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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 first dose, the patient quickly feeling its invigorating and health-giving influence. It increases the appetite, aids digestion, clears the complexion, regulates the liver, kidneys, etc ., and speedily brings bloom to the cheek, strength to the body and joy to the heart. For weak and debili¬ tated females it is without a rival or a 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¬ teur Company, 14 N. Broad “street, At¬ lanta, Ga., and by druggists. Price $1.50 per concentrated bottle, which makes one gallon of medicine as per di¬ rections accompanying each bottle. Can be seut by express C. O. D. if your drug¬ gist cannot supply you. ly 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 THE GEORGIA ALLIANCE RECORD Is a large 8-page weekly devoted to Alliance news, agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, literary and general news. Send for a sample copy. Address ALLIANCE RECORD, 4t Montezuma, Ga. - DEALER IN— DRY GOODS 5 Groceries and Hardware. A full line of HARDWARE ant CROCKERY. Quality of all Goods Guaranteed and Prices as low as the low¬ est. 1 also sell the famous NEW HOME AND LOVE SEWING MACHINES. 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