The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13


March 12.-It will surprise many read
ers of these letters to learn that there
Is a military company in Portland
Ore, composed entirely of young Chi
namen, and that this company is reg
ularly attached to the National Guard
of the state. The members are young
men of more than ordinary good char
acter in the community, and so far
have won many compliments on ac-
count of their fine appearance on pa
rade and their excellence in drill. = .
A writer on art, in referring to Thomas
Buchanan Reeds portrait of Gen. Phil
H. Sheridan. states that the general
was born in Albany, N. Y. This is
not correct, as Phil. Michael and John
Sheridan, u. S. A. were all born in
Ohio. 81 see that the late w. A.
Pledger, colored politician, is called
Colonel Pledger. Years ago, think,
he was elected colonel of colored troops,
but he failed to pass the examination
and was not commissioned: therefore
he was not legally entitled to the rank
or the title of colonel.
The name of Gen. Seymour was
printed Seymore in my last letter.
Zackry should have been Zachry. 1t
was not class of '7S and To- but class
of Y members instead of 7S, as stated
by Capt. George. All the Japanese
cadets were in class of 1881. = A
Georgia daily. in it's Questions and
Answers" tells an inquirer that Long
fellow was born in Maine. where there
are a good many bridges, and proba-
bly, to this fact was due his beautiful
poem of 1.-THE Bridge" What nom
sense! Longfellow lived in Cambridge
and 'The Bridge" poem was of the
bridge over the Charles river, between
Boston and Cambridge. A careful
reading of the poem shows that tho
bridge was near a great city. The
poem has solemn and majestic sweep.
Il stood on the bridge at inidnight"--
and has been set to appropriate music.
"%* My old Confederate correspond
ent DIR. R. P. Myers. who has been
living in Honolulu. H. T., is now in
California. at Ontario. in the attrac-
tive county of San Bernardino and
not far from famous Los Angeles.
- = Florida is fortunate in having
Col. Fred. L. Robertson, now of Tai
lahassee, as commissioner of records
Of Florida soldiers. He is not only a
veteran soldier himself, but also a vet
eran editor. and can WELD q sword or
a pen to good advantage. He is maxi
ing a record of Florida soldiers in every
war since there was a Florida.
The Sunny South prints a list of
surviving Confederate generals, but I
notice number of errors in it. M. H.
should be NJ. C. Butler; F. T. should
be T. L. Rosser; J. H. Forney and T.
J. Churchill are dead. The
Florence (Ala.) U. d. G. have discov-
cred negro wearing a counterfeit
Gross of Honor" and the matter is
under investigation. 1 see that
Grover Cleveland is charged with hav-
ing "bolted two Democratic nomina-
tons" This is not correct. He may
have bolted two Populistic nominations
made by a Democratic convention. I
did the same, and years ago l bolted
a Republican (Greeley) nomination by
a Democratic convention. l was born
an honest" Democrat over seventy
years ago, and when l want to vote
for a Republican, Populist or a dem
agogue 1 shall do so outside Of the
Democratic party. Our work
for Cuba is bearing good fruit in more
than one direction, and one of the
blessings that have followed the inde-
pendence of the island is found in
churches and schools established with
money from the United States. One
of these schools-the Eliza Bowman
Home and Schools in charge of Miss !
Hattie G. Carson, a consecrated and |
Jealous worker of the Methodist |
Church. The Little Worker of Nash |
vile for February contains a fine
group picture of her interesting pupils. |
The Atlanta papers have had the |
oldest inhabitant' and other old set |
tiers telling what they know about |
-, ,Sk
D. w. Rogers of Pelham, Ga, does
not think that the thermometer has
ever been lower in Georgia than 6 de-
grees below zero, save on Feb. 13, |
1899" Perhaps he was not around in
1885, when Middle Georgia was COW
cred with snow, and the thermometer
at Milledgeville is reported to have
been 8 degrees below zero. Nothing
like that winter had ever before been
known in the South, and the freeze
reached Florida on March 4, 1885, and
killed nearly all the orange trees. But
up in New England it was also
record breaker" In an old
sketch of Maj. Gen. patton Ander-
SON" by Mrs. Phoebe Frazer Edwards
w. Frazer, G. S. A., a West Pointer
and U. s. A. captain) refers to him
as captain of a company from De-
Soto county, Mississippi in the Mexi-
can War. James Patton Anderson
for that was his full name-was lieu
tenant colonel of a battalion of Mis-
sissippi Rifles in the Mexican War.
In 1861 he was living in Western
Florida and was sent to the provisional
Confederate Congress, but he pre-
rerred military service and went with
the army as colonel of Florida regi-
ment.
Capt. Robert L. Rodgers, in one of
his letters about Savannah. in the
Sandersville Herald and Georgian, re-