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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-11-05
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.



The Family Which Barely Missed Being
Reunited for a Moment.
Just after the battle of Brandy sta
tion. Va, in June, 1863 about one hun
dred and thirty confederate officers,
captured during the fight, were sent
under strong guard to the union pris-
on at Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie,
opposite SanduslSy, o. Among the par
ty, which comprised several generals
and officers of lower rank, was colon
ell who had been a member of Gen.
Garnets staff.
During the journey from Washington
to the prison the utmost good feeling
prevailed Stories were exchanged by
the prisoners and their Yankee captors,
singing was INDUCED in, and every.
thing possible for the comfort of their
prisoners was done by ''Lincoln's Blue
Coats"
just after the train left Pittsburgh it
was compelled to stop on account of a
slight accident to the locomotive. A
few minutes before it again started up
the captain in charge of the escort, in
passing through the cars, was stopped
by the colonel above referred to. who
said:
Say, cap, do you see that house over
there on the hill?" pointing to neat
cottage on some high ground about half
mile away.
Looking out of the window, the cap
tain replied: Eyes; what about it?"
well, cap, I've got wife and two
children in that house"
"Whatl7 yelled the Yankee, in aston
ishment. Then what under creation
are you doing with grey uniform on?"
well, my people were Southerners,
and l was working in Georgia when
the war broke out. And I'll tell you
what it is, cap, it's a mean man that
won't fight for the side that gives him
his bread and butter, amt itP''
Eyes, guess SO" replied the captain,
good-naturedly.
"Well, look here, cap Can't you
send up there and let my people know
I'm here?"
Il don't know. I'll try it"
He passed quickly out of the train.
and, calling an orderly, sent him off to
the house with instructions to see the
mans wife and inform her that her
husband was on the train and desired
to see her.
The orderly started on a brisk run,
but before he got half way up warn
ing toot of the whistle called him back.
After the train had started the cap
tain sought out the colonel and inform
ed him of his failure to communicate
with his family With tears in his
eyes the southerner thanked him for
his kindness
The party reached the prison in due
time, and the captain and the colonel,
now fast friends, babe each other fare
well. A short time after this the con-
federate was exchanged and rejoined
his regiment at Petersburg
Six months after the war had ended |
the union captain was in Pittsburgh. |
Taking a carriage he drove out to the |
cottage on the HILL thinking TO renew
his wartime friendship He found the |
family of his confederate friend in |
The colonel had been killed |
in the first charge on Petersburg. DE
troit Free Press.
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SHERIDAN IN HIS SLIPPERS.
Polite Mexican Responsible for Funn
Performances by the General.

A Polite Mexican Responsible for Funny
Performance by the General.
A good story of Gen. Sheridan was
told the other day by a Mexican gentle
man, an intimate friend of the great
northern soldier in his lifetime. One
day, calling on the commander of the
army of the union at his Office in Wash
ington, he found the hero of Winches-
ter At his desk. his feet incased in slip
pers and his shoes Economically plac-
ed on topof his desk. While the gener-
al was apparently absorbed in some
writing the Mexican gentleman who
thought some servant had left the war
riors shoes in the wrong place, took his
cane and gently deposited the shoes on
the floor.
The next day the Mexican gentle
man called again on sheridan and
found him at his desk, shoes on top as
before. The polite resident of the
tropics began once more removing the
sheos to the floor, when all at once
Sheridan roared out:
Don't you do that again, sirl You
make me ridiculous, sirlr
Il beg your pardon, general but how
have l made you ridiculous9'
why, sir" said Sheridan, still an
noyed. yesterday, sir. l went out to
walk after you had called on me. l
was nearing the White house, when /
noticed gentleman looking at me in
tently. Soon he addressed me saving:
Excuse me, general, but aren't you
afraid of catching cold? why, sir,
no, not that know of; what's the mat
ter, STRIP Well, said the gentleman,
it is very damp and you are going
about in your slippers Il tell you,
sir said Sheridan. addressing his Next
can friend. you made me ridiculous
1t is my habit, sir, to put my shoes on
my desk where ! can not fail to see
them, so ] may not forget to put them
on, and, confound it. sir, you come
round here with your notions of pro-
priety and send me around town in nv
sir. boston Herald.
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unInIte.l FInnr.

Chemists and the manufacturers of the
new processes of bottled flour are always at
war. The latter are doing their best to
furnish US with fine white -four, but they
do so AT the expense of health. The -four is
bolted so much that nearly all the nutritive
value is taken from it and cast away to the
swine. The gluten and starch and all the
nutritive substance left, and that which
makes bone and tissue, is wasted in the
process. Brown bread is far superior to
the white. aud it should be given to chill
dren, especially in their growing age. 1t
gives the needed phosphate to the teeth
and bones, prevents dyspepsia and regu-
lates the brain and blood.
Mothers that are nursing children would
give to their young better bones, teeth,
muscle and blood if they would make it a
practice to eat only brown bread. One soon
gets TO loving this article of diet better
than the excessively white bread which
Americans eat in such quantities.-Ya
kee Blade
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wHlsTLINo NAILS.
A Joke That Made 4O,O Men Think Il
Yankees NNnrn IIain.r Nnisnlnan pn....I....

A Joke That Made 40, 900 Men Think ths
Yankees Were Using Noiseless Powder.
81 see" said the veteran, as he twist
ed his feet up on the verandah railing
and gazed lazily at the sunset, 'that
they are making whole lots of talking
in the newspapers nowadays about
smokeless and noiseless powder Why,
we were talking about the same thing
when was in Prices army
You know we were away down in
the brush in southwest Missouri, where
we were all cut off from the world and
couldn't get any news from the outside.
Well, the story got started somehow
that the Yankees had invented a new
powder-a kind that burned with no
smoke, no flash, and no noise. Pretty
soon they were talking about it in every
regiment, worrying over the thing, and
reviving the devilish ingenuity of the
Yankee. There was nothing to talk
about, and you know how it is in a big
body of idle men,
There was one fellow that took
great stock in the noiseless powder
story 1t bothered him all the time.
This was Bill Oliver of Col Winston's
Second Missouri Bill came from up
here at Platte City. He was a black
smith, a strapping great big fellow,
strong as a horse. He weighed,
reckon, two hundred pounds.
zone black night Bill was put out in
the brush on picket duty. Now. he was
just as gritty fighter as you ever saw
in line with man on either side of him,
but tell you, my boy, set man out in
dark thiclet all alone, and the enemy
known to be near and supposed to be
everywhere, it takes all the starch out
of the best of them.
$50 Bill was trembly and shalxy, and
saw Yankee sharpshooters every
where.
Now, in the same regiment they had
daredevil, harum-scarum fool Reub
Hill This Reub Hill was the kind of a
specimen every regiment has-a pestif-
erous practical joker a nuisance that
everybody liked Here was a rich
chance for one of Reuben's little Jokes.
Soon as Bill had got settled at his post
Reuben loaded his pocket with dozen
or so big wrought-iron nails, and out
through the dark he circled to get in
front of the pickets He hid in a sassa-
fras brush about hundred feet from
the big blacksmith, and looked out.
There was Bill tiptoeing up and
down his beat like an elephant on a
rickety bridge, lodging and whirling
every time a grasshopper chirped or a
horse back in the camp snorted. He
was getting badly scared Reuben pick
ed up bright ragged nail and flung ii
just as hard as he could Jerk.
You know what vicious screech-
ing nail makes when you throw it
that way? No mimic ball ever sounded
wickeder 1t goes:
Whit -u-u-ur
Poor Bills heart stopped with big
thump like sledge hammer, and Reu-
ben away OF in the thicket heard hin
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-11-05
Making Pictures.

"My sister learned to make pictures, too,
when she was TO Brooklyn said the
daughter of a Long Island farmer floating
out in a loose Mother Hubbard gown and
sunbonnet to inspect the work of one OF
Mr.. C-'s ''plein air. students, "but she
doesn't do them like You bit it's ever so
much quicker. Why, she jest lays a paper
on anything and smears it off with wet
rag, and there it is all done ia colors, and
it's real beautiful. And you kin tell just
what il is too" she added, looking at the
''impressionist" style OF the sketch with
evident disfavor, while the amused artist
realized that the fair Phyllis was describ-
ing decalcomania.
Another good lady who took I'M board
ers, and who with her daughter cooked
and waited at table and did the rooms OF
dozen or more OF ''city folk" said sympa-
thetically to an enthusiastic young artist,
ut must be real hard work to hev to sit in
them dirty fields all day; | said to Mr..
Hayseed last night that | felt right sorry
for you. New York Tribune
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r TOUCHED HIS HEART.
Compassion of Newspaper Man for a
Poor stranger Who Needed Help.

rompassion of Newspaper Man for
Poor stranger Who Needed Help.
Il hammered in Chicago at a. m. The
man was shabby and travel stained, when
he stopped newspaper man at the corner
| ~ Dearborn and Madison streets and asked
the way TO Halsiead street
eStraight ahead" said the newspaper
man. pointing west.
.Then which way must turn TO get TO
Thirty-sixth street, asked the man.
aThirty-sixth and HalsteadS" exclaimed
the newspaper man. lyon had better take
Halstead street car; there'll be ore along
here so0n.o
II didn't ask you for car" said ths
shabby man rather sharply. (which way
must / turnS'
ssTo your left when you reach Hals,eA
street."
THANK you"
The shabby man started along, bur ta.
newspaper man stopped him.
eHoId ong' he said. Are you goins
try to walk therey
ssWhat business is that of yours" retort-
ell the other.
But you can't do i'll"
II can'tgp There was a trace of bitter
ness ia the mans voice. "I've walked ID
from jackson park"
"Why, you could have cut across and
gotten TO Thirty-sixth and Halstead with
half the walk"
II suppose so, but | didn't know it,"
The shabby man started on again. aud
again the newspaper man stopped him.
Look herb" he said Haven't you got
any money!
Chats none OF your business returned
the shabby man. I've got grip AZ Thir-
ty.sixth and Halstead, aud after I've got
that you'll not find Inc in Chicago long
There was something in the mans man
ner that made the newspaper man persist
emit
Let me give you car fare. any way" he
said
The shabby man turned on him sharply
II haven I asked for charity, have ~
mo; certainly not"
"Well, don't want any I've borrowed
money, butt
Call ita loan" said the newspaper man.
"Will you consider it as such1" ASKED
the stranger.
"Certainly."
"And you expect TO get paidr'
"Yes."
''Give me your address and accept half
a dollar. Aud, young man, accept "A little
advice from a man who is older than you
are. Never quit one job until you are sure
OF another. | came here from Grand Rap
ids TO better myself | was told that labor
was in demand and wages mp in the skies
I've been here week and now | am going
back to see if | can get my old job again.
And If the little woman and the baby
He hesitated. II didn't leave her much.
didn't have much, and expected to send
for her, but I-well, couldn't And she's
always so patient and good and I've
He suddenly Strengthened up and said,
young man, III send yon this within
week if get my job back. !"
He sent it.-Chicago Tribune
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-11-05

A man lives in the province of Livonia.
Russia, who can cure the worst cases Of
hydrophobia. His medicine for the disease
consists OF bugs of the size of a FREELY.
winch he gathers IN sandy places. He
Keeps them in clean bottles until they be-
come perfectly dry and shriveled to the
size OF common fly. Only one dose OF
two such bugs kneaded in bread is suffi-
Gent 70 cure the worst case of hydrophobia.
-Pittsburg DISPATCH.
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SCRAPS FOB SOLDIERS.

LIVING in Iowa is as proud a mother
as the stars and stripes ever foated
over Prior to the late war, Mrs. II.
B. Merchant, then widow, resided at
Rockford, Ill. and from here sent
eleven sons out to fight for her country
and theirs.
GEN LEoNIDAs L. Polk. of the con-
federate service, was the famous Bishop
Polk, of ante-war times, and was a
captain in the American army in the
Mexican war. lie was killed at the
battle of Resaca The L. L. Polk.
brigadier-general commanding the post
at Salisbury, is a different man.
GEN. GRANT died July %, 1885. Gen.
Mcclellan died October 20, 1885 Gen.
Halleck died January Q. 1872. Gen.
Sherman died February Il. 1891. Gen.
Sheridan died August S, 1855. Gen.
Hancock died February Q. 1886. Gen.
Mead died November 8, 1872. Gen.
Thomas died March 2s. 1870.
ONE of the old soldiers of Northamp-
ton went to the cars the other day 70
see his daughter off Securing her a
seat he passed out of the CIR ano went
around to the car window to say part
ing word While he was passing out.
the daughter lei. her seat to speak to a
friend. and at the same time a grim old
maid took the seat and moved Up to the
window. Unaware of the important
change. he hurrie 81 put his head M to
the window and said. On lore sweet
kiss. pet In smother instaus the point
Of a cotton umbrella wa thrust from
the window. followed !. IL. wrath ful
injunction: Seat vou rravheaded
wretch" He seated Union Guard
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A widow with two girls married q
widower with two boys, and had a second
family by her new husband. When a ter
rioie rumpus was heard in the nursery one
day the u -vous husband shouted M stairs.
W hatever Is the matters" The little wife
answe.s sveetly over the balusters: ITS
only my children aud your children having
Noon 01'''' -Ne"
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sleeping on the stove.

Beds. arc still strange pieces OF turni-
ture in Russia and rnany well TODD
houses arc still unprovided with them
Peasants sleep on the top of their ovens;
middle-class people and servants roll
themselves up. in Sheepskins and lie
Jocvn ncar stoves;. soldiers rest upon
wooden cots without bedding and It, II
only within the list few years that stu, :,
dents in stnS2 schocR haxuseen allowed
ti-4S-
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TIE CANAL.
4 Glimpse at tie Chanhers.

A correspondent who has been spending
the Easter holiday visiting the Sections Of the
Canal on the line writes as follows -
In spite IF the paucity of intelligence re-
sp Getting the moves Of the men of hight AMI
leading" charged to unravel this PcncIopc'a
web tllcd canal aft lirs, it is indeed pleasing
t. sauntcr over the chlnticrS which crstwhi.c
were full of life, animated by the din and
Glamour inhe ent to all mech micrl appliances
whose motive power is the all powerful steam.
With a zeal which clnnOt be too highly
commended, one cannot full to observe with
what care the mdtGriel is kept. Excavators,
locomotives, pumps and the Thousand and one
other items constituting the machinery ncccs-
hary for the digging of the Great Ditch. are
kept we'll cleaned, creased and painted, and
for the most part under cover. The houses
are all in good condition the tracks pc feet.
Taking advantage of the dry weather, from
Empertdor to Paradise and further ON, the lux
uriant Ne@etuion. which becomes such an inn
piedmont in the wet season has been cut down
the Grains dug and bridgcd, in fact everything
is kept IN such "a way that if within the next
twenty-four hours the long expected go
ahead were to be- uttered, the whole mechani-
cal fore. on the lsthmus, lifeless for the noEce,
would be set in motion without tho least fric-
ton, in thorough going easy manner.
To arrive at such good results with the re-
stricted staff and means at command of the
Chiefs of Section, evinces on their part, encr-
getic and continuous action; in so doing they
emulate the zeal and activity displayed by Mr..
Pourqui6 in the discharge of the onerous duties
imposed upon him by the force of circumstance
ek. 1t is also worthy of remark, with whaS
alacrity the few of the rank and file left, exc
cute their work, in a manner deserving of much
praise. Those who, like me, went through
the Sections on an excursion having a double
aim can testify to the, hospitable welcome ex-
tended by those who are now contided with the
care of the Canal Company's interests on the
Isthmus.
Onesccs many interesting things when visit
ingthe canal chantiers and after having wit
messed de risu the state of the works as they
exist since The collapse, one cannot help cogi-
tating. that what has been done bears evidence
as to what can ultimately be done, and that
the difficulties in the way, do not belong to the
domains of the impracticablc.
Resuming my impressions, | will add, that
the matGrici on the Isthmus is in capital order;
and by this I mean rolling stock of all kinds
that the tracks are in serviceable condition,
AID that the supply is so ample that very little
expenditure need be incurred unde, this head
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HARVARD IN FRONT,
Her Football Team Leads in Every
thing Against Yale and Prince
ton This Season.
ABOUT 100 POINTS AHEAD OF YALE
TrsT0rd Eas Kicked ~ Goals and Bliss
Has Gcod Lead Among
the Tale Players.
ABOUT 100 POINTS AHEAD UF YALE
IRoTTlNG HORSE MEN IN SESSION.
Som. Important Cases to Be Dealt with-Gencral
Sporting News Of the Day.
-errc:AL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsrArCH.l

.errc.AL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsrArcH.l
CAMBRIDGE, Dec, i'm comparing the
team scores of Yale. Harvard and Princeton
clevcns Harvard has loug lead in every
thing. Harvard's total number of points,
5SS, is loo more than Naie's is credited
with, and 211 more than Princeton. Har-
ward scored 103 touchdowus, Yale 90 and
princeton 60. Harvard has Il goals from
touchdowns, Princeton 81 and Yale 46.
Harvard E,ade goals from the field, Prince
ton and Yale 2. Harvard and Princeton
are each credited with one safety BY op-
ponents
In the individual scores Lake is far in
advance Of all others in the matter of touch
downs, having made 80 during the season.
Trairord comes next with "a; L. Bliss leads
Yale and comes third OF the list with %;
Bcrgin (sub). Princeton, Fearing (sub),
Harvard. and c. Bliss (sub), Yale, come
next in the list with Il each; Wood (sub),
Princeton, is the only one of all the others
vino have made ten touchdowns and he
made IL
Traff,.i kicked all of the az goals from
touchdowns creI::ed to Harvard, which is
more goals by 81 than made bv the four
Yale goal kickers. and 26 more than made
hv the three Princeton kickers Yale's 46
goals from touchdowns were divided up
among L. Bliss, McClung, Noyes and Rich
ards. Bliss leads them with %, McClung
comes next with 20. Noyes third with 5,
and Richards last with 1. Homans leads
Princeton with 81, King second with II, and
Poe third with 5. Traffori made all four of
Harvard's goals from the field, Homans
P-inceton's three, and Richards and Nc
Ccrmick made one each for Yale