Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-15
RANDOM SHOTS.


NEw York CITY is reported as hav-
ing iifty-two Grand Army posts.
The posts in Wisconsin are increas.
ing their membership very rapidly.
LANDER Posi-, No. 3, Lynn, Mass,
has war library Of 1000 volumes.
THERE are 1900 soldiers buried il
the National Cemetery at Fredericks.
burg, Va.
An effort is being made to secure the
old fort at Dodge CITY, Kan, for a sol.
diers' home.
THE Soldiers Home at Waupaca,
Wis. has seventy inmates with great
many applications on file.
GENERAL r. b. HAYES has been elect
ed Commander-in-C OF the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion.
THERE is a Grand Army Post in the
city of fredericksburg, Va, where
10000 Union soldiers lost their lives.
Lucy WOOD. Barre. VT, 102 years Of
age, desires a pension on account OF the
services of her husband in the war of
1912
AMEMoRIAL building is being erected
at GAINESVILLE, O. Fifty thousand dol
lars win be raised by county tax to-
ward its erection.
JOHN L. PORTER, who designed and
constructed the Merrimac. is now WELD
ing broad axe in the Navy Yard at
Norfolk. He is almost eighty. John
Ericsson, who constructed the Monitor,
is also well along in years, but his old
age is free from toll or want.
GENERAL J. NJ. SoHoFIELD, at pres
ent commanding the armies OF the
United States, is Roman Catholic.
His immediate predecessor, General
Sheridan, was also Catholic. General
sherman, who preceded General Sheri-
dan, was more OF Catholic than any
thing else. General Grant was a Meth
that way inc ined. .
THE membership ofthe Loyal Legion
is reported TO be as follows: Pennsyl-
vania, 6S3; New York, 6s2; Maine. rs:
Massachusetts. G64; California. 543:
l70; Illinois. SIG: District
of Columbia. 431; Ohio. 543; Michigan.
1GS, Minnesota, 21S; Oregon. 20; Mis-
souri,, 1911; Nebraska, ll3; Kansas. ISS;
Iowa, 50; Colorado. 81. Total. 5.I94.
NJ. b. BRADY, the Washington photo
the first to take the camera
on the battlefield in the late civil war.
He pitched his tripod first at the battle
Of Bull Run, and he continued through
out the war to make these important
pictures. The instantaneous process
was not known in those DAYS. or we
might have had photographs Of the
bullet and bonbshell lin motion
LARIoUs SMITH. who recently died in
Vermont at the age of ninety-two. is
thought there TO have been the Oldest
soldier in the civil war. In 1868 he en-
listed in Company |, Twelfth Vermont
Volunteers, being at that time sixty
seven years old. He didn't look ii. be- |
ng remarkably strong and vigorous.
and at the time of his death didn't APP
pear 10 be over sixty years old. The
iowa Graybeards had some pretty old /
men in the ranks, but it is doubtful if |
my was as old as Larious.
The following resolution was unani-
nously adopted by the last National
of the Woman's Relief
Corps: The sixth National convention.
v. r. C., have voted to inaugurate the
of Relief Corps house
where our aged and homeless soldiers
soldiers mothers. army nurses
Who served on the battlefield and in
military hospitals. and other classes Of
women allied by ties of blood and SER
ice to the Union veterans. shall re-
GIVE permanent shelter and support.
They respectfully solicit the sanction
# the Twenty-second annual encamp-
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