The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-05
THE PRISONERS BATH.
NOW CAPTURED REBELS TOOK "A
DIP IN SPITE OF WOMEN.

The German Brides Quaint T~alisuian-
Chicago's Women speculators-CaI
Artificial Diamonds BE Made?-Nev
Fads in Table Linen.
81 met the other day the United
States officers who captured me, sale
Ex-Governor McCreary, of Kentucky
to a Star reporter, land we had a very
pleasant talk over old times. Sit
down and l will tell you how Ken
tuckians managed to battle in the
presence of the enemy and without
offending the sensibilities of the la:
dies. My command, the Eleventh
Kentucky Cavalry, participated il
Morgan's raid, and invaded the sacred
soil of Ohio. On the eventful morn
ing when we found ourselves sur
rounded, just as we reached the banks
of the river which we hoped to recross
into Kentucky, we had been fifteen
days in the saddle without once think.
ing of so much as washing u faces.
We were so plastered with dust and
mud and perspiration that we scarcely
bore any resemblance to human be-
ings.
1T has always been a mystery to me
where we got that white flag that we
hoisted as a signal of surrender. |
am quite sure there was not such a
thing as a boiled shirt or even a white
pocket handkerchief in the whole
command. / never did find out what
it was we hoisted. Just about that
time, too, we were not thinking much
about trifes. We were a pretty blue
crowd. The Cincinnati papers which
had fallen into our hands had declared
that when captured we were all to be
shot, and we half thought this would
be our fate. Riding up to the officer
who seemed to be in command, |
said
81 am Lieutenant Colonel Nc
Creary, of the Eleventh Kentucky
Cavalry, and | wish to surrender my
command
Then / waited results. He looked
me all over; it was a fearfully hot day;
we had been riding hard, and my
tongue was hanging out of my mouth
with thirst. He said
"I am General Woolford, of the
United States Volunteers. There is a
spring Just over there. Colonel, and
have got a flask of good Kentucky
whiskey in my pocket
81 never heard more welcome words
in my life, for | knew that a man who
offered his enemy a drink was not the
man to shoot unarmed prisoners.
Well, after a while, when we had dis
mounted and given up our arms and
had been marched away as prisoners
of war, l mustered up courage to ask
if we might be permitted to take a
bath in the river, SO as to get rid OF
some of the mud with which we were
coated. Permission was given and in
squads of ten we were marched down
to the river bank. But in the mean
time the whole population had
turned out, and at least three thou
sand people, many of them ladies,
had gathered to see us battle. A
broad grin broke out on the boys
faces, cracking the dirt, and they all
looked at me to see what | was going
to do. l gravely removed my hat and
coat, and trousers, and boots and laid
them on the bank, and then, in my
drawers and flannel shirt, walked
into the river and SWAIN out to deep
water. There | managed to get off
my shirt, and just keeping my head
above water, gave that a good wash.
Then | put on my shirt again and
took off my drawers and served them
the same. The whole command fol
lowed my example and declared they
never had a bath which they enjoyed
half as much as that in their whole
lives.
"All through this raid into Ohio,
continued Governor McCreary, my
colored body servant RUDE stayed
faithfully by me. Next morning after
the capture, when we were marched
down to the boat to be taken North,
RUDE followed me, carrying my saddle,
blankets and other traps. The off
Ger in charge of the transportation, q
Lieutenant Judah, caught sight OF
him just as he put his foot on the gang
plank. and, giving a rough push, said
'Herel We don't furnish Transports
ton to niggers to wait on id rebs.
Gitl' And RUDE got, and | have
never seen or heard of him since.n--
NeW York Star
IbelieUe that Albeit aeould be elected
By q handsome majority e0en should
no can0dSs be mGde.-JOHN r. Nc.
PETERSON.
A German Talisman.
The Germans have a story which
that home-loving people like to re.
peat. A father, when his daughter
became a bride, gave her a golden
casket with the injunction not to pass
it into other hands, for it held a
charm which, iii her keeping, would
be of inestimable value to her as the
mistress of a house. Not only was she
to have the entire care of it, but she
was to take it every morning to the
cellar, the kitchen, the dining room,
the library, the parlor, the bedroom,