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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-08-27

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Hog cholera prevails in Jasper
county.
Silver bullion has declined con-
siderably during the past week.
The Texas democrats have re-
nominated CulbersOn for governor.
The Vicksburg Exposition will
open NoY. 9th and continue to the
14th.
OF Moore, founder OF Winona.
Miss, died on the 22nd, aged 81
years.
The democrats of Delaware have
nominated E. W. Tunnel for gov
ernor.
Thousands of hogs have died of
cholera in the nelghborhoOd Of
Florence, Ala.
The Texas cattle fever has attack
ed the cows in the vicinity of
Nashville, Tenn.
A new bank with a capital stock
of $4,000 has been organized at
West Point, Miss.
A cave, said to be the largest in
the world, has been discovered
near Hudson, Mo.
The Bauk of Montreal refuses
now to take United States bills OF
silver from any one.
A Cincinnati man has been ship
ping war material to Guatemala
concealed in bales of hay.
Miss Abigail Dodge Gail Hamil.
ton),th famous authoress, died last
week at her home in Hamilton
M ass.
On the 10Th Colum bus, Miss, ex.
perlenced the warmest weather on
record for that section-I04 in the
shade.
There is mystic anG social club
in New Orleans known under tue
euphonlous name of "W ooloomoo'
ujTFos' -GM
j. II. Barber, an estimable citlzer
of Clarke county, was killed at En-
terprise few days ago by being
thrown from his buggy.
The Picayune's froggle says tina
there are but two things certain
citizen of New Orleans can't eat
for dinner-breakfast aud supper
Dwight NJ. Lowry, a member o
the democratic state commute,
from Philadelphia, has resigned
He could not indorse the Chicag,
platform.
After the congressional conven-
ton of the second district had tai
ed 200 ballots, Hon. VIM. V. Sull
ivan, of Oxford, a dark horse, wa
nominated.
Dun's Review of the 22nd saws
Failures for the week have beer
$50 iu the United States against 22
last year, and u in Canada agains
43 last year.
A cloudbnrst at Mongollon, n
~, rendered 100 families homeless
Several lives were lost and muct
mining and other property destroy
ed or damaged.
Lord Russell, chief justice 0
England, and party, attended the
annual meeting of the American
Bar Association, held at Saratoga
N. T., on the 10Th INST.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
PERSONAL.

Representative VI. T. Mcmahon has intro
dnced bill to retire Col y. 8 Gordon, 9Th U.
S. Cav, now stationed at Fort Myer near
Washington, a Brigadier- General Col.
Gordon was one Of the frst men in the country
to enlist He became one Of the Frontier
Guard" organized in April, 1861. by Senator
Jas. III. Lane, Of Kansas for tho protection Of
President LiucoIn's person, and later he was
given a commission as Second Lieutenant in
the "a U. :. Dragons. This regiment became
the Cd Q. s. Cav. and he served 80 years in
it, rising to be Lieutenant Colonel in 1880.
In 1892 he was promoted to Colonel Of the 9Th
U. S. Cav, and will retire next May under the
age limit. He was taken prisoner at the first
Ball Run with Gen. Wilcox
1t turns out that the scientific licking adj.
nj Mustered to Dr. Jameson and his band OF
flibusters was the neat work Of an old soldier
who learned bis trade in the Union army. PET
Joubert. the Viee-President OF the TransvaaI
Republic, and General COmmandant of its army,
is Pennsylvania by birth, and served three
years in a regiment from the Keystone State
The old vets show up in great shape all over
the world.
Ex-Gov. Mckinley returned to his home az
Canton, o., last week, and was received by a
grand assemblage Of his fellow-citizens without
regard to party. He will at once resume the
practice OF law. He has accepted an invitation
from the Republican Clubs of Chicago to ad-
dress them on Lineoln's Day.
Private Dalzell writes that many old Ohio
soldiers have got some nice plums in the new
deal Among those are Capt. P. Folkerth,
Sergeant-at-Arms in the Ohio Senate; n. M.
Roach-eight months prisoner at Anderson
vile, and a member of Gen. Leggetts 18th
Ohio-Reeording Clerk of the Ohio Senate,
and Serge w. A. Slenker, LIST Conn. II. A.,
Assistant Doorkeeper. National House Of Rep
resentatives. Comrades Roach and Slenker
reside at Caldwell, o., and have both been
Commanders of Noble Post, 49l, Departments
of Ohio, GAR.
The youngest daughter Of Revolutionary
soldier, so far as known, was discovered at
Lebanon, Conn. recently. and added to the
membership of the Willimantic Chapter of the
Daughters of the Revolution. She is Mrs.
Augustus Avery. and is only IS years old. Her
father was "a years old at the time of her birth
lie was doubtless one of the youngest soldiers
in the war There are only eight other daugh-
tiers Of Revolutionary soldiers belonging to the
Order.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

AFTER having given Captain Gen.
eral Campos 100000 men and nearly
a year of time the Spanish Government
has decided that he has signally failed
to quell the Cuban instruction, and re-
moved him. This is a great triumph
for the Cubans, for Gen. Campos has
been considered very much the ablest
commander the Spanish have. 1t is
not believed that any other man can be
found who will do nearly as well as he
did. His friends say that his removal
is really tribute to him, because it was
brought about by his refusal to carry
out the Governments orders to follow the
sanguinary policy usually adopted by
Spaniards in dealing with rebell;ons.
He knew that Cuba was too near the
United States for the old style of gen.
eral burning and slaughter, and to at
tempt such thing would quickly bring
an interference which would be fatal to
the Spanish rule over the island. This
must be taken with some grains of
allowance, for Campos never was in a
position to do much wholesale shooting
and destroying. The Revolutionists
could play that game much better than
he. 1t is presumed that his successor
will try to be much more radical and
savage. If so, this will only bring the
end sooner. A single well-authenti-
Gated atrocity will bring the United
States down upon him in no unmistak-
able manner.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
THE vICKsBURG MILITARY PARK.

Work on the project of National
Military Park at Vicksburg is now going
forward in earnest. There have been in
Washington for some days Maj. C. l..
Davidson, Vice-President of the Vicks-
burg Military Park Association Capt.
w. T. Rigby, of Iowa, Secretary; Col.
c. c. FlOwerree, Of Mississippi, Treas
urer, and Col. ]. G. Everest, of Illinois,
and Capt. Merry, Directors, for the pur-
pose Of consulting the Military Commit
tees Of both Houses with reference to
legislation. 1t was expected that Lieut.
Gen. 5. ID. Lee, the President, would also
be present, But he was detained by an
outbreak Of smallpox in the Mississippi
Agricultural College, of which he is
President.
There was meeting last Saturday
evening, at which members of the House
and Senate Military Committees were
present. The officers Of the Association
presented map of the proposed park,
and explained their plan. They also
showed options secured on about three
fourths Of the ground proposed to be
taken, which were obtained at very rea-
sonable figures In all only about 200
acres will be required, and this will cover
all the ground Of the actual gghting
Gen. Boynton, of the Chickamauga
Park, Gen. Carmen, Of the Antietam
Park, and Col. Cadle, of the Shiloh Park
were also called in consultation. The
members of the Military Committee.
approved of the plan, and bill was pre-
pared appropriating $4,000, of which
$4,000 will be devoted to the purchase
Of the ground. This was introduced into
the House by Gen. Catchings, of Missis
sippi.
Gen. Gordon, Commander-in-Chief O.
the Confederate Veterans, has issued |.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

JOHN ETHERIDGE MCCALL, of Ten
nessee, who beat the pestiferous Enloe,
made his maiden speech during the dis
cussion Of the Pension Appropriation
Bill, and it was a fine one. He is a
young man, having been born in 1859
but his heart is on the side of the old
veterans, and he made fine argument
in their behalf One of his telling
points was an instance Of where q
Special Examiner called on soldiers
widow in his District who was an appli-
cant for a pension. The poor woman,
anxious to propitiate him, slipped out
and borrowed from her neighbors ma
terial with which to give him a good
dinner. He repaid her kindness by re-
porting that the good dinner she gave
him was an evidence of her ability to
earn livelihood.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

WE think seriously at times of urg-
ing the adoption by the National En-
campment of an iron-clad regulation
that no speech at a Campfire or Post
meeting shall exceed 20 minutes in
length, and where one of these is made
in an evening, no other speech shall ex-
coed five minutes. The adoption Of
such hard and fast rule would do
more to make meetings interesting than
anything else that can be done. Any
man can make one good fair point in
side of five minutes, and one good point
is all that should be expected from a
speaker. Let him give the other fellow
show. Ten short, crisp speeches in an
hour, are seventy and seven times better
than one occupying the whole time, no
matter who the speaker may be. Let
us have the five minute rule, and we
shall have five times as many comrades
at one meeting.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
No. q, NATIONAL TRIBUNE LIBRARY.
"PEKSI0K STATISTICS"

No. 4, NATIONAL TRIBUNE LIBRARY
Pension Statistics-will appear this week,
and DE filed with matter Of The greatest in
terest to every veteran and friend of the
veterans. Ii will contain tables giving:
Number of Pensioners of all classes on the
rolls, with rates OF pension.
Amounts paid veterans of the Rebellion
Of the Mexican War and the War Of 1912 ur
TO June 80, 1895.
Amount paid bondholders up to same
date.
Number Of pensioners in each State and
Territory and Foreign Countries, and the
amounts they receive.
Complete tables Of ratings for all The
different disabilities, etc, etc, etc.
Everybody wants one of these. Sent Il
any address on receipt of 5 cents. Six fol
Is cents.
Address, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, 172.
n. Y. Ave, Washington, ID. c.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
Cen. HICKMAN Dead.

BRIG. Gen Charles Adams Hickman died
his home in Germantown, Pa, Jan. I3 Gen.
Hickman had been a sufferer from wounds
over since the war, but his death was due to
Brights disease, and his final illness lasted
about eight weeks. He was born in Easton,
Pa, on Dec. 8, 1922. In the Mexican war ho
served as Sergeant of the United States Volti-
geurs, and he entered the civil war as a Cap
tain in the LIST Pa. He received his commits
siOn as Brigadier- General of Volunteers on Nov.
90 1862. He served in Burnside's expedition
to North Carolina, and afterwards in the Army
of the James He commanded the defenses OF
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va, in the Winter
of 1S63-'64, and at Drewey's Bluff, Va, May
IS, 1864. He was captured and sent to-
Libby Prison. and afterwards to Macon, Ca,
and to Charleston, S. C., where he was one OF
the 81 men who were placed under the fire OF
the Federal guns. He was exchanged, and
commanded the Eighteenth Corps at the capt
IRE of Fort Harrison. During the past eight
years Gen. Heck man lived in Germanton with
his son, Frank b. Hickman. His wife is still
living.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
stirring address, asking their cordial in
terest and assistance.
MORE WORDS THAN FACTS.

Mr.. Franklin Bartlett, who repre-
sents one of the New York City Dis
tricts, is a gentleman whose supply Of
language is totally out of proportion to
his stock Of facts. He was educated al
Oxford University, England, out Of
whatever small amount of Americanism
he may have originally possessed, and
consequently has cordial dislike to the
old soldiers and all that pertains to
them. Last week he rashly started in
to defend the present administration OF
the Pension Bureau, and attack the pen
sion bill under discussion, as well as the
Disability Law of 1890. He had copi-
ously supplied himself with words and
phrases, but was wofully short on exact
facts. The result was that he suffered fear
fully at the hands of Messrs. johnson
(Ind.), Stone, Hardy, Brumm, Steele,
Hemenway, Picker, Pitney, Northway,
Bingham. and Others, who had the cru
city to ask him simple questions which he
could not answer. His time was extended
indefinitely, and he was given every
chance, but he came out of the fray
with his plumes dropping sadly.
He had no hesitation in pronouncing
Commissioner Raum's Interpretation of
the Disability Law absolutely wrong"
but pressed as he was he could give no
other reason for the same, except that
Commissioner Lochren had decided it
so, and Commissioner Lochren was HIM
self gallant soldier" etc. 1t is unnec-
essary to say that this reason was not
accepted as sufficient one.
Among other stale statements made
by Mr.. Bartlett was the often disproved
one that our pensions cost more than
the standing army of Germany or
France. This does not begin to be true,
and if it were it would have no bearing
on the matter. The men and women
who are on the pension roll represent
much more hard fighting than all the
armies of Europe have done in the life
time of this generation. 1t is but nat
ural that the pension expenditure should
be very great
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
GOOD WORK.

We are hearing from the comrades of
good work being done all over the
country on the lines we have suggested.
George X. Smith Post, Sedalia, Mo-,
reports great increase in membership
during the past year. They send us a
club of subscribers for THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE, promise to send more, and
say: "The comrades all indorse your
Service Pension Bill and applaud your
efforts to serve Them"
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

VIM. c. ARNOLD, who represents the
Twenty-eighth District of Pennsylvania,
is a young mamie was born in 1851
and this is his first entry into public
life, but he is evidently a power. He
made brief speech'on the Pension APP
preparation Bill which bristled with I'M
answerable facts and convincing logic.
The veterans of his District can be proud
of him.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

REPORTS have been current during
the past week that the great feet which
England is preparing with such haste is
intended for the Bermudas. This is very
improbable. England could make no
greater mistake. 1t would be very diff
cult to avoid war if she should offer US
such an insult as to mass large fleet in
the vicinity of our coast for the purpose
of awning us into retreat from the Mon
roe Doctrine. Our whole people would
rise up as one man, and no Administers
ton could avoid at once taking such an
attitude that England could only escape
immediate hostilities by humiliating
breakdown. The destination of the fleet
is still mystery, but we can regard it
as certain that it has no reference to us.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

FRANKLIN BARTLETT said that if he
had been old enough he would have
been in the army. The Congressional
Directory says that he was born in 1S47.
There were many thousand boys no
older than he who did splendid service
for the Union, and if we mistake not
Senator-elect j. B. Foraker was no older
when he led his company, with grand
gallantry, up the slope of Mission Ridge.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

THE ancient Kingeom of Siam, which
England and France have just divided
between them, has 100000 square miles
of territory, or nearly as much as Texas,
and over 100000 of people. This
makes a fine addition to the markets of
both countries, for the Siamese are fair
ly civilized, and buy great many
manufactured goods.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

In the many troubles into which Mr.
Franklin Bartlett fell, his most particu-
lar trouble was in coming under the
crushing hands of Col. r. w. Blue, of
Kansas. Col. Blue manipulated with a
good-humored contempt that must have
been infinitely CALLING. He brought out
the fact that Bartlett did not live in the
district he represented, and that all the
circulars, letters, resolutions, appeals,
ETC., with which the members of the House
we're being flooded, to induce them to re-
frain from standing up for the honor of
the country, and asserting the rights Of
this Republic against the aggressions of
Great Britain, came from the circle in
which he moved. Bartlett was left in a
very fabby and nerveless condition.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
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The National tribune., 1896-01-23

SENATOR HALE's explanation that
Col. Coppinger delayed taking out his
naturalization papers on account of
possible property interests in Ireland
hardly suffices. We don't want a man
so doubtful of his citizenship promoted
over the heads of 13 other Colonels as
to whose Americanism there is no ques-
ton.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
REPRESENTATIVE HEMENwAY, of In

REPRESENTATIVE HEMENwAY, of In
diana, made very strong point in the
discussion of the Pension Appropriation
Bill by showing that the proof of mar
riage required by the Pension Bureau is
much greater than is deemed necessary
by the courts Of his State to send man
to the penitentiary. He had convicted
a man of bigamy who was sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years on much
less proof of marriage than he, Mr..
Hemenway, had been required to fur
nish when trying to get pension for the
widow of a constituent who had served
his country four years.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

J. FRANK HANLY, of Indiana, dis
seeted Bartlett very neatly in a few
words:
"There was none who heard the gentle
man from New York
Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
who did not feel that he was not the friend
of the soldier, but an enemy, willing to
wound, yet afraid to strike When pressed
and piled with inquiries asking him to state
his position on questions pending, he each
time sought refuge in evasion"
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
THE BASIC QUALITY OF SERVICE
PENSION

PENSION.
There is a basic, a fundamental char.
acter to a Service Pension that is fasci'
mating.
1t makes as the groundwork, the
cornerstone of all pension legislation,
the principle that man who served SO
much as 80 days and was honorably
discharged earned a pension of at least
IS a month.
This is a great starting point. 1t
makes foundation upon which we can
build as upon a rock. Service of at
least three months, and an honorable
discharge, are the only requirements to
entitle a man TO SIS month.
We begin with this. No other proof
is needed or can be asked than these
two easily-established facts. If they
are shown by the records the pension
must be given. No Secretary of the
Interior, no Commissioner Of Pensions
can deny it. No other tests or require
ments can be made. No Board of EX-
aiming Surgeons can bubble over the
rating. No Board of Revision can scale
it down. No prying, spying Special
Examiners can collect and garble neigh
borhood gossip to its prejudice.
1t must be given, and it must stay
when given. The pensioner can view
the approach of an election with entire
indifference. No political upheavals can
disturb his securely vested right.
Then we carefully provide that a
Service Pension shall be merely the
mans due and right for having served
faithfully so much. He gets tlis as q
Service Pension. He is not estopped
from getting a higher rate under any
other law. He is not even prejudiced
in the prosecution of his claim for higher
rates for disabilities, or for any other
cause. He takes his Service Pension as
a general right, which he enjoys with
every other comrade, and continues to
press his claims on whatever grounds
he may personally have for higher
allowance.
Nor will it stand in the way of any
other general or special pension legisla-
ton. Having established as a principle
that an honorable service of three
months entities man to So month,
we have splendid basis upon which
10 cldAIH UlgneT TdueS LOT lHOse WHO
served longer than three months, for
those who were in prison, for those who
were. disabled, and so on through all
the list of provisions that we think just
and right.
All these considerations must appeal
so powerfully to the common sense of
every comrade, to his perception of what
is wise, just and expedient, that we are
sure that every one, when be comes to
think the matter over carefully, will be
enthusiastic for the immediate passage
of such a measure. Think it over at
once, comrades, and act. Let us have
everybody in solid array for an imme-
date passage of Service Pension Bill.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

REPRESENTATIVE WALKER, of Vir-
ginia, and gallant Confederate, says
that the Confederates in his State, with
few exceptions of men of little infu-
ence and standing, aSe heartily in favor
of giving the Union veterans just and
liberal pensions.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
REPRESENTATIVE CHAs. III. GIBSON

EEPREsENTATIvE CHAs. III. GIBSON,
of Tennessee, who is doing much good
work for the veterans, brought to the
attention of the House, as an illustra-
ton, the case Of Mrs. Selena Brewer, of
his District, widow of member of the
Sd Tenn, and now so years old, who is
required to produce proof of witnesses
"who have known her continuously"
since her marriage, 63 years ago.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
OW n e a DIV.
The National Tribune Library, No. 6.

President Monroe and His Doctrine is
The title Of No. 6 Of THE NATIONAL TRIB.
UNE LIBRARY. it contains:
The Biography Of President Monroe, with
q portrait and other illustrations.
The text Of the Monroe Doctrine" as
cnunciated by its author, and a history OF
the circumstances surrounding its announce
meDt.
The letter Of Secretary Olney TO Lord
Salisbury, in which the position of the
United States is fully expounded.
Lord Salisbury's rejoinder
President Cleveland's recent message 10
Congress on the subject
A map Of the region in South America
under dispute.
Sent postpaid, for ) cents, or six for %
cents.
The National tribune., 1896-01-23

THE German Emperor is reported to
have said that he is at the head Of a
coalition which will definitely limit Eng
lands Entertainments, and that he
laughs at the idea of her being able to
ally herself with France and Russia.