Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-12-28

The request was complied With ana q
report was furnished of so elaborate
and complete a nature that the French
minister of the interior offered to pay
a handsome sum for it. This was re-
fused, as the general said that the work
was not in his line, but he was prevail
ed upon to accept souvenir OF consld-
cradle value from the emperor him
self.
Shortly after this the exile yielded to
the many urgent requests of his friends
at home and returned to Georgia. Fer
haps no other Confederate who visited
Europe made a more brilliant reputa-
ton in so short a time.-Wallace Put-
nam Reed, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Cushing's Bravery.
One of the replies of history, which
but for it's anti-Scriptural emphasis
would have long since found it's way
into the school readers, was that OF
young Lieut.. Gushing just as he was
pushing the deadly torpedo over the
log boom against the Confederate iron
clad Albemarle.
"Who are you?" had been demanded
by the startled outlook as the little FED
eral boat shot into sight from the dark
ness.
you'll id soon find out" was
Cushing's CHEEKY answer as he showed
and exploded the torpedo against the
Albemarle. Then, crash came the can
mons blast from the now hopelessly
disabled ironclad, and into the water
and the night went Gushing, happily
to be finally rescued and find his way
back to his ship again
GA more gallant deed the world never
saw" said the frank captain OF the Al
bemarle ever afterwards.
l was recently told by a commander
in the navy a little story of Cushing,
which I do not remember to have seen
in print, showing the doughty stuff he
was made of even before that wonder
full attack upon the Albemarle, writes
". S. Walker The ship with which
he had been connected was, earlier ID
the war, briefly detailed in Egyptian
waters, watching for a wandering Con-
federate cruiser. One evening young
Gushing was ashore at a table d'hote
dinner in a hotel at Alexandria. Sew
eral officers Of English Warships then
in the harbor were also at the table.
One Of them, a cockney young lieuten-
ant, sat directly opposite Gushing and
was marked in his impudent treatment
Of the latter.
A Yankee naval officer was to our
Englishman, who plainly hadn't read
I'D much on the war of 1912, something
uncommonly funny. After several nudg-
ings Of his fellows, who were inclined
to at least be unobtrusiVe and decent,
and after q number of grimaces and
other pantomimic evidences of curios-
ity. our gay Briton dropped his elbows
on the table, his chin upon his hands,
and leaning his face, with a monocle in
one eye and the necessary squint in the
other, toward Gushing, proceeded to
give the latter wantonly insulting
specimen Of the British stare.
Gushing quietly took out his card
case and, holding card by diagonal
corners between his thumb and finger
until it bent sufficiently to give it full
projectile force, let it fly plump into
the astonished lordling's face.
Il presume you understand what that
means?" said Gushing.
But before the Wrathy young Eng
lishman could reply his senior, a digni-
fed captain who had seen the whole
performance, said to Gushing: yes, sir,
he does understand, and the young
puppy asks your pardon for his imper-
thence"
Then the whole English party, after
shaking hands with Gushing, withdrew.
The matter was reported to the admiral
of their fleet, private but official repri-
mand given the gold-mounted Snob who
had caused the scene, and a written
order was promulgated drawing the
fleets attention to the fact that United
States officers and sailors were to be
treated in all social and official inter
course exactly like those Of other ma
lions. This was something in those
w
and the biggest kind of a war develop
ing swiftly on our hands. When this
young Englishman year or two later
read of Cushing's marvellous feat in
sinking the AlbemarIe he must have
realized more than ever that he had
been fooling with something which was
loaded clear to the muzzle.
Grants Narrow Escape from Capture.
4 few days before, an occurrence had
happened which came very near depriy
ing the armies of the services of Gen
Grant in the Virginia campaign. On
his return to headquarters after his
last visit to the. President in Washing
ton, when his special train reached
WarrentoWn Junction he saw large
cloud Of dust to the east of the road
Upon making inquiries of the station
master as to it's cause, he learned that
Col. Mosby, who commanded partisan
Confederate force, called by his own
people Mosby's ''conglomerates," and