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The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

down upon us five lines deep. The
26th New Jersey, of which / was SER
peant-maior, lay in little depression
along ditch which had been dug by
some farmer to drain his land. A YER
mont regiment was in the woods at our
left. A New York regiment, think,
was posted on our right. A regular
battery occupied slight elevation in
our rear. As the Confederates adj
vanced could hear the officer in charge
of the battery giving his commands.
"A second and a half, he shouted.
"Blim bliml" roared the guns.
"A second and a quarter" he cried.
%BlimI bliml !" was the response.
"a full second, he reared.
"Bliml bliml blimP answered the
guns.
Three. quarters of a second, came
next.
~Blim blim blim"
The officer was gauging his fuses by
the advance of the enemy, so that the
shells might do the greatest execution.
Suddenly in the roar of artillery and
the screaming of the shells there was a
fash all along the lines. The Coined
crates had reached our front; they we're
within forty yards of us. Half our men
were on their feet aud the other half on
their knees. Without order they kept
up an incessant fire. The Johnnies
were yelling at the top of their voices,
and at least half of them we're swelling
the refrain with their muskets.
At this instant our Lieutenant Colonel,
a brother of Gen. Martindale, who sat
on his horse in the rear of the regi-
ment shouted: 'Ten-t-i-o-nl'
In an instant the regiment was upon
its feet, in line under fire. The Colonel
again screamed: fright about facet
The regiment obey the order like vet
Grams. Then came the most singular
command ever heard on . battlefield
The Lieutenant Colonel roared: Regi-
ment, left half wheell'
The left wing Of the New York regi-
ment on the right had swung back,
leaving a gap of about one hundred
feet between its left and our right. 1t
had done this to take advantage OF the
natural depression of the held Our
Lieutenant Colonel with queer military
precedence saw that by left half-Wheel-
ing we could again cement the line.
But when the regiment made the at
tempt the result was ludicrous Each
man looked at his neighbor in the smoke
Of the battle. and then all made break
from the line. Helter-skelter they
went. The brave men among them
stood firm for a minute. and then began
to swear and coolly walk after the fugl-
tives. 1 can see the Lieutenant of the
United States battery yet. standing IS
straight as an arrow, with drawn sword
His horses dashed away with several Of
his guns. They went at full gallop. !
never saw such an expression Of aston
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11
The Cat at the Grave.

A strange story, in which a cat 10
a pathetic character. has como to light at
Paoli, Ga. A little boy Of that villages
owned a cat that was a great pet in the
family. But the cat would have nothing
to do With any ono except the boy. The
latter died and for two weeks the cat
would come a. usual every morning to
the door, and, going in the room, would
CRY very mournfully, and walk over the
child's bed hunting for its lost friend.
Finally &c cat disappeared, only return
ing occasionally. At last one Of the
chiid's sisters saw the cat in the grave
yard, where il remains, only returning
occasionally for food. st keepc guard
., the boys grave, and can be heard at
uight crying pitifully. "-Sasaaaah 6ssA
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

Six or eight Of us sat on the veranda
OF a South Carolina hotel one Sunday
forenoon, when the porter, who had
come out for something, shaded his eyes
with his hand and took long look down
the road. Very naturally we ell turned
our faces in the same direction. The
only thing moving was a man on horse
back coming toward us at slow can
ter.
"Gem1en," said the porter, as he
turned 10 us, "dats Kurnel Wharton,
fur suah."
"Well, what Of it," asked one.
@I'm a-tellin' you, gem'len, dat Kur-
mel Wharton's a-comin'" continued the
porter, growing excited.
And asked you what Of il
@Ebery one Of you all which doan'
want TO happen to git shot skip fur de
back yard OATS what Of ii
whats the matter with HING
@Doan' know what's crossed him di1
time. but know by de way he sots dat
hoss he's goin' 10 make de chips hyl j
lived wild him fur fo'teen vars an
know list how 10 read him.
We vacated the veranda and two
minutes later the cononel rode up,
glared around TO get sight Of someone,
and then pulled q big revolver and
banged six bullets into the front Of the
house, accompanying each shot with 8
whoop TO be heard half q mile away.
Then be put up his gun. dug his heels
into his horse and rode "a shouting:
@Shuck my hide but that ere Niger
Bill must have gone aud rung the FIRE
bell on me again f"-DeirOif Free Press.
A Texas woman il now living with
her fourteenth husband, and abe has
fuiv worked one county.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

ness. 1t moved back a mile or more,
till il reached tho earthworks near
Banks ford. They had been thrown
up by Wilcox's and jenkins Confederate
brigades some days before this Below
them q ponsoon bridge was being land,
upon which we were to recross The Rap
pahannock. Before we reached the
earthworks the Confederate prisoner
had enlisted my sympathies. His heart
was nearly broken. He had fought with
the Army Of Virginia IN every battle
since its formation, he was anxiously
seeking promotion
Il am the unluclriest varmint in the
world" he said to me. Il never could
get shut Of my bad luck. Now, II 4
hadn't been catched here tonight
would have been made q corporal to-
morrow. The captain told me that the
colonel was a-goin' TO make me corp
oral, but my bad luck's turned up again.
I've been toting it all my life aud
don't see nary chance Of promoton
now"
His feelings were so deep and his
voice so broken that / fancied there
we're tears in his eyes. MY sympathies
overcame my sense Of duty. had had
considerable bad luck myself. Finally
turned to him as we were passing dead
horse, and said See here, partner,
you just slip out and lay down on the
other side Of that horse. Your COM
rades will be along here inside OF half
an hour. Shake off your bad luck.
won't stand in the way"
As he was about to take cover he dis
covered that somebody had cut the
shoes from his cowslin haversack. He
felt their loss deeply. But be ran to
cover and we passed on. Next day
Charlie Mulligan of Belleville wore the
shoes.
That night we lay in trenches for
three hours. The Johnnies had ascer-
tanned what was going on and were
Smelling the pontoons and the earth
works. They were using mortars, for
we could see the fuses making parabolas
in the air and dropping near us. II was
8 o'clock in the morning when we de-
scended the hill and crossed on the
pontoons.
A. week afterward the Colonel sent In
the names for promotion. Among them
was the name of an orderly sergeant be-
longing to one of the companies at
tached to the regimental division over
which he had placed me in command.
It was politics. There were plenty OF
politics in the army. The Governor
sent on the appointment on the Lieu
tenant-colonel's recommendation. -NeW
York Sun.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11
n WE COULD MOVE.


whittier do our footsteps tendf
More and more We yeafn 20 know
AZ lifo's shndous longer grow.
And the evening hours descend,
Aud before US lies the end
when the door shall open wide.
And behind US softly close,
What 20 our expsctant eyes
VIII the future life disclosef
Shall we SEQ a morning bread.
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed Eden
OF come unforgotten dream.
Shall we walk in gladness on.
Under smiling skies Of blue;
Through an ever-deepening dawn
Into wide fields. frssh and new,
Meeting those who came before,
knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone.
Though 90 many years had flown.
Since each others hands we took,
Saying farpwells DER and DER.
Shall We talk Of earthly days,
Speaking low. with bated breath,
or the awful mystery
OF our human life--and death;
Shall we wonder 70 recall.
How our hearts were prone TO fear,
How we scarcely dared to hope.
In any heaven, 80 fair, SO near2
Ahiff we could only know,
AZ the shadows deeper grow.
WHITTIER our swift footsteps tend,
AS they surely near the end
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

bONluE
When ! was in Paris / saw little
oil painting only about foot square; II
was at the Paris Exposition in 1867.
was going through the Art Gallery, and
on that painting there was o little piece
OF white paper that attracted my atten-
ton.
went and looked at that white pa
per, and it said, Sowing Tares," and
there was the most hideous connten-
ance think / ever saw. A man was
out with O handful of seed, sowing
tares all around him. of in the dis
lance was dark thicket, and prowling
around the borders OF that forest were
wild beasts, and that hellish and flend-
ish look What fearful thing 1t is for
a man to SOW tares when he is going to
reap them. And yet man goes on Bow
ing with liberal hand, and laughs and
SCOTS when we warn him and tell him
what he is coming to by and by. The
papers are full Of II. / sometimes think
these papers ought to preach the Cos
pei to the people to warn them
10 flee from the wrath to come.
Look at that case we have just had in
a court 10 New Jersey. Look at that
poor maa. For four long DAYS the jury
had been out. / don't know when my
heart has been more touched than when
/ read that scene in court, when those
little children climbed up on their IA
theirs knee aud said, Papa, papa, come
home. Mamma cries so much now you
are away" The law had him. Poor
mani He reaped what he sowed. He
had an uncomfortable temper. He took
his weapon and shot down a coachman
because he got mad with him. Poor
man; he has got TO reap bitter, bitter
reaping; what an awful thing sin is f; and
yet men will stand up with all these
facts around them and tell you God is
hard master and the devil an easy
ona - MOO1gJ
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11
aThe BE Alississippi. !"
well, of with your traps I 81


well, of with your traps, I said.
Were Jerseymen."
Good Godi" he exclaimed; not IN
terror, but in astOnishment.
Away went his covskin knapsack.
He threw down his gun and shook of
his accoutrements.
You'd better keep your haversack,
I said; you'll want that.
1t was made Of undressed cowskin. A
pair Of new shoes we're tied to il. he
expressed great anxiety concerning the
shoes; he was afraid that some Yank
would confscate them
At this moment We we're called in.
He was ny prisoner. / told him to
stick close TO ne and would protect
him. He said that be lived in Pontiac,
Miss, and that he was a printer. Being
a printer myself, this warned me to-
ward him. When 1 reached the line
the regiment was moving Of IN the dark
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

Western Boy-The weatherprediction
was right to-day.
Father-Was ii
Boy-Yes. sir. Il sAid slight changes
IN temperature.
Father-Humphi The thermometer
has fallen . good deal hasn't it,
Bov-No. only about SIX inches
Street and Smiths Good feiCs.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

Brooklyn has a Methodist minister
who would carry off the prize in con-
test to decide who had married the most
people. Rev. Joseph ]. White, of the
Bedford Avenue Methodist Protestant
Tabernacle. has married so many, over
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

this sacrament of evil is over. then fol-
lows the common history. The sin
which was at first coNardly, becomes
next shameless, aud lastly secure.
Then "only this once" ends in there is
no harm in it." the scarlet blossom
ripens into the poisonous aud ashy fruit
-Nelg York Observer.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11
DEATH ON EVERY SIDE.

SHALL never
forget the fight
on Monday, May
4, 1868, n e a r
fredericks b u rg.
1t was on the day
following the cap
ture of t h e
heights. S e d g.
wick's corps, on
Sunday aft e r
noon, had left
marched toward
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

about eight years old then. aud was
dreadful proud Of her, for she was a
smart little thing. One Sunday night
we we're sitting by the fire, aud Nan.
MED been saying her catechism, and by
and by she 60, kind Of quiet aud sober,
aud all Of a sudden she turned 10 me,
and SAYS she, Pa, will You have to pay
any rent in HeayenT
'Whatg SAYS /. looking down at her,
kind Of astonished like.
xviii we have 10 pay rent in Heaven,
saws she again.
-'why no. says L What made you
think thatg
"Well, couldn't get out Of her for q
time what she did mean. Mamie didn't
known much shout rent, anyhow, for
we'd never had TO pay any rent, Twin in
our own house. But at last found out
that she'd heard some men talking
about me, and one OF them said. Well,
hes bound to be awful poor in the next
world, l reckon. There amt much Of
his riches laid up in Heaven And AZ
the only real poor folks that Manned
ever known we're some folks down at
the village that had been turned out Of
doors because they couldn't pay their
rent, that's what put it into Nannies
head that maybe I'd have to pay rent
in Heaven.
well, wife went on and talked to
Mamie, and explained TO her about the
many mansions in our Fathers house,
you know, but | didn't listen much. /
was mad to think Seth Brown dared TO
talk about me in that way--right before
Mamie, too.
Il fixed up some pretty sharp things
10 say to Seth the next time met him,
and wasn't very sorry TO meet him the
next day in his cart. / began at him
right OF. He listened TO everything
that / sputtered out, and then he said,
Well deacon, il you think the bank
OF Heavens got anything in il for you,
I'm glad of it; but I've never seen you
making deposits, and then he drove
oil.
well. ! walked over to my black.
berry.patch aud sat down and thought,
aud the more | thought the worse l felt
/ was angry at first, but got cooler,
and thought of Foreign Mission Sun
day and the rheumatic, and Home
Mission Sunday and the headache, and
Bible Society day and the neuralgy!
and Tract day aud the corns, till it just
seemed to me couldn't stand 1t any
longer, and / knelt down there in the
blackberry-patch and said, oh, Lord,
I've been stingy man. il ever | do get
to Heaven, deserve 10 have 70 pay rent,
sure enough. Help me to give myself,
and whatever I've got, back to Thee.
"And ] believe He's helped me ever
since. Twas pretty hard work at first
getting to giving. ! did feel pretty sore
over the first dollar / slipped into the
collection plate, but I've learned better
now; and i mean to keep on giving as
unto the Lord till go to that Heaven
where Nannie's been these twenty
years. From al leGtiet Published w
me american Home Mission Society.
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pity ourselves be-
cause we fall in a
moment, but that
fall is the fall, not
OF the moment, but
OF ali the previous
life; il was but
"the sign-manual
OF deed which
sooner or later the
powers Of evil de-
mand from HIM
who in heart has
b en- long their
own. And. when
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

O thousand couples, that he has ceased
to keep count, and his modest little
house in South Third street, whiehlis in
the williamsburg district, has come to
be called Gretna Green. They come
to him from all over Long Island and
New Jersey, from New York City and
the towns along the Hudson, but he is
entirely at q loss TO account for their se'
lection Of him. They are mostly very
young people, aud it is natural infer
ence that they are marrying against the
wishes Of their friends, or have some
other reason for concealment. He is n
tall, gray haired man of sixty, with q
benevolent face, and the idea has got
abroad that his marriages turn out
lucky. Whatever the reason may be, he
is a prime favorite with the boys and
girls and they come to him at all hours
Of the day and often late ct night TO ask
him to tie the nuptial knot. Sometimes
on account of their extreme youth be is
obliged to send them away, but, as q
rule, he believes it is better to marry
them aud send them on their way re-
ioicIng.
How tho Deacon Learned TO Give.
"Yes, said the deacon, there's many
man that calls him honest, that's never
so much as inquired what amount Of
debt Heavens books are going to show
against him. I've learned that. There
we're yearsi in my life when hardly gave
a cent TO the Lord without begrudgiug
it. aud I've wondered since what I'd
ever have talked about il I'd gone TO
Heaven in those days, for l couldn't
talk about ANYTHING but bargains and
money-getting here, and these wouldn't
have been suitable subjects up yonder.
well, in those years / was telling
you about, it was dreadful how ] cheated
the Lord out of his due. Once in q
long time / paid little to our church,
but didn't give cent to anything else.
Foreign Mission Sunday was my rheu-
matiz day, regular, and l didn't get to
church. Home Mission day was head
ache day with inc alters, and / staid
away from mcetin', Bible Society day
I'd centrally a tech Of beuralgy cot 1
didn't feel like going out. and | staid at
home. Tract Society day I'd begin to
be afraid l was going to be deaf, and
oughtn't to be out in the wind, 30 I
stayed indoors; and on the Sunday for
helping the Publication Society, like IS
not my eorns we're unusually trouble
some, and / didn't feel able to get Gus.
wife wanted me to take religious
paper once. but 3 wouldn't hear tot.
Told her it was nonsense. / didn't be-
heve any ofthe apostles overlook relig-
Gus papers The Bible was enough for
them, and It ought to be for other
foIka
And yetFI never even thought I
wasn't right I'd come into il SORT Of
gradual. and didu't thirk much about
giving, anyhow. except as sort Of los
me business.
well. NJ Little girl Mamie was
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11

A Texas woman il now living with
her fourteenth husband. and abe has
only worked one county.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-06-11
SERMONS FOR SUNDAY.
a FEW SUBJECTS FOR ALL TO
PONDER OVER.
How SIN Conqusr-- ne wou,d surely Take
tine Prlss-Grumblers-s Tarcs-
How the Deacon Learnc, 20 give.


? TfE FALL. and We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-24
DEATH OF THE BELGIAN CROWN PRIN CE

King Leopold of Belgium has done so much
TO win the regard Of the world by his noble
| and enlightened efforts in the cause OF African
civilization that universal sympathy will be
felt for the loss which he has sustained by the
sudden death Of his favOrite nephew and heir,
Prince Baudouin. Il constitutes one more OF
the numerous domestic SORROWS with which his
otherwise singularly fortunate and successful
reign has been darTcned Within short time
after his accession to the throne his only sis
ter the ex-Emprcss Charlotte of Mexico, was
attacked BY incurablc insanity, while Il few
months later he lost his only son. bright and
promising boy on whose head his hopes, as
well as those of the nation, were centred.
Two wears ago he sustained blow that had
the effect of premat1rey aging him by the
Stacking death OF his SOn-in-aw. Crown Prince
Rudolph of Austria. Twelve months later he
almost lost his daughter in the great fire which
| DESTROYED his favorte palace at Laekcn with
all his art and historical treasures. And now
| his nephew, whom he had adopted. not only
as his son, but also as the successor 70 his
throne. has terminated his existence under cir
cumstances which. if popular report is to be
credited. bear a striking analogy 70 those Of
the tragedy Of Meyerling.
Leopold's only brother the Count of Elan
ders. who is afflicted with a deafness of such
intensity that it would he impossible for any
statesman ever to obtain I" the ear of the king"
in the event of his succession, has already re-
nounced his claims to the throne III favor OF
his children, and it is therefore his only sur
viving son. Albert. the younger brother Of
Prince Baudouin who now becomes heir-appar-
ent to the Crown OF Belgium. Should he too
die before his uncle, King Leopold, the latter
would be forced, in accordance with the terms OF
the Constitution to obtain the consent of the
National Parliament 70 his nomination of some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-24

hundred and fifty millions of gold and goa
notes would be paid out only when holders
could not avoid it, or for premium. Thus the
bulk of the work 10 be done would be left to
less than a third of the present circulation.
\ premium oh gold could not long be avoid
ed. No conspiracy of money kings or bankers
need be apprehcnded Without any conSprlng
or concert of action whatever. but only because
all who could get gold would then prefer to
do So the demand for il would quickly far eX-
coed the supply in free circulation. Then would
come the question whether holders of silver
bullion would any longer desire to take silver
notes for it from the Treasury those notes
being worth less than par in gold, or to sell
their bullion in open market for gold or ITS
equivalent. Meanwhile. in all this scramble
for safety and this unavoidable contraction OF
currency and OF loans. who would help the
needy debtor? He would only require more
security. and not less, in order to raise dollar
in any kind of money. The men who have
silver to sell or to deliver to the Treasury arc
not the needy debtoIS, and they are not gong
up and down in the land to hunt out the needy
debtors and relieve their wa,ts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-24
SATURDAY, JANUARY "a, 1891.
TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Forcicn.-Prince BaudOuin. the heir apparent
20 the Belgian throne. died Unexpectedly in
BRUSSELS - The insurgents are masters of the
situation in Chilli - The motion TO repeal the
prohibition of the importation Of American pork
INTO Germany lost in the Reichstag by vote
NJ 1873 to 1903 - A new Brazilian Ministry has
been formed - Cardinal Simon, prmate Of
Hungary, is dead
Congrcss-Both branches in session. - The
Senate Another recess taken until to-day
no vote having been reached upon the closure
resolution a Republican quorum has been secured
- The House The Naval Appropriation bill
was considered -- David T. Lttlcr testified
before the Silver Pool Investigating Committee
Domestic.-The Constitutional Revision Com
mission at Albany adopted the report OF the special
committee in regard to amendments TO the Ju-
dietary article Of the Constitution. - The
Legislatures of several Southern States passed
resolutions against making appropriations for
Worlds Fair exhibits should Congress pass the
Election bill - Congressman IIansbrough was
elected United States Senator from North Dakota
70 succeed Mr.. Pierce - There is prospect
Of a settlement Of the strike on the Chicago and
Lake Erie Road. - A memorial from old sol
diers in favor of the reelection Of Senator In
gals brought out an interesting vote in the Kan
sas House of Representatives.
City and Suburban-The Yale alumni dinner
took place: speeches by Chauncey VI. Depcw
James w. Alexander, General Sherman. Presiden,
Dwight and Others - George Kendall died
from hydrophobia at the Chambers Street Hos
ptal after suffering terrible agony. - The
Fassett Committee heard testimony about the
Dock Department. - Stocks firm until neal
the end when they declined readily in response To
attacks by the bear interests.
The Weather.-Forecast for to-day: Fair. with
slight thermal changes Temperature yesterday
Highest. 46 degrees; lowest, Sc average, 40 l-2