The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-20
A Good story Of Maine Officer.

we wei TSueiuDef, says the TOrC
land FreSS, O'Neil w. Robinson, s
graduate OF Bowdoin. a native oI
Waterford, and lawyer at Bethel
when the war broke out. lie raised
the Fourth Me. Battery and COM
manded it till he was made Major,
and put in charge of the Artillery OF
tue Third Corps.
While home on furlough hewent
to Conway for day or two, and
what happened there is told as fol
lows in the New York Ledger, by Il
gentleman who met Major Robinson
at his fathers in Waterford, and
preceded him day or two at Con-
@aY. Hundreds OF young men will
read this with delight, who knew
the Major's honest ways OF putting
things. We give the story in the
words OF the narrator:
arrived 1T my journey's end in
safety and at the Conway House, |
found nuisance-a nuIs sance not
only to me bus all the modest and
sober miaded sojourners. This pest
vas nothing more nor less than a
young lieutenant of artillery, dress
naked in an agonizing uniform, with
very bright buttons, and with straps
OF gaudy establishment, covering
fully half of either shoulder. They
were the most stunning" pair OF
shoulder straps ever saw. He car
ried small goid-headed cane, and
stru.ted awfully. He looked down
upon common people, and only af-
iected the society OF the elaborately |
dressed ladies. He talked big ofI
war and battles, and told to the Ia
dies stories of his valOrous deeds
and hair-breadth escapes.
Two or three weeks had passed
since the Lieutenant's arrival, and
more than one good guest had left in
utter disgust. The popinjay's self
sulliciency and arrogance were real
ly painful.
1t was at noon, On q cool, rainy
day, that Robinson arrived, having
come over with private team. He
put up his morse and eat his dinner,
and then came down to see me-
asked him in course OF conversation,
If he had seen the Lieutenant. No
he had not l then gave him little
account of said individual, with
description of his person.
81 know him. cried . Neil. "He :
is sneak of Bancroft's battery on
The sick list-never did days duty
in camp or on the field
Towards evening we walked up to +:
the hotel, O'Neil wore common [
soldiers overcoat, one he had taken
10 shed rain, slouched hat that had I.
seen service, and ponderous cavalry 1
boots. lie walked like an elephant {
and seemed almost rs powerful. As {
ge approached the hotel, the Lieu s
.enant sOod upon the broad piazza, |
n company with q number of ladies, {
.ntirely iianking the main entrance. |
in his off hand, swinging |
away, ascended the steps, and start I
% push through the hanking party /
rhe Lieutenant looked ut him in
.TTc SotyTrvr-----i-.-.---I -f.ar -ilEi-l1
'.Say, felIah, Get out o. this I
iaint you got any manners Don't '
fou know any better than to trespass s
IN the company of officers and ladies'
ret out. Go around il you want to |
get into the hotel.
O'Neil gave one look at the speak
,r. thea advanced, and took him by .
.he collar OF the coat and by the seat
IF his pants and lifted him as though
ne had been q child; carried him to
IN adjacent hitchlng post and laid I,
lim down carefully in a puddle OF
water. This done, the battle SCARED
veteran went into the office, and
threw off his overcoat. He had just
livested himself OF the wet garment
when the besmeared Lieutenant,
frantic and frothing, rused in
"Where's-where's- 's-that con-"
as it me, sir ?" quietly asked
O'Neil.
"Eh? Major Robinson :"
DAT your service, sir for any thing
but to ''go awound."
The Lieutenant covered, and
shrank away before the chief; and ,
On the next morning he was missing.
lie had hired Il man to drive him to
North Conway during the night;
and those who had suffered IN his {
presence saw him no more.