The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-11-12
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.

Information asked and Given.
! Harrison VToman. Marine City, Mich, has
/ the discharge OF John III. Reed. Co. q. 18th Pa
/ Cav, which he can have by writing to the
| above address,
| Charles l.. Underwood. Co. F, 18th III. Cav,
/ Gladstone y. NJ, wants TO know where the
/ editor Of the st. Louis Republic was during the
| war. If old enough he must have been in the
I rebel army. The Odier-hating utterances OF
/ that paper have so disguised COmrade Under
/ wood that he has changed politics, and is now
/ opposite the party it represents.
! Mrs. Elizabeth A. LethermaH, Ridgeville, w.
\ Va, would like some cOmrade to tell her where
/ she can obtain the history Of the sd Iowa
/ which WAS written by one Perry Berry, who
\ was connected with Washington newspaper
/ some 10 years ago The writer's husband
/ served in Co. &, cd Iowa.
HOmss for settlers.
| W. f. Crowder Battery ID, 1st Tenn. L. A.,
! Knoxville, Ark, has been resident Of Johnson
| County. Ark, for 20 years, having gone there,
/ taken up S0acres of public lands and settled on
| them. He would say TO the comrades that
! Government land is about all taken up, but
there is plenty of good land in the woods that
can be bought for from s. to $40 an acre. They
/ raise nearly all kinds Of vegetables and fruits
/ in abundance; peaches and apples have been
/ selling at 10 cents a bushel. The principal
/ products Of the County are cotton, corn, oats
/ and wheat. Everything in the way OF stock,
/ goods and groceries is cheap. The comrades
\ who contemplate moving South or West ought
4 to locate in his vicinity. that they could
! organize a GAR. Post. There are about 100
old soldiers in the County but not enough in
/ any town to organize. The politics are all one
\ way rs out Of 1000 voters 400 are RepubliCaus,
/ but every vote is counted at every election.
/ lie would like to hear from Lieuts. Hobbs,
I W''te, Wilson, or any members Of his old bat
1 terry.
/ J. T. Stanhope, Berryville, Ark, having
noticed the complaints Of several comrades
/ living in the South as to the treatment they
/ have received, says that the northern part OF
/ Arkansas is fine country for the old vets to
\ live IN, ana where they will meet with well
come. 1t is healthy, and good grain and grass
country, and the world cannot beat it for fruit.
As yet land is very cheap, and there is con-
! siderable Government land which can be
| entered. lie will answer any communication
in regard to the land in that section, provided
the comrade writing incloses postage.
Frank b. GOllOw. Newburg, ". Y, wishes
/ some cOmTade 10 inform him Of some good place
/ in Florida for farming and fruit-growing. III Q
would particularly like to hear from st. An
drew's Bay.
Ireland at the Worlds Fair.
/ William J. Lane NJ. r., Cork, Ireland, urges
that there be an Irish section in the Worlds
Fair az Chicago lie says that Ireland is a ma
can citizens reverence the time-hOnOred t0asts
OF Ireland as a nation. But it has 20 paternal
government TO make an appropriation TO mako
. 1t able to be represented. Therefore, he calls
upon the Irishmen Of America to move in the
I matter Of making such show for Ireland and
Irish products as will be q credit to their peo-
pie.
Wants Wife.
comrade whose address is Box 90, Dayton,
I Wash, widower Of good moral character and
IN comfortable circumstances, would like to
correspond with a soldiers widow daughter,
Of a kind aud loving disposition, with view
% matEimOny.
AJIuiaHt.General's Reports.
Marion T. Hutson. 29th H., At Jefferson
street, Springfield. H.. has 4 full set Of the Re-
ports OF the Adiutant-General Of Illinois, re-
viscd edition, ls5G. eight volumes. which he
wishes to sell to some comrade for S2J.
War Records.
J. IT, Mccormick. Lieutenant, Co. A. 4Oth H.,
aud Co. L, lf5th Ohio, Rays. d., would like TO
purchase q complete set OF the War Records.
Any comrade having a set to sell he viii be
Taxed for Ex-Reb,ls' Pensions.
4. p. Eooutz, Cos G and ID, Goth Ind, Little
Rock, Ark, says there are about 800 Federal
. soldiers living in his County, all Of them tax
payers, all of whom have to pay their share
for Confederate homes and pensions, and they
do not complain Of the burden laid on them,
but cheerfuily pay up. They think it
shame that the Northern people should do 50
much kicking because Federal soldiers are
getting pensions. He thinks that it would DO
better FOR them 10 let up Oh this pension howl
ing.
Worthy Wen.
III. T. Harrison, MuTphysboro, ILL.,, writes in
/ behalf Of class of men who rendered good SER
J vice during the late war, aud who have never
ites ed in an yy4 He To pro
/ y0st- Aarshals and their deputies, many of whom
| were killed, wounded. or contracted disease in
I the line Of duty which has made them nvalids,
] and who are to-day poor. The Commissioner
. Of Pensions CONSTITUTES all laws passed by Con-
gress relative 10 such officers SO rs not 10 entitle
them TO the benefits Of pension. 1t seems to
/ the writer that if this action Of the Com
. missioner was presented stO Congress in the
/ proper manner, the laws referring to such OIL
| GERS would be amended So that the Commissioner
could not construe the law as he now does.
Tribute 20 a Rebel.
Francis McCarten, U. s. s. Augusta, 10 East
Fourteenth avenue, Denver. Colo, having
| noticed the death OF Commodore IEgTaham, says
that the United States lost one OF its best OIL
GERS when he joined the Coufedcracy. He only
\ wishes we had an Ingraham on board the Bati-
more just now, rs our blue jackets would not
be- butchered in the streets of Valparaiso and
dragged by horses to jail and locked up, for no
other cause than being American sailors. He
wonders if Commander Schley is so anchored
with red tape that he cannot bring his guns to
bear on the D1goes. With reference to In
graham building the rebel ram at Charleston,
which broke the blockade, he wishes to say
that there was a slight mistake made there.
The rebels criwled out in the dark of the night
and disabled tire Mercedita, an old iron box
which was of no account IS fighting vessel. The
Keystone State gave them fight as soon as Com
mander Leroy could make out who they Were
and instead Of the ram driving the United
States vessels to sea, the Augusta chased the
CheOra in over the bar as close as she could 20,
knocking away her flagstaff aud gingerbread
work around the upper deck. All the running
the Augusta did was after the ram, Beaure-
CARDS proclamation to the contrary notwith-
standing.
As Brave as AnJ.
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