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BRAGG AND Buell.
Invasion of Kentucky
Twenty-five Years Ago.
RACING roe LOUISVILLE.
The
The Battles at Richmond and
Pcrryvillo, Ky. ..
A. Race for Clmttmiooga—ltnlds of the
Confederate Gene. Morgan and Kirby
Smith in Kentucky—Constornafion at
Cincinnati—Its Defense by Gen. Low.
Wallace—Death of Gen. “'illlnm Nol-
son—Brtwc Defense of Col. Wilder at.
'. Milnfurtlsvlllo—Raco and Chase.
“The atteiiipt‘to destroy the Union of those
states we believe to be a crime, not only
against Kentucky but against all mankind.”
So declared the loyal legislature of Ken-
tuckyiiitho autumn of 1861. At the same
time a bill was passed calling out 40,000
Union volunteers.
In the southern purl; of the state, however,
there wus strong secession sentiment, and
early in September, 1851, Bishop Leonidas
Polk had occupied Columbus, Ky.,with a
considerable Confederate force.
Finally it was resolved by the Confederates
to make a bold dash for the fertile and
famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Its
bcc'vcs and fast horses, its wheat, corn and
sugar cured hams were a suggestion of a land
flowing with milk and honey to the appetite
of the southern army boys. Confederate
soldiers were never over fed. Perhaps that
was one reason why they were such good
fighters.
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KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
Shortly after he retreated from Corinth in
May, Gcn. , Beauregard, who was in poor
health. gave up the command of the Confed-
erate department of the Mississippi. Hi3 au-
thority was turned over to Maj. Gen. Brax—
ton Bragg, who took command of the army
June 10, 1862. It was thou at Tupelo, Miss,
a town on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, fifty
miles southwest of Corinth.
On taking command of the Confederate
force, Bragg at once started it towards Chut~
taiiooga, 'l‘cmi. Once there, he had an ulte-
rior dream, which he thought might be real-
ized. He would strike thence into Kentucky,
strike boldly and quickly. His southern
army, powerful and enthusiastic, could
drive out all the Union troops that were their
in the state. After that, what? What but
the establishing of u secessionist government,
and the gaining of Kentucky for the Confed-
eracy. ‘
Such was the dream of Maj. Gen. Bruxtou
Bragg, C. S. A., in J one, 1862. , .
Before the grand expedition started there
had been various Confederate incursions and
raids. Knoxville and East Tennessee were in
possession of the Confederates.
MORGAN’S RAID, 1862.
July 4, Col. John H. Morgan, with 876
“partisan i-angers';”s'tarted from Knoxville.
Tenn, (ma raid into\Kentucky. His object
'was to get men and horses for the Confederate
army. His approach struck terror to the
hearts of the country people within 100 miles
of him; When rumor said he was near the
honest farmer led his valuable horses and
'cattlc into the thick woods, into deep ravines,
and tied them there till this terror should be
plLsscrI. It is narrated that sometimes, just
when this had been done, Morgan and his
men would suddenly appear as if they had
come out of the ground, and say to the
afi‘i-iglitcd owner: “Here they are. You’ve
put them just where we wanted them, all
ready for us.”
Morgan crossed the Cumberland mountains
and galloped northward into the‘ heart of
Kentucky. At Lebanon, on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, July 12; be destroyed
$50,000 worth of United States government
property. There was a dash and a romance
about him and his band that caused bun-
dreds of young Kentuckians to join them.
Still northward plowed Morgan. July 14,
15 and-16 be destroyed. railroads, tolegraphs
-- and bridges, and
July 17 he cap-
tured tho town of
Cynthiana, _ near
the Ohio river. A
battalion of his
men, indeed, un-
der Basil Duke,
’ , . penetrated quite
,tqthe river, burn-
ing’ the wealthy
old town of Au-
/ / gusts, a few miles
below Maysvillc.
In the fight at Au-
gusta was killed
Lieut. Col. le..
GEN. JOHN H. MORGAN.
Courtlaud Prentice, one of Basil Duke’s ofil— .
cons and son of George D. Prentice, of The
Louisville Journal. 'The ‘Union editor’s obit-
uary notice in The Journal of his secessionist
son was a pathetic illustration of the state of
public sentiment; in Kentuc at this time.
At . Cynthiana the Fade troops were in
hot pursuit of Morgan.~ He therefore wheeled
mid.- turiied southward marching through
Richmond, Ky., to Clar ' ville, Tenn. Hero
for the time he rated on his well won laurels.
Morgan was a well to do citizen of Ken-
tucky when the war began. He was born
in Huntsville, Ala, in 1825. His picturesque
career ended in 1861. He was shot, dead
while trying to escape capture in East Ten-
He died with his 'boots on. I
During his various raids be destroyed mil-
lions of dollars’ worth of property. :
Maj. Gen. Don caries Buell at thistimo com-
manded the United Statesarmies of the depart-
ment of the Ohio. After the evacuation of
Corinth by the Confederates in May, 1862,
he established his headquarters at Huntsville,‘
Ala. Hallcck at St . Louis was his superior
' officer.
Both the Union and Confederate generals
decided in J une that Chattanooga would be a
good point to'occupy with their respective
armies. It would give command of East
Tennessee. But while Halleck and Buell
'wero debating about the best route to Chat;-
tanooga, Bragg was already on the way there.
The race for the town between North and
South was won by the South. This was
only the first ,of the great racing. matches
betWeen Bragg and Buell.
At Chattanooga. Bragg prepared his army
to invade Kentucky. - He (1 it into three
divisions under Hardeo onidas Polk and
E. Kirby Smith respectively. Kirby Smith
Was in command in East Tennessee.
A portion of the Union forces under Gen.
Nelson was sent to Murfrcesboro to oppose
the Confederate raider, N. B. Forrest, who
had taken posemion of Murrreesboro with
valuable stores, July 13, after a shur fight.
On thou preach of Nelson Forrest aft the
town. elsou pursued but could not over-
take him, not bavin cavalry. Forrest swept
around Nashville 11's a tornado, and then
went to McMiimvillc. Tenn, whence he made
raids.
Buell had been busy putting railroads in
order, the Nashville and Chattanooga and
the Memphis and Charleston, whereby to
transport his troops. The latter part of July
the last of his army crossed the Tennessee
river and moved eastward. This was Gen.
Thomas’ division. It was onthis march
that the lamented Col. Robt. L. McCook was
killed in northern Alabama. He was ill
and unarmed, traveling in an ambulance,
when he was shot dead by guerrillas. He is
buried at the beautiful Spring Grove ceme-
terR', Cincinnati. .
015011 was ordered to MeMiunville still
after that industrious raider, Ferrest. Barly
in August, 1862, this was the disposition of
the Federal army: Nelson was at McMiIm-
villo, Tenn; Crittenden and McCook were at
Battle Creek; Rousseau wris on the Decatur
and Columbia railroad. and Thomas was on
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad.
They‘were thus scattered over a wide dis-
trict.
And at this time Bragg began
THE INVASION OF KENTUCKY.
Kirby Smith had been ordered into Kon-
-tucky. He left Knoxville, passed rapidly
through agup in the Cumberland mountains
and sped northward. He issued a. proclama-
tion among the people as he went, telling
thorn that every man who fired on his troops
should be hanged.
Kirby Smith was a. Floridian, born in 1825, and I
a West Point gradu-
ate of 1845. He was
in the Mexican. war, _ .
and was assistant
professor of mathe-
matics at West Point -
for a time. He re-
mained in the United
States army till 1861, ‘
southern army. He
was at Stone River, '
and continued iiitlio '1
service till the close
of the war. He sur-
rendered to Gen. Cun-
hy, at Baton Rouge,
in gas.
GEN. E. 1: limit SMITH.
a
Bragg, in arranging the plan of campaign,
ordered Kirby Smith to move through cast-
out Kentucky to Lexington, and then push
on straight to the Ohio river and take posses-
sion of Cincinnati. Bragg himself was to
lead an army through central Kentucky and
come out on the Ohio river at Louisville.
While in the interior the two generals were to
make a junction at Frankfort, the capital of
the state, if practicable, and proclaim a Con—
federate ovornmeiit.
Gen. l illiaiu Nelson had been ordered by
Buelltotako charge of tho Union defenses
of Kentucky. At this time the federal gou-
cral, George W. Morgan, was at Cumber-
luiid Gap, watching lest the Confederates
should try to get through into Kentucky
there. He sent out detachments of cavalry
to watch the neighboring go 5. Kirby
Smith soul: Gen. Stevenson with tie brigade
to engage Moi'gau’s small force while holiim-
self led his main army with a] speed on into
Kentucky. Gen. Morgan was thus cut 00!
from ro-cnforcomonts and supplies. After
some days on half rations he was forced to
abandon Cumberland Gap altogether. retreat-
ing with his command to the Ohio river.
During this time Kirby Smith’s main army
was nearing the fat central Kentucky region.
Tholnst of August they suddenly appeared
before Richmond.
Kirby Suiit ’5 men had little to cut but
green corn on their raid into Kentucky. It
is noticeable throughout the war that the
southern soldiers iiover carried quantities of
food along, and were never cumbered with
baggage. “I can whip any army that is fol-
lowed by a flock of cattle," was a saying of
Stonewall J ackson’s.
BATTLE OF RICHMOND.
Gen. M. D. Manson was near Richmond,
Ky., with a small force, which had been con-
siderably increased through the patriotic ex—
ertions of Gen. Lew Wallace, of Indiana.
The appearance of Kirby Smith before
Richmond curried consternation into the
heart of Kentucky. Frankfort, the capital,
was only fifty miles distant. With the legis-
lature in session, that body hastily adjourned
to Louisville. The state records were also re-
moved thither, with a million dollars of
money from the banks in this region.
Gen. Manson’s troops had been attacked by
Kirby Smith’s advance at Big Hill Aug.
23, and. retreated to Richmond. Hero
Manson was re-enforced by a number of
newly organized regiments from Ohio, Ken-
tucky and Indiana. This was just after
President Lincoln’s call for “600,000 more,"
and the north was filled with the camps
of the fresh volunteers. The new regiments
under Manson hardly now how to form a.
line of battle, and were ignorant of the first
principles of field evolutions. The officers
were, for the main part, as green as the men.
These law, unprhcticetl troops were to meet
on the field at Richmond the Confederate
veterans of Shiloh, and other fields under
such leaders as Kirby Smith and Goa. Put
Cleburuo. .
Aug. 29, Kirby Smith came on and offered
battle. Manson advancedto meet him and
drove him bat-k to Rogersvillo, two miles
from Richmond. Herc Manson encumpod for
the night. What is called the battle of Rich-
mond took place next day, Aug. 30.
The fighting began anew on the morning
of this day. Manson and Brig. Gen. Craft,
who had distinguished himself at Donelson,
advanced to meet the Confederate attack.
After heavy fighting one mile south of
Rogersville, the Union troops were routed
with heavy loss. In the action the lieuten-
ant colonel and major of the Seventy-first
Indiana. were killed, leaving that regiment
without a field ofilcer.
Licut. Col. Melville D. Topping, of the Seventy-
first Indiana, was a.
very prominent bus-
iness man of Terra
Huute, and one of the
most promising sol-
diers that Indiana
sent tothe war. Mor-
tally wounded in the
midst of a crushing
defeat, his first words
to a young officer
who attended him
were, “Have I done
“my duty? Have I
done all that could
be done?" “Yes, Cob
‘ - one], you have done
user. con. TOPPING. your whole duty."
“Then,“ said the gallant soldier, “I die content.
Tell my wife and children that my last thoughts
were of them.“
Near the old camps of the Union troops,
two miles north from the scene of the first en-
gagement, Manson made another stand. Hero
was some hard fighting, but again the Con-
federates were victorious. At this time Gen.
Nelson arrived, took command and arranged
for n. final stand on a slight elevation near the
cemetery in front of Richmond. Here the
Federal raw recruits, decimated to about 2,500
men, made their third and last rally against
an enemy vastly superior in numbers and dis-
cipline. The Confederate line was twice re-
pulsed immediptely to the right of the come-
ltery, but the Union line was finally broken
and flanked and the day was hopelessly lost.
Gen. Nelson was twice wounded in this action.
Gen. Manson was captured.
In the battle of Richmond there were 12,000
Confederate troops and thirty-six pieces of
artillery. The Union forces consisted of
about 7,000 men. The Confederates lost over
000 in killed and wounded. The Union troops
lost 825. Besides that, 2,000 of them were
made prisoners.
After the fight at Richmond Kirby Smith
marched his inch to Lexington, the chief town
in the Blue Grass region. Thence he sent out
Gen. Heth with 6,000 men to camp within a
few miles of Covington, opposite Cincinnati.
Another detachment was ordered in the di-
rection of Louisville. Smith himself re:
mained at Lexington, waiting the word to
join Bragg, and. recruiting his army among
the Blue Grass sympathizers with the Con-
federate cause.
Meantime consternation reigned at Cincin-
nati, and in the populous and well to do
smaller towns along the Ohio below. At
Cincinnati martial law was proclaimed, and
the indefatigable Gen. Lew‘ Wallace began
fortifying with all speed in the region about
Covington, Ky. Thejgremains of these de-
fenses are still seen. Wallace ordered all
business houses closed,und the ferry boats
that plied between Cincinnati on the Ohio side,
and Covington and Newport on the Kentucky
side, were stopped. All this half an hour
after Wallace reached Cincinnati, Sept. 1.
The scene that followed is beyond descrip-
tion. Mothers of young infants had left
them on one side of the river, and visited the
other for business or for pleasure. This iron
military order cut them of! from return, and
for one night at least both mothers and
babies were alike frantic. Mechanics and
other working-men, by the thousand, had left
their families that morning, expecting to re-
turn us usual, only to find themselves stopped
as by an adamantino wall at60’clock. As
all sorts of rumors of capture and impressing
men into the soldiers’ ranks were prevalent,
none knew for the time what had become of
those nearest them. Imagination supplied
thelack of knowledge and drewpictures of
the fate of loved ones that did not err on the
side of the commonplace and the safe. Cin-
cinnatians talk to this day of Low Wallace’s
military rule in Cincinnati.
Ho saved it from invasion. In a few hours’
time he had an army of 40,000 men ready.
By his proclamation he sent prominent
wealthy citizens to the other side of the river
to work on the fortifications. It was a curi-
ous spectacle, white handed men with rings
and gold watches digging in the dirt like rail-
road laborers, and throwing up earthworks.
“Citizens for labor, soldiers for battle,”
were Lew Wallace’s words.
Recruits besides poured in from Ohio, In-
diana. and elsewhere, till there were defend-
ers enough there to make the invasion of
Cincinnati a serious business for anybody
who should attempt it.
A pontoon bridge was laid across the river
and over it thousands of new soldiers march
day and night to man the new fortifications
at Coviugtou. After some days Beth dropped
back and rejoined Kirby Smith.
It is time now to see what Gen. Buell was
about.
Don Carlos Buell was an Ohio man, born at
Marietta in 1618. Went throu West Point and
served in the Mexican war. as made major
general of volunteers in mm. Took effective
part in the battle at Shiloh, and after that was
GEN. new.
mode commander of the arm of the Ohio. He
was mustered out of the vo unteer service in
1801, and resigned from the refiulur army in 1865.
He is now a resident in Louisvi e,
In August Gen. Bucllhnd been uiidcrthe
impression that Bragg lucunt to move against
Nashville. The Federal commander had ac-
cordingly concentrated his main army at
Murfrecsboro. Early in September he bo-
came aware that Brngg’s movements meant
the invasion of Kentucky and the north.
Thereapon, Sept. 7, he set his army in mo-
tion for Louisville. It has been already
mentioned that this city was Bragg‘s object
ivo point also. The second race between
Bragg and Buell began therefore.
Maj. Gen. Bragg, Buell‘s opponent, was a West
Point raduato of the class of 1837. He was 0
North rolinlun, and was three years older than
Buell. Like most prominent officers on both the
Union and Confederate sides. Bragg had served
' Kentucky, in 1825.
GEN. BIIAXTON BRAGG.
in the Mexican war. He had also served in the
Seminole war. He resigned from the regular
army and was aplunter in Louisiana in 1861, when
he was appointed a Confederate brigadier
general. In Februar 1862, h
c was made
a. major general. 0 too was engaged
at the battle of Shiloh. ‘After’his invasion of
Kentucky he fought Rosecrans at lilurfrcesboro
and defeated him at Chickamauga. His military
career mostly ended at the battle of Mission
Ridge, 1803, where he was driven back by G rant.
Gen. Bragg died at Galveston, Tex., in 1b70.
Such were the two leaders who were to try
against each other, not only their racing powers,
but their strategic and fighting ability.
Bragg entered Kentucky Sept. 5 with over
40,000 men. He thus had two days the
start of Buell.
This September, while the famous county
fairs take place-at Richmond, Lexington,
Cynthinna and Paris, with their dis lay of
fleet horses, shining Jerseys and short orued
cattle and beautiful women, some gray-
bcurds doubtless remember that twenty-five
years ago, this month, there were very few
county fairs in the magnificent Blue Grass
region. They were broken up by the tramp
of armies, the hiss of bursting shells and the
thunderous sound of artillery.
It was Bucll’s concentration of his army at
Murfreesboro that gave Bragg free scope to
start where he would unmolested. .
Se t. 7 Buell started after him with
near y 60,000 men. He meant to overtake
Bragg and force him to a battle. His divi-
sion commanders were Gena. Ammen, Thos.
L. Crittenden, Alex McDowell McCook,
Wood, Rousseau and Robin. B. Mitchell. He
crossed the Cumberland at Nashville on
his road north, and left there three divisions
under Thomas as a garrison.
MUNFORDSVILLE.
Sept. 13, Brugg’s cavalry hudjreached Mun-
fordsvillo under command of Gen. J. R.
Chalmers. At Muufordsvillc, on Green river,
was a Federal garrison a. little over 2,000
strong, under Col. J. T. Wilder. It was
stationed at the bridge where the Louisville
and Nashville railway crossed: After the
Confederate artillery and infantry had or-
rived Bragg called on Wilder to surrender
The demand was refused.
Probably as singular an incident as over
took place in the annals of war happened
here. On Sept. 14, Bragg assaulted, and
was repulsed. Sept. 15, Bragg again do-
manded surrender, and wasa second time
refused. The Confederates withdrew then,
but reappeared a third time in force. Bragg
sent a flag of trace to the garrison, however,
calling for its surrender in the name of hu-
manity. He had his wholenrmy around
them, he declared, and if he was forced to
attack again it would be a useless shedding
of blood, for the garrison was doomed at all
hazard. The little Union garrison hold a
council of war. It was determined not to
surrender unless the commanding officer of
the garrison was permitted to make a. per-
sonal inspection of Bragg’s camp, to prove
the truth of his statement. This was the
answer sent back to the Confederate com-
mander. Strangely enough the offer was ae-
copted by Bragg, and Col. Wilder went in
person and was escorted through the Confed-
erate quarters the evening of Sept. 16. He
found an army of 25,000 men, with 45 pieces
of artillery, against his handful of less than
2,000. He decided that further resistance was
useless, and surrendered Munfordsviile, with
the honors of war, to Bragg, Sept. 17. There
had been bloody fighting during the four
days. The flag of the Fifty-seventh Indiana
was cut down after having~146 bullet holes
shot through fa. Wilder’s resistance had been
a gallant and stubborn one. A row recruit
of the Seventeenth Indiana. a. printer, sat at
an cmbrnsure and with his own hands fired
Ever 500 shots. His comrades loaded for
im.
Newspaper letters of the time say that
Bragg remarked to Wilder after the sur—
render: “You have ruined the best brigade
of my army."
After Munfordsville, Bragg marched to
Prewitt’s Knob, Buell following him with all
his army. Buell had sent for Thomas from
Nashville, leaving N egley in command there.
Thomas joined Buell with the First division
Sept. 20. Buell prepared to give battle at
once, but while he did so Bragg’s army sud-
denly gave him the slip and marched toward
Louisville. They did not go there, however,
but again suddenly changed their mania and
marched to Bardsbown.
Maj. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau was one of the
most accomplished officers of the army of the
Cumberland. He was a. Kentuckiau, born in 1818,
of poor parents. The
encyclopedias say
that in his early
youth he “worked at
road making," which
statement is not as
clear as one could
wish. At any rate,
ho was self educated
and studied law, and
never went to West
Point. He wonuhigh
place as a. criminal
lawyer at Louisville.
He took the Union
side in 1801, and - ..
raised two regiments ' l /‘
in Kentucky, but was ‘9 é
obliged to quarter can. Rousseau.
them at Camp Joe Holt, on the Ohio side of the
river, on account of Kentucky‘s neutrality.
He was a. brigadier genera! of volunteers
in 1861. Ho fought at Shiloh, and gallantly
against Bragg at Pcrryvillo, Ky., and there-
upon was mudo. major general of volun-
teers. He was at Chickamuuga, and organized a
famous raid into Alabama. The next step in his
varied career was an election to congress, im-
mediately on the close of the war. Then once
more into the army in which he was appointed a
regular brigadier general and sent on duty to
Alaska. He was recalled and sent to command
at New Orleans, where he died in 1869. Gen.
Rousseau was a man of magnificent physical ap-
pearance, the typical “big Kentuckian."
Buell hastened on to Louisville. He won
the race, if Bragg had really meant to go
there. But Bragg himself says in his report
that at this time he found himself in a “hostile
country,” with only three days’ food for his
men. He therefore determined to deflect his
course to the right instead of proceeding still
further into uhostile country, to fix his head-
quarters ut Bardstown and draw supplies
from Lexington.
Buell and Bragg each claimed to be at-.
tempting to draw the other into a battle.
At all events, however, this purposeless
tramping through Kentucky had done little
goodfor the army of Gen. Buell. Reaching
Louisville, it encamped on the river shore, be-
low the city. '
“And when we got there there were only
sixboys of my regiment who stacked arms
on the sand,” says a private who tells the
story of Buell’s chase through Kentucky.
The other men of the regiment bud drop-
ped out by the way, either fallen through
fatigue or been lost by straggling. The other
regiments were in not much better condition
than the one mentioned when they encamped
on the sand below Louisville. And after
this river was reached thousands more drop-
ped out, deserted or “struggled."
The day that the last of Buell's army
roachodLouis- ' 'r“\
ville, Sept. 29, a
tragic event hap—
pened then which
threw the whole
city into excite-
ment. Thiswas the
fatal shooting of
Gen. William Nel-
son by Brig. Gen. . .I
Jeff. C. Davis, of; _, .;
Indiana, in aquur- ‘
rel. ' .
Geri. Nelson was .. ,, v' '
born in Maysville,
Up to 1861 he had GEN. war. NELSON.
served in the United States navy. That year he
was appointed a brigadier general of the army
and sent on duty to his own state. He recruited
thousands of Union volunteers. At Shiloh
he commanded a division, remaining with
Buoll's army up to Brugg’s invasion of Ken-
tucky. After the battle of Richmond he was
sent to look after the defenses of Louisville,
for that city expected a visit from Bragg
when Kirby Smith was advancing on Louis-
ville. '
With great; vigor Nelson set about fortify-
ing the Kentucky metropolis, but his way was
different from that resorted to by Low Wal-
lace. Wulluco issueduproclamation calling
on the citizens of Cincinnati to aid in throw-
ing up the earthworks, and wealthy and prom.-
incut citizens responded to the call and dog
with their own hands, Nelson, on the other
hand. gave out the following order;
“Having been called on for 1,000 laborers, it
is ordered that the citizens of Louisville and
Jefferson county report to Co]. Henry Dent
the number of slaves each will furnish, and
they will deliver: them into the custody of Col.
Dent, to be used. in the erection of fortifica-
tions. Col. Dent is ordered to impress a suffi-
cient number of laborers to erect the works of
defense ”
. slapped Davis i
.diutely on hearing
Wherever negrocs were round at large in
the streets they Were seized and set to work,
and there was wild scurrying to and fro of
dusky forms, will. hiding away as soon as the
order bccamo known. Thus the fortifications
at, Covingtou we'ro built voluntarily by citi-
zens of Cincinnati and vicinity. Those of
Louisville were made by the forced labor of
negro slavcs. . ..
Gen. Nelson was a brave and able soldier.
But he had a temper which was a terror to
those who were forced to be about him. His
soldiers know this well, and sometimes made
it serve their amusement. One evening an
innocent looking'IcIVilian came into his camp
inquiring for the'quartermastor. The “boys,”
scenting some (tin, directed him to the gen-
ernl’s tent, where Nelson had already retired
for the night. ' if
“He’ll say he’sf‘not the quartormaster," ex-
plained the boys. “but don’t you believe him.
Tell him you know better, and you want
iiono of his lyin .-” t
The lamb we into the lion’s jawit A row
of beads was dubked out of the ten all along
the line of the regiment. The so] iers were
awaiting the denouemont. The verdant nois-
ily aroused the alleged quartermuster. There
was a rear front the lion within. The lion
demanded what 'was the matter.
“I want the quarter-master,” said the ver-
dant. “Ain’t you the quortcrmaster'i”
There was an pxplosion.
“I’m not the‘ quartermastor," roared Nel-
son. “What do ‘you come here dist' I hing me
for?”
now, none 0’ that,” said be. “They told me
you’d deny it, but I’ll have none 0’ your
lasted foolishness.” '_
The general sprung out of bed and snatched
his sword. “Come here," he exclaimed. -
At that mo out it was borne in on the
civilian’s mind at there was a mistake. He
turned about wig a jump, and made for the
outside world ns'fust as his heels would carry
him, Gen. Nelson after. A shout of laughter
from a thousand throats greeted the civilian
as he appeared, shed in the twinkling of an
eye when it wussk'uown that the general too
was there. ..-,
Heads were poked inside the tents with
lightning rupidi , and all was silent as the
grave inn. mo "out. A solitary captain sot
outside his teufiJdemurely enjoying the cool
of the evening. ,
“Who sent tha‘t‘ follow to me?" demanded
Nelson. 1.:
“I don’t know‘” replied the captain.
Gen. Nelson killed at the Gait house,
Louisville. His manner had enraged Gen.
Davis beyond lself control. Nelson. who
was a. very l . and powerful man, had
ILtho face. He isburied at
Cave Hill cem, _'r]y, Louisville. His pull
bearers were gen re. s from Buell’s army and
soldier friends. ' is body lay in state awhile,
and his own di ' on attended the funeral in
procession. , .
At Louisville; Buell reorganized his scat-
tered army. Thousands of new recruits
came and they Wore assigned to the thinned
old regiments, and these were filled. When
‘rcadp to move "once more against Bragg,
Bucl had an army of 100,000 men. It was
divided into three corps, commanded respec-
tively bv Maj, Cons. A. McD. McCook,
Thomas L. Crittflnden and Brig. Gen. Charles
C. Gilbert. Gen'.‘ Gilbert was a. West Point
graduate of 1846;,
Practically Buell’s chase from Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, to Louisvnlle, Ky., bad the up
arance of a retreat. It was contended that
e should have béen more vigprous in action,
that he should have forced raggto battle
and driven him ,out of .Kentucky. Halleck
qt W ushington took this view of it and re-
lieved Buell from command and put Thomas
in his place the lust of September. Thomas,
however, remcnstrnted earnestly against this
and the order was revoked. Thomas had not,
at this time, confidence in his own power to
handle a. lar e body of troops.
The next ay, Oct. 1, Buell took command
again, with Thomas second, and once more
began the hunt (fiber Bragg. He had 100,000
men. .
MARCHING THROUGH KENTUCKY.
“to left Bragg at Bardstown Sept. 21.
Oct. 1 he left Gen. Leonidas Polk in com-
mand at that tbwii, and himself started to
Lexington. Polk had orders to “slowly re-
tire” to Bryantsville. Kirby Smith was at
this time in the interior of the state with his
army, waiting ol'dcrs to join Bragg at Frank-
fort.
There really was a Confederate governor
of Kentucky for a few days. Oct. 1 Bragg
and Kirby Sniith united their forces at
Frankfort. Then Bragg was good as his
word. He and 'Kirby Smith installed Rich-
ard Hawes as provisional Confederate gov.
ernoi' of Kentucky. Bragg had set up u
Confederate government in the state.
Richard Hooves had been a. member of the,
United States Congress. The Confederate
government in Kentucky did not, however,
last long. A week later it retreated swiftly
southward, governor and all.
Bragg learned at Lexington, Oct. 2, that
Buell had started after him again. Bragg's
own army hadt'been considerably increased
by young Ken-
tucky recruits,
and . his whole
force in the stilto
now amounted ,to
not for from O5,-
000 men. Imme-
of B u 0 11’s {Ep-
proach, B r a g g
wrote to Polk to i
come at once (to
Frankfort, by way
of Bloomfiolr'd.
Bragg looked to a
battle with Bue, .
Polk was to p
BISHOP POLK.
pare to attack the Federalarmy in flank and
rear, while Kirby Smith should attack in
front. ,. .
Polk decided not to obey the order, but to
follow his on all instructions to slowly
rotiroto Bry 1, ville. Bragg then counter-
manded the order to attack that he had given
to Smith. ,. ._
During the las't of September and first days
of October, Bra’gg’s army had been success-
fully and rapidly accumulating the spoils of
war. Cattle, horses, swine and males were
seized without Elm; byflonfedorate detach-
ments in vario‘ parts of the interior. At
Frankfort a.cl‘6th factory was looted, and
1,000,000 yards ‘of the famous Kentucky
butternut jeans, were taken. In some in-
stances Confederate scri was offered in pay-
ment for property 542'
Bragg:l ad igued a. proclamation to the
Kentuc 'ans onentering the interior of the
state, in which lie had said he must have the
supplies of war wherewith to liberate them
from the north pp invader. To the ladies he
said with poetiq‘enthusiasm:
“Buckle on the hrmor of your kindred your
husbands, sons I‘ brothers, and sea with
shame him whomeuldprove recreant to you,
his country uudtliis Go ” -
The “supplies;bf war” had been accumu-
lating at Lexiisifton. Bragg ordered a suffi-
cient quantity gut to Polk at Bi'yantsville,
and Oct. 7 ordered Polk himself to march to
Pcrryvillo, Ky.,, with Cheatham’s division.
He was further-to attach the Union army,
rout it. and their join Kirby Smith at Frank-
ford. .
'Bisho Leonidas Polk, of Louisiana, on the
outbrea of the civil war, throw away his
priestly cussock‘bnd donned the Confederate
fighting gray. ,j He had, however, been a
so dier before 'becoming a bishop. having
been gruduatedi'at.West Point in 1827. He
was born at Ralei , N. C., in 1806. He was
one of the mostlab e and zealous of the minor
Confederate , ' rals. Wherever fighting
was, there Bis op P lkwns. He always de-
clared, however, the. when the war was ova
he would 0 bu’pk and be a bishop again. A
British 0 car 1who knew him in the amply
wrote of the Confederate soldier bisho : “ e
is very rich, and, I am told, owns 00 no-
roes.’ ..
g Gen. Polk commanded a division _at Shiloh
and a corps at‘ Chickamauga. Hissense 0
his own dignitieand importance sometimes
led him to diso y his superior officers, as he
did Bragg3 in Kentucky. For such disobe<
dience at hickamauga e was put under ur-
rest, but was hfterwar restored to com-
mand. He was with J ohnston’s army before
Atlanta, in J one, 1864, where a cannon shot
from the Federal lines ended his career both
military and theological. Bishop Polk was a
man of imposiuglpresence. ~
Oct. 8, 1862,I ragg’s and Buell’s armies
knocked beads together at last and fought the
BATTLII-Z OF PERRYVILLE.
This had been Buell’s disposition of his
forces after he marched out of Louisville,
Oct. 1, with 100,000 men: Gen. Sill, with
two divisions. ','the Federal left. marched.
against Kirby Smith at Frankfort. The rest
of the army moved by different routesagainst
Bragg himself at Bardstown.
There was a perpetual series of cavalry and
artillery skirmishes with the Confederates
after leaving Louisville, which kept Buell’s
army hack and ‘gave Bragg time to withdraw
from Bardstowfn. Buell reached that place
eight hours after his enemy had left it. Re-
ports reached Buell from time to time indi-
cating the direction Bragg had taken. I-Io
changed his limp of march accordingly, now_
here, now thcro,'till at length it seemed clear
that Bragg was‘ either at Pcrryvillo or Har-
rodsburg. g .
Oct. 7, Buclljcamo'withiii three miles of
Pcrryville. There he found the Confederates
in force. Gilbert’s corps was with the Fed-
eral commander at this time. - McCook’s
corps was at this time on the Harrodsburg
road, and Crittenden’s corps was on tho
[Abaiioii road. .
Crittcndcn is a‘famous name in Kentucky an-
. rials. Senator J. J.
Crittcnden held in
his time the highest
political ofiiccs his
state could give him.
He was an ardent
Union man when the
war began. He had
two sons, Thomas L.
and George B.
Thomas entered the
Union army, George
B. the Confederate,
‘1 and both roso'tobo
. generals. Thomas
' " .. i» -,....l.., the Union Crit-
[ausx T. L. animations. tendon, Buell‘ssorps
Tho civilian showed his courage. “Come-
commander, was born In new. no was United
States consul to Liverpool in Preddent Taylor‘s
time. He entered the Union army in 1331, and in
the fall of that year became brigodier general of
volunteers. He served at many of thehardest
fought battles of the war, such as Shiloh, Stone
River and Chickamnuga. In 1801 he was sent
east, and commanded a corps there. He was a
major general of volunteers, and, by brevet. of
the regular army also. In the Buell campaign
against Bragg he commanded the right wing of
the Army of the Ohio.
During the night of Oct. 7, Buell ordered
McCook and Crittenden at once to advance
and form in line of battle on the wings. Gil-
bert’s corps was the center. During the night
also Buell had a sharp little fight for o'creek
whence to get water for his arm . Ho ob-
tained possession of the pools. Th fighting
was done on the Federal side by Col. Daniel
McCook.
The battle of Pcrryvillo was begun on the
morning of Oct. 8 by an attempt to drive
McCook away from the precious water pools.
It was repulsed, and in this preliminary fight
a young Union division commander named
Philip Sheridan distinguished himself hand-
somely. ,
There was no more fighting till the arrival
of McCook between 10 and 11 o’clock. He
immediately found his divisions, Jackson's
and Rousseau’s, in linear: Gilbert’s left.
The battle of Pcrryvillo begun in a fight
for water. McCook’s position was near Doc:
tor’s Fork of Chaplin creek. Rousseau's di-
vision odvuuced towards this creek to get
water, when they were ‘fired on by the Con-'
federate artillery. McCook’s lino formed on
Chaplin‘s Hills.
Of McCook‘s forces, Rousseau held the
right, and Gen. Terrell's brigade of Jackson’s
division the extreme left. Stark .. *L ’s
brigade was behind Terrell’s as a reserve.
About 2 o'clock the Confederate Gen. Har-‘
deo came on to the attack with 16,000 men,
the divisions of Cheathuui, Buckner and S.
R. Anderson. The Muxville road crossed
Doctor’s Fork immediately in front of the
Federal line, and this was the point the Con-
foderates aimed at.
The Confederates attacked first the extreme
left under Terrell. There was a strong fire
and Ten-oil’s raw recruits wavered. Their
division commander, Gen. James S. Jackson,
rode gallantiy to the front to rally them. In
a moment a fragment of shell struck him in
the breast and he fell from his horse dead in
umomeut. A little
later and Gen. Te ~-
rell was also killed.
The day w o u l d
have been lost on
the left only for
Starkweuther’s
brigade. Theeebe-
longed to Rous-
seau’s division, and .
with stubborn bra- .
very they held the '
Confederates back
after Terroll’s men
had been beaten.
can: .1. s. JACKSON.
Gen. Anderson made a fierce attack on Rous-
seau on the right. The Federal brigades
were commanded by Gen. W. H. Lytle and
Col. Len A. Harris, both Cincinnati men.
Lytle was the author of the poem “I am dy-
ing Egypt, dying.” The Army of the Com-
berland society is erecting a. monument to him
at Cincinnati. Anderson’s men for outnum-
bered those of Harris and Lytle, yet they held
their ground till their ammunition was ex-
' hausted, when they fell back. Here the Fed-
eral Col. Webster was killed and Lytle was
severely wounded. It was a very hot fight.
McCook had called earnestly for re-enforco-
meats. Gooding’s brigade was sent him from
Gilbert’s corps. It entered into the battle
where Lytle’s brigade left off, and fought
hotly for two hours. A historic point of the
battle of Pcrryvillo is Russell’s house. Abdut
it the battle ebbed and fiowed, and am: ed
back and forth. It was on the Federal inc
in the morning, at the ground occupied by
Lytlo’s brigade. When that was driven
back, Russell’s house was lost. Gooding’s
brigade recovered the lost ground, and once
more Russell’s house was within the Federal
line. But the bravo brigade of Goodiiig lost
one-third of its number and its commander
himself was made prisoner. ‘
Over on the left of Gilbert's corps, Gen.
Sheridan had engaged in the fight early in
the day, forced back the Confederate line and
advanced his own. This line was mailed
when the attack was made on Rousseau.
Sheridan withdraw to a better position and
ured musket balls and cannister shot into
heir ranks. But being hard.premed, Cur-
lin’s bri ride from Gilbert's corps was sent to
him in t a nick of time.
This settled the fight. Carlln's bri ado
charged on the advancing Confederates t eir
lino broke and they fell back. Through Per-
ryvillc, Carlin pursued them, capturing
prisoners and military supplies in the town.
Sheridan also pursued some distuncemnd
then trained his artillery fire upon the Con-
federates, who were still coming up n uiust
the Federal left, and checked.them. ark-
ness ended the fight.
Buell was not aware till night what heavy
fighting had been done by McCook’s division
and Sheridan. He did not know what a
large battle he had had upon his hands, with
by for the larger ortion of his troops not eu-
gaged at all. rittenden’s corps did not
come up in time, and except one rigade did
not take part in the fight.
The Confederate art of the battle was di=
rooted by Bishop 01k. BraggI himself was
at Frankfort with Kirb Smit .
At Perryvdio Buell ad 58,000 men, less
than half of them being in the fi ht. He lost
in killed and wounded 4,848. T e Confeder-
ates lost 2,500; but Buell captured nearly
5,000 prisoners at Pcrryvillo during the days
just previous.
Bragg's army at Pcrryvillo numbered bo-
tweeu 35,000 and 40,000.
The Federal forces reputed to renew the
fight next morning, ct. 9. But that night
Bragg and Kirby Smith united, marched
their armies southeast through Harrodsburg
and out of Kentucky altogether. They re-
tired in good order, and took with them an
immense quantity of supplies. ,
The last of October Buell was relieved of
his command and Gen. Rosecrans put in his
place. About the same time his command,
the Army of the Ohio, was absorbed in the
Army of the Cumberland, and thereafter
formed part of it.
A House Owner's Trick.
There is a large apartment house in this
city, one feature of which is that the suites
in it command a rental because they are all
provided with fine, large windows on the
open air. The building towers up out of a
row of small, old. fashioned houses, all but
one of which belong‘to an unsettled estate
that will not improve them for many years.
The exception is next door to the big house.
It belongs to a shrewd German who bought
it some time ago from the original owner.
After buying he concluded that he had not
made as good a bargain as he expected The
rent of the house did not come up to his ex-
pectations, and he put on his thinking cap.
Presently he called on the owner of the big
house and announced that he would have to
build. He could not make money out of his
house as it stood, he said, and must put up a
flat. This would close all the windows on
one side of the big house, taming the apart-
ments to dark rooms, and cut down the roots
to a. good third. So the owner compromised.
He paid $10,000 for a pledge that his neigh-
bor would not build for along term, and his
neighbor, who had never intended to build
anyhow, pocketed the check and now collects
his rents on the little house contenteuly.-—
Alfred Trumble in New York News.
Too Much Noise.
War is savage business, and naturally
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Irishman at the battle of Bull Run was some—
what sturtled when the head of his companion
on the lcf t hand was knocked off by a cannon
ball.
A few moments after, however, it spent
ball broke the finger of his comrade on the
other side. The wounded man threw down
his gun and yelled with pain, when the Irish-
mtui turned upon him, exclaiming, “Oh, be
still, you ould woman; you make more noise
than the man that losht his hudI"--Youth’s
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Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. *
For full information enquire of
o. E. WILSON.
o one 7 not out Porn Mortgages
—or m—
Equitable lortgage co., Kansas oily.
Incorporated—Capital, $000,000.
Principal and Interest Guaranteed.
Security from three to six times the amount of
loan. Coupon Bonds. Interest payable in New
York. Also, lyas
Six per cent. Debonturo Bonds of the
Mldtlleaex Banking Company, of
Middleton, Conn.
Organized under the banking laws of the State
of Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York.
R. B. ORAUFURD.
Agent. 31 Main Street, Norwalk.
MAGIC SOAP.
$5.000nervousness;
one person in one half day. It requires Ito-Ima-
chinery to manufacture.‘ These goods havebeen
or state rights at $2.00 per 1,000 inhabitants. 1!
you wish tor a trial first in your family send $3.50,
and will shig you 5011» ' regular price $4.00.
It. . BARRETT. Northampton, Mass.
Lock Box 10. Giulia
. BLASCER’S
TIME HONORED
“OLD BRIDGE STORE.”
these piping times of severe
sell me.“
dependcdmpoo—
Nearly half a century ago my store was christened
as above, and has since been known and honored among
the old residents of N orwalk by that appropriate name.
But that is a matter of little consequence to the public in
BUSINESS COMPETITION.
The one important question to purchasers is where can
we get the
Best Goods for the Least Money!
From time to time the report comes to me that some of
my near neighbors have boasted that they could under-
, No one who has ever tested the truth of such a.
claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and
UNEXCELLED STOCK 01"‘GOODS
and the extremely low prices at which I- offer the same
has ever left
“The Old Bridge Store,”
With any other feeling than that no one in the trade can
or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than
I do. I have the choicest exhibits of
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
GROGKERY 86.,GLASS'WARES.
Also about every conceivable device for Table
Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with .House Cleaning
and Cooking Implements of every description.
examine and be convinced that my statements are strict-
lv true as to' my carefully selected stock of the
Cloister "Utilities and Varieties of tools
In my line are
Sold" at the Lowest Possible Prices.
We. strive to strictly attend to our ’own business.
We never run down or misrepreScnt other dealers, and
we ask simply a. chance to Show our customers our stock
and let them satisfy themselves; buttine thing may be
NO OTHER CONCERN SHALL UNDERSELL ME I
The times, the times, the age, the age—
,The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage;
Tell of the town or city, where they keep
Such goods at once so rich and yet so cheap!
For of all cheap stores beneath the sun,
B. S. BLAscnn’s is the cheapest one!
B. s. BLASCER.
INorwalk, April 4th, 1887.
Call and
hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro-'
THE WAITING CROWN. .
The greatest words as yet remaln unspoken;
The noblest songs remain as yet unsung;
But soon the expected silence will be broken
When highest thoughts and songs have found
their tongue. .
Andonlt:i perhaps. whom men know not; who.
at
(l
Hath borhe a deathless music in his soul,
May thunder forth above the mad world’s riot
A voice to stir the earth from pole to pole.
So. poet, writer and voice thy songs, muslcitml
Repress thou not what Nature meant to be:
The waiting crown, whatever thy condition,
. Must fall at last on one, why not on thee! ;
—S. D. Smith, Jr.
“AIN’T cor no user-tun."
A Curious Belle! Said to Prevail Both
North and South.
In “de sour,” especially in the country
regions where auto war notions still to a
largeth prevail, there is much jealousy
and ill feeling between : the full blooded
negroes and the half breed negroes—between
the “black niggeis” and the “yaller nigger-s”
—as the white corner grocery loungers of
those puts call them. Curiously enough the
black negroes profem to consider themselves
greatly superior to the mulattoes, notwith-
standing the latter’s admixture of white
blood. They declare that when that gather-
ing together of the nations ’of the earth,
spoken of in the Bible, takes place, than will
a bean phcefortbomiflnttoasaud '
mixed blood, because belugusithor whitanor
black these “ain’t got no' hashim," and eohso‘
quently can’t be gathered in. ‘
This notion had some hold even “up north,"
as was shown by a scene behold the other day
by a reporter in Blocker street. There oc~
spared a “fracas” between a mutatto woman
anegro woman whose-humor E
fiandarknees. Asistho case with mostfi
quarrels, the origin of the dispute was of a
trifling nature. But the combat was none
the lea fierce for that while it lasted. They
fought with nature’s weapons and the woman
of pure African blood was worsted. But she
still had a Parthian arrow left.
“I’se done whup yer,” said the mulstto
trlIiIi‘Ilépllinntly. . '
, of yer has who the Pan
ax yer somfin’. an’ of yerpanswera, 1.153317:
capawfii‘ip me agin." '
er can’t ax me ’ ’
analyst-J’s, y nufiin datIcsnt
“ es’ you wait, yahoi- ni - don‘t be
3% “1131211: gei- 8:11:12" dagtgd: ’Bible say (1::
c e 9 wine to
togeder in do last day?” g be gathered
“I; cllmm I does."
a , den, jes’ tell me wer' ou‘s no
he den when Gabriel blows his {ruinpgetwli Y:
am t black an' ‘ yer ain’t white, an’ yer ain't
got no nashun nohow, has yer?”
The mulatto woman was at a loss for an
answer, and the black woman took advan-
sage of the opportunity to beat a triumphant
retreat, occasionally yelling back at her an-
tagonist, “Gwon, yer ole yaller niggah; yer
ain’t got no nashun, nobow, yer ain’t. "—Now
‘ York Tribune.
m S’I‘hoinas Jelonon's Sawmill.
. tambury, the steuogra her used to
tell a story about the erection 01; a shwmill at
Monticello by President Jefferson, after he
had retired from the presidential chair. Ho
invented a windmlll, and sent for an en-
gineer, to whom he submitted his plans
showing him a hill expmed to currents of all1
on the top of which he proposed to build a
normal], to be propelled by vertical sails. The
man of professional science examined the
plan, and listened with profound attention
and deference to Mr. Jefferson‘s iexpla-
nations of it, and to his eloquent il-
lustration of the advantages it would
secure. Having heard him through, and
being asked by the philosopher “what he
thought of it," he replied, with great sincer-
ity, that it was a most ingenious idea, and
was decidedly the best plan for a savvmill ho
had overseen Jeflemon was delighted, and
forthwith entered into a. written agreement
for the erection of such a mill on the neigh-
boring heights. . The work went bravely on,
the inventor very frequently mounting his
horse and riding over to seebow it proceeded.
When the frame was up, and the building ap-
proached its completion, the engineer rode
over to Monticello to obtain osupply of money
and to get some directions about the saws.
Jeflerson kept him to dinner, and when the
cloth was removed, and wine sat upon the
table, he turned to his guest, and with an air
of much satisfaction. exclaimed: .
“And so, Mr. —, you like my mill?"
“I do, sir, indeed, very much; it is certainly
one of the greatest improvements in the con-
struction of a sawmill I ever witnessed."
“You think the sails are so hung that it
cannot fail to work welll” I
“Certainly, it must work: it can’t help it.”
“And there's always a wind on that bill; if
it does not come up one valley, it is sure to
come up the other; and the hill is so high and
steep that there is nothing to interrupt the
full sweep of the wind, come which way it
will. You think. then, on the whole, that
the thing cannot fall of complete success?” ‘
“I should think so, sir, but for one thing.”
“Ah! what’s that?”
“I have been wondering in my own mind
how you are to get up your saw logs.”
Jefferson threw up his hands and eyes. “I
never thought of that.” The mill was aban-
doned, of course—Ben: Perley Poore in Bos-
ton Budget.
Bunting the Grizzly.
Tbeskinofthogrizzlyis one of the most-
valuable trophies a sportsman can obtain on.
any field, and its rarity, and the danger and
excitement attending the taking of it, the
courage it bespeuks, render it in prize of which
are winner may justly feel proud for a life-
me.
The best localities in Iwbich to hunt the
grizzly bear—that is, those most accesible
and in which be is the most numerous—are
the Big Horn, Shoshone,-Wind 'River, Bear
Tooth, Belt and Crazy Mountains, in Wyo-
ming and Montana, all of which may be
easily reached by way of the Northern Pacific
'll‘lhebfiiltgmetgf yearto hunt for this,”
we as . so or speciesof lurgogamoln
the Rocky mountainsis in the months of
September, October and November, though
in the latter month the sportsman should not
venture high up into the mountains, where
heavy -owfalls occur. There is a great deal
of this class of hunting done in the summer
months, but it is contrary to the laws of
nature, and should not be indulged in by'any
mic sportsman. The skins' are nearly worth-
less then, while in the autumn theyareprlma;
the heat is oppressive, and the files and mm-
quitoes are great pats-G. 0. Shields in
Harper’s'Msgazlne.
Poison, Poison Everywhere.
A child sleeps nowadays in a room whose
wallpaper with arsenic pattern renders the
air deadly, and whose window curtains of
lead and arsenic dye load the air with death;
the flushed and feverish sufierer wakes to
draw on brown and yellow stockings, dan-
gerous with picric dyes, puts on a but whose
inner leather lining has been. bleached by a
cheap but noxious proces, hugs a wax doll
whose complexion has been colored by
another soluble and dangerous dye, drinks a
glass of milk which impure waterline de-
prived-of afifth of its natural strength and
has charged with the germs of diseaswdips a
him into the lunch basket in which chromato
of lead has been stirred by the economical
baker, starts for school sucking-a stick of
pistache candy, which owes. ell: tint to
Scheele‘s green, is treated by a schoolmato to
an ice cream colored by another preparation
of arsenic, and when the unfortunate victim
of these daily dangers, sown thick in the
pathof ncivilized child, succumbs to their
manifold poisons, the parents mourn over the
obscure providencesI of God which remove
from among us the young in all the opening
vigor of childhood. This is no imaginative
sketch. Report and analysis could be
bullied for each specificatiou.—-Philadelpbin
Pres. ' - .
. Little, but Great.
The small woman has a contrlvance for
getting even with the , world. She wears
springs on the soles of her boots, so a shoe-
maker of New York relates, and he added
that be had bad calls for six or eight pairs
within two weeks The boots are arranged
as for everyday pedestrianisin but furnished
with an invisible wire frame that is disposed
of in a variety of ways, but usually has close
about the toe and heel when not wanted, slip-
ping down to furnish a stilt for the. foot in
any case of need. The little woman has been
acknowledged always an ingeniou's‘b'reature.
and now that she has fairly ~set: her wits at
work remedying tho‘shortcomings of nature
you may expect to meet her on the Street ad-
justing her inches comfortably according to
the attractions that demand to be seen—New
York Letter. ' '
Greenhomnennn'klng on the Beach.
Many of the pic here take great delight
lu'seeing their ends learn the alphabet of
the ocean. or such wTa'tbe nice. economical,
poverty pounded,- inland old lady who, upon
her first sight of “the v deep," placed her
her arms aklmbo, drew a oug sigh and mur-
mured: “Dear me, it’s a great joy to see
something‘tb‘at there’s 'plenty‘of.” Of these
wutho middle aged man, whose wifetliougbt
the water too cold to bathe in that day.
“No, Mei-in." be said, pointing to some iron
waste pipes that entered the waves near where
he stood, ‘idon’t you seal They’roarnnnin' hot.
water in thoocean au’ mm of her up.”
-0ceen revelation __. " .
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Norwalk Chronicler