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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20

London, April 19.-In spite of the fact of it's being a holiday here to-day, there was great activity at the foreign office, where the full staff was at work the whole day long. The Italian, German, Austrian, Swedish French and Turkish ministers had a lengthy conference with Sir Thomas H. Sanderson, the permanent secretary of the foreign of flee. The latter informed a representa- tive of the Associated Press that the powers had not yet decided to interfere in the war between Greece and Turkey, which, he added, should be sharp and decisive, as the Greeks have little chance of ultimately winning.
 St, Petersburg, April 19.-Referring to the formation of an alliance between Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro, it is semi i-of11cially pointed out to-day that the league being formed Is not only for their protection against Turkey and Austria, but against Pan-Hellene aspir- ations in the Balkan peninsula. There fore, it is added, Greece is unable to count upon any support from them in the present conflict, and, moreover,
 
 ly assured Russia that their govern ments will maintain strict neutrality. Washington, April 19.-Another and belated dispatch from MT. Terrell was also given out at the state department to-day. It bears date of Saturday from Pera, the diplomatic suburb of Constan- tinople, and in 1t MT. Terrell confirms the press reports of the initial stages of the breaking out of hostilities. He says that several parties of troops from Greece had invaded the Turkish prov ince of Macedonia.
 Responsibility for this movement, however, was denied by the Greek min ister at Constantinople. Meanwhile an advance on Larissa, the Greek head quarters in East Greece, had been or dered by the Turkish government, which had recalled its minister from Athens. The Greek minister at Con- Istantinople was expecting every hour to be recalled at the time MT. Terrell s dispatch was sent.
 The United States navy is prepared to do all that is necessary for protec- tion of American interests, though it is not expected that that will be a very large task. Admiral Selfridge, the com mander of the European squadron, con- sisting at present of seven warships, has been expecting an outbreak of hos tilities, and from time to time has ad- vised the navy department of the out look. He is now under general instruc- tions to look after American interests, and no attempt has been made, or is likely to be made in the immediate flu ture, to give him precise directions as to his conduct.
 The movements of the vessels of the squadron will be entirely left to his dis erection, the department saying that as he is at the seat of war he Is better pre- pared than any one here to act to the best advantage. The officials of both the state and navy departments, however have little apprehension of the ill-treatment of American citizens in either Turkey or Greece, which is re- garded as about the only possible cause of friction now. Possibly at a later stage of the war, in the event of the Turks being defeated, there may be ri- oting at Constantinople or some of the larger Turkish cities, but that is not feared at present
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
DR. HUNrER WILL WITHDRAW
If He is Not Elected senator in Kentucky
 Legislature To-day.

Louisville, Ky, April 19.-A special to the Evening Post from Frankfort, Ky, says:
 It was given out at the headquarters to- day, apparently by authority, though not by Dr. Hunter himself, that he would with draw after the ballot tomorrow and that Senator Jones, chairman of the republican caucus, would call new caucus for either tomorrow night or Wednesday morning. To-day's ballot was without result.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
A Stay of Execution,

New York, April 19.-Wiliiam Jay Kerner was to have been executed at Sing Sing prison to-day for the murder of Rosa Rogate, his sweetheart, last January. His counsel appealed, how ever, and the appeal acted as a stay of execution.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
Death of Mayor Briokett of HaverbiIl

Haverhill, Mass, April 19.-Mayor Benia- min F. Brickett was stricken by apopIexv while sitting in chair at his home on Main street at one o'clock this morning. After lingering for few hours in arl uncon- scious state he died at 4:45 o'clock this af- -ternoon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20

Athens, April 19-In the second en- gagement at Gritzovali the Greek brig ade commanded by General Mastropas was able to reform after giving way before the Turkish assault. Another Greek brigade under the command of General Minepoulos is hurrying to rein force General Mastropas
 A dispatch from Arta. filed at 11:3O this morning, announced that fighting continues between the Greeks and Turks at the entrance of the Gulf of Arta and elsewhere in that vicinity, The Turkish batteries at Hamidieh and Pantocratoros are replying feebly.
 The crossing of the river Arakphos by the Greek army under Colonel Manos. numbering about 25,OOO men, was at tended by severe fighting, during which the Greek artillery batteries distin- guished themselves. This Greek force is now in Epirus.
 Dispatches from the frontier received here this evening say that the Turks, in considerable force. have been at tacking Reveni, not far from Tyrnayo. northwest of Larissa, which would in-
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dicate that the Greeks have not ad- vanced far into the Damazi plain. It is added that the Turks were repulsed at Reyeni.
 A still later dispatch from Gritzovali admits that the Turks have recaptured that place.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20

avoid falling into the hands of the Turks. The Greeks report that the Turks lost 1000 killed and wounded at Reveni, but this estimate is probably excessive. The Greek engineers con- structed bridge at Pachyskalos to en- able their troops to cross the river. It is stated that the Turkish forces at tacking Reveni numbered more than 10000 men,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
Anti-Hirh Theater Hat Bi,, p...sd

Albany, N. Y, April 19-The assembly to-day, passed the bill to forbid the wearing of high hats in theaters
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20
ANoTHER BREAK IN THE LEVEE.
Thousands of Acres of Newly Planted
 Crops Destroyed.

Memphis, Tenn, April 19.-Another break in the levee on the Louisiana side is reported from a point twenty miles below Natchez, Miss. The extent of the break cannot be learned. The situation at Biggs, where the water is rushing through the crevasse in tor rents, is growing worse. Madison par ish is fast becoming inundated, and the water will extend to other parishes, de- stroying thousands of acres of newly planted crops. Vicksburg, Natchez and other river points are crowded with refugees, and everything possible is be- ing done to alleviate their sufferings. The situation throughout the delta to- night is unchanged. It was beautiful day in the food-stricken section, and the planters hope that the waters will be carried away in time to make a good crop.
 At Memphis the river is slowly fall ing, and at Cairo decided fall is re- ported.
 The executive committee of the flood sufferers committee of Memphis states that owing to the action of the general government the calls on the Memphis committee have been so reduced that in the judgment of the committee the funds now in hand will be sufficient for the demands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20

Vicksburg, Miss, April 19.-Midnight Major J. H. Willard, United States engineer, has just received dispatch from the master of the steamer Flor ence, ordered last night to Coons Land- ing, La, to rescue flood sufferers, ask tug him to send all skiffs obtainable by first steamer as people are drowning and cannot be rescued except by skiffs. Coon's Landing is about thirty five miles from this city, and is being food ed by Biggs'r crevasse.
 A dispatch arrived at midnight from Ashwood, La, saying the water is rushing rapidly into the swamps of Tensas Paris, which are inaccessible by steamer, and this dispatch arouses many apprehensions. Skiffs cannot be sent tonight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-20

Larissa, April 19, p. m.-The Greeks have defeated the Turks at Reveni, and two Greek brigades have entered Turk ish territory in different directions and penetrated Damasi, northeast of Ear kos, Another division is trying to flank the Turks, who are retreating in disor- der.
 Heavy fighting is in progress at Gritzovali. It has been going on since noon. The Greeks are trying to recap ture the place.
 The crown prince Constantin has gone to Tyrnavo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21

still retained their leaves of russet
gold. Up the slopes of Lookout, which
rose a mountain queen from her rocky
throne beside the winding Tennessee
hung the seasons haze. But through
it we could see the brown riffs of the
eerthworks, the moving figures in gray
and the flaming naples, that looked
like great splotches of blood. High
over all, the banner Of the confederacy
waved, and just below it, Cheatham' s
signal flags flashed to Bragg, on Mis-
sionary ridge, to the east the move
ments of the gathering corps in blue
on the plains.
"Geary. of Hooker's command will
attack from the south and west. Oster-
haus, with his Kentuckians and Ohio
ans, will attack us from the north and
east"
This IS what $4,000 waiting men said
one to the other, as from river and
plain they turned their eyes towards
Lookout, after the sun had passed the
, zenith, and was hidden behind black
cloud banks. The men were right. From
our position we could see the western
men assigned to the assault moving
| towards the mountain. under the tat
tered battle flags that. a few months
before, had waved in the van of our as
l sanlts on Vicksburg. From the far dis
lance We could hear Hooker's bugles
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21
REMARKABLE THANKSGIVING DAYS
How the Great American Feast Has Been Observed a
Strange Times aud Places.

lowed temporarily to drop. But public
interest had been awakened, and be-
fore long a fierce debate was raging
in Virginia between the opponents and
supporters of the proposed southern
Thanksgiving At last, in 1857, Gov
ernor Wise-Johns' successor-took the
metaphorical bull by the horns, and
issued a proclamation setting apart a
day for the feast. His action caused
much angry criticism, and several
southern newspapers declared that
Thanksgiving was simply "a relic of
Puritanic bigotry." In spite of this,
the innovation was warmly welcomed
The hospitable southerners greeted
gladly another holiday, and the north
ern feast soon ranked among them as
second in Importance only to the
glorious Fourth itself. In 1S5S-the
year after Wise's proclamation-no
states proclaimed Thanksgiving in
their sections. The war, however, COM
ing shortly afterWard, practically ex-
tinguished the popularity of the holt
day in Dixie.
AMERICANS ABROAD
But it has become loved institution
in the middle, western and northwest
ern states. EXiled Americans too cling
to its celebration, and every November
sees Thanksgiving dinners in London,
Paris, Berlin, Rome-or wherever some
of the scattered children of Uncle Sam
may chance to sojourn. Indeed, Mr.
William Aston Chanler. the we'll known
explorer, tells of Thanksgiving dinner
which he enjoyed in the very heart of
darkest Africa.
An extensive and highly interesting
volume might be compiled on the sub
ject OF Thanksgiving and the events
which have signalized them For in
stance, on Thanksgiving day, 1888. the
British army evacuated New York,
while Washington and Clinton marched
into the city at the head of the CONT
mental army and took formal possession
in the name of the young republic Fes-
tivitiss and a grand display of fireworks
closed that memorable day. Thanks
giving had fallen that year on Dec. Is.
and the combination of evacuation day
and that festival we're long jointly hon
ored in New York.
CURIOUS CELEBRATION.
The Thanksgiving day of 1916 is mem
orable as the occasion upon which an
American theatre was first Illuminated
with gas. This event happened in Phila-
delphia. The experiment was a com
plete success, and the manager of the
affair was DR.. Kugler. During the war,
of the battles and skirmishes fought on
Thanksgiving, the most notable was
that of Lookout Mountain GS63).
A few odd and distinctive methods of
celebrating the great holiday still sur
vive in different parts of the United
states, although the tendency is toward
q uniform manner of rejoicing. In sec
lions of Connecticut, for instance the
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thought of veterans who did not know
when they might have chance to eat
again, were making heavy iuroads into
the two-days' rat:ens that had been
served the day before.
Thanksgiving breakfast. boys
shouted one, as he drained his black
cup through his teeth.
And the last breakfast for some of
usr' laughed Harry Stanton of Cow
ington, who, before the monday sun
/ looked down On Sherman's left, was TO
lie dead beside his horse, amid the
wreck of confederate battery.
/ l was gloomily eating my own break
fast, when a young hOrseman. with a
dispatch bag hanging from his shOul-
der, refined in beside the fire and TAX
! ing a slip of paper from between his
teeth, called out my name. The paper
was from Captain Thompson, and had
on it these penciled words:
Dear AL write at Aliens request.
He lies far up the mountain. No use
to take the poor boy down. Good luck
to you today. DICK l."
The rider dashed on with dispatches
for General Grant, but he said not q
word about the night battle. l reasoned
we had been driven back and that
Allen Gordon was wounded and in the
enemy's hands. My appetite left me,
and there was a lump in my throat
as I gave the order to saddle up, for 1
knew the time for rough riding and
hard fighting had come.
The Clouds overhead glowed like giant
opals. The shadow of Mission Ridge
grew shorter. but still the cloud cloak
covered Lookout mountain. Then the
sun flashed on lines of steel grouped
along the ridge, and smoke pillars
<.,-l-~ Il -.k-
fires. The men stood by their horses. all
faces turned to Lookout The cloud
drapery, like a mighty stage curtain
began to roll up. Higher and thinner,
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'I could stay back, of course, but Os-
terhaus' division never went into ac-
ton, since I was on the staff, that I
haven't tried to keep up with the head
of the procession"
AS Allen Gordon said this, he grasped
my hand, shook it in his boyish, hearty
way, and threw himself into the saddle.
Tomorrow" he added, as he waved
his right hand toward Lookout noun
tain, "if we finish our job in good shape
before daylight, you fellows will carry
Mission Ridge. Hope We'll have our
usual luck and be ready for roll-call
be Thanksgiving home, but much as we
want to see the folks, L reckon we'd
rather be here and help"
a shell from the enemy's battery
near the rocky crest of Lookout burst
over our heads, as we stood there on
Moccasin Point, and Allen Gordon's
horse-the animal had been sent down
from northern Kentucky a few weeks
before by the young soldiers father,
took fright and dashed down the river,
in the direction of Osterhaus' divi-
sion
Allen Gordon and myself had been
schoolmates. We were born on adjoin-
ing plantations and had always been
friends, though when we were both 16
two years before the War-I imagined
I disliked him for a time, because the
pretty daughter of neighbor thought
him better-looking than myself, and so
preferred his attentions.
This was the third Thanksgiving we
were to spend at the front. On former
occasions our friends remembered us,
and for days before, the northern trains
were packed with turkeys and other
good things from the dear mothers at
home. But we were to have no turkey
on the morrow. All the transportation
had been taken I'D in carrying troops
and supplies to Chattanooga, and then,
as the day drew near, it became gener-
ally understood that we should have
more stirring work on hand than feast
ing.
Il had command Of a body of scouts,
and we were awaiting orders on the
slope back of Moccasin point. Our
horses were lean and ewe-necked, for
duringt he siege of Chattanooga that
followed our defeat at Chickamauga, we
had been in the saddle night and day,
watching Wheeler's ubiquitous cavalry
and guarding the mountain trains from
McMinnville. Our uniforms were rag
ged and mud-stained. The smooth
faced boys Of two years before were
bearded and bronzed, so rapidly does
youth age on the long marches, during
the sleepless nights, and in the furnace
heat of battle.
~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21

Thanksgiving barrel burning" is
a time-honored institution. For a
month before the day Connecticut
boys diligently collect and store
in place of security all the
barrels, old or new, which they can
find. All barrels are regarded as the
away. On Thanksgiving night the bar
rels are piled in a huge heap and ignit-
ed. Boys and girls then dance around
the bonfire until the very last barrel has
gone Up in smoke.
But, however. the holiday is kept
whether with piety and prayer. or with
feasting and fervor-whether in a spirit
of mirth and fellowship, or in one of
gravity and MISUNDERSTANDING
remains an anniversary peculiar to
these U2ited States, and shared by
them with no other nation on the face
of the globe.
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sounding the advance. A few minutes
and the mountain became laundering
volcano. from which burst fountains of
flame, and geysers of dense, white
sInol-e.
The battle was on. We could hear
defiant yells and hoarse cheers, as the
opposing forces came nearer. and al
though L know it was fancy. l felt
sure I could distinguish Allen Gordon's
voice, for a something in the waves OF
sound thrilled me, as 1 was thrilled
when we rushed side by side upon the
guns at Shiloh.
Black clouds rolled in from the west.
and shaped about Lookout. as if to
veil the scene of strife from the sight
of heaven. Still the rattle of musketry
came to the plain. while the noun
tain seemed to rock and sway under
the thunder of the cannon. AS
listened, I thought of the children of
Israel watching the flaming clouds
hanging over Sinai, while the leader
of the people talked to the Lawgiver
of all.
Night came down, and Bragg's camp
fires in half circle that seemed lifted
into the sky, flashed along the en-
battled crest of Mission Ridge, while
here and there dancing colored lights
could be seen, and we knew the con-
federate signal corps was anxious and
busy. There was but little sleeping in
either camp that night. One hundred
and twenty thousand men. friend and
foe, were watching Lookout. The
encircling cloud seemed to throb
to the blazing and booming of the
guns, while, like flights of giant fire
flies, the flashing of the rifles cut
through the intense darkness Higher
and higher the sound of the fighting
rose The cheers and yells could no
longer be heard, and the roar of the
guns became mufHed, like the sound OF
giant funeral drums beating far up IN
the heavens. About midnight the
battle echoes ceased to come down
from the mountain, and an awful still
ness fell upon the plain. The men.
who had been talking in low tones,
became silent. We could hear. not
only the beating of our own hearts.
but the painful throbbing of the
temples.
The dreary black hours crept by. The
men were at liberty to lie down and
| sleep, but they sat in groups and smok-
ed in silence, all wondering how it had
gone with our comrades of Geary's and
/ Osterhaus' divisions.
WHAT THE DAWN REVEALED
! At length, after what seemed like an
eternity of waiting, a light that did
not come from the dying campfres of
the enemy strained from the east and
raised the dim outline of Mission ridge
into a billowy mirage that filled hall
the visible sky.
The increasing light seemed but to
lengthen the minutes. Through the
misty veil the campfires glowed in a
weird way, and the soldiers. drinking
their coffee, doomed up like giant sill
houettes. My own men, with the fore
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is reserved for the vegetable course. Tho
canned variety is nicely prepare re -
inexpensive that it saves the labor Of
peehng and the first cooking. --l-uW a
cuo of milk ard from two TO four eggs
for each pie, according to how Il-h *
required. sugar. salt and spice to taste.
AS for the mince meat, it is Wei to make
the mince meat for the season during
this month. Chop fine two pounds of lean
beef or beef tongue that has been sim
pered until tender. two pounds of beef
suet, mix through this a pound of shred
ded citron. two pounds OF plump stoned
raisins. four pounds chopped apples, two
pounds currants, TWO pounds sulca,2a raj
sins. half pound candied lemon peel,
two of sugar, q teaspoon OF salt. two
ground nutmegs: tablespoon OF powdered
cinnamon and half each OF mace and
cloves. juice and grated yellow rind of
two eacn OF oranges and lemons. Mix all
well together. pack in stone jar and
pour over a quart each of brandy and
sherry, or homemade wine. Thin with CT
der when needed. Some people add the
apples at the time OF using, but it is less
care to prepare all at once, and the splr-
its insure its keeping.
EMILY FORD
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higher and thinner, and still. as it rose.
we could see the CLEAN of bayonets and
the DIRK blue of federal uniforms show
ing strongly against the duh red of the
works, occupied by the enemy the day
before.