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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12

his services in the Mexican and Indian
wars; of his rapid promotion from one
rank, to another until he wore the
epaulets of major general of volun-
teers, of his brilliant services at Chan
cellorsville, Boonesborough, South
Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, at
which last mighty battle he was chief
in command of the cavalry division of
the army, and in many other battles;
of his resignation subsequent to the
close of the war, his presidency of a
western railroad and other civil pur-
suits, only mere reference need be
made in this connection.
Nearly a score of years ago Gen.
Pleasanton adopted the life of an abso-
lutte idler, save that he devoted much
time to books. He was an omnivorous
reader of critical descriptions of bat
ties and devoted student of the career
of the great Napoleon. 1t is probable
that no man of his time had so readily
at his tongues end every detail of the
battle of Waterloo, drawn from every
available source of map and volume.
He never tired of discussing this one of
the most important battles of history,
and from impromptu diagrams, exactly
correct, as to the positions of the va
rious armies at various moments of
the battle, and with perfectly familiar
description of the topography of the
field, he would entertain his friends
and point out the mistakes of Napoleon,
and how by change of plans he might
have won the fateful battle.
Gen. Pleasanton's criticisms of most
of the commanding officers of the war
of the rebellion were unsparing, and
more than once cropped out in maya
zine articles, one of the most notable
of which appeared few years ago
among the remarkable war articles of
the Century magazine, and which chas-
tised Gen. Hooker severely for his con-
duct of the battle of Charlottesville.
Such criticisms arrayed the regular
army inhpence against him, and played
a conspicuous part in the opposition to
his retirement by act of congress,
which, after long years of delay, was
only accomplished in 1888, when he was
retired with the rank of colonel of
the regular army,
Previous to that time the general
lived the life of bohemian upon ex-
ceedingly limited rations, his only in
come being a meager remittance at
regular intervals representing his
share of the proceeds from the small
family estate at Philadelphia.
With plenty of money, his ample pay
as a retired colonel in his pocket, and
in the midst of his bohemian enjoy
ment, when pecunious friends forsook
him not, and when impecunious friends
were greatly multiplied, Gen. Alfred
Pleasanton suddenly disappeared from
public view. Inquiry soon developed
that he was not physically i'll, but it
failed to discover the cause of his self
immurement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12

zette by his aged father. The personal
description tailed in a measure with
that of his long-lost son, and correspon-
dence followed But the clouded mind
of the man contained no clear vision of
Van Vert. He remembered wildly
the home of his boyhood and wrote an
exact description of 1t as he had last
seen 1T, quarter of a century before
log house and stone chimney, the well
with the long sweep to raise the buck
ct, the high-banked stream that ran
through the farm-all still as he had
left them, for changes are slow in the
homes of plain people of our country.
Then, with many doubts, and as many
hopes, he made his way to Van Vert,
in 1887, and was easily identified by his
family and former comrades. He ap-
piled for a pension, and the certificate
directing payment to him as the wound
ed and missing Hugh Thompson, Of
Chickamauga, was forwarded in due
course of time. This is the story as re.
vealed by the official records Of the pen.
sion office. 1t is a wonderful story, and
fiction pales before it's facts.
The story of Rip Van Wrinkle is thrill,
ing to an audience when the old man
pulls from his leathern pouch the old
contract which Diedrich Van Beellman
wanted him to sign, twenty years be-
fore. 1t is paralleled by part of the
evidence of the Identification of Hugh
Thompson. From the day of his wound
and loss of memory, through all his
wanderings he carried a little Tesla
ment given him by sister, with an in
scription in rhyme, when he enlisted.
The sister, still living, recognized it at
once when he exhibited it upon his re-
turn. lie had kept the Testament his
sister had given him; but he had for
gotten the, sister. When he saw her,
however, he recognized her and with a
glad cry rushed to her arms, and they
sobbed and cried like children. 1t was
a reunion the like of which was never
depicted upon the mimic stage.
SMITH ID. Fry.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12

forced to leave him, evidently diving
from mortal wound He never re-
Joined them. The regimental report of
the adjutant for September, 1903, bears
the note opposite his name: wounded
and missing in the battle of Chiclxa-
manga, September 10, 1868" And so
he disappeared from comrades and
friends and home, one of the unknown
dead, remembered only as an integer
component of the myriads of soldier
boys who gave their young lives for
their country. His father, years after
ward, applied for pension on account
of his service, his mother having died
prior to his enlistment. No doubt was
raised as to his death in the army, but
the claim was rejected on the legal
ground that the father was not de
pendent upon the services of his lost
son.
From September 10, 1868, the day of
the battle, until some time in February.
1870, the history of Hugh Thompson is
blank He recovered his identity but
partially, as he was tramping through
the snow on country road near the
village of Cleveland, Ill. He was a
strong, able-bodied man, comfortably
dressed in good working suit, with a
pair of new boots on his feet and a
coon-skin cap on his head He carried
an old-fashioned oil-cloth- valise, and
there on the lonely road, in the darken-
ing twilight of that freezing February
evening, Hugh Thompson, the wounded
soldier of Chickamauga, came to him
SELF" as he expressed it. 1t was just as
if at that moment he had awakened
from dreamless sleep of seven years
and become conscious of existence.
Who he was, or what he had done, or
where he had been, he knew not. He
knew that his name was Thompson, but
called himself Henry instead of Hugh.
What name he had formerly used he
knew not. His mind was clouded, but
the clouds were lifting. Old scenes
came before him as dreams. He knew
lie had been in the army He knew he
had been in battle and was lying on
the ground while bullets were whizzing;
but everybody told him the war had
long been closed. How he came to be
on that country road he never has
known. IL was a long jump in time,
from the field of ChiclSamauga in 1868, to
the village of Cleveland in 1870.
From Illinois he went to Kansas, and,
sometime in 1880 or 1881, he became i'm
pressed with the belief that he had been
soldier in an Ohio regiment He was
not sure that his name was Thompson,
nor certain that he was an Ohio soldier
boy. The newspapers of Kansas took
up the matter, gave accurate descrip-
lions of him, and the strange history of
the Nameless Soldier, as he came to be
known, travelled to Ohio and was read
in the columns of the Van Vert Ga
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12
Immense praught of Fish.

The biggest haul of fish ever made at
the Point Sauble grounds, near Green
Bay, was taken few days ago. The
single haul of the seine brought up
S,452 pounds of fish, for which the
lucky fisherman received the sum of
S194.17. There were $3.50 pounds of
perch, 1926 pounds of yellow pike, $50
pounds of suckers and II pounds of
catfish. Although the ground at Point
Sauble has been seined for over thirty
years, no catch equal to this has ever
been made, and fishermen claim that
it is conclusive proof that the waters
are not being depopulated of their
fishy inhabitants, as is claimed by the
enemies of seine fishing.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12
DYING AS A RECLUsE.
One of the Greatest Generals of
the Civil War.
Tho Remarkable Csreer OF Gen. Alfred
Pleasanton, His Methods OF Criticism
and Unaccountable Retirement
from the World.

In dingy little room and a dingy
little hotel, almost the last Of 3he antique
structures which yet linger as remem-
brances of the palmy days of the now
almost obliterated Rum row." one Of
the greatest generals of the war of the
rebellion lies upon a bed which he will
not leave until he is taken thence to
the cemetery, says Washington corre-
spondent.
Of all the brilliant generals of the
war the fate of Gen. Alfred Pleasanton
is the most curious. In ability to plan
and daring to execute he was equal, if
not superior, to Con. Philip Sheridan,
and had Pleasanton remained in the
regular army he would doubtless have
passed through life equally honored
and prominent, and passed away with
similar honors.
As is well known, Gen. Pleasanton
was member of distinguished fam
lily of eastern Pennsylvania. His elder
brother, Gen. A. j. Pleasanton, was a
brave and distinguished officer of the
war, who held many high civil and mill
itary positions in Pennsylvania, and a
few years ago made a great stir by
his theory of the curative properties
of solar rays when passed through blue
glass.
A slight vein of eccentricity. ten
dency toward the adoption of daring
theories, contempt for the sodden ig-
norance and stagnation of the masses,
and high respect for the aristocracy
of self, which seemed to run through
the whole family, became strongly
marked in the great cavalry general
when he retired from active life, and
finally landed him hypochondriac and
recluse in the not over sweet oxygen of
the little room in Rum row."
From this seclusion he has not
emerged for more than four years, and
into it no man has intruded in all that
period, with the exception of three per-
sons, who have handled his pay as re-
tired officer of the army and attended
to his purchases and the payment of
his bills and his legal affairs.
Of Gen. Pleasanton's career as stu
dent at Princeton and West Point; of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Meetings of Old Soldiers Who
Thought Each Other Dead
How Col nIussey Found Lons-L"st
Brothnr-The singular and Pathetic
story OF Hugh Thompson
the NameIess solder
lspeeinl washington Letter.l

t'Hello, Jack Adams Left you dead
on tho field thirty years agol Are you
really alive, or are you materialized
spirit2 Let me pinch you and hug you. "
Yes, it was really Corporal Adams,
very well and very much alive. Col
Fred D, Mussey, the veteran Washing
tor correspondent of the Cir .'nnat
Conmercial-Gazette, was sitting in his
office on Newspaper row. Thousands
of old soldiers were here attending the
national eucampment of the Grand
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-12
Many Miles of Children.

1t is calculated that if the children
under the care of the London school
board were to join hands they would
reach from London to Carlisle, dis
tance of 800 miles.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
r6W KANSAS


0ssasseev - 0ssan - - ADplssA b
CsavferA Cs~aty.
ToPHKA, Kan, July 1S.-The Ksnsas
md Missouri Electric Railway CON,
paAy y The name Of Q new orRsnixs,
tion which has secured Q charter from
tie secretary Of state 70 do business In
Ksnsas and st such other points IN the
United States ~ the board Of Director
may determine TO be to the best In.
forests Of the company. The capital
stock Il $4,000 and the members O,
The board Of directors arc - follows.
Sam Barrett, Robert Robyn, A. L
Chaplin Of Pittsburg, Kan, Robert
6imons Of Wcstchester, Pa, l.. M.
Bsdell. Carl J. Simons and Harry w.
Dedell of ChstopaL
The purposes of this company a. In.
diceted In the charter are to construct,
maintain and operate . railroad for
the transportation Of freight and pas.
ssngers. BY steam and electricity or
any other power which they may
choose to adopt upon the system Of
the road, which 1t this time seems to
be confined to Crawford county.
However, the directors say they will
build the road to other points in Kan.
. and Missouri.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
IS DRIVING OUT DISEASE.
Dr.. J. R. Baird well
Known in American
Missions.
Hundreds or Bottles or Painc's
Celery Compound Proscrib.
cd By Him.
Las Found 10 . Blessing 60 tho AZ
0ieted Beyond any other Remedy.

Dr.. j. r. Baird Is not only q mis-.
sionsry. but, what is not so we'll
known, he is q physician Of large ex.
ys,ience.
His published account OF the work
- has done 10 the state Of Michigan
~ been read with interest not only
y those particularly s~oscerpsd in
.assions. but BY the public generally.
Dr.. Baird 10 known % . practical
verker. HE health Was broken BY
~ severe wistsr climate In Michigan
sG.s time ego. and As seemed likely
y b obliged 70 give up his work.
m he rssortsd 70 tho easily obtain.
q remedy, Psias's celery compound,
81 vss himself again, energetic and
s6ivs - ever. within . few week.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

Built half way up tho Jsbl Nimrud.
q . hill above . Tushing torrent, il
Asver lacks water or tho sound Of the
perpetual fountain that gained for Il in
the old days the name Calirrhoe. Water
In basins. in drinking places, IN small
mills; water In the torrents, in the
springs and down tho sides Of streets F.,
everywhere is. heard the same bubbling
sound &C dear to oriental ears. And
with II are trees ~innumerable, great for.
est trees in the gardens, with walnuts
and pomegranates, and fruit Of all sorts;
gardens everywhere, within and with.
out the town, and q thing seldom to be
Q in an eastern town, the large court
yard Of the Serai grass grown. with
STATS and spreading trees ON either side.
The bazaars, too. and the streets seem
all to share in the charm that water
lends. Nowhere else are there such
vaulted corridors, tall and wiry, for the
market, such splendid caravansaries,
built by some magnificent old Turk, Of
an order since passed away. and where,
above all, can be matched the exquisite
mosque Of Ibrahim.e l X alil-Abra-
ham, the friend Of God--with its state
y minaret and marble courtyards re.
dected in the silent shady pool2-"Six
Months In . Syrian Monastery" o. II.
Parry.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

The reasonable, u~ndisguised way in
which Pa:us's celery compound forti.
Gee the body against nervous exhaus.
tion and rebuilds its shattered parts
las been freely explained BY phys,-
sisns, the best Of whom today always
look to this great remedy whore de.
bility 10 to be overcome. II does its
york thoroughly and speedily. Let
every nervous sufferer, and every man
and women who feels run down and
tired beyond the power Of . nights
sleep to restore, try Psins's celery
compound. It will make tho man
o. woman strong and active and q
stout believer in this great remedy.
DR., Baird, who is now st his. home
IN Indiana, Penn, describes his own
experience q follows:
ut Was about six years ago when
first tried Paine's celery compound
for nervous diseases and rheumatism
In the severe winter climate in tn.
state Of Michigan l was at our mission
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

countless men and women have saved
themselves from nervous p~rostration.
The cares Of largo families do not
stop when the day is over. There 10
~incsssant anxiety, waksfulnsss and
concern for some member Of tho
household. It is no wonder that 90
many, especially women, break down
under the crushing weight. Their
very love and pride keeps them always
at work. They olive On their nerves, !"
- the saying 10, till there comes q
time when Assh and blood can stand
il no longer. II is . simple thing 10,
them to keep we'll and strong il Pains's
celery compound Is straightway use d
at tho earliest signs Of failing vigor.
The tired, dragged out" feeling i.
soon entirely removed. There will b.
no neuralgia, No persistent headaches
ne dyspepsia, no haunting pain ovsl
the eyes, no nervous exhaustion wher
Psine's celery compound is used. I,
makes people we'll.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE.
meets NJ the Capital City or
Webster County and Trans.
acts Observation-Disclosures era.
bill, Presiding.

The board Of county supervisors met
at the court House, Tuesday, November
25th, with Messrs. Watt, Spracher, Kort,
Hurd, Bloomfield and Crabill, present.
X. Adamson reported that personal
taxes of Amanda e. Adamson was or.
roneously assessed for the year 1895 in
Pleasant Hill township. Complaint was
made Of assessment by l.. B.
Bloom and j. @. Orndoff.
Minutes Of last meeting read and ap.
proved. Adjourned to n o'clock p. m.
Committee to whom was referred or.
roneous assessment reported recommend.
cd In case Of Amanda Adamson that
treasurer be instructed to reduce the
taxes on tho amount Of $3.50 and collect
balance, making II same - before 20 per
cent raise.
Board then adjourned 10 .. m. Nov.
26th, In order that committees might
have an opportunity to examine claims,
bonds, etc.
Duplicate warrant was ordered In
favor Of w. h. Postelwsit for u in lieu
Of ono Lost.
Committee on taxes reported In 70.
gard 10 erroneous assessment OF w ne1{
and ~ nsh. 10 z II, recommending
that treasurer refund 30 psr cant Of tai
Of 1891, the valuation on tho track being
double that Of any adjoining. Adopted,
Committee heard complaint Of Char.
lotto Leigh on assessment for 1894 on
~ nsN. 8. 1. l. II. recommended no
action, the property having bssn sold foz
taxes.
Same cotton in matter Of ]. g. Orsn.
dorf regarding assessment of 1896, VA
taken.
Same recommendation and action In
case Of L. @. Bloom.
Committee on poor farm reported that
Il had leased poor farm 70 O. e. Ramsy
for 1886 for $500. same 70 b paid Jan
1. 1897. Nj. Anderson during past ssa'
son broke out Is sores ct el.35 per acre
10 b applied on rent.
q. W. knight Wa chosen TO ali unex.
pired torn Of NJ. B. McNitt on soldiers
county relief committee.
The board after t~rsnsacting other bus
insss adjourned until Friday morning
Thursday being . legal holiday.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
New Line Of Insurance.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 1s.-The insur
ance companies have opened up o Eev
line Of business in Western Kansas.
That section is flooded with agents who
are writing policies ON the growing
crops, the companies insuring against
prairie fire, tornadoes and floods. The
Idea OF insurance companies issuing
policies against the destruction of crops
by food In the western half of Kan.
q would have been considered a great
joke thirty days ago, but since the
great fall of water and the loss OF
crops along the Smoky river, the farm.
ers are giving the insurance companiea
Ill the business they want.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

A. ths cogner u Fourth avsnw ed
omithAsld street . LADY from 0lenWoo0
Ot9ed soaowdsd outgoing or. The
conductor knew who she wa, and 49,
- presided in Glsnwood. he suspected
lhot shs had made . mistake, and thao
- thought che was on . Second avenue
az. % he crowded up tho aisls md 20.
ntsly inquired:
where arc you going. lsdyf"
"That's my business" she tart1y ~.
piled.
Tho conductor said nothing more, ana
he . sped along through the daxk.
crossing the Monongahela through The
covered Tenth street bridge and rapidly
putting space between 1t and Glenwood
When 1t entered the big KNOXVILLE In
cline elevator and stopped, noS te6A
. word After q minutes wait up ths
preoipice II started, leaving the spar-
Hing electric lights far below.
my goodness" screamed the Glen
wood woman to the conductor, "wheFo
- this ~ goingr"
"That's my business" dryly replied
The conductor. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

station there, and became . great SUI
ferer. l used three bottles Of Paine's
celery compound, and was very great
II benefited thereby. l then began
to advise my members who were sick
to use il, and in every case where the
directions were strictly obeyed the
treatment was successful. In . few
years past hundreds Of bottles have
been used directly through my advice.
Pains's celery compound is tar better
than any other remedy, and leaves no
bad effect in the system. Its mani
fold healing qualities makes it . boon
Of life and q blessing to the afflicted
beyond any preparation within my
reach.
The grsa. falling of in the amount
Of rhsumstism, neuralgia and nervous
weakness that physicians have every.
whore noted comes frsm the wide
spread knowledge that there 10 no
need Of suffering any longer from
these common diseases. Il 10 now
everywhere known hsw correctly Pref.
Edward q. Phelps, N. D., LII. D., Of
Dartmouth college, understood the
needs Of suffering men and wsmsn
when he prepared the formula for
Pains's celery lsompsund. By the
use Of this werll.fsmeus remedy
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

OAA - ADOS8O0 " A&1
In the "Memoiys of General Count
- SesuS." IN Aid-ds-camp Of Napoleon.
recently published, the following a0eoG-
ing incident 70 related:
Ihave aia that during The Aocsusnal
stAssk a the Uir.. a Dso %, I wa
WhaNd Ny animal had ben wound.
ID By . ballet n his chest, from which
the blood WA streaming. and ~ he
could no longer carry me I had been
forced 70 leave him, loading his equip.
nsut on my shoulders. When I had
reached our hrst outpost. about 500 PAGES
Of, ] sat down 70 rest before the Ore. In
some grief at The Loss Of my mount.
when . plaintivs sound and IN unex.
pectod contact caused me 70 turn my
head. L was the poor bsast, which
bad revived and had dragged itself In
ths wake Of my footsteps. In spite a
The distance and the darkness, IL had
succeeded in finding mo. and recogis.
ing me BY the light Of the campfire
hsd come up groaning to lay its head On
ny shoulder. Ny eyes hlled with team
q this last proof d attachment. and ]
VA gently stroking Il, when. exhausted
1om tho blood It had lost. and its efforts
10 follow mo. In tho midst Of tho mon.
who were ~ surprised and touched -
myself, IL fell down. struggled for . mo.
ment and expired.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29

Dr.. q. v. Black, q dentist Of Jackson.
vile, Fla, has made some interesting
experiments upon the force exerted by
the human jaws in the ordinary masti-
cation Of food, and also the greatest
force which the jaws are capable Of u.
erting. BY NEAR Of a spring instru-
ment provided with registering device
he took records Of about $50 "bites" of
different persons. OF these so have been
preserved as characteristic Of the ordi.
nary man, woman and child. The small
est pressure recorded was 30 pounds,
by q little girl 2 years old. This was
with tho incisors. Using her molars,
the same child exerted a force of So
poundA The highest record was made
BY o physician OF 80. The instrument
used only registered $40 pounds, and he
closed IL together without apparent Of.
fort There was no method Of determin-
ing how fas above $40 pounds be could
have go3a This test was made with the
molarS Several persons exceeded . force
Of 100 pounds with the incisors pnd s0O
with the molarA The physical ocnditioa
o1 the pessuns experimental upon seom.
cd to have little bearing upon the rosalk
d.. Black hof the opinion that the con.
dition Of the perideutal membranes 10
tho controlling factor. Nther than mus.
cular strength. DA Black found that In
tho habitual chewing Of food much
more force n e1ertsd than u necessary.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
A Wire walking Rat.

At tho corner Of Market and Broad
streets, Newark, N. j., there is q thick
network Of telegraph wires and tele-
phone cables. Late one afternoon the
loiterers about the corner witnessed q
curious incident. From the roof Of tho
Firemen's insurance building o cable
wire extends across Market street to the
Postal Telegraph Office.
A rat was seen ON the wire over the
insurance building. He moved slowly
along the wire. and by the time he had
reached the middle Of the street he had
. crowd below him that would have do.
lighted the heart Of Blondin. He paid
no attention to the upturned faces, bat
continued slowly but surely on his way
until he reached the Postal Telegraph
building. He lightly leaped from the
roof and disappeared. - Philadelphia
Record.