The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 27, 1887, Page 2

Recollections of Gen. Reynolds. There is division t to-day anywhere | ibe? country a survivor ot Shelby’s of no cavalry, cast his lot the Missourt matter where he has since the struggles of lite have gone tor or against him, but will sorrow as only a true soldiercan over the lamenta- ble death of Thomas C. Reynolds. When the memorable Price expe- dition of 1864 entered the state Gov— ernor Keynolds came to Shelby’s division aod remained with it until the confederate forces re-entered Arkansas. He had a_ singular charm and fascination for Shelby, One reason tor it probably being the fact that in many things they were unlike. Reynolds was a calm, deliberate man; Shelby was a veritable thunderbolt of battle. Un- der a searching or distressing fire Reynolds was never known to speak foeder than the ordinary tones of conversation; Shelby’s voice could be heard above the roar of the ar- dillery, which he loved so much to loex after and to direct. Over and Over again Shelby tried to keep him out of a fight—and there was many a hot and stubborn one in those last Gesolate days ot trans-Mississippi department—but he could not. ‘Whereyer the bullets flew the thick- est, or the press of men about a certain point told that there was the hottest place in the line, Reynolds could be seen, suggesting, advising, encouraging. The men soon came to know and to love him. One day he had his horse killed. ‘*Never * mind, Governor,’’ said one of the soldiers, ‘I'll take a betterone from the Federals for you in about an hour.’” And sure enough he did, a splendid sorrel stallion, which the @overnor rode into Mexico. General Shelby was proud to have Governor Reynolds a guest at his headquarters. He firmly believ- ed that Jefferson City would be ta- kon, and he was exceedingly anx ious that, having escorted the gov- enor to the capital, he should issue & proclamation to the people of Missouri. How Shelby strove to bring this ‘thing about, and how, cutting loose from the main column and making sixty miles a day and night, he pro- <posed to attack St. Louis and swoop upon Jefferson City, is not worth while in this connection to narrate. The retreat to Arkansas was a memorable one. The whole rear ot the expedition was broken up at Mine creek, Kansas. Generals Marmaduke and Cabbell were cap- tured, their artillery was taken, and the victorious federals were pouring m to make a fimsh ot all the balance. Shelby was in tront fighting and keeping back from the wagon train acloud of cavalry on either flank, fooking more tormidable than they ceally were, and better at making demonstrations at long range than coming down to the immediate bed- tock business. war, or whether His horse hot and smoking from aturious ride, and at a dead run, one of Price’s staff officers—and it we mistake not now after all thus fapse of time, it . was Captain Charles T. Perrie—hurried up with the order: ‘“‘Gen. Price bids you counter-march at a gallop and save the army.” Governor Reynolds was at Shel- hy’s side when the order came. The bronze on his face scarcely deepened, Cool, patient, perfect in equanimity, he merely spoke thus sententiously to the cavalry com- mander: ‘There must have been @ grave disaster.’’ Thereafter the rear was never broken. Pleasanton imagined he could ride down everything; he did aot ride down Shelby; He tried once, twice, twenty times. All @ay and far into the night, all the aext. day and far into the night, Shelby held fast to that rear. Rey- aolds was by his side. Only once bd he seem to catch the tull glow, Sweep and ardor of the combat, and | then, after a particularly stubborn | and bloody melee at a stone fence, | be cried out, a little louder and with | little more emphasis than was his wont: ‘Shelby, it appears to me | that I am renewing my youth.” j When the war ctosed Shelby | ould not surrender, Instead, he aid hands pieces of splen- did artillery just through the biock- ade from France, loaded some six- ty wagons with small arms, ammu- nitions and provisions, and marched cone A for Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande at Piedras Negras, July 4, Governor Reynolds was with him. There tollowed Shelby into Mex- | ico a thousand men. Probably men such as these will never be congre- gated together again at the call of any commander. They were veter- ans who had seen every phase of fortune, and every stress and _ tor- ment of desperate war. Scarcely one among them that did not bear on his body the wounds. Some more than Some had wounds that are not yet healed. For personal prowess and iron discipline they were unap- proachable. Shelby desired much to espouse the cause of Jaurez; his menclam- ored to take service under Maxi- milian. At best between the devil and the deep sea, at the end of either event there would simply haye been extermination. Arrived at the city of Mexico, Shelby had a long interview with the emperor, and with his beautitul and devoted wife, the heroic the un- fortunate Carlotta. He proffered to Maximilian a corps of 50,000 Americans, and he knew what he was doing. Behind the proffer ot Shelby there had stood General Frank Blair, and the words spoken by President Lincoln some time be fore he was murdered. Maximihan refused the proffer. ‘‘It is not war that I must trust to,’ said the em- peror, “it ts dip!omacy.”’ No one who saw it can ever for- get the look that was on Shelby’s face when he came out from the in- teryiew. ‘Diplomacy !?’he exclaimed contemptuously, ‘Diplomacy! when to my certain knowledge there is not a Mexican who wearsa breech-clout or a blanket, who is his friend be- tween here and the Rio Grande. He is doomed. God! what a pity. With such a wife he might aspire to be Napoleon Bonaparte. It was not long betore Governor Reynolds became the trusted friend and coun- that. selor of Maximilian, while retaining atthe same time the respect and confidence ot the Juaristas. Asked afterward how he accomplished this he replied in a few words, but they were avolume: ‘By always being frank, by always attending to my own business, and by always telling the truth. Above everything else by always telling the truth.” The French troops had left the country, and the Juarez government had seized upon the railway running from Vera Cruz toward the City ot Mexico. It belonged entirely to an English company, and it stood for several millions dollars. Yellow tever, as bad as it could be, was ravaging the whole coast Espe- cially were the foreigners falling be- tore it as ripe wheat before a sickle. TLe railroad property was being bad- ly managed. The whole administra- tion of it was loose, careless, almost criminal. Its owners applied to Governor Reynolds for help. They gave him unlimited powers to extricate their property trom what appeared to be destruction, and he accepted the trust. He went to Vera Cruz in the very highest of the yellow fever season, took control of the railway, managed tts affairs with rare skill and judgement, finally had it given back into the hands of the people who owned it. As to whether he was responsible or not tor the tailure ot Maximilian to leaye Mexico when Marshal Ba- zaine did, is a question difficult to answer. It canbe only said what his advice was. At one time it ap- peared as if the emperor meant tc go. He had already reached Ori zava, a two days journey toward the gulf,when he sent for Goyernor Rey- nolds and asked his advice. Atter thinking awhile the governor said to him: “Your majesty, in all my reading of history, T have never yet read where a Hapsburg abdicated im presence of anenemy.”? Wheth- er this speech had any influence over the emperor or whether it sud- denly brought him to a more perfect realization of the duties and obliga- tions resting upon him, can never befknown. One thing is certain, 1865. | ver. he retraced his steps, head- 1s army, marched north to give the Juaristas battle, nto th hands of Escobedo and was shot the only Queretoro between two generals who loved him to the last, Miramon and Megia. And now who knows but this day Thomas C. Reynolds is talking with them in paradise.—K. C. Times. It is worth remembering that no- body enjoys the nicest surroundings if in bad health. There are misera- cle people about to-day with one foot in the grave, to whom a bottle of Parker’s Tonic would do more good than all the doctors and medi- scar of three} cines they have ever used. Lack of White House Records. Washington, D. C., April 19— Mr. Bancroft’s journey to Nashville for the collection of historical data from the papers ot the late Presi- dent Polk, calls attention to the tact that there are no records at the White House back of President Grant’s term ot office. There is no law requiring a President to leave Papers at the Executive Mansion which accumulate there during his Administration, and when President Polk retired, in 1849, he carried his Papers with him. Each has had his own way of keeping records, and much valuable histor- ical matter has been cither unre- corded or the papers connected therewith hopelessly scattered. President Killed While Fencing. New Orleans, La., April 18.— Yesterday Tohn T. Fernandez and Henry Bernard, two prominent. so- ciety men enjoyed a fencing bout at one of the creole clubs. Fernandez, who was considered one ot the most skillful tencers inthe city, disarmed Bernard seyeral times. The !atter, excited and smarting over the good the bystanders lack of skill, suddenly natured banter ot about his made a fierce lunge at Fernandez, who attempted to ward off the blow, but unsuccessfully. The point of the sword entered Ins right eve and penetrated his brain, Death ensued later in the day. 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It is the most powerful. and. at the same time, most econom- ical blood purifier known. In cities, towns and villazes through which the Canadian Pacific Railway and its branches run, the value of property for assessment purposes has increased to within $25,000,000 of the whole addition of the public debt 1n consequence of the construction of the road. ete eee ea hut onak up colds and fevers, use early Dr Pierce’s Extract of Smart- weed. There was an average ot five railroad accidents per day in Feb- Tuary, =nd it 1s stated that the aver— age in March, when the statistics are compiled, will make equally an untaverable exhibit. ——— Active, Pushing and Reliable. Jonn G. Walker can always be relied upon to cary in stock the purest anc vest goods, and sustained the reputation ot being active, Pushing and reliable, by recommending articles with well estab- lished merit and such as are popular. Having the agency tor the celebrated Dr. King*s New Discovery for consumption, colds and coughs, wiil sell it on positive Quarantee. It will surely cure any and every affection of the throat, lungs, or chest, and in order to Prove our claim, we ask you to call and get a Trial Bottle Free. was betrayed | Order of Publication. STATE o¥ Missouri, ice County of $ gee of Bates county Feb- ruarv te Elizabeth B. t tn comes herein, bv her attorney, and petition and affidavit, alleging, a other things, that defendant Thomas Barron, is not a residentot the state of Missouri. Whereupon itis ordered bv the court that said defendant be notified | by publication that plaintiff has com- | menced a suit against him in this court, by petition and affidavit the object and | general nature ot which is to obiaina decree of divorce trom the bonds ot mat- | rimonv heretotore contracted with said defendant upon the grouad that detend- | ant has abandoned plaintiff and has ab- sented himselt trom plaintiff without | reasonable cause tor the space of one | vear and that unless the said dafendant be and appear atthis court, atthe next) term thereof, to be begun and holden at) the court house inthe citv ot Butler, ia said county, on the sixth dav of June next and on or before the sixth dav of said term, if the term shail so long continue, | and if not, then on or betore the last dav | of said term, answer or plead to the peti- | tion in said cause, the same will be taken | as confessed, and judgment will be ren- | dered accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copv hereot be pub- lished, according to law, in the Butler Weekly Times, a weekly newspaper printed and published in Bates county, Mo., tor four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least tour weeks before the first dav of the next term of this court A true copy from the record. Witness mv hand and the seal of the {SEAL.| circuit court of Bates county, this 18th dav ot Februarv, 1887. J. C. HAYES, Circuit Clerk. Order ot Publication. State oF Missouri, } County ot Bates} ) In the circuit court of said county, June term, 18S7+ Eve M. Pyle, plaintiff, vs. Wm. E. Pyle, detendant. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, by her attorney, before the un- dersigned clerk ot the circuit court of Bates county, in vacation, and files her petition and affidavit, alleging, among other things, that defendant is not a resident of the state of Missouri. Whereupon it is ordered by the clerk in vacation that said detendant be _noti- fied by publication that plaintiff has { cemmenced a suit against him in this court, by petition and athdavit, the ob ject and general nature ot which is to obtain a decree of divorce trom the bonds of matrimony heretofore contract- ed with said detendant, and allowing the plaintiff the custody of the child born ot such marriage, upon the ground that defendant has without reasonable cause absented himselt trom the plaintiff for the space ot one year and has wholly failed and neglected to maintain and support the plaintiff tor the space of one year and that unless the said Wm. E- Pyle, be and appear at this court, at the next term thereof, to be begun and _ hol- den atthe court house in the city ot Butler, in said county, on the sixth day ot June next, and on or before the sixth day of said term, if the term shail so long continue, and if not, then on or before the last day of said term, an:wer or plead to tne petition in said cause, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment will be rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copy hereot be published, according to law, in the Butler Weekly Times a weekly Newspaper printed and published in Bates countv, Me., for four weeks suc- cessively, the last insertion to be at least four weeks before the first day ot the next term ot said circuit court. J. C. HAYES, Circuit Clerk. A true copv from the record. Witness mv hand and the seal ot the fSeat.j] circuit court of Bates countv this 25th day ot March, 1887. 18 J. C.HAYES, Circuit Clerk. Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSORRI, } County of Bates. age In the circuit court of said county, Feb- ruary term, 1587. S._W. Frederick, plaintiff, Frederick, detendant. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, by his attorney, before the un- dersigned clerk ot the circuit court ot Bates county, in vacation, and files his petition and affidavit, alleging, among other things, that defendant is not a resiJent ot the state ot Missouri: Whereupou it is ordered by the clerk in vacation that said detendant be notitied by publication that plaintiff has com- menced a suit against herin this court by petition and affidavit the object and general nature ot which isto obtain a decree ot divorce trom the bonds of matrimony heretotere entered into and contracted between plaintitt and defend- ant, upon the ground that detendant has absented herselt from plaintiff for the space of more than one year and has wiltully and without reasonable cause remained away trom plaintitt and that unless the said Dizy Frederick, be and appear at this court, at the next term thereot, to be begun and holden at the court house, in the city of Butler, in said county, on the sixth day ot June next, and on or betore the siyth day of said term, it the term shall so long continue, and ir not, then on or before the last day of said term, answer or plead to the peti- tion in said cause, the same will be taken as contessed, and judgment will be ren- dered accordingly. And be it further ordered, that a copy hereot be published according to law, in the Butler Weekly Times, a weekly newspaper printed and Published in Bates county, Mo., for tour Weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least four weeks before the first day of the next term of said court. J. C. HAYES, Clerk. A true copy trom the record, es Witness my hand and the seal [Seau.j ot the circuit court ot Bate. county, this 7th day ot March, 1837. J. C. HAYES, Circuit Clerk. vs. Dizy ON FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1887 We will inaugurate a sale, which for stupendous slaughter shall tra anything eyer known or ever herd of in America. We have secured, ridiculous low prices a little Over $37,000 in Cloth and while this (as well as goods previously received) lasts we shall MAKE ROME HOWL! and the barnacles ot the clothing trade will wish they were located iq ! cross-road town, out ot Kansas City. 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