Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1889, Page 12

HER DEAD HUSBAND'S GHOST, It Annoys Protty Widow Toomley and Her Gentlomen Callers. A SIMILAR CASE IN ST. LOUIS. Haunted Her Recreant Lover—John kmorten's Romance Over An Enoch Avden Who Didn't Return Too 1 Novelettes in One Chapter. A mystery that for a long time has bafllc Hetactives and is still & puzzling and pro found enigmn, has alarmed the immediate relatives and friends of Mrs. Mary L. 1oy, who resides at_ Old Mill Green in Hart ford, Conn. Mrs. Toomley is a widow about thirty-cight years old and still retains much ©of her former beauty. She is highly accom plished and an excellent crayon artist, Ten years ago married Jerome Toomley, a Young man of excellent habits, but who was unfortuna a local curiosity owing to his Inck of adipose tissue suld passed for a living skel As a rulo he was shunned by his female acquaintances, his unprepossessing und ghustly appearanc sendiog a chill of horror dowh their verte brie. Notwithstanding Toomley's withered physique, he wooed and succeeded in winning the prettiest girl among his acquaintances, For a year their connubiul relutions filled the measure of thoir anticipations. Al the expiration of twelve months of hapvincss the husband died suddenly of heart dise at exactly 3 o'clock in the afternoon. While in the flesh Toomley often expressed a fear that he would not live long, o tried 1o prevail upon his wi vow that she would aever marry again after his death. Mrs. Toomley is positive t she did not yield to his pressing solicitation, @8 she considered it merely a whim which did not domand 8o serious an obli Be that as it may, Mrs. Toomley is de rplexcd and er many friends are exce ingly alarmed over her fate, which cireum Stances scem to point toward a future entirely void of peace and happincss. Whenever Mrs. Toomley receives or entertains her gentle. men fricnds she expericnees a sensation as it bemg urged away from her guests, and no matter what hour of the day it may be, her watch, the gift of her dead husband, will point at exactly 3 o'clock, the hour of his death. Duriog the past six months Mos. Toomley has granted Mr. Charles L. Flem- ming, of Sheldon, the privilege of calling on her. One evening at about 9:30 the clock on the mantelpicce struck 3 and the hands pointed to that hour. At the sume time Mr. Flemming looked at his wateh, and, to his surprise, he behield the hunds of 'his valuab timepicce indicating the same hour. Mrs. Toomley believes that some strange power is trying to prevent her from ever again enter. ing into the matrimonial relation, and the same opinion is entertained by her numerous friends, who have ocular proof of the mys- terious power that is making Mrs, Toowley's life seriously unpleasant, Miss Florence E. Haffa, daughter of the late Judge Haffa, of the federal court at Vicksburg, Miss., and a belle in fashionable oty, was recently committed to an insane asylum near Bridesburz, Pa. She had been arrested on the complaint of Dr. Charies N. Williams, o son of Justico Williams of the wsupreme courtof Pennsylvania, whom sho was engaged to marry. The couple first met here six years ago. Williams was then a @ashing young student ut_the Pennsylvania university, and Miss Haffa was a brown- eyed, rosy-checked beauty of fifteen, oceupy- fng a proud social position. On his second visit to her home Williams proposed and was accepted, agreeing that the marriage should take place afwer his graduation. By that Yime, however, e had changed his plans and coldly said that the marriage could not take place. Williams then left the city, but re- turned about a year ago and the young oman began to haunt his footsteps. Sho took her stand before his office doox, saying that she would not leave until’ he had kept his pledge. She remained seven hours without food or drini. Fer persmstency angered Williams and leliad her arrested. Afterwards she was reloased, being sane apparently on all pther subjects, but again took her stand be- Sore his place of business. She was again arrested an after a hearing was committed to the asylum. The hearing was most dramatic Miss Hafla's affliction had not robbed her of her beauty, and her gentlo manner, added to her exquisite dress and modesty, enuisted :mu‘ml sympathy. With larze tears cours foom she by Toomley well ton ng down her cheeks she pleaded with Dr. Williams not to cast her off, protesting her Tove in pussionate terms. Her mother, who a8 since marvied David S. IRoot, the artist, ubstantiated the main points of her story, put Williams was cold as steel. Once she Bdvanced and sai harles, be a man und cknowledge that' you promised to marry Em." “1 never made such a promise,” was is answer. “You lie!" Miss Haffa said, quietly adding: “Think of all the misery you have caused me.” She offered no resist- Bnee to the oflicials who conducted her to the eab, but kept her reproachful eyes fastened on Williams until the door closed on his form, + Rose Messor, a Irench woman, aged sixty, avas arrested in Carondelet, a suburb of Louis, and sent to the insane asylum, The case has some features in common with Aumclia Rives' secnsational novel. Mrs, Moessor came to Carondelet forty-two years ago, She married a man mamed Forman, and lived very happily until o was drowned in a stone quarry pit, After a fow yoars of this mechanical sort of exist- ence she met a man who bore some striking gesemblance, fancied or real, to Forman After a brief courtship they were married. His affcetion for her was said to have been romarkably strong. But, when, after a short bsence, he roturned to_his bride, she would ave nothing to do with him. She told a meighboring woman that she regretted hay- $ng married him, not but that he was an ex- eellent man. for wiom she had unbounded Fespect and confidence, but she felt that she ad violated a sacred tie which, she mam- tained, bound her to her dead husband. Mes- or left her, but has sccretly kept a oving wateh over her ever since. Bhe shortly began to interest her neigh ors with the constant repitition of a story to the cffect that a dark shadow, the t fmage and likeness of her husband, con- tinually proceeded her wherever she would £0. Atall times of night she would startle #ome of the ueighbors by loud knocking on their doors. When any one opened the door the nocturnad visitant would regale her host aith the old, old story about the shadow of her dead husb: vhile the host in night clothes, shiye impatiently. About 2 'clock in the morning_ she aroused 1. Mer ®ot, at lis home, No. 6,504 South Broadway, end after she cntertained him for a time ho ool her into the house, fearing sho would estroy herself. 13ut she annoyed his family :au\‘-lcll by her monotonous spook story that @ biad her arrested. A tragic-comic romance lately occurred at Buda-Pesth. A stripling of seventeen fell fn love with a girl threo years his junior, and the children were in such despair at the pros- pect of baving to walt so long befors they could be married fhat they decided to com- mit suicide, After kissing and hugging each other, the couple repaired to the Danube, and with a fortitude worthy of a better eause the girl jumped in. Fortunately she could swim, and_availed horself fully of her capabilities in that art. She shricked for ihelp,” which was soon at hund. Just as she was safoly landed her lover aimed three istol shots at Limself, but none of them took leffect, and a quarter of an hour luter the young folks were hunded over to thelr re- spective parents, * Twenty years ago Henry Dritt and Emma Adaws were married in Logensport, Ind. A year later a girl baby was born to them and shortly thereafter adivorce was decreed Mrs. Dritt, whereupon she went to Detroit and opencd a boarding house. Last week the duughter came to Logansport and succoeded n adjusting the estrangement between her reuts, and as a result a quiet marriage 100k Place at Mu. Clomens, Mich, last week. ritt is quite wealthy, Twenty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Lamb were wedded at Westchester,Pa. Mrs. Lamb THE had bean a belle in the village of Ashley, and looked upon as a happy v wife and Mrs. Lamb cided to 1 to her hom Ashley r hushand W through the west, and the last bis wife heard of him was that was drownod in the Mississippi river, A friend sent a clipping from a puper giving an account of the drowning, and Mrs. Lamb, thinking hushand dead, went into mourning A few months ago the widow accepted an offer of marriage from John Adams, a wel to do business man. The wedding as 1o take place the coming Tuesday, and ar rangements had been completed On the Saturday foliowing, to the great surprise of the bride, her long lost husband turned up. He ealied at her home, whera she was busily engaged n preparing her wedding trousseau. A reconciliation fol lowed, and this evening the reunited couple left for the west. Adams is much put out over the turn affairs have taken. A strange tragely, or what aoubtedly prove a tragedy, is report Watson Nora Buin is a gir the marriage was man and he n from Ind fair 1000 a village near fTersony with a very protty rounded form who is consider of the villaze velles. Her suitors were and ardent Among them was a young man of industrious and sober habits named Alstote. Altohugh not 8o attractive in form, face or bearing as some of ther admirers, he was by no means bad look itig, and endeavored to make up for what he might lack in other respects by his devotion to the object of his affections. At first b was received apparently with the same fave bestowed on her other suitors, but she finall grew woary of his persistency, and when | asked her to marry hin, not only refused but most emphatically told him neve speak to her again. [n a very short time | renewed his suit, however, atd last mght visited herat her home. The young coupl inthe room at 1 o'clock when Nor to exelaim: “Let me alone, T te The noxt moment a shot was hea Members of the family rushed i and found Alstote lying on the floor with blood 00zing from his breast, while Nora stood a fow foet away in a dazed attitude with a smoking vistol in her right hand, It was an acei dent. She didu't mM&n to shoot me,” John gasped as he was raised to the sofu, but the @l said nothing and still refuses any ex plariation of the startling oceu She is under arrest. John is dying. and well A queer elopement, that is a source of con- siderable amusement, took place in St. Louis recently. The family involved is that of Ch Marl, sr., a well-known shoe manu factu He is the father of two boys, and these two boys planted their affections on the same spot. They became deadly rivals for the tair haud of Miss Eva Berger. After a bot campaign Charles, the eider, ronted his brother und last May he married Miss Ber. Rel After that event Albert couldn’t stand St. Louis, 50 he sought relief in Arkansa where he represented his father's” business. He returned for the holulays and the signt of his brother’s wife revived the feelings which he had tried for months to suppress. Albert had_been home only a few days when the husbandfound te in his room stating that his wife had eloped with his youn, brother and hoped he would forgive her The pair started for Arkansas, and the hus baud says they can st and live in happiness for all he caj Captain Cl se, of Charleston, S, nd Miss Mary Frances Grady, each somewhat past the meridan of life, met cighteen years ago. Last week they met fo the second time at the Union depot in Cin cinnati by arrangement, and two hours later they were married. Captain Leese was a guard at Libby prison Guring the civil war. Miss Grady’s brother, alicutenant in the confederate service, was Reese's messmate, and died away from home and under his care. Ever since then Cap tam Reese and Miss Grady have constantly corresponded, meeting but once during thie twenty-five years intervening. By corre spondence they agreed to meet at the Union depot in this city and be married. T'he captain had his murriage license with him, and together they proceeded to the nearost justice, where they were married The couple will probably reside in the futurs in Clay county, wherc the now Mrs. Reeso is the owner of an_extensive farm. Captain Reese was wounded several times in the confederato service, and wason the Alabama when it was sunk off the coast of Franc The other night in the residence of Mrs Elizabeth Brown, of Xenia, O., a widow fifty years old, a wedding was arranged, and the guests and minister and groom, Frank Ward, aged_twenty-six years, wore prosent. Just before the ceremony Mr. George Ward, ther of tho groom, who resides near New Jasper, came in and told his son if he mar- ried the widow he would cut lum oft wit out a cent. ‘The ungallant man broke up the festiy of the occasion by going home with his father. An effort was made to have the young fellow make another trial, but iv was no go. His father's threat to disinherit him knocks all the romance out of his scheme to marry & widow twice as old as ho is. An unhappy woman is Mrs 5. J. Taglor, of Boston Highlands. She is at St. John,N. B., among strangers, deserted by lover who flinched from the hymeneal ordeal. The lady has charms of person and manner which would tempt an anchorite, but her second busband that was to be fled from the fair widow almost at the altar. Mrs. Taylor was to have become a bride, the ceremony being announced to take place at her cosy home in the Highlands. Friends were in waiting. The lady, who was, as she believed, soon to forsake the chilliness of widowhood, awaited the coming of the bride groo, but for some unexplained reason that necessary party to the ceremony failed to ap- pear Sorrowing, but not dishea Taylor pursued her fickl earnestness born of experi thut her Adonis had sou; fuge in St. Johns. Hot upon his trail, she rived here, and singularly enough, the bad fellow was the first porson her cyes lighted upon in the hotel corridor, Indignantly Mrs red, Mrs with the » She learned demanding an_explanation, . Taylor threatened to have the unwilling lelpmate (that might have been) arrested on a charge of abandonment or something else. You must marry me, and at ouce,” sho ex- claimed, “or I will make this town ring with jour stiumeful "decdst O how could you have done so wien I loved you ever so mueh "' Beguiling the widow with a specious tale, the deserter cffected his escape, He is still' free. Oficers arrved with warrants, and, spurred by promses of rich rewards, are scurrying hore and there looking for the fulse one, while Mrs. Taylor—still Mrs, T lor—mourns in the seclusion of Ler chamb Newell Guild, an'elderly Millford, Mass. resident hias become entangled in a §10,000 breach of promise suit in a _peeuliar way. He recently met a young lady, Caroline C Adams by name, and in some way the old gentleman got tae impression that sno was & Miss Adams of whom some of his lady friends had spoken favorably to him. On the strength of this he urged his suit, was ac copted, and went so far as to secure & mar- riage license. Ho then learned his mistake and now refuses to wed Miss Adams, and she acordingly brings suit. MONEY RUINED HIM. A Young Briton Wastes His Fortune and Commits Forgery. Captain Linden, of Pinkerton’s De- tective agency, suys a Philade!phia dis- patch, with Prederick Jarvis, o dete tive inspector of Seotland Yards, Lon- don, England, arrested fn this city last night Thomas Barton, of Macclestield, England, who is wanted in Great Brit- ain for u series of forgeries, He is ac- cused of forging his stop-mother’s name to stock certificates of the London and Northwestern Railway company amount- ing to £25,000, or $100,000. Barton was confidential agent for his step-mother. He used his own fortune and then robbed his relatives. In 1836 he fled from England and came to this country. He wandered all around pen- niless and dejected, finally turning up as a weaver iu a mill in this city, He was captured in & low boarding-house. Tho fellow was_g'nost starved #nd so weak that he co#1d not appear before the magistrate until he hBK a doctor’s avtention. He will be returned to En- gland, OMAHA DAILY BEE: How Fetterman and His Brave Com- rades Feoll. Gen One of the Most Cruel Fights ia the History of Indian Warfare. Every Mana Hero. The 21st of December, 1886, eral Brishin in the Chicago Times, will be remembered as long in the Powder river country as the 2th of June, 1 will be remembered in the valley of the Little Big Horn. On the former date fell Colonel Fetterman, Fred- erick Brown, Li w. Grummond, seventy-six enlisted men, and two On the latter date fell General Custer, eleven ot 230 enlisted m: threc I'hve massueres marked epochs in the history of Indian warfare in our country. With the latter massacre we have nothing to do here. It is still fresh in he minds of men, and thousauds of pens have told the <ad story of Custer’s folly and the sacrifice of his brave and command. With the former massacre it is our purpose and provines to deal in thissiceteh of the Powder river country. On the aay of the massaere the chil- dren who had been outside of the of the fort playing, van in SIndians, Indians! At the the scouts on Picket hill signalled the wood-train had been attaciced. The wagons were also reported as having gone into corval not far from the fort. Colonel Fetterman was detailed, and Licutenant Grummond. at his re- quest, went with Fetterman, tain Brown went without orders. The de- tachment under Fetterman, when it marched out the fort, consisted of himself, Licutenant Grummond, ¢ tain Brown, and \Wheatley. the guide, and Fisher.an cxperie 1 fronticrs- man, with enty-six enlisted men. Colonel Carrington says he gave Fetter- man particular to relieve the train, and under no circumstances to zo beyond Dodge ‘Trail ric Col onel peated his orders to the mounted party. After etterman had started, it being ascertained there medieal officer with the com- mand, Carrington sent Dr. Hines with an orderly to overtake PFetterman and report to’ him. The doctor soon re- turned and said the train had gone on to the woods and that Colonel Fetter- man was on the ridge with hosts of In- dians in his frout. Dr. Hines said he saw 50 muny Indians to the right he could not join Petterman. Pretty soon firing was heard and it was very sharp for a tim The indians were ling ick and Fetterman following them cadily. The firing died away for a time, but was soon rencwed with such rapidity it wasevident to all that heard it a battie was in progress. Iu about ve minutes Captain Ten Iyck. tenant Matson, Dr. Hines, and Ould marched out with a relicving party to support [Fetterman. They moved at a double-quick and made straight for the ridge where Fetterman g, He Jad now disappeared idge at what was kuown as Sullivan’s hill. It was evident he was driving the Indians and it was hoped he would be successful in winning the says Ger Cantain utenant citizens. 28, n, and citizens. devoted gates shouting, sume time that own of orders ngton v wiis no battle. The firing was increasing all the time and Colonel Carvingion or- dered all the garrison to muster, aud the wagons and ambulances to be hitched up. THE DEATH STRUGGLE ITAD COME and every one seemed 10 know it. There were two hea volleys, then some sharp file-firing, and all wus quiet over the hill. Had Coloncl Fetterman sue- coeded in beating the Indians or was he himself beaten? The movement of Ten Byck's party was watched with in- tense Just before Captain Ten Fyck reached the top of the ridge all fiving heyond 1t censed. Either Fetterman had gained a great vietory or he was himsclt sur- rounded and being slaughiered. The strain at first was terrih [t seemed an age. but 1t was really only a few min- utes, until Orderly Sample was secu ve- turning at full speed on his horse to the for He brought the news that the valley beyond the ridge was filled with hundreds of yelling Indians and that nothing could be seen of Fetterman or his men. They challenged Ten Eyek to come on and made n novement to his right as if to cut him ofl’ from the fort. Ten kyck ing he could not fight with his teeble force one-half the In- dians in nis front, fell back steadily a short distance, but soon advanced agiin s the Indiuns seemed to be runuing way. He was y cautious, but the Indians were evidently withdrawing to the eaust. The skirmishers soon came upon the bodics of Fetterman and his purty, all killed, scalped, and many of them horribly mutilated. Fetterman and Captain Brown were found at point nearest the fort, each with a re- volver-shot in the left temple and both 80 scorched with powder as to leave lit- tle doubt they had shot each other wihen all hope of success or escape had tled, Wheatley and Fisher were found near o pile of Locks surrounded by exploded cartridge shells, showing their Henry ritles had done good execution befor they were captured and killed, There were 220 Wincheswer shells lying about Jim Wheatley'’s rock. The meu lay on tiie top of a narrow ridge over which the road ran. They had evidently been drawn into a trap and attacked on sides by overwhelming aumbers. The was a ravine bovond where they had first been assaulted and then retreated to the ridge to muke their death stand. All the evidences of the ground showed th had fought well, but not a man was left to tell the tale of how they ought. A bugler boy had KILLED AN INDIAN WITIL HIS BUGLE, A soldior was found grasping a naked gun-barrel in his stiffened fingers. An- other held a butcher-kuife in his dead hand and half the blade was broken off in the body of an Indian. Captain” Ten Iyck recovered and brought into the fort forty-nine bodies of Fetterman’s command, including the colonel’s and Brown’s. Lieutenant Grummond’s body could not be found. It was long after dark when Captain Ten Kyck returned with his sad burden of forty-nine dead men, who marched out of that fort at noon full of hope, strength, and vigor. The following are the names in full of the massucred: First Sergeant Augustus Lange, Sergeant Hugh Murpby, Corporal Robert Lenuon, Corporal William Dule, Private Frederick Ackermau, Private Willlam Betzler, Private Thomas Burke, Private Henry Buchanan, Private George E. R. Goodall, Private Mich ael Harlan, Private Martin Kelley, Private Patrick Shannon, Private Charles N. Tavlor, Private Joseph D. Thowmas, Private David Thorey, Private John Woodruff, Privato John M. Weaver, Private Maximilian Deh- ring, Private Fraucis S. Gordon, Sergeant POWDER ~ RIVER MASSACRE BRAINED HIM WITH A BUGLE Al Brishin Graphically Describes 27, 1880.~-SIXTEEN PAGES. =" FOR SALE! A Fine Residence in Kountze Place, 9-ROOM HOUSE, FURNACE, BATH- ROOM, HOT AND COLD WATER, GAS PIPES, EWER, Etc,, GOOD A NICE Etc. BARN. HOME, $6,500 $1,000 CASH, BALANCE 1, 2, 3 and 4 YEARS. THIS IS A SNAP. ‘M. A. UPTON COMPANY, Farnam. 16th and Patrick Gallugher. S mond, Pri Patrick Rooney, Corporal Gustave A. Buuer, Private Albert H. Waiter, ate Heary K. Aarous, Private Michacl O'Gara, Private Jucon Rosenberg, Private IPrank P. Sullivan, Private Patrick Smith Sergeant. Willian Morgan, Corporal John Quinn, Private George W. Burrell, Priva Timothy Cullinuns, Private John Maber, Private Georse N. Waterberry, First Serweant Alexander Smith, Sergeant Eptraim C. Bissell, Corporal Georse Phillip, Corporal Michael Sharkey, Cor- poral Karston, Private George Davis, Private Perrie 1. Dolund, Private Asa Grif- fin, Private Herman Keil, Private J Kean, Private Thomas M. Mudden, Serg Jumes tsaker, Corporal James Kelley, Cor poral Thomas 1. Houigan, Buglar Adolph Metzlers, Artific Private Thowmas Brozlin, Priv. o1, Private William Bugbe: vate Wil Conroy, Private Charles Cuddy, Private Patrick Cluncey, Private Harry 8. Deming., Private Hugh i3, Doran, Private Robert Dauiel, Private Natban Foreman, Private Andrew M. Fitzeerald, Private Daniel Groen, Private Charles Gawford, Private John Giller, Private Ferdinand Housor, Pri ate Frank Jones, Private James B, Mc- ire, Private John McColley, Private Georio Nugent, Private Franklin Payne, Private James Ityan, Private Oliver Williams, Scout John Wheatley, Scout John Fisher. The first twenty-one men uamed be- longed to Company A, Second battalion, hteenth infantry. The next nine men named belonged to Company C, Socond battalion, Eighteenth infantry The next six named belonged 1o Com- pany 1, Second battahon, Fighteenth infantey. The next thirteen men be- longed to Company H,Second battalion, Bighteenth infuntey, The remaining n, twenty-six in all, belonged 10 Company O, oud Unitea States cavalry, und constituted the entire com- pany, T helicyve. at that time under com- mand of Captain Brown. Captain William J. Fetterman was the son of a military father, Captain George Fettermun—long sinco dead. Willinm Fettorman was appointed first lieutenant in the Ilighteenth iufantry, May 14, 1861, and became captain in Oc- tober, 18 He served throughout the war, and was brevetted for galiunt con- duct at the buttles of Murfreesboro, Tennj, Jonesboro, Tenn., and on the Atlanti campaign, He was hrave, but impulsive. He had a great contempt for the Indian, and this feeling brought him to ruin, and with him nearly hundred others. He was a good, kind- hearted gentleman, and was sincerely mourned by his comrades. At the time of his death he was the senior captain in his ion, Captain Fred Browu, who was kilied with Colonel Fetterman, rose from the ranks. He was appointed second liet tenant Oct. 80, 1861, in the Eighth in- fantry, first licutenant Mareh 21, 1862, and captain May 15, 1866, He was bre- vetted for gullunt conduct on the At- lanta campaign. Ho was a brave man but very impulsive and always wanting to fight. He got enough'of it at lust. George W. Grummond was appointed second lieutenant, Eighteéenth infancry, May 7,1866, and was killed in the fall of the same vear. FHe volunteered to go with Fetterman and of course knew nothing about Indiuns. He left a young ana spirited wife who at first was very bitter against Carrington for the loss of her husband and blamed the colonel for causing herhusband’s death, but she is now Carrington’s second wife, 80 that if he lost her & husband he sup- pliea her with one and that makes it even for Monu. This is the pitiful story of the Phil Kearny massac which never need eant I'rancis Ray- have happened. Like the Custer mas- sacre, it was the result of rashness and the pity is not so much that Fetterman and Custer were killed as that so many poor fellows were killed with them. ince writing the foregoing I have visited the Fetterman massacre ground and inspected it carefully, making hotographs of the important points. t 15 about twenty miles from this post (Fort McKinney, Wyo.) It is on the main road from Buffalo to Sheridan and Fort Custer. The old fort Phil Kearney was at the erossing of Pin vapid mountain stream of clear, cold water and now stocked with trout. A farm covers the parade ground, and hardly a vestige of the old fort remain I ealled at the farmer’s house. Mr. Fos- ter, and to my surprise found he knew little about old Phil Kearny or Fetter- man’s IMussuere “Yes,” he said in ro to a question, “he knew th had been a fort there once, and =ome men had been killed, but it was a long time ago, before he caine to this country, and ne knew little about it.” He had bought the lund and the purade ground was now a whoat field. The golden grain was waving in the bre: and the bright sun- shine streamed down over meadow and field. Mur. Foster had cut down the flagstaft, but said he could show me where it had stood, as the “stump’ was still in the gronnd. He did not half like our going into the grain, but was finally persunded 1o a company us. We found where the stall’ had stood, and knowing the form of the fort, [ conld from the staff readil imagine how the buildings had stood. 1 found the line officers’ quarters and walked up it to the site of the command- ing officers’ quarters, where Colonel Carrington and his wife bad spent so many anxious, sad. and unhappy days and nights. I stood on the very spot over which had been the bedroom of the beautiful but tiery Mrs. Grummond and to which returned o sad and lonely widow the night after the massi e, Her next to Colone Carrvington’s, walked to the sp and stood on carth that he feet had more than twenty years ago, on the day when she cave Colonel Carrington such a tongue lush- ing for the loss of | hushand, 1t all came back to me, éach house rose again before me and stood there with the bundred incidents connected with it and its inmates. | reflected so long Farmer Foster said: 1 guess we wlli get a cold dinner if we do not hurry buck te the house.” Over beyond the fort yard where the mussacred buried. [t was on the slope of the and il quarter of a mile from the fort, Onco it had heen fonced but the fire had burned the grass und some of the posts, and then the place being partly fallen down the farmers soon helped out the five by hauling away the re of the and palings. The place was now open and the cattle had trampled over and duaged upon the graves, It made me mad to think the governmeat would allow the brave soldiers who sur lives in its defense to be thus neg and desecrated. [ wrote a hot letter to the war depurtment expressing my fe ings, but [ reckon it will do no good. Some of the graves had been opened and the bodies taken out, but only a few. The officers’ graves were —all there except Grummond's, which stood open and descrted, His wife took his remains back east with her to Tennes- see when she went howe atter the nas- acre. The bodies or enlisted men 1 in one common grave, a trench fifty feet long by eight wide and soven deep. The earth had been heaped up in a long mound over the dead and was still raised except in one or two places where it has sunk as carth does in graves where the coflin has rotted ay. 1should think from the appear- ance of the ground the coffins are still in a good state of preservation, anda the bodies well preserved. The form of the grave is as follows: LISTED MEN. OFFICERS, EIETHE WEEHEEREEES 1 have a diagram of the enlisted men's grave, from Colonel Carrington, giving the order, number, and yames of the men and their company and regiment and battalion. '8t Sergeant Augustus Lange, Company A, Second battalion, Jighteenth infantry, slceps on the right; Sergeant Hugh Murphy, same | re nd 1 the sameo was the men grave- lie hill posts hattalion, rests, on his left, on aown the long Corporal George Philip, Company Second battallion and regiment, and S0 columns, H, Bighteenth infantr; is the center sleeper, and his coftin is the thirty-ninth in number from the right. On the left is Oliver Williams, the last soldier in_the line, and s coflin and grave is No. 6. To his left st John Wheatley, the guide, and John Fisher, a citizen who was killed i the massucre. company. - LOVE'S DREAM BLIGHTED. The Komance of Count Bologni and ladys de Montmorenc Lincoln Journal: **So. count, you de- ire to marry my daughter?” These words came from the lips of Reginald de Montmorency, the mil- lionaire banker, as he stood in the sumptuously furnished parlor of his mansion on G street, facing a distin- guished gentleman of foreign appeir- ance. The latter fervently replied: “Yes, yes, [ do.” “I'll let you know my decision to- morrow: by the way count. my daugh- ter and 1 have arranged for a little supper at Ormsby’s cafe this evening. Will you join us?' SWith pleasure.” . Gladys de Montmorency reclined on an excellently upholstered ottoman, in a houdoir, the furnishing of which must have cost o good denl of money. There was a far-nway look in her eye; theve a fur-way look in her other "She was thinking dearer to her than life. She was think- ing of the splendid Count Bologni, with his lustrous Italian eyes, and of lent chewing gum he had given of one who was She was summoned to the library, where her father, the opulent banker, stroked her silken hair and said: “Gladys, the count has asked for your hand.’ "hat's business, father: there ar flics on the count.” “Are you sure, my daughter, that is your kind of people?” “Dead sure,” “Boecause, my child,” and his voice grow tremulous with emotion, “*hecause I fear me much that he is not a count at al Methinks that when [ was e while at Omaha I suw hima waiter in a restaurant, My child! O, my child! These gray haivs would indeed go in sorrow to the o-—this old heart would be rended in twain if 1 were to see you in the soup.” The lovely girl’s breath came in gasps; she twined her beautiful arms about his neck and whispered: *What are we going to do about it?” “Harken,” her father replied; *I have a scheme—number 207, series D. We'll take supper with him this even- ing, uand I'll put him to a crucial test. then let us abide in peace. Kiss me again, my angelic child,” 11, 15 of lights were gleaming in ufe when Mr. with Gladys and no Myri Ormsby’s magnificent de Montmorency ou his arm, gucenly in her beaut grace. The count was already there, and the three sat down to a table togetere. “What ho, waiter! Come hither!” This stern command from Mr Montmorency was instantly obeyed. The waiter came to the table Gladys could feel the color 1 cheeks, She knew that the moment for the great test was come, Lven the stern lips quivered and tne col on his brow as he said: “Count, my daughetr and 1 only care for asteak and a cup of coffee, Will you order for us?” “ The count rose from his chair, and his ringing voice could be heard throughout the vast room as he said: de > her of her father perspiration was _ “Slaughter in the pan and draw on in the dark twice.” . Reader.there isbut little more to add. Crushed and broken, Gladys retired toa convent to end her lifé in quict and solitude. The count left for his native coun try on foot, but a haystack in which he wat sleeping one night took fire, and ha perished in the flames. THE END, S Patti's Dislike for Gerater. Mapleson’s Memoirs: In Chicago tho opera was “Les Huguenots,” with Patti as Valentine and Gerster as the Quosn. Before the performance was bogan sev- eral costly boquets and large floral st picees had been sent into the vestibule, according to custom, for Patti, whilst only a small basket of flowers had been received for presentation to Gerster. Under ordinary circumstances it is the duty of the prima donna'’s ageat to notify the ushers when the time arrives for handing up the flowers. That even- ing Patti’s agent was absent, and at tho close of the first act (during which Val- entine has hardly a note to sing, whilst the Queen has much brilliant music to cxeeute,) he was nownere to be found. There was a general call at the close of the act for the seven prineipal artists, At that moment the ushers, having no oune to direet their movements, rushed franticaliy down the les with their enormous loads of boguets und set picces and passed them over the or chestra rail to Ardi, who could hardly lift them, When these elaborate presentations to Patti eame toan end, an humble littlo basket addressed 1o Gerster was passed up. whercupon the whole house brokoe outin ringing cheers which continued several minutes, This contretemps had the effect of seriously annoying PPatti who, at the termination of the perform- ance, made o vow that sh uld never win appenr in the same opera with rster, PPatti braced hersoll sufticient- 1y to get through in dramatic style, but after the final fall of the curtain, when she had time to think of her ludicrous she went into hysterics, In hotel she threw herself on the floor and kicked lin such a manner that iv was only with the greatest difticulty she could” be got Lo bed, At one moment she would ex- claim: It is all that Mavleson!” and acetually did that sly old campaigner the honor 1o charge him with having ar- nged the scene in order to lessen her in the :5 of the publie, and thus her for future performances nb reduced rates. (He was then paying her #5000 a night). Then she would take atragic view ef it and attribute the misadventure to the malevolent inflvence of Gerster. The able Btelka possessed, according to brilliant but superstitious rival, tha and af the affair of the no misfortune, great or small, happened that Patti did not lay to the malignant spivit animating Gerster, il anything went wrong, from a false noto in the orchestra to an earthquake, it was always, in the belief of the divine Adelina, cansed by Gersterand her evil eye, ster!” was her involuntury exclamation when she felt the curth shaking beneath her feet in San Iy cisco. Whenever Gerster’s name was wen- tioned, or her presence in any way sug- gosted. Patti made with hor fingers the horn which is supposed to counteract or avert the effect of the evil eye, Ounce, when the two rivals were staying at the same hotel, Patti, passing in the dark the room occupied by Gerster, extended her fiest and fourth fingers in the di- rection of the sorceress, when she found herself suddenly face to face with Dr. Garldeni (her hated rivals husband), who was just putting his hoots out bg= her room in the il sit W strugy secure fore going to bed,