The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-12
MAJOR SOMEBODY'S RECEPTION AT
BISMdRCK.

regiment OF infantry at the Sheridan House in
Bismarck had broken its force like breaker
on the beach in that hostclrys parlors. halls.
and stairways. Its strongest element surged
into the barroom about midnight There West
Point oath was unsteady taken not to go homo
till morning, and in smiling reply to demands
for whskey straight under pain of instant
death. the barkeepcr threw forward a line of
bottles and tumbers. and fell back in good or
der. considering that he should have been on
the retired list since in the afternoon. Major
Somebody was thick in his twenty-scvcnth
speech that this was the proudest day of his life.
and that he would be damned IL he over per-
mitted feather in the wing Of his friendship TO
moult; and Lieut.. Somcbodyclse was spillng
his liquor over the sixty-seventh verse OF
Benny Ravens, oh.' when discord arose. and
moulting in friendships wing suddenly set in.
He is insulllcicntly described as young
man In the signal service. who was tight" He
had been receiving the Major. H. wanted to
keep on receiving But there was fatal social
objection to him as receiver. lie was not
West Pointer Tho signal service man. how
ever. who nightly kept company with the stars.
the winds. and the lightning. couldn't be madc
to feel this. He considered and declared him
self to be good enough to get drunk with any
officer ever graduated from the Military Acad-
and receive. Lawyer Gcrray cmptied his glass.
and, without waiting wipe his lips. dcmurred.
lie struck out at the intrusive weather watcher
from the right shoulder, and Knocked himself
down by the rccol Of his own blow. When
picked up, and sponged of with new drink
and called TO the scratch. he made lively Sec
ond roundby collaring the pebcian ofthe signal
service. and running him out Of the barroom
door into the street. And Benny Havens oh :"
rang like battle song across the Missouri to
the scntrirs walking their frozen beats in Fort
Abraham Lincoln.
Major Somebody was DANGEROUSLY Grating
about the moulting Of feathers in the wings Of
friendship. and q crowd of army officers and
civilians were hanging on his lips. his
shoulders. and each other when the signal
service man. entering the barroom by another
door. staggered M to the counter. and. lifting
the Majors whiskey. Dcnlgnanty drank to tho
long life Of that offlcer and the health of his
family. The record is confused. Whether Ar
tillery Lieut.. A. first struck tho weather OBJ
server or whether Infantry Major b. knocked
him down. or Engineer Capt. C. dragged him
out; or Second Lieut. ID. ran him into the
street for the fourth time after Calvary Capt F.
had flung him into the coal box. cannot be-
determined with any degree OF judicial or
other certainty. Every man in tho bar
room was SO throughy drunk that not u parti-
Gle OF reliance can be placed on the statements
of any.
Morning dawnod on the scene and brought
Dakotan justice in her train. Tho signal
service man evolved from his misty con-
sciousness the figure Of n civilian conspicuous
for his want of military dress in this military
orgy. Twas Lawyer Gerray thus incon-
vcniently distinguished and identified. He was
"a tod on oh of hott.
Dakotan justice waits not on sobrety Com
plainant. defendant. witnesses. lawyers were
immensely drunk rs they staggered into court
TO play the last act In Fort Abraham Lincoln
reception Of popular army officer returned
from leave OF absence. Major Sunhower's son
was counsel for the battered star gazer.
and the son OF Sunfower aso was drunk And
Sunhower was witness-and Sunhower
senior was little drunken than Sunnower
junior.
The court room was n log hut ~ by H.
II was densely crowded The Justice was a
cripple. elected out OF charity or course he
was ignorant and illtcrate. The defendant.
Gerray. acted us his own counsel TWAS no evil
dence that he was drunk that he sat on the top
of n more than warm stove covering a pothoe
in II save where tho circle was Clipped and
cracked. Nor was it proof OF inebriety that, as
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