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Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28


before the bell rings.
y cold church can only he warmed by
fire that comes from God.
Everything We DO viii be great when
it is what God wants done.
Fortune cannot change Us. It can
only bring ont what Is: III Us.
The man who hates the Bible most
generally has most reason 10.
The devil takes a part in lie talk
when pride ana fiattery meet.
Every life has unfinished towers il
it that were begun to oppose God.
Prove that there Is 10 devil, and the
saloOn-keeper VIII be your friend.
If you are not against the saloon,
what are You doing in the church?
Doing good viii be found more prof.
liable in the end than digging gold.
The moment we decide to forsake
sin. we can count on God for help.
That man IS dying whose lie IS not
greater today than il was yesterday.
Job sinned not with his tongue, be-
cause there was no sin in his heart.
No matter what kind Of hoUse truth
lives IN. it is always built on the rock.
\ stingy man can get religion, but he
can't grow IN grace and stay that way.
No man can be leader who has not
the courage to sometimes stand alone.
The man who has never been ashamed
of himself is still Il stranger TO himself.
God-made kings are sure To come TO
the throne, no matter Where they begin
life.
The devils claws are none tho less
sharp when hidden by the cloak OF re-
ligion.
Every man is robber who takes
from another anything God wants him
to have.
Nobody can tell what man viii do
in horse trade by the noise he makes
in church
The man who fears God is not afraid
to walk in the dark, but he fears to
walk alone.
God still has plenty Of angels 70 min
lister to those who resist the devil until
he leaves them.
Scandals and crimes in the newspa-
pers are helping the devil about as
much as the hypOcriteS in church.
Just as surely as we seek first the
kingdom Of God and His righteousness,
Will God supply all our other needs.
The man who sits down TO wait for
golden opportunity TO knock At his
door Will need Il thick cushion on his
chair.
Many boys are saved when their
fathers are wrong, but the child stands
poor chance when its mother is
wrong
When preacher spends more time
in preaching than he does in praying,
he is not doing Gods work as he wants
1t done.
The devil is not throwing many
stones at the preacher who has 70
pound the Bible TO keep his congrega-
ton awake.
1t is better to have only little hon.
est meal in the barrel than TO sit down
to smoked meat that should bc return
ed TO somebody's smoke house.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
Decay Of the Memory.

1t is probable, rs Sydney Smith OBJ
serves, that the decay of memory in old
men probably proceeds as frequently
from the very little interest they take
in what is passing around them as from
any mental decay. The mind, as well a
the body, requires constant exercise
to keep IL in healthy state.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
A Bargain.

A doctor. who occasionally walked in
crooked paths and never went to church.
was called to see n pious and orthodox
old clergyman who had been taken sud
ly ILL., "Am / going to die, doctOr?"
asked the parsOn. "Well, l guess not
this time" said the doctor. I'VE will
make Il bargain-yOu keep me out of
hell and I'll keep you out of heavenw
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
Political E,uhlcnnS.

In a Kentucky town where the Local
issue was the running ut large of tlogs
in the street one party headed its
ticket with the picture of a roofing hog
and the other adopted the portrait OF
WASHINGTON
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
Americans in London.

A calculation recently made gives
the number of Americans in England,
more or less resident in London, at 3d.
600: twice as many as there are French
men, four times as many as there are
Italians, and SO on.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
Three Ages Of WOmcn.

Often you will find 10-year-old girl
in family who is brighter than all her
older sisters put together. Girls are
brightest ct 10, prettiest at IL, and
most sensible when they begin 10 look
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
An Ancient Shoe.

A resident ofaBrOwnsville, Me-, has Il
shoe that same over in the Mayfower
1t is Of the toOthpick variety, made of
q curious looking green silk, with TICS
over the instep.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
An Egg Like n Dumb-RelI.

A Danbury hen has laid an egg the
shape of dumb-bell, the connecting
link being the only portion out Of pro
portion One of the spheres contained
the yOlk and the other the white
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28

head and treated first as If he were
drowned person until such time a.
trephining could te performed. lis life
might be saved.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28

VERY land flow
ing with milk ana
honey has giants
in it.
The deyil has
hold of the boy
whose father is q
moderate drinker.
1t never hurts
truth any 10 be
lied about.
The man who
believes nochinS
never amounts 10
much.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28

Sardanapalus Liked His Teddy.
The wine list of Sardanapalus has
been found on Il terra Gotta tablet and
contains ten kinds.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
TRUMPET CALLS.

RAMS Horn Sounds Warning Nota TO
the Cnredcenled.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28

LIVERY land flow
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09

Richmond, Va. William Howard Mills of the Union Veteran legion procured ready indorsment of the plan by that legion in Washington, and then Corporal James Tanner, national commander of the legion, issued an thusiastic order to the same effect.
 The Appomattox battlefield is pic- turesQue rolling ground, covered in places are already marked in a permanent man. ner by means of cast iron tablets fastehsd to iron posts. About half way from the present Appomattox railf6ad station, up the old Lynchburg turnpike toward the place of the surrender, is the first tablet, announcing:
 "On this spot were established the head quarters of Lieut.. Gen, Ulysses g. Grant, U. 8. A., on the afternoon of April 9, 1885.
 The next tablet in order along the road 10 the most interesting and reads thus:
 "This house marks the site of the house
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Hoods s1sas;isiil' Cures
Loo5,. Fp:st. easy obuy, easy totake,


 der an apple tree near the Mclean farm house at Appomattox, and half a dozen trees have been cut up into little blocks, which were sold to relic hunters. The surrender of Lee did not take place under an apple tree, but in the Mclean farm house, according to General Grant. Inhis own Description of the surren dercf the southern army, he says that there had been negotiations in writing passing between Lee and himself on April 8, 1885, and dur jog the night following that day. On the morning of the 9th General Grant, while on his way 10 join his command, received still another communication from Lee arranging q meeting for tine purpose of surrender. Hostilites had been suspended for two hours by agreement, to give time for meeting between the two generals. This meeting took place at Mclean 's farm house. This is how General Grant, in his memoirs, describes the meeting: 'I found him (Lee) at the house of MT. Mclean at Appomattox Court House, with Colonel Marshall, one of his staff officers, awaiting my arrival. We greeted each other and after shaking hands took our seals. had my staff with me, a good portion of whom were in the room during the whole of the interview. What General Lees feelings were, I do not know. As he was q man of much dignity, with an i'm passible face, it was impossible
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use of in writing the terms. only knew what was in my mind, and 1 wished to ex- press 1t clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it. As I wrote on the thought occurred to me that the officers had their own private horses and effects, which were important to them, but of no value to us; also that it would be an unnecessary humil- .iation to call upon them to deliver their side arms. -N
 "No conversation, not one word, passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, side arms or kin dred subjects. He appeared to have no objection to the terms first proposed; or if hs had point to make against them, he wished to wait until they were in writing to make it. When he read oyer that part of the terms about side arms, horses and private property of the officers, he re- marked with sofne feeling, thought, that this would have a happy effect upon his army.
 "Thep, after little further couversa- ton, General Lee remarked 10 me again that their army WAS organized little dif- ferently from the army of the United
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changed. He said that he had so under stood my letter. Then he gradually again fell off into conversation about matters for eign to the subject which had brought us together. This continued for some little time, when General Lee again interrupted the course of the conversation by suggest ing that the terms proposed to give his army ought to be written out. l called to General Parker, secretary on my staff, for writing materials, and commenced writing out the following terms:
 |" EXPLORATION c. H., Va., April 9. 1865. ."Gen. Robert E. Lee, Commander c. s. A.
 "'GENERAL: h accordance with the sub- stance of my letter to you of the Sth iu- stant, propose to receive the surrender oi the Army of Northern Virginia on the fol- lowing terms, to-wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, the copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their in individual paroles, not embrace the side arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be dis turbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside. Very respectfully, ULYSSES s. GRANT,
 '' Lie eutenant- General
 "When 1 put my pen to the paper did not know the first word that should make
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of Northern Virginia.o
 similar tablet marking the location of tho right flank of the division is planted about 200 yards further north. The spot. from which the last shot of the campaign was fired is marked by tablet at point tablet reads:
 "From this spot was fired the last shot from the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia on the morning of April g, 1865. v pute as to who fired the last shot at Appo- mattox before Lees surrender. Jacob Sutter of Iron Hill, Pa., now comes for ward to set up his. claim to this distinction, and backs it with good proof. He says he belonged to an artillery company, ana did not hear the order 10 cease firing, for which he barely escaped a court m artial.
 Immediately after the surrender the fa- nous apple tree was dug up by soldiers who saw its value as relic. They went
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fields, but there was no such historical event as the surrender of Lee on any other. Congressional influence responded so read fly to the calls in the case of Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Shiloh thatsthere is every reasonable assuranoe that the Appomattox proposition will meet with the same favor. There will be a meeting April at Appo- mattox Court House to talk over the entire project and make ready for con- gressional action. Delegates from Grand Army posts both Union and Confederate veteran corps and other organizations will attend. The people at Appomattox who are forwarding the project will have con- veyances to carry the visitors free of charge over the battlefield, R. B. Poore, president of the Appomattox Park associa- tion, having taken thework personally in hand.
 The project of making the battlefield a park originated probably with K. E. Lse Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans of
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down several feet in order to secure the roots. The site of this tree is therefore Il that can be marked today. It stood few yards west of the road, and 400 yards or so has been placed there bears this inscrip- tion:
 "Near this spot stood the apple tree un. der which Gen. Robert E. Lee rested while awaiting the return Of flag of truce sent ing of April g, 1666.''
 When Conkling, in nominating Grant for president, said:
 When asked whence comes our candidate
 Our sole reply shall be
 He halls from Appomattox,
 And the famous apple tree. he perpetueted that old romance which never had any foundation in fact, but new ertheiess had as mulch momentum -appa. rsntly as that other probable fallacy, the cherry tree story. The apple tree romance is, that the surrender of Lee took place un.
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States--still maintainingI by implication that we were two countries that in their army the cavalrymen and artillerists owned their own horses, and he asked if he was to understand that the men who so owned their horses were to be permitted to retain them. I told him that as the terms were written they would not; that only the off, cers were permitted to take their private property. He then, after reading over the terms second time, remarked that that thought this would be about the last battle of the war. l sincerely hoped so, and 1 said further 1 took it that most of the men in the ranks were small farmers. The armies that it was doubtful whether they would be able to put in crop 10 carry themselves and their families through the next winter without the aid ot the horses they were then riding.
 "The United States did not want them, and would, therefore, instruct the officers I left behind to recover the paroles of his troops, to let every man Of the Confederate army who claimed to own horse or mule take the animal to his home. Lee re- marked again that this would have a happy effect. He then sat down and wrote out the following letter:
 " "sARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, !
 .sApril g, 1865.
 "sGENERAL: Ireceived your letter of this date, containing the terms of the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia as pro-. posed by you, as they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 9th instant, they are accepted. will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulation into effect.
 q. ROBERT E. LEE, General.
 " Lieut.. Gen. Ulysses s. Grant. o General Grant then goes on to say that duplicates of the two letters were written, and while this was being done the Union officers were presented to General Lee. Geperal Lee before leaving said his army was in bad condition for want of food, and that they were without forage; that they had been living for some days on parched corn exclusively, and that he would have to ask for rations and forage. These were cheerfully granted for 1000 men.
 Lee and Grant then separated; the officers to carry the surrender into effect were named by both generals, and the great war of the rebellion was at an end.
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owned and occupied by Winner Mclean, in which Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant, U. $. A., and Gen. Robert E. Lee, c. s. A ., met and agreed upon the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the after noon of Sunday, April 9. 1855. The house was taken down and removed to Washing ton, D. o., in 1e93.o
 A few rods further up the road the vis- itor comes upon the ruins of the old court house, the story of which Is told in the third tablet, thus:
 "Here stood AppnmRttox court house, built 1942, burned 1e92.'
 On the morning following the meeting of
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REFORMATION. Three Decades Agone, This
 Very Day, The Knightly Lee Lowered
 His Blade And His Queenly Cause Bowed Her
 Head to Fate,
Time Has Healed the Gaping Wounds, but Cannot Hush the Sacred Voice of
 Memory.
ears and love for the blue, Love and tears for the graY.,,

LYNcHBURa, Va., April S.-Tomorrow (ruesday) will be the thirtieth anniversary of the surrender of General Lee.
 The movement to make national military parks of the great battlefields of the civil war, which is of comparatively recent origin, promises to last until many of the battiefelds are taken under the wing of the government. Gettysburg, the scene oftho greatest conflict on tbis continent, Chicka- mauga, Shiloh and Antietam have been provided for. Appomaitox will probably come next. The surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox, which closed the war, makes the scene more interesting forever more than the fields where the sole incl dent was hard fighting and great loss of life. There was bloodshed on all the battle-
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my rough travelling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant general, I must have contrasted very strangely with man so handsomely dressed, 6 feet high and of faultless form.
 But this was not matter that thought of until afterward. We soon fell into con- versation about old army times. He re-
 membered me very well in the old army; and told him that as a matter of course 1 remembered him perfectly, but from the difference in our rank and years (there be- ing about sixteen years' difference in our ages) I had thought it very likely that I had not attracted his atteu- tion sufficiently to be remembered by him after such long inter-
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of Northern Virginia.

SSSaNgsSoAEss;
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Graut and Lee at the Mclean farm house they rode on horseback together along the road, which was extremely muddy. On this road is erected this ts blet:
 tOn this spot Lieut.. Gen. Ulysses s. Grant, U. $. A.. and Gen. Robert E. Lee, c. s. A.. met on the morning of April 10, 1S65.''
 Then the lines of both sides are marked. The line of the Union nutposts pn the morning of Sunday, April 9, hich crossed the road just beyond the meeting place, and that of the Confederate outposts are noted about zoo yards further on. The sur render was consummated by the Confeder- ate troops marching south from their en- campment and passing in front of g line formed by the First division of the Fifth corps of the Union army. As the road had been badly cut up by the wheels of the ar- tilery the troops were drawn up on the east side of the road in the field. l he Con- federates filed through the space between the line and the road and stacked arms there. At a point just in front Of MT. Peers' house, and almost across the road from the meeting place of the two generals. is a tablet with the following inscription:
 "Near this point was established the left flank Of the First division of the Fifth corps, Army of the Potomac, on the morn- ing of April Il, 1865, to receive the snrren- derlof the arms of the infantry of the Army
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to say whether he felt fl wardiy glad that the endhad finally come, pr felt sad over the re- suit twas too manly to show it. Whatever the feelings they were entirely concealed from which had been quite jubiant on the re- ceipt of his letter, were sad and depressed.
 "General Lee was dressed in full uniform, which was entirely new, and was wearing sword of considerable value, very likely tbe sword which had been presented by the state of Virginia; at all events, 1t was an entirely different sword from the one that would ordinarily be worn in the field. In
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of the lowest prices ever seen. This will be our opening an- nouncement, and the low prices will be the only music you'll hear.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09

the war unless duly and properly ex- lot to tako up arms against the govern-
 ment of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regiment commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery and public property to be packed and stocked, and turned over to the officer ap-
 pointed by me to receive them. This will
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09

you a Dutch or Napoleon Bonnet on short notice, as well as furnish you anything in the Millinery line at the lowest possible price. Don't fail to see us this week for your Easter Hats.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
Annual Meeting.

THE annual meeting of the stockholders of 1 The Alabama Stale Land Company will be held at the office of the company, over the First National Bank, Birmingham, Ala, on
 MONDAY, APRIL Is, 1895, at 12 O clock m. !. tor the election of directors and other corporate business.
 CHARLES SCHIFF, President. w. OHIO BEALL. Secretary. 3 PA
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-29
O'BRIEN'S LAME Arm
Allowed the Maroons 10 Score
a Few Runs.
Fall Rivers Are Hero Today-Gsmes
ofYesterday.

Klobedanz had the Pawtuckets at his
mercy yesterday and during the five In.
nings that he was In the box only three
scattering hits were made of his delivery.
The Maroons had not got q man across
the plate while fifteen OF the Fall Rivers
had trotted home. Young Buckley did
the twirling for the visitors and his curves
were used numerically. There were
twenty-five hits made with total OF
thirty.four. The Fall River management
concluded that the game was too one
sided and put In O'Brien, who was nurs-
Ing a sore arm, In the sixth inning.
He had no control OF the sphere and the
Maroons took advantage OF the fact roll
ing up the runs In good style scoring
seven In the seventh and eighth innings.
Lincoln was put in the box I'm the ninth
and four more runs were scored. This af-
ternoon the Fall Rivers play here and also
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock.
The score:
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-29
LONSDALE.

The Town House commission met last
night but failed to do any business on ac-
count OF the absence OF Commissioner
Charles Il. Clark at Newport. There is not
much doubt they will report In favor of
the site at Prospect Hill on the land OF
the Lonsdale Go. Whatever their report
s, there 10 little likelihood Of q town
house being voted for at tho town meet.
Ing as the greater part of the Influential
citizens seem to be In favor Of waiting an.
other year before vcnturIng in toso much
expense. They want to have the division
OF the town settled and know lust where
they are before they Incur any large ex.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-29

psnsss. They fssr that 10 Csutrsi ysils has
its own way IN the settlement that they
will feel poor for considerabls length Of
time.
The Democrats are making . hard nght
TO reduce tho votes of the Repu blicsns but
they do not expect to elect any OF their
nominations, with the possible excep-
tiou OF Frank Il. Fitxsimmons for Town
Clerk. They hope that his popularity
will pull him through.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-29
The Creates, Sufferer. IN IN, World

are women; their delicate organizations
being particularly susceptable to derange.
ment and disease. DIR. David Kennedy's
Fsvorlte Remedy Of Rondout, N. ", puri-
hes the blood and cures all the sick nesses
peculiar to tho sex: II fortifes the system
against tho disease incident to old sge
IL is the best medicine In the world for
women.