Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1893, Page 3

| 8 g e - rae. THE DAILY BEE COUNCIL BLUFPY OFFICE: NO. 12 PEARL STREKT Teliverea 1y earrier to Any part of the city H.W. TILTON, - MANAGER y ) Business Office......... No. 43 TELEPHONES { Nigiit Edito No. 23 MINOR N. Y. Plumbing Co Boston Store for sun umbrellas MENTION, Judson, pasturage, 120 Sixth avente. reer Is the hatter, The Mayno Real Estate Co. Charles Heft was brought in from wood yesterday and locked up for ten for Intceny.. He sold a horse to one of the | residents o for 810, recciving #6 | n cash rchaser fa to pay the rest of the moncy at the appointed time, and Heft went to the barn, unlocked the door, and coolly walked off with the animal. On trial he was convicted and sentenced to spend a torm in Jail A blacksmith na with a jag, compl day night that he A man namcd Chris Jensc shal Fowler arvested Jensen, who den r having seen %20 wier_iusisted on searching him, when he found #32 in cash in one of his pockets. Jense admitted that he had been iis and was marched to the polico station and slated | with larceny. Peterson wended his way to the station and besought tho ofticers to give him his $20 and let the man go, but he was coldly repulsed ana given to understand that unless he made himself scarce in that vicin- ity he would be locked up for drunkenn od Peterson, heavy lnden | ned to the police Satus 1 been robbed of §20 ¢ Deputy Mar- Jensen is out on bail. nshields, Nic Co,, real estateand rentals, 600 Broadway. Tel 151, Domestie sc ap outlasts cheap soap Smoke T. D. King & Co's Partagas. Mananwa 'l‘rnnl;. Trains for Manawa will leave Broad- Wi depot at 9 and ) Pl 15 B 10 p. m., and thereafter until train will loave M Blufls at 11:35 p. m. PERSONAL PARAGRAPIN 11a. m, every thirty minutes at night. Last | nawa for Council Harvey W. &mith left yesterday for a trip to Colorado Springs. Mrs. W H. Monteith is visiting relatives in Monroe and Mavion countics, Teona ielen Troup died nt 2 o'elock yes- terday afternoon, aged one year, of cholera infantum, at the residence of her parents, Mr, and Murs. T, J. Troupe, 1423 Eighth ave- nue. P. Mevers. an attorney of La Porte City, Towa, was in the city over Sunday, vis- iting blo. The two were - ates at both Corner. college and the Univel of Michigan. 1. Harl, jenitor at the Bloomer sehool, is 1aid up with a broken rib. He sustained the injury by a fall about two weeks ago, but he did not know that any bones were broken until a day or two a Mine, child of Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Christen- son, died of cholera infantum last evening at 6 o'clock, aged eighteen months. The funeral will talie place this aftornoon at 4 o'clock from the residence, 831 Bast Broadway. 1. BB. Duncan, the motor conductor who has been suffering for the past few d neryous prostration, caused from b heated, as s s physi ac, is rapidly improving as his many will be glad to learn, Kenneth Gardner, son of Mr. and M Gardner, died of cholera infantum yestor- day evening, aged one The funeral will take place at 8 o'clock this afternoon from the family resldence, 214 Logun stract, M. Corbaley officiuting, Mr. and Mrs. I homas have returned from their bridal trip and aro visiting Mrs Thomas' parents, Mr. and Mrs. 5. M. Wil nson on North Seventh strect. They v ited friends in St. Louis, Ironton, O., Chi- cago, and other eastern points, The G na Iotel, Council_Bluffs. The most elegant in Jowa. Dining room on seventh floor, Rate, $3.00 and $5.00 a day. 1. F. Clark, Prop. Carbon Coal Co., wholesale and retail conl. Removed from 10 Poarl to 34 Pearl streot, Grand Hotel buiiding. - Stop at the Ogden, Council Bluffs, tie Lest $2.00 house in Towa. Sunday ut awa. Quite a crowd assembled at Manawa yesterday afternoon for the purpose of see- Ing Charles Fitzpatrick, the one-legged bicyclist, risk his neck riding down a fhight of steps that had been erccted from the top of the hotel to the ground, about 100 feet away. Tho preparations wer 1 made in the most impressive manne on the band which had been discoursing mus 1 the afternoon held its breath as the fancy rider stood at the top of thesteps preparing to make the plunge. Just as he was about to start Marshal Andy Bowling stepped to the front and called out, “Hold on a minute, there; wait for the old gent.” “The old gent,” who is better known as Mayor Reed, had an im- portant picce of bus just at that instant 1o be transacted in the barroom down at the pavilion, and the word to that effect, as it vassed along the line, controlled the fever- ish impatience of the gathered throng. A minute later Colonel Reed came up on the run wiping his 1i he did so, und the sig- nal to start was given. It was a tame enough exhibition, the rider keeping bis foot on the brake all the way down, and riding so slowly and with so little dan- ger that soveral of the more adventurous members of the Ganymede Wheel club, who woro taking in the sport in full force, had scrious thoughts of trying the same thing. The fancy trick riding, which followed on a platform’ that was erccted in the hotel yar for the purpose, more satisfactory, the bicyclist performing many feats that would embarrass most men with two logs, The on® thing that disturbed the quiet of the occasion for a minute was the breuking down of the steps above reforred to when the crowd mounted them for the purpose of better witnessing tho exhibition, About twenty feet of the structure collapsed, but n0 one wis hurt. Ask your grocer for Domestic s . There is nothing in this country like the fruit kept in Wheelor, Hereld & Co.'s cold storage. No matter what the weather s it reaches the customer in ror et condition. Another car load of lomons was put in Saturday. Dick Turpin's Lnitato An 18year-old Loy pamed Mulvanoy aiws to huve been assaulted and robbed Saturday afternoon on the Crescent City road. He was coming to the city when he wet 4 rig containing four men and two women., When they met the team stopped the men jumped out and made him shell out all his wealth by shoving a gun in his face. He was only too glad to compromise on this basis and save his skin intact, but when he reached tho city the compromise did not scem so satisfactory, and he accordivgly put the police on the train of the thieves. Ho claims “Duteh’” Boynton, “Dago Dick” and o man named Miller were three of his assail- its, but did not kuow the fourth mam or eitner of the wouen, Yesterduy afternoon a telegram was re- ceived at police headquarters from R C. Menary, 8 nurseryman living near Crescent, stating that the Righwaymen speat yester- day at Crescent and boirded the afternoon tramn for Council Bluffs. Ofmicer Kemp went to the depot to iutercept them but he was 100 late. The telegram had been sent from Crescent at 5 p. m. but was sidetracked in some way and was not delivered until :55, In the meantime the train had come in and the alleged thieves were mowhere L0 be found. Williamson & Co. largest and best bicy 106 Main street, sle stock in eity. Cook you meals this range. mmer on a gas At cost at the Gas company. Use Domestic soap EWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS Carpenter Oarter Finds that Things Are Seldom What They Seem, HIS SCHEME WITH MRS, GRAHAM FAILED “Doc’ Webster Appears ma A Serpent to Destroy the appiness of What Might Have Been m Modern Kden or Something Like, A little fracas took place yesterday morn- ing on Sixth street which A. H. Carter, a carpenter who lives near the corner of Twenty-fifth avonue, s positive would have resulted in his being transformed into a cold and clammy corpse had he not dis- played a ood deal of ability in the sprinting lino. According to the story which he tells, he became acquainted with a woman named Mollte Graham, whilo he doing some work on her house. By degrecs they found outa number of things about each other. Heconfided in her the fact that lie was a widower with two children down in Madison county, and sho told him that she would like ' go into the business of keeping boarders and commence operations on his two chiliren and himself. He says he took some time to think the matter over, and_ fimlly, deciing that it would be just the thing, brought his children here on'the 7th of this month and took up his abode ther But their happiness was short lived, - Car- ter went to work and spent quite a sum of ou the place, a sum, he says, which { more than muke up the # per week h hie had agreed to pay for the board of childven, But she neglected the two , allowing them to go from Saturday noon until Sunany night without anything to eat, although there w: plenty to eat in the house. Carter foynd this out and decided to pull out. At this point in the game a young man named Doc Webster becomes a feature of in- terest in the little tale of woe, Carter and Mrs. Graham had beorearranging to move to Sioux City, and he was to take them up thero in s wagon. Webster was to accom pany them. Oue day Carter overheard M Graham and Webster talking about their in- tended trip. andMrs, Graham coolly in- formed \Webster that she would allow Carter to take them up, und when they arvived in Sioux City she would fire him bodily. Car er conclided that ho would rather resig - than be fired, and he commenced to lay hin plans to get away. He tried to get his horses out of the barn yester Mrs hit_him porarily knocked him silly. to get his the children in a shameful wa, fle then trie children out of the house, but thd landlady stationed herself in the door of the house and told him she would shoot hie heart out if he didn’t go away and leave hes ding a great deal of telling empha e remarks by brandishing a I clled shotgun about. C cided that things were getting aliogethe too interesting und he hied himself tr Justice Vien's shop, where he filed an mo formation_charging the irato lady with- alt with intent to commit_murder. She s sted by Constable Baker, and, in default of a 00 bond, was locked up in the county juil. Another Chance. to the inclement weather Sat- 1t we will offer again Monday i from 6 to Y p. m. the following t bargains: 00 dozen - ladi lisle-thread vests, would be good value at 50¢, for tonight 2¢ cach. The above are genuine lisle thread. Thisis certainly a chance of a lifetime. 100 gross B 2 cakes for | for the same ,000 yards duchess mull inches wide, beautiful rango of patterns, to go tonight from 6 to 10 p. m., for He a yarc. The above goods have never been sold for less than 124c a yard, They avo a beautiful light fabric and are certainly the best bargain of bargains ever offered this season. Remember, from 6 to 10 for even g oston Store castile soap, verybody gets de a cake a yard. Ouly ono pattern to a cus- tomer. 75 dozen gents outing flanncl and French percale shirts that sold for 75¢ and $1.00 to go tonight from 6 to 10 at H0e each, gentlemen avail yourself of this grand opportunity. 100 dozen ladies t Dlack hose at 7e upair or 4 for 25¢ worth 10¢ a pair. BOSTON STORE, Fotheringham, Whitelaw & C Leaders and Promoters of Low Pri pa res. "The best building sand in the market arload. Address N. Sehurz, 34 Bald- win Block, Gouncil Bluffs, Ia. Domestic soap is the best. Another improvemens to the popuiar Schubert piano. Swanson Music Co R ar A MODERN JONAH. The Cruel Ducking and Marvel of Tommy Mal Newspaper readers a week ago were horrified by the story of the drowning of Tommy Maloney, a New York newsboy. With his brother and two other boys he had gone down to the dock to bathe, and his companions drowned him for 7 cents which he had made selling papor They tortured him a good deal, splash- ing water over him and one of the boy jumped on his back while the litule fel- ow was struggling for his life. Some aays afterwards the boys confessed the crime and were imprisoned by the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and held for the action of the grand jury. The office of. the district attorney, the police depariment and ¢body along the wharves has been absorbed in the punishing of the boys and looking for the body. The mother puton black and Tommy's tenement mourned him, Last Friday morning he came home, and surrounded by admiring neighbors and encouraged by his happy mother, he proceeded to give out statements to the press on his marvelous escape. These ave the versions issued to the New York Evening Sun: U1 woos down on der Beekman street dock, see?” was the way he introduced it. “Lago an’ Radigan an’ an High- talian kid woos da; I had 75 cents in me clo'es 'n’ dey wanted ter git it, “Lago took me hat'n' trun it over- board. 1 leaned over der dock '’ Lago, he shoved me over, “When I got in der water I swallyed some of it. I kep' me eyes oven, an’ when I went down I seen & rope under der water. Me feet struck on dat an' [ cum up agin,” There was an impressive pause. “Did you yell?"” was ventured. *Yair. [ hollored like —. 1 hol- lered when I went down fust 'n’ I hol- lered when Icum up agin. A express- man wot woos goirfg past der dock, he heard me 'n’ he jumped off his wagon and cum down on der deck ter git me.” Another pause. “Did he get you?" “Yair, ho got me. When I went down der secon’ time me feet hit der rope agin' an’ I tuk hol’ now wid me han's, [ swallyed some more water.” Silence. “Did you see the expressman come down after you?" “M'heh? He had ter take off ’is clo'es 'n’ that tuk 'im a long while. I held on ter de rope till he cum down after me. I woos under water fur ten minutes.” “Can you swim?" ’heh? Who, me? Naw.” “He put me on & float,” went on a8 Rescue was engaged in | Thomas, “an’ den ‘o skipped, 1 woos squeesin’ out me clo'es 'n’ Lago'n Radi- gan cum over. Dey asked me'f T cud swim an’ [ said no'n dey said 1'd have tor swim an' den dey trun ma over The neighbors held up their hands. “I went down oncet an' me feet touched rocks. I swallyed water, [ went down der secon' time'n me foet touched rocks. I went down agin an’ me feet touched rocks. Der tide was runnin’ down strong.” “How do you know? YT seed it “What did you do the! “M’heh? Me? I stayed on bottom, an’' Black Sam he duv down an’ brung me up'n put me on der float agin.” | “How long were you under water | that time?" “M'heh? Five minutes, When I got up on der float I took off me clo'es, woos squeesin’ 'em out again. Lajo'n Rad gan an' der Hightalian come over. [ lay me clo'es down and dey trun me over again. Me clo'es, me money woos on der float. He looked sideways at his mother and went on. ““I went down once 'n’ me feet hit mud, ent twice 'n' me feet hit mud. No, I n't swally no water. When I wen down der seeond time dey tuk me elo’ mon 2 “*Did you sea them?" “M'heh? Me? I went down agin an’ me feot stuck in der mud, I looked around,” he went on, slowly, *I see a body, I t'ink it woos a man. The fomale neighbors gasped and clutched each other by the arm. “Der blood woos a comin’ outuy him,” went on Tommy slowly. *He woos all cut on his head'n his face woos t, too. *“He woos all cut down here,” indicat- ing the chest. “I cudn't see the rest uy ‘im. I woos under water five minutes that time,” “How long “M'heh? Me? Dickson (another col- ored man), he waas up on der doc! tuk off 's clo’es. [ saw “im cum down. The tide waas so strong it w bendin® me over ter where de i “Dickson, he saysto me, ‘Git up on me back 'n Tl take yer up.’ So I got up on his back 'n* ‘e up 'n’ foated me over ter de ice dock. Gee! He's a bully swimmer.” “Den [ went over to ter Weezey (Vese street) dock 'n’ lived under v till dis mawnin’, HT woos me mone; afraid ter cum home widout 1 t'ought me ole woman'd soak der liver outer me if [ didn’t cum home wid der dust. De udder mugs | what trew me over, dey tuk me seventy- five.” But Tommy holds no malice “I'm goin’ over ter der court terday. an' I'm agoin’ ter say ter der judg judge, let dem mugs out, will yer? Tain't dead.”” - Then the genius of Thomas asserted itself again. y."” he said, ‘‘der fishes bit ast time [ went down. “They woos big ones ‘n’ little ones 'n’ a big turtle.” e showed marks on his legs to prove it. *‘I scen um comin’ fur me, but what cud I do?” — GRANT GOT THEM. A Little Incident INustrating the Pecullar Methods of Modern Practical Polities, Barney Biglin ane Judge Dittenhoefer are two good republicans and_ excellent friends, says the New York Herald. They have not always been the latter, however. Both were at the celebrated third term convention, though but one claims to bo the happy possessor of a medal which certifies the holder to have me stood by Grant to the closo and be a member of the famous 306, The judge was ‘“furninst” Grant anda third term. Biglin was “wid 'em.” During the very spirited canvass of the delegations the night before the ballot- ing took place Judge Dittenhocfer had the opportunity of addressing a southern delegation, which was composed mostly of negroes and scrub whites, and he strenuously urged the negroes to aban- don Grant and take somebody else. The burden of his song was something like that of Tammany at Chicago—that Grant could not carry New York. Being a New Yorker himself, as he said, he knew the temper and spirit of the peo- ple of this state. He made a profound impression upon his ignorant audience, who knew about as much about New York as a hog knows about astronomy. At that moment in came Barney, just in time to get the drift of the speech and to 1y the danger to the Grant inter- est. As the theatrical lawyer sat down Biglin rose and inquired who Judge Dit- tenhoefor w how Of course he knew the judge very well. “T am told that he claims to be from New York and to speak for my nativo state,” went on Barney, who isn't much of a speaker, but has a way of getting there, Lnever heard of him!” “Why, Barney!” exclaimed the judge, turning very red in the face as he got up. “5it down, sir!” cried Barney, ‘T never saw you or heatd of you before.” And then he went on to assure his con- fused audience that Grant could carry New York. But the judge was not 80 easily put down. He interrupted and tried to break the force of Biglin's blow. Finrlly Breney turned sharply round and pointing his long, bong finger at Dittenhoefer, said: “'Phe gentleman still persists that he is from New York. Now I will bet him $20, aivman, that he is not, jI the chair will be good enough to ap- P clegate to hoid the stakes” —reaching down in his breeches pocket and pulling out an immense roll—but he got no further. Half a dozen dele- gates came forward and offered to hold the stakes. The eyes of every darky rolled dly. And they rested upon Judge Dittenhoefer. Slowly and reluctantly the angry law- sv drew his pocketbook. He saw what was expected and seemed to divine at once the result, but he had to do it, As soon as Barney saw the money up he said a few parting words and retired {-amid considerable enthusiasm. That 820 was never heasd of again, but Grant got the delegation. —_— The Forgei-M. t Everybody knows the pretty little for- get-me-not and likes the flower more be- cause of its name than of its beauty. How was it 8o called? The Germans ac count for it by quite a pathetic romance It seems that once upon a time a knight add a lady were walking by the banks of the Danube when the latter asked her “Sgallant gay” to pluck for her atiny blue flower ~which she saw growing in the stream. No sooner said than done, but the knight, overbalancing, fell into the river, owing to the slippery nature of the bank and the weight of his own armor was carried away by the current. Aw he threw the flowers ashore to his lady he cried out with his last breath: **Vergis mein nicht!” (*Forget me notl”) And ever since the flower has been looked on as an emblem of fidelity, — Poetry is not kept on tap by the gods, and occasion poetry, whether of Columbian or other order. rarely possesses the genuine fire. “El Nuevo Mundo,” by Lows James Block, is one of this type, and while up to the ordinary level, is rather heavy and freighted with a terresirial gravity some- what forbidding in its aspect. Some germ of faith or seed of mighty thought should serve as body of the poet's dream, which should be the most substantial and real of all things: it should be prophetic rather than retrospective; but as prophecy is not to0 be commanded at will, this accounts for the usual shortcomings of such verse, Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE REMARKABLE PENSION CASE —_— Killed at Shiloh, & Maa Turns Up After Twenty-Nie Years, RELATIVES DIVIDED . ON HIS IDENTITY Some Regard Him! e Genuine, While Others Swenr He ik an tmpostor and Ex-Conviet — Other Army Taik, ‘What has already become a celebrated pension case is now engaging the atten- tion of the United States district court at Springfield, [1l. The government is undertaking to prove that the defendant is Daniel Benton,an old Tennessee erook, who is undertaking to secure a pension as William Newby, a membor of the Fortieth [llinois caval eported killed at the battle of Shiloh,” The records in the pension bureau show that he was so killed, and his wife nted a pen- sion on that mccount. Twenty-nine years after the battlo defendant put in an_ appearance, claimod to be why and, became an applicant tor a pension. His story is that ho was desperatoely wounded” at Shiloh, for many years afterward was an insane wander and that ho finally regained his reason. An investigation of his case led to his arrest and subse- quent indictment. He received as genuine by the mother, wife and one ov more brothers of Newby, butanother brother and sister repudiate him. Hun- dreds of the former neighbors of Newby also will swear that he is the man he represents himself to be. But a nuntber of respectable citizens of Tennessee are just as positive that he is an imposter and an ex-conviet. It is a remarkable cuso of questionable identity and is at- tracting widespread attention, General Vifquain Not the Man. Who captured Col senator frgn Missouri? This question has recently excited considerable dis- pute and in view of the same it will be interesting to note the story told by the Lawrence County (Mo.) Telogram, which explains the part General Vifquain took in that memorable cvent. From this version we learn that of late there has been stories printed in regard to the capture of Senator Cockrell during the The correct story, howe is casily obtained and proved by the cords of the War department and other documents. The latest story that Colonel V. Vifquain, who has just been appointed consul to Panama, was the captor of Senator Cockreli, and that the appointment was due to the senator’s in- fluence, is not true. The colonel’s regi- ment, captured the senator, but por- sonally, the cclonel had nothing to do with the matter P. H. Penzer, late eaptain of company C, Ninety-seventh Ilinois volunteer holds a receipt dated April 10, 1865, given at the headguarters of the army nel Cockrell, now and division of west Missouri for “General F. M. Cockrell, late of Fort Blakely, signed by C. T. Christenson, licutenant colonel and assistan general, to General 1. R. S. Canby, commanding that atmy and division. Captain Pentzer says that for several days prior to April G, Fort Blakely, one of the defenses of Mobile, had beén in- fested and besieged by the command of General Fred Steele, composed of a part adjutant e of the ‘Thirteenth army corps and a di sion of colored troops commanded by G neral Hawkins. About 4 p. m. an ssault was made on the fort. W. T cilly, colonel of the Twenty-fourth Indiana voluntcer infantry, commanded abrigave in General C 'C. Andrews' division and was on the extremo right of the line and the Ninety-seventh regi- ment, Illinois volunt commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Vifquain was on the extreme right of this brigade and was ordered to deploy as skirmishel covering the front of the brigade and lead the assault on that part of the line. Captain Pentzer was in command of the right wing of the skirmish line, joining the skirmish line of the colored division on the left. I'rom the moment the assault began the battle was terrific, the confederates resisting most stub- bornly. When Captain Pelitzer with a smail squad of men broke over the con- federate line and into rifle pits where a desperate hand-to-hand conflict took place until the reserve line of his brig- ade and part of a colored regiment, came up when the fighting at that point ceased, but a party of confederate troops hed fallen back from their main line toward the bay and taken position be- hind the fallen timber, stumps on the hill slope. As soon as the fighting ceased in the rifle pits Captain Pentzer organized a new skirmish line out of the white troops at hand and moved for- ward to rout the confederates out of the fallen timber. When about half way down the hillside he saw a conlederate soldier near the foot of the hill standing on a log waving a white handkerchief and calling out that the general wished to surrender. Captain Pentzer ordered the men to cease firing, and walked down to whero the confederate soldier stood and was led by the soldier about forty yards around the foot of the hill to the general headquarters in alog cabin. There he met General . M. Cockrell, who handed Captain Pentzer his flag and surrendered to him as a prisoner of war. There were no colored troope present at that time and no other-officer at the general’s headquarters for some time. §Captain Pentzer has a medal given him by act of congress and for- warded by the scerotary of war for the capture of this huu(h‘um-wrn flag. Licutenant Colonel V. Vifquain was then in command of | the Ninety-seventh Hlinois volunteers, Yut entered the con- federate works some distance to the left of General Cockréll’ headquarters and did not see General Cockrell for more than an hour after,the surrender. Since General Cockrell bedame a distinguished United States senator he has been cap- tured at Blakely, Ala., by over a dozen officers and commands, From the hour of their abrupt and un remonious meeting at the foot of that little hill on the east side of Mobile bay at the close of a bittor and gallant con- test on the eve of the day that General Leo surrendered at/Appomattox to this day General Cockvell and Captain Pent- zer have been warm personal friends. When Colonel Vifquain met Senator Cockrell after the eapture the colonel cursed him bitterly, and even hinted at bodily harm, because some torpedoes which had been buried by the confeder- ate soldiers exploded and killed a num- ber of negro soldiers, Senator Cockrell has never for- gotten or forgiven the insult, and was in no way responsible for the appoint- ment, although he did not, as far as known, make any objection to the con- firmation. A Phantam Hurrioane, Rear Admiral Bancroft erardi, who commanded the combined flects of the world during the recent naval demon- stration at Hampton Roads and New York, is a genuine old sea dog. He can spin as many yarns of strunge adven- tures in distant seas and foreign climes s any jack tar that ever hitched his trousers or shipped before the mast. Perhaps the oddest of all his adventure: M@'\'DAY JULY 17, 1 | 93, Post on the {s one he recently told a Louisville man of a phantam hurricane Pacifie. ‘It was yeara ago,"” the admiral began, ‘when I was a captain and in the days of wooden ships and lofty masts, before | the era of ironclads, that we were eruis- ing in the Pacific off the South American | coast. We had not had a capful of wind during the entire day. It was in the dog watch, justabouteight bells. Licutenant Patch was in charge ot the deck and T | was below when an orderly brought word that the licutenant thought I had better come on deck. [ knew something un- usual was up for Liontenant Patch was an officer in whom I had the utmost con- | fidence 1 an emergency. When 1 reached the deck 1 cast un eye | aloft and saw that the topsails werb close reefed, sail shortened an! everything in readiness for a blow It was ‘as calm as a duck pond, not even a whisper of a breeze, and I looked at Pateh to see what was wrong. He pointed over the starboard beam, and looking in that direction throngh the gathering dusk I saw that the water was a mass of of white. Over the quarter it was the. same, the ocean to starbard seeming to be whipped into foam. The first thought was, of course, that one of these south- orn hurricanes was bearing down on us, We lcoked at the barometer, but it had not fallen. There was not a sound: the | night was perfectly still, Satisfied that | it could only be 'a hurricane in spite of the absence of the usual baro- | metric signs, 1 told Lieutenant Patch that he had better call afl hands on aeck to stand by to work the ship. All precautions had been taken, and the only question was whether the ship would stand. We stood in silence, all hands watching that white wall off to | starboard. The suspense was trying, but we waited for the storm to strike us. Slowly it came on nearer and neaver, but not a sound accompanying it. And then the ship went bang into that white, foamy mass. But there was not a sign of wind and we stood there amazed. Then a bucket was sent over the side and a pailful brought up. Well, it was only a mass of animaleulae, such as whales feed on. We were velieved, of course, but the hurricanc was a standing Joke on board after that. One of the Bravest. Corporal Edward P. Ross of company B, Eighth New Hampshive volunteers, | was one of the bravest men I ever knew in service, a writer on the Boston Journal. he assault on Port Hudson, May 27, 1863, he was the only one of the color guard that escaped bo- ing either killed or wounded and carricd the colors to the ditch outside the works. On the 14th of June, 1863, the Bighth New Hampshire was ordered to lead the charge, goidg in as a double lino of skirmishers. the colors not to be taken into action. Corporal Ross was sick and excused from duty by the surgeon and | was also exempt from duty with the com- pany by reason of bing detailed on the the color guard. My rank at that timo was first sorgeant. | When the company fell in at 3 a. m. on the morning of the ¢ ST noticed Corporal Ross in the ranks. I d to him: **Ross, you are not 0go in with the boys: you arc excused from duty.” He replied that if the old | shth was to lead the charge into Port Hudson he should go with it. When within about 100 yards of the works he | was shot through the leg, between the knee and hip. With the assistance of a comrade he tied his hankerchief above the wound, using his bayonet to twist it tight. A comrade, who was wounded in tho hand, offered to help him to the rear, but he said: “No, the boys areina tight place, and 1 can do some good in keeping the rebs from working the gun on the parapet just in front.” Ho was found dend after the battle, having fired away a large part of his ammunition. His musket was firmly grasped in one hand, whilo a cartridgo was partly rammed home, the ramrod being still in the muz He enlisted from Antrim, N. IL,, Oc- tober 12, 1861, at the age of 19, gnd was only 21 years of age when killed. His body lies in an unknown grave, having been buried in a trench on the field, with over 100 others, mostly members of the Bighth New Hampshire and Fourth Wisconsin, His name is engraved on the soldiers’ monument at Antrim, N. I. Fought for Food, obliged | a rule,” said a veteran to a re- rof the Detroit Fr Press, “the | derate soldier was as loyal to his cause as he was brave in defense of it. | But toward the last some of them began to weaken. One night, when we were before Richmond, where we had our breastworks so close to those of the other fellows that we held frequent ex- changes of visits, a_big, long, lean chap called and asked if he might drop in on us for some tobacco,and we let him come. When he landed among us wo had a pot of coffee boiling, some hot bread, made in askillet, and some nighty juicy bacon done to a turn. The smell of it was fine, even to us bluecoats, used to good living, and to the bhungry grayback it must_ have been powerful. Anyhow, when he got a sniff of it he jumped as if he had been shot. *“What's that?’ he asked. “Victuals,’ said I, lifting the lid of the coffee pot. “iHow offen do you git 'em this a- way,’ says he. “Every day,’ says I, “ Shore?' says he. “We'll swear to it says T, ““He looked at it with his eyes stuck oat lika saucers, and his mouth was watering like a sugar tree in spring. “4Kin I have some? says he. # CAll you can hold, suys 1. “Hold on a minute,” says he. and with that he climbed up on the breast- work and slinging his gun and accouter- ments back to his own side he sung out: “‘Here, boys, take them gover'ment traps, and goodby. I've struck some- | statement of fact, | out a foew months agoewhen he again ci- IR IR thin' that's worth fig fightin' hard,’ and thon he dodged down | whore supper wag, and from that time till the close of the war he stuck right | by us, and when the war was all ov went back to his farm in the Carolina mountains,” Look Out for Him. The attention of the War department has been called to the operations of an imposter who signs himself J. J. Fuller htin' for, an | come when he would have his re ong for the terrible boating ho had received, and he wanted Brummor to know that & slow, lingering death was to bo his fate, ho | Perlotte then spat in his vietim's fac North | and ordered him placed in a small cave, Where he was laid on the floor with his hands and foot secnroly bound. Rocks wero then piled in front of the entrance and Brummer loft to his fate, Porlotte feigned to bo as much sure and reprosents himself s a nephew of | Prised as anybody over his rival's disap tho chiof justico of the supreme court, | [EATANCe, and suread th report that he He has addressed a lotter to the ser- | N8d been killed, Brummer would nover geants of the ve throngne have been heard of again had not one of the troopers who hated Porlette given ‘ious military companies t the weat, which he requests them to read to their companies, offer information that led General Vagues to [ fng through the ssistance of his uncle | #end & squad of mon to the cave, whore, to-obtain jn repeal of the laws prevent. | on Folling back the stones, they found ing re-enlistment after ten years servieo | Brimmer more dead than alive, and prohibiting a man purchasing his veryone expected that Brummer disshange, would shoot Perlotte on sight, but he vaohd e 81, 1 conclusion, | 4id nothing of the kind, and erlotte’ e e profits | friends began to hint at a faint heart within a short timo.” He gives his | 804 lost courage. But Brummer wag addross as San Francisco and roquests | OnY Waiting toclear the way_for his css soldiers not to de Washington on August 20 to proess the matter in congress, Wil s cape from the country aftor anco should be completed. One night while going his rounds of the sentinels Porlotte was suddenly od, bound, gagged and thrown into & his venges ve the Fair, The West Point cadets ave going to | cart driven by Brammor, and by day- the World's fair. "The legal objections | light the next morning was a dozen that were advanced have heen overcome, | miles from his quartorsand in o vory and Acting Secretary wnt sent the | sparsely settled part of the country, necessary instructions to Colonel Fenasty | Brummer dragged his vietim out of superintendent of the milit academy. | the cart and sat him inst the wheel The cadets will leave West Point on | until the party had eaten broukfast August 17 and remain at Chicago ten | when he informed Perlotto of the fate he days. Thoe entire corps of 308 cadots is | had in store for him. expeeted to go, for cadets of the class now on furlough have been tho choice of starting with tl second given v eom- This section of the country is infested with a species of tiny black ants which build large mounds and are about as vine rades from West Point or joining the | dictivoan insect as can bo found anye talionat Chicago. The "expense of | where in the world nsporting the eadets to and from Chi- cts “Lam going to stake you down and loy > will amount to 317,000, which will | the ants cat said Brammer, as he aken from the general appropriation | eut the cords on his victin's legs. Four army transpor . The cadets will be encamped in Jackson park dur- their stay at the fair. stout stakes were taken from the wagon and driven into the ground around one of the largest ant hills, and then the TR vietim was stripped to the skin, EATEN ALIVE BY ANTS, Porlotte sereamed, cursed and prayod, but ho bad shown no merey when ho had left Breummer to die in the cave, and ho recoived none now. Ten peons drazged ow Colonel Perlutte Wis Put to by His Rivil Death Among the news bronght up from Pan- | him to the stakes, tied his foet seeurely ama by the steamer St. Panl is w tale of | to two of them, kicked the ant hill to love, war and revenge that (ds more | picces and then threw Perlotto on his like a dime novel story than a plain | back and quickly bound his wrists to the ys the S an Francisco othor two stakes. In an instant the writhing vietim was I mine Heebert L. Brummer, a Russian by um : % covered with the terrible ants and was birth but an Ame 1 by adoption, left | heing literally eaten alive. his desk in tie ol of a New York mer- 3 r remained long eno gh to chant about three years ago to try his | make sure that his enemy was dead, and luck in Central America. He was a | then, leaping on a horse, ho made his master of the Spanish language, and tothe coast and escaped to Now soon after reaching Nicaragua he drifted into the army. Iis first commission was that of lieu- tenant and he held that position for about a year, when he resigned and took up a plantation- He raised coffee pincapples until the revolution | 'k on a sailing vessel. ays aftor Peclotte had disap- 1his skoleton was discovered, but every particlo of flosh had disappeared and the bones looked s if they had been 1l | bleahed. oke tered the avmy. bl This timo ho entered as a colonel fn RAGE AND FIGURE the forces of the insurgents under Gen- EhowilBHIBY CHIt B Gy, | eral Savablas, who was ono of Brum wounan, ilhioyllliilaveia mer's best friends. The dashing young peatitysiof §ihel oW Rn0 colonel soon won considerablo famo as & LU METENILE R | warrior, and he also attracted the atten- Derfett health, with its clear tion of General Su who invited (il e alitele) QLD eyes, is enough to muke any him to his house and introduced him to whter. 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