The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-30
A Ride Among the Dead aud Wounded Ser
eans.

The correspondent Of the London
Standard who is with the.Turkish staff,
gives description of the operations
against AlexinatZ. In describing the
field after one Of the several engage
nents he says:
Col. Mehmed and were the first and
until now the only ones, who have pen
etrated beyond the haystack on which
the Zeibeck keeps watch: we expected
to be received by some shots. but in
stead OF armed foes we found dead en-
emies. First we saw a cemetry half
hidden by old lime trees. the graves Of
which had been opened, and skeletons
and purifying corpses lay strewn
about. No Turk had reached this
point. so this desolation and robbing
had been the work of Servians, prob
ably Of maruders. \ hundred steps fur.
eher on we came upon 4 number of
Servlar Corpses. most OF them in that
early state OF decomposition when the
body sWeiis to an enormous size. Some
Of them, however, could have only
been dead for q short time. for their
bodies were still warm and unstitfened.
he had mot dreampt what havoc our
two batteries and the cavalry attack
had made on Friday. The defeat oi
the Servians must have been much
more severe than we imagined, AS the
enemy had left his dead and wounded
behind, close to the river bank. The
poor wounded what terrible agony
they must have endured, lying among
corpses, and deprived Of all consola-
ton and help. How many groans and
signs must have passed the quiyering
lips and been lost III the empty air.
Near HI adjunct lay two photographs
which must have slipped from his dy-
ing hand one represented the dead
man. but in the uniform Of II Russian
major or colonel, and the other young
woman with fair tresses, prominent
] nose and iight-colored eyes. The pho
tograps were taken in Moscow on the
back OF the man $ stood in pencil. Nj
coly karroff. ! knew not in what re-
.atlon the woman stood to the officer !,
/ but whether wife, sister or betrothed
it is certain his last thoughts were of
her. Not far from MIN lay another
officer. his right hand pressed on his
breast. where the splinter Of a shell
had struck him. and grasplng a piece
IT paper. 4 strong man, he appeared
10 have struggled long with death. his
] face. which had the unmistahahle Rus
sian tyne. being distorted with pain.
! Il was with difficulty that the paper
was removed from his hand. 1t was
a letter without any date, in cryilic
writing. and evidently from child's
hand. Col. Mehmed. who was once in
the Russian service III. is CIEcassian
from naghestan. subjected by Russia
more than fifty years ago. and under
stands Kussianl, translated the letter
/ into Turkish and then one Of our COS
sacks, Pole. who had been brought
up in France gave ne the contents in
French, rs follows.
DEAREST FsrHEs-Bs good enough. dearest
t.4tEey, ~ eagae rack from the war Since Won,
have tse@n awav mother weess continually,
ard she sireafas every night that thou hest un-
! der Tree. Come sous. dear :akher. tor moth
er has become 81 pale, and il always crviug
ass verF srsi. - that she may not cry still
] Aa0g9, as2sE wren than eg.le~s has.E viii re-
main good. &sd never I've nau1htv again. Rsst
gnou aatass ronae sae0. f4shs@. and kiss mother
thai sIse mas necasne FHSa a4ain ana also kiss
thy Little Mlnsa-
do no. know whether i. was tile
letter. which the dying snan probably
read again aud again. hut it is fact. |
seemed 10 loose all courage, and even
on the defiant co,ntsla4nee II the colo
mel issy a shallow.
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tiNe Ill the Nevada rsar4ehers sent his
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