The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-21
IN SHENANDOAH'S VALLEY
C0NNECTIoUi,s TRIBUTE TO HON.
 ORED GRAVES.

The Dedication of the 1 Eth 0. V. Monument in the National Cemetery at Winchester, Va.--An Impressive Occasion--A Typical Old Southern Town--Strong Sound Mon ey Sentiment in the old Dominion State.
 uletter From COURIER Correspondent)
 Winchester, Va, Oct. Is, 1S96,-The joint excursion of the Second Heavy Artillery and Twelfth Reginental as- sociations of Connecticut and their friends, in numbers just 1S1, left Jersey City Sunday morning at g o'clock on special train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the Shenandoah Val ley, Va, and Washington, D. C., to dedicate respective monuments to be erected by the state of Connecticut in memory of the honored dead of the two regiments.
 The train started from Jersey City on time and kept up its scheduled time until Washington was reached at o'clock. The trip to the capitol city was an uneventful one and a very en- joyable one. Between Baltimore and Washington, after a first class dinner had been eaten at Baltimore, two enter prising excursionists started down through the cars, one in advance with some slips of paper, which he distrib- uted to the other. .excursionists with the request that each should write the name of the candidate he favored for the presidency. The second man col lected the ballots, which were duly counted and the result of the votes was announced in each case. The slips showed that 104 votes had been cast of which number Mckinley had 90, Bryan g, Palmer 1, blank 4, and one for .tThe Devil Himself" The experiment caused much merriment and tended to dispense with the monotony of the long ride. On the north and west of Wash ington evidence of the recent hurricane could be seen on all sides. Trees torn up by the roots and broken down and with huge branches scattered in all di- rections. In several places the trees had fallen across the railroad tracks and had to be chopped away to make room for the trains to pass. The train left Washington, after a stop of ten minutes, for Harper's Ferry and Win chester and was delayed for sundry causes at different points owing to the ,. single tracked road, and had to lay over on side tracks to let trains from the west pass among which were three heavily loaded excursions returning from Canton, O.. where the excursion ists had been to call on William McKin- ley. One high trestle bridge fully one hundred feet above the road and tenn porarily constructed was passed over and a sigh of relief involuntarily es- <caped from everybody on the train when it was safely passed over. Har- per's Ferry was reached about 5:30, fully an hour behind the scheduled time. The principal point of interest that centers on this place was its his- torical connection with old John Browns attempt at insurrection in 1859, together with the prominence Harper's Ferry attained early in the days of the rebellion as a military post of impor- tance. The spot where the old engine house formerly stood, where John Brown and his handful of associates for time defied the Maryland militia to dislodge them, is now marked by a granite shaft recently erected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the build- ing have long since been removed en- tire to Chicago. The next point of in terest after leaving Harper's Ferry was Charlestown, Va, where John Brown was hung, which is only about ten miles from the scene of his ill-timed attempt, which resulted so disastrous ly. Winchester was reached about ' o'clock and the excurslonists were dis posed of with accommodate at the Taylor house and at several boarding houses. The city is typical specimen of the old stouthern town and contains less than 5000 inhabitants. The streets are paved mostly with vitriied brick and the sidewalks are also of brick The residents seem to be quite respec- table and are ready to make all that there is to be made out of the excur- sionists. There seems to be a scarcity of men and an over- abundance of wo- men, This evening the Methodists will give festival in the basement of the church and the visitors have received several urgent invitations to be present. At o'clock this morning the line will be formed and march to the National cemetery, where the Twelfth Regimen tai association will dedicate It's monu- ment. The rest of the day will be spent in visiting the battlefields and other points of interest. On Tuesday morning Cedar Creek will be visited and later the train will leave for Har- per's Ferry, where a stop of two hours will be made and then on to Washing ton, where on Wednesday the Second Heavy Artillery will dedicate it's mona- ment in the National cemetery on Ar ington Heights. The remainder of the time will be devoted to sightseeing in and about Washington. Most of the excursionists will return home in the latter part of the week.
 w. F. LANE.
 Winchester, Va, Oct 19.-To-day, the second of the Shenandoah valley excur- sion, has been very pleasant and in- teresting one and the weather has been all that could be desired, just cool enough to be comfortable. The services of dedicating the Twelfth regiment monument in the National cemetery were very interesting.
 A full account of tile same is given in the Winchester Star, which will ,,ro1,a int to ha ssCo1,rier.'' T