Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
BUCK the BuoJer.

A Lexington, KY, letter to the
Philadelphia Times says: Old
CeFro Gordo Williams is the hand
soonest man of his years in Ken
lucky. not excepting Gen. William
Preston, formerly minister to Spain
and at the court of susceptible Isa-
bella. He is six feet two inches,
with grizzled iron moustache and
curled wig, piercing gray eyes, the
frame of giant and voice OF a
melodious ring. He Is as vain
As a peacock. While travelling in
southern Russia, when a young
man, he alihgted at village where
the Emperor Nicholas was hourly
expected. Williams was taken for
the emperor. 1t took the Russians
an hour to get over their mistake,
but Williams has never entirely
recove" He won his title by
gallan..y before the walls of CerrO
GordO, a captain of ScOtt's army,
and he has maintained his fame for
proves by many personal enconn-
iers since, in all of which he had
died himself well. He affects the
quality divine to Doliticians-Of an
infallible memory for names and
faces. and Is not above the .crudest
arts OF demagOgue. One evening
at Stanford, while he was dining
with some friends in an upper
room at the town hotel, one of his
admirers stumbled across "Buck"
Combs, who had been bugler in
Williams regiment during the war,
They had not met since. Combs got
his bugle and, accompanied by an
immense crowd, went down to
serenade his old commander with
war melodies. Standing under his
window he lifted up the old regi-
mental call to "bOOt and saddle"
He repeated it once and again.
"Tom," said old Williams to his
host, "Where is that stage starting
this time of night, and what IS the
driver tootin' SO i'd much
about ?"
"Why, SENATOR" explained his
friend, regretfully, "that's Buck
Combs your old bugler, serenading
you. told 'em you would remem-
Der him and his bugle, and they
want a speech"
The old general stepped out OF
the window on the balcony, and
lifting his voice AS silence fell on
The crowd, began:
"That bugle CALI" he said, with
choking voice; athat bugle call,
my friend, b like a dear echo OF
memory. II had heard it in the
untrodden wilds of u pathless will
derness i would have known that
old Buck Combs was winding its
sweet notes. Often has 1t called
the old command to fields of car
mage and the thrill OF victory
fCheers. There is but one bugler
in the world who could evoke these
syaet notes, and that is buck !
/ Combs, Of the old 9Th Kentucky
Cheers. / knew il the instant 4
heardit." t[Cheers.l
vi II
Biaak IN Life. 4
s-WWT Youth,s Companion.
A military officer having been
wounded i'm the head while giving
an order, was rendered Unconscious
and remained sO-thOugh other
wise well for many years. AT
length. the depression in his skull
was removed by an operation fire
panning), consciousness was inn
Inediately restored and he at once
completed the order he was giving
when he was wounded on the bat
tle-field.
y The long interval between the
moment when he was first WOun-
ded and the restoring OF the bone of
his skuIlyrtO its original position,
was total blank, and the two far
separated periods came together as
if no moment had interviewed.
Similar cases are, no doubt,
more or less familiar to our readers.
The following case is somewhat
different from the above, and is
more recent, having occurred in the
practice of Mr.. McCOrmic, Presi-
dent of the Kentucky Medical So
ciety.
The person, when fifteen years
old, was accidentally struck on the
head by a hammer and rendered
unconscious f0r several hours. He
gradually recovered his senses, but
a mark of depression of the skull
remained. At nineteen he moved
from the town where he had been
living, married, purchased farm
and Settled on it. There was no
noticeable mental Peculiararity
shown by him. Some three years
later he complained OF pain where
the wound had been, became mo-
rose, and later presented all the
symptoms OF acute mania. He ate
but little, and rapidly lost strength
and flesh. The depressed portion of
his skull was at this time removed
by trepanning, AT once the men
tai arrangement was relieved, and
in few weeks he was in perfect
health. But the period between
the accident and his cure, though it
had been one of ordinary activity,
comprising even marriage, pur-
chase of farm, etc., had wholly
dropped out of his mind. He did
not know even his own wife, nor
that he had one. His neighbors
were all strangers to him. He had
to learn anew the roads in the re-
giOn. 1t required the deeds and a
full explanation 10 convince him
that he owned his farm. And yet
everything prior to the accident
was fresh and distinct in his men,
Ory.