Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1892, Page 12

GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT Notable Monuments to ths Soldier Dead Unveiled on Memorial Day. HIGH WATER MARK AT GETTYSBURG Beantifal Shafts € of Men vents~Confodernte Flag De- —A Libby y Bl and the Last Parole. mmemorative Memorial day, 1802, deserves to be classed ns the greatest ‘‘monument day” in a generation. No less than eight monuments commemorating the deeds of thosoldier dead were unveiled on that duy, seven of which are memorials to union men and one a granite tribute to a confederato general, A. P. Hill, In design, ution, cost and cere- monies, the monument unveiled at Rochestor, N. Y., in the pros- enco of 250,000 people is “conceded ~ to be the grandest wOf thelot. It is nearly forty-three feet _in height, with a ground base twenty- two feet square. Thae base of the monu- went rises about eleven feet above this, .and the shaft is & magnificent piece of «golid granite about ten feet in height. & At the four corners of the base are ~bronze figures emblematic of the four . depurtments of the service, the caval i , the infant are of heroic sides of the monument bear ap- % vropripte bas-reliefs.the one on the north présenting the firing upon Fort Sumter, and that on the west the famous “ endonnter between the Monitor and the » Merrimne. A scene ropresenting Pick- |* ett's charge at the battle of Getlysburg marks the south side, while the bas- relief on the east recalls Lee’s surrender 1o Grant at Appomattox. At tho sides of euach bas-relicf are carved portraits of the famous union generals of the war, On either side of the monument are carved the seals of the nation and state. Surmounting the shaft is a bronze statue of Lincoln, of heroic size, repre- senting the martyred president with copy of the emancipation proclamation. The north face of the monument bears this inscription: ‘‘To those who, faith- fui unto Death, Gave Their Lives for Their Country, 1861-1865.” On the op- posite sides nre these quotations: “We were in Peril; They Breasted the Dan- ger;” “The Republic Called; They Answered with Their Blood;” “‘We Were Highly Resolyed that the Dead shall not have Died in Vain.” Farmington, 111, the first town in Fulton county to respond to the call to arms in 1861, erected u tespimonial of re- gard for the defenders of the union. The monument was presented to the soldiers by Mayor C. D. Brown on be- half of the citizens and was dedicated by the local Grand Army post. The monu- ment occupies a conspicuous place in Oak Ridge cemetery, 1 granite, stands twenty-seven foet high, and is surmounted by the figure of a private soldier at parade rest. A huandsome shaft was unveiled at Lenox, Mass., 08 a tribute to the deeds of Genera! John Paterson, a revolution- ary hero. The bronze presentment of the general stands upon a granite shaft on which is engraved the story of his active life, of hisschool duys at Yale, his work in the provincial congress of 1774 and 1775, and of his quick response to the cail to_arms after the battle of Lexington. It tells that he crossed the Delaware with Washington, narrowly escaped death at Saratoga, and was prominent in thke council of Monmouth in 1778, He fought in most of the great battles of the revolution and was one of PRIZES AWARD THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNE Soldiers and Civilians Alike Receive Them s AT THE e e Hellman's Administrator’s ~ On account of the enormous mass of people who came to our $5 Suit Sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we could not get clerks enough to wait upon everybody, and in order to satisfy those who were disappointed we place on sale MONDAY AND TUESDAY 500 just as fine suits in sacks, cutaways, plaids and stripes, that are worth up to $12, all in one lot at AND A SOCVENIR the foundevs of the Society of Cincin- pati. He died in July, 1803. A notable memorial was uncovered on the field of Gettysburg, designating the point reached by the famous Pickett chargers on Cemetery Ridge. It is named the ‘“‘High Water Murk,” derived from the old copse of serub-onk trees on the ridge where the confederate army began its retreat on that fateful July 1t was the ‘“‘high water mark” of the rebellion and from the moment that Longstreet fell buck dates the decline of the confed- erate cause. The monument association has inclosed the copse of treies with a bhigh iron fence to protect it from relic hunter The monv- ment stands on the east side of the copse, and was erected by the states of ne, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massacbusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- 2ut, New Y ¥, Delaware, rginia, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. Troops from all these stutes fought and repulsed the famous assault. ' An open bronze book surmounts the monument. 1t weighs 1,272 pounds and is supported by a pyramid of cannon balls. The left page bears a legend de- teribing the assault, ard thut on the vighu tells of the repulse. The whole rests on o bighly polished plinth and base of Muine and Massachusetts gran- ite with n massive water table of Getty: burg granite. A walk of granolithic cement, inclosed by dressed granite curbing and approached by hammered runite steps, surrounds the monument. 0 the center of each space on the side stands u twelve-pounder Napoleon un, with pyramids of cannon nlls Three bronze tablets on the linth of the monument tell an interest- ng story. On the south side are the names of all the regiments that marched in the charging column, while on the north side are the names of the regi- ments and batteries which met or as- sisted o repulse the nssault. In front 18 a fablet containing the nomes of the states that made appropriations to erect the monument, ‘The monument erected in the Mil- waukeo Soldiers Home cometery by the “veterans of the howe to the memory of Genernl Kilburn Knox, the late gov- ernor of the home, was unveiled in the presence of about 8,000 people, including over 1,000 veterans of the home. Tho monument is & handsome granite block inscribed on its fuce: General Kilburn Knox, Governor North. westero Branch N, H. D. V., from May 1, 1880, to April 17, 1801, Born, October 1542, Died, April 17, 1801 On the opposite side is: VErected to the memory of our beloved goveraor by the Northwestern Branch Nutional Home for Disabled Voluuteer Bolduers, 1502, ‘I'he ends bear in bas-relief the image of an infantryman. The Hackley soldiors monument at Muskegon, M{uh,. is seventy-five feot in height, of Rhode Isiaud pink grunite. The base is of several steps, the lower one being thirty-four feet square. From Lhis there arises the massive structure, | curving outwardly on two sides, with urtistic recesses upon the others: the columns upon each corner being cannons carved of granite. On these corne's are pedestals projecting outward, and upon these stand four bronze figures, cuch seven fect six inchesin height, repieseuting privates in the infuntry. cavalry, artiliery und naval eervice Above theso ure ornamental curvings, wreaths, crossed flags with u drum be- tween them and appropriate emblems. Above theso rises the columnar shaft, alght and shapely, with Corinthian sapitals at wop, these holding a pedestul Worth $1 GIVEN FREE. If you don't like the souvenirwe’ll give you a silver dollar for it, and therefore your suit, costs you but $4.” Extra Value in Boys™ Suits from $1 up. Tail Orders Filled. Kive Dollars a Suit AND A SOUVENIR WORTH $1, GIVEN FREE. We had intended to insert here a cut call- ing attention to the Souvenir worth one dollar which we give away with our $8 Suits, but the government inspector took our cut away from us as it was said to resemble a dollar bill. e oSing Sale. AND A SOUVENIR GIVEN FREE Worth $1. Plain Flannel Coats and Vests at $1. Special Inducements in Hot Weather Goods. Mail Orders Filled. Hellman's Administrator's Closing Sale, 13th and Farnam on which stood a bronze statue of Victory holding aloft a flag. This figure is fourteen feet in height. Mr. Cura- belli completed the monument about three months ago. The inscriptions upon the monument are ns follows: **A memorial tribute from Charles H. Hackley. December 25, 1889.” “To the soldiers and sailors who fought, and to all patriotic men and women who helped to preserve our na- tion in the war of the rebellion,” *Not conquest, but peace and a united people.” A handsome shaft in honor of the Bo- hemian-Amorican soldiers was unveiled in the National Bohemian cemetery at Irving Park, a suburb of Chicago. The shaft is surmounted by a figure ropresenting a soldier standing erect in an extremely lifolike pose, with his long army overcoat streaming back- ward. Anunfurled banner is held in the left hand, and & musket in the right hand. The statue is 8 feet 6 inches and weighs oue-half ton Contederate Flag Designs. There is a queer but highly interest- ing scrapbook in possession of the War department, says the Washinguon Post. It 15 an old ledger, captured by the fed- eral troops at the fill of Richmond. The book is not exposed for public exhibi- tion, but is carefully preserved with the other records of the late southern con- federacy. It contains designs for a confoderate flag which wero sentto the southern war department from all parts of Dixic in response to an offer of that govern- ment at the commencement of the war to puy a certain sum in gold for a flag design that would prove ncceptable. “The specimens in the scrapbooi are of various sizes, colors and kinds, some on pm:m'. others on cotton and some on silk. Some of the designs are as unique as they are absurd, A North Carolina lady suggested n_perfectly whito flig of o triangular shape, similar to that of the Chinese government. She added that white was tho emblem of purity nnd so of the southern cause. A man in the far south suggested a blood-red flag embluzoned with a huge white serpent nbove the legend. *‘Don’t treud on me.” There were numerous palmetto flage proposed, and & man in South Corolina sent in u white flag with bluck horizontal bars, meaning thut the war was to bo fought by the whites to protect their property, the blacks, One of the most ubsurd specimens was suggested by a womun, 1t was o bright yellow ground containing the portrait of Jeflerson Davis, Its significance was, she said, “Our President baski sunlight of universal prosperity.” One yampant secossionist proposed 'an inky black flag, with the words **No Quurter” 01 it in white letters, These are only a fow of the many queer and Pleturesquo designs. The old serapbook 1s full of them. Theatrienl y The playbill of an entertainment given in Libby prison on Christmas Eve, 156 has boen found within u few duys in the porsonal effects of Major !h’l!l')‘ L. Pasco of Huartford, Conn, It is probably without a duplicate in the country. Mujor Puaseco was un officer of the Sixteenth Connooti- cut. He was captured at Ply- mouth, N, C., April 20, 1831, and was contlned in confederate prisons during the yeur. His bravery was shown in the treuches at Mucon where ho re- fused, us un officer of the United States, to assist in unearthing tunnels which had been dug by his ussociates, although threatened with instant death by the rebel officer in command, in case of refusal. Major Pasco gathered memorabilia far and near velating to prison life, and his collection became most curious and interesting. Itis now owped by Cup- Jtain William H. Lockwood of Hartford, who was the brother-in-law of the major and served with him in the field. cial organization of the Libby minstrels was with Lieutenant G. W. Chandler as manager, Captain H. W. Sawyer as treasurer, Licutenant J. P. Jones as cos- tumer, Lieutenant Fentress as scenic artist, and Lieutenant Bristow as cap- tain of the supers. The first part of the Christmas eve program consisted of s0loa. Captain Schell sang “*Who Will Care for Mother Now?” Lieutenant Ken- dall “‘Gratted in the Army,” and Adju- | tant Lombard “When the Bloom is on the Ry Captain Mass gave “Barn- yard Imitations,” and Adjutant Jones sang “‘Do They 'L'hink of Mc at Homa?" The second part was introduced with a flute and violin duet by Licutenants Rockwell and Chandler, Captain Mass following with the dance song ‘‘Root Hog or Dle.” The two adjutants, Lom- bard and Jones, sang the duet, “Dying Girl’s Last Request,” and Lieutenant Ryan engaged in the clog dance. The *Rival Lovers” was performed by Captain Mass and Lieutenant Randolph, the captain appearing as Joe Skimmers, horn, and the lieutenant as Georgo Iverson. ‘“‘Countryman in a Photo- graph Gallery” constituted the third part of the entertainment. The drn- matis persone included Captain Mass, Lieutenant Randolph and Major Nei- per, the latter assuming the part of the countryman, The masquerade ball was one of the best features of the evening. Adjutant Jones was manager, Captain Mass, door- keeper; Lieutenant Chandler, musician; Lieutenant Ryan, member of the press; i ant Welsh, Mose; Lieutenant Black Swan; Lieutenant Ben- nett, Broadway Swell, and Captain Mc- Willinms, Richard IIL The whole thing was concluded with *‘a grand walk around,” The program announced that ‘chil- dren in arms” would not be admitted. The performunce began at 6 o’clock, An Eloguent Address. At the Memorial Day ceremonies at Broken Bow, Neb,, Hon., J. R. Dean delivered an eloquent address. He sketched the struggle for freédom, the hardships, sufferings and heroism of the defenders of the Union, and con- cluded as follows: 5 “The cause of human liberty took a mighty stride in advance in the yeurs which intervene between the firing on Fort Sumter and the surrender at Ap- pomattox. The rulers of the old world und titled clases looked on with wonder and alarm, They hoped to see the union full, to see a dozen petty govern- ments build upon the ruins of our re- public. They hoped in vyain. Our bonsted liberty, equality and justice are now io fuct the foundation principles of our government, as before they were in theory, And so long as these principles are not lost sight of, for which the union armies contended, so long as they ure secured, alike to rich and poor, s0 long will the government eudure, Y'Great indeed is the herituge the soldiers of the uuion armies saved to posterity, IFrom northern pine to southern palmetto, from the Atluntic shore to the Pacific, wo have learned thut we are brothers all, that we have one country, one flug, one destiny, “The war is ended. The sun is no longer durkened with the smoke of artillory. The wrms are stucked, the tents folded, the camp fires out. Tho ‘ fallen soldier sleops beneath a peaceful sky, aud ore another sun has sunk to £8t his towb will be decked with flow- According tothe old playbill the offi- | | ology ers, the tribute of a grateful peoplo’s love.” The Last Parole Issued. Mr. P. Dooley of Shelton, Neb., has in his possession a paper which, though colored with age, is sonething of a curi- osity and highly prized by him. The guper referred to is a parole issued to im at Coon Bridge, Ala., where he was taken prisoner during the rebellion. The reason for its being so highly prized by Mr. Dooley is because of its being the last parole given during the late war. It is dated Coon Bridge, Ala., May 8, 1865, and reads as follows: Private Patrick Dooley. of company M, Second regiment, Michigan volunteers, Army of the United States, is hereby puroled on honor, not to_tuke up arms azuinst the con- foderate stutes until regularly exchan N. WicKL Colonel Commanding Forees, Coon Bridge. RELIGIOUS, The forelgn missions of the Dutch church veceived 1n the year just closed $112,731.93, The Bantist year book gives the number of Baptists in this couutry as 5, un io- crease during the year of 10: Bergen, Norway, boasts of a paper church large enough to seat 1,000 persons. The building is rendered watorproof by a solution of quicklime, curdled milk and white of oggs. 5 Mr. Moody, who is travoling in Palestine, recently preachied on that rising knoll outside the Damascus gato of Jerusalem, which many believe to have been tae site of the crucifixion. Pope Leo XIII will clebrate two annmwver- saries next year, February 19 wiil bo the fiftioth Anniversary of his consecration as bishop, and December 13 the fortioth an- niversiry of his appointment as cardinal. ‘The ofticials of the vatican will commemorate the days 1n an appropriate manner. The uso of other tongues than the English as an evangelizing factor in the United States finds an illustration in the Lutheran church: “The 4,602 Luthoran preachers with their 7,048 churches and 1,100,0) communicants, preach in not less than twelve differen nguages, and thus they reach psople wio ne could be reached by men ot strange speech and foreign tongue.’” Tho weulth of the Russian church, says an intelligent Kussian, is almost incalcula- blo; it could pay the Hussian national debt (some 83,520,000,000) and would then be enormously wealthy, Yet this same church has not beon heara af at all during the great distress provalent in so many provinces; no soup kitchens have been opened by it, no contributions given. It scems bent solely on saving souls and Mying up foritself the riches of this world. It is somi-officially announced that the University of Oxford, Kngland, proposes tc n Bishop Poster of New York the of doctor of divimity. Al- though the degree of doctor of sacred the- (8. T, D.) has veen presented to several members of the American episcopate, the most recent instauce being that of Bishop Dosue of Albany, last vear, doctor of divinity s a distinotion ‘woleh bis only boon be- stowed on two other American bishops of the Anglican church. It is said that the Rev. Dr. Conwell of Philadelpnis had s mw prectice yiolding & reveuuo of §20,000 & year beforo ke entored the ministry, 'So gonerons is he that he can- not receive any gifl from churcn or friends without bestowing i, or feeling tempted to bestow it, on someone else. One summer when his congregation expected him upon & vacation ouo of upon tho street: *“Why, pastor, I thought vyou hud started away & week ago.” “Well, T'm waitiog for uext pay day to get the wherewithal.” “ls thut so; way, bow much do vou need 1" About $100.”” T will loan you that much.” Wil you?” exclaimed ‘the preachor. He got the moncy and started on bis vacation, The order of the Jesuits is said at tho pres- enttime to number 12,047 members, divided into ive groups—Liulian, French, German, Spanish and Buglish, The Gecman group is the lurgest, havinga totul number of 8,470: tho I'rench comes next, with 2,803; next the Spanish, with 2,570; the English next, with ;aud the Itallan cones last, with 1,704, group is divided into provinces, the Euglish provinces oeing Eogland, yiand, Missouri, Ireland, Cavada, New s and Ziubezl; Portugal and Mexico cluded in the Spanish group. The statistics of the Presbyteiran church, as presented at Portlaud, sbow Lbe uumber o go his flock wet him | of ‘ministers 10 be 6,200, au lucreaso of 43 licentiates, 411, and increase of 37. The can- didates show a falling off, thera being 1,154, as against 1,317 of the year befcre. The number of churches is 7,076, an increase of six; the number of persons admitted on oxamination 1s 56,301, @ falling off of 5,340; the whole number of communicants is 816,427, an increase of 9,631; the contribu- tions to home missions aro & crease of $309 miss increase of $25,217, the total being %812, education has' fallen off from 15 to $138,330; Subbath school work also shows a decrease, the total being £120,030 as against §131,870; for church erection, $254,514 Lad beon given, a decreaso of §76,43i relief fund donations amounted to $0,440, a decroase of $17,13. On the other hand, the freedman’s board had an incomo of 813,048 1n increase of sustentation $85,745, an increaso of : while aid for colleges recoived §144 Edward Oliver Wolcott, the Massachusetts man who served s a private inan Obio regiment in 1864, and no v represents Col- orado in the United States sen s taken Oakview, ex-President Cl old home, R. C. Brown, who went to Colorado in 1850 without a dollar, has now mnearly com- pleted at Denver the finest hotel west of the Mississibpr river, which wil' cost him $1,500.000. A quarter section of land, which he entered thirty years ago for $200, is today worth §5,000,000, lnventor Edison received in one instance a feo of 10,000 for his opinion as an elactrical expert, e was emploved by the cowpany organized to boro the Niagara power tunnel toexamine the ground, study eonditions and plans and give an opinion as the feasibility and practicability of the work. Rubinstein, when in the Caucasus, was In tho habit of playing vhe piauo for hours in the day, or rather night. Fivo or six hun- dred people used to assemble botween 11 at night and 2 in the mornieg, *istening with rapt attention and 1n religious silenco to tho flood of barmouy created by the master.” Goneral Longstreet 1 now 72 years of ago and a man of patriarchal aspoct. His hair and whiskers are white as snow, his _face ruddy and nis figure tell and erect. He is dear, as the resultof a bullet wound, and one of nis s is disabled, Helives a lite of primeval simplicity, going to bed early and rising at 5 in the moraning to walk in s vineyard. A son of Charles Dickens recently ad- dressed a meeting of his constituents—he is a momber of Parliament for Now South Wales—having been preceded by a tedious ritical speaker named Willis, “My late father,” said Mr. Dickens ported to have said ‘Barkis is willin’, he wero here now he would would probably say: ‘Willis is barkin’,) " General Obrutcheff, recently placed in com- mand of the Russian armies, is too stout to sit in asaddle, and even walks with difi- culty. The Pall Mall Gazetto says that his wife is a ['rench womsn, and he is one of the most enthusiastic advocates of a Fraunco- Russian alliance. Tbis being so, e is an ardent pan-Slavist, aud a bitter foo of every- thing German, General Obrutcheft is some 65 yecurs of age, The drug storo keepors of Bluo River township, Kentucky, are up in arms against the veteran Alexander Hockaay, who is 112 years old, because he 1s going around boas ing that he never too's more than one drink of medicine in bis | .0 and will never apother. He says it is twelye years since he committed his single folly and Lo has gretted iv ever since, as it might bave cut bim off in bis prime. Bob ¥ord wore an opal pin in_ his neck scarf at tho time ha was shot, t'riends had frequently reminded bim of the uniucky qualities of tho opal, but he faied to need their warnings, By his violent deaih the Daleful influences of this ill-omened stone are agan il tod. It is especially dangerous when worn on the persons of peoplo who have comumitied murders, or who bave otiier- wise locurred deably enmities. 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It takes time to put an ap- ED MONDAY ~ TUESDAY plication in shape, and there~~ is not a bit of spere tima left. ~ Whatever you have lost by the Indians, under the conditions described in the law, can be recovered if you go about it in the right way. The Boe Bureau of Claims knows just how to go to work. Write and find out. —THE—— Bee Bureau of Claims Omaha, Neb. THE SHORTEST LINE TO CHICAGO is via the Chicago, Milwaukea & St. Paul R'y, as represented on this map, QUK CITY P L - CEDAR M7 By DES MOINES Electric Lighted, Steam Heat- ed Vestibuled trains leave Omabha daily at 7:05 p. m., ar- riving at Chicago at 9:45 a, m, City Ticket Office: 1501 Far- nam St., Omaha, F. A. Nasu, Gen'l Agent, C. C, Lincory, Pass. Agent, ORDINANC An_ ordinance ohangin trom P'lerce stre ved Foncler Addition und View Addition, and ropelingz so much of all ordinunoos ia confliot herewith, e it ordnined by tho city 0aancliof tho eity NO. 3090, curblines on drd Lo the ll Jines on drd illoy be= i Grani curb Addition n o herely b 1 to & uni- ton cuch side of the Bection 2 That 50 all ordinance 1a confilet with the provisions of t s ordinunce, il tuke Yook its passuge. JOHN GROVIS Oty Ciork, Vi A a June 1tk 100 e 0 1ith, 1ove. EPAGYAR S0 GEO. P. BEMIS, Mayon a