Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-07-17
JcNersonyille CO.,, JOttings.

weather as fine for the business as could
have been desired In Il belt OF perhaps 90
miles square the finest crop of the state has
been gathered. North and South of THIS the
crop is quite inferior, indeed extending south
and west to the Mississippi.
A. usual over our splendid prairie fields,
binder contests have been INDUCED in, each
fellow claiming the most acres cut in given
time, and the various ACHE, emcnta the past
week fully attest the durability and excel
lcncc OF our improved machincS-l6 to -
acres cut down between suns has been about
the average.
Corn, although planted late is making rap
i'll growth. Many fields can easily look over
Il tivc.ra,l plank fence. The weather has
been dry and warm the past ten days giving
Il splendid opportunity for we'll working the
crop, much of which is now laid by With
three plowinys.
Grass is splendid and haymaklng will be
the order for the next two weeks, intcrspers
ed with wheat thrcshing. which as l have
often before informed you, isall d'nc from
the shock. Tuesday next, 9Th inst the first
,hrcshing begins with us and falmcrs.
While the crop here is a full average one,
both as to quality and quantity, we see very
little prospect of better prices than one year
AGO: - to 50 cents will be about the ruling
market.
Bee keepers are rcaping second in sue
al, pfh pOnv Rpns
numerous here. and white clover wa, plenty
hence tons of honey has been ga'hcrcd.----
Run away swa-ms taking to the woods hayc
! been unusually plen,itul-iuo and three be-
inr seen passing certain localities IN Il day.
Yesterday | used the extractor and from two
| Mitchell hiycs, 50 pounds We're extracted,
! while from many others 30 pound caps all
done up in one and tw" pound stc''ons, are
now ready to be taken. often wonder why
more of our farmers don't keep bees?
The glorious 4tll brought to mine! aotnr OF
| the events of the war with which Old Go. d..
was very closely allied. On the 4tll 1863 we
Those of us who were not in Libby prison
or on Belle lsr,-wcr being hurried from
Washington to reinforce Gen. Meade at Get
| tysburg We met his forces ut Frederick,
and Joined in the march after ice e the 70.
,oinac, and on Sunday Of that memorable
week what was lief, of General kctcr's Brig
a,lc of which the 9th MI. was 4 part, We
skirmshcn with the veterans of lee 5 army
near the College Just south, east Of illam5-
| tl,nl ,,,,. far
the present and return to Md Heights where
the regiment was on the lst day of july.
When we were driven from l'rrryvil'c So
uncrrrmonlo,,Sly ly Lee ) advance army on
to Gettysburg, We fell back to Winchester t"
ioin the division of General Mlroy OF VIII ch
! we were Il part. Here we were almost en-
tircly cut oti rom every place -'UW men in
vested by an army of 5000 ana stubho!lly
did we >ll,rnIish and canonnadc against those
| fearful odds tul more than u day and two
nights. Then i, was determined by tie Gen.
! TO cut out and retreat to ilarpcls Ferry and
| like the Arabs, we folded our trMt, about ,
"a. m june 2Sth and quietly tried To steal
away, but when The carl morn HaWnrl up
ON u~, Tive rebels were 60 Us like the Gallant
| six Hundred found AT Sr'ms'apDI. rebel or
the rlght of us, rebel Oh the left OF U-,-thr
rebels were everywhere, only where Wc came
.rum-FV:, Star and the earth work, around
Winchester. Our cavalry led the advance
and with the ilrst .'iimmcr Of early dawn the
shirmi hing began. Tho infantry was hNr.
rirl forward, and soon We Were doing our
level best from behind "a stone fence for coy
cr S!iu, and shell He" thlct: and fast, and
here our gallan, Col. McKriIip of Wcstlnjn
s,rr was unhor>cd and So seriously injured
AS TO cause him greatly 10 our regret, To
leave the service was near him when the
shell burst under his horse. tossing horse and
rider in the air with the result Of injuries ht
will carry to his grave. But the gallant Col
never fp,yu, the old 9th a a splendid stand
of colors hrough, to II, by him and present
ell to the regiment in front Of Petersburg
fully a,,cs.s.
In the battle a, Winchester, on this morn
in., fully onc.half of our regiment WAS cap
lurcd together with many others Of the
Division. Your townsman w. \. Lynn can
tell YOU somcth,n, about Libby and Belle
Isle, as he was one Of the number; also. that
noble fcllow--of whom no soldier was his
supcrior-thc lamcntcu Jason Damuth OF
whom in the near future we shall have more
to say. The captured wonder to this da,
how any escaped when they saw the fore,
opposing Ms. We fought our way along the
rebel line of battle in retreat all the white
and by hard marching got to Harper Ferry
June %, we we've transferred to Marvlnn,
Heights. In the evening Gen. Hooker pate
visit to Gen M,lroy and it wa, decided t.
abandon the Heights, destroy the ammunition
IN the arsenal, remove the great siege guns
on canal boats to Washington and then JON
the Army OF Potomac wherever they were
Next morning the work of evacuation hgan
Details of men were put TO work emptyln-
the magazine Of shot and shell and cary
them to the mountain side and uncap the
shell ana empty out the powder. About
noon the 9th Md was called in line, livdct
into two divisions, and sent to the fort IL
DRAG the great scigc guns down the mountain
road with immense ropes to load on the
canal boats just as we were passing TIN
place where the ammunition was bfln9
drstroycd some one of the detail cut open ;
box of m,lskct cartridges with an axe which
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