The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-09
THE REUNION.
First Day of a Grand and Glorious
Meeting.
UnfavOrable Weather, but Happy
Assemblage.
Synopsis of the Many Brlgades Repre-
sented.
Those of the Blue, and Of the
Gray,
Exchange Hearty Greetings and Swear
Eternal Love.
Addresses by Distinguished Heroes of
the Late War.
Full Details of the Days DOings.
Exchange Hearty Greetings and Swea
Eternal Love.
Addresses by Distinguished Heroes 0
the Late War.
Full Details of the Days DOlngs

MCKINNEY, Aug. Especial. Jupiter
Pluvius was formerly an abolishionist, and
of latter days ranks himself a stalwart of
the stalwarts. Such were the reflections of
the reporter as he boarded the north
bound special for Mckinney at an nm
wonted Ito him) hour. The train was
crowded every coach seemed to be groaning
under the "limit." and the scribe sadly
meandered back and forth in search of
some sequestered spot whereat to rest his
fatigued anatomy. No, every seat was full,
and now and then an occupant might be
seen in the same state of wealth. Left to his
resources, and with no place whereon he
could rest his bones, the scribe circulated
among the miscellaneous cargo that the ac-
commodation was conveying towards our
grand stination-McKinney. The con-
trast between personelle and facial aspect
were sufficiently amusing to keep dullard
awake. Here was grizzled veteran of
Virginia, with dozen wounds, taciturn of
speech and difficult of access; here was an
other of Texas sons who had
served in some other quarter OF the
field of glory equally as Indifferent
to the Establishments of the reporter as to
private "reminiscences OF the fratricidal
had nothing to give up. In the slough of
his despair our reporter found a helping
hand in the person of a venerabls veteran.
who had been in almost every struggle of
the late unpleasantness. Of course we be-
lieved him, and when the old man fshed
out of his vest-pocket star With
dent in it as though made by q bullet,
the reporter would have shed tears but un-
fortunately he was just out. Then he
man mhO navQr WAS east Of the
Mississippi during the entire engagement
and listened with appalled, attention to his
recitaliof the bloody battles of Painter Rock
and Story Creek. but just about this time
the star-spangled We eran hitherto
adverted to, sidled up to the slave of the
pencil and poured into his ear such tales of
q horse on death and an even break on the
hereafter, that the hairs of the reporter
stood apart as those of the fretful porcu-
pine. All the while the scribe was Indus.
triously digging a niche for this ,much.
neglected man in the temple Of
fame, but when the aged war
rior informed the unsophisticated
young man that he had been in 800 battles,
the party of the second part thought it bet
ter to let such an able-bodied liar rustic for
himself ON the outside.
The Lamar Rifles, with their trim uni
forms and exact accoutrements, were COM
pelled to stand the ten-gun
battery of good-natured raillery
from the "bntternut." OF course
they took 1t with that imperturable good
nature characteristic of proper "poudre
cannon" ! refer to the detachment
under Second Lieutenant Ed. Cornwall,
and guess that the truth of a part is that OF
a whole. $50
ALI this time the down-pour was steadily
falling and wetting the stars and bars and
the stars and stripes that were bravely
waving their welcome at our destination.
Through well.tilled fields we sped at
moderate psce-though now and then
some son of Mars, who had forgotten the
racket of the rail, would exclaim, "Thun-
der il she'd hit snag where'd we beT,
That these once gaspers after gore had
beaten their spears INTO pruning hooks
comment on the many forms
that were quickly left in the rear. Once or
tW ice the irrepressible rebel yell awoke the
echoes at some watering place OF the iron
horse, but everything was done decently
and in good order.
Fighting their battles o'er, telling Of the
new life since the grand command OF stack
arms" at Appomattox, and all oblivious
of the dash Of the rain against
the car windows the veterans whiled away
the hour until
M'KINEEY,
tnelT.gOhl, was TchCutus Ao iuN1 hAiFhbcu
from the crowded cars magnificent brass
band struck up Dixie There Was no
hilarity in this disembarking-noth
irrelevant or incompetent, as the law
yers say, but steady march |
toward the trim little city |
that had swung her doors wide apart, that
the blue and the grey, the pioneer and the
newcomer alike, might enter. Proceeding
up town. ones way was frequently blocked |
by knots of men who had not grasped
hands since the surrender. Here were the
grim rebel who had probably borne the bat |
tle-fag OF his regiment through q storm |
of hurtllng steel; here was the boy in blue |
who had borne his banner even through |
the valley of the shadow; here was the old |
settler who had caused a bowling wilder
ness TO bloom az the rose, In close juxtapo- |
sition with the tenderfoot. After brief
at the court house Of the various
briRades and commands, and certain form |
alities, the sun having shown bis face, the
vast conconrse, soldiers and civilians, !
marched at 10 O'Clock TO the ground. The
order of march, owing to the interierence
of the weather, was slightly different from
the appointed programme given below:
PROGRAMME.