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IVCL. XVHL l£V
ATLANTA, GA-, TUESDAY MUllNING.
8 1886
PRICE FIVE CENTS
A BRAVE DEED.
A Story by Clnbctb Stuart Phelps* w
(Copyrighted 18S6 by the Author. All Rights Re-
•erred.)
PART n.
I made ihort work of Ikpushlng everybody by
for I no, end it m slippery, and it took me
longer, than it would of a different day, hot no
man nnleaa It waa a lineman, could bare got
there to quick for being practloed at it, and I
ran and I looked op—ma'am, I went ar cold aa
"AND WEEK I LOOKED DP, MA’AM, I WENT
Al COLD AS ICE."
the Ice beneath me and then I turned from
cold to hot and then I went from hot to horror,
for the eight I taw.
Ma'am, it waa him I saw—it was Charley
Scattergood.
It was him atop of that there pole, hanging
senseless eighty foot shore my head, serosa the
cross-arms. It waa him I hate—hate—hated
from my soul. It was him that sent me on
horn mad to mnrder when I thought of him.
It was him I could here stamped on or see be
neath an inline or Hang over the ferry-boat
and get beneath the paddlo-wheol. It was him.
It waa him that took my girl away from mo.
,JSoirl'H here to c*plJli£f(|y<ia. I’ll hivoto
explain to you about that guy. You couldn’t
understand tko nature of my feelings unless
yon understood the situation of that polo and
goy.
Yon see it's this way. Yon got a line of
poles—there—seet And you're got another
connection—there. Maybe yon gny over to a
roof or another row—so.
And your guy breaks, your poles might be
gin to go the way I told you, like a row of
nine-pins from the storm. And they’ro all
gone down, we’ll say, like these had, lire or
six of.’em, in the gale, it blowed so,-and this
one, it’s made a stand. This one stood it’s
ground and thero it is, all them broken wires
dangling and groaning in the ice and wind,
and a troublo man he's sent up to gny it over
to this root or to this other pole I tell you of,
to make it fast and atop the net from going.
Maybe be guys It orer to a stump-that’s what
we call.a broken pole—and he has the wires to
tie, and he has his slrap-and-vlce to join ’em
with and his pliers to twist 'em with, and his
spurs upon bla legs—and that’s all he hat ex
cept his pluck and the lee-atorm,
bo I see In a minute Charley Scattergood had
been up to guy that pole orer, and I aee it wasn’t
done— it wasn’t guyed over—when he was ta
ken with whatever took him, for I saw the
r ole shook consider’bie and that the wires
ung flabby, and, ma’am, I saw another thing.
I aaw the pole was a cracked polo. They are
sometimes.
Now It takes me a great while to tell yon
these hen things becauao I ain’t an educated
man, but it didn’t take me long enough to
think ’em—not to long aa If yon waa to say:
"Charley Scattergood!” If I was an educated
man I could explain to yon the nature of my
feelings. You’vo got learning younelf and
may bo you can understand ’em without I
was to tell ’em—maybe that’s what learning
does for folks. I don’t know.
Nut, ma’am, though they didn’t taka time
they took my mortal llfe-the feelings that I
bad. Itaeemedaait Id dloof ’em before it all
went through my mind:
‘‘That's hnn. That’s Charley Scattergod.
Be took your girl away from yon. He's a mis-
erable drinkln’ cuts. lie’ll drop. You ain't
nothing to do with it.
Ttoae other linemen are too for oil. Bo'll
drop before they get here. Nor they wouldn't
go up. I don’t know a feller on that crew
would go up. It’s a cracked pole. * e •
You didn't do it. It ain't your work. You
didn't hang Charley Scattergood eighty foot
above the ground, him aenaeleaa on a cros s-arm.
You ain’t got to do nothing but let him be. It I
God A'mlj
Now
did ■
It seemed like I’d die before he would. It
seemed like I’d be tore in twenty. Seems as
if the last Trumpet and the Day of Judgment
and the Gnat White Throne, and all them
things we read about in the Good Book, you
know, kind of got together in a crew and made
a dead act at me. Seems aa if they said:
fc "Go up! Go up I Go up!”
Then it teemed as if I answered:
“Don't you do it! Stay where you be!"
And then it come: “Go up! Go up!"
And then I says:
“It ain't my business. It’s God A’mlghty’s.”
Ana then:
"It ain't God A'mighty's. It's your business.
Go up! Go up!
And then it cornea to me this way, crash
like a charge of electricity innthunder-shoir-
jd A'mlghty’s business."
Now when I got so far as God A’mighty, It
d seem as if the fee lings I bad would kill me.
was all about it I didn’t think about it per-
tikkellarly. I’d got my orders.
So I went up, for it all took quick aa I could
think It Ana I did the best
the pole wasn’t soun
And he’d taken
anything
went
Now it’s this way. You know what a cross
arm is. Yon’ve teen ’em on the telephone poles,
and the telegraph. They ran acrcat the top
and hold the oak pint and the insulators.
Each cross-arm might have ten pint to screw
the insulatora on. There may be one or two,
there may be six or more of these cross-arms.
This pole it waa a tall pole and in the thick of
business— then might be maybe eighty to a
hundred wires on such a pole—and It had
eight cress arms, and Charley Scattergood he
hung acrott the highest of 'em all, the top one,
doubled over—that way. Iconldn’thelp think
ing aa I went up how like a rag doll he looked
banging acrost a close-horse—br it waa so
high and he looked small.
I stuck my spurs in hard for it was slippery
aa death and from the excitement and from
knowing that the pole wasn’t sound it seemed
as if I couldn't make a footing, and I thought
or Annie, for I loved her, and I felt bad to
think if so we both come crashing down, ahe'd
feel worse to think it was Charley Scattergood
than she would for thinking it waa me.
Bnt I said, for I felt a little giddy and it
blew so, as I want up I said:
“Annie, Annio Hope,” Just as I’ve always
laid to keep a steady head.
Heaven bless her dear name, ma’am, wheth
er it steadied me as it always had, I don’t
know aa I can prove to yon, not being an edu
cated man—but I felt steadier for saying of it,
and for feeling of the feeling that made me
any it.
“Annie. Dear Annie. Annie, Hope,’’-for
the loving fooling that 1 had to her, and it
waa like aa if my love turned Into norm,
ma’am, while I went up, and tamed into Arm
muscles and into a cool brain and into all of
these things a lineman needs if hb’sgotadeed
like that to do to save a fellow-creaiuro'a life,
or maybe give Ills own. And it waa like aa If
the lovo I had, turned out the hate I had. And
all my soul went up, aa my body waa going up
that peie. It was as if I left my deadly feeling
down below upon the ground, and I went from
muldrr up to mercy aa I climbed toward the
sky u>on the pole.
Now this is the holy truth. I'd never been
ao keen to hurt him aa I was to save him be-
foro I got to him. I’d never wished him half
such curses as 1 prayed heaven I might do
him blcssina' and get him down a living man.
And I says to myself:
“If we topple and go down together I won’t
Wrt »t Headquarters for a murderer. Lord
Chief A’mighty may Ho forgive me, but He
shan’t catch me thero!”
So it blow pretty hard, and I got np. And
everything was covered with ice. And my
“As Lyin' between God A'mighty and Char
ley Scaitergood, which is the lineman of them
two? Him that is the lineman it's his doaty to
climb that pale.”
Ma'am, we’re tanght to do our doaty In oar
bn: Inert and obey our orders sod once It war
clear to me In that minute—for all this ouly
took no time at all to go throngh me— >ac j it
was plain to me I'd got my order and I'd »it
it from the Chief—from t'other Calef that
needs a sleet-storm and blows a gsle easy as
outs would set in hia office and send a tutelage
oat aero*t a wire—once I understood it was cny
1 say no more about it. I set my spun
into that pole and I went up. • • • a
*»J ? wwt I don’t know.
It didu1strike me ao. It was my dooty. That
there he was.^H
Hohl hail a lit. The fclJerl had a fit. And
there he bung acroht tho upper cross-arm with
no raoro knowlcdgo than tho doad. And I
look cd at him. But I left my hate eighty feet
boh w us, and it waa aa if I liked him for I
■want td so to save h I in, and I looked to soe what I
1 could do, for be showed some signs of com-
l J
So 1 raye:
“Charley Scattergood, for tho love of God,
don’t you atir. Stay where you be till I tie
you on.”
Now I had my pliers with mo In my belt in
the sort of pocket where we carry ’em, and I
see the broken wins, hanging round, and I
*!■* 1 had some wiro with me, a
rail 1 d had to do some guying with. So I took
that wire, for it waa strongest and I twitted it
around him and fastened him tight with my
t> lera and I twisted the other wires around
him and I tied him tight and then I looked to
see what
pretty hard and Lord! how that pole did be-
gin to abako.
Well, ho come toallttlc.notso’eto help him-
self, but enough to'a not to hendor me, and ’
said:
“Charley, you're took with something, and
I’ve got to swing you dosrn, for the pole's rot
ten. If yon rally your life—or mine either—
don’t yon darst to ao nothing but do as I tall
you.” For I knew if he was to wrestle or even
to wriggle it would be all np with both of ns.
So I think he senaedit, for he seemed to, and
I made him fast and I began to lower of him
down ahead of me, me descending above him
my breath and looked below.
I don t think it bad coma over me till that
minute what a fl* It waa. But when I looked
down I saw the people for they’d come from
every wherrs and there was quite a crowd, and
I saw the lineman that baa Iran np from tho
nearest crew, and I see thee ware all dismissing
Sf And they tried toadvlw
me this ami that for I could see 'em holler, but
thewindblcr so I couldn’t rntko out a word.
Ana Mil at oneo it come to me:
“How in God's name are yon going to got
Dim down?
"Anybtdy got a rope?” cried I.
But nobody could hear me and I triod again,
about Jim?" h * p,lea 10 h,Te “V more wire
.And one of the trouble men he understood
mo and ho sort of beckoned to me and hold up
“THAT THESE POLE SWAYIHU THU WAY AND
THAT WAY.”
belt Icould, and he hung unite atlli, andlio-
haveff dxtHoedtaswfty well,-Tor a-qitty niiftC
My idea was, if 1 found we was going, I'd play
out llie whole of the cable faataudsome of’em
would catch him bofero tho pole went down.l
Well, I did it. I don't know'a I know eu
actly how. Bnt I got tho Toiler down, I goi
him down as ferae thirty foot or so above thq
ground, when nil nt once I felt It coming, 1
That there pole begun to swing this way and
that way—tha way a tree will when lt’e going
to fall—this way and t'other way—and I knew
it was coming—and I oriod ont:
“There he goes! I can’t do nothing mors
for him 1 (fetch him some of yo!’’ and I play
ed his ropa ont and I let him go, and he come
in tic as a rick man that had a little fall
lloor--and then I heard thos-s-craih!
:h the grain of that pino polo-and
lifo, and mo and it come down
down
upon
J5£a
my lii
“THE PELLEn'D BAD A TIT."
both arms and I see ho had n coil of win and
a coil of r„po betwixt his two hands, and I sae
there waant any other way, andaol went
down the pels. I went some titty fast or so,
for ft wds slow work, and I looked every min*
uta 1° come dashing down. So soma of’em
climbed on something, n cart or aomathing,
and got ono on t'other’s shoulders, for no man
daud to add an ounce weight sxtry to that
splitting pole with ns two on it—and they
Hong ms np the wire and the ropes, and ao I
’em and took ’em and climbed up
Yes. I went tloft again. I didn't sae no'
other way. I couldn't leava him thera, you
see. Plucky?—I don’t know. It was my
dooty. 1 tried to do it. That's all there wu
lit. It Isn't much total! of, come to tail It
Sol went upend I nntied him.and Igottha
rope about Mm. add I plied the wire to it, till
I had tho length to risk it—but the wind blew
That’s all thera le of It. It makes me kind of
schemed to tell it—aa If there was eometblng
to tell.
Why yes— If you want to know what b
od to mo—next thing I knew, I didn’t
anything, by gracious. I oome crashing
head, folks said, and they picked mo up and
dead.”
But Charley Scattergood, a policeman took
him to the hospital; and.when he got well he
give np beinga Boetaa liaeman, end he went
t»-no ua’ero, I'm not wishing to hoprofeno
in n lady’s houas. He went to New York
city.
So next I knew I opened my eyes one day
and I ate my aiittr tbet waa the wtdder lady
coming in tho door. And the says:
“Mercy, Charles, you've come to, halntyon?”
And I saw I waa to borne and I felt quite
smart only for the bandego os my heed end
for being as weak as a drownded puppy be
neath the bed close. And my lister says:
“There's a young lady In the settlngroom,
come to Inquire after your health," she says.
“She's goto green dresa trimmed with feather
trimming,” wye my rister.
“Tell her I’m mnch obliged to her,” says I,
ai d that I take It for an honor.”
So my aiittr goes sod tells her, and In the
comes again,
“The young lady'i crying,” soya my slater.
"Dear, deer,” stye I.
“And aba any* to esk you if you're willing
for to see her e minute, me setting in the room
Inside of her," my sister says.
And I says:
“For a minute or forever—the knows that
willing ain't the word,’’ says I.
So back myslster goes and in they coma, her
end Annie clote behind her. And my lister
save:
"This it tha young lady."
Audi says:
“I'd a been shaved If I’d known you wag
coming, my dear.”
And my alitor says:
“I’l go and aee the barber about it this
minute. I’ll have him come over after dinner
If the young lady will excuse me half a
aeiond "
I took it vary kind of my alitor, for Annie
cculdn'tap"*- — -■ *
a word. J
looked tip, ,o
hare cried myaal f to see my denr'girl how she
lo*ed,fto aha was pole and miserable to aee.
efSta I k ** rf
myaelf,” says
And I says:
“Why Anuta!
And ahtaaya:
“Oh, don’t 1"
And I lays;
“Crying for i
“Crying for me Annie ?-Crring to former
‘Ohdear," the toys. “Oh deer, deer, deer!
I’m aahamed of myaelf,’’ she says.
•T never called upon n gentleman before,"
•be toys, 'but li'I didn’t know you would for
give me I should die!” aha aayi.
‘ ( hope you won’t think the worn of me for
,!»•» t ■ forward girl," she eays.
So I held ont my band to her, for I couldn’t
answer her. I couldn’t somatraya. I took it
•o that aba should cry like that for me. And
ahe put her* into it ne If it had been n little
Mrdehe gave me, end the Mopped crying, and
“I never thought you'd nuke me nek yon!”
And I cays:
“What in God's nemo do yon mean, ray dest?
For I ain't very strong. Don't make game of
me.”
And ehe lifted np her pretty face that wu
nil girl to me—her dear face that had tho
dimple on it. and the tears—
And it seemed ae if ahe did and didn't; it
seemed u if eho would end wouldn't; it seemed
te if the thould end shouldn't—tho way e
woman dors. But the laid:
“If you’ll have me, I’ll merry you tamer-
"‘Don’t fool me, deer,” I aid. And ehe arid:
“No, I won’t fool you. I won't merry you
tomorrow. I'll marry yon today, ao’s I e
take care of you and not loso a minute end >
body to binder.”
Com*new! I tee juet what your thinking
in your mind. I aee it plain. Didn’t ahe
prora half plague, half comfort—half lovin’,
hriftraaln^-half flirtin', half coaxin'—that
kind?
Ma’am, you are mistaken. Since my girl be
come my wife, ehe’e been all wife to me.
• THE END.
IN FURIATED WOMEN.
Mothers Nan Their Babes on tha Railroad
Track to Stop Trains.
Chicago. June 4.—There wu e report this
morning at Cummingi that the Book Island
retd would more four can loaded with nails
mads by new mm atCnmmin^s’s nail works.
Aa several of the strikers
enjoined
>i , . .
tho hour when the englnea were expected up
from south Chicago, and before that
hoar women and children to tho
number • of two hnndreJ, wives
Slid families of former employu, assembled
with sticks in their hands, around tha termi
nus of the railroad tracks and opposite to tho
entrance to tho nail works. Females ware
sentdowntbe track towards Smith Chicago to
a non-union man, who wu morlng to Cole,
hour for ufety. Mrs. Bethel wu nlono enper>
in tending tha packing of household goods when
the wu startled by tho heating of tin pans
and wild hoots and valla. Several windows
were smithed by boulders, and she wu be
rated rooLilly by the women and children
until the police dispersed tho party. They
returned to tho depot, end at tho ssmotlme
one of tho picket! carao running breathlessly
along ths track, waving her shawl nnd shout
ing “Jo the cate!” This wu eignallng the ap-
preach of the enrine. Then there wu a rash
io where the loaded ears were standing.
Mothers, with inbnts in arms, and dragging
youngsters by tho hand, hurried along. All
ages wffio represented. Mothers grouped their
httlo ones along tho track some distance ahead
of the first freight car and packed thorn ac
cording to ago nil the rails, tho youngoat to-
wa.,1 Iby approaching eugiuo, the mothers nud
grown- op daughters taking position In tho
resn Tho engine steamed up slowly, but seo-
ing the living obstacle on the track reversed end
returned to soutbJCblcnxo. Thenthe'Amuoon
dispersed and on their return Jos rad and
abused the rsprasentaUvu of the company et
the gate, celling them the moot opprobrious
names, the police by their preeenoe ooly pre
venting on infliction of violence by the Info-
fitted women.
At two o’clock when tho engine* appeared
rain, folly 8,000 women end children were
thronging the tracks and apparently u deter-
mined u before to hold them. Captain Hunt,
with alxty policeman from Hyde Park, hod
reported in the meantime end attempted to
clear ths tracks, but could do It only with
gnat difficulty. Tho womon, fooling
rare they would not ha dabbed, refused to
move, or moved very slowly when told to do
ao,enddoeed up serin oaths tracks unless
absolutely held beck by the officers. The on-
( inis werp nnsble to get by them without
tiling them. The greatest oxcltormmt pro-
vailed, and all attempts made to move the
can provad tattle.
During the evening the tracks were Anally
cltarid of woman and children. Then new
complication! arose. The train men unani
mously refosed to lift a hand toward moving
two curt loaded with recalled “soab” tulle.
Tho Bork Island officials at ones discharg
ed the entire crew, engineers flremea and all
conci reed, including the switchmen. There
le e possibility that the effitlr wilt lead to tori-
rloua trouble between the railroad and the ve-
DEC0RATI0N DAY.
ITS OBSERVANCE IN NEW YORK
AND BROOKLYN.
TO* OrsnCsst Wlltarv Finul Xrsr Inn la the
Halted Sulse-Tha Fruldenr. Bseost-Ttenl
oirertnn flow an tha (Wsa-At ths
AMsdewref Mule-Other Hetea
MAXWELL FOUND GUILTY.
Bt. Louis, June ti.—When the jury In the
Maxwell care retired lut night to the Jury,
room, Martin B. Barnett waa chosen foreman,
David Childs, secretary. Barnett was anppoe-
ed tj many to be a men who favored the de
flate more than any other juror end when
the first ballot waa taken this belief waa par
tially confirmed, for ha waa among the three
who did not vote for convlctlon.Theeecond bal
lot wu taken after wme discussion, which re-
railed in bringing Barnett over for conviction
end ten totwoforconvletion wuannounoed u
the vote. Succeeding ballots np to the time
for adjournment were identical with the latter
with no prospects for e change. There ere
two Knlghta of Labor on tho jnry and the
fact that McDonald, of the prosecution, figured
prominently In the wire tapping scheme at
the time of the Bontbweat railroad atrlks, in.
Oneness many to think there two Knights
were there by prejudice end will hold out
aaalcatlhe ten stubborn mem and thus give
the prisoner a new trial. The Jury in the
Maxwell mnrder cue htv* returned e verdict
of murder la the fl.-st degree.
A QUEER LUNATIC.
finxn/Att, Texu, June 3.—A sad care of
mental derengement hu bun under Investigation
. ‘ - - ‘ -. For
with
heavy ltd locks dangling down over bia shoulders,
bu been wandering eroand the town of PotUboro,
tan miles northwest oTthlscIty. He hu nudes
practic* of appearing at doors without tha
least warning, and inquiring for matches, and to
ooe or two instances bu stepped in thereardoo
and stole quite! lot of ths shoved named article,
lie presence became a source of much annoyanoa
and Constable Inarahttn
and tbta moral oibrooftit
him to BhennAn for a hearing before a jury of io*
qafry.^nnitJauirerR put to (he man tr bo ans acred
_ •- “ “ ij
Wily came la Bill
M have a brother an
< on's own an^H
don’t know \M. .
mother but don’ll
» r,f." In imv#l
Davla, and I from tha Nation
had*
In answer to a
ever raid be wu Chita, he replied: "No, l i
not Christ; I’m Just an lejen Hsptist-that's all.'
In regard to what canted him to be sick and wan
der around, he said: “goat time In tha
tamer season a mad dog bit tu
i tha toft leg. 1 had one tit and that
„ all I remember. I bad a mad stone which I
found In the ground, hot I buried It again In the
piece where I found le I know Christ end hie
blether. They both live In Use Indira territory.
Oneof'Ubeu Is turned Jens end ont U Hill. The
MbtotaUeab
SSr.
New Yoek, May 31.—Deooratlon day cere
monies which were began yesterday In Brook
lyn. were continued today upon a aerie which
exceeded that of any aver held before. Tho
Twenty-Third regiment N. O.8., Now York,
bed the honor of eocortlog tho president and
hie party from tho lorry to tho foot of Broad
way, tho eu lorn district of Brooklyn to the
residence of Jouph Knapp. The otreeta
along tho line of march were thronged with
spectators anxious to goto look at tho preil
dent. A shower which had been threatening
neuly all ths morning came very inoppor
tunely end caused a thinning in the ranks of
spectators, hut the crush wu ao gnat that It
required tha urvlcea of* latgo forceof police
to clear o eufllclent spaco for tLo procession on
the street.
General 1.8. Catlin and hie staff reooivod
tho president and hie party at Knapp’s, and
after greetings they repaired to tho review
ing stand. Tho line then formed and
PASSED TnE XXVUWING STAND,
ed which wu the president, and thence
through tha prinoipol streets to tha point
where It wu dismissed. The grand army
poata then wended thalr way to the various
cemeteries, where appropriate ceremonies wan
held and the graves of ooldlen wore decorated.
Ail stores on the principal streets were closed,
aa ware alto courts and'public offices. The
large reviewing stand at Clinton and J-afay-
etta avenues, crowded with people, broke
down and four persons were bruised, but no
to wu killed.
In toil city the sky had a threatening ap
pearance, end this morning there wu a sharp
rainfall. Tho day wu dark and gloomy. Ail
buslneu wu responded, tho bonks, excnsngu
and courts being closed. The probation wu
ono of most imposing and
EXIT DISCIPLINED PUBLIC PAGEANT)
aver aeon in thlacity. Two brlgaduof Nation
al Gnard, which acted as escort to tha grand
army column, were warmly applauded for
their lino appearanro and excellent marching.
Ing to the resignation of General 8halor,
Igadlcr-asneral Ward, of the first brigade,
acted u major-general of tha dlviaion, and
Colonel So ward, of tho Ninth regiment, as
senior colonel, tuumed command
of the first brigado. The chnreh
lulls rang out an opening erinta to
day and flags were displayed at half mut on
all pnblic nnd many private bu tiding* Noe
many flags were seen on tho Fifth or I
avenues. A!war worn half “
from a window of tho Vai
Tbo leading hotels displayed their flags.
Ti no;*! woro to awteniblo on West Fifth stroot
anil contlgnout streets, at H a. m. iieglaionta
to panilo in full dress uniform, light inarch
ing order end to form in clue column of com
panies to right in frank the head of the
eolnmn retting on Fifth evenne. Boll ceil
rounded In the Seventh regiment ermonr
at 8 e. m. Twenty mlnatee later, tho regi
ment marched out, paaaing through East
Sixth street by the residence whero, only *
year ego. General Grant rolled up tho ohade at
bla window, and with hte skull cap drown
tightly over hie bead,had rooeivsd a marching
salute. Tbs windows ware filled today with
a throng of curly buded children, and tha
general lest real.
A published pamphlet of directions to mom-
lore of the grand army, lined by ths grand
manhri and Comrade G. H. Lutxons, ordered
l ho different posts to bo In position In 48th,
tilth, 50th and filat atreets, ready to march, at
8:45 a. m. It wu after nine before General
Ward goto
the onorn to maxch.
Then the Ninth regiment whoeled Into Fifth
CommiMloner Voorhees tnd General HtcKt-
hon that the fktigue would be too much, as ths
president had done early morning
duly in Brooklyn and would bare to boprea-
out in tbo evening at the academy of music.
Bo it wu agreed that at tha conclusion or th*
review the president should bo driven to Bee-
rotary Whitney’s house under the escort of
tha Old Guard and thuo cnoblo him to eocure
rest and recuperate for tha ovenlng event.
Tbte programme wu carried ont.
The Wuhlngton, Lincoln and Lafayette
monuments an Union square were elaborately
decorated with flower* At Washington
aqnoto tbo procession disbonded and tbo differ
ent puts marched to tho virions cemeteries
and decorated the graven of the toIdler dead.
Two o’clock wu tho time fixed for ths cele
bration at Genenl Grant's tomb. It wu
nearly two hours later when Boscoo Coukllng
rose from hia seaton ths speaker's platform,
whero be bad been chatting pleauntly with
this grave under tho bill with silent plnu its
Mecca on decoration day for all time. Floral
tributes from evecy state, from Mexico, New
Brunswick and Bctmuda, ware not tha
only evidence of this. With ths
morning tbn human tide had bagun to ut to
wards Riverside park and it never ebbed tut
the evening shades had almost that the seens
from the sight of the smarming multitude*.
Stragglers bung about tho outskirts of tho'
perk long after tho armed sentinels, that nsco
up and down before tho closed iron door of tha
tomb, bod commenced their night vigil.
At tbit timo the tomb wss enclosed
with sheets of canvss so as to shut out from
view the tomb and its docomtions. The west
end of the grand stand had hosn rcsorvod far
members of tha Grant family and thsir
friends. The familiar face of Colonel Fred
Grant, bis wife and two Uttto children, Julia
and If. 8. Grant, Jr.; Jesse Grant and wife
with their tittle daughter, Kellie; U. H. Grant
and wife End child and Mrs. Judge Dent.
Ml of the Grant family were dressed in
cep black. Bested with them wore Mrs. H.
H. Honore, W. C. Andrews and wife, Mrs.
General Logan, General Itufos Ingalls, Dr. and
Misa Logan, of Illinois; Mrs. Governor Alger,
of Michigan; U. S. Grant, son of Orville Grant;
Guicial Jamca B. Friable, of California, and
Dr. Bhrad.r.
It wa*3 o’clock when the masts of ths
Tennessee, Yanllc, Brooklyn and Bwatura
earns into viow. Half an hour later
minute guns amiourcd the approach of tha
marching column. Tha veterans were soon
rested around the front of tho platform, with
tha Ampblcn tinging society In tho frontscsts.
Baltic Hags .were grouped about the tomb.
Four stalwart men in gray uniforms were
Captain Arthur A. Spet/or, George C. Montes*-
tic, Captain T. J. llewlcs and Colonel
John Murphy, . of ths Robert
E. Leo enrap, of Richmond, Va. With them
wu 8tato Benator Lcouatein of Virginia. Gen
eral Itodnoy C. Ward, with a hundred mout
hers of the Loyal legion nt at the right end
of tbo platform. It wu four o’clock when
Major Corwin, chairman of the committee,
opined tbo exorcises by directing tho Arbuckia
hand to play Chopin's Funeral March. Com
mander J. I’, nowatt, of tho U. H.
Grant post, rend from tho ritual of tho
Grand Army of tho Republic. Tho Ampklon
society of mils voices then sang, “Nearer My
God to Thee.” Bev.Dr.II.88tarrs then offered
jiraytr. Tho ritual of Grand Army of ths
e wu then read with
rusoniM by ths
B.Gnllllon lead-
sor hotel a daisy occurred. Tho chleA ware
io the hotel alacuislng the nows tbit Gov
ernor Hill had, nt the lut moment, dncllnnd
to participate In the review on tha ground
of unavoidable engagement. Grand Marshal
Lutxana, Chief of Htaff, D. - G.
Mallin, and Aaaislant Adjutant General
Tumble were in • quandary. General Phil
Sheridan wu in tha hotel, bnt, of coarse,
could not review the nroctulon. It wu not
known when the pruldent would arrive. At
the and of an hoar, intelligence wu received
that tha president wu approaohing from the
foot of West Twenty-third strut on hia way
from reviewing the Brooklyn parade. The
Old Gnard wu unt under command of
M«Jor George W. McLean, to receive him. Tha
proccmlon started, conveying with it General
I'hll Sheridan, who wu loudly cheered u ha
left tha hotel. Tha lino of march wu throngh
Fifth avenne to Forty-aacond strut, to Madi
son, to Thirty-sixth street, to Fifth avenue.
On Mad Ron avenna
THU FBESIDBNT, ESCOgTKD BY THE OLD GUARD,
wu placed on tha right of tha lino. Tha re
viewing stand wu reached at 11 a. m. Than
the mareh put began. I-ong before the hoar
fixed for the moving of the coltunn, every
point of vantage about Mad toon square bad its
occupant Every window in Fifth Arenas
hotel, the Hoffman houu and the Alhemarlo
hotel wu filled with fair ladles and thalr
esrortr. Iferlor35, on tha ueond floor of the
Fifth Arenas hotel, wu oocapled by Mrs.
Vilae and bar party of lady friends, among
whom were Mrs. and Mlu Folsom. Mlu
Foltom wu on tbn grand atand near
tha spot aulgned for tbs preridont
At precisely 11 o'clock, Captain
Mount, with his platoon of mounted
toilet, pseud the stand. Next cam* tho Old
loud and tbn veterans of Kimball put, G.
A. K., who acted u the president’s special
body guard. They deployed in Una near the '
ravUwing atand, u Postmaster General Vilu
and General McMahon ucendod tho review
ing stand from * carriage. Mayor Grace and
Pnaldant Mooney, of the board of alderman,
bad already arrived and aaalatod Police Com-
miisionor Voorhees in showing Mr. Cleveland
to tea plans of honor rusrred for him. From
tba next carriage cams General Bbaridan, Col
onel W. H. Bbaridan and Colonel Blount; then
General Schelald and General Whipple, Ad
miral Joutt and bla staff.
At tha toft of the pruldent stood Mayor
Gracm than Llltlo Phil and next to him Gan
ns] Mooney. Tba first regiment of military
recert to pan was tha 11th aod as tha color*
wore lowered in arista, tba pnaldant doffed
his bat, Gilmore’s band cam* next. Its ono
hundred ptocu playing
MEXDKLawBJl's WEDDIEG MAXCH.
Tba vociferous ebaan of tba mnltitad* add-
ad to tba compliment. Gilmore himself plxjr-
1 th* first cornet. The cbeere continued an-
I tba ■trains of the band became loot.
Daring abait in the parade, tha pruldent
wu asked if ho thought he wu equal to tba
fatigue of balag present at tha carementuat
«-»■’* Mr. Ctoreland re-
Amphlon society. Ot aplrin K. 1
Ing by reading "What Minis haThat Llrcth,”
etc. Tho Amphiona than ung, “Yo Horooe
Who Mortal Lire," whan General Logan wax
introduced by Major Corwin.
General Logan, who wu frequently jap-
’ ' ipled on* hoar In hia oration. All
ilnnlngnne ware fired from tha
pleaded, occupied
of ths time inlnnl
war ships anchored under tbs blnff, and at tho
conclusion of the asrvicu n battalion of
marinu And a volley over tho tomb and thou
lha war ablps fired a nluta Bishop Harris
then pronounced the benediction nnd the nn-
tlrs ettemblago ung "America."
Thonumaioca floral offerings woro tute-
folly arranged about and upon tho tomb.
toh bad dec.
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splcuous behind the tomb. Comrade J. H.
Lyon, who accompanied the car from Baa
Frsnctrco, spoke very enthniUstlcrily about
th* conttaelu extended all along the Una
from Ben Francisco to Riverside. A largo
buket decorated with a Bag, which wu need
to cover tha Bible at General Grant’* funeral,
wu unt to Grant poet by ltov. Dr. Nawman,
containing buttonriree mods of lesrtl
plucked from tbn (rare of Martin Lather.
Th* mut notable group upon the platform
wu compued of General Phil Hherldan, Gen
eral Bcbofiald and Genital Denial E. Blcktoa,
who occupied a latte* Jolt behind the orator,
and Immediately behind thorn ut Engineer
Melville, of Arctic fame.
ATTUE ACADEMY OP MUIIO.
Mlu Folsom toft tbs Glluy house this
evening it 8:30 nnd attended tha memorial
exercises at tba Academy of Music, In comp*-
* On tha
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orrises at tba Academy of Mm
r with Secretary Whitney’s .
sge at tha academy were seated President
Clsrsland. Becretartos Whitney, Kndlcott, La
mar and Vila*. General Login and others.
Mayor Grace Introduced ths orator of ths
avaning, General Vllan, who paid a glowing
tribatatothe dead-heroes of the war. Ha
dwelt at length upon ths three general* who
have died tinea tba lut memorial day—Grant,
McClellan and Hancock.
Pruldent Clsreland’s appearanco wae
rooted with load appluae. I’.ayor was uld
j Vary Bav. Monalinro Thoms* C. Preston.
Jim Annie Montagus ung “Colnmbls, ths
Gam of th* Ocean,” u a nolo. Mlu Georgia
Cay van recited "Tba Revolutionary Uprising.”
General Login entered tote In tho evening
and wu roundly cheered.
General Grant’s toomb.
plied
I am bar* to do what tha people of New
York want mate do, and I shall not grumble
st any arrangements you make; but remember
* bare along night before me.
It wu finally arranged between Police
From lb* Senol*, at,, Sentinel.
Last Saturday, the people of WarnervlD*
ill riwether county, witnessed a contest be
tween a king make and an adder, about equal
in aise, not vary large. They were discover
ed on the plan at Mr. McKnight’a. Ths
king make wu wrapped around the adder,
tied In hard knola, with tbo elds of the ad
der’s month In his. Both tnaku ware oblivi
ons to all notice taken of them. They were
carried on etteke a hundred yards to the store
of MtQaheadt Jones. After a struggle of six
or eight hour*, the king snake looted Me hold
and the adder, much exhausted, made an ef
fort to get away, but bla enemy renewed the
attack and (wrifowed him. This wu wltneii-
ed by quite a number of persona who ware
muck interested and took particular notice of
the tattle between the snakee.
Murdered for Malice or Money.
ST. LouraJnn* a—Reports from Bbelbina,
Mo., uy Judge Jouph Hnnoit. the wealthlM
firmer end etaek rawer In Bbolby county. Mo„
wu murdered on tbo highway near his homo
at Hogar’e grove. lata Friday night l.it. HU
body wu found in the brash near tho ro*.l,
with two great gashes In M* throat and three
pistol shot wound* la hi* Ihouhler and side.
Tba perpetrator of tbe deed to unknown, but
■nspiclon rests upon * certain person, tnd sc
lut accounts ths sheriff bad gone to the seen*.
Opinion Is divided u to whether tho murder
wu commuted for malice or money.