Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-25

RHGEsEEDs
Mark Lemon had hls life Insured
for s250 900
An Auburn dispatch eOntFadiets
the report regarding H. Stewards
health.
Robson denies that he Is 70
marry Miss BOrie. Robson Is
good authority.
An exchange says Goodwin
Smith never thinks Of Lothian"
without feeling "Dizzy."
Olive Logan spraIned her ankle
in LeavenwOrth, Kansas, on the I'd,
and could not lecture.
Shirley Dare, who writes letters
from Washington, is Miss Susan
Dunning, Of Columbus, Wis.
The name Ofsir Walter Scott is to
be hOnored with scholarship in the
Edinburgh University.
Mrs. George Vandenhof will ap.
pear as q lecturer next season, and
Mrs. General Lander as q reader.
Captain Eyre, who commanded the
Bombay, threatens to make q pub
lie statement in his own defense.
The Right Hon. Thomas OLA
gan. lord chancellor Of Ireland, has
been created Sharon OHagan."
Dispatches from India mention
an alarming outbreak Of cholera In
the Bengal Presidency.
Ashley's friends In Montana are
anxious that he should not be re-
moved. He has divided fairly SO
far.
AHelyG Coins Is a citizen Of Ten
nessee, who has a bill pending in
Congress to. grant him an invalid
pension.
A second hand tombstone Is ad-
vertised for sale at a bargain in
Hawkinsville, ia. This Is "hawk-
Ing" things with q vengeance.
One Jonathan Whitemore Is en-
gagged in padding his own canoe
along the coast from Gloucester,
Mass, to New York.
Another old colored woman has
lust turned up-and died-whC
cooked Washington's cOrn-cakes al
the surrender Of Yorktown.
A monument will shortly b
erected at Mannheim, in Germany
to the memory Of Karl Sand, whit
stabbed the poet KOtzebue.
An extraordinary GOODNESS exist
between the towns of Yonkers an(
Coxackie, N. Y, consisting ofabOu
forty extensive ~ice-hOuses.
! The d~rummer-boy Of the an
cient and honorable artillery com
pany of Boston is Dan Simpson
aged 50. He has drummed in tn
same company 60 years.
Brigham Young, having becom
tired Of the many false reports cir
culating about him, says that he !
! aged so, and has l6 wives aud Onl
. 40 children.
The corner stone of q monumer
: to Baron Steuben was laid at Stel
e bensvllle, n. Y, recently BY Hor'
: ito Seymour. Five thousand spe,
tators were present.
Miss Nettie Peabody, niece of Il
late Geo. Peabody, was married
. ZanesYille, Wednesday evening, I
! Joseph Cultivate, Of 0sceOla, Mo
= formerly a resident Of Zanesvill
Il A TRUE sKEroH.--John Est,
Cooke, in his new book, "HaI
.e mer and Rapler," says:
d The day passed, and the mig
10 -on the 10Th the army surrender
lr formally, stacked arms, abandon
q their columns, and dispersed
d their homes. The Federal comma
II der had acted throughout all wi
n the generosity Of soldier and q
n breeding ola gentleman. Not
70 cheer was heard, not q band play
l In the Federal army. When far
o shout rose over the wood, one
the Federal officers FASTENED
apologize for 1t.
"That is the rear-guard-tho
-, fellows did none of the fighting
said be.
Those who fought-the veter
OF Army of the Potomac, tried in bi
tie, In victory, in defeat in all I
r hard lite Of the soldier-they d
not cheer when their old adveri
II. ries surrendered. They were sile
aud saluted when q ragged COME
, crate passed. They felt what 81
u render must be to the men Of Il
army, which they had fought
as years-and not 8 cheer or q bra
band was heard.
Mt Why humiliate their old enemie
Why make the more bitter tn
Il. misfortune?
On the 10 OF April, 1865, the
soldiers of the Army Of the Pol
mac stretched the hands'of comraC
to the foe they had fought so loI
q To-day they are ready to do
much, If the civilians would
he them. There is q parsonage me-
ferocious and implaoable than
be iercest soldiery-it Is the man "
had staid at home and never SIN
gunpowder; who, while the r
fought, clapped his hands, sayir
Eight on my brave boysl You
e. covering yourself with glory, a
r. we are watching you"