The National tribune., 1892-11-10
PERSONAL.

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The large audiences that greet Col Robert g.
1ngersoll when he appears before the public with
q new lecture such to recall the palmy days
| Of fyceum popularity. Col. IDgersoll probably
draws" better than any other platform orator of
the time. He Is Just now exalting the virtues Of
| voltaire.
Comrade ]. d. Chandlee, who has been a
tributor TO columns. has been made editor and
| general manager of the daily and weekly Times,
| of New Brunswick, n. J. Comrads Chandlee is a
practical newspaper man. and will make the Times
one of the best papers in New Jersey.
The wedding OF Miss Leila Alexander. q daughter
OF Col. Alexander. a Surgeon in the United States
Army, to Joseph J. Emery. OF Cincinnati and New
York. will take place In the latter city Nov. q
| One of the most ludicrous happenings. perhaps,
during the whole war 10 described by Gen. Grant
in the third volume OF Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War. He Is describing the battle Of Wau-
hatchie, Oct. 1920, 1863. where while Howard was
going TO the relief OF Gen. Gsary he was attacked:
THE night dark that the could not
distinguish one another except by the light Of the
flashes of their muskets. In the darkness and up
roar Hooker's teamsters became frightened and de-
serted their teams. The mules also became
frightened, and. breaking loose from their fssten-
ings, STAN peded directly toward the enemy. The
latter, doubt, took this for q charge and STAN
gallant rebels STAN sding before the charge of q
lot of wagon muiesi
Thirty years ago last May Justice jacob Seaman
of Madison. Wis. wrote q letter a certain gentle
man in regard to army matters the war Of the re-
bellion then being In operation, and last week that
very same letter was returned to him through the
mail. 1t had gone to Norway several times. II is
| completely covered with directions that 1t is
hard to tell where 1t has been. 1t went 10 Madison
tha in, Voc, IL
is quite well preserved.
On the strength of his remarkable rssem bance
| to ex-senator Miller a PhiIadeip hia insurance
agent gained entrance some time age to the floor
of the Senate Chamber at Washington. He was at
first challenged. but when he said Indignantly to
the doorkeeper Don't you know me2" that
official made profound obeisance and opened the
door forthwith. 1t is said that this interesting
Phadelphian introduced to Gen. Grant
as Senator Miller and The General did not discover
the mistake.
Gen. F. T. Dent has for several weeks past been
very i'll at the hospital at Fort Logan, Colo. He
has, however, far improved during the past
week that he removed to his residence in
Denver. Gen. Dent is veteran Of the Mexican
war, brother in-Iaw to Gen. Grant, and a we'll
known military man of National reputation. He
is on the Retired List of the Regular Army az a
Colonel.
H. B. Logsdon. veteran living at Derby, Ind,
will celebrate his golden wedding the sth of
November, having been married so years on that
date. THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE wishes the happy
couple many years yet of welded bliss.
Among the guests during the late GAR. En-
eampment was the venerable mother of Gen. E. w.
Whitaker. Mrs. Whitaker resides at New Britain.
Conn.,, and one of her sons came here from Los
Angeles. CAL, to meet her and participate in the
grand parade. At the Hotel Randall Gov. Bukley
sd I'D I.i~ 81, s.txx.t had,
pretty long journey for of he's years. "Oh,
yes" the old lady replied gayly. "it was pretty
long jaunt for me; but. you see. had to come
down and take care of my boys. for one of them is
only 65 and the other but So years old. while 1 am
&c."
From a retired officer. resident of Washington,
lately returned from Europe. we learn that the
health of Col. George W. Roosevelt, United States
Consul at Brussels, Belgium, is impaired, due to
wounds received in the The Colonel lost a
leg at Gettysburg. and since then has suffered at
intervals from reopening of the stump. This year
he was at Homburg, Germany to regain his
strength. He WAS prominent In the GAR. 20
years ago. and wears a medal of honor for services
rendered in the great conflict.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gen. James B.
Weaver, the Peoples Party candidate for the
Presidency. wss warned to keep away from
Pulaski, Tenn, the place where he was post COM
there. and Oct. was introduced to a crowd on
the public square by the President of the State Al
lance, and spoke for about 80 minutes. In sum-
ming up his answers to the charges made against
him, Gen. Weaver said As God is my judge. I
never did In Pulaski single thing that is
charged, except the levying Of the money, and
pronounce the charges unqualfedly false. The
war is over. come here q mission of frater
nifty. They said I dared not come. I knew I
dared come. and wonld have come had the
threats been 900 times stronger"
The "reminiscences of Major Ls Caron Thos.
Philip Beech, the British spy. who gained noto-
riety. In 1889. by his disclosures behalf of the
London Times before the Parnell Commission.
have been made public Ls Caron recounfs his
early life already knowR, and describes how
q Tennessee girl. whom he aftsrward married.
rescued him from Confederate marauders during
the civil war In the United States. He says:
carrying the secret Of my life locked in her
courageous heart, she proved as faithful an ally
and as perfect foil a man. placed Ike me,
could have been given by Heaven look,
gasp, or an impuisive movement might ever have
wrecked my life; but brave, affectonate fearless
often beseechng me to end my terribly dangerous
career she faced the world with q countenance |
which gave no sign of . caution which never
slumbered."
The Rev II. B. Cady, of New Bedford, intends |
writing lecture from notes taken during his re- |
cent visit to the battefeids of the South with the
GAR veterans.
Horny Muller recently returned to Shamokin, |
Pa, from Germany, and is in destitute condition.
In 1860 Muller came to the United States from the |
Low Countries to take part in the civil war. His |
parents were wealthy and Muller and sister |
were their only children. Enlisting in the Federal
army, he was at the first Bull Run and in many
other engagements. During the Wilderness cam
paign he was overcome with heat, and was in the
hospital for year. After the war he concluded
to stay in this country. and located in the western
part of Pennsylvania, opening grocery store He
failed Mt about the same time his father did, and
roamed about the States until 1890. when message
from Germany told him Of the death Of q rich
aunt He at once started for his native land. and
found that he entitled to an inheritance of
$lCo 000 His sister received the same amount
Her son, who is q favorte In the German army |
discovered that his uncle's brain somewhat
affected by his army experience, and plotted with
his mother 70 have him placed in An asylum.