Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-04-28
is opening, and I must go to

grave is opening, and l must go to
judgment"
Mrs, Francis soon died. Case has
since died. The daughter started to
return to her father in vessel that was
lost at sea. 1t was supposed that Fran
els committed suicide after the breaking
up of his home, as nothing was heard
from him. His story, which has lately
come out, is as dreadful as that of the
others.
Up to the time of the elopement
Francis had lived with the utmost conf
dence in his wife's honor, and when the
appalling truth of his betrayal dawned
upon limit partially turned his brain, and
he became monomaniac, with only two
objects in life-to gain revenge on Case
and get back his child. He sold his
little properly at a sacrifice, and set out
on his long pursuit of Case and Mrs.
Francis. They had gone to England.
He followed them, and arrived there
Just in time to hear of them in France.
From France he traced them to the
north of Europe, and thence they led
him a will-o'wisp dance, sometimes in
sight and other times unheard of for
months, to Constantinople, where they
became entirely lost Five years past
When the Crimean war broke out
Francis enlisted in the English army as
cook land served until the end of the war
Some years thereafter he was in the en-
ploy of Adams Express Company, on
the Pan Handle road, and was queer"
His mental unsoundness at last led to
his discharge, and it is said he is living
on farm in Minnesota. --Bu6alo En.
EXPERIENCE IN BATTLE. d believe"
writes veteran, ''no two soldiers will
widely disagree as to their sensations
during a battle. take it to be piece
of bravado in any man to assert he had
no fear during the progress of long
and severe engagement. A battle is a
veritable he'll upon earth; not to be in
serious apprehension while it lasts is to
be either drunk, Grassy or inscnsible. The
highest type of bravery is that of the man
who realizes the full extent of the peril,
but sticks resolutely to his duty. 1t was
my experience, and that of all those
about me, repeated dozen times, that
shell firing is not ordinarily nearly 50
demoralizing as that Of musketry It
is not often that shells are thrown so that
their fragments scatter death and wounds,
and their loud humming over head does
not cause that nervous tingling which
follows the sharp zip of the rife bullet.
The peculiar cutting Of the air made by
half dozen of those at once is apt to give
the soldier the idea that the whole air is
filled with them, and that he is certain to
be struck by one of them. All, believe
will agree as to the sensation first caused
by the impact of a bullet. 1t is stun
ming, numbing feeling, which for long
time overpowers the local pain of the
wound. In my experience, single
buckshot near the hip knocked me fat,
and for two days after gave me such
acute pains and muscular disturbance
from knee to shoulder that | could
not stand erect Soldiers have frequent
ly been Frustrated by spent balls. A
curious effect of shell wounds is that
they do not bleed; the hot fragment
sears the torn blood vessels and stops
the effusion A Mimic ball extracted
from the human body presents a remark
able sight. | have seen them where
the resistance of the flesh had turned
back the pointed end on all sides with
such regularity that the ball resembles
suacer or a flower"