Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-11-20
NUMBER ~.

pputltg tilt tttIrI ui thH cnlortd men.
4 great deal of invisible freight passed
through the minister's hands via tho
underground railroad. One case In
particular. that of the fugitive slave.
JcrTy MolIcnry. will b. recalled Arcs.
cue was effected by empowering the
officers Of the syracuse Jail, and the IN.
nous Jerry Rescue Causes" were the
result Of the slaves escape CuIiOu,ly
enough, Jerry was never r1clpturJL
,io r,lHalned ia Canada for awhile. aud
at the close of the war went west, set.
tied down In one ~ the territories, and
it was only tho other day that his sUn
graduated with high hun0rs from one Of
the college. Of the country.
Miss Winnie bad oome b. Syracuse
for the purpo~o of visiting the Em.ps.
who were friends ~ her father she
me- young Wilkinson at a social gath
CTing. at which some extreme abolition.
ists were inclined to tryat her coolly.
Wilkiusun ;o,k sides with the daugh.
ter ~ the Confederate chieftain. ~.
f,ntod the culln,.s. and a courtship
followed A liitl, later the engagement
Wa Announced h'tWesn the children -
two families who had previously been
the mot deadly foe, and 20 whose Ia.
burs the d, rcpuess and fprvOr - the war
were mainly due The match VA never
consummatcl. owing to the po0r health
a Mis- Winnie. but the fact remains
that they ar lovers and were engaged
to L. married.
CsPtI'. At I-a.i.
Another cass was that ~ Colonel W.
W. Gordon Of Savannah. who married
Mis- Nellie Kinyio 40 the beginning q
the war She d. aid to have b,sn ''tho
tr.t baby born in Chicago after the
city took that name. Her brother aud
all her people were on the Union side.
while sho champion,d the cause - her
husband Further than this, her daugh.
tcr married northern soldier. who Il
now prominent lawyer IN Newark,
". J.
iwas talking about the-o queer ca.
PR Of Cupid the other day with Gen.
cral John A. Gordon. now United states
senator frum Georgia. who has perhaps
hal better opportunity 10 know about
such things locauso ~ his lcciuring
tour north and south on Tho Last
DAYS u the C1nfrieracy" than almost
any one ,ls. General Gordon kc,ps
track ~ the amenities u toiay a. die.
tinguished from the asperitle, ~ three
decades ago and runs acrOss many inter
esting incident. that have formed ~.
qucl o. the stirring chapters - the war.
IL will H. rcmembored that II Wa be-
who succrD,iod to the command - stone
wall Jackson's curp, uu th" death ~ Nh"
latter. aud that be- also commanded ono
wing ~ Lce'. army at AppomattuK
Court llOu-e
R..ult. of ih. War.
In discussing this phase ~ the pip.
ing times of pcace" General Gordon
said Zone u the singular result, u
the war l. the large and incf'.ls 4 mum.
b,r of marriages between northern girls
and southern men. and southern girls
and northern men The truth u the
matter l., theru are more marriage, now
between the two sections than thrr.
were before tine war This may - ~.
counted for on several grounds. Ina
numl.r ~ instances the men were cap.
tur,d aud taken prisoners. and th" ladies
showed them ,p,Cial kiuduc,ses ~ well
a. murv or lo.. sympathy. This would
naturally D" followed by mutual al.
miratiUn. ending in love aud marriage
Thon. again, thor" were 30 much an.
tiplthy and auimosity shown by both
section. that the representatives, q one
I'D. took great pride In c0nquoring The
r,l.l- a the other There l. more ~.
cit.mont, you know, in capturing q
stubborn stronghold than in the sur.
render Il ou, without resistance. Murr.
over. some people app"ar a. great ad.
vantage when they show themselves al.