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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-10

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80 minutes. You might have planted
corn where my battery stood when they
got through, it was SO plowed and har-
rowed by the Yankee fire.
ST was in the thick of the battle. ]
was standing near the No. l gun. i
man of the name of Thompson was
stepping forward with shot in his
hands to load. Without word or cry he
suddenly fell forward on the gun and
then slipped to the ground, limp as q
wet towel A cannon ball had torn
through his chest.
"I ordered man to his place. Before
he was there moment fragment of
she'll from out of the sky struck him on
top of his head, and he fell dead by the
side of Thompson. 1t was such a whirl
of smoke and roar that couldn't tell
what was going on at the other guns,
much less in other parts of the field.
had been ordered to hold my position
and had made up my mind to hold it
while gun and man of my battery
held together. 7 ordered another to take
the place of the second lying dead under
the gun. This man got there just in
time to receive a rife bullet in. his
mouth. It came out under his ear. This
man, however, didn't die. I met him
years after the war.
"Three men were all that were avail
able for this especial duty. They were
dead and wounded and gone, and took
the post myself. don't know how long
it was-whether one minute or ten
when, without the slightest feeling of
pain or warning, I was hurt, my legs
gave way, and sank to the ground. At
the same instant an explosion like 40
batteries all uniting i'll one discharge
broke loose just to the rear of me. A
column of fire and smoke shot toward
the sky, as if volcano had been loosed
by the general jar and din of battle. It
was my ammunition wagon. [ had
1900 rounds of ammunition in big
army wagon. 1t had been placed about
so yards to the rear of my battery.
When we opened the fight, [ had made
up my mind to stay, and I'd brought up
all my ammunition, resolved to win or
lose right there. A shot from the Yap-
KEGS had exploded it. That was the vol
canO.
GAS I look back I'm not sure but the
chance explosion of my ammunition
wagon saved what was left of me and
my battery. The smoke swept down and
covered us up like fog. The Yankees
ceased firing on us. They probably
thought we were wiped off the face Of
the earth in the explosion. AS the smoke
drifted on, while it became clear about
the battery, it hung like a blanket be-
tween US and the enemy and acted the
part of shield. The Yankees couldn't
see us, SO they didn't shoot.
"Two of my men came along ands
dragged me to the rear, out of the way
of immediate harm.
Are you hurt, captain?' asked one.
IT told him [ cOuldn t tell That was
the extent Of my information.
He tore open my coat and vest. My
shirt was white, and save for powder
stains and the general CRIME of battle it
was white still Not drop of blood
Redeemed it. held up my left boot.
Pull off that boot, said.
"The boot, high cavalry sort, came
off. Not a twinge of pain, not color
of blood.
cat this point I broke into a perspi
ration. A fear seized me, the like of
which has never overcome me since.
Had tainted away in the midst of bat
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-10
.'When night fell, while we still held


zle that took the heart out of man. I
was lying on some blankets in one cor
ner of a negro cabin. Over in another
corner, under blanket, lay my dearest
friend, dead All about we're wounded
men. The doctors had turned the place
into hospital: At last doctor whom
I knew came in.
"'Never while I'm alive, I replied.
'I'm too young to talk about going
through life on one leg
"Then he told me the army would
have to retreat that night; that he had
no ambulances, no means Of transpOrta-
tion. The wounded, including myself,
would have to be left behind. They
would be prisoners to the Yankees.
"All at once, like landslide, I
thought of Butler and that newspaper
account of my firing on the gunboat aft
er it had surrendered. I made sure But
Ter would hang me like dog, once he
got hands on me. It was at this juncture
when determined he shouldn't get me.
was as strenuously against hanging as
against amputation.
eve were on an old sugar plantation.
Before the fight I'd seen some rough,
two wheeled sugar carts. I made them
hustle about and get me mule, a negro
and sugar cart They bandaged my
leg and put me in. The last thing the
doctor did was to give me two ounce
bottle of morphine and show me how to
take it. Then he said 'Goodby, and I
could see that he thought it was forever.
He probably figured that if the Yankees
didn't kill me the morphine would.
"All that night, all the next day, all
the next night that rough cart jolted on
through the rain. For whole SO hours
I lived on morphine. At last we got to
Shreveport. When was lifted out Of
the cart, my ankle was swollen to ele-
phantine size. But escaped Butler, and
had not tainted away in battle, and
these two reliefs almost made the rest
easy. I got back into Texas, and at last
was we'll again. AS soon as I could sit
in saddle was back with my battery
again in time to take part in a campaign
against General Canby-who was after
ward killed by the Modoc Captain Jack
in New Mexico. We left Texas with
over 3, 900 men, and on our return eight
months later mustered fewer than
1000. Washington Star.
Good Work at the Arkansas Station.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-10

The government exhibit Of forestry at
the Cotton States and Industrial exposi-
tion at Atlanta will be unusually COM
plete.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-10
Good Work at the Arkansas Station.


The Arkansas station is doing an ex-
cellent work in demonstrating how
cheaply cattle can be fattened on the nat
ural products of the cotton states The
station bought rough cattle and fed them
for 80 days on cowpea hay and whole cot.
tonseed. This experiment showed profit
of over $40 so per head over and above
the cost of the feed and the original cost
of the steers. The manure was left to
pay the cost Of labor, which it would
certainly do. The cowpea not only pro-
vides good hay, but it is nitrogen
gatherer, and thus leaves the soil better
than before it grew. 1t is the ideal plant
for restoring wornout cotton fields 1t
is impossible to conceive of cheaper
fattening ration than cowpea hay and
cottonseed on a cotton plantation.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-09-13

= Sn Reu1itfdin bat Elm
GinjGbrigz5reipiIiger Sobann 8os
peeSst, auf feline Sraut, Garola !Seim,
flint RepulperiaiifIe abgefsusrt, burh
pelhe bus Mdbden i9tper psrlsbt
purbe. Damn febrte Sfopetset bic
Waffe segen iid unb t6btete Iih bur9
einen SduB in ben &opf. &opecaet
untsrbielt Isit flint Subren Elm 8ers
bGltnib nit bem MGb6en, pelhss
nun bon ibren gltsrn se5puneen per>
ben iolIte. einsm 9fnosren bic Sanb su
rsi4en. Die llnmDglihteit, bic @es
liebts na9 dbiplpirter MilitGroienIiseit
ebelifen gu tOnnen, fiihrts ben Gins
iGAris<Srsiipilliesn gu bem truuriesn
@ntialuiis, iid unb feline @sliebts gu
t0bten.
= Der Snnsbruder W E b
9ermeiiter Petsr !6ilbsr lit auf elmer
4lpe i'm nahen Raoistbal psrungliidt.
@r pollte nit ieinem Batter bon Mas
trsi burb g:apis iiber has Sod nah
Shmirn geben, um bort Shpeine au
taufen. llnterpegs purbsn Iis BON
einem @elpitier iiberraI6t. Gin
8liBitrabl itredte beibe nieber uuo
idleuberts petsr !5ilbsr in bic SisTe.
9tls iein Batter tpisber gum 9epuBts
fsin fam, fab sr ben Spbn nirsen6s.
IS puroen Ru6forihuneen angsitelt
unb man funo in Der Sisfe bic sers
f6metterte 2eife. Der 9erungliidie
binterlGbt eine iunes Wittips uno si.
nen &nGbsn.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-09-13
EapEu.

Karlsruhe. Dieter Gage fanb
ser 9srtdufsabItiub 5pii6en Der
8aN. 8srIaesanituIt bier uub Der
6raE.furter bemofratiihen partsiIeis
tune itatt, lponab pom l. Ott. b. s.
oil Der @srlaa Oes ngab. 2uRpssbo=
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-09-13
Drnptttt 7ioTrtt.

Ypfsn. Sn 8rasb puros Der
hortigs 8iirgermeiIter 9ruI9te psrs
baftet unb in bas MsieriBsr 9ert9tss
etfGnenib eingsIieiert. Gr ioG f6 Der
llrfunbsnfdli6une uno ancsrsr @srs
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1895-09-13

Wundjen. Sin beOuusrli6sr
llnfaa itisb bem bieiisen Oitsrreifis
i6eu Goniul, gtIfons 8rudmann, gu,
Der auf elmer SpaSisriubrt in 5oIse
Sheuiperbens beg pFeroes aus Dem
@agen itiirSte unO ii9 cine i4pere
Gebirnerihiitterung SusOg. : Sm
9ebGuoe Der I. 9ltdosmie Der bilbenocl
Siinitc ioG Die eIettriihe 9eleu6tung
sinaeIiibrt perben uno pirb bas nGds
fe GuItusbubeet Elm Poitulat bisrfiir
tntbaIien. = Sn siHer Der lsbtsn
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29

rhs Traas-Mlssouri Freight Associatlon
Ii Session.

II Session.
Kansas CITY, No, Nov. 2o.-The
Trans-Missouri Freight Association is
in session ut the Coates house in this
city. There are many matters of inn
portance IN the docket, including the
question Of excessive grain rates
charged by the Union Pacific railway
on shipments from Nebraska points to
Kansas City. Assistant General
Freight Agent Elmer fl. Wood Of the
Union Pacific is present ut the meet
ing. When asked if it was the inten-
ton of the Union Pacific to withdraw
the excessive grain rates, he said that
he could not tell what would be done
until the matter had been taken up in
the meeting. He would neither affirm
nor deny that he had the authority to
withdraw the rates, but expressed
the opinion that since the rates
had been checked up by the Trans
Missouri Freight association they
would have to be acted upon by that
body and not by the Union Pacific
alone. The grain men are watching
the meeting closely, and if the relief
they demand is not given they will re-
quest the other commercial interests
to unite In an open warfare against
the Union Pacific.
J.E- UT, commissioner Of the Oma-
ha Transportation bureau, and w. w.
Babeock, general manager of the Oma-
la stock yards, are in the city and
will appear before the association in
the hope of obtaining better rates for
Omaha on live stock and packing house
products. The sessions of the associa-
ton will be executive.
Those in attendance at the meeting
are: G. Z. Hudson of the Santa Fe, A.
p. Tanner Of the Colorado Midland, G.
A. Kimball Of the Rock Island, G. Ii.
Crosby of the Burlington s. Missouri
River, j. A. Middleton Of the,St. Louis
g. San Francisco, a. Ell. Merchant of
the Fremont & Ellshorn Valley, Elmer
II. Wood Of the Union Pacific, w. e.
Holm of the Rio Grande, j. c. Lincoln
of the Missouri Pacific, L. f. Serviss of
and j. A.. Sargent Of the Memphis.
Santa Te Presidency in Doubt.
NEW YORK, Nov. GOV. Fl. Rossing-
ton of the Santa Ie road. states that
nothing has been definitely settled in
regard to the presidency of the road.
Inc company has been organized
under the laws OF Kansas and the
charter gives the incorporators the
right to choose a board of directors,
which will elect a president and other.
officers. AS to the choice of a pres
ident, Mr.. Rossington thought it
would not be in the interest Of the
company to select a man who is un-
familiar with o,4O0 miles of road which
/ ho will 1oyya fnZoNr%,.o1 r. M, 3 oIsoa
tion applies directly to Mr.. Ripley, it
is said. Asked who would probably
be elected president, he answered that
he could not tell, though he had no
objection to naming the man of his
preference. That man he said is Vice
President D. B. Robinson, and he
added he believed Mr.. Robinson was
also the preference Of all the Western
men who will have a voice in the
matter.
I#HEaH Nav VYyc-ko--r AHs-4~aeat
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
COLD WEATHER.
A Cold Wave Sweeps Down on Chicago
With Slcet and Snow.

~ "AU
CHICAGO, Nov. s0.-Snow has been
falling heavily in the far Northwest.
There was no particular promise OF
winter here, but a cold wind changed
the situation and snow and sleet have
been falling. The streets are covered
with over three inches of mixed mud
and snow, traffic in the city is
hampered and pedestrians are hav
ing a terrible time. Telegraph
and telephone wires are covered
with a mass of slush and as a result
telegraphic communication with the
Northwest and many points west is
seriously interrupted, wires having
been broken and in some places poles
pulled down by the strain. Trains are
delayed on several railroads west and
north. the storm having been most UNI
expected and Of such q nature as to
render the pulling of heavy loads very
difficult.
From the Manitoba line zero weather
is reported. 1t is rapidly moving
south and east and at the present rate
will extend over the entire upper lake
region, the Upper Mississippi and
Lower Ohio and Missouri valleys.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
WE IA lRRlGATE.

re supreme court says che Aker's Lev
- All Right.
The constitutlonality OF the AAers
district irrigation law was sustalned
Yesterday by the supreme Fer
sons interested in irrigation and devel-
opment Of the industry are corresponds
ingly happy, as the district law was
one Of two acts introduced in the last
legislature which were intended to pc
enforced Jointly in order to develop the
industry. The first ~pertained to water
rights and state control of water. On
der that act the present state ooard OF
irrigation is adjudicating claims OF
farmers and canal companies for wa
ter. In a suit passed upon several
months age by the supreme ouft, the
irrigationists won the point contended
for. the right to condemn right OF way
for bitches.
THE case decided yesterday was en-
titled Alfalfa Irrigation District VS..
Collins, an appeal from Keith county.
The district act provides for the organ
ization of irrigation districts and the
taxation Of property to pay the cost Oh
constructing bitches and other neces-
sary works. The act is copied after
the California law. Bonds to the
amount Of $40, 600 were voted in the new
district to pay the cost of constructing
a ditch seventeen miles long.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
WREcKED BY BAD q
Is New York Central East M Deraned
and Three Men KILLED.


and Three Men KILLED.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-The New
York Central fast mail train, east
bound, was wrecked yesterday about
two miles west of Rome, the fshplates
of the rail having been removed. Tho
engine and all but one Of the cars were
ditched, and the engineer, Nate Hagar
OF Albany, and two tramps were
killed, while the fireman, Christ Wag-
ner OF Albany, and Mail Clerks Porter
and M. j. Mccarthy we're injured.
h was the second attempt within
three weeks to wreck the same train
near the same spot, which ia an ideal
one for the commission of such a
crime. 1t IS on a heavy down grade,
and trains usually run down it at the
rate OF sixty-five miles an hour. There
as not a house within half a mile of
the place. The wreckers first broke
into the section tool house and stole
some tools, with which they removed
the fishplates and pulled out the
spikes.
The train consisted Of four mail
cars and three %sleepers. There were
eleven postal clerks and fourteen pas
sengers aboard, besides the members
Of the crew. When the crash came
h engine was thrown from the track
into the ditch and completely SUBJ
merged in the mud, only the driving
wheels on the left side being above
the earth q. Tihr forward mail car was
thrown two car lengths ahead Of the
engine and rolled down the bank so
that itlay lengthwise toward the rails.
The second car. in which the mail
clerks were working, was thrown on
the tender of the engine and badly
demolished. The third and fourth
cars We're also wrecked, the ends Of
both being broken. The first one Of
the sleepers was thrown from the rails
and completely rolled over so that the
trucks were q distance from the rails.
The second car was simply turned on
its side, while the rear sleeper did not
leave the tracks at all.
John Hildreth and Frederick Bris-
tol, two boys, were later arrested by
the detectives. Young Hildreth broke
down and confessed that he and Bris-
tol, with Herbert Plato and Theodore
Hubbard, also boys, had broken open
the tool house and with the aid of tho
tools thus secured had removed the
fish plates from the rails. No cause is
given for the deed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
DAT MEAL MILL BURNED
Loss of Twenty-Five Thousand, With No
Insurance. "

Aoss VI 1W6HGy-NVe InOueanO, With No
Insurance.. y
SEWARD, Neb., Nov. 2O.-Special.)H
This place was visited at 3 o'clock this
morning by the most destructive fire in
it's history. At that hour the oatmeal
mill of Walker Bros. & Co., the largest
one in the state, was discovered on fire,
and was a mass Of flame when first dis
covered. Owing to the hour at which it
was discovered nearly everybody was
sound asleep. An early freight on the
B.. & M. aroused many by blowing it's
whistle, but the fire had completely
enveloped he large building and the
fire department was powerless. The
loss is about $25, 900, with not a cents
insurance. A Union Pacific a loaded
with oatmeal stood on the track along
side sne mill to be shipped out and
which a been receipted for by the
Elkhorn agent, was also totally de-
stroyed. The loss is not only a heavy
one to the owners, but also to the city.
n origin of the fire is unknown,
The mill was shut down at 4 b. m. and
Captain Walker went all through the
mill, as is his custom, before closing 1t
In the evening and found everything
all right.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
TALKS ON
professor Swezcy Tells How to H1s
band Nebraska,s Moistn,a

HASTINGS, Neb., Nov. so.-special.)-
Professor sWezey Of the state uni
versity addressed a large gathering Of
farme,S at the second Of a series Of
mcnthly meetings of the Adams co1,ntv
farmers institute this afternoon On ahe
supJect OF evaporation. He said fha
rainfall in Nebraska was amply suffi-
Gent to raise a good crop If the moist
ure could be retained in the gro1nd
Ihls could be done by mulching or bv
'tillage or shallow sllrfaca
u ovation, especially mmedlafelv
following q rain, destroying the eanii.
!ary action n thus arresting evapora-
ton. He gave it as his opinion that
tnere was no way by which the rainfall.
could be Increased. nor did he thinI
ina In sufficient number could
pe established to increase the humidity
OF the atmosphere to any appreciahls
extent; and he doubted the ~advisabilitv
q sucn 9 system. The professors al.
aress was listened to with marked at
by all present. soiA'eo
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
PEAK is APPOINTED.
President Chooses n Kansas City Man rs
asss5ass@@1@ Minister to sRitger.a an 1.

Kf0aiucnb ChooSes y KANSAS CITY Alan as
ses# A1sn:ster to switzer. An 1.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-The presi-
dent has appointed John l.. Peak Of
Kansas City, Mo-, United States min
lister to Switzerland, to succeed Min
lister Broadhead, resigned.
KANSAS City, Mo-, Nov. !9.-Mr.
Reak was FIRST informed of his appoint
merit as minister to Switzerland in his
home at sci Locust street shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock yesterday by a re-
porter. He read the dispatch from
Washington announcing it and
smiled quietly.
am glad to receive the official an
~nouncement OF my appointment, /" he
said. II have been expecting it, but
one a never fully depend upon any
thing until it happens, you know.
cannot say much except that /
shall accept the appointment and
await the Presidents instructions.
Elk Minister Broadhead is probably in
the United States by this time, or at
least on the ocean on his way home.
It is necessary for this country TO have
Q representative in Switzerland. as
soon as possible, but ] am afraid / will
no be able to leave until January i.
Congress convenes December 2 andmy
@appointEneatcannot be confirmed until
after that time. Then it will take me
some days TO arrange my affairs g
f highly appreciate the honor the
President has done me and will do nv
duties gladly
John u. Peak came to Missouri from
Kentucky in 1868. HeAwas born in
Scott county, Kentucky, in 1899, and
graduated from the law school ut
Louisville in 1860. He engaged in the
practice Of law and in the insurance
and real estate business with Joseph
N. Rodgers, nowsof Chicago, and ac-
CURED the nucleus OF q fortune
early iii life. Id 1877 Mr.. Peak ac-
Scepted the nomination of prosecuting
attorney of8JacksOn county at the
hands of his party and was success
full IN election to the Office three
times. Upon his retirement from this,
the only political Office he ever held,
he engaged III the private practice Of
law. Mr.. Peak has always taken an
active part inFthe state and congres-
sional campaigns of HIS party, adyo-
eating clean and honest HaSthods in
politics and countenancing none other.
He is q leading member Of the Baptlst
church and q Sunday schOolworker OF
wide reputation in church circles as
we'll as one az the most distinguished
nembers 81 the Missouri bar.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-11-29
Irrigation Matters.

State Engineer Howell of the state
board OF irrigation has given notice or
places and dates of hearings by the
board of. irrigation within the water
sheds Of the Loup and Elkhorn rivers;
also including the tributaries Of the
Niobrara river within Holt and Ante
lope counties. The notice is as follows:
"Notice is hereby given that the hear
ings in the matter Of adjudication OF
the rights to the use of water elaine
prior to the 4th day Of April, 1895, with
in the watersheds of the Loup and Elk
horn rivers; also that part of the water
shed of the Niobrara river included
within the boundaries Of Holt and An
telope. counties will be held for the sew
eral counties included therein by an
officer of the state board of irrigation
at the places and upon the dates indi-
Gated as follows:
For Cherry, Thomas, Blaine and
Brown counties at 8 o'clock a. M. Mon
day, the I'd day of December, 1895,
at the county clerks office in Thedford,
Thomas county.
For Custer county at 9 O'Clock a. m.
Tuesday, December 8, 1895, at the coun-
ty clerks Office in Broken Bow, Custer
county.
FOR Wheeler, Loup, Garfield, Val
ley and Greeley counties at 9 o'clock
a. m. Thursday, December S, 1895, at the
county clerks office, Ord.
For Buffalo and Howard counties at
9 o'clock p. m. Friday, December 6, 1895,
at the county clerks office, st. Paul,
toward county.
For Antelope county at 8 o'clock am.
Tuesday, December 10, 1895, at the coun-
ty clerks Office in Neigh, Antelope,
county.
For Holt county at 9 o'clock a. M.
Wednesday, December II, 1895, at the
office of the county clerk in O'Neill,
Holt county.
FOR Boon M Platte counties at 8
O'Clock a. m. Friday, December IS, 1895.
ct the office of the village clerk in Ge-
noa.
claimants for the waters Of the
state Of Nebraska within the water
sheds above enumerated are urged in
every instance to attend the hearings
for which the above dates are sat, as
the value of whatever rights they may
deem to have acquired previously to
April 4, 1895, because Of the construc-
ton, or the commencement Of oonstruc-
ton, of irrigation works, will largely
depend upon the decisions of the board
in the matters considered. 1t is, there
fore, apparent that the appearance OF
claimants at these hearings for the
purpose Of giving additional evidence
in their behalf, if necessary, is OF the
utmost Importance to the interests in
Nolved."