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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-01
Boston stock Market.
New York STOCK and Money Market

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 $780, Money has been
easy, ranging from 31a to 10 per cent; last loan
at 4, closing at per cent Prime mercantile pa
per o@6H per cent. Government bonds are dull
and weak IS. Railroad bonds are fairly active and
firm to strong. The stock market after delivery
hour was more animated, and The entire market
showed improvement, closing fairly active and
firm at but small changes from first prices.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggre-
gated 215.5 shares
The following are to-day's quotations Of Govern
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Railroad Receipts,

PORTLAND Jan. 81, 1890.
Receipts by Maine Central Railroad-For Port
land 70 cars miscellaneous merchandise; for con-
Meeting roads 90 cars miscellaneous merchan-
disc
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ANNUAL MEETING.

ViHE Annual Meeting Of tho Malno Steamahlp
il Company for the choice OF othcars and the
transaction OF any other business that may legally
come before them win be held &C their ONCE
Franklin Wharf on WEDNESDAY, the 9th day
OF Februafy 1890, at ten O'Clock q. N.
Jan. 81, 1890. HENRY rOA' CieIk:
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ANNUAL MEETING.

TINE annual meeting OF the shareholders OF the
Il CascO Loan and Bull Ting Association VIII DO
held at Room IS, City Building, on Saturday eve
following purposes: LIST To hear and act on the
annual report OF the directors; 2d-To elect
Dodrd OF directors for the ensuing year; 3d-Io
trans ,et any other business that may legally come
before the meeting
lan2oeOdst' D.B. KICKER, Secretary.
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Money Enough:
Agent-Here is book. sir, every gentleman
ought to have-"Hints on Architecture"
Mr.. Smallpurse 4 have no use for it.
"But, sir, 1t teaches you how to build beauti-
full villa, regular little palace for only $4,000"
II haven't $4,000. ] haven't over So to my
name"
"Well, the book is only ST."
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For p1soRpEnED LIVER try BEEouAM's

Doctor-Not so well today, Ell? Have you kept
him quiet and given him his medicine regularly?
Mrs. Richard Bevyln Buckner Dey Amt been
nobody in de room Wild him 'cept me an de chill
dren. so he's been nice an quiet; an l give him
de medicine like you tole me-three spoonfuls
Doctor~Great heavens, woman, it's wonder
he's aliye / said one spoonful every three hours
Mrs Richard Bevylln Buckner-Well. now, doe
tah they amt no difference between one three an
three Ones Count 'em fo' yo'self an secular
per's Bazaar.
A woman who Is weak, nervous and
sleepless, and who has cold hands and feet can
not feel and act like well person. Carter's Iron
Pills equalize the circulation, remove nervous
ness and give strength and rest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-01

Barque Tanjore. recently ashore, is now at Cut
Ter full of water She will discharge at that port
and then go to st John, NIB. for repairs.
Sch Ellen Merriman, from Bucksport for New
York, which arrived at this port 25th leaky, has
been surveyed and ordered to discharge deckload
for further examination.
Fishing schr Julietta, of Harpswell. which an
chored at OI's Island 28th. during h. avy gale,
parted one chain and dragged ashore. She lies
easy and will probably come off without material
damage.
The stranded schr Pocahontas, at Block Island,
was sold by auction 30th. Capt Phillips, the man.
aging owner, being the purchaser Of hull aud ma
terais. The hull was bid off at $500, her cargo
of coal at $3.50, the materials, including rigging,
sails, windlass, chains, and anchors at Sl10O.
An effort will be made to float the vessel after
she has been discharged. II she fails to come of
Cant Phillips will have q new hull built and use
the saved materials on it.
Capt E W Pendleton, and chief mate G Mel.
SON. of the wrecked barque John NJ Clerk, Of
Camden, arrived at San francisco Jan "a on the
steamer Oceanca, from Hong Kong. Can't Pen
dletun reports that on Sept 18th his vess-u"5
6eSxn0d- 1nu mV1pIsS 81 ne 6n6ffs 81 the crew.
1rifted on reef The men had time to launch the
boats and secure provisions, and landed on Proyi-
dence Island.
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PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET.

PORTLAND, Jan. 81, 1850.
The following are to-day's closing quotations Of
| Grain, Provisions. &c.:
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FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.

FROM mEHCHANTS' EXCHANGE.
Sid FIN Hiogo Dec q. ship st Nicholas. Carver,
for Boston and New York; 3lst, barque Guy
Goss, Mallett. Port Blakely.
Sid FIN Yokohama Dec 10, ship James Nesmith,
Jackson, New York.
Ar at Aspinwall Jan. 27. barque Louise AIDE
laide, Orr. Boston, (Dec 12).
Ar at st Pierre Jan 8, sch Anita, Small, from
Fernandina.
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Foreign Ports.

At Hong Kong Dec 20, ship G Chapman, HIGH
born. from Sandakan, ar 18th; barque Tille Ba-
ker, Carly, from Newcastle, ar 2lst.
AR at Valparaiso Jan 20, barque Edw kidder,
Staples New York.
Sid I'm Honolulu Jan 4tb. barque Amy Turner,
johnson. Manila
ar at Liverpool Jan 26th. ship Belle o Brien.
Hodgman, san Francisco
Ar at Buenos Ayres Jan 21st, barque Comma,
Ulstrop, Portland.
Sid I'm Buenos Ayres Dec 81, barque Formosa,
Pierce, New York.
AT Gonaiyes Jan 10, sch Aldine. Dennison for
North Of Hatteras, wig cargo; StCrolx; Rose
brook, for Boston 10 days, ldg; Seth nj Iodd,
Clark, from New York, ar 9Th, disg.
Ar at Barbados Jan 20, brig Annie Storef,
Harding, MOntevldeo
AT Ponce Jan 10, schs Uranus; Henley Tor Dos.
ton 18th, ldg; Chas j Willard, York, for North OF
Hatteras 10Th, ldg. ~ a..
Philadelphia.
Ross for North of Hatteras; Havana, Bowers.
for do; brig Telos. Colley, for do; Merry,
Bradley disg; schs Grace Davis, Dyer. for North
OF Hatteras; Almeda, Wiley Copeland, do; ii
Tricky, York; Dora Matthews, Brown, and Robt
Robert q Mcfarland, disg
Ar at st John, NIB, 3Oth, sch Grace Cushing,
Spragg, Boston.
Spoken.
Ian &C. lat 40 80, Ion 50 so, baroue John T.
Chase Park, from Rosario for Portland
Dec 10, lat 9 3, Ion 81 Il, barQue isaac l. Sko,
hald Bishop, from Calcutta for New York
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SAN FRANCISCO-sld 21st, ship A G Ropes,
MOBILE-Ar 3Oth, schs Fostiaa. philbrook.
West Indies; ii Dewitt. Perry, Curacao
Cid 30th. sch F Allen, Dunton, New York.
| PENSACOLA-Cld2 9th. sch Thos Stone, Mat
Cid 3oth. sch d D Haskell, Haskell, st Jago.
JACKSONVILLE-Sld FIN Fort George 22d, sch
FERNANDINA-Ar 27tn. sch Fannie VOL
ston; Mari; Port Royal.
Sid soth, sch NJ K Rawley, Rawley. Providence.
| SAyANNAH-Cld 29th, sch Dlckey Bird, Ca
Ar soth, sch Norman, Henderson, Baltimore.
DARIEN-Cld 2sth, sch Helen Martin. Foun-
CHARLESTON-Ar soth, sch Decora. Berry,
GEORGETOWN. SC Sid 27tn. sch Myra W
FORTRESS MONROE Passed out Jan Goth,
barque Neptune, Hill, from Baltimore for Cien-
BALTIMORE Ar 2sth, sch Daylight. Hodg-
Ar Both, schs Carrie Hart, Southeard Provi-
Cid Cd soth, sens Charley Bucki, Matthews, New
Bedford; Il Little, Pierce, New York.
PHILADELPHIA-Cld Jan 29th, sch Andrew
PERTH AMBOY-Ar Goth, sch D witherell.
Garfield. New York.
NEW YORK-Ar S0th, barque Mary Hale.
Manzanilla; Carrie Strong, ST John, NIB; James
Rothwell, Gun Point, Me; Jesse Barlow, Green's
LdDultlRt CdIdu 4 WdIus WlAOu, bOOtuDdy IOT
Baltimore Idaho, WALL Newport.
zabeth; Myra Weaver Gouriey, Havana; Lois
V Chapless, Ross, Jacksonville.
Passed the Gate 29th, sch Jennie A Cheney, FIN
Amboy for Portsmouth.
NEW LOND0N-Ar 30th, schs John II Cross,
ferguson, Jacksonville Nantasket, Richard
NEW HAvEN-Ar 3oth, sch A Stubs, PEN
SEMPoRT- 81 sotb, schs J Glover, Max
well. Rockland for New York; Com Tucker. and
NV Edsay Fa bvsT ics to- sch VIM pempp
Hodgins, st Andrews, NIB.
ViNEYARD-HAVEN-Ar goth, sch Lizzie d
RaWken for Calais; Lucy Friend, Horse island
Ar sCtn, schs Oliver Barrett. Philadelphia for
| Boston; Mary Sprague, Pensacola for do: b w
| Morse, Roderick, Darien for Bath; Eta A Stimp-
| son, do for Thomaston.
W Morse, Eta A simpson, Oliver Barrett,
EDGARTOWN-Sld 10Th. scbs I r Dixon, Tor
rey, FIN New York for Boston; speedwell Weed,
HYANNis-sid soth. schs Herbert E. from
East Boothbay for New York: Frank G Dow,
Also sl s SsS cSs Mall ana Mary Lee from
Rockland for New York; James Rothwell, Gun
Passed by 80. schs Emma Nc Adam, Red Beach
| for New York Alfred Keen Rockand for =.
| PKOVINCETOWN-Ar2 10th. sch Ethel g. Ad-
BOSTON-Ar 3Oth. barque White Cloud. Jen-
kins. Accra. WCA; schs Mary Farrow. Condor
Belfast; Sea Spray, Matthew's Eastport; Katie
son, and Radiant, Hardy. Rockport.
| Cid 30th. sch George A McFadden, Malcolmson,
| Clark's Cove and Norfolk.
Ar 31st. schs Brave. Smallage, Machias; .Saran
| Davis, Harrington, Provncetown.
| Cid 31st. brig Ii Hussey, Hodgdon. Charles
| ton.
SALEM-Ar s0th. sch Lucy Jones, Gross, Rock
i land for New York.
Sid 3Oth, sch Katie Hall, knight, Qrom Deer
| Isle) for Boston.
SALEM - In port, schs Governor, Lowe. Deer
Isle for New York; Sarah Eaton, Hops, Calais
for New York.
| GLOUCESTER In port, schs Franklin, Deer
Isle for Boston; Katie Hall, and l. nj Warren
| do for do; Mary FarrOw, Belfast for 90.
| THOMASTON-Ar 25th, Schs 8 Bickm0re
| and Jas Brown, from Portland.
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FROM ORR CORRESPONDENTS

FHOM VUH ftHE5FUNDhNIbs
HARMONS HARBOR, Jan Star, barque
Anita Berwind, Mcbride, Boston, to load Ice for
New York.
In port, sch Tecumseh, Coombs, ldg ice.
GUN POINT, Jan Star, sch Lavinia Camp.
bell, Vail, Boston, to load ice for New York.
LAUNcHED-At Bath Jan 80, from the Co
yard, sch Cactus, 634 tons, owned by B Drake,
and others of Bath, and TO be commanded by
Capt Wiley.
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Friday'C quotations.;
Portland Daily Press Stock List.

Corrected by SWAN g. BARRETT, Bankers and
1875 Middle street.
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Wednesday night twenty or more Odd Eel
lows chartered one of the Horse Railroad
Car barges and with four horses started for
Skowhegan to spend an evening with the
brothers of the Mystic tie. 1t was a jolly
party and the evening was a pleasant one to
oil
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Amer'n % ID 1lal1
Manila 10 917
Manila BoltlRope 17h
Russl 10 lol9!
Sisal......14 @lbl
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Domestic Ports.

SAN FRANCISCO-Sld 21st, ship A Ropes,
Rivers. Liverpool.
MOBILE-Ar Both, schs Fostaa. philbrook,
West Indies; ii A Dewitt. Perry, Curacao.
Cid 3Oth, sch j Allen, Dunton, New York.
PENSACOLA-Cld 29th. sch Thos N Stone, Mat
thews, Galveston.
Cid Both. sch d D Haskell, Haskell. st Jago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-03
Medical Society.

rrHE MEDICAL SOCIETY WILL MEET
December at o'clock, p. m. Subjects for dis
cusSion are the most valuable medicines In
the materia medica, eudo metritis and Ma.
larial Fever. This is the Annual meeting
and officers will be elected for the ensuing
year, J. W. WIDEMAN, NJ. D.,
President.
l.. T. HILL.
Secretery.
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Nos. g. 6, So 81. ST. 81, 5s and 50 daily except Sum
day. Main Line trains 81 and IS daily between Col
umbia and Alston. Daily except Sunday between
Alston and Greenve.
Pullman Parlor Car on No. 50 Of s. C. Division,
Augusta to Ashevc and Hot Springs, without
change connecting with Columbia and Grcenville
Division train daily (No, H.)
Pullman parlor service between Columbia and Hot
Springs, NC
d. CARDWELL, Div. Pass Agt., Columbia, 8. c.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent, Washington,
d. &.
SOL HAAS, Traffic Manager, Richmond Va
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The State of South Carolina,

= ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Probate Court-Citation for Letters OF Ad.
ministration.
BY ]. FULLER LYON, ESQ, JUDGE PROBATE
COURT: -
VIZ HEREAS, I'd Palmer has made suit
w to me, to grant him Letters Of AdminiS-
tration of the Estate and effects OF Robert
Brown late Of AbbeNille County, deceased.
These are therefore. to cite and admonfsti
all and singular the kindred and creditors OF
the said Robert Brown deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the Court OF Pro Pro
day, December the 9th, 1890, after pub
licaiion hereof, at II O'Clock in the forenoon,
to show cause if any they have, why the said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal OF the Court,
this 10th. day OF November in the year
and ninety. and in the 1l5th year OF
American Independence.
Published on the 9Th day Of November,
1890, In the Press and Banner and on the
Court House door for the time required by
Inv. j. FULLER LYON,
Judge Probate Court.
Nov. &, 1890, II -. 4,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
A Relic of the civil War. War.

d. vi r.
There is a little steamboat on Green
river, running between Liyermore and
Calhoun, that is little more than an ex-
aggerated canoe, supplied with boiler,
engine and a paddle-wheel 1t is the AL
pha and it is engineered by a man who
has had great deal to do with the fill
ing in OF history, the outlines being fur
nished by others, his superiors in posi-
tion but not necessarily in ability. He
was the First Assistant Secretary of
War of the Confederate States of Amer
lea. After this he was chief military
engineer of railways under the Confed-
crate government, position that re-
quired high degree of ability, infni-
tude of resources, and an almost incred-
ible degree of determination and per-
severance. Under his direction things
were accomplished in the way of build
ing, repairing and operating railroads
that made the Northern engineers stare
with wonder when they considered the
nature and quantity of the material with
which the work was done and the condi-
tions under which it was accomplished.
After the war Mr.. Miner made great
deal of money in Southern railroads, but
he went to California and lost his en-
tire fortune. He is now more than sew
enty years old, and is at work on the lit
tie boat trying to elSe out livelihood
by hard and honest toiL-Owensboro
(Ky,) Messenger
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
BREAKING 1T GENTLY.
A Request which Was Not so Bad as tn,
Old Gentleman Expected.

A Request which Was Not so had as the
Old Gentleman Expected.
Two soft white arms go stealing
around his neck, and fair, peach-like
cheek is rubbed caressingly against his
own. Family whispered Dear papa"
and Darling old boy" and "Don't you
love your own caramel?" roach his
startled ears as he vainly attempts to
pull himself together and avoid the
loving, sugar-coated attack which he
we'll knows is coming.
"Well, daughter mine," he finally
asks, "what is it? Not another new
dress, surely?"
80, no, papa darling"
"H-m--m, that's good. And 1T can't
be the milliner again?"
"No, papa love-"
"H-m-m, better still. 1t isn't the
horist?"
''No, you dearest papa"
"H-m-m, great Scott! You don't
want a trip to Europe, do you?"
"No, you lovely old dear"
swell, what in the name of goodness
do you want, my little girl?"
Darling papa mine, 1 don't want any
thing ah-that is-Jack wants me."--
Munsey's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
PICKED UP AT RANDOM.

DURING the month of May 1O3 camps.
with 2,191 of Sons of Veterans, were Or
ganized and mustered.
Posi- No S5, jamestown, n. Y, has q
record worth having 1t has sixty mus
kets and two six-pound brass cannon,
besides other munitions of war. The
post owns q large lot, upon which a
magnificent hall, so x12O feet, is being
built at q cost of $50, 900.
JOHN CoRATY, an inmate of the Hem
bricks County Qnd.) poor asylum, has
been granted a pension of S13,50o At
the battle of Franklin, during cavalry
charge, Mr.. Coraty's horse tripped
against wire and threw him. His head
struck on stone, and after the battle
he reported to his command. He had
been one of the most iovial men in the
company, but no gradually grew morose
and sullen, and now he is hopeless
idiot.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES.
What This and Other Famous Statues
Have Probably Cost,

What This and Other Famous Statues
Have Probably Cost,
The famous Colossus of Rhodes, which
was made of bronze and was seventy
cubits Tor about one hundred and five
feet) in height, was twelve years in
making, and is said to have cost only
800 talents, or about e75,OOO, if we
reckon the Attic talent, or s1O2, 600 if
we reckon the other talent and proba-
bly, the other talent is to be reckoned in
this case. AT all events, the so-called
Colossus of the Sun, in the Capitol,
which was bronze figure of Appolla,
only thirty cubits-or forty-five feet
English-high, brought by Marcus Lu-
cullus from Appollonia, in Pontus, cost
five hundred talents, which, if reckoned
even as Attic talents, would be over
e125, 200, and it would hardly be proba-
BILE that the Colossus of Rhodes, which
was twice its height, could have been
executed for so much less. But this is
tritie compared to the price paid for a
colossal statue of Mercury, made for the
city of Averni, in Gaul, by Zenodorus.
On this work he was engaged for ten
years and the cost of it was 1885, 900.
What the gold and ivory Athena of
Phidias in the Parthenon, or his Zeus at
Olympia cost is stated by any ancient
author. The gold employed on the mov-
able drapery alone of the Athena was
over forty talents in weight of unalloyed
gold, according to Thucydides, whose
exactness in such matters is above sus-
picious. This would be equivalent to
some e11G,OO0 in coin, while single
lock on the head of the Zeus at Olympia
weighed six nina, or about the value of
nearly $4,000. For the famous statue OF
Diadumenos, which was bronze figure
of life size, representing a youth tying
a fillet round his head, Polycleitus re-
ceived 100 talents, or about EOS, 000.-
Blackwood's Magazine,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
LONGSTREETS MEN.
They Were willing to Follow Their Leader
Into the jaws of Death.

They Were willing to Follow Their Leader
Into the jaws of Death.
Perhaps the best division in Lees
army, which had been known as A. p.
Hills light division, was knocked into
''pi" by Grants first onslaught. The
writer for the first time realized there
was truth in the report of one of Napo-
Icons marshals when he said of the as
sault on the pyramids: "He heard the
balls of the enemy breaking the bones
of his men like hail-stones against win
dow-panes." epEsyi
1t is unnecessary here to account for
this misfortune; suffice it to say this
division was beaten and driven back on
the plank road when the writer met
General Lee, who seemed quite as much
disturbed as he was six days later when
the gallant Gordon came to his relief.
In this emergency General Longstreet
rode up at the head of his corps, just
from Tennessee. After the usual mill
tary salutes General Lee said in meas
ured tones: n.t sa eeucsz
General Longstreet, the firing is too
heavy here to form your men. Take
them beyond the crest of that hill
[pointingtto the REAR and form them at
once for the attack. +" 1 "'iea"F
l shall never forget General Long
streets reply. 1t was this:
General Lee, can form my men in
h-ll." 7--aT -ss g3i 1eJy
To which the old chieftain replied;
Proceed and attack the enemy.n4
Then followed that celebrated move
ment which has ever since made Long
street famous as a tactician Atlanta
Constitution a-9 p1 Eaasni VIA
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
SWEPT BY A STORM.
Dubuque, Ia, and Vicinity Suffer Great
Loss by Deluge of Rain-Railroad
Tracks Washed Away for Miles.

Dubuque, Ia, and vicinity Suffer Great
Loss by Deluse of Rain-RaiIroad
Tracks Washed Away for Miles.
DUBUQUE, Ia, June 26.-An electrical
storm struck Dubuque Wednesday morn
ing at one o'clock. Two inches of rain
fell in two hours and the wind blew
forty miles an hour down town. On the
hills the velocity was much greater.
The lightning and thunder wore terri
BILE and incessant Many families sought
refuge in cellars, fearing cyclone. In
Rockdale valley, south of the city, the
flood carried away bridges and drove
people to the hills for safety. AT Thomp-
sons mill drowned cattle and horses
were swept through the first-story win
dows of Mr. Stitig's residence and the
family sought refuge in the hills.
Twenty-Five or thirty wagon bridges
throughout the county are undermined
and washed away.
The railroads centering here all suf-
fered severely. The bridge at Washing
ton Mills, on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, went down with crash.
On the Illinois Central two bridges were
washed away between Dubuque and
Julien, and 700 feet of track were
washed out near Farley. The Chicago,
st. Paul e. Kansas City was washed out
for thirty miles west and north of Du-
buque, and the road is not in operation
except east of Dubuque. In the city
the damage done was great. Many
houses in the upper part of the city are
flooded with water. The damage done
in this county is estimated at over $780,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-05
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE.
Story of a War Song and How 1t Was Fin
ished at Last.

Story of n War Song and How 1t Was Fin
ished at Last.
Rev. DIR. Henry M. Field, editor of the
New York Evangelist, and brother of
David Dudley and Chief Justice Field,
in letter to the editor of the Kansas
City Times, tells an interesting and
pathetic story of the late war, and asks
for information concerning it's hero. a
Federal officer. Dr. Field has just pub
lished book on the South, Bright
Skies and Dark Shadows" in which
there is a chapter on the battle of Frank
lin, one memorable for its bloodiness
and individual deeds of daring, In this
chapter is related an incident of Fed
eral officer now residing in Kansas City,
DR.. Field thinks, and whom the latter
hopes will communicate with him on
reading this article. The story is this:
A commissioned officer of tho Union
army had taken quarters at the home of
Colonel McEwen, then and now lead
ing citizen of Franklin. Just before the
battle OF that name this officer had
asked the daughters of Colonel McEwen
to sing for him. Singularly enough they
chose the song "Just Before the Battle,
Mother" at that time very popular in
the South.
They had sung but few lines, when,
interrupted by the opening of the battle
itself, the officer rushed from the house
to place himself at the head of his regi-
ment, and on his way was shot through
the lungs, but, as by a miracle, not killed.
He was carried off the field to the camp
hospital, and finally to Nashville,