The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-07

HoRRoRs OF WAR.-The following ex.
tracts are from letter written to INV
dear good mother" by soldier of the
Archduke Joseph's regiment of infantry,
and printed in the Pesther Llyod. After
describing the action fought at Glasinatz
on the 21st OF last month, and in which
his regiment was engaged, the writer
continues: Following in pursuit of the
enemy, we arrived at large isolated
house. We broke open the door and
rushed in. Inside we found two men
and number of women. Continuing
our search We discovered two muskets.
This suff1ced for US to at once cut down
the men. Our Lieutenant then gave us
permission to plunder. I, for my part,
at once looked about for gold or silver
ornaments. and succeeded in finding some
gold and silver coins, as we'll as some
paper money. In one room of the house
q large amount of linen, skins, furs, etc.,
were piled up, and every one helped
himself to what he liked best took
some silk handkerchiefs, four red caps,
twenty eggs, bread and pound or two
of butter. All the women had run to-
gether into one room. We found them
out. and as we we're curious to see what
Turkish women were like, we tore the
wells off their faces. As was searching
about the house l saw some Hungarian
soldiers cleverly pulling the rings off the
fingers and the ornaments out of the
ears OF the women. Some of them also
tore the bodices off the WON an because
they were richly embroidered with gold.
After we had wrecked the house we were
going to set it on fire; bat we did not,
because somebody said that we had
better leave it for our comrades following
us to finish plundering it. A second
house that We came to soon afterwards
we treated in the same way" And yet
the Porte complains that the Aus:rians
have been guilty of barbarous conduct.
/ Pail Mall Gazette.
The LATE SAM PATCH. Some one in
qnired of the editor of the Batavian what
he knew of "Sam Patch" and what
was his real name. The editor inter-
viewed an old citizen of Genesee county
and answered: "Sam Patches" real
name was Samuel Patch, but BY common
consent the uel was torn off in his boy.
hood, and was never afterwards patched
on. Sam was first discovered In or about
Paterson. N. j. he didn't develop we'll
ss boy or man. he was as good atured
az the day was long. and as shifsless aud
dissipated as he was good-natured. His
surname was placarded all over his
clothes by careful mother, and all over
his face by the effects of the "water be
took in hizzen." He had, occasionally,
lucid intervals. In one Of these be
determined to be patch on the face OF
creation no longer, and so he hurried to
the Passaio River, with suicidal intent,
and with mighty leap went over its
beautiful falls and into its seething
waters below. But as the lamented
Greeley had it. Though be tried thus to
give up the ghost, the ghost refused to
be given up" and Sam came out alive
and we'll. An idea struck him. He has
new way for q man to make living.
He'd jump, the crowds would pay. He
utilized his idea, jumped falls here and
there all over the country; went to Mag.
ara Falls and leaped safely down tha,
tremendous cataract; went to Rochester,
N. Y, leaped the falls there once in
safety, tried II again, was drunk at that
time and did not maintain his perpen.
dicularity in descent and striking the
waters little angling was probably
killed by the collision. His body wat
never found. This, his last jump. wal
made about forty.five years ago.
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