Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-06

The response of the rich to the needs
of war is good sign. Miss Helen
Gould has offered a donation OF 500,
600 to the president for the purposes of
war, and John Jacob Astor has offered |
to raise regiment and maintain it al
his own expense.
The Plymouth party that went to
Indianapolis yesterday to see the SOL
diers, witnessed dress parade in the
camp. Three thousand soldiers were
in line. The sight was new to hun
dreds who were on the grounds, but it |
was fine they say.
The Spaniards IN Havana who have |
lived on the fat of the land while the |
recOncentradoes have been starving, are
now beginning to feel the pangs of
hunger themselves. 1t is cruel to ex-
ult over anybody's misery, but few
pangs will not hurt the Spaniards.
With the great victory won yesterday
by Commodore Dewey over the Spanish
fleet a. Manila, and the city election to
morrow, the people of Plymouth have
had plenty TO talk about today. The
former is cause for rejoicing, and for
the latter the rejoicing will come later
Thirty-fve tickets were sold from
this city to Indianapolis yesterday.
The entire Lake Erie system carried
eight thousand people to that city
yesterday. 1t is stated that fifty thou
sand people visited the state Capital
and visited the soldiers at Camp Mount
The suggestion of some papers that
hoboS should he enlisted as soldiers
will not commend itself to thoughtful
citizens generally and much less to the
gallant boys who are now wearing the
blue. The latter don't relish the idea
of having hobos even mentioned in this
connection. They look upon it as an
indignity, and an insult.
Sergeant Harry Corbin will return to
his command at Camp Mount Wednes-
day. Harry has been made quarter
Master Sergeant of the company, one
of the most important positions in the
company. 1t requires good judgement
and fairness to fill this office success
fully and acceptably to the soldiers.
And Sergeant Corbin is the man for
the place.
Is the north and south united? In
1865 Gen. Lee went home from Apo
mattox, defeated rebel April 9Th,
1898, he came home from Havana as
the champion of American interests,
though he and President Mckinley were
fighting for opposite causes in 81. To-
day they stand side by side in defense
of the grandest republic under the sun,
all difference forgotten, all animosities
buried, and the people of the United
States are back of them for anything in
the interest of the old flag.
Gen. Lee Wallace so greatly desires
to serve his country that he has offered
to enlist as private soldier in the
Greencastle company-the body of
soldiers made up at his home. The
general declares that he does not make
the offer for buncomb, but is in "dead
earnest" on the subject. The captain
of the company declined to enlist him,
telling the general that he was over age,
and tn at the mastering officer would
refuse him on that account. The gen
eral was one of the few men who kept
up an independent military company
at his home at Greencastle for several
years previous to war in April, 1861. he
rendered invaluable service as adult
ant-general of the state to Governor
Morton. As soon as the Eleventh Ind
lana was raised, he was selected as its
colonel and theregiment at once hasten
ed to West Virginia where its three
months service was performed.