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GEN. G. N. mitchell.
A Soldier Speaks After q Quarter OF a
Century of Silence.

A Soldier Speaks After o Quarter OF a
Century OF Silence.
Mr.. +. A. Mitchell, son of Gen. Ormsby
Mcknight Mitchell, has just published
history of his father, which lets in some
what startling light on two or three dark
places in the reco rds of the summer
of 1862. As statements merely they
would, perhaps, deserve no more notice
than the surmises put forth at the time by
many newspaper writers; but they are
confirmed by letters of Gen. Mitchell, writ
ten at the time, and other documents not
hitherto published. They let some rather
ugly skeletons out of the national closet,
and it may be predicted with certainty
that when the public shall haye. read this
book there VIII I've a period of lively at
tack and defense among the respective
friends of Halleck, Buell., Grant and
Mitchell The truth is that the American
people do not yet understand the peculiar
movements Of the summer and early
autumn Of 1862 That the Federal
armies, which had advanced III triumph
from the Ohio to the southernmost bend
of the Tennessee, should suddenly have
become disorganized, as it We're, the
whole military system paralyzed, and
that discord should suddenly have taken
the place of harmony, and Buell's army
start, OH a parallel race with Bragg's, for
LOuiSville-all this has been IL mystery. on
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RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The Detroit Young Mems Christian associa-
ton building, recently dedicated, cost $11S,-

The Detroit Young Mems Christian associa-
tfon building, recently dedicated, cost $11S,-
544
Thcro arc en- route for various Baptist
mission fields of the world at present twenty
two missionaries.
Tho agents Of the Bible society in Toxic,
japan, can scarcely meet the demand for tho
Bible in that city.
Missionary Secrstary ]. NJ Reid will visit
Mexico this season at the request Of tho
board Of managers
There are Young Mems Christian associa-
tions at Jerusalem, Beyrout, Damascus,
Jaffa and Nazareth.
Tho income Of the American board for
September and October was S78, ia; sagainsts
44,6l3 during the same months Of 1886
W Rev. Arthur NJ Knapp, who IS to intro
duce Unitarianism into Japan, was gradu-
ated first in the Boston Latin school. class of
1859.
1t has been finally decided that the general
conference of tho Methodist Episcopal church
shall be held in New York, beginning ca the
lst of next May.
Toward tho G20,0Oc which the United
Presbyterian church is raising as special
foreign mission fund, the sum of e7,43S has
been contributed.
The Church Missionary society has re-
ceivcd an anonymous donation of $25, 600, to
be devoted to strengthening tho work in
Japan and the Punjaub.
Tho Carmelite monks on Mount Carmel
offered their 10000 acres in Gslilce to the
Roman Catholic Palestine society, which
already has established colony on Lake
Tiberias
The Rev. DR.. Happer has succeeded in
raising s10O0 for Christian college in
China, and he will proceed Immediately to
tho west. He hopes to sail from San Fran
cisco on the Goth inst.
It is estimated that there are over 10000
Poles in the United States. They are almost
universally Romanists, are very clannish, and
can be reached only by a native ministry.
Mission work in their behalf is but Just now
receiving the attention OF Christian societies.
The Indian Right association has protested
against the Indian commissioners order,
which excludes the Bible printed in Dakota
and other Indian tongues from the schools,
and precludes the teachers from giving in
struction to Indian pupils in their own
tongue.
Missionaries from Japan now visiting in
this country say that never before has the
outlook for Christian missions been SO es.
couraging as it is now. The Japanese arc
favorably disposed to Christianity largely
because they regard it as an integral part of
the western civilization which they are so
anxious to introduce.
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This blow continued about twenty min
utes; then tho crane was SWING round
and the ladle lowered into the pit ut the
side Of the converter, the air blast was
stopped and the glowing globe swung
slowly on its axis until its mouth was al
most on level with the ground. Men
hurried forward and agitated the metal
with a rabbler, then the converter turned
little further and the molten steel began
to how in o blue white stream into the
ladlc. This swung round until it was sus-
pended over the gun mold; the valve was
opened, the liquid steel poured into the
mold and the casting was ended. The
whole process occupied forty three min
utes.
A week is the time required for SO great
mass of metal to cool, during which
time it remains in the mold, and when it
is taken out the boring begins. The gun,
when completed, will weigh five and a
half tons, its total length being 1883
inches, the velocity Of its projectile 1900
feet per second, and the pressure in cham
Der fifteen tons.
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md he cen obtain credit only at the COMPANY
ctoro From the moment that his name eoes
,,non the books of this institution nc becomes
slave. If lie tries to economic the stoitheep..
tennis !.i, wife and daughter with ganey sns.Mls
-, = ,,rcsc Goods and the end OF the month ln'ai
i:.h:y Inc; Lin in debt.
,:ory miners in the bituminous feSSlc. ;:i,' '.t
f.,y in tic snthracite mines, receive ne'.-'I =, "
~. ,,nv bit q rcceip!ed bill ard 0eot. -
as,,r,. Ct the company store range lfo.i - 20
,,... i, t..cess cf the c-,aI.es Hss'e ~
20 =. Il tie l-:c1 ere 1Cf>;s, L. -, -
.r, p,cr r:ia Of Losing t4c'r cil 'ie' A'A.'..
a,,o.,c nave been cases known Sncrc miners WY
a.ro ont at the end of the month ai1c:u G. ;ne
s.,d t,,o xtorc bills were forced to he loie .n'"
t,,o;r ron,ilics consumed the balaacc o"e Ite...'
n,.or.. have been cases where miners. W." ~
1901 "a nav unjust fines or to trace at .nc CO.
.anv,s store. were discharged and oiacA.s'eu
tthot thew cou.l not obtain employment ~ o." -.
s,.s ~ the neiehborhood The Law OF tne s.e.o
- .n,er,ess to prevent the illegal exactions -
the corporations. -
How then does the miner manage "
,;,ae A quotation from the same soul.e
ns tha above will be Of interest as answer
ing this question. .o- ,,,on+h
r,,o ,,est Maid men receive, say, SO nnon.u JILL
lug NC he must pay for rent, clotnlns .las.
out ,,o c ,,rces of living are high Rent ranges
!oou' - - COZ n month. The laborer "no e. ..
from =. ~ ,,,ore than SIG a month must pay -
ceves 1Io bas as left for clothing, 1000 mTs ,l
tor Iel. md other necessaries OF lile. - =.
CO. ~ ..,,n receives more must pay ironi So "
S1O-more than % per cen' =. f'N3
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who arc out say the

ties on, or with trimmings on their
dresses. And: they add, he didn't like to
see the cheap little devices they resorted
to to make their dreary quarters look pre-
sentable. He made them uncomfortable
generally, they claim, and he grew SO dis
agreeable to two foremen, who were great
favorites with the girls, as to force their
designations. Then he discharged = par
ticularly independent young mill girl.
His whole desire, these young women
went on, was to degrade them to the level
of English and Scotch factory hands.
And SO they went out.
Our New York artist went out to Kcar-
ny and made sketches of the obnoxious
superintendent and of the girls reading
one of his obnoxious orders There are
some 200 Of these young women, and our
artist writes that they are q pretty, mod
est, neatly dressed bevy Of girls. They
are not fashy, but they do dress tastefully
and they have pleasant homes. Some Of
the cries at.some of their meetings smack
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PERSONAL,

The shah of Persia will again visit Eng.
land.
James G. Blaine is expected to visit Japan
next spring.
Lord Dufferin recently gave the shah Of
Persia fine elephant.
Senator Stanford pays the porter of his
private car $500 month.
l4aboucherc declares that King Leopold of
Belgium is an exceedingly dissolute man.
Senators Ed.lunds, Hoar, Sherman and
Eustis read French like native Parisians
'How deliciously clean ho looks" said a
Washington ID. C) belle of Joseph Cham
barlain,
Ono of President Clevelands favoritc
dishes is picked sleeps tongue, eaten before
retiring.
Ex-Speakcr keifer's law business is said to
be increasing SO rapidly that lie thinks OF re-
entering politics in self-defense
Senator Sawyer says that he is not as fat
as he used to be- His parsc however, still
Retain; it.; former apoplectic proportions,
Tho t.c,..s il the Senate cla:a:.cr which was
loa>s use>l by Roscoe Coal-l:ny i; occupied
IJ Senator William E. Chandler tuiin. tho
Present session.
M': LianS, secretary of the Chinese lega-
tlon at Washington, is taking French lessons.
las L,siisl is good, but in his diplomatic
capacity he finds French essential.
Roscoe Conkling anticipated the recent
col wave by buying new ulster that
'!cEc:; his heels It's what the dudes would
call 4, dandy" and cost its owner a round
500.
Joh:l Good, the New York m,anufacturer,
has j',st been created IL count by his holiness
Pope Leo XIII, in recognition of his life
long devotion to the church and his munifi-
Cent gifts to religious; and charitable institu-
tons.
The library, furniture. etc, of the late
King Ludwig, of Bavaria. ct Lindenhof,
which cost s1GO, 900, have just bco.l sold for
;-t.Coa. His carriages and slei"Ils have been
sold to IL circu; manager, and his deer are in
IL rlc.lc.,crie.
David L. Boxer left New York for the
West twelve year; ago, landing in Denver
with $3.50 i'll his pocket He went to work
III I. silver mine, afterwards took up claim
a'll l.; now visiting his carly friends with
letters of credit aggregating 100000.
Wien Joseph Chamberlain wa; the guest
OF the American commissioners at the recent
banquet il Washington the table was
glorious with u magnificent display of
orchids. Every state in the Union was drawn
upon for the flowers and 1000 words of tele
graph were used in ordering them,
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DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Eighty years ago society in Turkey forbade
women to learn to read. The slltah has now
started schools FOR women. See what Chris
tianity is doing!
It has been estimated that the number of
young ladies who find regular and profitable
employment as typewriters in New York
alone reaches beyond 900.
1t is said that Miss Ethel Sprague, daugh-
Ter Of Kate Chase Spragne, now in Washing
ton, will, if possible, begin her dramatic
career in Boston. She hopes to obtain
pllce in the Museum company.
Mrs Archibald Forbes is devoted to her
husband. and scarcely leaves him now that
be is ILL., She is much like an English girl,
fond of outdoor exercise, an excellent horse
woman, and an expert in all outdoor sports
Two Toowooba girls won a prize given last
month in Queensland, Australia, for ''the
lest young lady of tho colony." It meant
The ono who could best do all the household
duties of a colonial woman Tho prize was
divided
The Misses Drexel, daughters of the late
Z. a. Drexel, have returned to Philadelphia.
from a visit to various Roman Catholic mis-
sioas aclon,, the Indians They were much
Interested il the work of the missionaries,
nnl gave 100000 for its furtlcrance.
Miss Arclic Rives, the handsome young
southern writer, since tho announcements of
hcr beauty have beea going the rounds end
since her picture appeared il IIarpcrs, hes
bcca t.,e recipient Of several crank offers of
1nariias;c By mail, the letters being SCI. to
her publishers.
Mrs. johnson Newman, Of Jasper, Te:.:,
hearl hc1 dos bayiag tho other evening, end
gong out Of doors she found that they Ead
driven & handsome buck deer into ccr:.cr
of t.lc fence near the house. Procuring, "a OK,
.Le dealt tho Sa:n,ai two powerful blows OIL
:h.> head and killed it
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DEER LODGE, MONTANA, FEBRUARY 3, 1885, WHOLE

And what kind OF houses do they have for the
money? Most Of them are shanties compared
with which the dwellings, Of the squatters in the
northern part Of the city are comfortable homes.
Two rooms and q kitchen are the best accommo-
dations that coal company can afford to build
for its workmen; for the companies ore the land
lords, and take back in the form of rent about
one-quarter of the small wages that they pay to
their men and boys. When strike or a shut
down comes this rent becomes payable in advance,
and it o rent day passes without payment tho
tenant is dispossessed
Evictions are taking place every day in the
Pennsylvania mountains that are as cruel as those
which, occurring in Ireland, excite the indigna-.
ton of civilized people throughout the world.
Unmarried miners live in huts no larger than tho
bathing houses at O second class watering place.
The best Of the houses are unpainted, the neigh
borhood is always vile the children must be
associations OF course do not speak of model
villages, Of which there are somc, but Of tho
average mining village, where the houses are put
tzpby the company or proprietor, and where the
business of renting them is part of tho general
business of grinding the souls and bodies CT
human beings into profits and dividends.
This article has not to do with the right
or wrong of the present strike in the coal
region. Every reader must form his own
opinion from the facts us set before him
from day to day by the various news re-
ports that arc sent out.
Another strike, and ono more interest
ing in some respects, though without the
element Of far reaching consequences
possessed by the coal strike, is the strike
of thread spinners at Kcarny, little
New Jersey town.
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GEN. o. NJ. Mitchell. the great line Of
railway and then to supply the army
there by the single line from Nashville
via Stevenson and Bridgeport. 10 do
this Buell. had 4O, 600 men eager for action,
besides those who could hold the main
points in the rear and defend the railroad.
For three days Buell. hesitated and con-
suited, then agreed ''to go to Bridgeport
and look over the ground.'
II will have train read for You to-
morrow morning at O'clock said
Mitchell.
Buell. declined to so so soon, and Mitchell
went at once to his tent and wrote this
dispatch to the secretary of war:
Finding it impossible to serve my country
longer under my present commander, have to-
day forwarded, through him, my unconditional
resignation, and respectfully solicit leave of alb.
sence for twenty days.
The two generals parted without enmity.
Then followed two letters (Mitchel's not
hithertopublished) which show how differ
emily the two generals viewed the same
facts. On the 18th of July Buell. wrote
an explanation to Halleck, who had
chided him for delay; on the 9TH Mitchell
had written to Secretary Stanton detailing
his plan. The letters are admirable ex-
ponents of the characters of the two. The
net result was that the Federal army
waited quietly till Bragg had time to
bring forward recruits, organize q new
army and get well ON his way through
east Tennessee to the Ohio. Twenty
years after, with no knowledge of
Mitchel's letters, Gen. Grant wrote in his
memoirs:
After the capture of Corinth movable force
Of 5000 mel could have been set in motion for
any great campaign In addition, fresh troops
were being raised. If he had been sent
directly to Chattanooga, it would have saved
much loss OF life. Bragg would then have not
had time to raise an army to contest the possess
sion of middle and east Tennessee and Kentucky,
and the battles of Stone River and Chattanooga
would not necessarily have been fought
But it was not SO to be. The delay and
its results the public knows. Other evil
dence shows that Mitchell was the first to
use cotton bales for pontooning, the first
to show how a single line of railway could
be made to supply an army, and how that
army, moving, could live upon the coun-
try, and that early in 1862 he laid out a
practicable plan for the occupation of east
Tennessee.
Mitchell was ordered to Washington and
sent to South Carolina-to die. Grant
held on to his western command in grim
silence till the Halleck palsy was passed,
and the great opportunity came, and be-
came the great hero of the war. Mitchell
knew that South Carolina was not the
right field at that time, and the troops
sufficient for 4 great movement We're not
sent him. Indeed he did not ask for
them.
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BIG CAST STEEL GUN.
HE LARGEST, IN FACT, EVER
TURNED OUT IN AMERICA.

Was Cast Recently in Pjttsburg, and
@yt Is Believed 1t Will Be as Efficient
Much Cheaper.
"A Pittsburg steel company recently
male the casting for the great steel gun in
tended for the United States government.
Never before in the history of Bessemer
stesl has gun been cast Of anything like
the magnitude of this one. The company
<71ss been making preparatory experiments
looking TO this casting for several months
past. When everything had been made
ready, the mold stood OH end in a pit dug
for the purpose, its top rising about six
feet above ground. A platform was built
on level with the top of the mold.
When the hour arrived for beginning the
work there were present Superintendent
Hainsworth, officers of the United States
navy aud United States government steel
inspectors and about sixty workmen
The molten iron was brought from the
blast furnace and poured into the great
converter in the center of the building.
Into this converter were poured 16, 500
pounds of metal, the largest weight that
has ever been put into this great steel
making receptacle
The great engine was then started and
began to drive air with great force
Though the converter. This process af-
forded IL beautiful sight to the lockers on,
myriads Of sparks shooting from the
mouth Of the converter like Il shower of
meteors. The converter at first stood in
q half upright position. It was now
slowly righted, and a tongue of fame
leaped into the mouth of the overhanging
gooseneck. The blowing lasted about fif-
teen minutes, and then the converter was
slowly lowered until its mouth was ell
mos5 on a level with the ground. A
trough like spout standing ready was
turned into the mouth of the converter,
and ferro manganese was poured from
crucibles. The blast of air was again
turned on and the converter turned to an
upright position, bclching flames hotter
and whiter than before.
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a TICKET q / LEAVE MAN.
Harry Benson, VIII swindled the MexI-
cans, and His Remarkable Career.

Harry Benson, Who Swindled the NIexi-
cans, and His Remarkable Career.
The theatrical people of the city of New
York, Nine. Adalfni Patti, the singer,
and not few Mexi cans of high and low
degree are in a stat of rare delight.
For the man who in 1886 personated
Marcus R. Mayer, in the City of Mexico,
and thereby dispos ed of large number
of bogus tickets to PATHS performances
in the capital of the "sister republic' is
under arrest.
And, what is more to everybody's taste,
he is likely to receive the punishment he
deserves.
His name is Harf ~ Benson.
His career as a swindler has been a
most remarkable one.
He was born In Paris q little more than
two score years ago. His father was
man of wealth and high commercial M
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Electric Stencil $.

NJ. Garci has -,veatel al electric. >! method
of preparing pa.,,' stencils fos l'Sse'';' c!rcu-
lars, coc Ii this apinr.tu' q plec, @ very
thia paper rests on ca:.'o.l block cos.'esCsa 3,
with one pole of a snail lldlc.:oa co-l, "hie
tie styl, with which the writing Il oio1e IS
,.ounoctel with the other pole On using inc
aoo.caes;, a series OF spark; pss; between
t.l:, ;.;:;le ana the carbon BLOCK, pei'1ofaolnS
tao paper, which can then be u'ea Is a sse1cl'
in tho ordinary way.
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We will stick, stick, stick!
And make old walmsley sick, sick, sick!
OF course there is another side to this
story, too. There always is.
The mill owners and Walmsley himself
claim, Of course, that they have not done
anything that is not in accordance with
strict justice to the employees. The two
foremen, they say, discharged themselves
and would have been safe in their places
if they had staid The same is alleged to
be true as to the girls.
Whatever the merits of the case or the
outcome may be the New York reporters
have found plenty Of material for some
nightly interesting articles in the strike
of the Kearny thread spinners.
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Eut tea is not the only beverage indulged
in by the japanese a beer distilled from
rice and know:l as stsa!-i' is in general use
amon- then. This ccl,i is prepared for drink
in, by heating III kettles and is sippel from
pretty little bowls Or cups, the same as is tea.
Tho cut represents some japanese ladies
drinking sali.
Tho two chief articles of food il japan ere
ric, end fish Rice i; sc:vci il & great
l:auercd bowl st il tho center O. the Ecor,
tho quests sitting CT lou:.ci.s::, :Lo;.t it Oh
mats aid ,u:-s. Lac, :-;,est dips into the
great bowl little porcelain cup froi;l which
tho rice i; catea When meats arc eaten
chop sticks ere c:-a.,loyed, III place OF l-siives
and FORKS, with Il de:sterity rarely acquired
by strangers;
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which this book
throws consider
able light.
On June 20,
1862, Buell. ar
rived at Hunts
vile, Ala, where
his army had then
practically coll
centrated, and
Gen. Mitchell, his
second in COM
nland, urged him
to move on at
once upon Chat
fOnnan., ksfo co:uo
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THE isabella HOME.

Tho Model Institution Founded by NIr.
and Mrs. Oswald OttendOrfer.
Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer and
their daughter, Mrs. Woerishoffer, have
done much to alleviate the sufferings of
their fellow beings. Fifteen years ago
Mrs. Ottendorfer established in Astoria,
n. Y, the Isabella Heimath (home) for
Aged German Men and Women, in mem
ory of daughter named Isabella, and
which she end owed with a gift Of
100000.
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Inc young WOnl'
whole trouble is
with Herbert
Walmsley, the
young Scotch su-
per in tend cn t
They claim, with
great Indignation,
that he is dis
pleas sed and
lnight5.y SO, too,
because they dress
too we'll. Accord
ing to their heated
stories, he could
not bear to see
them come into
the mill with l,lls-
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Eating and Drinking In japan.

In Japan tea drinking is great feature.
On the railroads tea is provided travellers at
the stations as freely as is water in our own
country. When one is driving about by pri-
yato conveyance tea is obtained at little road
side inns called ''tea houses - tea being tho
most prominent refreshnent offered. Tea is
also given to shoppers when they mako pur-
chases at the japanese stores. Houses among
the better classes have as an attachment a
tea house, and in these tea houses the social
1;fo of Tonou iS carried IN
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ADVERTISING FOR A HUSBAND.

Tho Law Suit Arising Thcrcfrom Now On
in New York.
A new species of complaint has been rc-
Gently made in the New York courts by
Mrs. Eliza Guion against II. B. Wellman,
Of Wellman's matrimonial agency, to re-
cover $4,000 damages, which she claims
to have sustained through being intro
duced to q man who, it was represented
to her, would make her a splendid hus.
band.
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THE MOMENT OF CASTING.

Until now it has been thought impossi-
bic to cast steel guns of the requisite
strength, and the process of forging such
immense pieces of ordnance is enormously
expensive. But all the great nations of
and ans 1n most Of 1i the o little ne ones t too e haye
furnished themselves With liberal sup
Krupr, the big German gunmakcr. It is
Us good as the foreign forged pieces. And
the expense will be much less.