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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-30

Eat plenty Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Will
digest what you eat. II cures all forms
OF dyspepsia and stomach troubles. r.. X.
Gamble, Vernon. Tex. says: III relieved
me from the start end cured me. IL Is
now my everlasting friend" Bodeker
Bros, 4. A. Miller,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-30

New methods-new styles
new goods.
It's an education on what to
wear" to 90 through our store
al present.
If you've gone through that
Suit you got last spring you II
be particularly interested in
our new invoice of Fall Suits.
There is dash about our
fall styles that will make them
40, and our prices act like
spurs.
s. TO SIS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-30
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALMANAC, SEPT 80. 1899
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-30

Cash quotations were as follows: No. 2
yellow corn, S2la@SSlAc Flour firm. No.
spring wheat. 6sqTSl1c.; No. 2 red. 74alc.
No. white 25ifd25s4c.; No. 3 white, 2iN
H&isc. No. rye, 59c. No. 2 barley,
3sl2Q47c. No. l haxsesd. sl.15; new, N.15.
Prime i, timothy seed, !SSOgs2.p. Mess
loose. s5q$6.S5. Dry-salted' shoulders,
boxed, $50 s6.l2i5. Short-clssr sides, box
ed, s550ds5.55. Whiskey, distillers' fin
ished goods, per gallon. H.22. Butter
Eggs firm; fresh, 13lac. Cheese firm at
1lQllaic
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-30

Your FALL SHOES are
ready.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26
IN A REAL WAR.
A Veteran of 'OI steams Up on the
Subject of Celebrating HIS
tOric Battles.

1t was at the breakfast table that Mr..
Scott Lindsay, veteran of the real
war, read something about the ami
versary of the battle of San Juan ana
began to breathe heavily through his
nose.
"Grent grief, mothcr!" he exclaimed,
looking across the table at his wife
Here's somethin' that'd make old Gen
Sherman turn overin his grave. They're
goin' to celebrate the anniversary of
the battle of San Jewan. Thundera-
ton! The battle of San Jewan. Bat
tie! Gosh, all fishhooks! Battle! Say.
If the old boys that 'uz with the Army o
the Tennessee ever started in TO cele-
brate the anniversary of every burned
little popgun skirmisA like that battle
o. San Jewan we wouldn't do nothin
hut celebrate, day in and day out, from
one years end to another. We'd have
to get up in the night and annyverser-
ate. Battle! Battle nothin'! Wy,
around Vicksburg there we used to roll
out in the mornin' an fight three or
four o. them battles just to whet our
appetites. We didn't call 'em battles,
though. We knew the difference be-
tween battle and a strawberry festi-
val. | went out rabbit shootin' several
times last winter, you may rickollect.
Well, l didn't never come back and say
I'd been in any battle, did II"
"Oh, well, father, you must make
some allowances" said Mrs. Lindsay.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26
THE AMERIcAN SOLDIER.

IT'S a far far cry from the minute men
And times OF the bun and blue.
To the days Of the whitening Jorgensen,
The hands that hold It true.
IT'S far far cry from Lexington
To the isles of the China sea.
But ever the same the man and the gun
Ever the same are we.
For the blood OF the sires at Bunker Hill,
Through countless herce campaigns,
Is as red and eager in,perilBtil
In the depths of the children's veins,
And the heart and the eye support the hand
No matter what odds there be-
Ever the same thy sons, o land,
Ever the same are we.
Not Valley Forge, nor Wilderness,
Nor hail OF Cuban steep.
Can take one jot of our fearleSsness,
Who daily thy honor keep.
We cary the flag through varying scenes
From the sign of the old pine tree
To the Stars and Stripes In the Philippines
Ever the same are we.
And the lad with the fresh, unshaded
mouth
Fights as his fathers fought
And the man from the north and the man
from the south
Do as their fathers wrought
And whether from city or farm we come
We answer the call with glee-
We heroes upspring at the beat of the
drum
Ever the same are we
Edwin L. Sabin, in Munsey's Magazine
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26

"These boys don't remember the other
war"
81 guess they dont-I just good an
guess they don't. If they did they
wouldn't be spoutin' so much about
bsin' heroes an all that. There's a
blamed sight o. difference between
chasin' some runt of dago with a
white feather in each hand and chasin'
siX-foot Johnny Reb that jest raises
up on his everlastin' hind legs an come
at you like runaway horse, breathin'
smoke out of his nose an ears, y Cory,
an yellin' like IN Injun. It's easy
enough TO chase anything that runs the
other way, but this hero jobs got its
drawbacks when the other feller gets
it into his head that he wants to do the
chasin' an swoops out O. the woods
like an loway cyclone, by gosh, pump
in lead into you till you git too heavy
to run. Battle When we had 'em
stacked up till we couldn't see over
'em an every regiment 'uz whitfield
down to company an our flags blown
into carpet rags an the blood got so
deep it wet the ammunition in the wag-
ons we used to begin to suspect that
we'd had battle. Somethin' little
less argymentative than that we called
a skirmish. Anything the size O. this
San Jewan basket-meetin' we didn't
keep no tally of at all. That kind O.
come under the head o target practice y
II wouldn't be too hard on 'em, fa-
ther. They say these boys fought real
well down there in Cuby."
"Well, to see 'em struttin' around
town here in their cowboy hats and
gassin in front of every store you'd
think, by cracky, that every one O.
them had chawed up thousand o
them Spanish generals, whiskers an
all. You take some old codger that
crawled through them swamps for four
years, dodgin' mimic balls and nothin
to keep him alive but hardtack an hot
slough water, an he amt in II no more
with one O. these cussed little whipper-
snappers, by ginger, that-well, you
ought to heard old Cap Nesbit the other
night after post meetin'. He made a
few remarks about these kid soldiers
that wouldn't pass muster in crowd
O. women, but they wuz satisfyin' to
me-"
Il don't see why Cap Nesbit wants to
pick onto these boys. think they de-
serve lot o. credit for enlistin' an
goin' down there in that hot country
to fight"
p "Enlistin's all right an fghtin's all
right, If you do 1t. don't begrudge no
man the credit Of goin' out an fightin'
for his country. These boys done well
as far as they went, but don't want
no kid to tell me what war is until he's
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26
Gen. Logan and the sutler.

"Gen. Logan" said an old officer, ''had
a queer experience with suffers. While
he was in command of division he was
very strict as to the conduct of suffers
and others catering to the wants of
soldiers. Among the suffers was John
McFall, one of the best men in the bust.
ness, but who had weakness for SNUG
Cling whisky into the hands of the boys.
Logan discovered this and McFall re-
tired from the regiment in disgrace.
He returned some months later with
the announcement that he was re-
formed man. He had been at home
among the good mothers and wives of
the men who were doing the fighting,
and he had adopted their views as to
the use of intoxicants. He believed that
whisky was the very worst thing pos
sible for a man."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26

been through one. These young ieilsrS
got a sniff O. blood, and now they think
they've been through the slaughter
house. There's old Dan Bailey that got
shot so often he didn't mind 1t at all
toward the last, laid in Andersonville
till he was a rack o. bones, came home
here loolSin' like corpse, and amt seen
a well day since, and he amt as big
man in this town to-day as that grand
son o. his that went down there to Porty
Rico last winter an laid in hammock
for six months smokin' cigarettes. He's
what they call hero now-had an ice
cream reception for him when he come
home, didn't they? / don't reckullect
that anybody had an ice-cream recep-
tion for old Dan when he come home.
Heroes wasn't quite so gosh-danged
scarce about that time. Nobody paid
any attention to 'em. They used to
ship 'em in here by the carload, an
most O. 'em went right on through town
an out to the graveyard. Wuzn't il you,
mother, that wuz readin' the other day
about some regiment that wouldn't git
on train becuz they wuzn't no sleep
ers? Great Jehoshophat I'd like to
seen somebody ask old Col. Griggs for
sleepin'car. I'd like to heard what
he'd say. Sleepn' cars! We wuz tickled
to death to git box cars, cattle cars
anything on wheels. We didn't need
no porter to brush our cloze, for the
darned good reason that we didn't have
no cloze to brush. Then there's all this
talk about embammed beef. We'd "a
been mighty glad to git itit-embammed,
petrified, moldy or any other way. We
thought we wuz lucky if we could git
a little hunk o. salt pork to drop in with
the beans now an then. We wuzn't
out on no moonlight excursion, by gosh,
p!ayin' tag with lot o. tambourine
players. We wuz out in the underbrush,
dad ding my buttons, havin' it out with
the toughest lot O. human panthers that
ever wore uniforms. An yit, like as
not, If we go to brealiin' in on this San
Jewan celebration, we'll git back seat
in the gallery. We amt heroes, guess.
Wy, on Decoration day these kids
marched in front, everyone o 'em
putfed up like toad in a thunderstorm
bigger man than old Grant, as the
feller says. Now, they're goin' TO cele-
brate the anniversary of San Jewan.
There wuz another likely skirmish
about the same date. Gettysburg, l
think they call it. Wonder why some'
body don't celebrate that. IIah!"-
George Ade, in Chicago Record.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26
DAHLGREN'S COURAGE.
Illustrative and Interesting IDcI-
dents Related by n Veteran
of His Stan.

After the launching of the DahlgreI.
At Bath on Monday afternoon, May 20,
Mr. and Mrs. John " Dahlgren, of New
York, gave reception and banquet at
the Hotel Phoenix to the members of
the kennebec Naval Veterans associa-
ton, the Bath iron works officials, and
others. Judge Charles Cowley, Of
Lowell, Mass, who had served as Judge
advocate on Admiral Dahlgren's staff
during the blockade of the southern
ports, paid a glowing tribute to the
memory of the admiral.
1.-The incident of Perry shifting his
flag from one ship TO another in the bat
tie of Lake Erie has often been quoted
as cool piece of daring, and so ii was,
said Mr.. Cowley. 'But it was a thing
that Admiral Dahlgren did repeatedly
and thought nothing Of. The man for
whom we have named this warship was
one of the most intrepid men who ever
lived. | was with him when the Har-
vest Moon was blown up. She was
Maine-built vessel, designed for duty in
shoal water. When she struck the tor
pedo an immense hole was blown
through her bottom, and she sank in
about two minutes after the contact.
Never shall | forget the perfect cool
ness of the admiral upon that occasion.
| was standing aft on deck and imme-
diately after the explosion | heard
Lieut.. &. II. Rexford exctedly exclaim:
Admiral, we have struck torpedo L
think it very likely, Mr.. Rexford,' said
the admiral, coolly We got out of the
situation with our lives, but that we did
was due to the perfect discipline that
the admiral enforced and to his marvel
Gus ability to keep his head under the
most trying experiences"
The speaker referred to the fact that
Admiral Dahlgren was not only sailor,
but a man of science as well. Some Of
his Inventions" said Mr.. Cowley, 'have
been superseded by the modern disap-
pearing guns, but many of his creations
in the department of naval science still
remain of practical utility. During the
civil war many heavy guns burst, kill.
ing and manning hundreds, but think
there has never been recorded the
bursting of Dahlgren gun. The Mon
itor that fought the Merrimac was
armed with Dahlgren guns, and had the
executive officer of the ship earlier in
the fight made up his mind to double
charge his guns, the southern boat
would never have withdrawn. She
you'd have been sunk then and there.
Lemar, the chronicler of the south, was
generous enough to say that it was the
Dahlgren gun that put down the re.
bellion. Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26

snow, Johnny, what can you tell me
about Moses?' asked the Sunday school
teacher of a little fellow in the juvenile
class. "All know" replied the young
ster, who had got his knowledge of an
cient and modern history slightly
mixed, sis that he was found in a rush
basket at the battle of Bull Run
Troy Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-26

Customer-Say, do you know You
gave me bad quarter of an hour with
that imitation mineral water drank
here yesterday?
Druggist-Did /? Well, you gave me
a bad quarter Of dollar. guess wen
call i square. Chicago Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Nat Harris WEEDS.

Today at high noon in the city Of
Elizabethton, on the banks of the beau
tiful Watauga, and surrounded by many
friends of the contracting parties, an
impressive ceremony was performed by
Rev. Barney Thompson that united for
life N. e. Harris of Macon, Ga, and
Miss Hattie Jobe, of Elizabethton.
Mr.. Harris came to Johnson City yes
terday in his private car and went to
Elizabethton in the afternoon. The
The car was taken to Bristol and went
over on the B. & E. At o'clock to-
day the bridal party left over the B. &
E. for Bristol, and will 60 through tc
Virginia resorts this afternoon.
Mr.. Harris is an old Washington
county boy but has lived in Macon fol
several years, and is the president of 6
railroad running into Macon that hi
was instrumental in building.
The bride is daughter OF DR.. Jobe
of Elizabethton, and was formerly the
wife of N. W. Taylor, of Elk Park,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Installation of Officers.

At the regular meeting of Watauga
Lodge No. 2l0, 1. 0. o. F., Monday
evening the officers elect for the ensu-
ing year were installed as follows: G..
S. Galliher, N. G.; W. I. Hart, V. G.
@. W. Seaver, Sec; M. F. Ferren,
Treas; E. G. kirkpatrick, Warden; G.
d. Moore, Cond. J. W. Mumpower,
o. s. Guard; r. @. Pierce, I. s. Guard
W. M. Bolton, r. s. s.; J. W. Blevins,
Left S. S.; W. H. Crawford, r. S. to
N. g.; r. E. White, l.. S. to N. GIL.
L. Erwin, R. s. to V. G.; M. L. Ham.
mer, L. S. to V. G.; II. G. Beasley,
Chaplain.
W. H. Crawford was elected repre-
sentative to the Grand Lodge for the
next two years.
The installation ceremony was con
Quoted in most impressive manner by
Grand Deputy d. N. Mcleod. Aftel
which the Lodge adjourned to the re
ception room and indulged in a bounti
full feast that had been prepared by the
good wives Of the members.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
With the Churches.

Rev. r. f. Wertz, of the Watauga
avenue Presbyterian church, preached
very interesting sermon ON Sunday
morning last, from Proverbs 1925,
Remove not the ancient landmarks
which your fathers have set" His
theme was, "Ihe Bible in the Public
Schools" The Bible was the old land
mark to which no referred, and he did
so IN an up-to-date sermon to large
and appreciative audience.
Rev. Wertz's congregation and that
of the M. E. church have concluded to
hold union services at night for the
summer On last Sabbath evening DIR.
Caldwell preached in the Watauga av-
nue. church. On next Sabbath even
ming services will be held in DR.. Cald-
wells church and ReY. Wertz will
preach to the combined congregations.
At the M. e. church, South, Rev. T..
j. Eskridge filled the pulpit in the
morning, and preached to his usually
large and attentive audience. At night
he preached at the First Presbyterian,
in conformity with the plan for union
services by his congregation with the
congregation of that church.
[NoTE-We will be much obliged to
the pastors, or to some leading member
of each church in town, if they will
give some notes each Monday or Tues
day morning, of the services held on
the past Sunday and any other inter.
esting matters connected with their
churches
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Mrs. Lee Entertains.

Mrs. Lee entertained on Friday eve
ming last, at her home ON Holston
avenue, in honor of Misses Carr and
England. The decorations were sweet
peas and roses. The young people
present were:
Misses Nena Painter, Mabel KEEP
per, Luster Painter, Belle Miller, Lila
Taylor, Ethel England, Emily Taylor,
Loretta Taylor, Laura King, Mabel
Jackson, Lizzie Carr. Messrs. H. M.
Cass, Frank Miller. Frank Taylor,
James Summers, Lyle Lyman, Walter
Cargille, Will Caldwell, Lit Wood,
Will Cass, Paul Carr, Chas. Cargille,
Hoaace Miller.
Among the notable features of the oc-
casion was a song by Miss Emily Tay-
lor entitled, 'Beauty's Eyes. " and one
by DR.. II. NJ Cass entitled, 1.-THE
Moth and the Flame" both of which
were we'll rendered and were received
with much applause. Miss England's
reading of "My Mother" was very eff
fective and pleasing. Mr.. Lee gave
two or three selections of negro songs
derived from the slaves in the days be-
fore the war, with banjo accompani-
ment. Miss Mabel Jackson then fav-
ored the company with several delight
full instrumental pieces on the piano.
Refreshments were served at 1890
o'clock, while from an earlier hour a
green-wreathed punch bowl offered to
the guests its cool and refreshing con-
tents.
The evening was very enjoyable
one, and it would be difficult to bring
together more befttingly dressed or
attractive crowd of young ladies, or
more pleasant and gallant young gem
tlemen.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
From WATAUGA.
Watauga, Tenn, June 80, 1899

Watauga, Tenn, June 30, 1899.
EDITOR COMET:
Charles Lacy, son of A. X. and Mary
Lacy is expected to die any hour from
consumption. He has been in bad
health for considerable time.
Miss Blanche Robertson has gone TO
Greene county to spend the summer
with relatives.
Miss Luta Hodge will go to Kansas
City to enter training school for
nurses.
Nat (Quince) Williams and wife, nee
Bashor, of Belleview, Republic coun-
ty, Kansas, are here visiting relatives.
E. W. Waldan, better known under
the soubriquet of Gypsy Jack, was
here last Sunday. He claims to have
been born in the city of Jerusalem of 0
French mother and Egyptian father,
and has visited the greater part of the
cities and countries mentioned in the
Bible. He is an interesting character
and his home is in New York city.
Miss Martha Sellars and Mrs. War
rem Rumley of Sullivan county are Wis
iting friends here,
E. L. Ransom and Sam Ray of Bris
toll, started on q fishing excursion by
boat down the river from the bridg,
this morning.
Several teams are busy hauling tn,
logs back to the mill that passed tn
lboom on the last big food, d, N. R
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Fount Russell Arrested.

Tuesday night about 10 O'Clock Dep
uty Marshall Mccall, of Knoxville, ar
rested Fount Russell in tho office of
Hotel Piedmont on charge of coun-
terfeiting. When arrested Russell
had one spurious half-dollar on his per-
son. He was arranged before U. S.
Commissioner Taylor and held to an-
swer at the next term of the U. S.
court at Knoxville. In default of bail
he was taken to Knoxville and placed
in Jail. Russell is we'll Unknown in John
son City and was night clerk at Hotel
Piedmont some months ago. He is a
nephew of Col. w. A. Dickinson and
has many friends here who will learn
with surprise and regret of his trouble,
Russell had two pals, Frank Blair and
William Burks, All three were about
81 years old and lived at Morristown.
The Journal and Tribune says;
Russell said that they had operated
all over East Tennessee, in Knoxville,
Morristown, Groeneyille and Chatta-
nooga, and that their make of money
had been passed in all these places.
From the confession made by the
two men under arrest in the upper part
of the state, Russell is the leader of the
gang. He says himself that he has
made the counterfeiting of dollars and
half dollars a study for four years, and
that he has got it down to a fine point.
Some of the spurious goods were
found on the person of the men when
they were placed under arrest. The
work is excellent and the coins, es-
pecially after they have been given q
process of dirt and grease and other
matter which can be used for the pur-
pose of softening their new look, will
pass muster even in bank"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06

DIR. J. NJ. King was down from Bris-
toll the Fourth.
Mrs, M. II. Weller is visiting her
sister at Erwin for few days.
Charlie Mason came up from Jones
boro Monday to see the Fourth,
ID. A. Jobe came down from Happy
Valley to see the big crowd Tuesday.
Squire j. J. White, of Embreville,
was IN the city Tuesday to see the crowd,
Mrs. Sam Vance, of Bristol, spent
first of the week with Mrs. Will Hun
ter.
Charlie Martin was up from Jones'
boro and participated in the celebra-
ton.
Miss Georgia Larrance came up from
Jonesboro Monday and remained for
the Fourth,
Miss Belle Roberts, of Elizabethton,
has been visiting the Misses Jordan
the past week.
Misses Myrtle Salts and Nora Grills,
of Jonesboro, were guests in the city
first of the week.
A. S. Gump and wife came down
from Bristol yesterday and spent the
day with relatives.
Miss Annie Goodrich, the belle oil
Fayetteville, is visiting her friend, Miss
Annie Miller, on King street.
Miss Maude Farnham, popular
teacher in our city schools, is spending
her vacation at her old home in Oswego
New York.
John J. Burleson has been granted {
pension of eight dollars per month OF
account of injuries received IN the wal
with Spain.
Misses Annie and Mimic Patton, aftel
an extended visit to relatives and friends
in Virginia and West Virginia, have
returned home.
Isaac Brown has resigned his posi-
ton as clerk at Hotel Piedmont to &C
cept more lucrative one with the No
lachucky telephone company.
Miss Mae Jones, a very attractiv,
young lady of Roanoke, Va, arrived
in the city last Friday and will spen(
several weeks here visiting relatives.
Rev. DR.. r. N. Price, chaplain of tn,
late Fourth Tennessee, spent a few
hours in the city Monday on his re
turn from Roam Mountain to his HON,
at Morristown.
Mrs. F. X. Mountcastle was takel
suddenly and violently ill one day las
week while in the city with her hus
band. She was taken to the home o
her sister, Mrs. J. W. Boring, and hal
not been we'll enough since to be taken
home but is improving. The illness de
veloped into peritonitis.
Jack Lever, the best blacksmith tina
ever heated an iron or jingled ham
mer, has gone to Talledega, Ala, tt
take charge of the forging department
of the railroad shops at that place. H,
will take his family and the best wishes
of The COMET and host of friend
with him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Triplets.

The family of Newton Brown, q col
ored man living near Jonesboro, has
recently been doubled. Last, week al
a suggestion from his wife, he called in
his mother-in-law and went for a doc.
tor. When he returned with the medi.
cine man the old lady startled tbs
household with the announcement,
"dah's one, an dah's one, an dah's
one" pointing to three different ban
dies of bed clothing in different parts
of the room. Upon further investiga-
tion it was discovered that each bundle
of clothing contained a healthy infant,
two being girls and one a boy. The
mother and babies are doing we'll, but
the father is not expected to survive
the terrible shock.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-07-06
Foot Badly Cut.

One night last week lamp exploded
at the home of G.. G. Seaver on Jobe
street and disastrous fire was narrow
ly averted by the prompt action of Mr..
Seaver, After the flames were extin-
guished and the members of the house
hold found to be only little frighten-
ed, Mr.. Seaver began to think of him
self and found to his surprise that his
foot was badly cut. He had stepped
upon broken part of the lamp bow
and cut through the ball of his right
foot to the bone making an ugly and
painful wound. The injury was dress
ed by DR.. Walter Miller and Mr.. Sea
yer is now resting comparatively easy