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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-30

PERsoNAL.-Mr. Joshua Fletcher and
bride, nee Miss Lula Foster, of Marshall
Fauquier county, Va, passed through the
city This evening on their return home from
an extended tour in the Southern States.
Among the graduate. Of Jefferson Medi'
c,l College ut Philadelphia, at the session
just closed, was Mr.. William Reginald Pur.
Wis, of this city Dr.. Purvis is expected
home on Saturday next.
Mr.. Fred. Schneider, Of this city, clerk
in the fee OF the Portner Brewing Com.
pany, in Washington. was badly hurt on
Sunday evening last, III that city. by jump
ing from tie train, on which he was return
ing, and winch Was in motion. He was
thrown to the ground, aud, striking on his
head, was quite badly bruised. He is now
at his home in this city, and expects soon 10
he about ag.la.
Counciluau $ G. Brent has been confined
To his home for the past few days by Sc
we're cold.
Capt aud Mrs David l.. Smoot, OF Cali
iornia, are in The city, the guests Of Mrs. e.
&. smooi. Capt. Smoot, save being little
stouter, has changed bat lutte since he left
this city TO make his home in the west, ten
years ago.
Nj. Andrew l.. H;te, who s.as bceu living
in san Fr:rc,,,", Gal, f,r several years,
has rr:uru,d "a iniS city on account of i'll
health
Mr.. ID. J. Howell, OF the u. S. Geodetic
Survey, who haA heru in tho oil 70 OF that
department, il Washington, for some time
past, will b, transferred 10 field work in
Montsnmrr, county, Md, during this week.
Mr.. Ed.~r Wan field has returned from a
trip to Richmond where hr went on business
connected viii The STATE Pharmaceutical
Ass )ciaiiUn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-30

physicians.
I'D. n. LUNT
Has full line of JOHNSON'S ELIXIRS and
EMULSIONS in stock, and will sell to druggists
~ list nr;cee 'mh27
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Questions Answered.

G.. H., VERGENNEs.-Gen Stephen
Thomas post-office address is Mont
belier, Vt,
G.. w. R., BRAT1LEBORO.-T pen
ion you receive on wound would not
prevent you procuring an insurance on
your life. We know of no safer or
better company to insure in than the
National Life of Montpelier.
j. NJ, BARRE.-The number of pen
Bioners now on the pension roll of the
United States who have been granted
pensions by special acts of congress is
4 ,474, and the sum of $685., 1896 is annu-
|hlly required to pay such pensions.
d. B., NORTH CALAIs.-You have no
bright to pledge or mortgage in any way
|your pension or your pension certifi-
cate as security for any debt or promise.
[By the act of February 2S, 1888, you
would be liable to fine of 800, and
the person who received your pension
certificate as such security would be Ii
able to like fine.
2. L., ST. JoHNsBURY.-Your Relief
Corps will not have the pleasure of
furnishing a room in the Soldiers
llOlllC lulS y cal IL IL
|true-that the trustees will wait for the
| Legislature to provide for deciding the
property at Bennington to the state.
The correct thing to do is for the trus-
tees themselves to take the title and
open the Home before another winter.
The Woman's Relief Corps at Mont
|pelier is also DESTROYS of furnishing a
room in the Soldiers Home.
n. j., WINDsoR.-Mr. Deavitt could
not give you a return pass over the
Central Vermont railroad if you came
to Montpelier to employ him in pen.
sion case. He always pays full fare
himself when he travels on the cars
He often has clients who come from
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as
well as from distant parts of Vermont
to consult him on pension cases who
pay full fare over the railroads. The
railroad officials in some cases have al
lowed needy old soldiers to ride on the
cars of the Central Vermont on half
fare or free tickets in procuring The
necessary testimony to establish RICH
to a pension. But such cases are
rare. An old soldier of Calais re-
Gently walked to New Hampshire ant
back, distance of over two hundred
miles, to procure testimony to use in
his claim for a pension.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

she was not dependent on her son for
support, her husband being amply able
to, and did, support her at the time of
the soldiers death" After waiting
over ten years, she employed 7. j.
Deavitt, Esq, Of Montpelier, who took
an appeal to the secretary of the in
terror in 1884, and contended that the
evidence did not show such state of
independence; that dependence in part
upon her son might not be shown; that
the testimony had been taken by men
not experienced in the business; and
requested that the case be referred to a
special examiner of the pension office,
who should take the testimony. Instead
of sending the case to a special examiner,
the attorney was asked to supply the
additional testimony himself, which he
did, and the rejection was stricken off
and the pension granted. Mrs. Dewey,
destitute of means of support and con-
fined to her home by disease, was
greatly reioiced upon learning of the
means thus provided for her in her
needy condition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Stanton and the Drummer Boy.

With all his gruffness, Stanton had a
very tender heart. A wounded soldier
never got rough words from him, and
a soldiers widow or soldiers mother
seldom went away without getting what
she wanted. A story has been told of
little drummer boy who was disabled
in the army and came to Washington,
having been discharged for disability.
He worked about the town in different
ways as far as his health would permit,
and waited for the papers by which he
could get his pay and transportation
home. Day after day he called at head
quarters, but the army was on the move
and the papers did not come. The Of
fetal in charge said he could do moth
ing until the papers came, and the
ragged, barefooted, sick drummer boy
would walk slowly away with heart
like lead and with tears rolling down
his face. AT last man to whom he
told his story advised him to go and see
the secretary of war himself. The boy
was suffering and desperate. He went
to Mr.. Stanton's house and rang the
door-bell. The servant told him he
could not come in, and that he must go
to the war department. The boy re-
piled that he had been there, but could
get nobody to listen to him. just at
this moment Secretary Stanton's car
riage drove up and Stanton got out.
The boy approached him, and Secre-
tary Stanton listened to his sad story.
He was doing so when Senator Sher-
man came up, and was about to address
Secretary Stanton, when Stanton said:
Senator Sherman, | have no time to
attend to you now. See this poor
drummer boy. He has been in this
condition for weeks. He has no money,
no clothing He has been discharged
from the service, and he has been wait
ing here for his pay and transportation
to get home to his mother. He says
that the officials at the war department
won't give it to him." He then took
the boy and went with his carriage
back to the war department. He wrote
an order that the boys money should
be paid at once and that he should be
sent home, and then asked the boy to
give his (the secretary's) regards to his
mother and to all good mothers who
had sons like him in the army, and
then, with "God bless you," he babe
him goodbye.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Stray Shots.

MORE than 100000 old soldiers are
citizens of Kansas.
WILLIAM BRIDGES of Grafton has
been granted pension of S12 a month
by special act of congress.
THE twenty-fifth anniversary reunion
of Company III, Sixth Vermont Regi-
ment (the RoXbury volunteers), occurs
August 18th and 14th at RoXbury.
THE payment of pensions that had
been delayed since the first of July at
the Concord and Boston pension agen-
cies, for want of funds, was resumed
last week.
d. V. KING, special examiner of the
pension office, has been transferred
Maine. James E. Curran will continue
the work in the st. Johnsbury district,
but will remain at Montpelier.
CONSIDERABLE interest is manifested
in the annual muster, which will be
held in Bennington in August. AS the
anniversary of the battle is August 16,
and the law requires the muster to be
held not earlier than August 20, it is
difficult to see how the muster and the
anniversary can be made to coincide.
THE house has passed the bill grant
ing pension to Joseph Romiser over
the Presidents veto. Mr.. Breckenridge
of Kentucky made speech on the
bill in favor of its passage, notwith-
standing theveto, that was received with
cheers. The vote on the bill was one
hundred seventy-five to thirty-eight
BETsEY MARTIN of Braintree has
racaiya1 papsion oartifnata aptit1;po
her to S12 month, under special act
of congress, as the widow of Jesse
Martin, a soldier of the war of 1872.
Her claim was rejected in the pension
office several years since, but her attor-
ton last winter drafted a bill, which
Congressman Grout introduced in the
house, giving her pension. The only
evidence in addition to that filed in her
claim in the pension office considered
by the committee on pensions was a
statement of Mr.. Deavitt.
THE way President Cleveland con-
sidered the private pension bills was
thus stated by Congressman Boutelle
of Maine in a recent debate in the
house: 81 heard it stated in regard to
one batch of these bills that he occupied
only between the hours of ten O'Clock
in the morning and three O'Clock in the
afternoon to dispose of nineteen veto
messages in pension cases, five hours in
all; but allowing an hour for luncheon,
which would not be an unreasonable
time for a gentleman of his avoirdupois,
it would leave four hours, two hundred
forty minutes, or less than thirteen
minutes for the President to dispose of
each case-cases, too, some of which
had occupied the careful attention Of
the committees of the two branches OF
congress for months at time. That is
the calm, judicial review upon which
the President seeks to set aside the de-
liberately expressed judgment of the
senate and house of representatives..
SARAH DEWEY of McIndoe's Falls hal
been granted pension as a dependen
mother of $l2 a month and 80, 100 ar
rears after pending over fifteen years
in the pension office. Her claim wal
rejected in 1871 on the ground "tha
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Tbe Suloiers' &uo9et.
Pensions Granted.

To Sarah Dewey, McIndoe's Falls,
IL month and 81, 100 arrears; Flea
or Lyford, st. Johnsbury, So month
|nd $4,000 arrears; John Gilman, st.
ohnsbury, $40 month and 81 900 ar
bars; John II. Diets, Rutland, 81 a
|lonth and 81 ,O7S arrears; Caroline 5.
Rice, Windsor, S12 month and 81 200
|rrears; Joseph Lapine, Windsor, 81 a
|nonth and $500 arrears; Norman Is.
Williamstown, Sl2 month
Ind ST ,179 arrears; Nathan M. John
lon, Coos, N. H., S4 a month and 5000
|rrears: John w. Palmer, Waitslield,
! 4 a month and $40 arrears; Alvin II.
smith, Orange, S12 a month and 81 300
|rrears: Thomas l.. Casavant, Mont
|elier, an increase from 81 to So a
honth: Jason johnson, Williamstown,
In increase from "a to So month !;
kamuel Pratt, Worcester, an increase
rom So to IS a month; p. p Ripley,
West Randolph, an increase from So to
rs month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

This includes only those whose death
while in the army has been actually
proven. To this number should be
added, first, 26 900 men who are known
to have died while in the hands of the
enemy as prisoners of war, and many
others in the same manner whose
deaths are unrecorded; second, fair
percentage of the 205, 794 men who are
put down on the official reports as de-
serters and missing in action, for those
who participated in the war know that
men frequently disappear who it was
certain had not deserted, yet could not
be otherwise officially accounted for;
third, thousands who are buried in pri-
vate cemeteries all over the North who
died while at home on furlough. The
nations dead are buried in seventy
three national cemeteries, of which
only twelve are in the Northern States.
Among the principal ones in the North
are Cypress Hill, with its 1886 dead;
Finn's Point, n. j., which contains the
remains of 2 GA unknown dead; Gettys-
burg, Penn, with its 1867 known and
Cos unknown dead; Mound City, ILL.,,
with 2,5O5 known and 2,721 unknown
graves; Philadelphia, with 1909 dead,
and Woodlawn, Elmira, n. Y, with its
$500 dead. In all, the remains of 300 900
men who fought for the stars and stripes
find guarded graves in our national GEM
eteries. Two cemeteries are mainly de-
voted to the brave men who persisted
in the loathsome prisons of the same
name-Andersonville, Ga, which con-
tains 1874 graves, and Salisbury, with
its II, l26 dead, of whom 1902 are I'M
known. OF the vast number who are
inferred in our national cemeteries,
900 sleep beneath the soil of the
Southern States and $4,000 rest in
graves marked unknown"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
Seletteo Storm.
The Rain Storm.

Like childhood's tears, the rain.drops chase
Each other down the window pane;
And with a sad, detected pace
The cows come lowing down the lane
While in the distance, gray and dim,
scarce can trace 'gainst grayer sky,
Outlined the misty mountains rim,
Where ran-ful clouds go drifting by.
How faint from meath the dripping caves
Comes murmured plant from prisoned birds
While through the rustling maple leaves
There breathes a sound like whispered words.
But as l watch and wait, behold,
A tiny rift appears that CLOVIS
And widens till path Of gold
Through m cited mist and azure flows.
And now, in tattered hasty flight,
The clouds are chased away; and blue
The mountain tops appear. While right
Beneath the caves song bursts anew.
-G Good HousekeeDin0,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

A SUDDEN death from heart disease
is now quite common. DR.. Pierce's
" Golden Medical Discovery" is GER
tain remedy. Chronic irritation, pal
pitation, excessive or defective action
of the heart, shortness of breath and
pain are removed by it in a short period.
1t also cures all the diseases relating to
the liver, stomach, bowels, blood and
skin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

THE hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that moves the earth. DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup is the best remedy for all
complaints children are subject to, such
as dysentery, diarrhGa, summer COM
plant, wind collie, etc. Price twenty
five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

A BILL has been introduced in con-
gress to supply all Grand Army posts
with volumes of "The War of the
Rebellion"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

HALF century ago in Turkey it was
considered a shame for woman to
read. To-day two schools for girls in
Constantinople have been established by
the Sultan himself.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

AS means of fortifying the system
against malarial fevers there is nothing
that equals Vegetine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

No lengthy advertisement is neces-
sary to bolster up DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

nYSPEPSIA.-Its Nature, Causes, Prevention
~ and Cure. by JOHN II. MCALv1N, Lowell,
Mass IA years Tax Collector. Sent free to any
address,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
A Perfect Nutrient for INVALlDS
in either Chronic or
Acute Cases,

Hundreds of physicians testify to its great
value. 1t will be retained when even lime
water and milk is rejected by the stomach.
In dyspepsia and in all wasting diseases it
has proved the most nutritious and palatable,
and at the same time the most economical,
of Foods For an infant may be made
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
The Dead of the War.

Official returns show that about 2,900,-
600 soldiers enlisted during the late
war, in response to the successive calls
of President Lincoln, and that of this
number 1S6,097 were colored troops.
Reports show that the northern and
southern armies met in over 1000
skirmishes and battles. In las of these
conflicts the loss on the federal side
was over 500 men, and in at least ten
battles over 10000 men were reported
lost on each side. The appended table
shows that the combined losses of the
federal and confederate forces in
killed, wounded and missing in the
following engagements were; Shiloh,
"a 900; Antietam, 80, 900; Stone River,
81 900; Charlottesville, $4,000; Gettys-
burg, $4,000; Chickamauga, $4,000;
McClellan's peninsula campaign, 50,-
600; Grants peninsula campaign, $780,
600; and Sherman's campaign, 125 900.
Official statistics show that of the
2 900. 900 men enlisted there were:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
The BEST FOOD to be used in
connection with PARTIAL
NURSING.

No other food answers so perfectly in such
cases 1t causes no disturbance of digestion
and will be relshed by the child.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
150 MEALS for S1.00.

Sold by Druggists-25c 50c., S1.00.
EY" A valuable pamphlet entitled Med
ica Opinions on the Nutrition of Infants
and Invalids sent free on application.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
ASSURE PREVENTIVE and CURE
for CHOLERA INFANTUM.

BY the use of this predigeSted and easily as
simulated Food, fatal results in this dreaded
disease can be surely prevented.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28
advertisements.
FOR NEWBORN INFANTS.

1t may be used with confidence, when the
mother is unable to nurse the child, as a safe
and natural substitute for mothers milk.
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21

of venue the case was brought here.
In behalf of Packer the brief submitted
to the supreme court held that the law
under which he had been condemned to
death was not in existence at the time OF
his crime The murder law then in
force had been repealed and new one
substituted. The court decided in &C
cordance with this in view, that the man
could not be tried under law which
had been repealed, and certainly not un-
der one which had not been passed un-
til ten or twelve years after the alleged
offence. When this ruling was received
here Packers attorney moved for his dis
missal, but the presiding judge denied
the motion, holding that the laws bear
ing on manslaughter had not been
changed, and directing that an informa-
ton alleging that crime be filed against
him. For the offence, if convicted, he
can be sent to the penitentiary for ten
years, but he never will be hanged.
Packer has been in jail here for near
ly three years, and has attracted much
attention from tourists. He has let his
hair and whiskers grow until they are of
wonderful length, and from them he has
made manv little articles, which he has
sold to curiosity hunters. He is highly
elated over his prospects Of escaping
with his life.
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21
AT HARVEST TIME.

He stands with pale bowed face to wait her COM
ing,
A swarihy reaper from the rest apart;
The voices the happy insects humming
Finds not an echo IN his hungry heart
She came with spring times bursting leaf and
blossom.
From out the city's crowded solitudes
An find lost health by streamlet, field and
wood.
She takes for him the music from the singer,
All glow and glory life may ever reach;
And for herself she takes, while life shall fingers
An added pain she may not balm by speech.
She stands beside him, from where shade enfolds
it
She gathers slender sprays of severed wheat
He can not know that all her life she holds it
More dear than gold because it touched his
The sun drops arrows from his golden quiver,
As o 'er their heads the leaflets family stlr,
And silence runs between them, like river,
Ger which his wild thoughts dare not cross to
her.
She lifts her eyes to his. and all unhidden
His love leaps up, as altar flames arise
One moment all the woman looks unbidden
From dusky depths of heavy-lidded eyes.
A moment her white hand in his is lying
And then the distance grows between the two,
He stands alone beneath the leaves that, dying,
Still drop their grateful shade like dusky oew.
He hears aquail low in the stubble calling,
He hears her garments trailing Ger the grain;
He cannot see her bitter tear drops falling
Or note her features set in deathless pain.
She goes at noon-tide, like the summer swallow
Far to the South, DER hills that shut him in;
Ger which he may not let his fancies follow
In tender longing that, for him, is sin.
And still he sec elks the science of forgetting.
With close locked lips that prison every sigh,
Still straight behind him, till the il sitting,
The yellow swaths of severed wheat-stalk, lie.
Far off the wheat heads to her pale lips pressing,
And heart where pride and sorrow are at rife,
She wonders vaguely if they car be guessing
Amid their pain of death, her pain of life.
Beth Ddy.
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21
,ou hear of herr She's a client Of mine.

Won hear of her? She's client of mine.
and very troublesome one, too. She
has been pestering me about some money
for which I sent her check OF the verv
day wrote you, but she says she never
received it,
"And did she say what she did re-
ceive?" asked Clara, light breaking in
upon her. She pulled the check from
her pocket. The readers power of sp-
prehension must be very slight if he can
not guess what followed.
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21
"WHEN SHADOWS FLEE AWAY I"

Two golden eyes gaze tbro' yon armament;
A fond farewell from each to each is sent:
That is the herald Of the waking Day:
This tells Night, lettering, would fain now stay,
Dawn after dawn these glances fash across,
Yet, see! Day, Frightening, announce their loss:
But morn will bring again their nearing tryst:
Time light renew in eyes that death had kissed,
Courage, my soul! Somewhere our quest will
end;
Deaths door will open one way, and show our
friend.
T. G. La Moille.
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21
Con dn,t Provile for Both.


About mile from the station at Mis-
sissippi City We stopped at the cabin of
white man for a drink of water. The
mosquitoes were pegging away at us and
our horses, and the settler and his family
were slapping their arms about as they
talked to us.
"They are bad things" observed one
of the party to the man.
"Well, they do peeter some"
II see you have fish net over the bed
room window. Is it there to keep mos
quitoes ont?"
"Hu! Nor he replied. "That's to let
the skeeters in and keep the bats out.
Ws'er powerful poor and can't afford to
provide for both"
Western Kansas world., 1886-08-21

position In which each of his victims had
been left, and turning over and over in
bis brain how he would prepare his next
unnatural meal. He could hardly wait
for daybreak to begin his journey, and
when he set out on his horrible errand,
weak as he was, it was with q buoyancy
which surprised himself.
After this trip he lost bis terror, and
the repugnance with which he regarded
his crime passed away. He fingered
near the scene of the murders for days,
until finally, admonished that his revel
could not last much longer, he began to
make excursions in various directions in
the hope of finding succor. On some Of
these trips he was absent several days,
and at last, after having subsisted on the
bodies of his companions for six weeks,
he came upon camp and was directed
to Lake City, where his crime was soon
made known and where he was promptly
arrested for murder. The jails in those
days were primitive affairs, and not long
after his incarceration Packer dug his
way out, and was not seen or heard of
until thirteen years had passed.
In 1882 something impelled him to
venture back to the scene of his crime,
and he was again arrested and put on
trial for his life. His conviction followed,
and in the spring Of 1883 he was SEN
fenced to death. Friends of the man,
believing that his crimes were commit
ted when he was insane from hunger
and being advised by good lawyers that
the conviction was illegal. carried the
case to the supreme court, where q
supersedeas was granted, and on change