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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14

down utterly exhausted by their work
and terror, having only strength
enough left to watch the fire as it rolled
away.
1t was sorry-looking little group
that met the eyes of Farmer Somers,
who came hurrying up in his wagon
soon after. Their faces, hands and feet
We're scorched and blistered. Theil
clothes were burnt by sparks and black
with cinders. Their eyes were red and
swollen with smoke. The teacher,
Aleck and Jimmie, who had been in the
hottest of the fight, had their eye
brows and lashes scorched. The bon.
nets and jackets that had done such
good service were now an unrecogniz-
able heap of charred rags.
"All here, safe and sound, thank
God!' exclaimed the farmer, springing
from his wagon and catching up his lit.
tie girl who ran to him crying with joy,
while Alecll limped after her as fast as
his blistered feet would allow. "Why,
Miss Benson, you're clear played outn'
for the relief of the farmers presence
was too much for Nell's overtaXed
nerves, and the tears were rolling down
her cheeks. Here" he continued,
children, gather up your books and
dinner buckets and I'll take you all
home. No more school now till these
burned faces and hands and feet get
well. And you set back-fire! Well
now, that was cleverly done, but you
must have worked fast, for the fir
came like lightning. We didn't even
see it coming till too late to get to you
and we just made sure the school-house
would go, and like as not lot of you
would be badly burned. / tell you,
mother and me done some praying
yes, and some crying, too. l amt
been good to us all, spared every one
of you. Jump in-jump in! Your
mothers no doubt are pretty nigh
frightened to death, and must get you
home as soon as possible"
| How thankful the mothers of that
community We're to receive their dar.
lings safe again, only mothers can tell
AS they bathed and bandaged the
burned faces and hands and feet, they
thanked God that the little teacher had
stood so true to her trust, had poss essed
so cool head and had been SO prompt
in action.
In writing of it to her favorite friend
Lill, Nell said: SIT was an awful ex.
perience, such as I hope never to have
again. Even while fighting the fire the
thought came to me that this was a
lesson not laid down in the Oxford cur
riculum, but it belonged to the course
marked out by the Heavenly School
master, and as such must be faithfully
learned. What His object in sending il
was, can not tell. This much dc
know: That little while of work, OF
peril, of fear has bound my heart to my
scholars and their hearts to me, so that
our school days now are filed with de
light. There are no more troublous
days, there are no more unruly scholars
there is no longer an easily-vexeG
teacher. We have been cleansed so al
by fire. '"-Marie Nantz, in Farm ant
Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
GEN. HooKER's CHARGER.
The Queer Story of n Mills-whito Arabian
Stallion.

Gen. Banks story about his war
charger recalls to mind one Hooker rode
in 1868, and especially at the battle of
Chancellorsvilie. Few people know
how Hooker came by that horse.
will tell you. When Sickles' corps was
camped on Good Hope hill, just across
the eastern branch and about a quarter
of n mile above the residence of Fred
Douglass, l happened one day, while
out foraging for something 10 eat, to
run across n milk-white Arabian stall
lion that had been hidden in the pines
by his master. l took the ] Jrse into
camp, and Gen. Sicllles, who was a
connoisseur of horseflesh, no sooner put
his eyes on him than lie recaptured him
from me. / made no remonstrance,
however, as the horse was of no use to
me.
A few days later the owner of the
Arabian came into camp, identified his
horse and claimed him. Sickles held
that he was a confiscated hop<e and re-
fused to give him up. Then the owner
went to Secretary Stanton for relief
and made affidavit that he was loyal
man and came back to camp with the
order from Stanton to Sickles to de-
liver the horse. In the mean time the
horse had disappeared. He turned up,
however, in New York city few days
later as the property of George Wilkes,
but neither Stanton nor the horses
owner was aware of these facts. When
the matter was quieted down, one day
an item appeared in the papers that
George Wilkes had presented a thor
oughbred Arabian war charger to Gen.
Hooker That was how the horse came
into HoolSer's possession and how he
came to ride him at the battle of Chan
cellorsville. He was one of the finest
specimens of his race, and when seated
on him Gen. Hooker was not only the
best mounted officer in the Union army,
but he was far and away the handsom-
est and the most imposing, George j.
Bond, in st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
A cANrEEN OF COFFEE.
Tho Late Maj. Innes Randolph and the
Yankee.

Tho Late Maj. Innes Randolph and the
l.. Yankee.
The name of the late Mai Innis
Randolph is well known in Richmond
His "I'm n Good Old Rebel" "John
Marshall, My Boy" and the "Grass-
hopper" which latter is sung with such
vim by Mr.. Sale Watkins, are all popu-
lar. Maj Randolph was chief edito-
rial writer on the Baltimore American
at the time of his death. The chief
owner of the American is Gen. Felix
Agnus, one of the most gallant soldiers
in the federal army during the war be-
tween the states.
Gen. Agnus has had a remarkable
career. He came to this country from
France Just before the opening of the
civil war, and was employed at Tiff
fany's as a sculptor. He caught the war
fever early, and enlisted in u regiment
of New York zouaves with nine other
Frenchmen from the same establish
ment He went in as high private, and
could not speak q word of English, and
came out of the service with the rank
of brigadier-general He had no social
or political influence topush him ahead
Three of the nine Frenchmen who en-
listed with Agnus were killed in their
first battle, three more at the second,
and two more at the third, SO Agnus is
the only survivor of the nine, and he
only escaped by the skin of his teeth,
as the scars of eleven bullet wounds on
his body will show.
At the third engagement, when his
last two French comrades were killed,
Gen. Agnus was himself desperately
wounded in the breast. Lying on the
| ground in semi-conscious condition
he heard a fellow-sufferer groaning and
calling for water. Agnus, with the
blood gushing from his breast, managed
to toss him canteen containing coffee.
This was eagerly received, and after
draining n deep draught, the recipient
raised himself up little, and recogniz-
ing Agnus' uniform, tossed back the
canteen, saying: "Yanls, thank you,
you!' He proved to be Maj. Ran
dolph, of Gen. Stonewall Jackson's
staff. AT the time this incident took
place the battle was still raging around
| them, and neither one expected to see
the light of another day. But both
lived to participate in many more bat
ties, and after the war closed became
warm friends.
Here is the sequel to the story. Maj.
Randolph, who died few years ago
was most accomplished man. He was
brilliant writer, sculptor and mu-
sician. He became editor of the Balti-
more Gazette, and when that paper sus-
pended, Agnus gave him the position OF
chief editori al writer on the American
position he held up to the time of his
death. Randolph was several times of.
fered double the salary he was receiv.
ing in Baltimore to go to New York, but
he always refused to leave the man who
gave him the canteen of coffee on the
battlefield Richmond State.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
He May be Going Yet.

= At an open-air meeting in London the
follow ng incident took place: A street
preacher was holding forth in the East
End when drunken soldier came up
and loudly ridiculed the whole service.
Finding that it was USELESS to ignore
the mau the preached quickly decided
on his course of action. "Ah, my friend,
you're no soldier; you've only borrowed
those gay red clothes No servant of
.he queen would get drunk and inter
rupt peaceful service" OF course the
man warmly protested that he was a
soldier, and invited the preacher to test
him. Very we'll" was the reply. ~
will Now, then, stand at ease" This
the soldier did as well as his drunken
condition allowed. "Right about face!"
This also was accomplished with some
trouble. ''Now, quick march!" And
off he went, marching down the Miie
End road at desperate speed, unable,
apparently, to see through the open-air
preachers successful maneuver. - Chi
cago Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14

and stained. One of its faded green shut
ters hung by single upper hinge and
Tapped disconsolately in every puff OF
wind that eddied round the southeast
corner; another had succumbed to it's
fate and lay neglected upon the ground.
Trespassing penknives and pencils had
cut and written the names of their
mischievous owners upon the front OF
the house, and the open door was dec
grated with notices of school meetings
and election bills.
Such was the exterior of this western
''hall of learning" and the interior
looked scarcely more attractive to the
''schoolma' am" who chad the fall
Germ" at the munificent salary of twen-
ty-five dollars month. There was the
usual array of SCARED and iuk-stained
desks, rusty stove, 'scratchy"
blackboard and smoky ceiling. The
wall was decorated with maps done in
red, yellow, blue and green, and here
and there hung writing or spelling
chart. A globe stood on its chest in
one corner and the water-buclxet occu-
pied bench beside the door. Four
bracket lamps were fastened to the
window castings, as the school-house
was used in lieu of both church and
public hall.
Nell Benson, who sat at the "teach-
er's desk" that September afternoon,
was the daughter of a Presbyterian
minister who had but recently removed
from the pleasantly Miami valley to
the prairies of Kansas. O., how home
sick she had been for the pretty Ohio
home, the old neighbors, the pleasant
village; but most of all she longed for
the familiar halls of the seminary Ut
Oxford, and missed the CHEEKY faces
and merry voices of her gay classmates
there.
The expenses of the long move had
drained heavily on the minister's slen-
der purse, and the struggling little
churches to which he had come were
able to give him but small salary;
even the small sum necessary to defray
Nelrs expenses at the seminary was
not for a moment to be thought of. So
with many secret sigh and tear she
had packed her disappointed hopes
with her trigonometry and moral
science in the very bottom of her trunk,
and had gone bravely out to try to earn
enough to carry her to diploma the
next year. Next year! o, what tor
ture to think of Sue and Lii and Kate
going back this year" for their senior
year, while she was the only missing
one. But Nell was conscientious about
her work, and really enjoyed it; though
sometimes her twenty small scholars
seemed dreadfully tiresome, and Aleck
Somers, the freclSle-faced boy on the
back seat, was often inclined to be un-
ruly.
On the afternoon on which we look
in upon her she was very weary. The
children had been noisy and restless,
and Aleclz had persisted in sitting side
ways in his seat and gazing idly out OF
the door. 1t was not a pleasant pros,
pect outside, and Nell wondered why it
should be so attractive to him. The
prairie stretched away from the door,
brown, dreary and bare, till it dropped
for moment in the muddy waters of
the Ninnescah.
The big slough" that passed within
a few rods of the school house, and
trailed its snake-lilze course across to
the river, was the only break in the
dreary level. This slough was mar.
row depression in the prairie, marked
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
SIBERIAL SOIL.
In Some Places it Is Frozen Six Hundred
Feet Deep.

Eeeb beep.
For many years scientists have been
perplexed over the phenomenon of
certain we'll at Yakutsk, Siberia. AS
long ago as 1928 a Russian merchant
began to sink this noted well, and, after
working on it for three years, gave it up
as a bad job, having at that time sank
1t to a depth of thirty feet without
getting through the frozen ground. He
communicated these facts to the Rus
sian Academy of Science, who sent men
to take charge of the digging operations
at the wonderful well. These scientific
gentlemen toiled away at their work fer
several years, but at last abandoned it
when a depth of 3S2 feet had been
reached, with the earth still frozen as
hard as rock. In 1914 the academy
had the temperature of the soil at the
sides of the well taken at various depths.
From the data thus obtained they came
to the startling conclusion that the
ground was frozen to depth exceeding
800 feet.
Although it is known to meterologists
that the pole of the lowest known tenn
perature is in that region of Siberia, it
is conceded that not even chat rigorous
climate could force frost to such great
depth below the surface. After figur-
ing on the subject for over quarter of
a century, geologists have at last come
to the conclusion that the great frozen
valley of the Lena river was deposited,
frozen just as it is found to-day, during
the great grinding up era of the glacial
| epoch. M echanical News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
Ho Preferred the Express.

Morris Towne-I thought you said
t;lis watch had train movement!
Jeweler-So did.
Morris Towne-Well, it stops every
ave minutes! M I
Jeweler-Probably it is an accommO.
intion train.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14

GEN. JOHN w. KMBAIL, of Fitchburg,
Mass, has recently lost his old war
horse, "Prince," at the age of ss years
The animal was presented to Gen.
Kimball by citizens of Fitchburg on
his election to the colonelcy of the
Fifty-third Massachusetts regiment In
1862.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
A Doubtful Female.

Lawyer Ito female witness) s)-Will you
please tell this court and jury what
your age is?
Elderly Female-What's the use?
They wouldn't believe me If / was to
tell them.-Texas Siftings.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
A BRAVE SCHOOLMA'AM.
The Little Teacher Who Was True
to Her Trust.

I WAS a little
dingy school
house facing the
west, 1t h a d
O N ce b e @ n
white, but the
sand and rain
and hail.storns
of the prairie
h a d foreclosed
their mortgage
on its pristine
b e n IL ty a n d
freshness u N d
lie ft IL Scared
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14
New York Ass ssments.

81 met Mr.. Knickerbocker in shabby
coat a little while ago. He has not failed.
has he?"
so, no; he only puts that coat on
when he goes to the assessors to give in
his property for assessment. Texas
Siftinps.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14

All communications for this paper should be accom-.
panied by the ae OF the author; not necessarily for
publication hut as an evidence Of good faith on the
part OF the writer Wrlto only on one side Of .hc pa
per Be particularly careful In giving names and daes
70 have the letters and gres plain and distinct Prop
srnames are often dicut to declpher because Of the
careless manner In which they are writtnu
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-14

y
my scarf. Aleck, take this lamp and
yonder out across the prairie as far as
you can make it go. Be careful and
don't get a drop of oil on your clothes.
Jimmie, break off a lot of those big
sunfower stalks. Well need them to
stop the tumble-weeds from rolling un-
der the house. Quick, everybody"
There was no need for the last adj
monition. Every child flew to do her
bidding. Nell went rapidly backward
and forward from the bare playground
to the slough, pouring little trails of oil
over the thickest punches of grass,
weeds and husks, while Aleck and Jim.
mie did the same work on the south
side of the road till the lamps were
drained of oil. The fire was started in
a dozen places along the line; anG
while part of the children trailed the
fire till it formed continuous lines OF
two sides of the school-house, the res
followed with wet bonnets, jackets ant
aprons, beating out the tiny tongues o
flame that crept out on the school-hous'
side of the boundary, Nell was every
where along the line, setting fire here
beating it out there, encouraging tn
children, who worked with the energ,
of despair.
| How slowly their little black line o
defense broadened, even though aide
by the oil, for the wind was agains
them. The fire drew nearer and near
er. They could hear the roar an
craolxla of the HamaG aG thew Riaza
apon the dry and oily sunfowers an
clumps of tall sage grass. The win
came to them sitting with smoke, an
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
IN THE FRONT RANK.
The Cattle Business at Harold and There
abouts Leading the Procession.

Special to the Gezette.
HAROLD, TEy.. May 4.-The cattle bust
ness in this part of the country is certainly
getting move on itself-that is the cattle
are. w. 7. Waggoner, of ID. Waggoner &
Son, the largest cattlemen in this section,
has now on the trail four herds of steers
bound for the Creek Nation, each herd COM
posed OF $500 head. making total Of 10000
steers, about one-third of them 3-year-olds,
the others twos and up. Mr.. Waggoner has
leased ., 000-acre pasture of fine grass land
near Sapulpa, on the Frisco road, and the
steers are as fine a lot of beef as ever left
these parts. They seem to be larger and
better than any ever raised on the Haggoner
ranch.
The lands of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache reservations are now deserted by
the cownan and his herds and left to their
native inhabitants, the red man. The Co
manche chiefs say it makes their hearts
sick to have their friends, the Cattlemen
leave, is they have always been close to
their hearts and what beef and lease money
they got win now go to the Greeks. farther
and farther away. They say Washington
which they call the government, is crazy
and don't know their needs.
Mr. Waggoner will send more herds later
on to the number of twenty thousand
steers and keep his stock cattle on this side
of Red River + the Waggoner pasture. He
predicts bet prices for cattle this year
the the, business viii want in before many ~
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
Hogs from Kansas.

There were received at the Fort Worth
packing house from Kansas to-day via the
Cotton Belt road from Kansas City 1925
head of hogs. This train load makes i
grand total of $500 head brought to the
packing house from Kansas by this one
road within few weeks The company
keeps man in that state purchasing hogs,
for the reason that the supply furnished by
Texas is not sufficient 10 fill the demand.
The packing house people are paying A
cents and upwards for good fat Texas hogs
and would rather have them than those
they get in Kansas, even ct a higher price.
They are constantly sending circular letters
to Texas farmers urging them TO pay more
attention 10 swine raising and showing
them where the money is in the business.
Why not raise more hogs in Texas? II
the Kansas farmers can raise hogs to ship
here to Texas at q profit, the Texas farmers
can surely supply their own demands. Hogs
can be raised as cheap and with less trouble
here in Texas than most any other state and
it would soon be a payable industry that
would not in the least interfere with the
farming Mckinney Democrat.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05

maintained that common carriers of live
stock must provide suitable and necessary
facilities Tor receiving and delivering live
stock without further charge than hat
.uade Tor transportation OF the same. and
this decision is quite in accord with the
equities. The lowe Homestead makes this
decision the basis for the conclusion that
the charges for yardage at the Chicago
yerds are wholly without warrant in law
the part of shippers 1t seems strange that
writer of any Judgment whatever could
make claim so absurd. The stockyards
company has no connection with the rail-
ways as such, and if it had, common car
riers are not supposed to furnish market
places in their passenger depots and live
stock chutes.-[ Chicago Drovers' Journal
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05

J J ! III : III
III i2l00T 10 s ( a0'f 10 1,460i ,.....S 20
al 1880 ...... 4 80 g. 40 -. - 20
CPS IJ7. $50 800. i So Il lgOi ..... 80
The following cattle ana calves:

The twenty eight calves mentioned above
We're bought of w. Il. Moore of Fort Worth,
and were the finest lot received since the
yard opened.
The packcry people paid s475 for Texas
hogs Saturday, when the best prices in
Kansas City for hogs was $40.
The Fort Worth Union stockyards during
April received 1875 cars hogs and cattle
10l cars hogs and 1874 cars cattle The
cars of cattle shipped out number 1lS0.
The receipts Of cattle, hogs and sheep,
calves. etc. on foot and by wagon, of course
foots up to handsome total. \ little re-
Election will show this not to be bad
months business.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Parties answering advertisements below must
address the advertiser and not THE GAZETTE,
as this paper has nothing 10 do with the adyer-
tisement further than 10 print it.
THE GAZETTE cannot undertake to forward
replies unless prepaid and addressed envelopes
accompany advertisements.
No personal" notices printed unless accom-
panied by the name OF advertiser.
Advertisers should remember that letters di-
rected TO initials only. are not delivered through
the postoffice. II initials are used they should
be directed 10 the care of some person firm or
postonice box. Advertisements can be left at
our office. or sent through the mail 10 THE Ca
ZETUE Fort Worth. Tex.
In answering advertisements, mention this
paper
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
CLASSIFIED COLUMN.
FREE ADS.

All persons seeking employment or desiring
help OF any character are invited to use this
column free Of charge, such advertisements not
TO exceed three lines.
Notices of articles lost and found in this col
unln not exceeding three lines will also be In
serted free.
It is the desire OF The GAZETTE to facilitate
the search OF persons for employment and the
recovery OF lost property, and all. are cordially
invited TO use this column for such purposes
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
DISEASED CATTLE.
The English Board VIII Not Admit Dis
eased Cattle.

eased Cattle.
Special to the Gazette sss
LONDON, May Chaplin, president of
the Board of Agriculture, in an interview
to-day said that Secretary Rusk's renewal
of the Jersey City cattle quarantine would
not affect English regulations for admission
of foreign cattle. He expressed himself as
thoroughly satisfied with Expert HOlman's
reports as to the diseased condition of
American cattle at Deptford and attaches
little importance to the opposite decision of
DR.. Wray, the American governments eX-
pert at Deptf0rd. even though it was sup
ported by the opinion of DR.. Williams, prin-
cipal of the Royal Veterinary college of
Edinburg. He stated that DR.. Williams in
1879 pronounced Il cargo of American cattle
free from disease and afterward it was
found to be diseased, and Chaplin declared
the board would never relax its restrictions
until it was satisfied that foreign cattle
were free from contagious diseases.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-05
Got There All the same.

Fort Worth was long time in getting
her packing house in operation, but it got
there all the same Notwithstanding it is
a large affair, orders have been given by
Col. HoXie for the immediate construction
OF an additional smokehouse, with a capa-
city Of 100000 pounds every forty-eight
hours [Cleburne Chronicle.