Nebraska Newspapers

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We bate Straw, tie Salt if
Ours is the Place to Trade and SAVE MONEY.
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Dress Goods!
We offer this week 21 pieced of strietly
. U-wo.l Trench Malage, 44-inch wide at
C5c yd, worth 1.00 yd. These fabrics
are light-weigbt, for Spring and Suui-
. merwear.
r2-inch (iluita Lustre Mohair in black
and colors, the correct thing for Summer
wear; moat serviceable fabrics made, 85c
worth S1.2.".
Brilliantiues in every conceivable
shade over 20 different effects and
qualities to select from.
Plaid Brilliantines in superb colorings
and combinations from 3.K to 70c yd.
Lace Effect Brilliantines. 4C-inch wide,
45c, selling in Omaha at 75c
38 inch Colored Cashmeres for this
week at 17c yard.
J. i fiarlier & Co.
WHITE FOR SAMPLES.
IRRESISTABLE BARGAINS IN WASH
DRESS GOODS THIS WEEK.
Thousands of yards of good-j, Lawns, soiling this
week at o'- cents a yard.
2S pieces of Beige tire--! good- in all colors at
cents a yard this week.
4,000 yards of Ohallies at it cent a yard itt ele
gant patterns. Never was so cheap.
Sateens 8 cents a yard.
32 inch Sateen in beautiful designs and hun
dreds of styles to pick from at 12J cents a yard.
White Goods in plaid, stripes and checks only
0 cents a yard.
Another new lot of fine calicoes that will
stand the tub, soap and water, for this week 4c yd.
Ginghams of all patterns f cents a yard; they
co-t .ri at the largest Chicago wholesale house,
ours is the place for bargains and fashionable goods.
J. A. BARBER & CO
LEADERS IN LOW PRICES.
rXOERWEAR DEPARTMENT THIS
WEEK.
Children's lialbriggan gauze vests 1") cents,
worth 2o cents.
Ladies' Jersey vc-H 10 cents each.
Ladies' ribbed veM .-hort sleeves 25 cents each,
all H7.es.
Ladies' Lisle thread veMs in cream, pink and
light .0 and 40 cents, a big bargain.
Ladies' long sleeves pure Lisle thread and silk
trimmed vests To cents each, worth 81.2-1.
Ladies' Silk vests in Ecru and cream 70 cents
each, worth $1.50.
Ladies' muslin underwear at les than co.t of the
material.
J. A. Bark & Comp'y
LEADERS IN LOW PRICES.
HOSIERY DEPARTMENT:
A mammoth stock just received. Read our
Bargains.
Ladies' Faf Black Hose. 121, if,, ), 23, 2o, 20,
o9 and f0c.
Ladies' Fancy Hose, f, 8, 10, 121, 20 and 2-V.
Ladies' Cashmere Hose, seamless and regular
made, 2", :7" and 50c.
Ladies' Lisle Thread Hose, 25c, worth 50c.
Ladies' and Children's pure Silk Hose from GOc
to $1.50 per pair.
Misses and Children's Hose, fancy and solid
black, 5, 8, 0, 12 V, 19, 25 and :55c.
Boys' Double Knee Hose, 25c.
Gents' Sox, 5, 8, 10, 15 and 25c.
Gents' pure Silk Ho-e, 55c, worth $1.00.
J. A. BARBER & GO.
ALWAYS ALIVE TO NEW METHODS.
CARPET DEPARTMENT M FLOOR.
More new spring design in ingrain-, tapcs-try and
body Brucella
Ingrain carpets Ml yard wide, :7h; 45c, and 50c
in superb doigns and colorings. All wool, iroer
extra weight C5c, 70c and 75c a yard.
Lace cm tains from 00c a pair to $$.
Straw matting 23c and ,"0c, extra .pialitv.
Curtain poles made of the very host select chenv,
black walnut and oak, only o7!c each, all complete.
Others charge 75c for the same goodc.
Curtain scrim, 12 inches wide, 7c a yard, worth
J. A. BARBER & CO.
IHZHTTTT.TTS
.' " Stand-Up Carpet Stretcher.
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I can stretch my own carpet and wilt not
. be son and stiff for a week or ten davsaf ter
ward. atitl it U less trouble than toga alter
a kuiii to i! it fur n)e. It saves your kiiecs.
it saves y..ur tuitc.it Kms your boues. Ami
you ltu't feel likvjMW-jring whilu uaiug it.
Columbus gem vital.
PRISON I.I IK.
Entered at the PosWoSice.Colurubus, Nub., as
econd-class mail matter.
isaccD ETzar Wednesday iiv
K. TURNER &, CO.,
Columbus, Nol.
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TO SCBSOniUEBS.
When subscritiers change their A.ct of ni-i-denc
they should at once notify us by letter r
postal card, Kiri'iK both their former and th"i
present post-ollice, Uie firt!i:ililpn iihto r.'-idii
find the name on our mailiin: litt.fmm wh.r'i,
being in type, wo each week jiiiut, either on tin
wrnpiw or n the margin of jour.louiixt:., tin
date to which your MilM;ritic i paid or ::
countnl for. lUmittanc.-rt should bo itii!
either by nioney-ordor, regibtercd letter ordr.ttt
payable to the order of
M. K. Tubskk A. t'o.
TO OOHHESroNDEXTS.
All commanications, to pecuro attention, nui--'
be accompanied by Uo full n-iniu of the wnlri
We Tes?rv Uie right to reject any mi.1111 ci::-
and cannot agree to return the same. Vh "
a correspondent in every PclMwd-dtetiid
Platte county, one of pood judiucnt, ami r
liattle in every way. Write plainly, eac!i it-
eiarately. Givoub facta.
WEDN raDA Y, J U N 1 : 4. ISI'0.
Bishop O'Coxnok, who had been sick
for many months, died at Omaha Tues
morninj,' of last week, llo was jjteatly
devoted to his work, and was a very
able, genial, generous-hearted man.
an
Gage county recently emnloyeil
expert who has made his report and who
Gnds county clerks indebted to thu
county for the sums -S1.IK10.G5; $127;
$310.10; $448.(5. Under the latest rul
ings of the supremo court two treasurers
are indebted for $1,5(23.71 and $l,!KMl!K).
i:,'itiiiiiMviir't or Old SoldieiN ol fit- W'arol
the i:.l.flli.n.
Monday evening Gov. Thayer issued
his proclamation, revoking the call for a
special session of the legislature to con
vene June 5th. The reasons assigned
are that there are many vacancies of the
offices of representatives and senators of
which he had had no notice; that the
statute requires that before the conven
ing of the legislative body in special
session the vacancies shall be tilled by
special elections. The command is im
perative. He therefore rescinds his for
mer call.
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.
Ah Important Principle in Corn Culture Ex
plained by a Successful Corn Raiser.
The reporter furnishes the following:
The Platte Farmers' Club held its
regular monthly meetingat the residence
of Harry Keed Friday. Attendance good.
The discussion on corn culture opened
by A. V. Clark was spirited tind profit
able. The two Kints emphasised most
were the importance of thorough and
careful work the first time cultivating,
while the corn is small. It was claimed
that though the care required to run
close enough to the young corn and yet
leave none of it covered, made slow
work, it was more important than all
the succeeding cultivations. The other
point was freqnent, shallow cultivation
during a dry season would retain moist
lire enough in the ground to make a
fair crop even with very littlo rain,
it being claimed that the thin covering
of fine dry earth at the surface prevent
ed evaporation. The principle was illus
trated by a napkin rolled up so as to
have one end covered with the fringe,
and placed in a tumbler containing a
little water. The water soon raised so
as to moisten the body of the napkin,
but stopped at the fringe. It w;is claim
ed that the moisture in the earth is con
tinually rising by capillary attraction
and if the soil is compact to the surface,
it passes off by evaioration, but if the
surface is frequently stirred so as to
break the capillary communication 1k?
fore coming to the surface, the moisture
remains underneath where it can be ap
propriated by the corn roots. If this
principle was intelligently acted upon, it
would result in the addition of thous
ands of bushels of corn to the crop in
every county.
Harry Reed opened the subject of
'Raising Calves by Hand," and handled
it well, but he claimed that in spite of
most carefully using the best methods
of feeding you can't succeed in getting
a first-class calf without having the
right kind of stock to commence with.
Mrs. D. D. Pickett read a most
thoroughly and admirably prepared
paper on the prohibition amendment,
which was listened to with great inter
est. While strongly advocating the
amendment,it was done in a most reason
able and conservative manner. The dis-
lollowing. indicated almost a
i agreement with the paper.
This neighborhood farmers' club is in
creasing in interest and profit from
month to month. Its present member
ship is about equal to the capacity of
.our small farm houses, but we most
earnestly recommend that more such
Clubs be formed.
WM. H. ATJUtO.
He furnishes the following:
Today we are bving in the past.
Though war's dread alarms are not eon
vulsing our nation and the tramp of
regiment after regiment calls not our
attention; though the startling noise of
the picket's gun quickens not our nerves:
though the white tents do not spread
far and near, yet every memorial day
brings to view every camp and march
and battlefield; peculiarly strong is the
recollection of the events of December
21, lSfi'2, when the famous charge uion
Chickasaw Bluffs was made where more
than :UN) of my regiment, the llith Ohio,
were either taken prisoners, wounded or
killed. I had the misfortune to le
wounded and taken prisoner and was
inarched otT to Vicksburg where I was
confined for 30 days; thence to Jackson,
Mississippi, and "lodged in Pearl river
bridge prison. Here I was taken sick
with typhoid fever, when f was lemovcd,
with four others, to the hospital Dixon
House, at which place my three com
rades died. At the end of three Fionths,
comrade Frederick Zubar of the 52d
Iowa infantry and myself wero exchang
ed. I rejoined my regiment at New
Orleans, La., and was with them till
mustered out at Columbus. Ohio, Oct.
31, 18(U, when I returned home, after
threo years of hard service for my coun
try's llag. Brielly told, 1 was a prisoner
1(H) days, sick with typhoid fever, for
many days did not know what was going
on around me, and during my sojourn
among the confederates was reduced in
llesh Trom 1155 to Wi pounds.
Ai'orsT smith.
Our comrade is now a resident of this
county, near Platte Center and is with
us today. Ho is C3 years old. and en
listed twenty-eiyht yearsagowithCo.lv.
2Sth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
He was in the battles of Sulphur Springs,
Hull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,
Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Wauhateh
ie, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge,
Resaca, Dallas, Now Hope Church, Ken
esaw, Peach Tree Creek, Front of Sa
vannah and Savannah-City. Ho was
taken prisoner sit Chancellorville, while
tning to carry the body of Col. Chap
man oil' the field. He was imprisoned
at Libby" eight long months, and sifter
wards at Rello Island fifteen days.
Libby was a ho'use in Richmond, on the
banks of the James river. Before the
war it was used by Libby .Vr Son, ship
chandlers and grocers. It was three
stories high, the walls ' inches thick,
and coered an area of tlllxl32 feet. The
prisoners were kept at night in the two
upper stories only during the day wero
they allowed to bo in the first story.
The names of the halls and rooms were
suggested by tho battle-fields from
which their occupants came Chicka
manga, Gettysburg, etc. Mr. Smith was
among the number of those who escaped
through the tunnel that was planned by
Col. Thomas E. Rose of the 77th Penn.
The description or this tunnel and how
it released some of our comrades forms
one of the most interesting episodes of
tho war. Suffice to say here that the
oiening to the outside world was made
through afire place and partition wall
downwards into a dark and unoccupied
cellar, thence under the outside wall of
the prison, under a narrow street, up
into an open yard, bexond the guards.
The distance was about eighty feet. The
tools used uere common knives, small
hatchets, sharp pieces of wood and a
broken fire shovel. The time required
was about three weeks. It was a nar
row, dark, damp hole, just large enough
for a man to pull himself through.
When you come to road of the escape,
you see it could only lo possible heeaube
of the peculiar situation of tho opening
inside the cook-room, and the fact of the
unused cellar, where the dirt from the
tunnel was distributed. All who knew
of the scheme were sworn to secrecy and
tho intense anxiety of those threo weeks
may readily be imagined as there were
spies among the prisoners. On the night
set, 113 men slid down into the cellar and
pulled themselves through the tunnel;
of these, one was recaptured in Rich
mond, two were drowned, forty-eight
were recaptured outside of the fortifica
tions of the city, and fifty-nine escaped
after awful hardships. These separated
in small squads, the party m which Mr.
Smith was, consisting of seven men.
The first fricndlv quarters thev struck
was the humble home of a colored man
who said "Oh my good sons, come in."
He immediately called upon his wife to
get breakfast Tor the seven, which they
ate very greedily, the colored man in the
meantime being on the lookout. After
breakfast, the soldiers were put up by
way of a ladder into the dark loft above
the kitchen, and concealed under rags.
All slept sound except Mr. Smith, who,
after Mich a good breakfast, wis ner
vously anxious to continue his journey
to where the stars and stripes was the
recognized banner of freedom. While
lying there he was intensely interested
in every sound. After about two hours
a rebel soldier came to tho house -and
inquired for escajed prisoners but the
old man told him there bad been none.
This did not satisfy him, however; he
came into the house and inquired of the
woman, who gave him a similar answer;
still not satisfied they had told him the
truth, he ascended the ladder and poked
his nun around in the dark, but on the
woman's telling him there was nobody
theiv, he desisted further search, and
when he got back to the Hoor llow Mr.
Smith breathed easier. After the guard
was irone, the old colored woman was
heard to clap her hands and thank God.
The seven had their dinner, passed the
afternoon in hiding, got their supper,
and when darkness came, made ready to
go further on their way, being directed
by the colored man. The fourth morn
ing, however, they were captured uy
eight armed men, assisted by live blood
hounds, and were taken back to Libby
where, with others, fourteen in all in a
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and had life left. The soup issued didn't
contain a bean to each man. Mr. Smith's
spoon was made of a piece or his shoe:
some of his comrades had an old shoe
out of which to eat their soup and one
who pos.Hssed a piece of tin en p was
regarded as very fortunate. The pur
pose of the officers seemed to Ik. to
starve their unfortunate victims to death,
and Mr. Smith avers that after his sec
ond experience as a prisoner of the
rebels, he tMik great delight, as a sharp
shooter, in doing all he could to put
down tho rebellion, and this feeling in
tensifies the sorrow for those of his
comrades who were carried from prison
to the burying trenches, into which their
lodies were thrown.
Our comrade's time came for release.
With others he was paroled, marched to
City Point were threo U. S. boats were
in waiting, and was soon at Annapolis,
Maryland, where all who had recupera
ting strength left wero soon made to feel
that patriotic hearts were grateful to
the Union soldiers. On incident
here showed the terrible effects of prison
life. An emaciated soldier ravenously
ato a loaf of bread and drank a corres
ponding quantity of water and within
an hour, after very intense sufloring.was
a corpse. Another incident shows the
unobtrusive kindness of that greatest
American in official position, president
Abraham Lincoln, when these soldiers
were granted a furlough to go home, he
added a gift of 25 each from his own
purse.
ANDERSOXVILLK.
This was the vilest prison jen of tho
war. Tho lirst prisoners arrived Peb.
15, IStH, and the last, April, 1S(5.
following facts are authenticated
the prison record:
Total nutnhemfcpmslat prison .
LarKst niinilx-r in prison at out- time,
Aug. !. Istfl
Totitl iuuiiImt of deaths us i-liown by 1ms-
Iiital ri'Kioter
Total nuinlKTof deaths in hospital
: i,tork:ul .
Percentage of deith to the whole nimi-
Iht recemil . . . . ;.
Percentage of deatlm to number admitted
to hospital .. . .
Average umnlT of deaths tor each of i:t
months. . .
l.irgeMt number or deatlm in one day,
Aug. :, imU
(a-ti returned from hospital to nt.ickude
Total iiuidIht of escai.es
The prison was notorious for unliealth
fnlness, and its discipline for barbarity.
In 18f5, after the close of tho war Henry
Wir, the chief instrument of ill treat
ment, was tried, the indictment reading:
"For injuring the health and destroying
the livesof prisoners by subjecting them
to torture and great suffering; by con
finement in unhealthful and unwhole
some quarters; by exposing them to the
inclemency of tho winter, and tho dews
and burning sun of tho summer; by
compelling the use of impure water and
by furnishing insufficient and unwhole
some food; for establishing the dead
line and ordering tho guards to shoot
down any prisoner attempting to cross
it; for keeping and using bloodhounds
to hunt down prisoners attempting to
escape; and for torturing prisoners and
confining them in stocks." Ho was
found guilty and was hanged, Nov. ill,
istr..
Under orders of the government, the
place where the liodies had lieen rudely
buried in long trenches was arranged as
a cemetery, and adorned with gravel
walks and trees. The ImkHos in the
trenches were found to l,e from two to
three feet below the surface, and in some
instances, (where the rain had washed
away the earth), but a few inches. They
had Ikhmi buried without coffins or the
ordinary clothing, ami not more than 12
inches in width had leeu allowed to
each ImkIv. With the aid of the hospital
record, 12,401 dead soldiers of the Union
Army were identified, and their places
of burial marked with tablets; and 451
graves lore the inscription "Unknown
U. S. soldier."
From the History of the Will Illinois,
as printed in btKk form, we extract the
following from
JAKF.i) o. iiLonomT,
Who is now a resident of Platte county
and a member oNRaker Post:
I was captured at Ackworth, Ga., with
a detachment of the 15th Illinois In
fantry, Oct. 4. 1WJ4. There were, inclu
ding some from other commands, about
four hundred of us. Wo wero marched
back to the Chattahoochie river, under
tho escort of old soldiers, who treated us
well, and did not seem to fear our get
ting away. As long sis we were with
them everything went well, but when we
got into the hands of the state militia, at
est Point, the show began. e were
guarded closely, and when on the march
we had to keep our ranks closed ni.
Nearly every man of the guard had a
revolver in his hand, and when one of
them ordered a man to close
up, he would ixrint his . revolver
at him. The second night that
we were with the militia we were
exhibited to a large audience of ladies
and gentlemen of the South. There was
a man who acted as crier to tho exhibi
tion, and he did full justice to the occa
sion, calling us the wild Yankees of the
Xorth, Yankees with horns, and every
imaginary name you can think of, which
made the prisoners quite wrathy.
The third day after our capture we
were placed on board a train of flat cars,
and taken to Anderson ville. On arriving
inside the stockade the order was given
to come to a front face. Then the an
nouncement was made that we were to
bo searched, and that if any one had
more than fifty dollars, it would lie taken
from him and the amount placed to his
credit, and wnen released ue could re
ceive it again. As it proved, that was
the last of it. After the search was over
we were marched into the stockade and
organized, which meant to be formed
into companies of one hundred each,
and a man to be chosen from the ranks
to take down the name of each man in
the hundred. That man wasealled "Ser
treant of the Hundred."
The camp was laid out in regular or
der, each detachment having a company
street. In the morning a Confederate
sergeant would come in and call the
through with. That took until noon or
after. During this time there was a man
outside with a pack of hounds. We
could hear him blow his horn, after
which the dogs would start around the
stockade, the man following them on
horseback. He would go two or three
limes around, and if the doirs failed to
strike a trail, they went back for that
day: but if they struck a scent, ou
I could hear them go into the woods, and
they never failed to bring back their
man, and the captured man always be
came a subject for the stocks." The
stocks were made in two wavs, or for
two different positions; one for standing,
and one for lying down. They were
constructed of plank, hinged together
so that the two edges would join. In
each plank a hole was cut. so that when
they came together the hole was just
large enough for a man's neck. For a
standing position tho plank could be
raised or lowered to suit the height of
the prisoner, the victim being made to
stand partially on tiptoe. For the hori
zontal position, there was a plank for
tho feet as well as the neck, causing a
man to lie at full length, without the
power of moving. The victims wero
kept in tho stocks from three to six
hours, according to tho degreo of pun
ishment they wished to inflict. Tho
men in the stocks also lost their rations
for that day. During tho first month
that I was in Andersonville. we had
At Savannah, Ga., we wero guarded in
this way, but they told us there that we
were all to lo exchanged soon, and I here
foie we did not try to escape. From
there we wero put on the cars and sent
to Blackshear station, on the Gulf rail
road, where we camped in the woods.
We bought an axe wilh Confederate
money, paying fifteen dollars for it, and
soon built a house. e had plentv
wood for fuel. Thero was a great deal
of running guard during the fortnight
spent there. As stvm as it began to
grow dark yon could hear the command.
"Halt! and then bang would go a gun.
As they were losing five or six- men every
night in that camp, they moved us to a
place called Thoinasville. On the day of
our leaving Blackshear thero were so
many prisoners missing that the guard
instituted a search. Some were found
secreted in various ways and places.
The camp was then set on lire, and as
many of tho prisoners had dug holes and
covered themselves with branches of
trees, which of course soon caught fire,
the hiders were compelled to eomo out,
some of them being quite badly burned
in escaping.
At Thomasvillo we wero put into a
camp with only a ditch dug around us.
fiti Ta t t s. ,
j. no tutcu prouaoiy enclosed ten acres.
It was alout ten feet wido tit tho top
and eight feet deep, tho dirt being
tnrown up on tne outside, wo were m
this
i'ii'. a h;lk: "i.
f lie figure 9 ia our dates w ill rai.ki a long; stay.
:o mail or woman now living v.iil ever date a
ioeuiuent without usu;j the figure 9. It standi
in the third pi u-e. in iSyO, v. here it will remain tea
e.irs and tlien iuou up to second place in 19U0.
where it will rest for one hundred year.
There is another "9 w hich has al-o come to ta y.
It is unlike th;- figure 9 iu our dates in the respect
of mat it ii is aireaay niovea up to nr.-t place, where
it will permanently remain. It is called the "No.
J" High Arm Wneeler A. 'ilon Sewing Machine.
The "No. 9" was endorsed for firt placs by the
experts of Europe at thv? Paris Exposition of 1SS9,
where, after a severe content with the leading ma
chines of the world, it was awarded tho only
Grand Prize given to family sewiug machines, all
others on exhibit having received lower awards
of pold meJals, etc The Trench Government
uNon-cognUedits.superioritybythedecoratioaof
Jlr. Nathaniel Wheeler, President of tho company,
with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The "No. 9" is not an old machine improved
upon, but is an entirely nw nnchino, and tho
Grand Prize at laris was awarded it as the grand
est advance in sew ing machine mecnanUiu of the
age. Those who bay it can rest assured, there
fore, of having the ery latest and best.
HENRY LUBKER
of couwiiirs, XKR,
ons, and measured out to tho serireants
of the h
uudreds, w ho
divided
room ten feet square, thev were chained sergeant of the first hundred, who would
down to the floor. If they had been the call the roll of his hundred. This con-
them
among the men. The ration for a day
to each man was as follows: uliout a gill
of corn meal, a like amount of what wo
called cow peas, every pea having a hole
in it, and every hole a family of bugs,
black as night and hard-shelled, so that
when they got. between tho teeth, as
they always did, they would crack.
They looked very much like the seed in
vild grapes. A piece of meat about the
sm or your two lingers, with the afore
said meal and cow peas, constituted the
rations for one day. For a ehausre Ave
received sorghum molasses instead of
meat, with tho meal and peas. The ser
geant of each hundred received double
rations for his trouble in issuing to the
rest. The rations wero brought in about
three o'clock every afternoon, and von
can imagine about :,fi0u men standing
on their feet about one o'clock, with
their eyes strained to see if they could
get a glimpse of tho ration wagon. For
nearly two hours they would stand
watching, and when thev caught the
hrst sight, n cheer would go up as if a
great victory had been won.
When the rations wero issued, we got
the meal first, and this would be eaten
raw; likewise the peas; tho meat, being
last, was our dessert. Then we had to
wait again until tho next day. Wo wero
removed to Milieu in a sho'rt time, but
returned in a few days and spent the
long winter at Andersonville.
About April 1, 18U5, we left Anderson
ville en route for Jacksonville, Fla.,
under guard. Part of tho distance was
traversed on foot, and part in cars. Wo
arrived within our lines about April 28,
18f5. The guard left us when we were
about eighteen miles distant from Jack
sonville, sending a flag of truce ahead
to notify our men that their prisoners
would lie with them in a short time.
Wo arrived in Jacksonville about four
o'clock in the evening, and wero received
with great lejoieing by our fellow sol
diers. 'I'l....-v .. .. r
a ni-i- Ht-it- mini- in nit unit re;;iineilL
with me at the time 1 was confined at
Andersonville, although there had lieen
some before f came. But they had leeii
either removed to some other prison or
had died before I arrived. I learned
that Myron J. Brown had lieen removed
to another prison and Deloss Hose had
died there. Both of these men wero
rrom my own company. I was soon sent
north, and was totally discharged aliout
tho time tho regiment arrived at home.
Present residence, Duncan, Xeb.
Corporal Blodgett gives the following
description of tho prisons of the South:
Andersonville embraced about thirtv
acres, and was a stockade constructed of
logs, which were flattened on two sides,
set in the ground about four feet and as
close together as they could be placed.
They projected above the ground nliout
ten feet. There were sentinel boxes,
about one hundred feet apart, and built
high enough for sentries to look over
into the enclosure. Within the stock
ade. a distance of twelve feet from the
fence,- was a dead-line, which consisted
of posts nliout threo feet high, placed in
the ground about ten or twelve feet
apart, with light strips or boards nailed
from one to the other. Prisoners were
not allowed to pass this line on peril of
their lives.
There was a sluggish stream of water
running through the north half of the
enclosure, which was so filthy as to be
hardly tit to wash in.
In the south end of the stockade was
a rough board shed, open at the north
side, and containing bunks built of
rough boards for the use of the sick
prisoners. This was caued the hospital.
Thero was not a stump in the stockade
when I arrived there in the fall of 1804.
The trees of which tho stockade was
built were cut from tho ground enclosed
and the stumps had been dug up by the
prisoners for fuel.. There were no houses
to protect the prisoners from the cold
and rain. Wells of great depth had
been dug by the prisoners within the
stockade. These were not -protected bv
railings, and hence wo were liable to fall
into them on a dark night. In the dig
ging, half canteens were used forshovels,
buckets were made by the prisoners for
lifting the dirt, and torn-up blankets
were UBed for ropes. Previous to my
arrival a spring of water broke out just
within the stockade, the water being
conveyed under the dead-line in a trough,
and supph ing the entire camp.
I was also in Milieu prison, whioh was
a stoecade similar to Andersovule, but
not as large, and much cleaner and let
ter managed.
During the time that Gen. Sherman
was inarching to the sea, we were moved
around considerably, usually camping in
camp, 1 should think, a month or
cooked rations; after that they wero is- more. Then w-e were marched to Albany,
sued raw. They were brought in wag- a distanco of fifty miles, and from there
sent on cars to Aiuiersonvillo again,
where we arrived Christmas night, each
man receiving about one saucer of cook
ed rice with sorghum for that day and
the next.
Corporal Blodgett, in a recent conver
sation said that the meanest hog-yard in
the country, where tho hogs are in all
stages of the cholera, sick and dying of
a fatal disease, would present a pictuie
pleasant to the eye compared with that
at Andersonville, whero thousands of
our brave comrades sickened, suffered
and died; cold, with a forest or timber
in sight; in filth of every conceivable
kind, when they would triad! v have
helped themselves if they had been al
lowed to do so; starving, w lien there was
no necessity for it.
The heartless brutality of tho rebel
prison management is inconceivable by
those who did not feel its enormities.
The treatment in the rebel prison pens,
of the brave boys who defended the Hug
that protects ns today is the blackest
chapter in all the record of things done
among civilized men. There is nothing I
equal to it in atrocity, and nothing at
all comparable with it in liendishness
excepting that "sum of all villainies,"
slavery, the cause of tho Rebellion.
So long as tho veterans who fought
mora than a quarter of a century ago
shall live, and so long ns their sons and
daughters may be interested in their
deeds: so long as men shall read au
thentic history andadmiro patriotism,
courage, endurance and heroism, so long
snail iney remember the sufferings of
comrades in the prisons of the south
during the Rebellion, and detest the
treason which made those sufferin's
possible.
IS AG-ENT FOR THE FOLLOWING LIST
OF TIME-TRIED and APPROVED
Farm Implements!
Seeders and Harrows.
Strowbndge Broadcast Seeder. Niagara force-feed wagon lox seeder. Hoos
ler hroadrast force-reed eleven-root seeder. The best broadcast seder on wheels,
which will measure your grain and ground ;is it sows, and make a i.rettv fair
iI lliifit.k t r t In. .-... ft ....II ii :.. ... ... -
... ; . " "'" iiiiuiiijr irom a nan-;
siik urcss. iioosier press drill. China disc 1
max disc harrow without seeder attachments
-grown timothy seed
harrow ami seeder combined.
to a
Cli-
G.
WJIEELER & WILSON M'FQ CO.,
185 and 187 Wabash Ave., Chicago
SOLD irv
W. K1BLKR, Leigh. Xehr.
.talir'Ui-T-Jt
E. D. Fitzpatrick
ItooksHlcr ami Stationer,
Plows and Cultivators.
Wier plows, "Wier cultivators, Wier lever harrows. Wier lusters, the onlv per
m i Ilf ifrS niiU-e' ,er,ltvtors for listed corn, something entirely new. Come
and see it. Price fcl 1, to correspond with tho hard times
T.. i ymS DutelVnan rilm", ,,1"v.s' F,.vinff litchman walking plows, Flving
Dutchman gang plows. Dandy cultivator, guaranteed to scour in anv soil. Little
MhhS:0?' c"Itlvat1?r' ,rYis PtowH. Orvis cultivators, Orvis hollow steel
- Ji VU?Ion;r,l,ltJ eu,t,V!,trrf. Standard com planter. Standard check
rower, the simplest and strongest check rower made. Drops tho corn in tho
i::l:1.!,.,lllra,u" the queen of all cultivators, h
-- " - iit-iii ,io .ti.iiiu o. iias on evcrv
race track.
i as
Corn Planters, Drills and Check
Rowers.
Moline Champion corn planter, drill and
machines in one, and for the price of one.
Ioor neart good. Tait check rower. Peoria A
rowers.
check rower combined. Thre
'ome and seo it. Twill do oi
uvance cor:i !(l:mt.rri :m.l .-dL-
Mowers, Binders and Hay Rakes.
Pianos
Ulgdlld
Standard mowers, four-, five , six-, and seven-root cut; can be drawn
horses in tho heaviest grass. If jou don't believe it. buv .mi, M.l irv- u
rnkCKX llnkcmr l- ..!-.... fl: l l V
7,7.,:,' V; ", V"- xvr ueii-uump nay rake, which
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Osborn binder OslM.rn mower, Kmpiro bindorrsimplests'troiigest and light
binder in Uncle Sam's dominions. h
lard hav
operate.
by two
Stand-
aiiyone can
est
In closing these reminiscences of oris
on life, let us express tho hope that the
day may not. lie far distant when the
vanquished, as well as the victors in the
lato war, shall acknowledge with lip and
heart that Old Glory is the banner of
the free.
"O Htu;f rimsi-t ilj-t
Ami :izhiv of the hkii-s!
.M.iy tin-IiimI .f nations multiply tlij itar-i'
Ami may He Kraut that we
Shall ewrnmre I. fr-e
Komi eii! strif.' and ih-.-liitiiis' wim-h."
NarllrM Krmh on tircat Salt l.akf. I tali.
The famous health am! pleasure resort,
Garfield IJeach on Great Salt Iake'
I Utah, 18 miles from Salt Lake City, and
reacneti oiny via mo union I'acihc,
'"The Overland ltouto" is now open Tor
tho season.
This is the only sand beach on Great
Salt Lake, and is one of the finest bath
ing and pleasure resorts in the west.
Great Salt Lake is not a sullen, listless.
sheet of water, lieating idly on the shore,
but on the contrary is as lieantiful a
sheet of water as can lie found anvwhere.
It is i!l per cent salt, while the ocean is
only :-, per cent, and the water is so buoy
ant that a person is sustained on its sur
face indefinitely without the least effort
on his nart. Experience has proven its
great hygienic effects. Owing to the
stimulating effect or the brine on tho
skin, or the salino air on the lun"s the
appetite is stimulated, afld after a bath,
the bathers are ready for a hearty meal,
and feel greatly invigorated.
Fine bath houses accommodating 400
people, have lieen erected at Garfield
Beach, in connection with which there is
a first-class restaurant and a dancing
pavillion built out over the lake, all of
these are run by tho Union Pacific, who
guarantee a first-olass resort in even
respect. The Union Pacific h;is made low ratps
or rare ror those desiring to visit Salt
Lake City and Garfield Beach.
For complete description of Garfield
Beach and Great Salt Lake, send to E.
L. Lomax, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Omaha for
copies of "Sights and Scenes in Utah,"
or "A Glimpse of Great Salt Lake," or
J. R. Meagher, agent U. P: svstem at
Columbus. " 7-8t
THE WHITE
SEWIMJ
MACHINE.
Baby Carriages, Express Wagons,
KANE ISAM, UOODS.
FOLLOW riiHCKOVVl) KOK liXUli.MNS
13th St.. Columbus, Nebr.
Threshers.
The Minnesota Chief threshing mad
ones. Ilalkulaj wind mills.
t X v
v'yir Waj fay av "
HERiii oMnibK ttb.
IX j'.rfii:5iiix
Gains In 1mhi
Grinders and Shelters.
T X L feed grinders and corn (.hellers and l...n- powers. Ifrsides a roll stoek
f extras for even thing m th. In f implements. Anything not on hand will bo
ordered on trhort notice.
verythingr
(hies at reduced prices No letter place to buy for cash if von have it, and If"
you liavn't there is no better place to bnv on time
When you are in town come and .Wand get a picture for the baby.
Bete Block, TMrteentb and L streets:
i;riiin
DRESS'
AND
or THE
I worst of convicted Tri urinals, their pun- tinued until the whole camp was gone the woods, with only a guard around as. druggists.
In a recent article in the Youth's Com
panion, on "how to cure a cold," the
writer advises a hot lemonade to be tak
et at lied time. It is a dantrerons treat
ment, especially durintr the severe cold
weather of the winter months, as it opens
the pores of the skin and leaves the sys
tem in such a condition that another and
much more severe cold is almost certain
to be contracted. Many years constant
use and the experience of thousands of
persons of all ages, has fully demonstrat
ed that there is nothing" lietter for a
severe cold than Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. It acts in perfect harmony
with nature, relieves the lungs, liquefies
the tough tenacious mucous, making it
easier to expectorate, and restores the
system to a strong and healthy condi
tion. Fifty cent bottles for sale bv ail
Union Central Life Insurance Co.,
Of Cincinnati. O.. inaih- the following
pi in 4 in Ifcrtt;
A gain in surplus of - - $ 126,081 o7
A gain in income of - - - fi'20,557 28
A gain in assets of - - - 1,038,362 11
Gross assets, Dec. 31, 1889 5,663,a" 70
New business, 1889 - - - 19,623,686 00
Insurance in force in Neb. 1,200,000 00
This solid and prosperous comimny has a lare
UBint-S.S in (VllmnhllM nnil vicinilv Ciuwl m.-n
who can evcuru businet, wanted as ajfent.
Ld'erai comrucls and good territory goeu. Ail
dresrt. J. M. KliMISTO.V. Stat Airnnf.
5mch3ra Iioom 12, Hurr lilork, Lincoln, Neb
Roma
poalroine
WILL
BIT AT
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LAND FOR SALE.
A?X A F"NK IMPROVED FA KM
lor oale in btiell Cret-lc talley,
near Colunibua, containing Ju0
acred of land: about 120 acres
under cultiTation; 10 acres heavily timbered, re
mainder montly in clover and blu icrautt iaatura
and hay land; ISO fruit tre--s, apples, peart,
cherry, pluma, etc., some br-arinic; all kiniN of
ornamental trees and nhrubd; IM fall-bearing
Krape vines. The farm entire is fenced, and di
vided id to small field by fence. Dwelling house
of seven rooms, granary, corn cribs, large horse
table with nay-mow, cattle barn which holds 80
tons of liaj; hog bouse; 2 wells; running water
ia pasture. For farther particulars inquire at
JotJ-utAf. oOoe, or addreM, U. B., can of Joes.
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two fenormances, afternoon ar 2o,clock.
evening at 8 o'clock. Watch our yferantfv street
M . - - w - T
paraae at iu o ciock a. m. on the morning of thi
iiuiuuii, aiso a iree exniDinon art the mammptJ
,ts immediately alter the parade.
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