New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-06

they decorate these graves have everspoken
the language of love and consistency and
gratitude and joy. And they appropriately
speak that language here.
SOON WILL BE THE LAST CAMP FIRE
why should we mourn these honoE4
graves? Life at besU is so short so fleetinM
Ihe days and hours OF it that we count so
precious are flying over our heads like clouds
on windy day. Seei While you are fasten-
ing to Your breast that honored badge of the
Grand Army ii fades and grows dim. Every
tune we say good night at the camp fire, and
every time we meet and part on Decoration
day, are but preludes to that eternal sepa-
ration we must shortly make Snail I mourn
then the fate OF these, my comrades who
passed over only little before with the
sweet assurance that they had died for their
country and would be remembered with
grateful hearts and with floral offerings of
praise and love by generations vet unborn?
Nay, verify! II the spirits OF these patriotic
men are looking down upon us to-day, as 1
believe they are, it is with no 1inge OF regret
that they made the sacrifice they did to SIN
cure nations safety and enjoy these endurH
Ing tokens OF nauion's gratitude And so
WHEN you drop the forget-me-nor and the
rose and the violet on the honored
graves OF Your comrades, you say to
the dead who lie there, Sleep on
brave souls and not murmur shall escaps
our lips thatyou rest SO nobly in the dust
you redeemed from rebellion. Certainly we
should come here to-day with malice
i
confess that when l recall the tolls and trials
OF those fouryears of war, and see how they
dotted this land all over with the graves OF
promising young men, and filed it with
shattered constitutions and with manned
and crippled bodies I cannot repress. a feel.
ing of bitterness toward the men who causetf.
It all So far as the civil leaders of the
ooutn at tnaG time are concerned the feeling
is there to Stay. | cannot helpit It is my
human natnre-the clay as it came from tho
hands OF the potter.
THE RANK AND FILE WE'RE GUILTLEss
But With respect to the rank and nile of the
Southern army know that the feeling is an
unworthy one, and even as it recurs, mem
DRY brings before me a scene in my own
army experience We had lust repulsed
despet ate charge of the enemy, and were re-
turning to our rude breas5workss bearing
with us the wounded of both sides who
streWed the ground in our fl ont Among {
those dressed in Confederate gray wss.a boy,
sca1ce fifteen years old it seemed with az
smooth and delicate cheek. and a clear. blueV
eye, as free from guile as that of any child
before me now. We had little time TO care
Tor such as him, and he was laid at the root
OF Tree just in the rear of our line. After
little Invent to him, and offering him
drink OF water, asked him how he felt Ina
difficult whisper, the only answer he made
was: L want my mother" They were his
last words, and as gazed on his beautiful.
glr lI race, with as deep pity as l ever
Il
duige feeling of bitterness and hatred
against the memory of this poor misguided
boy, and thousands more like him who filled
the rank and file of the Southern army Goo
FORBID! Nay, it stood by his forgottenA
grave to-day would drop a flower on it. y
100, in pity for him and for the mother :
whose name was the last word upon his,
lips.
CHERISH THEIR MEMORY FOREVER.
My friends amid the tolls ana turmoils of
n is tl1l1pr ly,,<,,. rl,o
many thousands yearly observe this day.
Let IL be ever thus observed Let it become
one OF the institutions of our country
Teach its celebration to Your CHI aren as
YOU do the observance of Fourth of july
1t is very small return you will thus make
Tor the heritage OF freedom bequeathed to.
you by the men you honor. [ know
you will join me in a sentiment from an
author, whose name / have forgotten. in
honor of our soldier dead:
True men We fell: and faithful to the lastl
Though overpowered by death. yet still III death
Unconquered. Holy be your memories!
Blessed and glorious now and evermore
Be your heroic names!
Mollie Garfield has set the wedding day.
1t is June IA, at Mentor, Ohio and her
late fathers private secretary. j. Stanley
Brown, writes that he will commence life
then. The ceremony will be a double one,
as one OF the Garfield boys will marry a.
Miss Maxon on the same date.
The Rome correspondence of the London
News says: The Irish clergy will shortly
receive orders from the episcopacv to
make every effort to remove the bad i'm.
preston produced by the rescript. It's
purely religious character will be enlpha-
sized and all political intention disclaim-
ed.
At Murick's Ferry, near ST. Charles, on !.
the Missouri river, the Sheriff OF st. Louis,
county and a posse OF three depu ties en- {
deavoring to arrest a gang OF river men
and a battle ens1ed. in which Deputy
Albert Ahlfeldt was fatally injured. Dep
uty John Monohan was seriously shot
through the bowels and Deputy c. c. Car
ret was hit three times by bullets but not
dangerously wounded. Sheriff Allen be-
came separated from the party and has
not been heard OF since. 1t is feared that
he also has fallen q victim to the despera-
does. There appears to have been seven
men who lay in ambush. The whole
party is knowb and a posse is now in
search OF them.
When the Pacific express on the North
ern Pacific coming east arrived at Fargo
a wee lad, apparently about ten years old,
stepped therefrom, and pausing to study.
| the circus bill boards was observed by a
policeman who, noting that the boy didS
not return to the train, took him in
charge. The little fellow who is bright
| and well dressed says his name is Joe
Friend, that he will be eleven in July, and
that he lived at No. II 81 Jackson street,
Chicago He ran away from home three
weeks ago to go out West where the great
hunters are. He had no money and says
he went as far as Yellowstone Park, and
returning had stopped few days at.
Fargo. He was now working toward
home.
Frederick N. Toye township clerk his
wife and three children. were burned TO
death in their house at Ellington. A girl
of thirteen the only one OF tho
family saved
AZ Milenberg. a resort on Lake Pom
chan trian, within n few miles ofNew Orleans, =
one man was killed and ten others injured, IA
| it is feared mortally, by a lightning stroke.
A sudden storm came up from the lake,
and a large number OF people sought re.
fnge in II tent in one of the gardens The