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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21
FROM POST NUMBAH FOAH!
How the Fall Of Atlanta was An
nOunced at tAndersOnville,
From McElroy's "Andersonville."


From McElroy's "Andersonville"
AT night the guards in the perches
around the stockade called out 80 as to
show the officers that they were awake
and attending to duty. The formula
for this ran thus:
"Post numbah l; half-past eight and
a-l-l-s-w-e-LlW
Post No. 2 repeated this cry, and SO
it Went around.
One evening, when our anxiety as to
Atlanta was wrought to the highest
pitch, one of the guards sang out
"Post numbah foah-half-past eight
and Atlanta's gone to.h-e-l-l!"
The heart of every man within hear
ing leaped into his mouth. We looked
to each other almost speechless, with
glad surprise, and then gasped out:
"Did you hear that?"
The next instant such ringing cheer
burst out spontaneously from the
throats and hearts of men in the first
ecstatic moment of victory-a cheer
to which our saddened hearts and en-
feebled lungs had long been strangers.
It was the genuine, honest, manly,
Northern cheer, as different from the
shrill rebel yell as the honest.mastiff'
deep-voiced welcome is to the howl of
the prowling wolf. The shout was tax
en- up all over the prison. Even those
that had not heard the guard, under
stood that it meant that atlanta is
ours and fairly won," and they took up
the acclamation with as much enthusi-
asm as We had begun it. All thoughts
of sleep were put to fight; we would
have a season Of rejoicing. Little knots
gathered together, debated the news,
and indulged in the most sanguine
hopes as to the effect upon the rebels.
believe that Boston Corbett and his
party organized praise and prayer
meeting. In our corner we stirred up
our tuneful friend "Nosey," who sang
again the grand old patriotic hymns
that set our thin blood to bounding and
made us remember that we were still
Union soldiers with higher hopes than
that Of starving and dying in Ander-
sonville. He sang the ever glorious
"Star Spanged Banner" as he used to
sing it around the camp fires in hap
pier days when we were in the field. |
He sang the rousing Orally Round the
Flag" with its wealth of patriotic fire
and martial vigor, and we, with throats
hoarse from shouting, Joined in the
chorus until the welkin rang again.
The rebels became excited lest our
exultation of spirits would lead to an
assault upon the stockade. They got
under arms and remained so until the
enthusiasm became less demonstrative.
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Eccentric REQUESTS,

A Manchester lady bequeaths a sur
geon f25,00O. on condition that he
should claim her body and embalm it,
and "that he should once in every
year look upon her face, two witnesses
being present." Another lady, of an
economical turn of mind, desires that
if she should die away from Branksome,
her remains, after being placed in a
coffin, should be enclosed in plain
deal box, and be conveyed by goods
train to Poole. "Let no mention" she
states, "be made of the contents. as the
conveyance will not then be charged
more than for an ordinary package"
A French traveller, recently deceased
desired to be buried in large leather
trunk, to which he was attached, as it
chad gone round the world with him
three times;;" and an English clergy
man and Justice of the Peace, who, at
the age Of eighty-three, had married a
girl of thirteen, desired to be buried in
an old chest he had selected for the
purpose. Tastes differ in the matter of
burial. One man wished to be inferred
with the bed on which he was lying;
another desired to be buried far from
the haunts of men, where nature may
"smile upon his remains;" and third
bequeaths his corpse for dissection, af-
ter which it is to be put into deal box
and thrown into the Thames. One man
does not wish to be buried at all, but
gives his body to the Imperial Gas
Company, to be consumed to ashes in
one Of their retorts, adding that should
the superstition of the times prevent
the fulfillment Of his bequest, his Ex-
ecutors may place his remains in St.
Johns Wood Cemetery, "to assist in
poisoning the living in that neighbor-
hood" A person may approve him.
self Of cremation, but it is d little hard
when he requires his relatives to ap-
prove of it also.-The Spectator.
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Davenport, have arrived. The imposing
ceremony will take place. in the Holy Name
cathedral ON Monday. July %.

cathedral on Monday. July %.
A TELESCOPE comet, having a very
bright centre and fa;ntly.described tail,
has been discovered in the constellation
Augira, by ]. M. Schoeberle. an amateur
astronomer, who has access to the observa.
tory at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mr.. VANDERBILT has telegraphed Cap.
tain Stone to give Maud s. another trot
against time at the Pittsburgh track on
Saturday. The ladies of the Smoky City
gave the victor mamouth bouquet and
two wreaths of flowers.
THE health authorities at Milwaukee
have discovered in Polish family. on
Railroad street, two cases of smallpox OF
the most malignant character. and have
vigorously quarantined the house.
The funeral of VIM. H. Westfall, the
conductor twho was murdered by the Mis-.
souri, train-robbers, took place at Platts
burg. Two train loads of people were
present from outside points. The de.
ceased leaves a wife and three young chill
dren.
POSTMASTER PEARSON, of New York has
made arrangements to receive the foreign
mails at quarantine, whence they will be
hurried to the postofhce by tugs and wa
gons, thereby, frequently gaining train
on matter destined for the west,
DR.. GRrMER. health officer at Erie, Pa,
sent by messenger to Rochester opti.
clan can of deviled ham swarming with
trichina, to be tested by the microscope.
1t developes that the man intrusted with
the meat could not stand the temptation,
and devoured it. He has experienced no
ill effect.
1t is almost certain that receiver will
he appointed for the Manhattan Elevated
Railway of New York, and there is some
possibility that the Metropolitan will have
a like fate, in view of its war with the
New York company.
The will of John Burnside, famous as
the richest man in Louisiana, was found
in New Orleans, bearing date of 1857, and
search is being made for later document.
After some liberal bequests to relatives,
and IS 900 each 10 several charitable in
stitutions, the bulk was willed N Oliver
Brine, of Virginia.
MEXICAN papers announce that General
Tiburcio Montiel, with four hundred
armed men, is enaeavoring to bring about
a revolution in the state Of Ithako. The
General claims that twenty Of his men
are engineers, and that he is going into
the interior to settle some land Difficult
ties.
PASSENGER rates from the seaboard to
the western cities are wholly demoralized.
The war was commenced by the Boston
and Albany road, which made reduction
of IS, and was sustained by similar rates
on the Erie, New York Central, and Bal
timore and Ohio until the fare from New
York to Chicago is now SIG by the Amer
lean lines and $l4 by the Canadian.
TWELVE THOUSAND persons waited at
the Pittsburgh track until o'clock in the
evening to see Maud s. trot against time,
and were rewarded BY Witnessing dimin.
ution of her record to 2:l0a, the greatest
achievement of the turf. She was driven
by Robert Blair, who walked away beside
her with uncovered head, amid the wild
est cheers. A purse of $2,500 was hal ed
over TO her manager.
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The manufacture of lumber from
straw is an industry which has already
attained some growth in the west.
Planks ~ feet long by 80 inches wide
have been made from it, the resulting
wood" being almost as hard as horn,
and taking good polish. 1t can be
planed like wood, which the shavings
much resemble, and there is no shrink
age; the substance is claimed to be
adapted to many purposes for which
wood is not always satisfactory. 1t is
said, also, that it can be made for a
less price than is now paid for clear
pine timber.
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FOREIGN.

A VIOLENT epidemic of diphtheria has
appeared at Stadborg, Denmark.
If Redpath goes to Ireland again and
speechifes he is to be arrested.
The comet discovered at Ann Arbor by
Scherberle has been seen from Vienna.
ONE HUNDRED lives were lost and sew
eral villages were devasted by the earth
quake in the Pashalik of Van Armenia.
In the east and southwestern depart
ments of France it is feared that the crops
have been injured by excessive rains
The body Of Pope Plus TX. has been
removed from st. Peters to the Church of
San Lorenzo.
A CONFEDERATION at Kovno, Russia, de-
stroyed all the public buildings and rem
dered five thousand families destitute.
SIR EVELYN WooD will probably he
raised to the peerage for his success in
closing up the war in the Transvaal.
In the British House of Commons,
Gladstone vigorously arraigned the home
rulers for Systematically obstruc;ing the
land bill.
The Siberian plague has appeared in
the suburbs Of St. Petersburg, and is
spreading with great rapidity among both
men and horses.
BISMARCK demands that the Turkish
government refund the ransom money re-
Gently paid to Rumelian brigands for
the release of two captive Germans.
GENERAL IaNATlEFF has secured from
the car a commutation of the sentence of
death passed upon Hessy Helfmann, one
of the assassins of Alexander.
COLONEL MAPLKsoN has taken 9SO, 600
for his interest in Her Majesty theatre,
London, and will henceforth cater for the
American public.
The Britanic, of the White Star Line.
which was driven on the rocks on the
Irish coast, was towed out by three tugs.
Her engines we're in fair working order
The steward of the Bey of Tunis has
taken refuge with the British Consulate,
carving with him securities and Jewels
the Bey claims are worth l 1,OOO.0 francs,
and his accounts.
TnE Algerian insurgents. commanded
by the Arab Chief Bon Amena, have had
another repulse, and are split by dissen-
sion, the chief having been forced to fee
for his lie.
LARGE 1Orce OF IaIM iaoOIeIs IN tne
Macroom district, county Cork, ireland,
have struck for higher wages, and are on
4 march through the district compelling
others to strike. This is an outcome of the
Land League agitation.
BERLIN journals announce that law
student of the University at Bonn has re-
Gently be en- killed in duel, another is .
hopeless wreck at the hospital, and third
had his nose slashed of in fight with
sabres.
FoR disturbing the funeral procession
Of Pope Pho Mono At Rome, six men have
been fned and imprisoned. There was
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the case is closed q rat is introduced
into the trunk and locked up by the
Sheriff. The parties in action have
then but to await the verdict. Sooner
or later, according to the extent to
which the facts have been disputed, the
rat eats one piece of cheese, which will
allow the opposite end of the bar to
fall, pressing up the wire connected to
one of the tongues and presenting at
the mouth the verdict OF Guilty" or
"Not guilty." as luck may have direct
ed the rat.-San Francisco Post.
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Milwaukee, market.

MILWAUKEE,, July 9-Flour.-Firm and ir-
regular. Wheat-Strong; No. hard, nom-
nall No. l, nominal, No. 2 hard, nominal;
No. 2, 1.llA; l.l114 for seller July; I.l2H
for seller August; l.l3A for seller Septem-
ber; l.l3A for seller October; LA for seller
November; No. 3, 1.O2; No. 4, nominal; re.
jected, nominal. COMM fair demand; No.
2, Al 0ats-Firm and higher; No. 2, so. Ry
Quiet; No. l, SO. Barey-Unsettled and low.
er; No. September. 72k
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GOVERNOR L. A. Sheldon, of New
Mexico, was sitting in his Office at San
ia Fe when he received q dispatch say
ing that his old friend and commander.
the president, was shot. In few mo-
ments the General and Mrs. Sheldon
were on railway train, and have trav-
eled the 1900 miles to Washington
without stopping.
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IT has been the opinion of expert
enced physicians and surgeons that if
the president survives the ninth day of
his wound, he will stand an excellent
chance Of recovery. He passed through
the ninth day favorably. The reports
of his condition continue cheering, and
the prospect of his recovery is very
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21

The London Pail Mall Gazette ex-
presses the opinion that hnancial
crisis is approaching in the. United
States. The capitalists and financiers
Of this country will fail to "see it. !"
There are no signs or symptoms to this
effect perceptible here at present.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21

THE result Of the international mon
etary conference is regarded in Paris as
Of the utmost importance, and to have
accomplished as great measure of
success as its most interested friends
could have wished for. The Bank of
England has made conditional propo-
sition to hold one-fifth of its coin reserve
o:I,,o~
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21

CARDINAL MANNING has received, in
London, a deputation from the Irish
farm laborers, and has made assurances
that his sympathies are with their class.
To certain extent he approves of the
operations of the Land League, but
maintains that it must confine itself to
the limits of the law, human and d.
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Terms Of Subscription
NEWS NOTES.

MoRMoNIsM is still recruiting its ranks
with large accessions from Europe.
We are glad to note that the bestial sys-
tenn cannot gain converts in America,
or among intelligent people anywhere,
for that matter.
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Gu1rEAU can't sleep nights because
he imagines he hears mob hammer
ing and pounding on the doors of the
Jail. The fear of lynching haunts his
guilty soul. He is evidently sane
enough to understand what fate cow
ardly assassin deserves.
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A SON of ex-senator Pugh, Of Ohio,
is captive in the hands Of the Apache
Indians in Northern Mexico, being held
as hostage for the exchange of In
dian prisoners in the hands of the Mex
,ooro
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SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, said to
newspaper reporter that the opinions
Of the cabinet officers, of the attending
physicians, and of all those who have
access to the president, are that he will
recover, and that the crisis is past.
The favorable symptoms confirm these
opinions, and it can now be asserted
with some authority that the chances
in favor of recovery are excellent,
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A drunken man in Reading, Pa,
drove his horse into the barroom of q
hotel on Tuesday night, thence through
the dining-hall and up three flights of
stairs into room, where he was arrest
ed and taken to the station house.
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JoBBERY and trickery seem to be rife
even in Switzerland. A house engaged
in the watch trade in that republic has
just been caught in piece of rascality
which would put Chicago three-card-
monte man to the blush. The house
in question sent through the postofiice
to Bulgaria case of watches worth
$1,000. The case was insured for $780,
600. A Bulgarian postoffice clerk was
bribed to steal the watches that the
consigners might recover the insurance.
The fraud was discovered, and the ship
per of the watches and the postof1ice
clerk have been arrested.
The world seems to :have passion
for tunnels. We are tired of going
around, and are fond of going through
things, even at IN enormous cost Of
money and labor. The Hoosac Tun-
mel was considered wonderful under
taking even year ago, but now there
are in progress three tunnels in differ
ent parts of the world that make it
look like triHe. One is under the
Alps, another under the Hudson river,
from Jersey City to New York, while
the third is under the British Channel,
and will be as long as all the rest to-
gether. By and by some audacious
engineer will tunnel the Atlantic for
the benefit Of sea-sick people.
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HOnOred and Blessed,

When q board of eminent physicians
and chemists announced the discovery
that by combining some well known
valuable remedies, the most wonderful
medicine was produced, which would
cure such wide range Of diseases that
most all other remedies could be dis
pensed with, many were skeptical; but
proof of its merits by actual trial has
dispelled all doubt, and to-day the dis
coverers of that great medicine, Hop
Bitters, are honored and blessed by all
as benefactors. Democrat
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JOB DEPARTMENT.
Having New Job Type
A FAST JOB PRESS
We are prepared to do anything In this line with
NEATNESS,
AND ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.

Correspondence.
Correspondence solicited from all parts Of tbs
county, on all matter pertaining to local news.
All communications must be accompanied by the
writer's name, not necessarily for pIblica alton but
as guarantee Of good hith.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-07
AOTELS.

N,Oyv OPEN-SPRECHE HOUSE,-ON
~ EuropcOn plan. Dining Rooms for
Ladies and Gentlemen: Entrance AZ no. ~
IOisfer Salad oysters I'm Every Style and all
the Delicacies Of tho Season. We solicit the
patronage of the public. HayEI"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-07

In view of the recent loss by fire of fifty.
two head of valuable Jersey cattle, secured
in barn on the Dawson Coleman estate,
which were literally roasted in the burn
ing building, which contained eighty tons
of hay and straw, an agricultural engineer
writes as follows to the Country Gentle
man
'The modern improved barn is a costly,
cumbrous death trap, devised under mis-
taken ideas of economy Of labor and
with view to magpificence of show.
There is not barn Of tho kind in exist
cncc to day that is really worth a 1.-THE
of its cost for its convenience, nor is the
safety Of the stock shut up in it assured
for twenty-four hours. Tho accidental
dropping of a lamp, the treading upon a
match, the ignorant leaving in corner of
handful of oily rags or painters over
alls for twenty four hours, might start a
conflagration and the smoke and. heat
will, in nearly every case, prevent access
to the poor creatures, which are confined
under a large quantity of the most in
hammable material in wide open barns, SO
constructed as to become the most active,
fierce and rapid cremation furnace in ex-
istence, with open cupOlas for a draft
chimney, and wide spaces and floors to
IuTllSu Iuo UldSt. AI Is d WOuucE tuAt
sensible farmers can be SO thoughtless and
inconsiderate, especially when tho system
has no other Recommendation in its favor
except show.
"Cattle may be kept in perfect safety
in separate sheds Of very cheap construc-
tion, which may be made as ornamental as
desired. These may be SO. arranged as to
be connected with the barn, root cellar and
feeding room in the most convenient man.
ner for feeding each animal may he kept
loose in a separate stall, with doors which
can be opened in an instant, and every
animal released in case OF fire.
''Snch disaster as the loss of building
can be repaired with ease, but the loss of
stock is irreparable, to say nothing of tho
narrowing knowledge that they have been
cruelty burnt alive as sacrifice to their
owners mistakes. If he wants an elegant
barn as an ornament for his farm, well
and good, but as business matter let him
have his costly and favorite cattle kept
comfortable out of reach of fire, which
may any day or night consume the costly
tindcr-bOx called tho barn."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-07
rHx PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE

BY WILLIAM CULLEN 1KYAH1.
Come, let No plant the apple tree.
Cleave tho tough Rreensward with the spade !;
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
There gently lay the roots, and there
SIT the dark mould with kindly care,
And press It DER them tenderly;
As round tho sleeping Infants feet
We softly fold the cradlesheet,
80 plant We tho apple tree.
What plant We in this apple tree!
Buds, which the breath OF summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;
Boughs, where the thrush. with crimson
breast,
Shall haunt and sing, and hide her nest;
We plant upon tho sunny lea
A shadow for the n0ontido hour,
shelter from the Summer shower,
When We plant the apple tree.
What plant we in this apple tree7
Sweets for q hundred nowery springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings
When, from the orchard row, he pours
lts fragrance through our open doors;
Aworld Of blossoms for the lice,
Flowers for the sick girls silent room.
For the glad infant sprigs OF bloom,
Wc plant with the apple tree.
What plant we in this apple tree
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And reddon in tho August noon,
And drop, when gentle airs come by,
That fan the blue September sky;
While children come, with cries OF glec,
And seek them where the fragrant grass
Betrays their bed to those who pass.
At the foot of the apple tree.
And when. above this apple tree,
The Winter stars are glittering bright
And winds 60 bowling through the night,
Girls, whose eyes o'erfiow with mirth,
Shall peel its fruit by cottays shearth,
And guests In prouder homes shall see.
Heaped with the grape of CIntra's vine,
And golden orange of tho line,
The fruit OF the apple treo.
The fruitago OF this apple tree,
Winds, ana our dag OF stripe and star,
Shall bear to coasts that lie afar,
Where men shall wonder At the view,
And ask in what fair groves they grew;
And sojourners beyond the sea
Shall think OF childhood's careless day,
And long, long hours of Summer play,
In the shade of the apple tree.
Each year shall give this apple tree
A broader flush of rOscatc bloom.
deeper maze of verdurOas gloom,
And loosen when the frOstclOuds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower.
Tho years shall como and pass. but VIC
Shall hear no longer, where we lie.
The Summer song the Autumn's sigh,
In the bough of tho apple tree.
And time shall waste this apple tree.
Oh, when its aged branches throw
Thin shadows Oh the ground below,
Shall fraud and force and iron will
Cypress tho weak and helpless still:
What shall the task OF mercy he,
Amid tho cares, the strifes, the tears
or those We leave when length OF years
Il wasting this little apple tree!
"Who planted this Old apple tree!''
The children of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
And, gazing on its messy stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer them:
"A poet of the land was he,
Born in the rude but good old times;
IT'S said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting tho apple tree"
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LEGAL NOTICES,

1lsTATE OF HENRY f. BOWMAN, LATE
IL Of Lancaster city, deceased. Letters OF
administration Oh said estate having been
granted to the undersigned, all persons in.
0ebtcd thereto are requested to make fmmcdi-
a1c payment, and those having claims or de-
m:ln,ls against the same. viii present them
without delay for settlement to the under
signed, residing in said city.
L. +. BOWMAN,
my2S6WdOaw Administrator.
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