Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-08
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Condition of Union Veterans at Jack.
 sOnvlIlc-O. M. Mitchell Post-The
 Ravages of Yellow Fever-A Touch-
 inx Appeal.
 Rev. s. D. Paine, pastor of the East side
 M. E. church, will leave the first of the week
 for Rockland, Maine, to attend the reunion of the Second Maine battery of light artil- leIy, of which he was first lieutenant in the late civil war. He hasn't met his old com- rades since the close of the war. They have sent him an urgent invitation to come and meet them at Rockland on Thursday, the | 18th. and have promised him rousing good | time.
 Clam bakes, ceremonies on the water, speeches, banquetting and every kind of en- | ioyment will be had. Mir. Paine has accept 1 ed, and will leave here sometime on Monday ] next. While at Rockland he will deliver his I famous lecture on the invasion of the Crimes | and siege of Sebastopol, which he delivered under the auspices of the Admiral Foote post \ for the benefit of the relief fund of O. M.
 Mitchell post, G. A. R., of Jacksonville, | Florida.
 The o. M. Mitchell post of Jacksonville, Fla, never have refused the application of l an old soldier from the northern States who knocked at their door and asked for relief. Many 8 comrade from the Northern States who wore the blue lies buried near Jackson will in soldiers on which the flowers are tenderly scattered on the 20th of May. All these would have been buried as paupers if it hadn't been for the comrades of O. M. Mitch- ell post, G. A. R.
 Some of these men who died at Jackson vile were from New England and the Mid dle States, Often during the winter season ! the drum and fife were heard along Bay street and following hearse containing coffin wrapped in the stars and stripes was an escort of G. A. R. Hundreds of dollars were paid out by few. comrades to bury the | stranger who once wore the blue and kept | step with them in the grand army during the dark days of the republics danger. And many soldiers widow was assisted to reach \ her northern home through their generosity. The O. M. Mitchell post has spent its last dollar. It's friends are all gone. The mem bers are scatteredS some are sick; some are | dead; some are in the quarantine camps in the woods trying to save their
 loved ones from the most terrible of scourges, l the yellow fever The Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor and
 many others are organized for relief purposes.
 The negroes are looked after by relief eom- I mittees. So are also the Confederate veterans, but the Grand Army men can only look to one help and that is those who have pledged themselves to stand by comrades tried and
 true in the hour of need Their present chap lain, Rev. s. D. Paine, sent this week draft of eight dollars, contributed by friends to the relief fund of the O. M. Mitchell post. He hopes by lectures and solicitations to raise
 enough so that the southern comrades of the G. A. R. shall not want for the necessaries of life or their sick ones proper medical care.
 | The following is an extract from letter | Chaplain Paine received from Jacksonville 1 last week.
 last week. It is one of the many that he is daily receiving:
 'swe are indeed in times that try mems souls. No business, money scarcely able to get enough 10 | eat would rather face the bullets of the rebels
 than the pestilence. am hourly in danger or hav ing the death-dealing monster snatch up some or my loved ones. There is desolation every side,
 but my faith has been placed in the God Of my sal vation and daily around the family altar invoke his protection I've not dollar and can't sell my \ furniture for oneS here to purchase If you can I assist me- chaplain, do so and God bless you. \ CAPTAIN F-.r With ten thousand soldiers in poor homes, | with mothers who have given their sons to \ die for their country buried as paupers, with | Florida asking the government for financial aid to fight the yellow fever, there is a chance \ to get rid of some of the surplus revenue that seems to trouble some of our politicians so | much. Chaplain Paine makes no appeal to the people here publicly, but states facts and hopes some generous friends of the gallant men who rushed to the field when traitors threatened the country's life may stand by these heroes in the hour of need.