El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-03

ed and weather stained countenance of
Gilliad betrayed not his secret.
At length the reward was increased,
trebled, and old Gilliad went forth
from his lonesome hut to restore the
hidden body. His crazy little craft went
cruising along the river banks, appar-
emily in great uncoucern. Some fisher
men were near, and it was long time
before he could secure his treasure.
When at last he hurried up the hollow,
it was as the midday sun blazed down
on the creek. He proceeded to lift and
cut the cord that held his CHASTITY specu
lation.
"HeIlo, Uncle Gill'edp' said a voice
at his back. ''What hev ye thar?"
The old man turned sharply. and
there stood Laney's beau.
"Dern yer' he muttered between his
yellow teeth. ''Dern ye, whut did ye
KEN fur?'' ~
''Oh, see, ye've got er prize" said
Thaddeus, laughing. There was no help
for it. Gilliad confided in Laney's beau
and offered to share the reward for
silence.
"By jingo," said Green when Gilliad
finished, Eye air showed this time
shore. Thet woman's done been found
two mile below here I seed 'em
teken''-
"Then who in Gods name hev I got
here?" interrupted GiIliad Moon, while
a gray pallor crept up into his leathery
cheeks. Thaddeus bent over the rock
and lifted out and laid upon the sand
the shiny, bursting body of-Laney.
MEMORIAL TO BUCHANAN.
Merrimac's Shaft VIII BE Used For
the AdmiraIs Monument.
A unique and appropriate memorial
to Admiral Franklin Buchanan of the
Confederate navy will shortly be erect
ed by the Daughters of the Confederacy
in Virginia. 1t is hoped that the monu-
ment will be completed so as to be I'M
yelled early in March. No site has been
selected as yet, but it is thought that
the monument will be placed In or near
the Davis building in Richmond.
Admiral Buchanan commanded the
famous Confederate ironclad Merrimac,
or VirgiEja. and the monument VIII
consist principally of part of the pro-
peller shaft of that vessel The section
is Az inches in diameter and 27K
feet long. 1t will be polished and
bronzed. A suitable pedestal will be
erected for the shaft. which will be sur
mounted by an entablature supporting
bust of the admiral A bronze in
scription tablet will be presented by
Franklin Buchanan Camp of Confeder-
ate Veterans of Baltimore.
Admiral Buchanan was born in Bal
timore Sept II. 1900. and died in Tai
bot county, Nd. May II. 1874. He en-
tered the Confederate navy in Septem-
Der. 1851. He superintended the fitting
out of the Merrimac and commanded
her in the attack on the Federal fleet in
Hampton Roads. when the Cumberland
was sunk and the Congress blown up
So severely was he wounded in that en-
gagement that he could not command
his vessel in the subsequent fight with
the Monitor.
There is said to be no doubt that the
shaft to be used in the monument was
part of the famous vessel 1t was found
lying on a wharf in Richmond and was
bought from dealer in old iron. The
dealer said it was taken from the wreck
of the Merrimac when the government
deepened the channel at Norfolk and
had the distractions to navigation re
moved Since then it has been conclu
sively identified through a correspond
ence between Virginius Newton of
Richmond and Colonel II. Ashton Ram
say of Baltimore. Mr.. Newton was
during the fight in Hamp
ton Roads and was among the first to
board the Congress after her surrender
Colonel Ramsay was chief engineer of
session the detailed drawings of the
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