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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
After Nearly Thirty Years.

frank q. McNarry, Of New Athens.
Harrison county. o., was a member Of
captain Macready'5 company Of the
Sixteenth regiment o. V. I. He was
a brave soldier, but after the battle of
tho Wilderness, in Virginia, on May
6 1851, was missed, and was never
afterward seen by his comrades or
I lends. II was surmised that he had
teen killed and buried among the I'M
i own dead, but his parents lived and
o.ra without having. the satisfaction of
knowing what hefell him. T. L. Kyle,
frank McNarry.s cousin, who now re-
dos in Rix Mill, Musl1ingum county,
u. wrote Il letter TO Gen. Gordon,
OF Georgia, who was prominent
ii: the battle of the Wilderness
on the rebel side. describing Frank
McNarry, giving an account OF his
army life, aud asking whether he had
ever happened to know or hear any
thing concerning him. Governor
Gordon sent the letter to the Atlanta
Constitution. 1t thus happened tofall
under the notice Of Janes nj. Bald
win. OF Haynie. Floyd county, Ga.
who was q member Of Company d.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

Phillips Legion Of Georgia volunteers,
who had been wounded early in the
morning OF May s, 1864. IN the battle
I of the Wilderness, and who had in his
possession little book of psalms, in
which was written on the fyleaf: ITO
|. Frank MeNarry, One Hundred and
ETwenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, 1861"
After being wounded in the thigh
early in the morning of the battle
Baldwin was carried to the rear and
laid under some awnings which had
been put up for a field hospital. Here
many other wounded men were
brought as they advanced, both Union
and Confederate soldiers, and among
them was a young Union soldier, who
had himself received a terrible wound
in the right breast, who was brought
and laid beside him. Baldwin saw
that he was suffering terribly and be
did all he could to relieve him. lie
gave him water out of his canteen,
moistened his lips frequently, and did
sub other little favors as one wound
ed soldier could for another, but
which, Of course, was not much.
Finally after several hours of suf
fering, the unknown Union soldier boy
raised himself ON his hands and feet,
crawled along rapidly for a distance
of eight or ten feet. then lay down
suddenly, turned on his back, and in
q moment was dead. AS he had started
to crawl along little book of psalms
dropped from his breast. 1t was
stained with blood from the wound.
This little book Baldwin picked
up and kept as q memento
of the days sad experiences. It con-
tanned the evidence of the identity of
the dead Union soldier, Frank Nc
Marry. Baldwin saw he was buried,
and he thinks he could return to the
exact spot to-day. Mr.. Baldwin has
returned the book of psalms to Franks
relatives. After picking it up he had
written on the fly sheet the following
memorandum:
: The former owner Of this book was
killed in the battle of the Wilderness,
in Virginia, May 4, 1864. He is to me
unknown, but | hope he is in heaven. "
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

TITLES are properly the insignia OF
wise and honest men. The fool or
knave who wears one is falsifer.
They who dilate upon their glorious
ancestry are foolisly vain Of a debt
which probably they will never b:
able to pay. It has also been remarked
that o river generally becomes mar.
rover and insignificant as we ascend
to Its source. The stream of ancestry,
on the contrary, often vigorous, pure,
and powerful at Its fountain head, u.s.
sually becomes more feeble, shallow
and corrupt as it flows downward.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
Unearthed a Buried Treasure.

Great excitement, prevails among
the people of Kershaw. S. c., over
the finding of $163, 900 in gold and
other valuable treasure which were
buried in the neighborhood twenty
four years ago when Sherman's army
was passing through South Crrolina.
The officers of the Camden Bank col
lected the money and jewejry to bury
it. They were captured by Sherman's
men. The soldiers in turn appointed
one of their own number, named
Rhodes, to bury it. On his death
bed few days afterward Rhodes said
he had buried the money near an old
mill. For the past twenty years
various parties have been digging for
the buried treasure. but without sue
cess. Last Friday night. however. it
was secured by Mr.. Rhodes, brother
OF the man who buried it, and Mr..
Swaggart both northern men. They
have disappeared.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

Is Great Britain, as in most of the
old-world 'dynasties the throne is held
by the reigning monarch through the
sufferance of the people. Constitu-
tional government dispenses with Its
monarchial appendages slowly but
none the less surely. The beneficent
Victorian era has doubtless retarded
the disposition of the English royal
house, but there are scores of well-in-
formed political prophets who do not
look for the continuance OF the English
monarchy beyond one or possibly two
successors to Queen Victoria.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD.
SUBJECTS OF INTEREST TO RUR-
AL READERS.
The Philosophy of Green Manuring
--Ripening CheeSe--Don't fOT-
get the Compost Heap--HoW
to Get Natural Water
CYeSS.
The Philosophy of Green Manur:ng

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On this topic, not as generally I'M
derstood by farmers as it should be,
Prof. Storer, OF Harvard University,
makes some observations in his work
on agricultural chemistry worthy OF
thoughtful consideration.
In temperate climates, he says, 1t
is undoubtedly true that, If time
enough be allowed, almost. any land
not absolutely arid or poisonous can
be made fertile by persistently sowing
buckwheat, or clover, or rape-seed, or
lupines upon it, and blowing IN the
green crop before it comes to matur-
ity.
This method OF green manuring, as
it is called, he Justly characterizes as
singularly philosophical method. AS
a mere matter OF reasoning, or OF real
sonableness, it will well repay careful
examination.
In the first place, the seeds ofplants
are sown, which, like peas or clover,
have peculiar faculty for profting
by the food they find in the air and
deep in the subsoil; or plants are
chosen which like the lupn, or like
buckwheat or rye, have the power of
extracting nourishment from the
earth, even under very unfavorable
conditions:
These plants are allowed to grow
until they have gathered from the soil
all the matters they are capable OF
gathering; that is to say, the plants
are left until they are in flower and
then they are plowed under. BY this
process the land is manured with
every thing that the plants have &C
cumulated, either from the air, or
from the SOIL or from the waters in
the soil, and there is placed within the
land a mass of organic matter which
by it's decay will give off enormous
quantities OF carbonic acid to dlsinte-
CRATE and dissolve the comDonents OF
the crude soil.
AS q matter of fact, while the prac-
tlce tnuS described by 1fOl. Hlofef IS
not as widely practiced as it should
be, it is really followed to a consider
able extent upon the thin soils Of New
England, where hay is the staple crop,
and indeed wherever the sod of old
grass land is plowed under, form such
cases the land gets the benefit OF what
is really green manuring ofconsider-
able strength.
One of the most thorough believers
in this system OF green manuring We
have met was the late E. p. Roe who
at his place at Cornwall-on-the-Hud-
son constantly practiced it, and, as
he firmly believed, with most bencE-
cial results. The moment crop of
any kind was cleared off, in went Il
seeding of buckwheat, which was
plowed under when in flower, thus at
once enriching and aerating the soil.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
Coming Reunion.

The fifth annual reunion of Battery
F, Seventh Artillery, Pennsylvania
Reserve Volunteer Corps association,
will be held at Danville ON July and
A. Extensive preparations are being
made for the event. This battery has
an admirable record-one interviewer
in the history of the great rebellion.
and the patriotic citizens of the "'iron
town will see to it that their visit
shall be one long to be remembered.
John A. Hart. of Reading, the ener-
getic association secretary, last week
visited Danville and completed ar
rangements for the reunion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

EVERY man IL fitted to fill some
position Of Importance. Every mans
mind is more or less expansive, more
or less reaching. more or less compre-
hensive. The man who loves his pro-
fession always possesses an inquiring
mind; he il iudiciously inquisitive; he
guides his inquisitiveness in the line
4 OF his profession; he is a learner and a
teacher. IL he becomes mark among
men, the mark is always in proportion
20 his success. II he confines his in
vastigations-to a scientific line, he dis
covers and APPLIES the truths which
\ Covers his operations. This makes
him assnccessful man; if farmer. he
lie ready for all emergencies he sue
ceSds because he understands natures
laws and her demands. His crops are
always fair almost always good. gen
6ralla Superior. and he aourishes like
green bay tree
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
4 III herman Coincidence.

A striking coincidence in connec-
ZION with the hour and date of Gen
eral Sherman's death was suggested
BY Il speech recently delivered by
General Horace Porter at the Union
league club. The speaker said that
she late general had sometimes indi-
Gated that he regretted that his fame
should so largely rest on his march
10 the sea, as he thought some pre-
ccoding campaigns reelected much
more to his credit rs u commander
notably his expedition which led to
the capture Of Meridian, Miss, which
city was entered Feb. IA, 1868, %
years to Il day in advance OF the gen
erals death.
William Forse Scott. lawyer, was
with Sherman in that expedition. He
says that the Meridian expedition con-
sisted Of 1000 mounted soldiers and
20, 600 infantry. 1t was exceedingly
successful and completed the ruin of
the rebel forces in Mississippi and
Western Alabama and opened the way
to the capture of Mobile 1t also led
to the capture OF the enemy's supplies
and the destruction of great stretches
Of railroads in that section of the
country. Our cavalry entered Merid-
ian at IL o'clock in the forenoon,
and shortly after, it must have been
toward /, the hour at which Sherman
died, he entered at the head of his in
fantry. 1t was his first great cam
paign as sole commander, and no
doubt was in his mind when he made
the remark to which Gen. Porter has
referred Mr.. Scott said:
The soldiers had u great deal of
personal affection for Sherman, part
ly because Of his soldier-like quail
ties and success, but largely because
he made himself one Of the boys 1t
was very common, indeed, for the
soldiers to speak of him as Old Man
Sherman or Uncle Billy The eve
ming before the capture of Meridian,
when he was ute uncertain as to
what the result of the campaign
would be, Sherman's cavalry in front
found the enemy too strong in pos
session Of a long wooded ridge, where
they We're held until the infantry
could be brought up to dislodge them
The general commanding the advance
division came forward with all his
staff and a large cavalry escort about
him. making great show with all
their fine clothes end horses.
''He compelled tho c:lyalrymen to
move out of position TO let him
through. which somewhat vexed the
men and made them use often
sire remarks about military swells'
and 'stuck-up' officers. When the di-
vision general ind escort got by | saw
a man coming up on foot with ii SLOUGH
hat and an old cloak, on whom you
could not see any mark of rank. There
was !: single soldier following up,
leading his OWE and the other mans
horse. AS this man got near ! saw he
made no attempt to keep the road nor
did he require soldiers to move aside,
but merely treaded his way along.
When he was quite near he was recog-
nized as Sherman. tho general Of the
whole army, aad there was much
cheering. The difference between the
two generals was great. Next Day We
we're in possession OF Meridian
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

INCREASE in insanity has been
marked of late years. The state
should not contribute to it's further
spread. sImmurement in an insane
asylum is generally sufficient to make
the sane insane. Every safeguard
should be thrown about those sus-
pected of dementia. The law now re-
quires open examination in court. The
law cannot safely be relaxed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
Too large 4 part Of the great ad.

Too large q part of the great adj
vance in popular intelligence has been
devoted TO studying the wickedness
and evil rather than the good in the
world. Most newspapers devote too
large q part Of: their space to crimina,
records. giving to the superficial OBJ
server the idea that wrong doing is
enormously increasing, when the fact
Is that 1t ID only more fully reported
than formerly. A pleasant change
would be TO have the better class OF
nessspap erssdevote more space to the
record of what is being done to help
human kind This is no less news
than the record of evil and is vastly
more ediE wing.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

AsTRoNG will, patient temper, and
sound common sense, when united in
the same individual, are as good as
fortune to their possessor. Barring
untoward accidents, the man endowed
with these qualities who starts on his
career with a determination to reach a
desirable position does reach it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

THE Great American desert still
covers not less than 10000 square
miles. One hundred million acres are
believed to be reclaimable. The re,
claimable area in San Bernardino
county, in California. alone is larger
than the states of Delaware and Mary,
land. The Importance of the question
OF ,irrigation to the whole country can,
then. hardly be exaggerated.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
A Confederate Trumpet.

IA feature of the decorating of the graves
of the confederate dead at Memphis was the
reading of poem by Mrs. Virginia Frazier
Boyle, on confederate trumpet plowed
up, prey to rust, from the battlefield OF
Chickamauga, twenty-four years after the
bitter contest. 1t is from the Memphis
Times
Thy throat it was hoarse with the calling,
And the sweat it froZe on thy side,
CONCEALED from the lips of the bugler,
Still soft with the kiss of his bride.
Aye! They charged. through the white
mist uprising,
Out the smoke of the battle array,
And the trumpet was dropped on his DO som
And the bugler plunged into the fray.
Like the seething of waters tormented,
Broke the surge of the gray OH the blue,
And the challce of life poured its crimson
On the fields where wild flowers grew;'
Mingllng cavalier, Puritan, horsemaD,
And ranks in the fearful onslaught
And the victory fell to the southland,
Though dearly the battle was bought.
And they lay in the lines where the reaper
Had moved down the grain, some ere
bloom
Had smiled on the crest-still unbearded,
But victory had knelt in the gloom.
Blow bugle! sound trumpet! awaken
The shut car of deatll-sound ye! speak
But the bugler looked up in the starlight,
With one frozen tear OH his check.
And thou? Tho swift years crowd about
us
These are mem'ries, traditions, maybe;
From the field blessed with peace and full
harvest
The plowsharc has brought thee to me.
Poor throat full of rust and of silence
Poor heart where the shrill voice was
crushed,
IL the din and confusion of battle,
Where the wheels OF the cannon had
rushed;
Sleep well for thy dust is made holy,
Ay, rest! us the cycles drift by
For thy voice was clear, and God given,
And memory never will die.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

1T is evident that the steamship
companies, in their efforts to- get as
much business as possible, are respon-
sible for great deal of the low grade
immigration about which there has
been SO much discussion since the un-
pleasant affair at New Orleans.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

IT is not always the man who does
the largest business and makes the
most show in the world that makes
the greatest success in life. About the
surest way to succeed in any business
is TO 60 slow and careful and keep
everlastingly at it. There are q
great many examples of success gained
in this way, although they may not be
held up to the eyes of the world.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

Or course, two much curiosity in q
man is to be deprecated, but If Colum-
bus, Stanley and all the other great
explorers had not had a great deal Of
aScertairi sort of curiosity, the world
would not be as far advanced as it is
to-day. The same may be said of in
ventors. Curiosity is the principal
cause OF all the great inventions that
have done SO much to save labor and
make life easy.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
81. g1liOru get,totrat.
L. A. sANDoz, Publisher.

BE hospitable to the man who
differs from your view. Possibly
hes may be right and you wrong.
..Study to please" but never give
yourself away cheaply.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

The idea is that chances in gam
bling and ordinary business risks &C.
cupy substantially the same relation,
and that the one is really, either in
point of morals, or responsibility, no
more reprehensible than the other.
Such is the confusion of ideas on this
subject which prevails in certain
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
A Word from Cotton.

He that will often put eternity and
time before him, and who will dare
to look steadfastly at both of them,
will find that the more often he con-
templates them. the former will grow
greater and the latter less.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

The Easiest Way With the CutWorr.
The eggs OF the cutworms that infest
the gardens generally laid neart the
roots OF perennial plants, such as
rhubarb, hollyhock, etc, and these
are the spots TO look for the young
pests in the spring.
One OF the easiest ways to get rid OF
them, according to a correspondent OF
Popular Gardening, is to scatter
pieces OF green stuff, cabbage leaves or
sods with fresh grass, etc, that have
been sprinkled with Paris green water
here and there over the area that we
wish to clear of cutworms. Hand
picking is more laborious remedy, but
it can be made affective. Plow the
field, a few weeks before the intended
crop is to be planted and SOW some
beans over the piece. After the beans
are up, the patch should be gone over
early every morning, and the cut
worms hunted up near the freshly cut
plants and destroyed. Ii this is done
for q week or SO, there will be few
worms left to trouble the crop to be
planted as.erward. The worms can
also be starved out of 8 piece OF land
Or orchard by growing several sue
cessive crops of buckwheat on it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18

Flossie-"How is it that Grace is so
popular with the young men? Why,
Dorothy, she's as homely as SIM
Dorothv-"Ycs, Grace is home'y; but
YOU see, FIossie, she has no little
brother. '-Scribner' Magazine.
The first time little Nellie every at
tended an Episcopal Church, she ac-
companiedher young aunt. Onthe way
home they were Joined by an admifer
OF the aunt s, who, wishing to be TREND
w to the little niece, asked her how
she enjoyed the service. 'WeII,' SAID
Nellie with some hesitation, 81 dIdnt
like that minister: he's so for!ettlll.
sForgetful?" asked her aunt; what
do YOU mean, Nellie?" why he tor
got to dress himself to come to chufcn'
he had on his nightgown.'
"What do you want, boy?' "Ma
sent me after tourist S guide. . "sure
vo,,r mother sent you?" 90 yes, and
she wants to know the name OF the
best hotel at Long Branch. and
the price per day" Going to the sea-
shore9o "No, si:.. We're going out
TO spend two weeks in the country at
NV Uncle Williams but ma wants TO
nost nm on Long Branch and be able
TO tell everybody what hotel we stop
ped at and how expansive 1t "ts'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
A Plea for City Fairgrounds.

These children are undoubtedly hap
by in their play, but | cannot watch
them without sadness and regret
that the fuller pleasures OF country
life will never be theirs at the time
thew are best fitted to enjoy them.
The earnest pleading for a leaf or bios
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
Diphtheria and Roup.

1t has been suggested, says Farm
and Fireside, that if diphtheria and
roup are the same, and ifroup can be
communicated to the human family as
diphtheria, some one should have au-
thority to "stamp it out" Some
French scientists, from experiments,
claim that the diseases are com
municated from fowls to humans, and
vice versa, but the probability is that
some other form of throat disease
results. Roup in fowls often remains
for months, while diphtheria i'll child
rem is Immediately fatal. Whether
the roup changes to diphtheria when
a diseased bird comes in contact with
a human Or not we cannot state, but
the suggestion to "stamp it OUT is a
good one, and should be followed.
Hence, use the axe and chopping-
block for roup. 1t IS advisable to be
at least very careful.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-07-18
Farm Hints.

In pruning all large wounds should
be covered with white lead and oil.
Buckwheat is q good crop to grow in
the orchard to help build up fertility.
Corn meal is now the dearest food.
It does nos contain but one-thlrd as
much fertility as linseed meal, ano
one-half as much as wheat bran.
Professor Farlow, of Harvard uni.
versity, has discovered that simply
painting black-knot in plums, with
mixture of red oxide of iron IN linseed
OIL has not only prevented the spread
of the contagion, but has stopped the
growth of the diseased parts, so that
the knots have crumbled and fallen
away with the least possible injury tG
the tree.