Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

after a long prostration the stricken
preacher recovered. In time. there
fore, undismayed by his hurt, he re-
turned to his post of duty. At Me
Connellsburg, Pa, year later, with
the brigade detached thirty miles away
the main army, he was seen during
the day explaining to the ministers of
the town how it occurred that the
rebels were born without horns and
fought without claws, and at night
among the foremost to cut his way
out of threatened investment. At
Chambersburg, where his regiment
did provost duty for IA night at Ship
pensburg. where it again performed
the hated work of "brInging up the
rear" and in the storming of Gettys-
burg, he shared the labors, troubles
and dangers which the mistortunes of
war imposed upon every faithful, in
trepid soldier.
To make a long story short, he is
known as Rev. John 2. Hyde, ID. d..
president Of the Valley Female College.
Winchester, Va. Last Tuesday morn
ing he stepped into the JOURNAL Office,
having run up from Piedmont for the
purpose. After Il separation of over
twenty years he detailed in pathetic
terms a portion of the foregoing mar
rative, and asked whether the private
of Co. b remembered any of the in
cideutS ?" OF course the humble pri-
vate did, and this true recital of a
portion of the chaplain's military
career offsets many good things said
in Tuesdays interview by the chap
lain of the private which the latter is
too modest to claim for himself
4 F+zic The encampmeut of the
Second Maryland Battalion, NJ. n. &.
is no more. The project was II corpse
as early as last Monday. 1t died of I
complication of MISUNDERSTANDING ant
miSintcrprctations That good oil,
democratic word, "privileges," killec
it. Nobody in Frostburg knew what i
meant in Oakland, and Oakland declar
ed the encampment 'off" rather thar
elaborate their definition of the elasti,
/ term. People here had subscribed
some one, two, and others twenty fUlt
with the hope that the town, if no
/ themselves directly, would derive sOm
| advantage from the immense influ!
which military display would bring
/ The sum of $500 was certainly raised
/ and the Oakland authorities tacitly ac
came here ostensibly to select tn
ground. Time passed and II chang
came over the spirit of their dream
/ They heard something which the
have not divulged- something tina
changed their estimate of FroStbur3'
eligibility rs II focus OF military strat
egy. They let on latterly that tn
sum of 5000 had not grown as expect
ed that 81 800 and s.. 900 were tn
usual prices for encampments, neve
less than 1000. 1t was said her
also lso-apocryphally-that for 500 th
authorities would dub the camp by an
patronymic epithet desired, so tha
it could be distinguished from an
other camp that might be lying aroun'
unclaimed. Little things like thi
aroused the popular suspicion that al
of us might not be honest, and who'll
! host of bitter recollections crowded
around the significant word, privilege
-"camI privileges.' There is no pic
nic town on the continent that know
more of ground privileges" band con
tests and footraces than Frostburg
/ What it might mean in military sens
was, therefore, mixed with doubt an,
fear. SO the committee asked for
! second interview, in answer to whicl
came the letter containing the mys
terious word, privileges, and othe
terms denoting desire to crawfish b.
the longest way round. With som,
regret the JOURNAL bids farewell t,
the encampment; 10 governor Jack
sons review of our fierce soldiery; t.
/ the executive exploration Of some o
our mines the gubernatroial ball, ant
as each goes glimmering out of sigh
we seem to hear 1t say
If 81 soon am done for,
What in the dickns was begun for?
Persondi.-Misses Sallie Brown ant
| Lizzie DOnahue have returned from
] daIirhtful trim TO Atlantic city