The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-05
rom Cor. Erie Dispatch.
n. Letter From Camp PittOn.

it,coo oiO lShuuiy as lolioWSs hieuuSh-
ant Bailey had spent the evening with
a number of fellow officers in a most
agreeable manner, but had complained
ofa peculiarpain i'm the back This neck
during the day. Retiring about eleven
o'clock, apparently in good health, he
was noticed shortly afterwards by
Second Lieut.. G. H. Rhines, his tent
mate, to be breathing strangely, but
no attention being paid he was allowed
to remain so until one o'clock, when
it was discovered that Lieutenant
Bailey was unconscious and nearing
his last moments. His body was taken
on couch to the Kent House, where
he breathed his last at five minutes
past two o'clock Saturday morning. A
medical gentleman pronounced the
cause of death to have been apoplexy,
by which disease he had been twice
previously Frustrated. The body was
Immediately washed and attired in
full dress uniform, and placed in a
case. The company had fixed upon
Saturday as the day for moving, and
hence as Lieutenant Bailey had tele-
graphed his wife they would be in
Ridgway Saturday evening, were
all ready to move. AT sunrise the flags
were all placed at halfmast, and Capt.
]. b. Brown, Company A, Cory, es-
corted Captain Fred. Schoening and his
mournful train to the depot, where an
affecting prayer was made by Chap
touching scene as the men and officers
stood with bowed head, the tears fell
like rain from their eyes. The mel
ancholy affair cast gloom over the
dress parade in the evening resolu-
tions of respect testifying to his excel
lence as man, efficiency as soldier,
courteousness as a friend and COM
panion, were read by Chaplain Austin,
and the regimental colors draped in
mourning.
Lieutenant Bailey was man of
scarcely thirty-iive, leaves wife and
three children. He was one of the
most able lawyers at the Ridgway bar;
was member of the Republican State
Committee i'll '76; ..at the time of his
death chairman of the Republican
County Committee of Elk.
He was large, finely formed man,
strictly temperate in his habits, thor
ough gentleman and a soldier, whose
presence and assistance will be long
missed in the Ridgway Rifles by Cap
tain Schoening.
Colonel Magee and his entire COM
mand, including the Titusville Citi-
zens' Corps, accepted the invitation of
the citizens of Jamestown OH Satur-
day morning for grand parade, and
the general privileges of the town.
The troops were transported by
steamer jamestown, and were received
at the borough by the Jamestown
Swedish militia, borough trustees and
citizens, escorted through the principal
streets of the borough, and reviewed
in the public square.
iiC ploOl'S tlt SOlilS
oeuvering, and We're much admired by
the spectators, who had come from all
quarters to see the parade. The We
mango Greys, Captain Wiley, wore
white duck pants, thereby showing
their fine marching to good advantage.
The privilege of two or three hours
marching through the streets COM
prised the hospitalities of the occasion.
Charles Jackson, colored, was ar
rested last evening for stealing blank
cts, shirts, money and other articles
from Colonel Magee's apartments. He
had been suspected, and had eluded de-
lection until the proof positive turned
up in the finding of two camp chairs,
presents to Mrs. Col. Magee, in the
depot, directed to hinlselfat Franklin.
Corp. Ollie Riblet, of the Erie Guard
with a detail of men, delivered him
to the sheriff of Chautauqua county
late in the evening.
A number of the companies are liv-
ing on the regulation hard-tack and
beans.
This morning the Erie Guard and
North East Guard broke camp and
were carried to Mayville on the Mary
Martin, where they took the cross-cut
road for Brocton, thence the Lake
Shore to Erie. The Erie Guard was
escorted to the steamboat landing by
the Conneautville Rifles, Captain j.
E. Rupert. who by the way is proven
bal for his courteousness in civil as
we'll as in military life. At the land
ing Coleman's Band, of Titusville,
serenaded the steamer as she carried
Adjutant Leech, Major Craine, Cap.
Kurtis and company, and North East
Guards, Captain Orton, out.
At BrocLon, while waiting for the
train on the Lake Shore, Adjutant
Leech, Major Grain, Captains Kurtis
and Hilton attended divine services in
in Brocton, Rev. Ryswick officiating.
Camp Pitton, with the exception OF
Co. b, Erie Guard, Co. I, North East
Guards, and Co. HI, Ridgway Rifles,
which commands have gone home,
will remain intact until Wednesday
of next week.
A Card.