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THE VERMONT TROOPS.
A RKIUAIIK THAT HAD A I.OT OK U N
AMO KKOI.lt? IN IT.
Ben. Pprlpy Ponrr. In hln ItemJnUcrnrri, ot
the VVnr, Telia This Mory ot u. Vprmuni
Brigade.
The Vermont brigade was the pet or
ganization of tho Army of the Potomac,
and Miles O’Reilly described them as
honest farmers turned vagabonds—sim
pie countrymen changed into heroea.
~hey stole ancient horses and bony cows
on the march. -They pillaged moderately
in other things. They swept the dairies
and they stripped the orchards for miles
where they traveled. They chased rab¬
bits when they went into camp after
long inarches, and they yelled like wild
Indians when neighboring camps were
silent through fatigue. They were famil¬
iar with their officers. They swaggered
in a cool, impudent way and looked
down with a patronizing Yankee cool
ness upon ail regiments that were better
drilled, and upon that part of the army
generally that did not belong to tho Ver
montf brigade. They were strangely
proud, not of themselves individually,
but of the brigade collectively, for they
knew perfectly well that they were the
best fighters in the known world. They
were individually self-reliant and skilful
in the use of arms, and they honestly be
lieved that the Vermont brigade could
not be beaten by all tho combined armies
of the rebellion
' They were veterans in fighting qnali
ties almost from the first skirmish. This
was at Lee’s Mills. They crossed a nor
row dam under a fire, made the attack
they were instructed to make, and came
back, wading deep in the water, with a
steadiness that surprised the army .
They were an incorrigible, irregular,
■««’ noisy set of rascals. They w ere much
■> “*
they “ J would do—march and fight; aud
these they ,, did ..., m . a manner peculiarly i
their .own They had a long, slow,
swingings n eon o ^ ar<d > w “ c j ls '
tanced everything that followed them.
They had a quiet, attentive, earnest, in¬
dividual way of fighting that made them
terrific in battle. Each man knew that
his neighbor in the ranks was not going
to run away, and he knew also that he
himself intended to remain where he
was. Accordingly, none of the attention
of the line was directed from the impor¬
tant duties of loading and firing, rapidly
and carefully. When moving in*o action
and while hotly engaged, they made
queer, quaint jokes, and enjoyed them
greatly. They crowed like cocks, they
ba-a-ed like sheep, they neighed like
horses, they bellowed like bulls, they
barked like dogs, and they counterfeited
with excellent effect the indescribable
music of the mule. When, perchance,
they held a picket line in the forest, it
seemed as if Noah’s ark had gone to
pieces there,
When the Vermonters led the column
on» march their quick movements had
regulated from of'division .
to bo corps
headquarters to avoid gaps in the column
as it followed them. If a rapid or forced
march was required, it was a common
thing for Sedgwick to say, with a quiet
smile, “Put the Vermonters at the head
of the column to-day and keep everything
well closed up.”
A Dangerous Experiment
One day last fall a small boy of White
Plains, N. X., had his ears filled with
oats by seme boys with whom he was
skylarking in a barn. The boy
scratched and cleaned out, as he
thought, all of the grain, and went
about his business. About six weeks
ago the boy was taken with a severe
pain in his ear. His head swelled up,
and he was in awful agony. All reme¬
dies failed, and his mother took him to
a physician, who removed two kerneli
of oats which had sprouted and taken
root in the boy’e ear, He is now oer*
feotly well
II; Hail In'lwl of Trail.
HOW TEXAS IS OOlNil TO ORT ITS OATH,*
north btsnra quarantine.
Tho quarantine regulation! of Kansas
aguiust the cattle from Texas have brok*
en up the northern drives iuto that State,
aUtl l “ meot tho pressing demand for an
outlet, for the stock cattle of tlie Texas
ranches the Fort Worth and Denver
1 City Railroad is being extended at the
! J* of a mil. . ^ beyond
j southern Falla - ihw and ‘ wlU southwestern transportation Iexas cattle foi
to HarroiJ » which is a newly established
town. The battle designed for the North
will then be driven across the Indian
Territory to the terminus of the St.
Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita Railroad,
where they will be reshipped in cars.
The cattle that are to go to the fattening
ranges in Colorado, Wyoming and Mon¬
tana will be driven along the old Griffin
and Dodge trail, through the neutral
8 trip just nor ^ Panhandle conn
tr v aud thm the * wm reach Colorado.
*
The Texas cattle interests for a time
8eemed seriously threatened by the
CftttJe <&****&*> but tho railroad lias
taken the place of the trail. It is be
Heved that thia wiU P rove to be a aolu -
bou a ser ' oua difficulty. Hie North
ern cab ^ emeu » wbo bftV0 been hdUiential
e nougli to secure quarantine legislation,
claim that the Texas herds bring death
artd ( ^ seas0 thci r cattle although pass
ing ^y themselves in excellent condition.
There has been no doubt of tine infec
Uod and orl S'», but its cause is a
™? 6ter y. The southern Texas cattle
il PP oar *° fptead the fever worse uin
thoae frcm tho northern ranges. There
ia 110 P la S«« that “>? cow “<! n
dread more than the Texas fever, and m
crossing a trail on their drives they will
put their cattle on a run, deep.te all con
no^hernoattle are permuted to graze or
drink where Texas cattle nave passed
^ certain toappearaud Z, to cause
^ Thi „ of interests,
which threatened to becomemoBtbitter,
is likely to end with the rail in place of
the trail.
Forces or England and Russia.
Russia has more soldiers aud more
ships of war than any other country in
the world. In her standing army there
are 780,000 men, and she has ,358 ships
in her navy. It costa $125,000,000 a
year to keep her military establishments
on their peace footing, and her military
authorities say they can place 2,300,000
trained men under arms in war time,
rp^ Etigiisli standing army is 182,000
men. This includes the English regu¬
lar troops serving in India. The Eug
lisli War Office authorities profess to be
able to put 642,000 well-drilled and ef¬
fective British troops in the field If
ca u e d on to do so. This does not in¬
clude the Indian auxiliary forces, which
wou ia swell the total British forces at
ilome an a abroad to over 1,000,000 men.
it costs Ragland ^90,000,000 a year to
keep up ita regular army. In 1853
tk ere were 52,000 Irish soldiers in the
Elfish army; now there are only 31,
qqq. In 1853 a great number of Irish
men {ronl Tipperary, Armagh, Kilkenny,
an a other Irish militia regiments volun
leered for active service, and were sent
fn to the tne Hrimea C/mutja. The xub Ensrlish Ajugiiou navy ua.j con
tains 283 ships. But while the Rus
B j an naV y contains more vessels than
the English navy.it mnst be
bered that England spends three times
. as much on her navy as Russia spends
an hers,
Brief a nd to the Point.
* Been to Washington ?*
«Y T es.’
* See Cleveland ?'
* Yes.’
‘ Did he ’point you ?’
* ‘Whit Yes.’
to?’
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Story of the Kail
The following pretty story given the
Chinese legend about tho origin of the
fan: “One evening when the beautiful
Kau Si, daughter of a powerful Chinese
mandarin, was assisting at the grand
°f lanterns, she was so overcome
he J m ™ k * ButuTerpoaelier face to
the eyes of the profane and vulgar was
a serious offeuee ngaiust the law, so,
holding the mask as closely as possible
*
K o,
the movotnellt 8tiu concealed her. The
hardy other ladie8 but charming pr?8ent> innovation, witnessing this
imi
tated it, and at ouco ten thousand hands
were fluttering ten thousand masks.
Thus the fan was evoked and took the
place of the mask.”
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Intense niut deathly palm in tny Iwoic *n4
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Morphine •‘Had effect! ami other opiates l
no
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