UNDER A BOARD OF CONTROL.
The Mothodlnt Conference Places tlio Kp.
worth League Under Guldnnce.
OMAHA , Neb. , May 23. Uishop An
drews presided at the conference to
day and announced that Dr. A. J.
Kynctt and Dr. W. A. Spencer had
been elected secretaries of the Church
Extension society. A report from the
committee on Preedman's Aid society ,
recommending the election of two sec
retaries for the Frcedman's aid , in
stead of one , as heretofore , was
adopted. Instantly there was a pan
demonium. Fifty men wanted the
iloor to nominate the .second secretary.
Dr. Swindell , Dr. Gray , Dr. J. W.
Hamilton , Dr. G. M. Grandison , the
Rev. li. P. Mason and several others
were nominated. The colored men
were for Grandison. After twenty
minutes of excitement a balloc was
taken. Drs. Harlzell and Hamilton
weie declared elected.
The report upon the Epworth league
was then taken up. It stated that the
Epworth league had about 4,000 local
leagues with 400,000 members. An
amendment providing for a board of
control , consisting of fifteen members ,
one of whom shall be a
bishop , and that local leagues
shall be under the supervision
and guidance of the annual confer
ences with which they are connected ,
was presented. The amendment also
provided that the Epworth Herald
shall be the official organ. The ex
ecutive ollice of the league is located
at Chicago. The report was adopted
seriatim. The name of the organiza
tion was made "The Epworth League
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. "
DEATH IN A COLLISON.
Seven I'coplc Killed and Eighteen Injured
in a. Wreck In Arkansas.
PINE BLUFF , Ark. , May 2.3 Last
evening about 10 o'clock the south
bound passenger train of the St. Louis
Southwestern railroad , familiarly
known as the Cotton Belt , had orders
to turn back on account of the
high water at Rob Roy near
this city and had orders to
meet the local freight at Humphrey ,
but through an oversight of the crew
they commenced backing the train to
Goldman , the next station. On reach
ing the curve at Crooked Uayou , th e
local freight , coming at full speed ,
ran into the sleeper and coaches ,
turning them from the trestle into the
deep bayou and killed seven people
outright and wounded eighteen more
or less seriously.
K < -I > els Still Unchecked.
BARCKLOXA , Venezuela , May 23.
The town of Las Tablas , on the
Orinoco river just above Ciudad Bol
ivar , has fallen into the hands
of the Crespists. A sharp fight
has taken place near the city
of Ciudad .Bolivar. The revolutionists ,
who were strongly intrenched near
that eity/were attacked by the gov
ernment troops. They were met by a
heavy and well sustained fire , under
which they broke and retired in some
confusion.
Senator Hill Returns.
WASIIIXGTOX , May 23. Senator Hill
returned to Washington this morning ,
accompanied by General Austin
Lathrop of New York , Representative
Bunn of North Carolina , Representa
tive Rockwell of New York and L. S.
Brown , of the Richmond and Danville
road. Senator Ranson and Senator
Gray stopped en route to spend Satur
day and Sunday in North Carolina.
Osivego Mills In Ashes.
OSWKGO , N. Y. May 23. Fire here
last night practically wiped out the
milling and elevator interest , only one
elevator being left in the harbor the
Northwestern , owned by Gaylord ,
Downey & Co. The total loss is $1,000-
000. The fire was the hottest and
fiercest since the fire that swept the
same site in 1S33.
George M. Pullman's Mother Dead.
NEW YORK , May 23. Mrs. E. C. Pull
man , mother of George M. Pullman ,
who , for the past few days has been
lying unconscious at the point of
death at the Belgravia on
Fifth avenue , died this morning at 7
o'clock. She was 84 years of age and
her health was precarious for a year
past.
Anarchy on the Marshall Islands.
SAXFiAXCiscoMay 23. The schooner
Orion , which has arrived from Januit ,
Marshall islands , brought among her
passengers C. H. Gibson , who reports
that the native king on the island of
Tarawa was killed by some of his
chiefs who rebelled against him , and
that anarchy prevails on the group.
More Dynamite In Paris.
PARIS , May 23. Considerable excite
ment has been occasioned here by the
discovery of a dynamite cartridge at
the residence , in the Avenue Kleber ,
of M. Beaupaire , the public prosecutor ,
who had charge of the case against
the notorious anarchist and criminal ,
Ravaehol.
Lord Salisbury Scored.
LOXDON , May 23. Sir Lyon Playfair
delivered an address to-day at Leeds in
which he sharply criticised the speech
made at Hastings on Wednesday last
by Lord Salisbury. He declared that
of all forms of protection retaliation
was the most pernicious to the country
using it.
Ex-Senator Ferry's IJrother Insane.
GRAXD RAPIDS , Mich. , May 23. Ed
ward P. Ferry , formerly of Grand Ha
ven , is in an asylum in California. He
is a brother of ex-Senator Thomas W.
Ferry.
Deemings's Iiast Hour Set.
MELBOURXE , May 23. It has been
decided that the hanging of Deeming ,
the wife murderer , shall take place at
10 o'clock Monday morning.
NEWS IN'BRIEF. .
The wife of a-minister in Minnesota
starved herself to death , following an
example set by her husband.
A French community will try the
experiment of supplying electiicity to
18,000looms"scattered about m
drive 18,000
private houses. -
A party of young men were , drink
ing * at Canon , Jlb' , * * * * & * * "one
* Spoin-
ioisoned the whlskyr Bayid
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"s dead. The others will lire.
THE LAST VETERAN.
ARE ONE-HALF THE SOLDIERS OP
1861-5 NOW LIVING !
Some Rather Melancholy Fact * Average
Ago of tlio Veterans How Few General *
Still Live Estimated If umber of Actual
Men Enlisted Who Will Bo the Last ?
Wo are on the down hill side. We are
looking toward sunset. The shadows
lengthen fast and already to most of us-
the years since wo were mustered out
seem longer , as they certainly are more
nuraorous , than the years before oar >
listnient. The youngest boy who could
by any possibility have carried a gtm in
the great conflict is now far into middle
life , ho realizes that his golden prime is
in tlio past and is warned every day by
some physical symptom that decay has
begun.
Bo it that his service was the shortest
and easiest possible. Be it that ho sus
tained no injury , or even that he gained
health and strength by the open , air life
of the cainp , as a few unquestionably
did. nevertheless , by the ordinary I&WB
of mortality ho can count on but a few
yours more. The individual feels this.
The statistician knows that by fire es
tablished laws of vital chances the per
centage of deaths among the veterans
must from now on increase at an arith
metical ratio. A glance at any life in
surance table will teach one that.
And ifc was probably the youngest
Grand Army ever mustered. The aver
age age of the veterans at muster out
was but a fraction over twenty-four
years , while that of the Confederates is
believed to have been thirty-six. The
lad of twenty-four in 1865 is now fifty-
one and to most men fifty-one is old.
A careful analysis of dates presented , by
serveral Grand Army posts shows that
the average age of the veterans at death
is but fifty-six and a half years. If any
one mourns that the pension appropria
tion increases so rapidly there is consolation
lation for him it cannot last long.
After 1893 it will scarcely be possible
for the present pension force to "pass
cases" as fast as pensioners will die.
And how many still remain ? We can
not judge by our generals , for their age
was greater ; but of all who reached that
rank how small a proportion is still with
us ! Grant , Sherman , Sheridan , Thomas ,
McDowell , McClellan , Hancock , Meade ,
Burnside , Logan , Hooker where are
they ? And of those only a little less
celebrated , yet including such glorious
men as Garfield , Hackleman , Granger ,
Heintzeltna.il , Geary , Rousseau , Coster ,
Kilpatriek , Cruft , Ames and so many
more that ibis column would scarcely
contain thtdr names , it would seem that
not more than a third are still with us. ;
Yet how very young many of them t
now seem in the retrospect. McPherson -
son was killed at thirty-fire , Slocum
was a corps commander at thirty-two.
Reynolds was a major general at thirty-
nine. Ames , Cnster.'Kilpatrick and Me-
Kenzie were brigadiers at twenty-six.
Corse was but twenty-nine when he won
immortality at Altoona. Garfield was a
at and Gren-
major general thirty-one -
ville Dodge at thirty-three , while Judge
Gresham and John Beatty were briga
diers at thirty-two. We have been jok
ing about "Old Ben Butler" erer smce
the war , yet he was but forty-two when
he commanded the Army of the Gulf.
Why , they were all mere boys !
A curiosity hunter , after long search ,
has declared that the very last men who
were in any battle of the American Revolution
elution died in 1868. Two fourteen-
year-old boys who went from western
North Carolina and took part in the
battle of King's Mountain ( Oct. 7,1780) )
died in the year named one in east Ten
nessee , the other in Indiana. Possibly
others may have survived these , but be
that aa it may , the time is at hand when
the veterans will be bat a handful in
any neighborhood.l
Statisticians who have made a careful
study of the 'percentage of re-enlist
ments , taking specimen counties aa a
basis , have concluded that the number
of actual men in the Union army , counting -
ing each bat once , was about 1,900000.
It is scarcely possible that one half of
these are alive today. Of the fall regi
ments of 1861 there is not one , so far as
I can learn , that has been able to get
800'together ' at any reunion for years.
Yes spin oat the thread of life as
they may there most come a time when
in your city or state there will be a "last
man of the Union army. " Possibly some
slender stripling of 1861-5 wffl halt fee
bly along your streets as late as 1045 ,
*
venturing out only when the sun shines
most choerSy , and'as ha passes children
wfll gaze and wonder , and men and
women wflj repeat what tfiey heard
their grandparents say how those
grandparents as children saw the pa
rades of 1865 , and "htnr that old , old
fellow looked when he came home from
the war. " J. H. BEADLE.
A Thought for Memorial Day.
I know not why this silence so presses
on my brain. I sit among the graves of
departed comrades of the war for the
Union. I feel the touch of unseen
hands. I hear voices none other hears.
I sit enchanted and overawed. 1 sit
alone , and yet in innumerable company
of silent men , as one dwelling among
tombs. The old days come back to me.
I can hear the rustle of the old flag.
So it rustled and rolled above us a quar
ter of a century ago , as the cannon
and musketry of battle accentuated its
rhythmic flow and the flash of war
glanced across its glorious folds. Its
stars glow as brightly , bat the young
hearts' that beaf-belovr afrits" majestic
motion and music are still in the grave.
Private Dalrell.
Rest in Peace.
Think not of the riMng snn ,
Ztor , at 'dawning to ass&i yq.
Hero no buks strandreveille. .
OUR TWO OPINIONS.
UB two wnz boys wuta we fell out-
Nigh to the age of mr youngest now ;
Don' * reoleot what twos about-
Some small difference , I'll allow ;
Lived next neighbors twenty years ,
A-fcatln each other , me 'ad Jim
Ho havin his oplnyin ur me
'Nd I havin my opinyin nr him.
Grew up together * nd wouldn't speak.
Courted etetcrs 'nd marr'd 'em too ;
TFended < ame meetln house oncct a week ,
A-hatin each other through 'nd through !
But-when Abe Linkern asked the west
Fr soldiers , we answered , mo 'nd Jim
Ho havin his opinyin uv me
'Nd I havin my opinyin of him.
But down in Tennessee one night
Thor wuz sound nv firin fur away ,
'Nd the fccrgwust allowed thcr'd be a fight
With the Johnnie Rcbs some time nex'
day.
'Nd as I wuz tliir.kin uv Lizzie 'nd homo
Jim stood afore rae , long 'nd slim
Ho havin his opinjin nv me
'Nd I havin my opinyin uv him.
Seemed like wo knew there wuz gain to be
Serious trouble f r mo 'nd him
Us two shuck hands , did Jim 'nd ce ,
But never a word from me or Jim !
He iv ont his way 'nd I went mine ,
'Nd into the battle's roar went we
I bavin my opinyin uv Jim
'Nd ho havin his opinyin uv me !
Jim never come back from the war again.
But I hain't forgot that lost , last night
When , waitin f'r orders , us two men
3iade up 'nd shuck hands , afore the fight ;
'Nd , after it all , it's soothin to know
That here I be 'nd yonder's Jim-
He havin his opinyin uv meNd
* Nd I havin my opinyin uv him !
Eugene Field In Chicago News.
Singing on the March.
I have been with the column march
ing along roads which were muddy ,
when the men looked like anything
but human beings as they crawled
along , splashed from head to foot with
dirt , their clothing disarranged , their
pantaloons tucked in their stockings and
thetr heavy brogana laden with mud.
Some strong Innged fellow way up at
the liead of the column would strike tip
a war ng. It might be "Tramp ,
Tramp , Trainp , " or it might be "John
Brown's Body , " with the allusion to
hanging Jen ! Davis to a sour apple tree ,
list in an instant he would be joined by
others , and soon away down the long
road as far as the column stretched a
mighty chorus would be going up ,
while the men would brace up , their
eyes brighten and their footsteps lose
the weary movement as. they kept step
to the music.
Twenty-five thousand men stretched
out over a long distance in marching ,
and you can 'magine the effect of sucl a
chorus of le voices. Volunteer.
A Belle.
On the trail above the mantel
There's an ancient wea.pon hung ,
Tarnished , dusty , old and rusty ,
Springfield pattern , sixty-one ;
And the spiders , all unconscious
Of it * iwer , upon It crawl.
And IIL. . a vrebbed It , breech and muzz ! ? ,
Where it hangs upon the wall.
Could it ipeok 'twould tell a story
That would startle young and old.
Tales of long and weary marches
Could that weapon true unfold :
Tales of oattles , talcs of carnage
That would blanch the bravest cheek.
From Bull Run to Appomattox ,
Could that ancient weapon speak.
Dear , indeed , is that old musket ,
It hod sure voice lone ago ;
Not a friend so true and trusty
On the field to meet the foe.
Then it spoke aad to a purpose ,
Fiery was the tale it told.
Leaden was the fearful message
From that weapon grim and old.
And I love it who can blame me ?
It and I were closest chums-
Old and rusty , tried and trusty ,
Best of a& your make of guns.
Comrades dead and comrades living ,
It reminds me of you all ;
Elbows touch whene'er I view it
Aa it hangs upon the wall.
Brings again your kindly faces
From that dbta&t km * ap > .
When w faced the storm of battle
On the field to meet tke foe.
On the wall tovo the imantel -
There's an anelent weapon hung.
Tarniihedvdtwtj- vol , rusty ,
SpslagMa pattern , sixty-one ,
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