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1 $% MINNESOTA STATE NEWS. Last Yiew of the Confederacy. 'The Bragr Farmer. agony of grief expressed in Mr. Davis's Alexander Stephens on a away we steamed on our way to New face. He seemed as if he was about to Orleans and home. We landed at the Locomotive. The self-satisfied man is an *tT inflic- T* From New York Sun. f^l?i^%%:^ weep as he looked at the fallen men. foot of the shell road, six miles from leat of Senator Z. B. Clarke of Benson. Over in Jersey City one day* recently W i He cion that all desire to avoid When Gen. Jubal A. Early, on hearing Phis event repressed the turbulent the city. *g two or three locomotive engineers 'J Hon. B. Clarke, stsate senator, died at would not change his farm for the spirit that seemed increasing with every of Lee's surrender, exclaimed. Four years before, almost to the fj* sat talking over strange experiences, his home in Benson, Swift county, on the whole Russian Empire. new arrival. The liquor was seized war,4 day, I embarked for the seat of "Blow your horn,*Gabriel!" he but expressed and this was the story that one of 18th. He has been gradually failing for and destroyed, rations given to all, from that very spot. Then I was j He can do more work in a shorter them told: "I was a young man working the universal sentiment of the eighteen months, but had only been confined cloth doled out slowly, all Johnston's clothed in the nattiest of uniforms. T^ period of time than any man living. on a southern railroad as a fireman to his bed for five weeks. south, certainly that of the soldiers, army in camp received a small amount Now my old gray jacket was frayed He can lift more, walk further, and is when the war broke out. Before Hon Z. B. Clarke was born in Licking, for we knew that it was only a question in specie, camps were formed, and all and torn, my troursers were grimy getting rich faster than anybody he Ohio, on Oct. 18, 1844, and he was, therefore, the war was over I got an engine of precautions taken to prevent tumult and patched, and an old gray cap, of time, and a very short time, but little over forty-one years of is aquainted with while there are very my own but before 1 was regularly .igo When five years old he removed and disorder. and a cavalry nose bag, which held few things that he will admit of being too, when there would be a general promoted the engineer of my train fell with his parents to Wisconsin. Six all my earthly possessions, completed Still many of the men said. "If we ignorant of. He belongs to the *^ti collapse. And so when we started sick of a sudden, and I was ordered years later his mother died, and he the contrast. But with every nerve don't set these storesthe enemy will," world's incorrigibles, whom there it to take the engine out myself. I shipped homeward, in April, 1865, we knew cimo to Minnesota, settling in Olmsted and vein tingling with good health, so they formed the needy women and no convincing. Compann tounty, and ever sinceythen he has bee a brakeman to do my firing, and ea that we were going there to stay, that what cared I, if all was well at home' children in line,and made them charge nrchitecet rvdur ofe hifso th own fortunes. During started away at 6 o'clock in the morning A last tramp up the shell road, and He walked into the country post the end had come at last. Although the laughing guard and help themselves. ar ^u pulling one passenger and half a into the city. office, where he was always sure of an Many of the paroled men loitered many of the men had secured horses Inird Minnesota volunteers. In 1870 dozen freight cars. There wasn't any appreciative and attentive audience, in Greensboro,in the hope of securing The old town showed not the least he took up a claim neai-Lacqui Parle, and still the large majority were on foot, fighting along my line, but there was he made his first entrance into public life threw his dirty mittens underneath the millions of specie which they supposed vestige of change it looked as if it like myself, and I trudged back on a deal of bad feeling everywhere, and by serving three years as county clerk. In the red hot stove, turned his back to to be somewhere. "I have had slept through these years of war 187o he was sent to the legislature. During lots of lawless deeds were being committed. about the same route by which I had it, and began: fought four years," said a tall, darkeyed and waste. I stopped for a moment the grasshopi er scourge in 1875 he met The track on this road was "Mighty cold weather we're ahavin' come to Virginia four years before. Georgian, "lost health, home, evrything to listen to a Union soldier reading a vvith business reverses and removed to torn up in two places only a week before, now! My thermometer was down to What eventful years! And what a this old ragged uniform is everything newspaper. There had been a grand Benson, where he has since lived. He was and there was a good bit of talk elected btate sunator in 1883. and was twenty-four, last night."' review in Washington, and the con difference in the country through I own in the world, and I'll about train wreckers and the like. At chairman of the last etate Republican con"icntion. As no one could come within six degrees quering army of the North had inarch which I had travelled, a boy of 16, take all I can tote, gold or grub." Mr. Clarke's health had been about 8 o'clock at a way station I ed in review past the President, th of such extreme cold, not a sound a fast train filled with my young comrades, At last a train was ordered south, lading for the past two years. He was regarded got a telegram from head quarters to famous Generals, and statemen. How was heardexcept one disbelieving cheering and singing improvised and as many as could squeeze into the as having one of the brightest politifal drop all my cars and hurry right on often around our camp fires we had cough that was half strangled. war songs, greeted everywhere wretched box-cars got a ride as far as futures of the prominent Republicans of to the end of the line with only my talked and dreamed of another victo the btate. "Butter's coming up," he said at along the road with overflowing Charlottsville. Just before we left a locomotive and tender. It was a rious army being welcomed home in length. "Got twenty-two cents for hospitality, speeding day rumor was current that Mosby had like manner! Hurrying on, declining queer order, but I knew that it what I sold yesterday. But mine was and night through a land teeming shot President Lincoln thi-s was the The following are among the recentpostal thankfully the offers of clothing and a was official and I made ready to extra, you know. I've got the name with abundance, andnow! More than first news of the assassination. Charlottsville changes in Minnesota: Avon, Stearns home from kind-hearted ladies. 1 obey orders, when a little man with a of making the best butter in this ere half of my young comrades had found was swarming with men,some county, Thomas Hussay appointed postmaster, tf soon stood before the door where I brown slouch hat, who did not look as county, and it always brings the highest shallow graves here and there, from leaving as fast as they came all stopping vice John W. Rich, removed' Belcher, had said good-by so long ago. if he weighed over a hundred pounds, figure. Made three hundred and Pope county, Thomas W. Brown. Malvern Hill to Appomattox, and I only long enough to get rations, Mce T. E. Clark, removed Fairhaven, twenty pound to the cow this year.and climbed up into the cab and said to was tramping back alone, through a of which there seemed no lack anywhere. With anxious, throbbing heart 1 Stearns county, John H. Blerler, vice R. I'm bound to do better than that, me that he wished I would let him desolate, war-stricken country, with Where were all these great opened it, and saw, as through a mist, M.Vandewort. removed Freeport, Stearns next. And I've some of the best cows ride in there with me, he was so anxious a thousand miles between me and stores of provisions while Lee's army a dear, dear old face in a halo of silver county,John Hoscher,vice Frank Benocken, there is in this section, everybody home. was starving? to go forward as far as he could. hair. "My boy, thank God!" Temoved, Geneva, Fieeborn county, Mrs. says. There ain't one farmer in a Danville was the first town I reachfed Onward again no loitering now. I told him that my orders were to let Andwellthough a prisoner, defeated, Ueid, vice Mrs. sborne, resigned Gilhnst, dozen that knows a good cow, any after the surrender, and rumors Onward from daylight until too dark impoverished, I would not have Pope county, 0. Peterson, viceErickHon, nobody ride, and explained that I resigned Holdingsford, Stearns county, way and then they don't know how had already reached there of that to see the cross ties. Then down in a changed places with the proudest soldier didn't think I could let him go. "Don't William Murphy, vice Aucustus Parish, to feed, for profit. in all the victorious, exultant le event. There were a few who were fence corner to sleep, and up and on you expect me?" he asked. I told him iemo\ed Jackson, Jackson county, J. "I suppose I get more off from my gions of the grand army of the Potomac loud in their assertions that the Government again through North Carolina into I didn't. "It will be all right," he insisted, Fiddes, vice W. P. Laroson, not commissioned, for was I not at home? seventy acre farm than most farmers could hold out still, but there Abbeville, South Carolina, where the but when I asked him what was Lewiston, Winona county, M. S. do from a hundred and twenty acres was one sure sign that those in railroad stopped, and a tew yards Ginsmer, vice J. W. Rice, removed Luxemburg, his name and what was his business, X-REB. and it's just 'cause I know how to authority there had no hopethe from thp end stood what appeared to Stearns county, J. B. Lasher vice P. he couldn't be induced to tell me. manage. Hammond, removed: Nautsdale, Stearns men were breaking into the commissary be the same baggage car I had seen in "Then it's all up," said I "I'll ~o A Paris Dog and Cat Hospital county, Andrew Watson, vice John Turtum, "Now, when I bought that farm I stores and Government warehouses, Danville, and in it was stored the same without you." Then hesuggested that resigned New Munich,Stearns county, hadn't but leetle to pay down. But and no effort was made to precious cargo. The car was in charge Paris Cor. oi the Hartford Times. he was willing to pay me well for letting J- Bullever, vice A. Sutton,removed Rices, I've worked clear o' debt, got one o' stop them. Seeing a train of two of a Major Steele, and although only a At an evening reception recently, him remain aboard, but I wasn't Benton county, J. W. Walter, vice Henry the best houses and biggest barn in this coaches and a baggage car at the depot, single sentinel was on guard, still it Kox. removed, Springhill, Stearns county, taking any chances,and I told him so. which your correspondent had the town, and am getting along jest boss. headed south, I thought it would was evident tnat there was some anxiety, flonry B. Ley, vice John H. Buck, re I was only waiting till my fireman attended honor of attending, a pet cat belonging moved. But I tell ye, I've got one o' the be a good opportunity to get a ride. for two or three times in as many to some business that he had smartest women for a wife. She can to the household was one of the A number of kegs about the size of days a cordon of cavalry suddenly encircled The stockholders of the recently organized gone down the track about, and then Merchants's bank in Lake City have cook a splendid meal o' vittles, and do beer kegs, and strongly hooped, stood the car, and the precious kegs honored personages, for "Boodie" had I was going to shoot ahead and leave ejected the following directors W. F. a big wash in', anu don't get any on the platform, and four men were were hastily loaded on six wagons and everybody behind. You ought to have just returned from a week's stay at Holmes, C. F. Young, H. D. Stocker, C. F. outlandish notions in her head, like with much effort loading them in the moved rapidly away, only to return seen the sparks in that little man's eye. Rogers, A. Basey, G. H. Grannis, C. D. the hospital. "Boodie" was the some women. car. again in the tame mysterious manner. Warren, D. Smith, H. Gillett. The directors Needn't wait for your helper,' he said name of a fine large Angora which had "Children all take after me, though. I delayed awhile at this place, feeling "What is that?" I asked one of the elected officers as follows* President, in that kind o' quiet tone that had a They jist push right ahead and sure that either our own men or W. F. Holmes, vice president, G. H. men. been suffering with rheumatihm, and whole battlefield in its very quietness. Grannis, cashier, E. F. McCall. think they are as good as anybody. the Federals would sieze the money. "Specie," he replied. consequently was the object of as much 'You needn't wait for your fireman. I calculate to do well by 'em too. Mr. Davis and his Cabinet were here It was the Confederate treasury and Four counterfeiters of silver dollars were I'll do his work. Go ahead!' I looked sympathy as though it had been a "caught in the act" of moulding them at Whoever marries my girls will get with a guard of Marmaduke's cavalry, the contents of the Richmond Bank at him, wondering whether not he Anoka. A man named Goodson is considered child with the measles. Said the hos i something besides plated spoons and a detachment of naval dudes, and a vaults. was crazy, when he calmly took out tho leader. He has been away from photograph albums. And the boys heterogenous mass of volunteers. Stepping on the platform of one of ess: Vnoka a good deal.and presumably picked a shiny pistol and tapped gently ain't going to be left by anybody. Several of the latter men told me that the coaches, a colored porter met me up his knowledge of counterfeiting while in "We sent to the doctor's to see what on one of the brass rods of the Tom's colt can leave anything on the there ould be a scramble for the at the door with a whispered, "Mr. some of the larger cities. He is a single ailed the cat, and an awfully swell cab seat, and he repeated once more, road, now, and he's only a four-year money as soon as it became certain man, aijd has no legular occupation, Davis is in dar." man came to examine it, and he said 'Go ahead!' I wa3 knocked clean iieit Lishncos is married. For a old while Jake can saw and put up that it could not be saved from capture "Who?" itoughttobe sent to the hospital, out. What could the stranger mean? time he kept a saloon which was burned his four cords of wood alone, any day. and a part of it did go that way. "Mr. Davis!" where it could get better nursing some time ago under suspicious circumbtuuce.s. That sparkle in his eye grew brighter He's got the best saw I could find The night before they left to march Not only did that tram contain the It cost forty francs to cure him, but Frank Cole is married and Fd and brighter, and seemed fairly to here a-bouts. Tell ye what it is, boys, into the hands of the Federals, the Confederate treasury, but the whole Teller is divorced from his wile who li\es in now he is all right" I straightway I dance like a diamond under the sun. it don't pay to buy cheap tools to specie guard was suddenly increased governmentPresident. Cabinet, archives, Anoka. The capture was a very clever visited the cat and dog hospital, and 'Do you understand?' he inquired in work with." to about fifty men. At about 9 one, and icflects great credit upon Marshal everything. a curious place it is, both for sights the quiet tone that pierced me like a Demi3', Deputy Marshal Brackett, A boy came in for his father's mail. o'clock, while talking to one of them, So I started southward and homeward and sounds. I dieve there are be\ Sheriff Lenfest, Chief of Police Russell, Attorney bullet. 'Go ahead, I say.' I went He had a basket of eggs that had cost a tall man on horseback came down afoot. The railroad was now eral institutions of the kind in Paris, George W. Morrill and Policeman ahead. On, on, and on we dashed, two cents and a-half apiece the street from the town, and, being lined with men, all moving the built on a model plan. I hope the harles Cloven and John Heiring, who through the fields and forests and by "What little eggs," said the brag challenged, informed the sentry that same direction, and no one could have editor will not-feel calledujo to refer participated in making the arrest. the villages, stopping nowhere, my farmer. "My hens lay eggs twice as he was Gen. Breckenndge, Secietaiy told from any word or act of theirs this "free advertisement" to the business Tho supiemo couit of the state renrleied passengerI felt that he was a madmankeeping large as them. Got the finest lot of of War. that they were soldiers of a defeated department, it I publish no names. a decision in the Col. Bend a close watch on us fowls you ever see. They're hall Plymouth "Ah, General," said the sentry, also army and a lost cause, for while there case, by discharging the order to show all the while. I was scared. That The hospital is situated in the suburbs Rock. We just have loads of a Kentuckian, "there's no Confederacy was no exultation, there was no de "aus why Lieut. Col. Pciry Harrison of Paris It consists of a villa, pistol was still in his hand, and like eggs, and the woman sold forty dollars now, and no War Department, assumed to act as coinmander-in-*- jection the one dominant thought chief of tho Minnesota national guard. The in the back yard of hich has been a worth last yeartell ye there's a the little hand of a watch its rat-a-tat- and my orders are ^trict." and feeling was, "The war is ended, decision in brief is that Lieut. Col. Harrison substantial brick building At one big profit on poultry. Ye want to tat on the brass rod kept counting off "Well, call Maior Steele, then." we are going home," which many had acted under the orders of Gov. Hub' end of this is a pharmacy, while the raise earlv chickens and sell 'em as This being done, they both entered the seconds and the minutes till I left four years before, and had not bard, who is the commander-in-thief, and lest of the building is taken up with a soon as they're large enongh for br'ilers. the car, lighted a candle, and remained grew almost crazy myself. I was rattled. even heard from in three years. I that it was the duty of that officer to perioral long ward in which there are about Then, through warm weather, some time. A sort of film kept coming before caught a freight train ontht- road and the acts complained of. Bend says thirty stalls, each about four feet cubic, pack down your eggs and keep 'em the end is not yet reached, but that his my eyes. He said not one word, rode into Greensboro, N. C, at That night Breckinridge left Mr. case will appear in an equity suit. and inclosed with wne netting. The till Christmas and ye can sell little about midnight, on top of a box car, but I felt that his searching gaze was Davis's party, made his way to Florida, bottoms of these cages or stalls are eggs for a whopping big price." wheace could be seen on all sides oh me all the while. And finally I Company of Minneapolis drilled at the and escaped from the country. J. furnished with clean straw every day. St. Paul Armory in presence ol Gov Hubbard "Killed your hogs?" some one asked around and in the town innumerable could stand it no more. There was a P. Benjamin left at about the same and a thousand others, for a fine silk All sorts of dogs and cats were here, in order to have a change of subject. camp fires of stragglers, paroled men, rush of blood to my head. I staggered time, I believe, and next morning the banner. At the close Col. Bentzoni, U. S. some with broken legs, some with "Why, yes! Hadn't you heard how and deserters, and beyond these in and fell, with the town I was Government had disappearedcavalry, A., one of the judges, stepped forward and pleurisy, and some with coughs. much they weighed? Biggest pigs ever in the woods was Johnson's bound for just in sight. What Iremember marines, specie, and allmuch to omplimented both companies. He stated Outside the ward there are three fatted in this community,spring pigs dissolving army. His men were leaving next was a buzz of voices the disappointment of a number of that the drill was so close that it was difficult OArer me as I lay in a doctor's office. open air yards, cleanly graveled, where and they averaged 390 pounds." by hundreds. to decide between them, but careful men in Abbeville and the village the convalescents are kept together, rulings credited the fewest mistakes to "Say,did you ever hear of Ananias?" Getting into a car of a train on a Aside from a nervous shock I had above, who were discussing the propriety Company K, and it was therefore awarded and here were forty or fifty more dogs, asked a meek looking man with many side track to sleep, I found it loaded of taking possession of the suffered nothing. My engine had the flag. n hile in a house all alone was a mad patches on his clothes and an equal with blankets, and the sun was high treasure. And indeed there was only brought me into town all right, and A mass convention at Morris demanded dog, which had bitten three persons number of blotches on his face. up before I awoke. The first thing one thintj which had prevented itrespect had come to a halt at the station as 50 per cent, reduction in freight rates and and was now awaiting transfer to Dr. "Yes, of course! Name is familiar. that greeted my sleepy eyes next and sympathy for the hunted gently and amiably as any old family three cents per mile passenger rate. Pasteur to be experimented on by Atf Seems to me he used to keep our school morning was this: In the shallow Confederate president. horse. The man who had rode down Edward Langen, well known in Morrison that great, investigator of hydrophobia. when I was a boy." dry ditch not five yards away stood Off again, southward, I went,re&ted with me had known enough to onntv, was killed by a falling tree near The dog, a Scotch terrier jumped "Shouldn't be surprised," was the Gen. Beauregard, speaking in a low and refreshed now with one party, govern her, but he had waited at Rich Prairie. around its cage fuiiously when approached. reply. "Guess you always passed examination, voice to an officer seated on an empty now with another, until falling with the depot after arriving only Sister M. Gregory, superior of the par.ochial The veterinary surgeon didn't ye?" box. He held a cup of coffee in one a group of wounded men, one of them long enough to tell a bystander that school, died at St. Peter. 3. charge of the hospital said he believed "Of course! I always stood head of hand, and gesticulated slowly on crutches,I remained with them carrying I was in need of help on the engine's The store of Knopf & Renke. at Wheeling, there was no danger from drophobia, the class," was thg confident reply. and earnestly with the other. their traps, until they were provided v, AS destroyed by fire. floor. A week after 1 learned the reason except to nervous persons, who Smiles threatened to become explosive, Two or three officers were breakfasting for. The negroes so far seemed for the strange order that had At Winona John Sikorski, a workman feared it. He himself claimed to have when the boy with the eggs off &f -pine box, while a to be working, and though eager for engaged in the sawdust fuel pile of the L. been given me to hurry on with my locomotive been bitten three times by mad dogs, piped out: negro was baking hot cakes at a little Porter Milling company, was instantly news, very reticent themselves. They and no cars, and I learned, and he was never afraid to handle killed by the caving in of an overhanging fire on which streamed a pot of coffee. "Didn't ye know that Ananias was knew nothing of their freedom, except too, the name and mission of my passenger. them. His opinion contrary to that bunk of sawdust. I recognized notmeexcept Beauregard. a liar that lived more'n eighteen hundred through vague rumors, which they discredited: A telegraph operator nad of Dr. Pasteur, is that dogs, cats, Alexander Brennan, late manager of N. Some fifty yards beyond this group, years ago?" I crossed the Savannah blundered. My dispatch should have wolves and jackals may become mad P. Clark's farm, near Haw ley, is charged on a low hill, stood a very small onestory "No?" exclaimed the farmer, hesitatingly. River one evening at dark, and for the read: 'Take on little man with brown ith seducing the seventeen-year-old daugher without having been bitten. house. It was Johnston's headquarters. "Well, by goll, he could have first time in four years was again under slouch hat drop all cars and rush forward of Anton J. Hauger. Brennan has fled On the opposite side of the descendants, couldn't he?" as he the dominion of the Stars and with no stops.' The operator lo Canada leaving a wife and two children. train were a number of small fires, at picked up his scorched mittens and Stripes. The Union troops held Augusta, Manners of Society Girls. The Pleasant Mound Grange denounces had carelessly left off the first phrase which men were cooking, eating, or made a rush for the door, to get a ride and had established a parole the action of the Blue Earth county com^rnissioners about the 'little man with the slouch The manners of society girls grow sleeping. Some genius discovered that home. office and posted notices proclaiming in levying a tax for a court hat,' and given me only the last of the more easy every day, says a writer in part of the train was loaded with "Tell you what it is, boys, there's ""house at Mankato, and calls upon the as outlaws those found without a order. The man? He was Alexander the Brooklyn Eagle. They can't be powder, and in a short time barrels i farmers to organize in opposition. such a thing as being too well satisfied parole. H. Stephens, and he had important were rolled or thrown out, the heads called masculine exactly, because the with one's self and one's possessions, A German in North Rochester, Olmsted From this city the railroad was war information that hehad been willing knocked in, and canteens and bottles ,"Oo., gave a party some da.vs ago, and thirteen term implies a certain amount of isn't there?" open to Atlanta. How it escaped the to trust to nobody eise. he apologized of the twenty-eight who attended are were filled to carry home. Out of "Should say so," was the reply. firmness or hardness, and there is general destruction is a mystery, for, to me after for his strange actions, lying sick, several of them being severely mere wantoness, barrels of cannon "But he didn't tell it all. He might nothing in the least strained about from Richmond to Mobile, the eavalry ill. It is supposed that some of the canned but he said he felt that only in powder were upset, and lay in heaps have said he was the biggest fool in of both armies had swarmed over the society girl of this season. She is ^neat used at the supper is the cause of the such a way could he ever manage to near the fires. Remonstrance and town" the country, cutting railroad lines ^lhiesj*. One of the young ladies who attended strikingly erect, and she invariably make me go on, for he didn't know warning were received with jeers and* the party, Miss Jennie Kemp, is "He'd a lied if he had," said the wherever they touched, them, destroying carries her head so high that it gives what the real text of my orders was, ridicule so I got out of my car on the dead. small boy. "There's two or three bridges and trestles. On to Atlanta, her an appearance of unusual height. and he was afraid to ask for tear that Other side and cautioned one bigger'n he, and" Gov. Hubbard has issued a warrant for or what had been Atlanta, for Her self poise and serenity are absolute. he might find me either unfriendly or of Gen. Beauregard's staff. I had .V *he execution of John Hutchinson for the "That will do, sonny. You had it was a dead forest of toppling chimneys It doesn't seem to make the untrustworthy. Those were days .murder of Archie McLean, at East Grand scarcely got to the end of the train, better go home with your little eggs," set amid desolate rums. From slightest difference whether she is surrounded f' Forks, to occur April 23. Hutchinson when everybody was suspected, you when a pile of the loose powder went said another. here we were on the tramp again, but ,Viraurdered a man named Lanchie McLean, by horses, dogs, or men, she you." off, and fortunately, only "one pile. "All right! And that makes me the stream of men had grown thinner, in East Grand Forks, on the night of So^t. has the same careless, fearless and The only damage was the literal skinning think of what Mrs. Ware said when I as they dropped off here and there ^20. On, that date, McLean, with two companions, easy air under all circumstances. It of three or four men. came along past your house. She proceeded to the house of Mrs. on the way. is not familiarity and it is certainly Hutchinson, who kept a place of ill repute. wants you to come straight home and This first serious evidence of turbulence After many weary miles we reached not coarseness. On the stairs of the They demanded admittance, which was refused, dig some wood out of the snow and occurred within a few yards of Montgomery at last, and found a Equal to the Emergency. dad they then broke open the door. Metropolitan Opera House on the split it, for the fire was 'most out," headquarters, and the reckless spirit -steamboat Teady to carry us to Mobile. The woman's son, John, rushed for McLean A short time since a gentleman who night of the charity ball there stood said the boy, as he pulled his old cap seemed to increase as the town became A Federal officer gaverations to and stabbed him in the breast, the lived in a small town not far from down over his ears and disappeared the daughter of a society matron who more crowded with new arrivals, all applicants another gave transportation /lLMound causing almost instant death/ Buffalo went the way of all flesh, and through the door. The opening is well known in a certain set here, and culminated when the men found tickets to Mobile several of Hon. Stanley Holland of Zumbrota died the burial ceremonies to be performed strain of "Over the garden wall" was liquor. There was immense quantities standing a few feet from her mother, them were boarding at the hotel paying t^at San Francisco, Cala., on the 15th inst. over his remains were committed to cut short by a gust of wind laden with of army supplies stored here,and many $50 a day, Confederate money. %-lledhad beetn failing in health for four years, and waiting for that lady to finish & a,n went California last fall hoping ^J, the charge of a local undertaker. The snow that froze his tuneless whistle, of the soldiers seemed desirous of helping The steamboat was packed with men series of voluble inquiries that she s^othat a winter in a mild climate would be instanter. funeral was quite an important one, themselves. A company of cavalry as she started down the river. The was addressing to another old lady of -iir 1 beneficial. for the gentleman was prominent in His remark reminded others that broke into a house where some fine negroes here had learned that they similar habits of small tolk. There $?V Patents have been issued to* citizens there was a shortage in their family his own town and a number of his a number of his uniform eloth was stored. The guard were free, and every landing place was a crowd of at least 10 men around of Minnesota as follows: Charlessupplies. There was,a general uprising, friends from the city were present.! gave the alarm an infantry force was was crowded with the poor creatures, the 19-year-old girlshe was scarcely 5$f Rarnarth, Shakopee, gate hinge John F. and, to the great delight of the The services were held in the church, I double-quicked to the spot, coming ap with their little bundles of household jy* Appleby, combined harvester and binder a year out of the conventand she clerk, Uncle Sam's postal museum was but just as the time arrived for taking just as the eavalry were riding away, goods, begging Durin* the Captain to take iSC'Claud M. Farrot, assignor to Warren & stood there entertaining them all with awajr. the darkest days vacant for the next set of loungers. the remains to the cemetery, a severe There was a quick command to halt, a them j* Ferrot, St. Paul, apparatus for compressv^ing the ease and grace of a society veteran. air C. A. Johnson, fastening device for thunder-storm came up and it was saucy reply, a single shot, a volley, of the war the negro had worked ^vehicle hubs W. E. Haiaht, Winnebago She had a word a*id a glance for considered best not to start until the yells, shots,flyinghorsemen, some dead with a faithful industry for the unprotected Vacaville (Cal.) Judician: Sid *'iy valve for pumps Horace Witsell, each man as he came op, and there worst of the storm was over. The men lying in the street, and the danger ones at home, for which the -Tracy, threshing machine A. O. Hubbard, Walker cut a watermelon on Wednesday was a constant ripple of laughter. wait was rather an embarrassing one, of anarchy was*over. -v southern people cannot be too grateful Sauk Centre, adjustable reclining chair the 13th of January. There has She stood with her hand carelessly but even this early they had been but the undertaker was equal to* th I And then two men came riding slow- Casper Martin, Minneapolis, egg register been so little frost in that part of Vacaville folded before her, her color was not in deluded by wild stories of ease and emergency. Standing on the chancel ly down the street, one in civilian's i. .Addison Lent, grain seperator C. Lanner, that the melon vines up to the least heightened, and she was all barrow. abundance, and were leaving their steps he shouted so as to be heard In clothes* the other in full general's un- "4 that date were untouched by frost, homes, \o starve. Missourians, Texans, in all as calm and as thoroughly dd Peter Mahowa of St. Joe, Scott county, the choir loft at the other end of the iform. &'.jnad the top of his head cut off by a circular and the melons have been growing 4ind Louisianians were waiting amused as she might have been at They were Jefferjson Davis and Joseph building: "The organist will please riaw. right along as if it were mid-summer. vmflktiently in Mobile for some mode E. Johnston. give us a little music to while away home listening to a bit of gossip from W. M. Campbell's nomination for United The flavor was little inferior to its of/getting across the lake and at last The latter person seemed calm and the time." Even the mourners smiled.Buffalo her own brother* h*~j States marshal is sent to the senate*. normal character. 4&e government furnished a boat, and unmoved, bat I shall never forget the Express. mw & mi