Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — Page 2

GATHER THE FLOWERS,

AND SCATTER THEM UFON THE GRAVES OF OUR DEAD HEROES. Memorial Day and Its Significance—An Annual Event Hallowed by Sacred Memories—The Tendency of the Custom Is in the Line of Peace and National Brotherhood.

Scatter the Flowers. X CATTER the flowers, my child, to-day; n Scatter the flowers where the soldiers lie; the flowers on blue and . gray; , I Scatter the flowers. the graves of the heroes Z who fell When the tide of the Irattle was hot and high, V And the breath of the cannon / like blasts from hell, Scatter the flowers. What matters it now what colors they wore ? They shall meet their Judge in tr the court on high— V Pity the pain and the grief they ' bore— Scatter the flowers.

Thank God that you know not the terrible strife We knew in those awful years gone by; Thank God for the boon of a peaceful life. Scatter the flowers. Scatter the flowers. 0. why should we Cherish the hate of the years gone by 1 Over the grave of their enmity Scatter the flowers. Scatter the flowers, my child, to-day; Scatter the flowers where the soldiers lie; Scatter the flowers on blue and gray; Scatter the flowers. R. E. Pbetlow. Memorial Day.

Glorious years, whose splendor brightens the kaleidoscope of time! Still their specter hands have swayed us, reaching upward from the grave, And they still shall guide the na.ion which they gave their lives to save, For they did the deeds of Titans, and from shining sea to sea Left our starry banner floating o'er a land redeemed and free; And where’er their bones are resting, tho’ their name no mortal knows, Liberty a shrine is keeping where the fire of freedom glows. But, alas 1 tho mounds prow thicker with each swift returning year, And they sleep who srood beside us when the last sweet May was here. Soldiers of the great Grand Army! You who once stood side by side With the comrades who are sleeping 'ncaih tho flag for which they died, You who marched through hailing bullets and stood face to face with death, Yet escaped from his embraces, though you felt his flery breath, By the love you boro the comrade who fell by your side that day, Who had shared with you the marches and the foray or the fray, Guard the memory of the fallen—keep it free from every stain, Let no envious tongue defame them, and no < traitorous heart arraign ; Yours the triumph and rejoicing, and the victor’s crown of bay, Theirs the suffering and the silence, and the low-arched roof of clay ; Yours the joys of use and labor, but beneath your marching feet Lie their manhood's pride and valor, and their hopes as fair and sweet; Hearts that beat with love and daring, hands that held a sacred trust And fulfilled it nobly, grandly, now are only heaps of dust. Since you marched with them to battle, shared their danger and their pain, You are heirs of all their glory—let them not have died in vain ! Soldiers of the Silent Army I You whose halftold days shall shine On the calendar of ages with a radiance divine; You whose memory is the anchor of our country’s storm-tossed bark, Binding her to truth and freedom when the skies are veiled and dark ; i You whose sightless eyes behold us, and whose shadowy forms are near, Bouse your spirits from their slumbers and our heartfelt pledges hear 1 By the sky which arches o’er you, bright with summer’s loveliest blue, By the garlands that we bring you, smiling through their tears of dew, By each fond remembrance clinging to the earthly forms you wore. By each heart that broke with anguish when you fell to rise no more. By each hope that faded with you from love’s shining morning sky, By each life whose joy departed when you laid you down to die, By the banner that you gave us, free from every spot and st um, Never, while the crimson life-blood courses swiftly through each tein, Shall the land which you enfranchised bear a tyrant or a slave— While its soil supports a footstep or its depths afford a grave!

A National Yearly Pilgrimage. */ECOBATION Day! The inspiration

J -f the occa don .is" the inspiration of ffl 1-,—ors and peace aiid beauty. At a time when the lyjfewgfr- glory of the land is lnot " dominant, clad ' u vor< l ure > ail d decoated with blooming oses, every ila; that flutters above a halw lowed grave mingles

its colors with those of buds and blossoms, and is a monument of God’s past goodness and a prophecy of His conlinued mercy. ' On the twenty-first Decoration Day of history the roll of tho famous deal includes Thomas, Garfield, Hancock, Grant, Logan, and Sheridan. But one of the grea. 1 aders, Sherman, survives, and, however sadly his thoughts may go back over the fields that trembled with the tread of marching; millions, the glory and pride of peace accomplished must thrill his heart, coming from every hamlet and city. North or South, East or West, where blue and gray cross hands over the last battle-field—the grave. The occasion of a great national centennial has prepared the public to commemorate this year’s Decoration Day in a more marked aud in-telligent-manner than ever before. The two occasions are rife with historic and pathetic reminiscence, and the 30th of April’and the 30th of May, 1883, will be long-remembered days in the memory of those who may live to see the last of the veterans of the great war follow their leaders to the silent camping-ground. The spirit and genius of the commemoration that Logan set apart as a rational annual event become more vivid and sentient to arouse and thrill, as the slower step, the whit ?r head, the rarer presence of those who followed the flag to victory tell that soon they, too, will slumber .nder garlands of tear-jeweled flowers. * Decoration Day has become a national yearly

. NCE again the changd irg seasons bring the I nation's sacred day, II When our gifts of tears u and garlands on our ’ heroes’ graves we jay ; Field and garden yield their treasure.masses fair of beauteous bloom, Each a message of remembrance bearing to the lowly tomb. Emblems are they of the fallen, whom the springing grasses hide. Of their hopes, so fair and flowing, stricken in then- noon-day pride; Long Lneir sleep and deep their slumber through the years of manhood’s prime—

Ninette M. Lowateb.

pilgrimage, but, unlike that of the devotee of Mahomet, or the knight of the cross, the journey is a peaceful one, and lies through a beautiful land. No blood-stained ruins border it—no weapons and armor bedeck the traveler, and there are no footsore penitents or jad 'd kuigh'S at arms among the throng. This pilgrimage is not one of strife or fanaticism, but oi love and peaoe, while at its end stands the immortal shrine of liberty. Every succeeding Decoration Day has evidenced the fact that the survivors'of the war have not considered their work at an end, with

the termination of hostilities. They were enlisted for life, and action and progress have marked their purposes, whenever a worthy companion in arms was in sickness or distress, and sweet charity has shone forth as a lustrous beacon-light of beneficence. Those angels of mercy, too, the ladies of the Relief Corps, who tenderly bound up the wounds of a bleeding brave without caring for the color of his jacket, because he was “somebody s son," are to-day teaching lessons of beauty and love that ennoble the rising generation, who perpetuate the valor of their predecessors as sons of veterans.

The nineternth century, so nearly at its end, will go into history menioiable for great deeds of war and peace alike—with the ba.’le of Waterloo and that of Gettysburg chronicled in

the same volume with the development of electricity and steam ; for these are the military and civil revolutions which have changed the world. And yet, amid all this century of mighty deeds, the American conflict stands pre-eminent for its influence ou mankind. It was not a war for boundary or power, to establish the authority of a king, to set up a new government; it was to establish a principle, to fix a doctrine of the people, to strengthen the old regime, and the strife that raged from Sumter to Appomattox was a holy cause, sacred to liberty, and consecrated to freedom by the ceremonies of Decoration Day. The plowshare now fills the rule of cannon wheels, and fields of carnage have become fields of harvest. The tendency of dhe custom of Decora.ion Day is wholly in the line of peace and national brotherhood. The people of the country are fraternized. The originator of the ceremony of Decoration Da v v as a Confederate, it is said, and this fact should promote national unity and goodfeeling, in the yearly pilgrimage of the blue and gray to the shrine of those who were once deadly enemies. “Peace hath its victories no less renowned than war,” and the three million colonists of the Devolution, merged into the sixty millions of to-day, see new stars added to the glorious banner that waves under the magnolia and the rugged pine alike. While Bussia expends $150,000,000 annually on war and $10,003,030 on education, America, with nearly an equal population, devotes $45,000,000 to the support of the military and to instruct the ignorant. Its 54,000 ante- war churches have grown to 72,000, its $3,000,000,000 war debt shrunk to nearly half, and the mighty pathway of steel that scales the Bockies and intersects South, North and East, tells of the progress that has replaced the bullet with the ballot, and made bf friend and foe a vast army of peace, with hatred and bloodshed unknown—merged under the lilies, the roses, the magnolias, the tears, the hopes, the tender holiness of a great national Decoration Day. Weldon J. Cobb. Vicksburg, Miss. “On Fame’s eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with jealous round The bivouac of the dead.”

stacked their arms and surrendered to the final conqueror. One of the principal features of Vicksburg is this vast cemetery. The rough and nigged hiHs which form a part of the Father cf Waters have been fashioned into a place of profound beauty and impressiveness. FCrty-seven acres are inclosed, in the improvement of which the Government has expended more than $583,0)0. Ten men, under charge of a Superintendent—a private soldier from Ohio—are constantly employed in keeping the grounds in order. On the most elevated point, stands the monument, or what is left of it, originally erected on the spot where Grant and Pemberton arranged for the surrender after the long and terrible siege. Kflic-hunters had so defaced it by chipping off pieces that to save it from Utter destruction it was removed to the cemetery and a cannon substituted. Below sweeps the majestic river, but since the siege it avoids the town and strikes the bluff a mile or so below the old landing. The former bed of the river is now a lake, and, where the great gunboats lay and belched fire and destruction into the devoted city is now a bank of sa.nu covered with a growth of

IN MEMORY OF OUR HONORED DEAD."

HIS vorse, from a Confedera'e officer's )x>em, , is cast in bronze and set up with other lines of similar sentiment in eighty-cne national cemeteries, where sleep 1 those who died that “unSr God, government of e people, by the peopl°, and for the people might not perish from the earth.” The largest cemetery maintained by the Government is here, at the chief city of the Bayoh State. There are 16,606 headstones in this great assembly of the dead—soldiers that have

coat 43 grasses and underbrush. All around the city are signs of combat. “fcuch war. such waste, such fiery tracks of deartn.” Nature, however, is busy repairing Abe ravages of man. With the magic use of sunshine and rain she is smoothing the cartnworks and filling up the rifle pits. In this Vicksburg ciiy of silence, with more inhabitants than In the living city, there are twelve thousand seven hundred and ten graves marked with headstones which bear numbers only, the occupants being unknown. The bones of these unidentific 1 slwpers were ga.h-red from battlefields, near a id remote, and brought in by contras!. A price was given for each, and negroes scoured rhe cjun ry for skeletons. It is claimed that old negro graveyards were robbed and their contents brought to this place of beauty, and laid side by side with the bravo boys of the uortbland who died In the bea; a id dust, in the cold and rain, with wounds and with fever, and so far away from home. Pease and pily for the soldier ; but wLot of the mercenary who for his pieces of silver praslieed such a wicked imposition? Of the stones standing a i the head of each grave, only three thousand eight hundred and ninety-six contain inscriptions, which include name, company and regiment, and in case of officers the rank. The headsiones here, and in most of the cemeteries, were furnished by a Keokuk (Iowa) firm, the inscriptions being made by the sand-blast process. At Chalmette Cemetery, just below New Orleans, there are 12,251 graves, with 5,674 unknown occupants. The hospitals contributed a full share to the known dead of Chalmette. This cemetery covers fifteen and a half acres, and is a -part of the site of the battle-field on which Jackson repulsed Pakenham's men and saved New Orleans during the war of 1812-14, which event is duly commemorated on the Bth of January every year by the people of the Crescent City. The cemetery wall crosses the line of earthworks thrown "up by the Americans, and on which the cotton bales were placed to give additional protection from the bullets of the invaders. The location is greatly unlike that at Vicksburg. Here the ground is as level as a floor, with the surface of the river above, the water kept from submerging it and the surrounding country and city only by a mere wall of earth; there the white headstones are scattered over hills high above the swelling floods ; here the eye sweeps up and down long rows, twentyfour in number, each a half mile in length, in all twelve miles of graves ; in both shell roads and walks, and flower beds and evergreens artistically arranged. The roses and trees are fragrant and the heavy foliage droops as if in everlasting sorrow ; the thick-leaved ambrosial live oaks, the heavy trailing creepers of the vines, the magnolias and myrtles, the light su aying banners of the moss, all bending low as if in funeral mourning. Near by the Chalmette cemetery is the tall shaft built in' 1835 by Congress in honor of Jackson’s victory. It shows the effects of time, the brick foundation is mol-

dering away, the interior stairway broken and' dangerous under foot, and a yea- or two ago the top of the marble pile was knocked off by lightning. The neglected monument stands ill a rice field, inaccessible during the growing season, owing to the water, and from sight seekers mutely “Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.” The total number of interments in the various national cemeteries reaches the great figures of 308,331, of which there are 152,217 known whites and 119,593 unknown; colored known, 13,005; and 20,505 unknown; and Confederate prisoners, 21.661. Seventy-eight of the eightyone national cemeteries are under charge of superintendents. A list of these cemeteries, with the number of interments, may be of interest. It is alphabetically as follows: Alexandria, La... 1,280 Fredricksburg, Va. 6,603 Alexandria, Va... 3,444 Gettysburg, Pa.... 3,575 Andersonville,Ga.l3,7l7 Glendale, Va 636 Annapolis, Md.... 3,474 Gra’ion, W. Va.... 1,226 Antietam, Md.... 4,670 Hampton, Va 4,184 Arlington, Va 16,260 Keokuk. la 590 Ball’s Bluff, Va... 250 Knoxville, Tenn.. 3,061 Barrancas, F1a.... 955 Laurel. Md 238 Baton Bouge, La.. 2,922 Lebanon, Ky 847 Beaufort, S. C. ... 8,219 Logan’s X Bds,Ky 694 Beverly, N. J 145 Loudon Park,Md.. 1,636 Brownsville, Tex.. 2,967 Marietta, Ga 10,052 Springfield, 111.... 687|Memphis, Tenn.. .13,838 Nicholasville, Ky. 3,526iM0bi1e, Ala 810 Louisville, Ky.... 3,774|Mound City, 111... 5,090 Chalmette, La... .12,521jNashville, Tenn. .16,538 Chattanoogal2,94B Natchez, Miss 3,062 City Point, Va.... 3,828 New Albany, Ind. 2,758 Cold Harbor, Va.. 1,941 Newbern, N. C.... 2,318 Corinth, Miss 5,670 Philadelphia, Pa.. 1,819 Indianapolis, Ind. 708 Poplar Grove, Va. 5,525 Culpeper, Val,34B'PortHudson,Miss. 3,804 Custer’s battle (Raleigh, N. C.... .. 1,159 field, M. T 259 Richmond, Va 4.835 Cypress Hill, N.Y. 3,115 Rock Island, 111... 289 City of Mexico.... l,oo4|Salisbury, N. C... 12,123 Danville, Va 1,293 Shiloh, Tenn 3,593 Danville, Ky 359 San Antonio, Tex. 483 Elmira, N.Y 3,995.5 even Pines, Va.. 789 Finn’s Point, N. J. 2,779 Soldiers’ Home, O. 5,238 Florence, S. C 2,958 Springfield, M 0.... 1,518 FortDonelson.... 639 Staunton,Va 637 Fort Gibson, I. T. 2,152 Stone River, Tenn. 6,063 Fort Harrison,Va. 256 St. Louis, Mo 640 Fort Leavenworth 1,108 Vicksburg, Miss.. .16,606 Fort McPherson.. 443 Whitehall, Pa 60 Fayetteville, Ark. 1,210 Wilmington, N. C. 10,605 Foit Scott, Kan... 409 Winchester, Va... 4,035 Fort Smith, Ark.. 1,604 Yorktown, Va 1,566 Virginia has the largest number of cemeteries —fourteen. Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi, in their order, were the battle states of

“PEACE HATH ITS VICTORIES."

the late great struggle. The dead of the civil w ar are not all gathered in national cemeteries—none but those of the victors. There are many other graves in the South which enfold soldiers as valorous as those from the North. “Sad chance of War I ’ Now, destitute of aid, / Falls undistinguished by the victor's spade." No stone or epitaph marks their last resting place. They, too, bore themselves with undaunted courage, nerved to heroic endurance, and following the right as God gave them to see the right. No people ever suffered a greater penalty far drawing the sward, They were

loyal and devoted to their cause, and the spot* of earth—home—they di'd battling for, ana the soil that drank up their blood, is where they rest. “Scatter bright roses o’er the grave Of every soldier, proud and bravo,

GRANT MONUMENT, NEAR NEW YORK.

Who died in gray or blue; Who fell beneath the stripes and stars, Or died where waved Confederate bars, To flag and country true. On either side of freedom’s line Bring brightest flowers to deck each shrine. We ask not now what flag they bore — Scan not the uniform they wore On each supreme occasion. We know they bravely fought and fell To crush, -withstand, resist or quell Rebellion or invasion, And threw their lives into the fray In frock of blue or blouse of gray.” Nature decorates the graves of the undiscovered dead, scattering wild flowers with gentle hand alike upon the resting places of both the victors and ihe vanquished. In 1867 the women of Columbus, Miss., inaugurated the custom of decorating the graves of their own as well as those of the Northern soldier dead, an event which called forth ths I>oem of “The Blue and the Gray.” “Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done; In the storm of years that ar? I’ading No braver battle vai won. Under the sod and ths dew, Wai ing the judgmer“ dav; Under the blossom*, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray. “No more shall ihe war cry 7 sever, Or ihe winding rivers be red: They banish our a iger forever, When they laurel the .grave.-, o’ our dead. Under the s<xl and the <lew, Waiting 1 ho jud'.Tnent day. Love and tears tor the Biu , Tears and love for the Gray.” Time has obliterated many of the scars of v ar —the lines of bat tie are coveied wi h grass and flowers, splintered tree trunks are wrapped with vines, and many a terribly contested field differs little if any from its surroundings. Let theg°ntle work oi healing the r nts and wounds of tho great rebellion go speedily on, and all the peo. pie learn that “Peaoe hath her victories, No less renowned than war.” Moses Folsom.

Origin of Decoration Day.

ticular day, but there was no wide extended agreement. In time, partly through the influence of the leading members of the Christian Commission, which had done so much for soldiers during the war, partly through the influence of the pulpit and press, and finally through the systematic efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic and various veteran soldier associations, many State Legislatures wci’e induced to make a given day a legal holiday for this purpose, and the President and Governors were led to unite in recommending the observance of the same day, now krown as Decoration Day, in nearly every State in the Union.

Coal and Sponge Gathering.

The gathering of coral and sponges is an important industry on the Florida reefs. Both are frequently found in the same locality. The sponges are found wherever the bottom is rocky, generally from ten to thirty feet beneath the surface. Two or three dozen schooners are now engaged in the work of gathering the sponges, each schooner carrying two small boats, manned by a crew of two. When the reef is reached the small boats put off, and while one sculls the other keeps an eye out for sponges. A simple contrivance enables the watchmen to see sponges on the reef twenty feet or more under the water. On the side of the small boat a long barrel sort of arrangement is built, the lower end of which is under the water and closed up by a glass head. By placing his head in this barrel the watchman can see through the clear water to the bottom of the sea with remarkable distinctness. When a good sponge is detected it is brought up with & iron hook on a long pole. A man in Portland, Me., makes his living by selling hats. He walks about with three or four hats, one above the other, on his held, and his whole body bulging with hats. Another man in the same city is a walking rubber-store. He carries his whole stock • with him, and does a thriving business whenever a threatening cloud hovers over the city.

xHE practice of set/ting aside a day to visit the graves of their fallen soldiers, recall the memory of tboir noble deeds, and sti ew their tombs with flowers, took Its rise early in the late war; first in particular places, here a city, there a village, or, it might be, a county. In some places it was on one day, in others on 7 another day. After a time the practice became more general. In some cases Governor s recommended the observance of a p-tr-

MATRIMONIAL SURPRISE

MRS. FOLSOM MARRIED TO A BUFFALO MAN. Mrs. Cleveland’s Mother a Bride—The ExFresident’s Wife Attends the Ceremony at Jackson, Mich.—A Buffale Merchant the Happy Groom. [Jackson (Mich.) telegram.} Mrs. Oscar Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, was married here to Henry E. Perrine, of Buffalo. N. Y. Mrs. Folsom has been living in Jackson for some time, coming here shortly after Mr. Cleveland retired from the White House. Mr. Perrine had been a widower for two years.

mrs. folsom-perrine. overskirt, a brown sun hat surmounted by a wreath of flowers. Mrs. Cleveland kissed her aunt. Mrs. J. W. Cadman, and smiled her sweetest as she stepped into the station. She was at once taken in a carriage with her aunt and driven to Mrs. Cadman’s residence. H. E. Perrine, the bridegroom, accompanied Mrs. Cleveland. as did Mr. Perrine’s son-ia-law, Rev. B. Rich, the later’s wife and two sons, George 8., Jr., and H. P. Rich. Mr. Cadman, uncle of Mrs. Cleveland, i& a train dispatcher in this city, and about three years ago married Mrs. Huddeston, who was a widow and sister of Mrs. Folsom and; aunt of Mrs. Cleveland. The ceremony took place at 9:20 o'clock in the evening. Bt. Rev. George D. Gillespie, of the Western Diocese of Michigan, assisted by Rev. R. B. Balcomb, of this city, officiating. The groom wore the regulation suit of black evening dress. Mrs. Folsom wore a gray traveling dress and had her hair, which is silvery, fancifully propped at the front. Colonel Harman, uncle of Mrs. Cleveland and brother of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. Cadman, brotber-in-law and sister of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. George B. Rich, son-in-law and daughter of the groom, and the children of the different families were present. The marriage service was that of the Episcopal Church, and was short. After the ceremony there was no reception, only a general hand-shaking aud a kissing of the bride by Mrs, Cleveland and the ladies of the household. At 10:50 o’clock the newly married pair took the west bound night express over the Michigan Central, but they declined to say where the bridal trip would end, as they did not wish to be annoyed. While the ceremony was being performed hundreds of the residents about the Cadman House filled the streets and the yard, wishing to secure a look at Mrs. Cleveland. The latter at the ceremony wore a white silk with black star and a beautiful bouquet of red roses at her throat. Her hair was done ala pompadour at the front, with a knot at the back. She was all smiles and graciousness, had a good word for all, and the ladies fell in love with her at sight, while tjie gentlemen lost their breath when she addressed them. The wedding was a jolly one. The room where the ceremony took place was beautifully deeorated with flowers. Henry E. Perrine, the groom in tho Per-rine-FoNom nuptials, is a prominent citizen of Buffa'o and is over sixty-two years of ace. His family are distantly related to the Folsoms, and the two families have been intimately associated socially for many years. Mr. Perrine lives at 39 North Pearl street in a substantial brick dwelling, where he and his bride will be at home after a short wedding tour. Mr. Perrine has been a widower for several years, and has three children. The eldest is the wile of G. Barrett Rich, of the Bank of Attica. Carlton R. Perrine aud Harrv H. Perrine are the sons. The marjiage was kept quiet, one of the sons said, because Mrs. Folsom disliked newspaper notoriety. Mr. Perrine is awellmade man of medium height, dark complexion. with a full beard. He is a scientific student. a good writer, and has led an eventful life. His ancestors we:e Huguenots in France and settled in 1665 on Staten Island, N. Y. Puritan blood mingled with the French. His father. Dr. Henry Perrine, married Miss Annie F. Townsend in 1822, the present bridegroom being born in Sodus. N. Y.. on March 20. 1827. After trying to find gold in California in 1849. he became a clerk in a grocery and afterward started for himself. Mr. Perrine returned to New York, and married Miss Cornelia S. Hall. Their bridal t ip was back to California. which Mr. Perrine quit in 1857 for good with a capital of SII,OOO. which he invested in the ship chandlery business in Buffalo and suffered financially in the panic of 1873, his i&ilure resulting three years later. Mr. Perrine had to begin life once again. With his two sons and some friends he established a settlement at Perrine, Dale County, Fla. Financial aid that was expected but did not arrive prevented his plans from being carried out. He Is now Secretary of the Buffalo Cemetery Association, which is located on Delaware

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

An American Divine and His Family Murdered in Honduras. [New York telegram.] News has been received from Costa Rica of a terrible tragedy which occurred on the island of Ruatan, which is off the north, coast of HondurasThe Rev. Mr. Hobbs, a Baptist minister from the United States, had been living at Floras bay with his wife and his little daughter. He was preparing to leave the island and had sold his property,, receiving for it si<)o in gold. Shortly before his intended departure a neighbor called to bid him farewell. He knocked at the door, and receiving ro answer entered the house, the door being un ocked. A Finding no one in the hall or parlor he called again. There was no response. Alarmed, he searched the horse, and, opening the 1 edroom door, a sickening spectacle met his eyes. Mr. Hobbs, his wi e, and child were dead, with their skulls smashed, their heads being nearly severed, and their bodies covered with wounds. They had evidently been murdered in their slesp. Tee bodies were cold, the blood which was spattered about the room was dry and clottid. The murder must have been commuted two days before. Themney had disappeared. A shipwrecked sailor, a Jamaican named Burrell, who had been lakeninoutof charity and cared for by the family, also disappeared about the same time and was arrested just as he was about leaving the island on a fishing smack three days after the discovery of the murder. He obstinately declared his innocence, but a portion of the missing coin was found upon his person, and he bus been committed for trial, The fifteenth annual convention of the National Journeymen Horseshoers' Association met at St. Paul, Minn., forty of the sixty-four subordinate organize, tions being represented.

and Mrs. Folsom had long been a friend of the Perrine household. Mrs. Cleveland arrived on the afternoon train from the East, and so quiet had the matter been kept that not thirty people knew of her coming. She stepped from the train wearing a blue Henrietta, with a black cloth slashed