Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-10-01

ON the Gath september, after illness of one week
| WILLIAM NJ CUSTER. Of VIM :. and Pismb
custer, aged 20 years, months and days. Hi
remains covered by the flag Of our country and es
corted by the SIemmer Guards OF which he was
member and attended by mourning relatives and
sympathizlng friends, consigned to theirrcsne
place ON earth in the Presbyterian graveyard ON Fri
day morning He had been employed in the Com.
missary Department at Harrisburg for some months
and there no doubt contracted the disease which ter
minated his life.
We cannst part with old friend-for such he was,
though young il yesrs-rithou paying n last tribute
| to his memory. Growing up with sous and
for number of years one of our companions
of the excursions made to Licking creek aad other
trout streams we learnt to know him well and esteem
him for those good qualities which shine forth in the
soiudes of those regions far cons pcuousIy in
boy than in Ever ready to assume the hard
est labor, most ingenious in inventing and construct
ing comforts, seldom out of temper, under try
ing circumstances, he was deservedly fayorte with
all.
FAREWELL, good-natered WILL! Thy pilgrimage on
earth, with all its hopes and buoyant anticpations is
over, yet the friends of thy boyhoods days will not
soon cease TO bear thee in remembrance. No. Whe-
ther associated at home the hills of the Blue Ju
nlaa on the sleeps of the mountain so often climbed
together, by the campfire beneath the hemocks on
the banks of the -ream you loved best far distant
regions, amid the din and carnage of war not
one of that band-of whom you once were, but now
are not-but will drop tear your memory as your
image, like the vision of dream comes floating by
and express feeling of regret that you are sleeping
beneath the sod of mother EARTH no more to partake
of their pleasures OF all outside your paternal roof
they perhaps knew and best appreciated your good
nature and willing heart and of all others none will
sympahze more truly with these who have lost an
only living son. an only living child, the hope and
promise of their declining years. But
Often we made to weep
For the loved ones calPd to sleep,
And on our pathway falls the goom
OF the dark and dreary tomb"
Once more farewell! Be thy sleep calm and peace
full as thy life unrufed with storms or thy nature
tainted with evil; and when we too shall be gathered
with our fathers, may He whoss benehcent hand ia
visible above beneath, and around u.s. bEipg all toes
ther in that haven where Time and Death are un-
known:
To soFFowing father and heartstricken mother
they extend coincidence far beyond common syff
pathy. God in His Providence has taken him awavp
for purposes beyond the ken of human wisdom and
though the deep fountains of our nature may be
stirred to their utmost depths, and sorrow we'll up
rom the lnmost recesses of the heart, yet who will
say that his dspensatons are not for our goods
Farewell, poor Will, thy grave shall be,
A green spot in memory:
On mountain steep-by shady stream,
Where laureled banks its waters screen-
On moss-bouHd rock, whsreon in rest,
We viewed the lofty mountain crest
By murmuring rill in deep ravine,
Where sunlight casts its ftfu gleam-
By the camp fires glare-the yelling spring
Where oft thy voice was heard to ring
On green hillside, woodland lea,
Wen drop tear and think Of theel p