Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23

During the Gua1emala-OdlNauOf wal
several young American telegraph opera
tors in Guatemala were engaged In endeaV>
oring to keep up a communication on the
wire with the army. One OF these told me
that ore day when he and some of his col
leagues were riding with Sanchez they
passed field in which some poems were
working. Sanchez looked at them and said
in a careless way, L wonder how my nerves
are to-dayP He then unslung his Wiuches-
ter from his saddle, took aim, and bowled
over one of the poems. The others ran Tor
their lives. Sanchez again drew bead aud
knocked over another man. Then, appar-
entity satisfied that his nerve was all right,
he put back his rife and rode along.
sit is also said of him that during the
war drummer boy of about 16, who had
become homesick and wanted to return
home, broke down and began crying. He
blubbered around Sanchez's tent and asked
his chief for permission to go home. Yes,
YOU may go home said Sanchez, and with
out more ado he drew mis- revolver and shot
the boy dead. On one occasion, when his
artillery was surrounded in battle, the only
escape was up an almost impossible hillside.
Sanchez ordered his men to scale 1t with
their guns. He stayed behind, and as soon
as a man began to straggle Sanchez shot
him dead. He escaped with his guns.
SancneZ is only - years olu'
A YOUNG MANS NERvE-A month ago
Charles Lennon, the son of well-to-do
farmer near Milford. o., was struck by
train on the Little Miami. The engine
struck him, running over both legs near the
knee. 1t was dark, nasty night, and the
rain was pouring down in torrents. Young
Lennon, after the train had so cruelty
manned him for life, managed to drag him
self some distance from the track. Then he
took off his coat and vest and tore the latter
into strips, and, winding one around his
right leg, between the hip and knee, he hastily
improvised tourniquet by tying the
pieces together and inserting piece of pine
board he had managed to find into the strip,
twisted it so tightly as to stop the flow
of blood, and then the left leg was treated
in the same manner, the stick used for this
being a dead limb. Thus, while suffering
terribly in a condition under which most
men would have resigned themselves to
death, the brave boy saved his life. Fear
ing that his efforts would make him faint,
be struggled desperately to keep from it,
succeeding so we'll that the feeling of faint
ness passed away entirely. Then he
stoically laid himself up against the side Of
the house and awaited the dawning of the
day. There through the long hours of
the terrible night the poor fellow lay,
enduring torments of agony almost
beyond description. With the morning
came help, and the brave fellow was borne
away to his home. DR.. Belt was summoned,
and he in turn telegraphed to Cincinnati to
DR.. Phythian. 1t was 10 o'clock when that
physician arrived. and the bov had not ut
tered one word of complaint, although his
bleeding lips attested the wonderful power
of endurance that his will was compelling.
Then without administering any opiates the
doctor cut off both legs and cauterized the
wounds. In the face of this most agonizing
ordeal Lennon did not utter word of com.
plant, though after the operation he tainted
away Then another remarkable feature
was manifested in the Casa feature al
most beyond parallel in medical history.
Exactly three weeks from that time Lem
mon was calmly sitting up in bed, almost
entirely well, and smoking his pipe. Lem
mon is 81 years of age, and previous to his
accident lived with his parents and worked
| on his fathers farm. Many prominent
physicians interested in the case have called
on him, and bear witness to the truth of this
most remarkable occurrence.
AMERICAN CHAMPAGNE-Otis Field,
who kept billiard room and bar at the
corner of Fulton and Nassau streets, was
the first New Yorker to make q specially of
selling American wines in this city, says
the New York Press. His place was closed
many years ago. He made feature of SELL
ing American champagne by the glass. II
was wine made BY Judge Nicholas Long
worth, a noted jurist of Cincinnati, who was
the first grape grower in Southern Ohio to
| begin the manufacture of wine. Judge
Longworth spent years in experimenting in
champagne, and finally produced a beverage
charged with carbonic acid gas, which be-
came very popular, When Judge Long
worth died he lett fortune of couple oi
million dollars, and his heirs, although con-
tinuing to make wine, let the champagne
business die out. II. T. Dewey was the
| first wine grower of Northern Ohio, as
Judge Longworth was of Southern
Ohio. He was a jeweler in Sandusky.
when the idea OF raising grapes and making
wine came to him nearly 30 years ago, and
is now hale and hearty, venerable looking
! man with flowing gray beard, perhaps 81
years old. He followed Judge Long.
worth's experiments, but went further. The
Ohio Legislature having passed a law
! against adulterating wines and liquors, in
which carbonic gas was named as an adul-
terant, he began to make champagne and
put it away to gather its own gas, as is done
in France. He had such success that the
California wine growers were stimulated tc
try the same process, and now there are q
dozen American champagnes in the market
When you 60 from France into Germany
you find German wines altogether different
from those you have had in France. Yet
yon do. not thereby condemn the German
wines as unfit to drink. If you go on tc
Spain and Italy you will find the wine.
still different, but you will not say the wine,
are not good in those countries. Yet the
American public has been falsely taught
that because American wines do not tastt
like French wines they are not good wines
1t Is a curious fact that, while this i'm
preston prevails here, we are exporting
wines to Europe, where they are bought tt
some extent as we buy French wines here, il
preference to the home product. Then again
quantities of American wines are treated BY
dishonest dealers and sold as foreign wines
which is an imposition on the public.
How dear to our heart is the Thanksgiving
dinner,
As fond recollections presents it to view,
When father'd come home from the raf1e
winner
And bring along with him a gobbler or two.
Abl then in the kitchen was hurry and hustle
Sis weeping at having the onions to shell,
And mother Just making the whole of US hustl
To hasten the dinner that filled US so well;
The Thanksgiving dinner, the gorge-us oil
The big turkey dinner that filed us SO well
Oh, how can l all the ingredients measure
That dear bill Of lading prescribed as on
Tho tnrI and b;s mystic abdominal treasnre