Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — Page 7

MARCH OF VETERANS.

THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF ■ , _ THE G. A. R. More than Two Thousand Old Soldiers, Soldiers* Wives and Soldiers’ ! 'on« Tramp { Decatur Streets to the strains of Martial ;. Music—Sketch of the Order and Its Foun- ' ders. The silver anniversary of the Grand Army of the Republic was celebrated in Decatur, 111., the birthplace of the order. The annual department encampment of the Illinois G. A. R. was held at the same place, at which nearly 2,000 delegates were present, besides over 300 delegates to the annual meeting of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Wheelock G. Veazey, Commander-in-chief, accompanied by all-the members of his staff and officers of the national encampment, and hundreds of other distinguished G. A. R. men, were in attendance. The line of march formed and the head of the column moved under the direction of Grand Marshal Steele, First Adjutant of Post No. 1, G. A. R. Steele was followed by Goodman’s Band of twenty-one pieces. Then came Dunham Post, the successor of old Post No. 1, 5 with 355 veterans. Then came a carriage with the Governor and Commander Veazey, and after it other carriages containing important people, members of local committees, in all 440. Another

B. F. STEPHENSON, THE G. A. R.

bedecked vehicle held seven of the officers of the Woman’s Relief Corps, Department of Illinois; following was State Commander Distin and his staff, mounted on the best horses in, The department headquarters and a band from Decatur were sandwiched between the horsemen and Post No. 1 of Rockford, which was 170 strong. Lowell Post of Newman, 111., had 106 vets and they sang “Hurrah, hurrah; We’ll Shout the Jubilee,” from the time they started till the column broke ranks. The Stephenson Post of Springfield had 106 men in line. Grant Post, No. 28, of Chicago, Charles A. Dibble commanding, was 58 strong, but every man had on a brand-new suit and that made the number seem greater., De Molal Band jjp>ih Bloom! n gt<sri fipilpwqd wi th 21 blowers, and W. T., S&ennarj jipst, No. 140 r kept-step behind this band 150 strong.- La . Place (Ill.) PosUNo. U 94, had 25 meir, Jordan Post of Macon had 50,‘and ’ Cehro Gorao Post had 80. Lanken s Rand, came behind with 15 pieces. Moultrie County Battalion had 132 men, the drum corps from Marshall had 15, Mattoon Post, No. 21, had 25. Pope Post. Na 411, showed up 95 strong. Then came an old man, paralyzed, in an invalid chair. This was Capt Jackson, of the Twenty-second Illinois Infantry. Protecting this old man was the remnant of the Eighth Illinois—-twenty-nine survivors. Surely there was a war! These men were cheered by the multitude, and in response they lifted their hats and bowed and passed on with a quick step, but not so briskly as they did years ago when they marched through, these very streets to go to war. They were in command of George 8. Durfee, of Company A of the old Eighth, following these were the Sons of Veterans, 100 in number, commanded by Col. Stedden, of Springfield. They were followed by the Zouaves of Decatur, twenty-five boys, - E. H. Martin’s corps of star cyclers, forty strong, came after, their wheels wrapped in the national colors. The above constituted the men in the line of march. The grand anniversary camp-fire was kindled in the mammoth tent constructed for {the purpose, and, although capable of accommodating an audience of 10,000 people, standing room was unobtainable.

GEN. W. C. VEAZEY, COMMANDER-N-CHIEF

Other rousing camp-fires and love feasts ■were held the following evening, and every comrade who refused to sing a song or tell a story was promptly courtmartialed and forced to submit to such penalties as the “boys” saw fit to inflict. The Grand Army has now attained such proportions, is so widely extended, and has on its muster rolls so many eminent men in American military history that a brief sketch of its organization and present condition is of general interest. The first post of the Grand Army was organized in Decatur April 6, 1866. The men to whose ability, loyalty and perseverance the order fs indebted for its existence and magnificent organization were Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and Rev. W. G. Rutledge., -both es lilinofs. Comrade Stephenson was born in Wayne County, JU,lppjs,.ln 1822, #qd spent hfs t early youth and manhood in Sangamon County? He entered the army.>in 1861 and served till 1864, when’ he diet Comrade Rutledge, who was serving AstChaplain in Sherman’s expedition of that year. These two comrades Conceived and discussed plans for tHe’btfeaoization of a permanent society to ptejerve the friendship of war and provide mutual aid' in time of peace. Alter the close of the war Comrades Stephenson and Ratledge met by ap-

pointment at Springfield, 81., In March, 1866, and prepared the ritual of the order, and after much discussion finally selected the “Grand Army of the Republic” as the name most appropriate and expressive for the order. It was then decided to print the ritual, and Captain John S. Phelps, at the suggestion of exGovernor Oglesby, went to Decatur from Springfield to supervise the printing. While there Captain Phelps spoke of the proposed organization to several old soldiers and the result was that an application was made to Comrade Stephenson for a charter to form a post On April 6, 1866, the charter was granted and the first post of what is now a mighty organization was instituted there with twelve charter members. For several years the order did not thrive. Its aims and purposes were misunderstood; it was by many regarded as a purely political organization. But during the last ten or fifteen years this erroneous impression has been gradually removed, and the true aims and principles of the order are becoming better understood and appreciated. It is now becoming recognized as a great benevolent order, the principal purposes of which are to preserve the spirit of comradeship cemented on many a battlefield; to minister to the sick and disabled, bury the dead and assist the widow and orphan. In doing this it has expended many millions during the twenty-five years of its existence. The rrports of the adjutant-general for the last fiscal year show that $221,350 were expended during that period for the relief of comrades, ex-soldiers and their families, and nearly 29,000 veterans and their families, were thus relieved. The growth of the order has been marvelous. In less than twenty-five years it has outgrown every other fraternal order in this country except the Masons and Odd-Fellows. The Grand Army has now 7,000 posts scattered over the United States and Canada, with a membership of * nearly half million, and, about eight hundred thousand veterans of the Union army yet to recruit from.. During the last the order has devoted consideraole attention to the erection and maintenance of homes for the aged and infirm, and the building of monuments to heroes of the war and memorial halls in various parts of the country. The most Important undertaking of this nature is the plan for the erection of a magnificent memorial hall at Decatur, that will stand as a perpetual memento to the Grand Army, and which will be constructed so as to preserve the records of departments and posts, trophies, relics, curiosities, literature, pictures, and whatever may serve to illustrate the history of the Union army and its achievements. The hall is to be erected by voluntary contributions from members and posts, and will probably be maintained by a small assessment annually levied on members of the Grand Army. One of the most intere'ting incidents ot the G. A. R. encampment at Decatur,

111., was the presentation of a silver and gold gavel to the Department of Illinois, G. A. R. by the Department of Illinois, Woman’s Relief Corps. The gavel, which has appropriate and artistic chasings and is richly jeweled, boars the inscription: ; Department of Illinois, W. R. C., : : to : : Department of Illinois, G. A. R. : : 1866. April 6. 1891. : The presentation was made by Mrs. Julia G. Sine, of Corps No. 1, Rockford, 111., W. R. C.

A River that Flows Inland.

There is an interesting instance of water flowing inland from the sea. It is found on the island of Cephalonia, in the lonian sea, west of Greece. The phenomenon occurs on the southwest side of the island near the small town and port of Argostoli. Two streams flow at a short distance from one another, straight from the sea, for a few yards, and then follow different courses. One turns at right angles and runs for some ways parallel with the shore and close to it. Then it turns again toward the sea, and running, of course, deeper and deeper, doubles completely under itself, thus forming a loop, and finally passes out of sight deep down in a landward direction. In its course it tarns two flour mills, which .will give an idea of the strength of the current. There is no tide in the se* n*re, and the flow of the salt water brook is perfectly steady and continuous. The other rtream disappears in the ground in a similar way. This curious phenomenon has not attracted much attention because Argostoli is not on one of the regular tourist routes. No one knows what becomes of this water, but it probably flows to some subterranean reservoir, and it may have something to do with the earthquakes that occur in that neighborhood once in a long while, or, possibly, it feeds some disfor, aa js well known, the most generally accepted theory of the cause they are" due to st eant. generated from water, admitted tfiSteigh cracks in the earth’s crust, or in some other way.— Goldlhwaite’s Geographical Magazine. * A Russian engineer, who has lately been examining the Canadian Pacific Railway, says hrs Government has decided to build a railway across Siberia from the Ural Mountains Us the Sea of Japan, at a point 6,000 miles from St. Petersburg. The country to be traversed as far as Lake Baikal is not unlike the Canadian Northwest. Vert many popular men of the day make much of their reputation by night,

SISTER SUSAN IS GREEDY

ANNA DICKINSON’S INSANITY A CANARD. Her Sister Thought to Prey Upon the Public's Sympathy—So Says Anna Herself, and she la Corroborated by an Eminent Physician. \ Anna Dickinson in a public mad-house —that was bad enough. K, But Anna Dickinson in a public madhouse and perfectly sane—Anna Dickinson, gifted and eloquent, noted and honored figure of her time, famous for her labors in behalf of the enslaved and her championship her own sex—Anna Dickinson shut up with maniacs and gibbering lunatics, and still in the possession of her own reason —that is infinitely revolting to a country that still respects her. Shocking as it is, that, is her story. Worse than that, it is her story that the wrongs and sufferings she has undergone are the Jesuit of a sister s designs. Released from imprisonment by chance, Miss Dickinson, who is now in New York, has chosen to give her extraordinary narrative to the world for the first time. In moderate language, with the bearing of a woman who had weighed every word and understood the significance of all she said, she told what she had gone through and why she believed she had been the victim of a conspiracy. Feb. 25—so ran the substance of her story—she had been seized in har home at West Pittston, Pa., carried off by force, and in violation of law confined in the State Asylum at Danville. There she had staid five weeks and a day, without examination as to her mental or physical condition, sick, worn with terror and anxiety, needing medical attendance and lacking it, knowing all the »time that a terrible wrong was being practiced upon her, but deprived of communication with her friends and the world. From this situation she was taken on April 2 in a sad state of destitution and misery by a physician from another State, who- had been called upon to remove her to his supposed private asylum. Instead of shutting her up in another institution, this physician, a practitioner of repute and standing, had recognized her sane condition and set her free. To account for her incarceration stories had been set afloat of her violence and desperate madness. These Miss Dickinson circumstantially declared to be utterly false. The object of subjecting her to these dreadful ordeals was, as she believed, to get money from the public by arousing sympathy for her pretended condition. The person whom she accused as the chief instrument in this unnatural design is her own sister. Legal proceedings which will test the justice of these sweeping charges are to be begun at once. Miss Dickinson went to New York with Dr. Frederick W. Seward of Goshen, N. Y., at whose house she has been since she escaped from Danville April 2. “It is unfortunate,” said Miss Dickinson, “that I must begin my defense against the charge of Insanity by making a charge of insanity against somebody else. Disagreeable as it is for mp to reveal to the public in this way the misfortunes of our family, I am obliged to say that for many years my sister Susan has been a monomaniac on the subject of money. “Looking back over the last few years and putting together many things which seemed to me then to be strange, but not suspicious, I think I see very plainly that she has been influenced by two motives. She had first the intense and grasping desire for money, and a belief that if she had it she could handle it better than I could. She had, second, an intense hatred and jealousy for me. “With the few people who live in Pittston I had scarcely the slightest acquaintance, and absolutely no friendship. My sister knew everybody, and everybody knew her. In this way she was able to circulate reports about me and my condition, which the villagers, not having any knowledge of the subject, even the slightest, were bound to believe. “One day while at work I wa« seized and hustled off to the asylum at Danville without being allowed to communicate with anybody. I tried to send out various dispatches to my relatives and friends telling of the outrage to which I had been subjected. But the next day passed and the next, and I heard nothing. Then I began to realize that I had been cut off deliberately from any communication with the world. “The Danville Asylum is a horrible place. My tortures in it were more than 1 can describe. All my associates were maniacs, nevertheless. There seemed to be a regular system of annoyances adopted toward them. AH the daily newspapers in which accounts of my supposed madness and false representations of my violence werWcon’spiduously printed were placed where I could not help seeing them. Attendants and halfwitted patients nagged, followed, pestered, and teased me. “I needed the services of a physician. But from first to last, from the moment I entered that horrible den to the day I escaped from it, no examination was made of my condition, no physician inquired as to whether I needed any help, no medicines were provided for ,jm,e, no attention whatever was paid to me,” Dr. Seward, whose name is a familiar and irreproachable one in medical science, said: “Miss Anna Dickinson is perfectly sane. I have studied her case attentively, and know there is nothing the matter with her. I investigated some of her statements, and found them to be true. ”

Lotta at McVicker’s.

Since its opening, March 30, after having been rebuilt from the fire in a style more resplendent than ever, McVicker’s Theater, at Chicago, has been doing a phenomenal business, with Jefferson and Florence. For the week commencing Monday, April 20, the attraction will be the ever-charming Lotta. Already orders are received from outside towns for seats.

Jurors Compromise on Manslaughter.

At Grand Rapids, Mich., the Egan murder case w'ent to the jury, and in two hours a Verdict of manslaughter was brought in. The prisoner and his attorneys appeared delighted with the verdict, and Egan shook hands with all the jury as they passed out. The jury stood three for first degree and one for acquittal and the verdict was a compromise.

Sweat and dust cause the horse’s shoulders to gall. So do poor, ill-fittiM collars.

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The Engagement Ring.

The girl with a ring on her first finger is not to be found any more. The engagement ring is worn on either the middle or fourth finger, but never on the first, says the Jewelers' Review. At a recent wedding in New York the bride removed her right glove and the ring was placed on her righthand, instead of the left. The reason for this change is not known. The fourth finger of the left hand has been known as the linger for the wedding ring from the earliest times—it being supposed that the veins from this finger went straight to the heart. Perhaps the young ladies' hearts are changing nowadajs. The winter girl is marked by two characteristics — she has her hair frizzled all over her head, and she wears a ring on her little finger. He Can’t Do It.—A man may be moral without being religious, but he can’t be religious without being moral. You may be able to get rid of a bad cough or cold without Dr. White’s Pulmonarla, but tills medicine will cure your cough in half the time required with any other remedy. It is entirely harmless and pleasant to take. Three sizes—2sc, 50c, and sl, and every bottle warranted;

Cocks and Witches.

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