The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 18, 1896, Page 8

AWFUL CRIME IN TUDLUMNE COUNTY Stockmen, While Hunting for Calves, Find a Murdered Man. WAS ROBBED AND BURIED Deputy Sheriffs Take the Field and Make an Important Capture. HAVE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. The Unknown Victim Had Been Pros- pecting Around Sonora for Some Time. SONORA, CaArL., June 17.—Last Thurs- day three cattlemen—Billy Hunter, an In- dian, Alvin Shaw and Roasco—who went out looking for some stray calves in the jawbone country. About forty miles from Sonc hile p: ng a canvon the horse of Roasco suddenly snorted, which made his rider Jook around. He noticed the remains of a recent fire and exclaimed: “Boys, they have killed and cooked one of our caives and buried the hide,” and then began to look fora likely place where it might have been buried. The search was 'soon rewarded by cing a recently dug and covered-up Roasco at once proceeded to open it up, when, to his horror, he perceived sticking out from the earth the hand of a human being. So scared was he and the remain- der of his party that they at once repaired to a camp, six miles distant, without mak- ing any further investigations. On reach- ing camp they atonce sent word to Sonora. Deputy Sheriffs Lee Pierce and Jim Don- ohue set out at4 p. w. Saturday, accom- panied by Coroner Burden and his son Harry. On reaching Roascq Camp with- out deiay they set out for the scene of the t dy. The body was at once exhumed and washed, as it was perfectly nude, and at the back of the right ear was found a bul- let wound which must have immediately proved fatal, while other gunshot wounds were found on the body exiending from the right to the left hip. A bullet-wound was also found through the tongue. After Coroner Burden had covered the body in an oilskin and wrapped it care- fully in clean blankets, the body was again buried and a monument of stones erected over it so that in future, should his rela- tives be found and it is deemed advisable, he might be buried elsewhere. The sheriffs, meanwhile, were busy looking for any evidence that might lead to the identity of the dead man or his cowardly murderer or murderers, and among the ashes unearthed several but- tons, a part of a brace or strap and buckle and one or two pieces of wearing -apparal. About 100 feet from where the fire had been started were picked up two pieces of a pootograph, which showed the face of a man 1dentical with that of the deceased, while on the lower part of a photograph were the words in gilded letters *‘Max- weli's Gallery, Spokane Falls, Wash.” With this slight clew to work on the two Sheriffs started out to find the cow- ardly assassin. They soon got a clew and foliowed it up closely, with the result that on Monday night about € o’clock they came upon the camp of the murderer on Big Creek, about six miles above Grove- lana. Here four pack animals were found un- saddled, and the suspected party, in com- pany with a traveling peddler, was trying to take things easy. After the officers had talked with the man for some time he was told to consider himself under arrest for murder, on which he turned ghastly pale and at the same time great beads of sweat poursd down his face and he trembled violently. The prisoner, whose name is McMillan, was at once started on his trip to Sonora’s County Jail. This afternoon his com- panion, the peddler, was also arrested, not for complicity in the crime, but as a possi- ble valuable witness. He will be charged with peddling without a license. Among the arrested man’s effects were a shotgun and some No. 4 shells, identical in every way with those picked up in the ashes. The murderer had hoped that by stripping his victim’s body and burning his clothes all evidence would be removea, but by a wonderfully fortunate chance enough had escaped the flames to bring home to the cold-blooded ‘assassin the guilt of his awful crime. The dead man had been prospecting around here for some time and his identity * will soon be established. Sonora is loud in its praises over the clever capture made by the Sheriffs. SUICIDE NEAR ELK GROVE. A Young Farmer Leaves a Wife and Three Children. SACRAMENTO, CaL., June17.—James Miller Redding, a farmer living near Elk Grove, in this county, shot and killed him- self yesterday morning. About3 o’clock he called to his son for & drink of water, which was given him and the son returned to bed. A few minutes later he heard a pistol shot and heand his mother ran in and found Redding lying unconscious on the bed with a pistol bulletin his head. He lived until 9 o’clock, but never spoke. No canse is assigned for the act, other than that the deceased had been drinking. He was a native of Maine, 39 vears of age and leaves a wile and three children, ——————————— at Sea. Tt was the First Napoleon who mace the cynical remark that Providence is on the side of the biggest battalions; and al- though undoubtedly experience was largely crystallized in the remark, he had himself many instances to prove that there was not a few exceptions to the rule. It may well be questioned whether the statement will not be found to be far more nearly literaliy true of naval than of military operations. The big battalions —the fully equipped battle-ships, the best steaming power, the best and most far-sighted arrangements — these, far more than mere dash and hardi- hood, are likely to be the controil- ing factors in the success of nations hereafter when they engage in naval wars. The nation which bas added to efficient sailors and undaunted men the greatest number of ships fitted with all modern appliances for warfare—the best guns, the soundest armor, the most avail- able steam power—may be said to have as- sured success. Mere bravery, a little more or less, will do little except in rare and un- likely cases; superior skill in seamanship will ‘but_seldom have the opportunity ot making its influence felt; even the quick- ness and deftness of expedient with which, rightly or wrongly, we as a people are apt to credit ourselves beyond others, will only in rare cases have a chance of show- ing themselves. It will be the ships. the guns, and possibly most of all the steam- ing power of the vessels, that will tell. —8wen Hall in Jjune Lippincott’s. ——————— A BAKERSFIELD PENITENT. Sent to San Quentin for Two ¥ears for Medical Treatment. BAKERSFIELD, CAL., June 17.—George Brown came up in the Superior Court this morning to be sentenced for burglary, hav- ing pleaded guilty. When asked if he had anything to say be stood up and made & rambling statement which showed very plainly that he was weak-minded. He said that he could swear that he saw snakes even when he had not been drink- ing and that he was really sick and needed treatment, “I ain’t just what you would call crazy, but I'm just a fool. I nevercould learn enything and I was always queer.” The Judge sentenced him to two years at San Quentin and said that if he needed medical attention he would get it there. s E e e BAKERSFIELD SCALP CASE. Ex-Deputy County Clerk Pockard Is Arraigned for Trial. BAKERSFIELD, CaL., June 17.—The trial of H. L. Packard, ex-Deputy County Clerk, on a charge of faisifying records in coyote scalp certificates, came to-day. Packard was indicted by the famous Long Grand Jury, and the specific charge is that heissued a certificate forone scalp to J. B. Batz, present County Treasu- rer, and entered it on the Liooks as for ten scalps. Deputy Attorney-General C. H. Post of Sacramento is here to try the case. The en- tire day was spent in obtaining ten jurors and the venire was exhausted. A special venire was ordered for to-morrow. POLICEMEN AND ADIPOSITY. Why Does Life on the Force Increase Nearly Every One's Weight? It has often been a source of wonder why | | of Hattie McGlincy Dunham. the policemen in the cities of America are so fat. In the older monarch -ridden countries of the world cbesity 18 to be | found on the bench of the lower magis- up | tracy. Among savages the monarchs alone are fat. Without making a scientifie | mystery of it, the cause of adiposity | among these somewhat related classesis | the same in all three—they are overfed! and underworked. i A police surgeon has recently given | voice to some opinions on the case of a fat | policeman, a very fat policeman, indeed, | and thence with Machiavellian art has | proceeded to formulate an essay on the | fatness of policemen in general. The po- liceman weighed 380 pounds when the sur- | geon first began to observe him, but in the course of a four months’ illness he dwin- | dled to 240 pounds, and still the surgeon | believed him to be too fat. We are pre- pared to believe it. In the course of his general remarks he makes one startling statement, namely: ‘“The life of a police- man is at best a very inactive one.” Itis surprising that this should be the fact. True, observation of our individual police- men is mostly associated with seeing them leaning against lampposts, chatting essily with acquaintances or with each other, or else standing before some building which they are set to guard. The peculiarly imper- ceptible way in which they manage to get from point to point does not quite convey | the idea of motion, yet when the compla- cent citizen thinks of the ‘“force’’ as “guardians of the peace,” the idea of sup- pleness, aleriness, swiftness, arises em- | bodied before his mind’s eyein an ideal body of police. This ideal is plainly what Darwinians would call a “survival.” The | modern policeman in these United States | has put an envelope of fat upon it. ' Proceeding with his general remarks the i sds Ty ol St o Lt ae | soon as a man is appointed on the force he | begins to increase in weight and belt | measurement, his muscles become flabby, | and as a result of all this he moves | more slowly than was his wont.” Precisely, therefore, at the ° period | when we imagine him smartened out of | the loose conditions of civilian life, | straightened by discipline and urged by the | traditions of his new calling to a foxlike | activity, be is, it seems, accumnlating fat | and settling down into & lumbering object | in uniform, with an ever expanding belt and an ever increasing aversion to locomotion. That a low morale may follow in the same ratio should not be incredible. ‘When Shakespeare makes Falstaff apologize for his gen- eral want of moral tone, does not 8ir John say, “Thou seest I have more flesh than an- otherman, and therefore more frailty’’? This plea, so far as we are aware, was not interposed even by the police themselves to meet the charges of corrupt dealing formerly urged against them in various quarters, but it is clearly worth consider- ing. And why should not the converse of the proposition be taken to heart? Would 1t not be well to guard against frailty, while giving a desirable spricg to constabulary heels, by forbidding fatness on the force? There is, no doubt, some connection between mental and physical states. Without straining the point to find an intimate link between rotundity and rascality, it is a very clear proposition that the will to catch a light-footed thief is modified by the inability to run a mile, say. Exercise, such as might be had in the station-houses, combined with an or- der to run round their beats, say, twice a day, would be some corrective, but ulti- mately, as in every case of obesity without exception, fat can” only be controlled by a proper dietary. Obesity has only one meaning—overfeeding. Tell that to any fat man—policeman or other—and he will be indignant. Men- tion 1t 1w a lady who has passed beyond the stale good-naturedly indicated by that troublesome word embonpoint and you may vrepare to deal with hysterics; but it is most true. Fat the superfluity of the heat supply of the body. The policeman who has been a workman finds himself better paid than ever before and with much less to do. He eats better and richer food; he lingers longer over it. As he has no mus- cular exercise to ta¥e up the increased heat supply, nature condemns him to carry it around. He grows fat. The rea- eoning applies to bankers, brokers, mer- chants and manuifacturers, to the lay and the clerical, to the “stout” lady at the opera as to the ‘‘fat lady’’ in the mu- seums. It is to be hoped that the informa- tion about the police, which we have called startling, and is truly so, shall not fail of notice among those who have con- trol in pplice circles, as it should not be lost on the fat of those who are fattening in any walkof life. Do not overeat.—Har- per’s Weekly. Why They Kept the Dog. The dog has often been called man’s best friend, and one knows how often his presence in the house is worth more than any amount of moral maxims for the children. A very suggestivelittleinstance of this cropped up recently at Corydon, on tne hearing of a summons for keeping a dog without a license. The offense was admitted, but the defendant’s wife pleaded that she only kept the animal because the children were so fond of it. At that moment sbe haa a little girl ill, and she would not take her - medicine un- less her mother pretended to give it to the dog first. No doubt the child’s principles were “Love me, love my dog.” and if the nauseous medicine was necessary for the good of the animal the doggie's little friend thought it must be good enough for her. No wonder the magistrate adjourned the case. This story reveals such a valu- able discovery in domestic medicine that we certainly think this dog ought to'be allowed to get liberty and to have no license.—The Westminster Gazette. COL McGLINCY LEAVES A SISTER, The Accidental Discovery of a San Franciscan in Washington. MAIDEN LADY OF FORTY Has Been Employed in the Gov- ernment Service for Many Years. DUNHAM'S PLOT MISCARRIES. His Unforiunate Babe No Longer Sole Heir to His Grandfather’s Large Estate, NEW YORK, N. Y., June 17.—The Herald says: George F. Dyer of Sau Fran- cisco, who is now at the Astor House, stopped over in Washington on his way to New York and helped to discover a sur- vivorof the McGlincy family of San Jose. On Wednesday, May 27, James C. Dun- ham, son-in-law of Colonel R. P. McGlin- cy, exterminated the family, consisting of six persons, committing one of the most extraordinary crimes of the century. The only living human being left on the Me- Glincy ranch was Percy Osborne Dun- ham, the infant son of the murderer and “When I left San Francisco,” said Mr. Dyer yesterday, “the officers of the law were in search of Dunham. He had been seen near San Miguel. He had called at a house near Bradley; hehad been tracked to Santa Ysabel Valley and was believed to be in hiding in Indian Gulch. The offi- cers from San Jose said they bad traced him nearly to the Mexican border, finally losing sight of him in the wild mountains of the Coast Range. There has not been so much excitement in California over a murder for years. ““When I reached Washington I stopped over to seeJ. A. McDowell of the Coast Survey, who had been a mining friend of mine years ago. McGlincy had at one time been interested in, mines on the famous mother lode in Amador County, where I own the Doyleand Muldoon prop- erties, and Mr. McDowell asked me what estate Colonel McGlincy had left. I said about §75,000, which would go to his grand- son, the murderer’s infant child. “‘Not by any means,” was McDowell’s reply. ‘Colonel McGlincy’s own sister, Eva McGlincy, is at work here now in the next room.’ ‘I found Miss McGlincy as he had said and put her in possession of the facts about the murder of her brother and his family. She had only seen the brief news- paper announcement. “I at once teleeraphed my discovery to E. L..Campbell of ti.e Mills building, San Francisco, a lawyer who is interested with me in mines in Amador Countv, and re- tamed him to act as Miss McGlincey’s at- torney. “In the absence of any other motive, it has been my theory of this remarkable crime that Dunham killed the McGlincys to make his infant son heir to the prop- erty. “Miss Eva McGlincy’s appearance on the scene will change these plans, I ima- gine. She is about 40 years old, an esti- mable lady and has worked in the Govern- ment service for many years. Colonel McGliney originally went West from ‘Washington, I believe. Miss McGlincy has never seen her brother’s ranch. She was surprised when I suggested that she was the heir to the property.” Miss McGliney’s Washington residence is in an apartment-house close by the Capitol. She has started for California. I L FIBRST CaTCH YOUR HARE. Minnie Schessler’s Father Wants $25,000 From Murderer Dunham. SAN JOSE, CaL., June 17.—Jacob A. Schessler, father of Minnie Schessler, the hired girl in the McGlincy family, who was killed by James C. Dunham, will sue Dunham for $25,000 damages for the loss of his daughter. The action is one of simple damages for the loss of the daughter's services. Plain- tiff claims he is old and was dependent largely if not entirely upon his daughter for support. She was cheerfully laboring to lift a mortgage on the humble home of the family here. Her death deprived the father of her support, love and society, and he asks for judgment for $25,000 against the absent murderer. Attorney H. V. Morehouse has taken the case and says it will be a fight to a finish to test the law. The young woman was of age, but the claim is made that this does not bar the action, since she gave her ser- vices to her father and was working with the distinct understanding and avowed purpose of clearing the mortgage on her father’s home. L S 1LOS ANGELES EXCITED. 4 Florence Rancher Reports Having Met Dunham. LOS ANGELES, CaL., June 17.—Los Angeles does not propose to be behind in the hunt for Murderer Dunham. A report was current here this afternoon that a rancher near Florence had met and talked with the sextuple murderer, who had stopped by the wayside to rest. “The mur- derer was a regular walking arsenal, which fact caused the rancher to interview ex- Mazshal Gard, who has Dunham’s picture. Thereupon the farmer declared his belief that the stranger he had met headed for this city was none other than the Simon- Pure Dunham, Marshals, detectives, Sher- iffs and the whole constabulary of Los Angeles are on the lookout for the missing fiend to-night, spurred to extra activity, perhaps, by the vision of the big rewa d for Dunham’s scalp. 5 r STRANDED BASEBALLERS. Fffects of Bad Weather and Poor Patron- age at Portland. P(:)R.TLAND, Or., June 17.—The new Pacitic Baseball League is in a bad way, so far as Portland and Seattle are concerned. Manager Glenalvin of the Portland Club has gone East without notifying numerous cteqm)rs and a dozen ballplayers when their claims will be paid. Unless a local r,togk company is formed to hold the ciub up it will disband, and the players, many of them well known in the National League and minor teams, will go East looking for jobs. Glenalvin has had a good team, but inclement weather and. T patronage at the games is the cause J?f. tgouble. Count Cam pari’s lggufi tion at Seattle has met with reverses and is about to dis- FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1896. band. Tacoma is the best paying ball town in the league. ————— FLORIDA DEMOCRATS. Delegation to Chicago Divided on the Financial Question. OCALA, Fra., June 17.—The eight dele- gates from Florida will go to Chicago un- instructed. In the State convention to- night the committee on platform made two reports. 4 ‘The majority recommended the financial question to the Cnicago convention. The minority report, signed by twenty-two of the members of the resolutions committee, declared for free silver. The minority re- port was then voted down, 176}4 to 17014, and the majority report was adopted by the same vote. ——— Portland’s Bunker Hill Celebration. PORTLAND, Or., June 17.—Portland Chapter Society of Sonsof the American Revolution celebrated . the one hun- dred and twenty - first anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill to- night. A banquet was given at the Chamber of Commerce, at which covers were laid for a large number. Hon. A. F. Sears Jr. of Portlana delivered the ad- dress. PEERR Jury Failed to Agree. FRESNO, Car., June 17.—The second trial of Clark Wood, late Deputy County Clerk, on a charge of embezzlement was concluded before Judge Conley of Madera, sitting for Judge Carter. The jury failed to agree, standing eight for conviction. e ONLY A BABY TORNADD, It Pays a Brief, but Lively Visit to the Carpinteria Valley. Orchards Are Ruined and Buildings Damaged, but Nobody Seri- ously Hurt. SANTA BARBARA, CaL, June 17.—A genuine little tornado came in from the sea yesterday afternoon and swept through Carpinteria Valley, disappearing over the mountain range. Fortunately its ravages were confined to a district but thinly popu- lated and consisting of large ranches with but few buildings. A few tough old live oaks were leveled by the storm and a track cut through orchards, but no persons were injured or buildings materially damaged so far as heard from. Yersons who witnessed the approach of this tornado describe the scene as extraor- dinary. Carpinteria lies direct along the sea- shore and consists of a level valley, rising where it approaches the mountain. A heavy bank of fog was lying over the sea and along the shore, when a black, funneledshaped cloud came cutting the fog like a knife scattering the mist on either side into great waves, whose surge was plainly visible, and speeding through the valley, cut a track to the hills. Santa Barbara County can claim the distinction of having experienced the only three cyclones, or more properly speaking, tornadoes that have ever visited Califorvia, and, although these were baby tornadoes, they have yet been demonstrations of sufficient dignity to dis- countenance any sneering. Last vear one of these clouds in the aead of night descended upon the upper Santa Ynez Valley, tearing a big barn to splinters and lifting a thresnin? machins, cooking out- fit, shanty and all over a fence and setting it safely down on the other side. The most notable of these phenoma | visited Santa Barbara in the winter of ’77. A heavy southeaster had been prevailing all day. At 8:30in the evening a column of electric fire was seen by watchers on the water front to detach itself from the heay, mass of clouds and fiy rapidly shoreward. A lumber schooner lying at the wharf was driven completely through it, cuttihg the wharf in two and badly damaging #he vessel. It then struck the land, seeming to lift in true cyclone style, taking a path west of State street, below Dibble hill, up De Lavina street and out in tne direction of Hope Ranch, where it is believed to have entered the sea. At Mr. Tierney’s residence on De la Vina street it twisted a new barn around on its foundation, lifted a heavy farm | wagon over the fence and deposited it in | the back yard of his neighbor, Mr. Roeder, and lifted some lighter articles into trees in the yard of the Bradbury home. Farther up the street a well-known resi- dent had a pet calf lifted from its corral and safely deposited in the branches of a | tall tree, whence it was rescued with diffi- culty. In passing over its course it.top- pled down & brick chimney on the house of Eider Goss, killing his young son. This tragedy alone presented a serious side to a phenomenon which was in its other phases merely & very picturesque and amusing prank of nature. e —— ONE OF THE SHORTEST STRIKES, How a Popular Superintendent Brought About an Understanding. “J. Q. Van Winkle, general superintend- ent of the Big Four, once made the auickest settlement of a big strike on record,” said the old-timer. “It was at Springfield, Ohio, I think. The men, or a great portion of them, had gone out, and an effort was made to get the others to strike. Van Winkle arrived and found the town placarded with notices that there was to be a mass-meeting of railroad men at a certain hall to take some action on the strike. He said that he would attend the meeting. The men were inclined to be turbulent, and an atten.pt was made to persuade him not to go. But at the hour set he presented himself at the door of the hall and was -topged by the sentry, who informed him that he could not come 1n. * ‘That’s a railroad man’s meeting, isn’t it, Jack?’ asked Van Winkle, who knows nearly every man on the system by his first nsme. *‘That what it is.” “‘Well, I’am a railroad man, and I want to come 1n.’ ¢“‘Can’t do it, Van. The boys would object.” “‘You don’t dispute my being a railroad man, do you?’ “*Oh, no; you area railroader, all right: but not the kind we want at this meeting.’ “‘Jack, I tell you what you do. You go in and tell the boys that I'am out bere and want to come in.” I don’t think many of them will object.” “The doorkeeper went inside, and in a few minutes returned and invited Van Winkle into the hall. Assoon as he was past the door a yell thatshook the buila- infi went up. efore there was any deliberation Van Winkle was called on for a speech. He got on the platform and talked to a lot of men he used to do yard work with, pointed out to them the mistake -they were making, and assured them that he would see that any just grievance they had would be righted atonce. When he had finished he was asked to retire, and ‘as he left the room more than half the men walked out with him, remarking: ‘What Van says is good enough for us.’ In an hour’s time tha strike was at an end and all the men were at their places. Van Winkle investigated the causelof the h'olflwle and arranged mat- ters satisfactorily to. all concerned.”—In- dianapolis Journal. Nearly the entire continent of Europe receives its supplies of oleomargarine from New York and Chicago, and the im- portation 18 always through Rotrerdam. STILL IN- QUEST OF COIN H F. Marshall Wants Fifty Thousand Dollars for Three Damaged Teeth. His Feelings Were Injured Also. Suit Commenced Against J. D. Spreckels. H. F. Marskall, who was thrashed by John D. Spreckels in Tue CaLy office one night in April last, has sued the capitalist for $50,000 damages. The reason why Marshall was thrashed will now be made known through the courts, and if the suit has been brought for the purpose of plac- ing certain men on the witness-stand and bringing certain things to light it has not been brought in vain. The truth—all the truth—will be made known. On that never-to-be-forgotten mile post in Mr. Marshall’s picturesque career, he lost the lower halves of three of his front | teeth—highly valued teeth were they—and acquired a large and varied collection of lacgrations and bruises. Mr. Marshall's feelings were likewise bruised and lacer- ated to a degree painful to contemplate. The owner of the teeth and feelings— valued at $50,000—engaged several months ago with two or three others in a little scheme to obtain‘a large sum of money from Mr. Spreckels, in exchange for which they promised to secure for him the in- fluence and votes of the American Protec- tive Association in California. The scheme was a flat failure, but out of its ruins the owner of the teeth and feel- ings—valued at $50,000—constructed what to the American eyes of himseif and his confeaerates promised bir results. An affidavit was prepared by Marshall, in weich he swore that the A. P. A. had been sold to Mr. Spreckels for a valuabie consid- eration by PresidentHudelson. This piece of peramy was to be the conspirators’ stock in trade. They were to take the document to Mr. Soreckels and tell him that if he did not &uy them $60,000 they would take it to the onitor and the Chronicle, by which it would be published, to his great and last- ing injury. To let Mr. Spreckels “‘down easy” they agreed to give him, in return for the money, a claim upon a mine, which probably has no existence. After-events have proved that the con- spirators did not dream for 2 moment that their proposed victim wouldjdefy them. Mr. Marshall essayed thegdelicate task of approaching the capitalist on the sub- ject. He found Mr. Spreckels in the busi- ness office of THE CALL and made known the wants of himself and his fellow-con- spirators. Mr. Marshall is a divinity sto- dent, but no blush suffused &is cheek, no tremor disturbed his tongue as he made his demand for blackmail. He was asked where the mine was located, but he counld not tell. He was asked where the owner could be found, and again he confessed his ignor- ance. Finally he admitied that the mine, s0 far as he knew, had no existence. ‘Whenever Mr. Marshall writes the obitu- ary of his lost teeth he will date the event the moment after he confessed that the mine, so far as he knew, was a myth. Mr. Spreckels arose and thrashed him with vigor and enthusiasm. Subsequently Mar- shall signed an affidavit declaring that the mine had no existence, and then he was taken to his home, where he slowly con- valesced. —————— HISTORY OF A GOLD PIECE. Jefferson Davis Had It When Captared and It Now Belongs to Gen. Church. It was a noticeable fact in counection with the recent exercises of the unveiling nd dedication of the General Hancock tatue that Generat Miles. commander-in- chief of the army, who was in command of the military parade, made a decided change of the personnel of his staff officers for the occasion. ‘When the war closed General Miles was in command of the First Division of the Second Army Corps, which was com- manded by General Hancock. Of the half dozen officers then composing General Miles’ staff, four still survive, and these were present to take part in the statue un- veiling ceremonies. One came all the way from North Dakota, another from Michigan, the third from Ohio, and the fourth from New York, and they had not all been together before for twenty-five years. ‘When making up a list of those who should compose his staff for the occasion General Miles paid a very graceful tribute to his old staff officers by announcing that as president of the Society of the Second Army Corps and the ranking officer under General Hancock, he felt that he would be justified in choosing the few survivors of his old staff, to the exclusion of his pres- ent staff. As a consequence General Miles marched on foot down Pennsylvania ave- nue with the four members of his former staff at the head of the parade, as they had 50 often marched or ridden on other far more dangerous occasions more than thirty years before. General Nathan Church, the Michigan representative of the quartet of old staff cfficers who rose from captain to colonel of the famous Twenty-sixth Michigan, and then to assistant adjutant-general and chief of staff under General Miles, showed with much pride while in Was ington a $5 gold piece that hasa wonder- ful history. When General Church’s regiment was to be mustered out in 1865, General Miles requested the War Depart- ment to allow him to retain his chief of staff in the service, which request was granted, and for six mounths after his regi- ment had gone home, and until he clined to remain longer, General Church was with General Miles at Fort Monroe, their prineipal duty being to guard their distinguished prisoner oi war, Jefferson Davis. ‘When captured Mr. Davis bad in his g:cket the gold piece in question and a exican silver dollar. General Church procured other silver pieces and effected an exchange for the two found 1n Mr. Da- vis’ pocket. He retained the gold piece and gave the dollar to Major Black, the Dakota member of the four who were present at the recent exercises, and who had been his tentmate. A few months thereaiter Major Black was showing his famous dollar ‘at an evening gathering, passing it from one to another, when it suddenly disappeared, and he has ever since mourned for his lost treasure. General Church had better luck, how- ever, with his gold piece, and while he occasionally exhibited it to his friends, carried it as a much-prized pocket piece for iwenty-five years, when he suddenly discovered that he had unintentionally paid it out instead of another similar piece of money he carried with it; but to whom he had not the slightest recollection. He grompfly directed the cashier of his bank to lay aside any $5 gold pieces bearing the date of 1857 that might pass through his hands in the course of business, think- ing there might be possibly one chance in a million that the valuable keepsake would some time make itappearance. Six weeks afterward an old farmer dropped in and made a small deposit, when the cashier said to Mr. Church: ‘“H ere! see if that’s the gold piece you are looking for.” He took it, and was overjoyed to find the dis- tinguishing marks he had placed upon the coin when it first left Mr. Davis’ pocket and found its way into his own. Since then the preciouspiece has been kept care- fully wrapped and safely secured against another disappearance. s While in Pars five or six yearsago Gen- eral Church was a guest oue evening at the home of a wealthy family who had formerly resided in New York. In some way the hostess learned that he had Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. helped to gnard Mr. Davis while he was a prisoner of war, and she said, wiih much apparent satisfaction: *I have a Mexican dollar that was taken from Mr. Davis’ pocket at that time which I value very highly.” Without betraying the anxiety he felt, Mr. Church asked when and ‘where she obtained it, and was told that it had been presented to the late Presi- dent Andrew Johnson while he occupied the White House, and that she being his near relative, it had fallen to her on the aistripution of his valuables after Presi- dent Johnson’s death. General Church had no opportunity nor inclination then to explain what he knew of the old relic. but he has now had an opportunity to personally tell Major Black where his long-lost dollar is, and he, too, may, like General Church, come again in due time into possession of his own.—Washington 08t. ———— GARDEN SASS A8 MEDICINE. 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