arms of Policeman Wolf.
The effort and the heat were too much for
McNeill, and he staggered back into the
smoke. The people below thought he
was l06t. A policeman mounted to the
shoulders of a brother officer, and. clamb?
ering over the window ledge, caught Mo
Nell by the feet and dragged him from the
room. McNeil was passed down to the
ground and soon recovered consciousness.
The rescue of a woman and her baby
aroused the enthusiasm of the crowds.
Mrs. Bruce, with one arm around her infant,
was clinging with the other arm to the ledge
pl a second-itory window. Smoke was
pouring out and Mrs. Bruce seemed to be on
the point of failing. Her fingers were re?
laxing, when suddenly three policemen,
carrying a blanket held taut among them,
rushed into the flames, which were then
darting from tho basement windows, just in
time to catch the woman and her child, sav?
ing th^m from almost certain death. Mrs
Bruce was badly burned, but had succeeded
in protecting her baby. There were many
other narrow escapes and exhibitions of
courage during the burning of the structure,
aa there was ouly one entrance to the build?
ing, which compelled the greater number of
tho guests to make their exits ai best they
could through the windows.
The rescues wore nearly all accomplished
before the firemen arrived. The blaze spread
so rupidly that, had the people in the hotel
been compelled to await the arrival of the
hook and ladder company, more lives would
have been lost. The policeman and others
on the ground early, however, were able to
secure ladders from a paint store nearby,
and by this means saved many of the guests
from death.
The fire started in the basement and
spread with the greatest rapidity. But for
the horoio action of Porter McNeil every
person ia the building would undoubtedly
have perished.
A FATAL DJCIVK.
?James Bartley, of Staunton, Found Dead
in a Surrey.
Staunton, Ya., (Special.)?Elmer Britt,his
wife and her brother, John Bowe, hired a
surrey after midnight, James Bartley being
the driver. Most of the party, it is said,
were drinking. They drove to Basic City
and returned at ii o'clock, all but Howe, who
was left behind, lying on the back seat of the
surrey. Bartley was dead. At a coroner's
inquest evidence was to tho effect that in a
quarrel Bowe struck Bartley on tbs head
three or four times with his fist, as a result
of which Bartley died.
STRI'CK HY A LOCAL FREIGHT.
Uno Hrother Kill, il and Another Serious?
ly Injured.
Parkersburg. W. Ya., (Special).?Adam
and Carl Eckhart. brothers, aged 18 and 'lo
year;, respectively, employed hy the Par?
kersburg Chair Factory, while returning
tome about 7 o'olock were struck by a local
freight train near the Baltimore and Ohio
shops, the former being instantly killed and
tho latter seriously injured.
Mules for South Africa.
New Orleans, (Special.) --The steamer
Monarch sailed for Cape Town. Africa, with
1,500 mules, nnd the steamer Corinthia
bleared for tho same port with 1.450 mules,
nil tho animals being consigned to British
army officials.
Fire at Paris Imposition.
Paris, (By Cable.)-A fire occurred at the
f'.xposition. The flames were discovered in
;h<< basement of tho Chateau d'Etau. The
ire was extinguished after an hour's hard
work.
Roanoke's Cotton lilli.
Roanoke. Ya., (Special.)?The Ronnol:1
SottOH Mill will be in operation In a few
nontbs. The stockholders elected officers
for the first year.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The government officials are vigorously
pushing the investigation into the alleged
costal frauds in Havana. A dispatch from
(hat city says that one of the culprits bas
made a confession which implicates others
besides Charles F. W. Neely.
The House, by a majority of one, unseated
Mr. Crawford, Democrat, of North Carolina,
ind seated Mr. Pearson, his Republican com?
petitor.
"Jurisprudence" was tho topic d scussed
it the final day's lession of the American
jjodal Science Association.
THE NEWS.
The Masonic Order in Topeka. Kau.. 11
Interested in the prosecution of Christian
Scientists who attended the widow ol >
Knight Templar. The woman died of peri
tonitis. '
Elizabeth Longnecker sue?i Zion Eva igel
ieal Church, of Mannheim, Ph., an 1 filed a
bill claiming that thc church secured 15,000
in county bonds from her by fraud.
Jefferson Leake served notice OB Rev.
Thomas Simontou, of Lower Valley. N. J.,
that he would sue thc preacher for marrying
his minor daughter without his consent.
Thc Chinese of Han Francisco have re?
tained attorneys to contest in tin; courts thc
light of the health authorities to compel
them to submit to inoculation.
Lorenzo N'addor. from Badi f'eslh. lauded
In New York on Saturday. was easily swin?
dled out of all the money ho had, and theo
asked to be deported.
Prof. Roy Wilson White, of the ia* de?
partment of the University of Benns;, ka?
nia, was brutally murdered ly unknown
parties In Philadelphia.
Several city councilmen of shamokin, Pa.,
were convicted ly a jury of conspiracy in
connection witta the street paving contracts.
A secret meeting ol vaudeville theater
managers wai held in Boston, it is claimed,
for the purpose of forming a trust.
The fight between the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiner! ind thc Allied
Building League was called off.
Martin Frey, of near Newviile, Pa., Ulled
his brother-in-law, Giorgi Collin, la a quar?
rel.
Gardiner S. Williams, a veteran profaner
of Cornell University, died of paralysis.
A proclamation of outlawry was issued at
Fayetteville against Thomas Fort.
Alois Coulter was assassinated in Lis tarn,
near Marliugton. W. Ya.
Miss Dora Wolfe was iwona In as mail
carrier at Ripley, W. Va.
The granite strike in Westerly, R. L, WU
fettled.
A letter cf commendation i repired by the
colored pastors of Macon has been sent to
Ex-OoTirnor MacCorkle, of West Virginia.
Horr.ce S. Clark, of Mattoon. has been
nominated for Congress by the Republican!
of the Nineteenth Illinois District.
The Washingtou Supreme Court ha*
affirmed the decision of the King* County
Court iu the case of George C. Lawrence
appellant, vs. the Times Printing Company
and the Associated Press, respondents from
Kings county.
Both the Yosemite Valley stages?one go?
ing each way?were held up at night by a
lone highwayman at B g Neck Flat.
The 18th quadrennial session of the Meth
odist Protestant Church Conference of the
United States opened in Christ Church, At?
lantic City. Dr. J. W. Hering, of Westmin?
ster, Md., presided.
The. St. Louis Presbyterian Assembly re?
commended to Congress that no more ap?
propriations bo made to national exposi?
tions in this country unless they be closed
on Sunday.
The Missouri House of Delegates passed
the bili to revoke the frai chise of the vari?
ous St. Louis street railway companies in
case they failed to run cars in Compliance
with terms of city ordinances.
Reports have been received to the effect
that two men were killed and seven injured,
three fatally, by the explosion of the boiler
of a locomotive on the Illinois Central Pail
road at Dubois, 111.
Two hundred employes of the Briggs
Seabury Clan and Ammunition Company
quit work.
It was declared that the (dot to blow u]
tho Welland Canal probably originated in
New York.
The Iowa City Fogal Ruilding was dam?
aged 150,000 by fire. Insurance- unknown.
Negotiations for the i-ale of the Rawhide
mine, the once-famous gold prod-ttccr ol
Tuolumce county. California, to an English
syndicate have been practically completed.
The price ls said to be 1850.0 Kb
Tho strike situation of tho building
trades, the telephone and electric light line.
nen m.d Un* girls employed at tho eigll
factory of Harberger, Homan A Co., Phila
delphia, romulus practically unchanged.
According to Acting Commissioner Mc?
sweeney, the largest number of immigrant.
ever received nt an American port in om
day arrived at the Barge Office in New Y'>rir
W. dnesdey.
The Missouri Republican Convention
adopted resolutions indorsing President
McKinley and denouncing trusts.
Two persons were killed and 15 injured,
five fatally, In the burning of tho Rote]
Helene at Chicago.
Nearly all St. Louis street car lines began
operations with non-union men.
The autl-lmper'alists are considering tho
project of holding a National Convention
soon after the Kansas City gathering.
Tho Southern Industrial Conference
Chattanooga indorsed the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum.
Thc directors of the National Tobo Com?
pany declared the regular quarterly divi?
dend of 1*4 per cent, on thc preferred stock
ami a quarterly dhideud of \\^ per cont, on
the common stock.
Thc Childs' Diniug-llall Company, capital
11,060,000, was iii'-orporated at Trenton,
N. J.
The Gonoral Conference of the Methodist
Kplscopal Church voted to increase by tw?
its board of general superintendents, thus
adopting the majority report of the commit?
tee on episcopacy.
Former President Cleveland, accompanied
by E. C. Benedict, boarded the steam yacht
Oneida for a two-weeks'cruise in the We-1
Indies, Including a visit to Havana.
The body of Charles N. Bertram, a theatri?
cal manager of New York, who had been
missing since April 21, was found In til?
ba v.
Thirty-seven Japanese were arrested In
New Whatcom. Wash., who are alleged to
bo paupers and who aro endeavoring lo
secure entrance iuto the United States.
The stocking factory of Morgan <V Men?
zies was totally destroyed by fire nt Wilkes
barre. Pa. Tho loss is *60.000, covered by
insurance.
William Willis, a negro, who shot and
killed Alexander Whitney at Augusta, (ia .
was lynched by a mob about twelve miles
from that city.
A quarrel between children at Dunmore.
Pa., was Wowed by Mrs. Mary Pace,
mother of CM of tho children, making a
lurioui nttack on Mis. Sylvester Bellow*,
mother of the other child. with a butcher
kail ?.
Charles IL Cole, former president of tho
Globe National Bank of Boston, was sen?
tenced to eight years' Imprisonment for mis?
appropriating funds.
The Municipal Loagup of Philadelphia
calls upon Mayor aahbiidgl "> "Ither dlsa
vow ni! connection with the ailee- i| -, i ;.:,..
to intimidate Mr, Wannmaker or . . . .. .
OffiCC,.4." .
THE OLD DOMINION,
I.ATKST NKWiOLSAKJCO IKO.U VIKI'
<M s PABTI Ol VIKI.IMA.
WASHINGTON AND LEE.
I nt* rr it lng Fragrant far the Coisuiaee
meiit PJaeretota?Tho Drtmtfc in ih?aa
iloala Thoma* ii. Ollltam United ai
rrtnuhasii, flsBeil Olileiagl Kxoncratee
at Newport New ..
The annual commencement exercises ai
Washington and Lee University, which begtl
.lune 17, will be oue of ninny Inter, s ing fea
turee, the central one being the dedicetiof
Of the John Baudolph Tucker Memoria
Ball oa tho morning of June 19 at ll o'clock.
Addiesses are to bo delivered bj OX Ollie
t. ry Jbhl (i. Carlisle, of New York, formei
Boiieitor-QeeeraJ Conrad, of Winchester, anc"
a poem on the occasion by Bev. Dr. Bev?
erley ]), Tucker, of Norfolk. Sunday. Jun*
17, thebacealaur 'ateaermoa will be preached
by Bev. Dr. Randolph il. MeKim, rector o
Epiphany Episeo; a' Church. Washington
D. C. The addre-s b?fore the Young Men'.'
<' rUtion Assoo'atlon wi'.l be delivered bj
the Rev. William A. Birr. ..f ttlohmood
Hu-. John W. Davis, of Weat Virginia, wit
deliver Mic address before the Alumi AMO
elation en June IO, The closing ixereieei
Will t:ike p'aoi Jun" 20. In order to gratify
a very natur il d' ^ir" on the part of the lae
stud-id^ of Washiagton and !.-<*- Caivenftj
b-<-t a re.- r>re nowi>l'ig held tn tho Tuekei
Memorial Hall, io that thou of the grad nat
tug elate m;<y in after \"ar- relate that the]
w re thc Brat to attend Jaw leotard in tl:*:
hands' me memorial to one of Ylrgtnfe'l
gn steal law expounder*, lu a few days th*
hail will be completed In every detail eat*
ready for the dedication. A>- it ls now th?
entire building, both Interior and exterior
presents itself to the spectator as being i
building of creat beauty and mnssiven'-ss
The oil palntlngi which Washington aud
Lee iniversity ll to receive by the bpques'
of Mr. Yincent L. Bradford, of rhiladel
i bia. ar-' estimated to be worth * 16.000
There are 62 of them. In the catalogue ar<
works by Rubens. Tintoretto. Paui Yerouese.
Correggio and Tani Bril. There are alse
works from the brushes of several doses
other artists of fine standing, if not of na
'tional repute. Beware american*. EoflW
of the paintings are of saer-d character, yel
the subjects are of Unlimited variety, em?
bracing sea, liver and landscape view-, wai
and domestic scenes, romance and mythol?
ogy also being Included. The possession of
thia bluest will add another interesting
feature to the mauy at ih"* university. They
will be brought here this summer, havlny
leen turned ov r to the university, and
placed in the larcro room on the second Hool
of the Warren-Neweornb Hali, which war
intended to bo used as an art gallery whee
the building was erected.
Thomas M. Gilliam Railed.
Thomas M. Gilliam, charge.I with the sc.
duelion of a daughter ot Mr. M. W. sterne
of Petersburg, was taken from thejail bj
Sheriff Boisseau. of Prince George, and car?
ried before Justice Lane, of that county,
where the alleged oftVnee was committed,
The examination was waived by soaaeal foi
the accused and the ease certified to the next
torm of the County Court. Gilliam was next
taken before Judge Timothy Rives, of the
County Court, before whom application foi
bail was made. The Court allowed bail, lr
the penalty of 11,000, which was readih
given.
The Drouth in Shenandoah.
The drouth continues In Shenandoah
county. But one rain, aud that of little con
sequence, has fallen since april 23. The
water supply is getting low and in many
localities the farmers are hauling water foi
farm purposes. The oldest eiiiz-ns cannot
recollect such a spring droath nnd say un?
less tt ia soon broken that nothing canbe
expected from the spring cops or from
wheat. Already the newly planted clover
has been killed, and wheat, although hardly
mon! than 12 inches high, is beginning tc
head. Tho Shenandoah river is lower than
ever known before at this time of the year
Died Pron Lockjaw.
Fannel Cherelly, a florid; well known in
Alexandria and the District of Columbia,
died of lockjaw at hi- home on the Hunting
Creek road. He had established there very
extensive green botttv I and did a flourishing
business in the Washington and Alexandria
market!. A few days ago he injured his
hand and from the wound came the lock?
jaw, which showed itself and caused hi?
de?th.
Olllcer Olddiii?s Exonerated.
Officer S. W. Giddings is now entirely re?
lieved of the oharge of the murder of "Jim"
Eppe, the segre who was shot in Roeketts.
The grand jury Investlge'ed the case, and
after examining all of thc witnesses that
could be procured, announced that thej
could return no true bill.
Virginia Brevities.
Mr. John E. Battye, master mechanic foi
the Norfolk and Western machine shops at
Roanoke, is dead.
Col. P -rry Nugent, for many years a prom?
inent citizen Of Roanoke county, died neal
Greenville. Miss.
Rev. James Haynes died al hi- home, rn?ni
St. Clair. Tenn., on april '!?>. WOO, aged 6*
y iais. Mr. Haynes was a native of Monroe
county, Weft Ylrginia.
Sudan Ilahy.
In the Church of All Saints in Cairo
took place lately an interesting cere?
mony, where an infaut memorial of tho
overthrow of khalifadom la Africa wa3
christened in the presence of a large
gathering of English people and under
the auspices of Queen Victoria. The
small heroine cf the gathering was the
daughter of Col. Sir Reginald Wingate
(pasha, sirdar of the Egyptian army
and governor of the Sudan) and of
Lady Wingate. The queen, represented
by the Hon. Mrs. Talbot, was the prin?
cipal godmother. The child was
born the day after Sir Reginald
Wingate's victory over the khalifa at
Om Debrikat. where the dervishes were
routed and the khalifa killed. Her
majesty presented a diamond pendant
to her godchild, who also received a
handsome cup from Lord Cromer, a
golden cross from the bishop of Jeru?
salem, who performed the ceremony,
and a diamond cross from Sir R. Statin.
\Ve never know what we can do un
til we have failed to make somebody
else do lt for us,