New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-26
THE COLONEL.
A Story of an Old Soldier.
"What has become Of Lenoir?'
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Lie plletlttIlX VI soma business men,
comprising the bulk membership
of Garfield post, No. 3, Grand Army of
the Republic, had regarded as down
right grievance a call to attend meet
ing for the transaction of special bust
ness, appointed at the very inconven-
lent hour of two in the afternoon.
They had responded to the order I'M
der protest, taken part in the proceed
ings with an abstracted air, tuned at
the break in their daily routine, osten-
tatiously'consulted their, watches with
the anxiety of men who were neglect
ing important engagements, and when
the meeting at length adjourned gath
cred into cosey knots here and there,
and settled down for a comfortable
chat and the revival OF old Army rem
iniscences.
The first speaker, Jim Brewster, was
q lumber merchant who had acquired
extensivstracts Of land covered with a
forest growth second only to the big
trees of the Calaveras and Mariposa
groves. He had SO prospered in his
business ventures that his name had
become identified with the natural
product he ruled in the commercial
world, and he had gained the sobriquet
of the Prince of Redwood. He had
lately purchased a large piece Of land
at the foot of Sixth-st., including with
in its boundaries that unsavory but
classical region on the banks ofAIission
Creek known as the "the Dumps"
where the Italian scavengers had from
time immemorial deposited the con-
tents Of their carts, and raked the
putrid and decaying masses Of paper,
Scraps of old iron, and other articles
: Of commerce, as well as the pieces of
plate benevolently dropped into the
ash-barrel by careless servants. Mis-
sion Creek, at high tide, is for a very
considerable distance navigable
stream and it was generally conceded
that Brewster's branch yard was a
shrewd venture, and would soon turn
the tide Of traffic from the crowded
thoroughfare Of steuart-st. The
Prince OF Redwood himself had
felt all the glow OF a prudent mans
complacency over this evidence OF his
own sagacity, but a stormy interview
in the underwriters office that noon
had disturbed the serenity with which
he had hitherto viewed his new acqui-
sition. Meeting some old comrades,
men OF his own regiment, who had
fought side by side with him through
the four years Of the civil war, he cast
aside the perplexities of the day and
plunged with eager ,zest into an ami
mated discussion of past campaigns,
in the course Of which he made the in
quiry that heads this chapter. The
question was repeated by an echoing
chorus. ...s
'Lenoir?' The speaker who volun-
teered a reply was a member Of that
very agreeable and highly entertain
ing class of individuals who are com
monty accredited with the possession
of universal knowledge, and whose in.
formation is about as diffuse and in.
exact as the average encyclopaedia OF
biography. 'Lenoir'ss wife died just
before he was mustered out in '65
Broke him all up for a while, but he
rallied and went down to Florida, in.
vested IN an orange grove, and lives on
the fat of the land.''
He was an odd fellow-Lenoir," re
marked a gray-bearded veteran who
endeayored to reconcile his predilec
tinn for nnu6or on6 Gold stool Nv