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STRANGE PENSION GASES.
PATHETIC INCIDENTS RELATED BY
SEEKERS FOR NATIONAL AID.
A Cavalryman "Whose Fate Was Like
Enoch Arden’s—Soldiers Wrong-
rally Branded as Deserters.
A Pension Office clerk recently gave
to a correspondent of the Milwaukee Sun
some incidents out of many which came
to his notice in that department. He
said:
“A Michigan cavalry man has recently
secured a pension after a great deal of
trouble. He was reported as having been
killed in action, but turned up a few
years ago at a reunion of his regiment,
like a ghost among his comrades, who
had never heard a word about him since
the memorable battle when be was shot.
He rode in the front ranks during the
cavalry charge in the second battle of
Bull Run, was shot from his horse at the
beginning of the charge, and the whole
regiment passed over him. There was no
doubt about his death and no surprise
that his body was not found after the
battle was over, because it was presumed
that it could not be identified if found.
There was no doubt in the minds of his
comrades that he had been trampled to
pieces. Well, he turned up among his
comrades at the reunion of the regiment,
and told the story that he knew nothing
until two or three mouths after the
battle, when he found himself out in
Michigan, being cared for by some stran¬
gers who had taken him in. He was a
complete physical wreck who had been
twisted and torn out of all shape, as if he
had been blown up by a boiler explosion
and patched up afterward. He wandered
about for several years, and finally visit¬
ing his former home found that his wife,
believing him dead, had married again.
He didn’t trouble her at all, but contin¬
ued traveling about until he finally
gained the friendship of a well to do
man, and with him he made his home,
finally marrying one of his daughters.
'After his appearance at the reunion of
his regiment he brought his case before
the department, had his military record
corrected, and ultimately secured a pen¬
sion.
“One of the strangest incidents, how¬
ever,” continued the official, “was the
claim of the widow and mother of a col¬
ored soldier for a pension. The widow
sworo that her husband died in Tennes¬
see in 1862 of smallpoll, and that his
mother was not living at the time of his
death. The mother claimed that the
man died in 1864 of smallpox in Ten¬
nessee, and that she had repeatedly seen
him between ’62 and ’64, but that her
son had never married, Both of the
women were evidently swearing to the
truth, so far as they understood it. The
military record in the Adjutant-General’s
office showed that the man in question en¬
listed in that regiment and company, and
died in Tennessee of smallpox in 1864.
There was a great deal of strong collat¬
eral evidence to show that he had died
in 1862 of smallpox. It was finally as¬
certained that the man did die in 1862
as claimed by his widow. In those times
vacancies in colored regiments were
speedily filled by Sergeants, who expe¬
rienced little difficulty in filling the
ranks with ignorant colored men w’ho
would take the name of the deceased, no
matter what it was. In this case the
soldier who was originally enlisted died
in 1862; a new man was put in his place
under the same name, and he died of the
smallpox two years later. There were
really two colored soldiers, one of whom
was mustered in and died in 1862, while
the other was not mustered in, but
served two years and died in 1864. Un¬
der the circumstances, of course, the
widow of the man who died in 1862 got
a pension. The mother of the man who
died in 1864 got no pension, because her
sou was never really mustered into the
service.
“There have been thousands of cases
where men were not deserters, who never
did desert, nor never left the army. Thou¬
sands of fellows fell by the roadside,
were taken into field hospitals, sent
North, recovered, returned to their
regiments and served through the re¬
mainder of the war, who are reported as
deserters. The Sergeant of the com¬
pany failing to account for a man who
straggled from the ranks found it easier
to put ‘deserter’ opposite his uame than
to look for him. At the end of the
month his name ,would be taken from
the rolls, a new Sergeant might be in
charge of the company when he re¬
turned, and then the mark of desertion
would never be corrected until years
after the war, when he Yvould apply for
a pension and find this record staring
him in the face, greatly to his discredit
and discomfiture.
“There was a young man in to see me
this morning—he is yet comparatively a
young man—who was taken sick in
front of Vicksburg, in 1863, while on
the march from Champion Hills. He
was in hospitals for several months and
was in a lunatic asylum for over three
years. When he recovered his reason
the war had closed, and he gave no at-*
tention to his military record until a few
weeks ago, when he made application for
a pension and found himself marked as a
deserter. The poor fellow had fallen in
line of duty, just as truly and heroically
as though he had been in line of battle
stricken down with a bullet. He is now
* engaged in procuring evidence to
prove
the truth of his story, the result of
which will be that his military record
will be corrected and he will get the
pension which is due him.”
A Famous Kentucky Road.
The road I traveled was that great
highway between Kentucky and the
South which at various times within e
hundred years has been known as the
Wilderness Road, or the Cumberland
Road, or the National Turnpike, or the
“Kaintuck Hog Road,” as it was called
by the mountaineers. It is impossible tc
come upon this road without pausing, oi
to write of it without a tribute. It led
from Baltimore over the mountains of
Virginia through the great wilderness by
Cumberland Gap. All roads below Phila¬
delphia converge at this gap, just as the
buffalo and Indian trails had earlier con¬
verged, and just as many railroads are
converging now. The improvement of
this road became in time the pet scheme
of the State Governments of Virginia and
Kentucky. Before the war millions oi
head of stock—horses, hogs, cattle,
mules—were driven over it to the south¬
ern markets; and thousands of vehicles,
with families and servants and trunks,
have somehow passed over it, coming
northward over it into Kentucky, or
going southward on pleasure excursions.
During the war vast commissary stores
passed back and forth, following the
movement of armies. But despite al!
this—despite all that has been done tc
civilize it since Boone traced its course
in 1790, this honored historic thorough¬
fare remains to-day as it was in the be¬
ginning, with all its sloughs and sands,
its mud and holes, and jutting ledges ol
rock and loose bowlders, and twists and
turns, and general total depravity.
It is not surprising that whm the ori¬
ginal Kentuckians were settled on the
blue-grass plateau they sternly set about
the making of good roads, and to this
day remain the best road builders in
America. One such road was enough.
They are said to have been notorious for
profanity, those who came into Kentucky
from this side. Naturally. Many were
infidels—there are roads that, make a man
lose faith. It is known that the more
pious companies of them, as they traveled
along, would now and then give up in
despair, sit down, raise a hymn, ant]
have prayers before they could go
further. Perhaps one of the provoca¬
tions to homicide among the mountain
people should be reckoned this road. I
have seen two of the mildest of men,
after riding over it for a few hours, lose
their temper and begin to fight—fight
anything—fight their horses, fight the
flies, fight the cobwebs on their noses.—
Harper's Magazine.
Wit at the Guillotine.
Some years ago it was still the custom
in Fiance to conduct condemned crim¬
inals through gazing crowds of idle
spectators to the public guillotine. On
one such occasion the unfortunate seated
upon his coffin in the cart,heard a would-
be wit in the crowd remark to his
companion: fellow don’l fci
“Well, I’ll bet that
much like laughing?” the
The coarse attempt at a joke stung
prisoner, and when he arrived at the
scaffold he asked that the proceedings be
stayed a moment as he had a confession
to make.
“Although I denied it at the trial,
I had accomplices in the crime for
which I have been sentenced,and there,”
pointiug tc the joker, “is one of them
now.”
Great excitement ensued, and the
party designated was seized by the
gendearmes with no gentle hands, Oul
of the confusion somebody managed tc
drag order and tbe wit was placed on
the scaffold beside his accuser.
Such a fearful case of abject terror as
the joker uresented was never witnessed
in that sombre locality. After enjoying
his helpless fright for a few moments,
the fated convict said to the official in
charge: of suffer¬
“He tried to make sport my
ings, but the man is innocent, and ai
soon as he seemed to be sure that it wai
no laughing matter for me to be here, 1
was curious to see how much such a
funny fellow r would laugh under sirailai
circumstances himself.--- Philadelphia
Times.
Imperial Hides in China.
The Emperor, Empress and Empresi
Dowager of China take daily rides in the
handsomely furnished first-class carriages
on the little railway round the Nan hai
(Southern Sea), adjoining the new palace
of the Empress Dowager. No locomotive
is used, only coolies being employed to
pull and push. At the Kwenming Lake
on the occasion of the late imperial visit
the Emperor got up steam iu the little
steam launch, but for fear of an explo¬
sion his father had to advise him to de¬
sist, and in consequence a rowing barge
has been ordered for his majesty.— Lon «
don Figaro.
Philological Oddities.
In a recent lecture a professor of lan
guages, in commenting on the difficulties
foreigners had to overcome before they
could master our language, made mention
of the following philological oddities:
The letter c changes lover into clover, d
makes a crow a crowd, k makes eyed
keyed, g changes son into song, 1 trans¬
forms pear into a pearl, s changes a-hoe
into a shoe, t makes bough bought, and
w makes omen women.— Times-Demo¬
crat.
One of the pretty California heiresses
is Miss Grace McDonough, who will in¬
herit a fortune of $3,000,000 from her
mother. She is a tall, stately girl, with
a haughty manner but a sweet and at¬
tractive face.
FACTS FOR THE SICK!
A Letter from an Eminent Di¬
vine in Regard to the Best
Medicine in the World.
Read.
Woncloi-ful Cures.
Atlanta, Ga., January 2, 1890.
Six months ago, at the request of a
friend who was interested in the sale of
King’s Royal Germetuer, I made a writ¬
ten statement of the benefits I had re¬
ceived from the use of that medicine. In
that statement I expressed the belief that
it would cure me entirely of catarrh.
Within the last two months I have re¬
ceived letters from every quarter of the
nation calling on me for further informa¬
tion in regard to my health. It has been
impossible for me to write privately to
each person who has made this request,
and I am therefore under the necessity of
making another public statement. that
I am free from catarrh. I believe
I could get a certificate to this effect from
any competent physician. I have used
no medicine within the last six months
except King’s Royal Germetuer. My
health is better than it has been in thirty
years. I am in possession of information
which warrants me in saying that the re¬
lief of which the medicine I have experienced from certain the
U9e is not more
and radical than that which it has
brought to hundreds of persons in Geor¬
gia and other States.
I feel it to be my duty to say, also, that
the effects of this remedy upon my wife
have been even more signal and wonder¬
ful. She has been almost a life-long in¬
valid from Nervous Headache, Neuralgia
and Rheumatism. In a period of thirty
years she has scarcely had a day’s exemp¬
tion from pain. She has been using Ger-
meteur about two months. A more com¬
plete transformation I have never wit¬
nessed. Every symptom of disease has
disappeared. She appears to be twenty
years younger, and is as happy and play¬
ful as a healthy child. We have persua¬
ded many of our friends to take the med¬
icine, and the testimony of all of them is
that it is a great remedy.
J. B. H AWTHOnNE.
Pastor First Baptist Church.
Royal Germeteur builds up from the
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It increases the appetite, aids digestion,
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joy to the heart. For weak and debili¬
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peer. If suffering with disease and
you are
fail of a certificates, cure, send stamp for printed
matter, etc.
For sale by the King’s Royal Germe¬
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$1.50 per concentrated bottle, which
makes one gallon of medicine as per di¬
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FORTUNES FOR MANY.
Allen, the blacksmith, is now a mil¬
lionaire through replying to an advertise¬
ment of unclaimed estates, &c., &c.—
Times, L<)ndon, March l.s£, 1888.
If your ancestors came from the old
country, write to The European Claims
Agency, 59 Pearl street and 24 Stone
street, New York city, inclosing 25 heir cents
for reply, and learn if you arc an to
any of the unclaimed estates there, worth
more than half a billiou dollars, that
rightly belong, chiefly, to American de¬
scendants of Europeans who came to
America years ago. If your ancestors
came over more than fifty years ago,
there is a probability that you are heir to
a fortuue. * 6t
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