The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-18
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
I.orrcst,. Ncu rnctics
Reprinted from rhi. Newspaper.

FORESTS New Tactics.
General Forrest has new r,cthod
or preventing Struggling on the battle
neld, which would doubtless astonish
tho author of Hardees Tactics. but it
battle tho general saw with HIS own
eye too many stragglers. He hailed
cd to him to halt The young man paid
no attention to tho order. General
forrest dismounted from hts horse.
board, which he found convenient. he
gave the young one an old-f;,shioned
sp;nn,kInS: With this he ordered tho
front he went.
New Ironcind.
The now ironclad gunboat Ashley,
was successfully launched from tho
yard at Boycc's Wharf. Charles ton, last
I ,ilunTsh1S,, "a, great crowd which had
into the water. The Ashley was built,
finished and launched under n heavy
hire. the enemy having been Informed
of the location of tho boat by de-
ScrterS.
Mills burned.
The large Touring mills in Rock
bridge County, owned by the McCor-
mick estate, and known as McCormick's
old mills. have been destroyed by fire.
Sailors brought to Prison.
inc captain ana all OF the crew Of
tHH bedsrni schooner ;Iuin Baker;
br iDsr +, fsW in days y, ago have been
prisoned in Castle Thunder
whole Division te-EnIlstcd.
All the men of Major General Lor-
inI's Division have re-cnlistcd for the
war. Tho division was drawn up in
dress parade form, and General Loring
and several minor officers addressed
10 rc-cnlist. The division is composed
OF Mississippians. Alabamians. Louis
iahithS ANA Arkansas troops.
Old Bclt Back Agnin.
INC pcil In the cupola OF the First
Market that was cracked In Its efforts
TO call out the militia on the occasion
or tic Fitzpatrick Dnhlgren raid has
Decn rccast ut Talbott's foundry, on
UarE street. Yesterday the rccast bell
out It's old familiar sound.
brief Notes From the North.
:, IN lhicago negro, who had found
!, way from Hanover. County. Va. to
'hit city, enlisted in tho Yankee army
one DAY, spent all OF his bounty money
INC next day, and on the third day dc
,,ibcratcly killed himself. This is be-
iieved TO be the first case OF suicide
among negroes.
Salmon, r.. Chase has written let.
ter TO his friends In Ohio positively
declining TO allow his name TO be con-
sidercd as Il candidate for the presi-
dcncy OF the United States.
,n not !, single cotton mill Is now in
Oh mat place that used to employ a.
9oO people. have been idle anu empty
LOT moro than Il year.
The New York Post SAYS that tho
fankcc troops to he raised after tho
present call has been satisfied must he
OF tho black race
Cnicago has nincty-two churches and
l,o91 liquor shops
-. Pntrick's Succumbs To WAR
81 PatrickS Day passed Yesterday
without any of that outward recogni-
ilon which made the day so jocund and
generous IN past years. Not Il suril of
shamrock WAS visible and Erin go
hraSh was mute. Though no nuhiic
entertainment OF the Hibernian Society
married the passage Of the day. most
81 INC members being at the front in
the war. several private reunions or
CURED at the residences or our Irish
cti"ens, and went merry as a mnrrIa.ra
pen 10 the tune of st. Patricas pay
in the morning"
Itcstnmrnnt Arithmetic
small cup or coffee said To Ic
pure, but with sufficient grounds rnr
complaint, costs at the Main street
rcStaurants 50. One pound OF coffcc
VIII make fifty cups o. tho beverage
AT least. So pound or coffee ncts thc
G G,n.;uant man SEQ. This literal re-
duction OF facts to figures we mt unon
record as part of the history of fSn
times. ana for the astonishm or
generations yet to come. The acme NJ
eNtortion is reached in this, If II nover
was before. And yet the extortionera
can look you in the face without blush.