The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28

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body has their own time. This CONTINUES
until o'clock, then the boys lay down thu
instruments and fling themselves on theil
cots and tell stories that will make goat
laugh
This keeps up until 10 O'Clock, when the
bugler sounds taps and the lights go out.
AGUARD ARRESTED.
A man was arrested last night for talking
in his tent in the Guards battalion, and the
officers say more will be arrested if they are
| mouthy the least bit. After 10 o'clock all
is quiet. Only the roar of the water into
Chickamauga lake, the whistling of the
| wind in the mountain ridges, and the low
| soughing of the breeze in the tall oaks are
heard, and then is the only time when this
spot is silent. The old sentinel gets lone
some as he tramps along by himself, and he
feels inconsolable until he meets another
| sentinel on another post. Then they sit
| down if nobody watches them ana crack a
| joke or two; may open bottle Of wine, and
| jump up and hurry on. II they are too
| pious for this, then they have a lonesome
| duty indeed to perform. They watch the
| moon rise and see it 60 down. Then they
| are the first to put eyes on the red streaks
| in the east, and the first to meet the sun in
| its coming. They listen with interest at the
| buglers call to rise, and they smile with
| gladness when they catch glimpse of the
first soldier who emerges from his tent.
They feel like rushing and shaking hands
with the boys. Three hours later the senti-
mel lays sprawling in his tent fast asleep.
He is of duty then for the week.
SOFT SNAP.
Arthur Haines has q soft snap, the soldiers
say, in spirit of enmity. He lies up and
writes little, and smokes little, and
hollers around aud gets out of guard duty.
Haines smiles upon them, and keeps his
mouth olneoI will DO %a ifofa ba
boys upon the subject this hot weather.
Company Hs drill team is practicing
now regularly and they get up as good drill
as anybody.
The Columbus Guards have a howitzer
which is the Oldest in this part of the coun-
try. It was formerly owned by the COM
pany, and when Sherman passed through
the gun was thrown into the Chattahoo.
chez river. 1t was picked up by dragging
boat in 1865 and carried to New York. G.
W. Godfrey owned it and mounted it. He
fired the salute for every President since
the war until 1884, when he found out that
the old gun belonged to the Guards, and he
presented them with it. q. ID. X.
A DELIGHTFUL WEEK.
CHICKAMAUGA, GA, June 27.-This is a
delightful week.
1t is fun world without end. A photog-
rapher, who is doing al thriving business.
sdiu buoE6 ~ IuOTo ilIc III bueSo DOYs IN q Qdy
than there was in the others in a week.
The social favorites, the Columbus
Guards, gave germ An to-day at IL o'clock
at the Park hotel and IL was thoroughly en-
joyable. All the boys were there who got
invitations. They were the commissioned
officers Of each company.
The dances every night are literally
paJronized and the boys are really enjoying
Chickamauga. 1t is not a mistake. The
Parry RiHaa apfhs1eiaotin oIxa
manga as a permanent site. They say
Macon wouldn't do because it is too close
home. So are other companies in favor of
this site. Then there are those who object
to the place on reasonable ground. The dis
lance is the barrier.
But the camp is lively. and as long as this
is the case let the soldiery go.
The mayor of Eastman, who Is captain of
the Eastman Volunteers, is a dancer from
away back. He gave an exhibition, the
boys say, the other night, and it surpassed
anything they evsr saw.
Private George Thweat, of the Quitman
Guards, passed a miserable night last
night. He fell asleep amid the greatest
noise raised by his messmates, and
SO hard was he to wake that
the boys had time to tie him by the toes to
the beam at the top of the tent. TIE private
found himself in an awful predicament when
his slumbers we're broken. and he is hunting
the man that did it with blood in his eye.
A CADETS HUMoR.
Private N. Sharp OF the Eastman Volun-
teers was the victim of a Southern Cadets
humor the other night. The Cadet poured
a large pan of ice water on him. Sharp
swore heavily and hunted the camp, he said,
without finding the man who perpetrated
the mischief. So Sharp went of and had a
picture taken.
Capt. Cabaniss of the Quitman Guards is
senator from the Forsyth district. He is a
fne-lo looking officer, and he is supported
handsomely by Lieut.. Robert l.. Berner of
Forsyth.
The second lieutenant in the Eastman
Volunteers is a very fancy little man. He
is very careful about his dress. and the
least thing wrong with it mortifies him
pinned piece of red flannel to his dress
coat and he marched out on dress parade.
VERY FUNNY.
The very funniest thing taking place in
camp, is told on Commisary Sergt. Dafin
OF Company B. He went out with Privates
Mobley and Box to attend the military ball
at the Park hotel, and they were out until
2 o'clock in the morning. Passes given by
officers are good only until L! o'clock at
night. Tbs men came in very scared
because they thought they would be arrested
ana locked up. Ihey walked around the
line once or twice looking for an oppor-
tunity to cross the line like pigs hunting
crack, but failing to find it they sat down
near big tree on the opposite side of the
grounds. On this side were Billie
Morrison and Tom Morgan, who
were patroling as sentinels. In the
afternoon before leaving the camp
Commissary Sergt. Daffin, Company B, had
given Morrison and Morgan fifteen sand
witches and coffee to let him pass in with his
friends il he was out after hours. Tho
countersign was a cough. When Morrison
came up the boys stepped on the line aud
coughed. Before they had time to say any
thing more Morrison squalled, Corporal of
the guard post No. Is, and in another min
ute the corporal came to him. Box was ar
rested and taken to the barracks and
locked up. When Daffin was arrested
aid taken before the officer be was asked
If he had no pass as commissary sergeant
exempting him from all guard duty and
allowing him to pass the line when he
chose. Daifiu remembered then that he did
have such pass, and, after begging the men
to wipe the earth up with his bones, he
skunk away to his tent aud turned 10.
MoBLEY'e RETREAT.
Poor Mobley stepped back into the woods
where the others were arrested, and had a
chill He repaired to the shower bath and,
throwing himself, clad in his dress suit,
where the water spattered on him, he went