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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-19

Federal reports instead OF Jackson's he
would easily have learned the name Of
the Federal commander at the battle OF
Mcdowell, and have also discovered
that Fremont was not within support
ing distance Of Schenck and Milroy on
May Sth.
6. General Imboden complains that
we did not follow up Fremont's pur-
suit Of jackson from Strasburg. We
were not writing . sketch OF the cam
paign, and were glad TO find parts Of
his article which we could pass over
without correction.
Z. Our object was neither to " belit-
tie General Jackson's achievements +"
nor TO exaggerate them. We were SIM
ply aiming to tell the truth. Let this
be done, and there will be no need OF
apprehension about the splendor Of
Jsckson's fame. Not even General
Longstreet's opinion, expressed in the
last Century, that Jackson was only
great against Banks, Fremont, and
Shields, will be able 10 affect it.
General Imboden has evidently al
most forgotten the bridge incident at
Port Republic. In the course Of TWEEN
ty-three years it has faded in his mind
TO the dimensions Of " flying camp
story" We will try to reestabIish
this incident upon 8 firm basis IN the
Generals memory. II is worth pre-
serving. and it rests upon O. hrmer
foundation than many things in his ar
ticles.
General Jackson had not long finish
ed breakfast on Sunday morning, June
Sth, when acourier announced the rapid
advance of the Federal cavalry on the
east side Of the river. A small body
Of cavalry--the only troops we had on
that side--wss soon broken and put to
eight, and Colonel Carroll, in command
of the Federal cavalry, pushed on 80
rapidly that in . very shOr: time he had
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-19

company was. They heard it whirrjng
along in the air, and thought it was
shell. They ducked. The shoe struck
the door Of an old shed, alongside Of
which the company was, and fastened
itself onto the door slick as slicing
cucumbers. The company thought
the shell had lodged there and
was going to burst right away, and
didn't they skedaddle Some Of the
main line saw 'em running. and thought
Lee was coming up to flank EN-, and
that scarf 'em all the more, so that
some says that was the beginning Of the
whole trouble with Joe Hooker's army.
] don't know about that. Now, that'll
give you some idea Of what mule can
do, and whether it needed any grit or
not to shoe 'em.
Twice besides during the war got
so near to kingdom come by way Of a
mules hoof that it makes me draw my
breath to think Of it now--once on
James island and once in Virginia. But
what glory do &c. for it? | begged
'em to let me &c into fight. They
wouldn't do it. SO there was, three
years in the army-in peril ten times
worse than | would have been in battle
every single day. without any credit
for it, and no glory in it If | was
killed. What glory is it for mans
name, or credit to his family, to be re-
ported kicked to death by & mule? |
done my duty-done it well, too; but
! always feel that if hadn't had a
name as q good horseshoer might have
won commission in the service. All,
well, what's the odds? We've only SO
long to live any way. Zeke, get that
or OK into the pen, and I'll be ready
to shoe him as quick as I've eat my
dinner"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
Railroad Sickness.

a Lima PeTu) letter to the Philadel-
phia Press describes the wonderful rail
road which ascends from the Peruvian
capital to the crest Of the Andes. The
writer says:
The sensation Of riding up this rail-
road, together with the rapid ascent
from the sea level to the mountains crest,
produces a sickness called ''sirocche, W
often fatal, and usually sending people
to bed for several weeks. The symptoms
are terrible pressure upon the temples,
nausea, bleeding at the nose and ears
and faintness, but the effects can be
avoided BY taking precautions and Oh
serving rules that experience has sug
gested, the chief one being To drink
glass Of brandy and keep perfectly quiet,
a. the slightest degree Of exercise win
floor the strongest man. People who
are compelled to make the ascent, If they
have not become accustomed To II,
usually take two Or three days FOR tho
journey, stopping of at the stations along
the line, and going to bed az once upon
reaching the town Of Chicla, which
stands at tile summit.
Here we got our first glimpse of The
condor, The king of the Andes, whose
flight il higher than that u any other
bird ana whose unwinking eve" etc..
the poets have discoursed about Here
too. We found The llama, THE beast of
burden in the Andes al the camel y in
the deserts Of the old world, and tha
yicuna, that rare mountain sheep peculiaE
to Peru, whose silken wool was THE im-
perial ermine Of the Incas, which none
but those of royal blood were allowed to
wear. Mules and horses ma cattle ara
useless at this altitude, being eEen more
subject to sssirocche than men. The
milk ana tlesh of goats ana llamas conati-
tute The diet of the people, and 4 hnun1h
of tho Ticuna II a. delicate M the finest
venison.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
Ancient puas.

In the Danish s'kitchen middens," or
heaps Of household refuse, piled up BY
the men Of the newer stone period-a
time when our Scandinavian forefathers
used Clipped and polished fints instead
Of metal for their weapons-are found
bone-cuttings belonging to some species
Of the genus eanis. Along with these re
mains are some Of the long bones Of
birds, all the other bones Of the said
birds being absent. Now il is known
that the bird bones here found are the
very ones which dogs cannot devour,
while the absent ones are such as they
can bolt with ease, and it has been inge-
niously argued from this that the re-
mains in question did really belong to =
domestic dog, as, if the animals to
which they appertained had been wolves,
they would have made short work Of the
long bones as well Us Of the others.
Other dog bones are found in Denmark
in later periods. AT the time when the
flint knives were succeeded by bronze q
large dog existed. and at the time when
iron was used one larger still. In Switz-
erland, during the newer stone period, a
dog existed which is probably the Oldest
Of which we have any record. 1t ''par-
took Of the character Of hounds and ses
ters, or spaniels, /" and, in the matter Of
its skull, twas about equally remote
from the wolf and jackal.n This dog,
too, like its Danish contemporary, was
succeeded in the bronze period by q
larger variety. Thus we zee at time
when our ancestors were living in dens
and caves Of the earth, Z in state Of civ
iIization about equal to that of the Afri-
can or Australian aborigines Of the pres
ent day. the dog was already sgstemati-
cally kept and selected, \ that Is, any
good varieties which appeased were
taken note Of and kept ZIP. CassslPs
Natural History.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23

ing over her husbands papers Mrs. For
ney discovered that Forney had borrow
ed the five thousand dollars from Mr..
Childs. On the next day she appeared
at the Ledger Office and returned the
sum. Mr.. Childs said:
I'll take the money, Mrs. Forney,
and place II to your credit. It j. for
your use alone. AS long as YOU live you
shall have the use Of il, but want it
placed SO that it shall not be swallowed
up in case Of any misfortune to you.n
It is not generally known that the re-
cent action Of Congress IN making Gen
eral Grant retired general Of the army
on full pay j. due to the efforts Of George
W. Childs; but such is the fact, as any
one can ascertain by talking with the
Grant family Neo York Journalist.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
Color Blindness.

Color blindness, like other defects Of
vision, affects people in different degrees
Of intensity, and, like myopia, Or short
sight, il il frequently hereditary. It
often becomes more pronounced in after
life, or when the near point Of vision
begins to recede.
Among the more highly educated Of all
nationalities the average number Of color
blind is four per cent. an average in excess
Of that Of all other classes. A man may
have good eye for form and outline
and yet be partially Or wholly color
blind. Toselect aninstance from among
many ID difficult, but one impresses me
more than the rest-that Of Wyatt, the
sculptor, who at the outset of his career
was known as remarkably good
draughtsmaD. He naturally took to
painting, but, as his pictures were OBJ
served to present curious incongruities
of color, that involved him in grievous
difficulties, be with much reluctance was
obliged to abandon the brush for the
chisel. He was altogether unable to com
prehend the nature Of his defect -indeed,
refused to believe that he was color blind.
So of men who have attained to eminence
in the world OF letters, and whose writ
ings unmistakably betray evidence Of q
meager color vocabulary. A striking
example Of this occurred in the person
Of Angus B. Reach.
He was unable to recognize difference
in color between the leaf, the flower and
the fruit of plants and trees. His want
Of perception Of color was wholly un-
known to and unrecognized by himself,
until we sat together at the table Of a
Paris restaurant. He, wishing to finish
his letter to the Chronicle newspaper, re-
quested the waiter to bring him some
ink. AS it often happens, under similar
circumstances, the ink was brought in
wineglass. Reach became absorbed in
his subject, while /, seated opposite to
him, observed him alternately dipping
his pen into his claret glass and into the
ink glass. frequently checked him,
but presently to my surprise he took up
the ink glass and was about to drink,
when / demonstrated, and he then said
he could see no difference between the
color Of the ink and the wine. On sub
sequently testing him I discovered that
he was completely color blind.
Homer certainly labored under physi-
cal defect Of vision. and this fully ex-
plains the limited use Of the terms he
employed to express his sense Of color.
and to which Mr.. Gladstone has drawn
attention. Journal Of Science.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
Was Coal Ussd 3. G.?

Rev. Joseph Hurst, of Wadhurst,
throws much light on this interesting
problem. He says: That the ancient
Greeks were acquainted with stone coal
is evident from the words OF Theophras-
tus, an author who lived 800 years be-
fore Christ; THE coal, commonly 50
called, which j. dug out Of the earth for
mans use, - Of an earthly tor stony na-
tnre; It Is kindled and burnt like coal
teharcoal). Of this (stone9 coal workers
IN iron make USE salinus has alto been
quoted for the use Of stone coal among
the Greeks, ana if the red-hot stones
which according to Plinys were used by
the Ganls foF smelling copper were
nothing more than stone c0al, their eiIi-
Hcacy would perhaps he rendered more ~.
teHliEible tc modern men @f science.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
Students and Their Ban d Oatmeal.

Edinburgh and Glasgow universities
are eminentIy adapted for all classes Of
students, and each one can live as his
tastes or the state Of his purse may in
cline him to 40. Neither Of them makes
any provision for rooms in college Or for
meals, but at both needy and deserving
students are aided ~ Aursaries, espec-
tally where studying for the ministry. i
can recall the cases of not few fellow
students at Edinburgh who came UP to
college absolutely penniless, though gen
orally provided with big bag Of oat-
meal Upon the latter, and with what
aid kind providence might afford in
the shape Of a bursary, or little stu
toring, these poor fellows managed to
work through their four years in the hui
manity classes and their three years in
the medicine Or theology. They were
generally rough diamonds, sadly want
ing in polish, and sometimes utterly
broken down in health BY the strain and
the absolute want Of nourishing food,
but from tie ranks Of Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and Of just such rugged mate
rial a. above indicated, have come men
who have made for themselves the great
est names in the learned professions Or in
the service Of their country. Christian
H991y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-23
NUMBER AS.
F.ilIN

The dentist always goes armed 70 shs
teeth.
n Japan fans sell for $500. IL costH
something to raise The wind over there
Graphic.
Although some printers may not work
steadily, whenever they % To work they
go to stick.-sfsings.
Bananas ore more easily recognized in
the fall than AZ my other time Of tha
year. - Frstssps Weekly.
Talk about the jaws Of death, \ *
claimed married man; RI tell you
they're nothing to The jaws of life.'
ssWrite "a ore side Of the paper only.
remarked the editor 70 THE poetical con-
tributor: 'Tt is easier to read, ana W.
can use the other side to write editorials
On. PUCK.
a Wisconsin man w. reported M
murdered when the word should have
been married, " butthe distinction w.
20 slight that the proof-reader let ~ pnHs.
-Bosto7E P0st.
"Queen Marguerite Of Italy speaks tcn
languages This ID The first explanation
that has been made Of King Humbert's
reckless exposure to The cholera last
year Grap1ie-
Panama hats cost from $25 to $500
each and are very fashionable il Cuba.
A Cuban newspaper editor never re-
proaches his wife because she pays s275
for sealslzinEsacque. .-G Graphic.
Mr.. Smiley: aBetter let me carry th5
poodle, my dear, and you can carry the
baby Mrs. Smiley: mo, no5 YOU
carry the baby; cannot trust you with
Gyp; you might drop him THE RaHs-
Hsr.
An Arizona paper says that the Amer
ican hog holds his own If that u ALI
be did there would be no objection; but
he reaches across the table and gfabz
the portions Of all the other boarders-
Neao York Tribune.
It is said that cholera microbes lurk
among the exchanges Of a newspaper
Office. This is to be regretted. Tho
man who comes in and says: III would
like to look over the papers that you are
through with, /" i in danger. -ArEaasau
TraceJer.
Professor Proctor says at least 450, 600
meteors fall from the heavens and strike
the earth every hour during the day.
And vet when man goes home with
black eye and damaged tile and teIla
his wife he was struck by meteor she
will not believe -Norristoson Herald.
The foreman goes to the fishing banks,
The comps to the sounding sea;
And the editor sits in the sanctum alone,
But the devil All, where l. he
With the apples and pears to the editor sent
He is having first-class revel
But the man Of brains soon misses his fruit
And then he ssgoes for the devil
Chicago sun.
An Arizona editor offers 80 for a
poem. That editor il very enterprising
man. He viii get cart load Of poems.
publish them over the writer's signatures,
the vigilance committee will turn out in
force, and be will secure fine four
column sensation with autographs and
pictures Of the victims An editor ii
sometimes avery long-headed individual.
Merchant Trareler
A Philadelphian claims to have dis-
covered compound which will remove
hair from the face, and wants to organ
ize company for the manufacture anal
sale Of the article, % that every man may
be his own barber. Newspapers should
encourage the scheme. When every man
shaves himself, thousands Of persons who
now depend upon the barbar for their
local news will be obliged to subscribe
for newspaper.-Norristoton Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
A ROYAL WELCOME.
Formal Reception of Bartholdi's
Statue of Liberty.
A Naval Demonstration the Like O.
Which Has Never Before Been Wit
messed on American Waters-A
Great Parade on Broadway.
LIBERTY's EMBLEM.

NEW York, June 2O.-The grandest
aquatic spectacle ever witnessed in this
country was presented in New York Bay
yesterday forenoon when the American
| Statue Committee. supplemented by many
thousands of enthusiastic New Workers,
formally received the French wal vessel
Isere and her precious burden, Bartholdis
masterpiece. Never was a day N June
fairer. Early in the morning a slight haze
hung over the bay, but it was speedily dis
PEELED by the sun and a gentle southeast
breeze.
Lying off Bedloe's Island was the grim
old war-ship Minnesota. Round the Mar
rows, anchored in the mud of Gravesend
Bay, lay the long, low, white hull of the
Isere, burdcned plump to the water-line by
the statue. The Omaha, the Dispatch, the
old side-wheeler Powhatan, and the dainty
revenue-cutter Nellie Grant were anchored
off Governors Island, all decorated in a
marvellous manner. Flags were flying from
the forts lining the harbor, while the mer-
cnantmen in port made the best display
possible with the bunting at hand.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
LATER NEWS.

DR.. DOUGLAS stated on the 21st that
General Grant was decidedly better, and
that all the symptoms were greatly inn
proved over the previous day. The pa
tient's voice was not SO clear as when ho
awoke in the morning, but it was quite
audible.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt on
the Goth at Berne and Geneva, Switzar-
land.
AT Ross Ford agency, I. T., four Indian
police were killed on the goth and a third
wounded by a brace of Bannock stock
thieves, who were in turn riddled with
bullets. Six Indians had been killed by
whites in the Dalores Valley, and the
Chief of tho tribe was much oncaged and
demanded satisfaction.
THE Michigan Legislature adjourned
sine die on the Goth.
A CYCLONE on the Goth blew away Sher-
brook, the county seat of Steele County,
Dakota, with the exception of the court
house. Nc lives were lost.
Ten miners were killed by a recent ex-
plosion in a pit at Spedale, Eng.
AsTR1KE of builders'laborers at Toronto
on the goth threw between four thousand
and hv thousand men out of employment.
ADVIcEs of the Goth say that the recent
storm on the Newfoundland coast was the
most severe that had visited the island in
forty years. Many vessels were wrecked,
and the destruction of property was
enormous. The loss of life was believed to
have been very great.
A TORNADO on the 21st wrecked many
buildings in Leavenworth, Kan, and
yyrOyI pht r,,,oI, loe%u,o 80 IL. ..-- =
ing country.
FIVE negroes charged with assaulting
and numbering q white woman at Elk
hart, Tex, were hanged by a mob on the
21st.
PORTIONS of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois
were visited by a heavy wind storm on
the 2lst. At Sibley, Mo-, a number of
buildings were destroyed.
/ GENERAL MIDDLETON was on the Goth
encamped at Beaver River Mission in the
Northwest Territory. His programme was
to place a garrison at important points and
let starvation finish the campaign with
Big Bear.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
six p. m. on the Doth there were 316 deaths
from cholera in Spain and 719 new cases
The Marquis of Salisbury had not suc-
ceeded up to the 2lst in forming a Minis
try, and it was rumored that Mr.. Glad.
stone would resume the Premiership.
H exchanges at twenty six LEADING
clearinghouse in the United States DIR.
ing the week ended on the Doth agere.
gated $771, os3, 258, against seas, 1862, 124 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding tperiod of 1854, tho falling
off amounts to 1874 per cent,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
A MODERN BORGIA.

A Story Too Horrible for Belief Told by
a Female Inmate of the Jail in Chicago
She Confcsses to the Poisoning of Her
Father, Mother and a Sister in Du-
buque, Ia. Also to tho Attempted
Poisoning of Her Sisters F~amily-Little
Faith Placed in Her Story-Undoubtedly
Insane.
CHICAGO, June 20.-Mary Kleman, the
girl confined in jail who has heretofore per-
sistently asserted her innocence of the
crime with which she is charged, that of
administering poison to the family of Mrs.
Michael Freres, her sister, with whom she
has made her home for a short time, at Rose
Hill, confessed last night that she was gull
ty, not only of the attempt upon their
lives, but of causing the deaths of her moth
CT, father and another sister in Dubuque,
Ia. Her mother died in July of last year,
her sister Lena in August and her father
Michael in March of this year. She assigns
no motive for her crimes other than that
she was impelled to commit them and is
evidently insane.
Mary KEENAN, if less than twenty-three
years old, slender, rather pretty, prepos-
sessing in name and an invalid, having
but partial use of her lower limbs and feet.
She has an innocent expression, and looks
even more youthful than she is. Her eyes
have the strange, bright, fixed look SO often
seen with a diseased mind. For the past
two months she has lived with her sister at
Rose Hill, to whom she came after the
burial of her father in Dubuque.
Several times since she has lived with
her sister she has prepared the meals, and
Oh nearly every occasion when she has
done SO the family, consisting of Michael
Freres, his wife and two small children,
have been taken ill with ON
ltlng Immediately afterward. Mi.
chael Freres found a package OF
greyish-colored powder in the yard a week
ago last Tuesday morning. When he ate
his soup at moor he was seized with vomit.
ing and observed a sediment in his SOUP
plate corresponding to it in appearance.
Upon further examination more OF
the same substance was found in
his wife's and the children's plates.
He carried both the powder found in
the yard and that in the plates to Evanston
for analysis, and called in a physician to at
tend to the family. The result showed that
the powder was poison. Mary Kleman was
accordingly arrested, and after a prelimi.
nary hearing before Justice Chapman in
Evanston, brought here and lodged in the
Cook County Jail.
There is little doubt that the girl is in
sane. There has always been a disposition
on the part OF the Jail officials and attend
ants to believe the girl guilty, the facts
were SO strong against her, but many of
nose ABOUT the jail last evening thought the
alleged confession went for but little The
girl is weakly, sick and predisposed to hys-
terics, and if she is insane, as her relatives
Defleve, She was eveh more irrational than
usual last evening. Therefore not much
reliance can be placed on the confession.
which was simply a verbal one made in a
rambling, incoherent manner
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
FOREIGN,

ISAAC M. H1BBs, the absconding ex-post-
master OF Lewiston, I. T., was arrested ON
the 10th in British Columbia. He had
over $40, 900 in his poss ession.
ADv1cEs of the 10Th state that shocks of
earthquake continued with increased vio-
lence in the Vale of Cashmere, India. The
town of Muzuffurabad was reported to
have been almost entirely destroyed and
1890 persons were said to nave been killed.
FISHING vessels arriving on the 10th at
Gloucester, Mass, report that the past
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-10
Killed by His Step-Son.

CAIRO, ILL.,, June 17.-William Caldwell
living nine miles south of Sikeston, M ~.
New Madrid County,, was shot ana "
stantly killed Sunday morning by a l nad
witted step-son, nearly grown, whom ne ,is
chlded for not performing certain du.s.
satisfactorily, and whom he thleat
ened with punishment if Mondays la,H
wa not better performed. The boy, Dro "
ing over the threat, arose early, and, P R"t
curing a shotgun loaded with bucksih% III:
walked out into the backyard where i.
father sat awaiting the call to breakaT I;h.
When about twenty yards distant he ae auv
erately leveled the gun and fired, the i ieaa:
charge literally tearing the father to ple'e"
The boy fled.