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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
AFTER THE MUD MARCH
AN INCIDENT OF CAMP LIFE POIL3
SUNDRY DINNERS.
How On Heglinfftit Citit the laugh on a
Company of Yitiikexi-slrnrjiiicn Kraut
ad ou Itoaat !; It Was Then Served
to Vcrmontcrt an Head Clieeite.
Every old soldier of the Army of the
Potomac remembers LSurnaiuVa mud
march. It liejj.in on Jan. 22, 18R3 Thi'i
whs forty days after hia defeat at Fn-.l
ericksburg. In an effort to retrieve it
he followed the example of Clmrlen X1J
and opened a winter campaign lie
tried to ntiike the Rappahannock kuiii
mileu above Fredericksburg, vromt tii
river on pon toons and reach Lee'B rear
It began to rain on the evening of th'
22d, and it rained incessantly for thret
days. The pontoons never reached the
river They were stuck in seas of mud
Nearly every man in the army was v-t
to the waist for days in efforts to dra
them to dry ground.
The Confederates on the other side of
the Rappahannock quickly divined the
situation They stuck up immense p!a
cards ou the bank of the river beitrui':
such inscription as "Burnside's Army
Stuck in the Mud." "Burnside is not lie
Clellan," and other pat sayings. When
the sun began to shine and the pontoons
were dragged from the sloughs the arm v
went fcack to its old camp
Everybody was disheartened. The pi-n
insula veterans, who were stanch Me
Clellan men, shook their heads mourn
fully, saying. "'1 told you how it would
be." The discontent rose to sucli a'piuli
that there was a spirit of mutiny in some
of the regiments. Hundreds of deocr
tions occurred every day and the army
had no confidence in its commander 111:
til Joe Hooker succeeded Bnrnside
TIIR IJECUMENTS.
1 was aisergeant in Company C of the
Twentyfsixth New Jersey volunteers at
this time The New Jersey regiment
wan part of the Second brigade. This
brigade had won a brilliant reputation
on the Peninsula and at Antietam It
wan known m the Army of the Patamau
as the Vermont brigade It was com
posed, with tne exception of the Jersey
regiment, of Vermont troops.
They were tall, ungainly Yankees
They drawled their words, and gave
them a peculiar nasal twattg. Their feet
were so big that the Johnnies compared
them to old-fashioned griddles.
A Mississippi an once told me they were
so big that whenever he killed a Ver
mont Yankee lie had to go up aud shove
him over before he would tumble.
1 saw some captured sorth Carolinians
sent in from the front at the first battle
of Fredericksburg. In stature, gait and
accent they resembled the Vermonters.
I believe that if they had worn the IVd
eral uniform the Vermonters themselves
would have taken them for brothers
We went into camp after the mud
march near White Oak church. About
two weeks afterward Bill Young, a big
Scotchman in our regiment, confiscated
a 6heep owned by some farmer in the
vicinity. lie had found a little copse in
an out of the way nook, where he butch
ered the the sheep, hung the carcass to
the limb of a tree by its hind legs and
dressed it. He had hardly finished the
work when he was frightened by a file of
men who were approaching the spot
After hastily concealing the carcass he
sneaked back to camp
Two hours later he returned to the
copse. The mutton seemed to be all
right It did not appear to have been
disturbed. He avoided collision with
the camp guard, and managed to get it
to his shelter tent after dark. Then he
cat it up and distributed it among his
friends in the ranks and the commis
sioned officers.
DOG INSTEAD OP MUTTON.
Twenty-four hours afterward a Ver
mont regiment, then commanded by
Louis A. Grant, now assistant secretary
of war (and by the way, Redheld Proctoi
was a captain in the same regiment)
passed through our camp on picket de
tail As they struck company C's street,
through which they marched down the
hill, they all began to bark like dogs.
The J erseymen rushed from their tents
and wondered what the barking meant
The Vermonters kept up the canine dem
onstration for half a mile, yelling with
delight. :
Commissioned officers who had par
taken of the mutton were the first to
solve the riddle. Some of the cold meat
was left. After the Vermont demonst.ru
tion it did not taste like mutton. It wa
a little rank, one said, and tasted more
like coon meat that hadn't been par
boiled. Many who had received the gift
were sick at the stomach.
It turned out that some bright Ver
nionter had seen Young at work on the
6heep He rang in his comrades ami
frightened the Scotchman back to camp
Then they stole the carcass, and pm in
its place the dressed body of an old New
foundland dog that had been following
a Wisconsin brigade.
When the Vermonters returned from
picket duty and began to cross our cam;
the barking was resumed. This time the
Jerseymen were ready for them. From
700 throats came the cry: "Head cheese
head cheese, you Yankees!"
Tliis cry gave a pallor to the Vermont
faces Their stomachs were tnrned
While they were on picket duty souir
Germans in the Jersey regiment ha.:
gathered all of the cold roast dog in
camp, turned it into head cheese, ami
peddled it on the Vermont picket reserve
Head cheese was a delicacy rarely seen
in the army. It had gone like hot cakes
Everybody bought it. Possibly even Sec
retary Proctor and General Louis A
Grant got their share of it. At all event.
there was no more barking and no mor
buying of head cheese on the picket line
Amos J Cummings in New York Suu
A Well Known Garment.
Landlady Oh, Mr. Spendem, a small
thief came in and stole your overcoat.
j Mr. Spendem (gayly) No matter, no
i matter: I'll ooon get it back. He'll doubt
j less attempt to pawn t : and every pawn
J broker in town knows my overcoat.
' Good News.
Prepare to Surrender Your Nrrktltk
The young man of the period mni ii-t
be surprised if, when he is off on l.i v.i
cation and sitting on the hotel pi..:-. .
with his Lwst summer girl, she si:i.i; .!
puddenly inform him that the nec!:tie i..
has on i "very pretty and qu:ie ti
thing for my rug Just give it to u.-.
when yon are done with it, p!i He." ).
course he meekly hands it over wit ho :
so much as asking why, but the re;:..;
is soon given and the astonished mat
finds that she is saving the Paine tiling
to all the other fellows. She must neW.
quite a collection
But what this girl des with them i
this: She cuts them int-o strips about hj.
inch wide and sews t hern together, form
ing long strips of varied colors. This i
pleasant work for a summer afterni.."
and the maiden makes a pretty pictuv
seated with a large box overflowing wit :.
daintily colored silks, and while she c hat
ters away and easily sews them togethtv
her attendant cavalier winds the loin:
strips into good sized balls. Not a very
different picture from that her grand
mother made while being assisted to
wind a skein of worsted. At the end ol
the season there will be several large
balls and then these are sent to be wove:,
into a soft pretty rug that will grace tin
hard wood floor of our maiden's room.
New York Sun.
The I'ast of Itaiiiadidi.
Ramadan, the Mussulman's terribh
month of daily fasting, is like the China
man's New Year, governed by the moon.
This year, precisely at the moment ti;
new moon became visible on the, morn
ing of April 8. Ramadan began and con
tinued throughout the lunar month
The origin of this long fast seems shroiu!
ed in mystery, as it is said to have been ol
served by the fire worshipers long before
before the the time of Mahomet Ali, who
thought the command to all true believ
ers to fast for eleven months in the yeai
was too much to require of mortal flesh
Through the angel Gabriel he therefore
besought the Great Spirit to reduc the
time one-half. Finding this still a
heavy trial, he again interceded and got
the time fixed atone lunar month, where
it still remains. During this awful
month nothing in the way of food passe
the true Mohammedan's mouth between
dawn and sunset. In the morning, as
soon as a white thread can be distin
guished from a black one, the fast be
gins. St. Louis Republic.
Valuable Coverings.
Talk about a ninety dollar gown as a
wonder on graduation day in the cit!
What will you think when you are told
that a lady up in Oxford c ounty protects
her house plants while out of doors from
frosts with a 300 coat? Early in the
month, during the frosty nights, a
woman residing in a beautiful village in
Oxford county took her husband's old
coats to cover up her plants. Several
days later he inquired for his coat, and
when told the purpose for which it had
been used and that probably it was left
in the flower garden, said he guessed it
had better lie brought in, as there was a
$300 roll of bills in the inside pocket,
which he had carried there for some
time. Lewiston Journal.
Cold Though Humeri.
Calvin Meek, a colored man, who was
stealing a ride in the first coach of the
passenger train, was found over the
engine of that train. When the freight
engine mowed its way under the coach
Meek was thrown up and came down
upon the steam drum, to which he was
pinned by a mass of wreckage, which
was removed after the greatest difficulty.
While his injuries were being dressed
Meek implored those around him to do
something for the intense cold that he
felt from his burns, and he begged them
not to let him freeze. He asked for a
blanket, and kept calling out that he was
freezing to death. New Orleans Times
Democrat. An Industrious Turkey.
Henry Curtright , of this township, has
the .best paying turkey hen in this
county. Early in the spring she began
la3'ing, and after she had laid the usual
number of eggs went to sitting. She
was broken from sitting and soon laid
another sitting, and this time was per
mitted to sit and hatched out a brood of
young turkeys. During the entire time
6he was sitting she laid an egg regularly
every other day, and since she has been
out with her young she has still laid
every other day. This information was
given us by Mr. Curtright, and he is a
truthful man. Paris (Mo.) Appeal.
Appreciate a Courtesy.
In a recent issue the Japan Gazette
says: ""We desire to express on behalf of
all British residents onr recognition of
the kindly courtesy displayed by the
United States man-of-war in harbor in
firing a salute of twenty-one guns in
honor of her majesty the queen's birth
day when there w;is no English man-of
war here to do so."
Franklyn W. Lee, author of A Shred
of Lace," is a well known newspaper
man of St. Paul, and " a descendant of
Chancellor Kent. Although but twenty-seven
years old he has edited two
papers, written a novel and published a
volume of verse, both of which have en
joyed wide popularity. He will bring
out another story in September.
The average number of men employed
by the Chicago. Rock Island ano. Pacific
company last year was 11,372 against
11,431 in the preceding j-ear, while the
average monthly pay roll was 393,286,
as compared with A3T0.014 in the year
before the monthly wages showing an
increase from an average of .t9.t?o to
$32.33.
The prize fish liar of 1S91 is a Dexter
man who says the mosquitoes were so
thick and so fierce that they ate all the
worms off his hook before he could drop
it into the water.
A tornado at Trenton, Ga., carried off
the roof of a bouse, leaving a sick man
in his bed unharmed but shelterless,
His neighbors at once built a temporary
shelter over him.
1. PKTKF,SKJ
THE LEA DI NO
GROCERS
HAVE THE MOST
COMPLETE
STOCK IN THE CITY.
t'VLRVTHING - FHLM - AND - !N - SEASON
ATTENTION FA K'M KK'.-S
! We want your I)tiltry, IvLTgx. Hut
ter iitnl your f.iriu produce of nil
kinds, we will pay you the hiohent
cash price ns we sire buying- for a
liru in I.iiuolu.
R. PETERSEN,
Till-; I.ICADING CKOL'KliS
IMnttsiiioutli Nebraska
ZUCkWEILR & LUTZ.
tiucessois to)
SOKXNICIISKX A SCHIK'K.
Tin- Wi-i-luiif-Mloii A . Iiui-
GROCERS
AMI
Provision Merchants.
Hea'lilrtiter loi
FL0UK AM FEhl),
We pay no rent and s;ll for ('ASH.
You don'tjpay any bills for dead beats
when you buy of this firm.
The best SOFT COAL alwaya or.
Hand.
DONT FORGET
at niK
5 OOZETsTZEIEs 5
"MEAT HA EI E
"k SIXTH S'I'KEKT
F. II. KLI.KXBA lTM, Prop.
The best of fresh meat always found
in this market. Also fresh
Kfjf";s and Butter.
Wild g;ame of all kinds kept in their
season.
fm SIXTH STKKET fW
Meat market
Tin
What is
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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregrorte, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting- Sour Curd,
cures IMarrhcea and "Wind Colic' Castoria relieves
teething troubles, eures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulate the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is trie Children's .Panacea the Mother's Friend
Castoria.
"Castoria iu aa excellent moriieice for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of it
good effect upon tbetr etaldiwa."
Pb. G. C. Oaaoco,
Lowell, Mass.
Castoria Is the best remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I bM the day isvot
far distant when mothers willcoBsider the real
interest of their children, and uso Castoria In
stead of the various quack nowtruma w hieh are
destroying their lored ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down thir throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves."
Da. J. F. KiKCHEtiOK,
Conway, Ark.
The Centaur Company, TT
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V. 47 M evttv ln"-liy v-n'-i
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tiotpel meet'iiK every Iv ii.Ih nir u n nt 4
WAnted Aii iicilre. r-!lille in n n ilarv $7
to fro monthly. llli lucre n-e. it.-.-'--iil
in ai uwii i-ectloti a n-ii onllili- tw Yerh
Hollar. Hrfi-li-ni'iN MAM h l 'l KHl, lAMk
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EDMUNDS & ROOT
Tne pioneer hn-u limits ot
Curry a full stock of merai
ruerchondise which theysi-H wry
cloe. Highest price paid for
all kinds of farm product . (Jen
erotii treatinentand fair dealing
is the secret of our sticcef-s.
UllAS li HOOT,
Nolar.v Public
Mnrra Neb,
mikk sili;luia:K) K.
Wanon ami blacksmith shop
Wagon, Huggy. Machine and
plow R'painu' done
HOKSKSIlOKINfJ A SI'I-X'IALTY
He use tin
NEVERSLIP HORSESHOE
Which is the best horseshoe for the
tanner, r for last driving, or for city
purposes ever invented. It is so made
that anyone c;-n put on sharp or flat
corks, as needed for wet and slippery
days, or smooth, dry roads. Call at
hs shop and examine the nkvkksi.ip
and you will use no other.
J. M. S 1 1 N K 1 1 L I A C K K I .
12 North Fifth St. I'lattHinouth
JULIUS PEPPER S-ifiG,
MANCFACTUUKh OF AM;
WHOLESALE & R? TAIL
OKAI.EK IN THK
Thoict'-sf Brands nf i niafs,
FULL LINK if
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ART1CLK
j always in stock. Nov. vi. 15.
Castoria.
Casteria ia so -veil adapted to children that
I recocameod it asauperkjrtoanjrpreacrtptios
known to me."
H. A. Ahchkr, M. D-.
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, K. T
Our phyaieians in the children's depart
meat have BDelsea highly of their expert
nice u their ouC4a pracMsa with Castoria,
and . alSLOUh we oahy ove among our
medical nrppUea what is known as regalat
paoducta, yet we are free to eonfms that the
merits of Cawcoria has won us to look witfc
favor upon it."
U SITED IIOWITAL AMD DlSPCNBAKT.
Boston, Mass
llex C. Smith, ies
Murray Street, New York City.
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