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Some Interesting Questions Answered

To THE EDITOR: VIII you please answer
through your paper the following questions
1. What is considered the hardest-fought battle
of the rebellion? 2. In what battle was the
greatest number killed and wounded in pro-
portion to the number engaged? g. What
battle is considered the turning point of the
rebellion-if, indeed, any one can be character
ized as such ?-THos CoGGINs, Haldam Ill.
mo answer to the first question can be made
that would settle the question beyond contro-
versy. The survivors of Gettysburg claim for
that battle the hardest fighting, yet an entire
corps was held in reserve. The survivors of
Stones River, Chickamauga, Fredericksburg,
Atlanta, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Har-
Dor, Corinth, Pleasant Hill, Franklin, Nashville
and score of minor engagements can lay
claim to equally desperate fighting. The battle
in which the greatest number of casualties oc-
Cured in proportion to the force engaged was
Chickamauga. The turning point of the re-
bellion is regarded by Union and Confederate
authorities alike, as the battle of Gettysburg
Ed
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Chased by . Spider.



The king of the spiders on the psmpas Is not
q Mygale, but Lycosa of extraordinary size,
light gray in color, with black ring around
its middle 1t is active and swift, and irrita-
BILE to such degree that one can scarcely help
thinking that in this species nature has overshot
her mark. When person passes near one
say within three or four yards of its lurking
plaees-it starts up and gives chase, and will
often follow for distance of so or 40 yards.
came once very nearly being bitten By one Of
these savage creatures. Riding at an easy trot
over the dry grass, Isuddenly observed spider
pursuing me, leaping swiftly along and keep
ing up with my beast. aimed a blow with
my whip, and the point of the lash struck the
ground close to it, when it instantly leaped
upon and ran up the lash, and was actually
within three or four inches of my hand when
I flung the whip from me. The gauehos have
q very quaint ballad, which tells that the city
of Cordova was once invaded by an army of
monstrous spiders, and that the townspeople
went out, with beating drums and flags flying,
to repel the invasion, and that after firing sew
eral volleys they were forced to turn and fly
for their lives. / have no doubt that sudden
great increase of the man chasing spiders, in a
year exceptionally favorable TO them, suggested
this fable to some rhyming satirist OF the town.
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MARSHAL Won MoLTKE.
The Strange, Silent Man Who Controls the GermsI
tBtdck,roods Adgd-ine.1

fBtdck,coods Mdgd-inel
Moltke the Silent-der ,Schsreiger-as he Is
called, is generally considered the greatest and
is certainly the most successful of living sol
diers. His achievements at Koniggratz Sedan
and Paris have never been surpassed, and COM
pei the admiration of all competent military
critics. Silent, quiet, cold, the very incarna-
ton of concentrated thought, just you see
him walking in the streets or moving in a
drawing-room, when everybody stands respect
fully aside to let him pass-so he stood on the
battlefield, his cold, clear eye passing slowly
from one point to the other, and his cold, clear
mind weighing the chances of victory and de-
feat with the intensity and serenity of q mathe-
matican bordering over the solution of some
grave problem. No one, it is said, has ever
seen Count Moltke excited, not even at Sedan,
where the greatest victory of modern times
decided the fortunes of the two most powerful
empires of the Continent His calmness seems
mysterious, almost awful, and there is some
thing strangely sad about that silent, lonely,
old man. His wife died some years ago; ne
never had a child; his nearest relations, with
the exception of nephew and niece, seem TO
be kept at a distance by him. Who are his
companions and his friends? To whom does
he ever talk in friendly, familiar waya No
body has ever been able to tell me- though
have often inquired. An old man of 81, he
still appears without fail wherever duty calls
him. He is to be seen at almost all the En-
peror's receptions, the most striking parsonage
near the throne. But how does the old Field
Marshal pass his time when free from duty,
when tired of work? Nobody pretends TO
know. Either nobody penetrates into his init
macy, or else those who approach him init
mately do not speak about it. When the
weather is fine you may see very tall, thin
man, with very light yellOwish hair and a sal
low, beardless, wrinkled face, out of which
shine a pair Of stony gray eyes, wrapped 10 a
long, dark military coat, o cap on his stall
head, faultlessly dressed in Generals uniform
"a gentleman born in every inch of his aristo-
cratic slender figure, his body still erect, but
his head as in deep thought slightly bent for
ward-sueh a man, / say, you may see eon.ing
out of the great red building which stand3-on
the KOenigs-Platz, at the corner of Moltke +"
and Bismarck" streets, and which bears the
name of General Stab" The solitary old man,
unattended by servant, walks slowly, noise
lessly. Every one who meets him looks at him
attentiyely; if the passer-by is a soldier he
stands on one side and salutes. The old Gen.
eral returns the salute slowly and deliberately,
but apparently without seeing to whom. Every
time l see him the thought occurs to me that
in such guise Dante must have passed through
the streets of Florence. That is General Field
Marshal Count Hellmuth Won Moltke one OF
the strangest characters the world has ever
produced. It is well worth going to Berlin to
see that great historical parsonage
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GROUND-HOGS FATE.
Condemned Indian Murderer Allowed Full
Lihe5tF ,FIhila Yajtiug Bis DOOM

Ground Hog, Cherokee citizen of the In
dian Nation, has been found guilty of murder
by the Choctaws and sentenced to be executed
September 20. The passing away" of Ground
Hog will undoubtedly be in the usual manner,
which is by shooting. In this the Mormons
resemble the Indians, though the Mormons
used to, and probably do yet, allow q con-
demned man some preference. giving him
choice between being shot or hung. The In
dian has horror of hanging. He considers 1t
a dogs death, and has doubts about his enter
ing the happy hunting grounds with broken
neck. So, though Ground Hog has been sem
fenced in the Choctaw Nation, as he is of their
first cousins family, the Cherokees, he will be
allowed to "pass away" at the end of rifle.
1t is quite possible that (if he is not an unre-
liable renegade) he will be allowed to return
home unattended and attend to his farm and
family duties until the day of execution. 1t is
quite possible that a date in September was
fixed upon to afford him ample time to lay
by" his corn and get things fixed up around
home If this is SO he will be under no sur
veillance, but simply give his word that he
will be on hand at some specified spot on the
Goth. In the interim he viii go about his
business in his usual manner, and it will be a
breach of etiquet to mention the matter TO him.
On the goth Ground Hog will appear at the
appointed hour and place, neatly dressed, and
with his hair oiled and plated. He will be
the uOSG uucOucSTuSu ptIsUu pIcSCAbs Liz
mother, if he has one living, will fix his hair
and pet him something after the fashion of q
child After awhile man will whisper a
word to Ground Hog. Then Ground Hog will
arise and saunter off to an open place, his
mother and others will go away, and a man,
not seen before and probably some cousin of
Ground Hogs, will come out of the brush with
rife in his hand, and, walking up to him
with piece of charred wood, make mark on
Ground Hogs white cotton shirt, right over
the heart. Then, without word, at about
five PAGES distant, he viii send bullet in at
that mark and Ground Hog will be with his
Manitou. If Ground Hog is church member,
which it is quite likely he is, either Methodist,
Episcopalian or Catholic, he will receive Chris
| tian burial, and quito possibly in q coffin,
| though more probably in q red and black
blanket. Whether Christian or pagan, it is
pretty certain that in quiet and rather secre-
| tive way bow and arrows, and perhaps rifle,
will be wrapped up with him in either coffin
| or blankets, and no matter how good Chris
| tian, quietly off by themselves the relatives
| will kill dog or two, and the mother that
| bore him will plaster ashes and mud upon heI
head, and with her hands clasped at the back
of her neck grovel her forehead in the dust Of
the prairies as she bows toward the setting sum
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Our Navy-Then and Now.
RelereDant navibu5 aItIH
Ocoulta spolia.-lJuYenal.


Ocou1ta spolia.-l Juvenal.
Old times there were when on the Middle Sea
Men looking from Capri La Valette
Bearing q flag that now they must forget.
The swarth Algerian fed from Preble's shot
That sent the sturdy tribute of the West;
The FrenehInan learned some things he soon for
got,
And England let her naval dogmas rest.
The shrinking blacks of many an austral key
Saw the brave Essex with her captured feet,
And on the lone Marquesas' sullen
The meteor flag of England in retreat.
Beside the Duillio and the Thunderer
The swift Cordelia and hundred more,
We sail In punts to agitate the plunderer
With visions of rich defenseless shore.
We dress brave men In Porter's old regalis,
To show his flag in paper-collar ships;
Grim Europe would indulge In saturnalia
At John Paul Jones' thunder on their lips.
Oh, Lordi we look for something that's better
That pent-up statesmen like the great M. O.
Who thinks his own particular river wetter
And rather more important than tho sea.
There is \ world Of davors on the ocean,
OF garlic, Chilli sauce and sauer-kraut,
Lno-j juice, eau stscre and many nameless potion,
Suppose we get the eagles rations outi
For some hne day the sea- dogs transatlantic
May indaaate for bones OF Sandy Hook.
We know the Merrimac once drove US frantic
How would the Devastation's battery lookf
"a r. AReB IN N. r. Tribune.
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They did not Hold that Rank.

To THE EDITOR: In the list of Major Gener-
ais killed during the war you have omitted the
first and think the last Generals killed, viz. ::
Gen. Baker at Balls Bluff, October 81, 1861,
and Gen. Draper at Brazos Santiago, Tex,
July or August, 1865. The latter was killed
by accidental discharge of musket.-H. w.
Brown, Capt. Sd N. Y. Cav, and Maj. LIST
o. S. G. c.. Schenevus N. Y.
re- d. Baker was appointed Brigadier- General
May IL, 1861, which he declined, and at the
time of his death was Colonel of the list Pa,
also called Bakers LIST Cal. A. g. Draper was
not a Brigadier-G General: he was Colonel 36th
q. s. O. T., and Brevet Brigadier-General.
Ep1
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it will be time enough to doubt the reliability
Of Kidney-Wort. Doctors all agree that it is .
most valuable medicine in all disorders of the
Liver, Kidneys, and Bowels, and frequently
prescribe 1t. DR.. P. c. Ballou, of Monkton,
says: "The past year have used it more than
ever, and with the best results. 1t is the most
successful remedy have ever used" Such a
recommendation speaks for itself. Sold by all
druggists. See Advt.
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Youne Hen ,-Read This.

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SCROFULA

can only be cured by thorough purifca-
ton of the blood IL this Is neglected,
the disease perpetuates its faint through
generation after generation. Among ifs
earlier symptomatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tu-
mors, Boils, Carbuncles, Erysipeias,
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
steal Collapse, etc. If allowed 10 con-
tinue, rheumatism, Scroful0us Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
Tubercular Consumption, and vari-
Gus other dangerous or fatal maladies, ars
produced by it
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We have received many inquiries about The
National Life and Maturity Association, which
led m to examine into its management, plan,
and condition, and are happy to give most
favorable report. See advertisements
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r you are failing, broken, worn ont and
nsrvous, use "Wsll3 Health Remover" q.
Druggists.
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Ny husband writes LADY, il three times the
nan since using "WsAis Health Remover"
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KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to scrofula
because Of superstition that It could be
cured by kings touch. The world 10
wiser now. and knows that
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THE BLOCKADE.


When the war began President Lincoln
issued g proclamation informing the people of
England, France and all other countries that
the ports of the Southern States were block
aded He.had very few vessels that he could
station of the ports to enforce the proclama-
ton. The Southern people laughed st the
proclamation. at is only newspaper block
ade," they said.
The London Times ridiculed the idea "a
country cannot blockade its own sea- ports, /"
wrote the editor.
The British government sent the war ship
Gladiator along the coast early In June, 1861,
to see If there were any United States war
ships blockading the ports. Capt. Hickey,
commanding the ship reported that he could
not find a single blockading vessel between
Cape Henry and Cape Fear. The last week in
June he made second trip and found four
vessels watching the ports north Of Cape Fear
| River. After the capture of Hatteras Inlet
and Fort Macon the vessels which had been
blockading those inlets were sent 10 blockade
| Wilmington, Charleston and the inlets of South
Carolina and Georgia, keeping such q sharp
lookout that only vessels built for the purpose
| of light draft. low, sharp at the bows, with
powerful engines, built to steam very fast
painted a dull gray. burning hard coal to make
no smoke, could get past the blocksders
NASSAU.
The vessels did not sail directly from Liver
pool and London for Charleston and Whining
ton, but from Nassau, on the island of New
Providence-one of the Bahama group. It 4
only 200 miles from the Coast of Florida Other
vessels of larger size brought the goods from
England 10 that port where they were tran
shipped On board the swift-running steamers
The captains of the blockade runners Away
consulted the almanac before setting sail from
Nassau, to see when the moon would rise ant
| ssf az what hnur xyOuld he hioh tide Tho,
knew just how long it would take them +
make the distance between Nassau and Charles
ton and Wilmington, and started at an hou
which would bring them off the ports befor
daylight.
Some Of the blockade runners could max
I from Is to is miles an hour, while most Of til
, vessels on the blockade were slow saiiers. B,
, keeping a sharp lookout, by lodging the differ
! ent vessels. running close in shore, many I
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Gen. Reno was 20 swing out upon the left
We see the 2lst Mass marching along the track
Of the railroad, making its way through thick
ets and swamps. A fog hangs over the marshes,
and now the smoke Of the battle dTifted down
rpon Renos troops; so murky the air that they
could see but few rods.
There is battery" said one OF the Skin
nishers, pcering through the mist and smoke
He could sec the Confederatcs getting two 81
FOUNDER guns into position
There was adoep cut for the railroad through
sand hill, and the cannon were planted TO
sweep the approach. The cannon were near
Mr. Woods house and brick-yard. There was
IN engine on the track and train Of cars from
which the Confederate soldiers were taking
ammunition.
Forward, Co. CT said Col. Clark, command.
ing the regiment.
The company moved rapidly forward, raised
their guns, and fred There was consterna-
zion in the Confederate lines. The engineer
OIL the locomotive quickly reversed the engine
and backed tho car towards New Berne. The
soldiers who wero taking the ammunition
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THE FORTS.

in Fort Thompson, on the bank Of the Neuse
where his line began, there were Ii heavy
gus; in Fort Dixie there were four in Fort
Brown eight, in Fort Ellis eight, in Fort Low
eight in Union Point Battery two-in all 43
heavy cannon To prevent the gunbosts from
getting up TO the town, old hunks were SINK
il the river and spars with great iron spikes
driven into them 10 pierce the hulls of the gun
boats. Torpedos were also planted in the
river.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-07
FRAUD.

A little of the fraud buncombe was in.
terected into the Republican convention
by Hon. A. c. Botkin in his speech, en-
dorsing the nomination of Mr.. Meyen-
dorff and by Mr. Carter in the introduc-
ton of that silly resolution in regard to
the Dawson county representation and
which was 30 effectually punctured by
Gould of Custer. The object of it nc
doubt was to keep alive the name of Mr.
Botkin as candidate and to arouse q
sympathy for him as their next candi'
date, but we imagine that there are q
very few persons who take any stock in
mere assertions. From the fact that
Marshal Botkin has spent several very
laborous months in collecting evidence
which his opponent did not see fit to
rebuff. From the fact that he has moi
seen fit to make any contest for the seat
From the fact that he has not disclosed
even scintilla of evidence, and from the
TACT that none exists, we are satisfied
that the general public will want some
thing more than bare assertions. When
one is defeated it is q cheap and easy
refuge to fall back upon fraud, but if it
comes down to . question of fraud, we
imagine there will be found to be two
sides to the question.
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ASsfIEs BLOW ii flE TERRI.

Senator OAKLAND, from the Committee
on Territories has reported adversely up
on the bill requiring that Governors ap-
pointed for territories shall have acquired
. two years residence in the territories
over which they are appointed to pre-
side. His main objection seems to be
that it would create fractional discord.
The old plan has always bred discord,
and it could not be worse under the new.
At any rate We are willing to take such
chances. If We are only permitted to
speak for ourselves. The people Of the
territories are able to govern themselves,
and we dare say, there is more average
intelligence in the territories than in
many of the states. Fools seldom ever
stray that far away from home. 1t is the
enterprising, pushing men who generally
come out 60 far as the territories. They
know more geography at least than we
dare say many of the Senators, and are
certainly better judges Of what they
want.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-07

The Helena Independent of to-day, in
commenting on the convention resolu.
tons and the failure of their correspond
ent to send the resolutions says: "But
since the resolutions furnished US by the
CHRONICLE an advocate of his excellency
contain no commentator, etc. We pre-
sumo by this is meant the Bozeman
CHRONICLE, but just when we became an
advocate of his excellency has puzzled
our brain somewhat. No one can 60
farther than we in condeming the vicious
system of appointments to Federal posi-
tons, but it does not follow as rule that
the persons sent are rascals and to abused
at every turn. We have not thought fit
to be continually throwing mud at the
Governor, nor to harrass him whenever
he does not do just as we would have
him do. We shall uphold him even
when his course commends itself to our
Judgment. So far as the resolutions are
concerned, we have no doubt, if one had
been introduced, endorsing the Cover
nor's official course, that it would have
passed the convention, by at least good
majority. They were introduced at the
last moment, when things seemed har-
monious and all were anxious to get
away. It is about time for the people of
Helena to learn that outside, the people
care very little about the so-called San
ders- Crosby fight. Other matters of
more importance demand their atten-
ton.
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De MOres' Many Business Plans.

The Marquis De Mores has an elegantly
equipped private car in which are pro-
vided all the conveniences of a home.
His wife and family often travel with
him in his frequent tours. He recently
visited Helena, and the Herald says:
'The Marquis is engrossed in multitude
OF business affairs. Cattle growing and
beef shipping are among the principal
enterprises in which he is largely inter
ested. The beautiful and enterprising
town of Medora-named in honor of his
charming wife-is one of his creations.
1t is the present headquarters of the
Northern Pacific refrigerator car COM
pany, of which he is president. 1t is an
oasis in the Bad Lands-made such by
process of irrigation which the mechan-
ical lifting of water from the Little Mis-
souri, renders possible and successful.
Under Conservatives flowers are in bloom
and vegetable growths quickened and
are ready to transplant. A great freight
line has been created, debouching from
Medora and running to Deadwood. over
which the bulk of the Black Hills haul
age is destined to be anchored. A rail-
way over this natural short line route is
projected. The Marquis has other i'm
portant undertakings on hand, which he
proposes to promote and carry to compile
ton in due time. For better conven-
fence the office headquarters of his re-
frigators company will be soon establish
ed in St. Paul, where its banking bus
mess is principally transacted"
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When about year ago vice-President
Cobb and Cashier Sherman planked
down $4,000 in good hard cash for the
Bozeman Coal Co.'S. mines then known
rs Chestnuts. Old timers rubbed their
heads and said it's q big price-three
months from that time the net profits of
the coal sales exceeded purchase money.
Three months more followed, and over
$4,000 net earnings were expended in
improvements. About this time the coal
fever broke out and general prospecting
began. Three months more rolled by,
and the fearless young men of nerve, brain
and capital, had linked our destinies by
the forming of a partnership with that
great transcontinentaf line the q. P. R.
r. The man who starts a bank, opens a
store, or keeps saloon adds nothing to
the existing wealth of his home or coun-
try, but whoever takes natural resource
and by development directs capital from
other regions to his own for the purchase
of his products that man or company
has done much perhaps everything to-
ward the upbuilding of bis town and
country. Bozeman's future seems in
separately linked with the coal interests.
Their growth means hers as well. There
are other natural resources like iron,
which only needs development, and
working to offer equally great rewards to
capital. As Dean Swift remarks, who
eyer will make Two blades of grass or
two ears of corn grow where before but
one existed, will deserve more of his fel-
low men than the whole race of politi-
clans put together"