Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — Page 2

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

July 29, 1862. Major General Pope, accompanied by hie staff, left Washington for the headquarters of the army In the field. Before his departure he orderd that passes to the lines of his forces should not be granted .to others than those having official business there. The English brig‘Napier was saptrued by the U. S. S. S. Mystic while endeavoring to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C. The citizens of Mount Stirling, Ky., succeeded in driving off a party of irregulars with a loss reported of 76 in killed, wounded and taken prisoners. A Union force defeated a band of partisans near Bollingers Mills, Mo. General Pope and his staff arrived at Warrenton, Va., at noon, creating great consternation among the secessionists, nearly all of whom had taken Confederate oaths of allegiance, and insisted that General Pope dared not carry out the intentions declared in his proclamation. Colonel Lloyd of the Sixth Ohio cavalry, pursuant of General Pope’s orders, arrested all the male Inhabitants of Luray, Va., and lodged them in the court house preparatory to giving them the oath of allegiance. ,_ ’ X The Confederate batteries at Genesis Point, on Ogeechee river, were shelled by the national gunboats. Russellville, Ky., was captured by a band of Confederate partisans, the home guard being unable to drive off their attack.A detachment of Union cavalry under Captain Dolltn attacked a force of Confederate cavalry near Brownsville, Ky., capturing 60 of them.. • The Confederates, reinforced, captured 29 men and 14 horses. July 30, 1862. John H. Morgan of the Confederate army, reported to Major General E. Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate forces in eastern Tennessee, the result of his recent raid with irregular troops. Leaving Knoxville, Tenn., on the Fourth of July, with 900 men, he captured 17 towns, destroying the national stores in each, dispersed 1,600 home guards, paroled 1,200 regulars, and returned- on the 28th with 1,200 men, having traveled 1,000 miles in 24 days. The entire loss in killed, wounded and missing was less than 100. The bells contributed to the Confederate government by the churches, planters and others to be made into cannon, and seized in New Orleans by General Butler, were sold at auction in Boston. v...John R. Lee, acting master of the U. S. S. S. E. B. Hale, ascended Todd Creek, Georgia, with a party and destroyed a Confederate salt works that was in successful operation. An attempt to capture the tug Achilles, lying off Harrison’s Landing, on the James river, by a body of Confederates, was frustrated. A body of guerrillas under Joe Thompson entered Paris, Ky., cut down the fiag pole, took the sheriff and the clerks of the circuit and county courts prisoners, forced the keys to the jail from the jailer and liberated prisoners, obtained such indictments of citizens as they desired from the clerk of the circuit court, helped themselves to goods in the stores, took supper with the citizens, and left after dark. They were followed and slightly punished by a party of the Ninth Pennsylvania cavalry. i July 31, 1862. The secretary of war of the United States issued an order revoking all and leaves of absence from the army except those granted by the department, on Monday, the 11th of August, and ordering all officers capable of service to join their regiments forthwith under penalty of dismissal from the service or court-martial. On Monday, August 19, the Order warned, each regiment and corps would be mustered, the absentees would be marked, and if not appearing within 48 hours, would be dismissed from the service or treated as deserters. Several vessels from the mortar fleet that had been operating on the Mississippi under command of Commodore Porter arrived at Fortress Monroe. The Confederate steamer Memphis was captured by the United States gunboat Magnolia, she having run the blockade of Charleston, S. C-, on the night of the 27th. August 1, 1862. Confederate batteries at Coggin’s Point, opposite to Harrison’s landing, Virginia, opened fire on the Union army under General McClellan and the Federal fleet. The batteries Were silenced after a brisk fire of two hours, • Members of the First regiment, South Carolina volunteers, a regiment formed among the slaves when General Hunter’s Federal army obtained i foothold on South Carolina, were declared forever free. Irregulars under the'' Confederate •eader Dunn attacked Canton, Mo., fcfiU 4 William Craig, owner of a warehouse in which rifles were stored, took possession of the rifles and plun4ered all the stores in the place. The obtaining of substitutes through tbw medium of agents for service in the Confederate army was strictly prohibited by order of the Confederate General Winder. v Six bundled Union troops crossed the James ■» rer at Harrison’s Land-

lng and destroyed all the houses of that town without losing at man.. A company of the Missouri state militia was captured by a band of Confederate irregulars under Colonel Poster, at Newark, Mo. The Confederates captured 100 guns, a large number o| horses, a quantity of commissary stores, a number at tents and B,ooo* or 10,000 rounds of cartridges. A reconnoitering force under General Bayard of the Union army had a series of skirmishes with the Confederates along the Rapidan. In retort upon General Pope’s recent order that anyone captured who had violated the oath of allegiance to the United States should be shot, President Davis of the Confederate States issued an order that General Pope" and officers serving under him were not to be considered as soldiers, and not to be given the privileges of prisoners cf war if taken, but ‘ confined closely as long as the order of General Pope was in effect Threats of retributive execution of hqstages were also made in the order. August 2, 1862. A Woman named Belle Boyd, who had been acting as a mail carrier for the Confederates from points along the Potomac and within the lines of the Union army, to Richmond, and who had functioned presumably as a §py, was captured near Warrenton, Va., and sent to the Old Capitol prison at Washington. General Butler transmitted to the secretary of war copies of a correspondence Between himself and General Phelps in relation to the military employment of the negroes of Louisiana. A band of Confederates attacked a company of- national troops at Ozark, Mo., at daylight, • but failed of a surprise, Captain Birch of the Union troops having been apprised of the attack and withdrawn his troops from their camp to the brush. Here they were called upon the surrender, but put up such a stiff resistance that the Confederates withdrew. The bark Harriet Ralli, the first French vessel captured since the commencement of the war, arrived at New York from New Orleans, where she bad been seized by General Butler a short time before the city was occupied by the Union forces. A sharp fight took place at Orange Court House, Va., between a reconnolteriug party of Union troops under the command of General Crawford and a force of Confederates, in which the Union troops were successful in driving the enemy, after they had suffered a loss of four men killed and sixteen wounded. August 3, 1862. General Sherman, commanding the United States forces at Memphis, issued an order directing all able-bodied negroes who might apply for work on Fort Pickering or other government work to be received and employed i»y the proper officer in charge. Such would be supplied with rations, necessary clothing, and tobacco. An account was to be opened! with each Individual, and his wages charged with the clothing and tobacco furnished, but no wages were to be paid until the courts should have decided whether the negroes were slave or free. The British steamer Columbia, with a cargo of twelve Armstrong guns and equipments, several thousand Enfield rifles and various other munitions of war, was captured off the Bahamas after a chase of several hours by the U. S. S. Santiago de Cuba. The town of Alexandria, Mo., was pillaged by a band of Confederate partisans. The schooner Aquilla was captured by the United States gunboat Huron while attempting to run the blockade off Charleston, S. C. A reconnoisance was made by a force of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Averlll, from the James River to within fourteen miles of Petersburg, Va. When about five miles from Cox’s river they encountered the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry of the enemy, which broke before aj determined charge made by the superior Federal force. Re-forming at their camp two miles beyond, the Con- 1 federates were once more driven, leaving behind them much of their camp equipment and stores, which the Union troops gathered together and burned. I

August 4, 1862. An Important debate took place In the English house of lords on the propriety of recognizing the southern Confederacy. Governor Sprague of Rhode Island issued an order calling on the colored citizens of that state to enlist in the Sixth Rhode Island negro regiment, then forming. The Union fleet before Port Royal was greatly disturbed in expectation of tfae Confederate ram Georgia. An order directing “that a draft of-’ 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve nine months, or unless sooner discharged,” was issued by the department of the United States. In order to provide for the suffering poor of New Orleans, Gen. Butler, in command of the Union occupation, issued an order assessing the secessionists of the city who had subscribed to the defense fund raised when the National army was threatening, and the cotton brokers who counseled the planters not to.bring their staple to' market. The amount assessed was more than $300,000. A fight took place on the White river, Missouri, 40 miles from Forsyth, between Colonel Lawther and his band of Confederates and a company of National troops under Captain Birch of the Fourteenth Missouri state troops, which resulted in a defeat of the Confederates, after a desperate struggle. (Copyright. 191 X by W. Gk Chapman,)

Copyright. Underwood & Underwood, N. T. GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON’S summer home at Sea Girt, N. J„ Is of course the center of great political activity these days. The place is known as the “Little White House."

TELL OF PIRATES

Sailors Rescued by Steamer From Island. . : Q A - Seaman Declare They Were Attacked by Brigands When Storm Threatened to Send Vessel to Bottom—Search for Bandits. New York.-—When the steamer Allemania arrived in port recently a thrilling story of shipwreck and attack by pirates was told by thirteen sailors of the Italian Bark Genee, on board the Allemania, and rescued by the latter boat when in desperate plight at Inagua, the Bahamas. According to the story told by the rescued sailors, the Genee set out from Inagua on May 16, bound for Marseilles, with a costly cargo of hardwood, and when a short distance out from port had encountered a severe storm which carried them out of their course and threatened to send them to , the bottom. After working the pumps for several days, the crew was on the point of deserting the bark and taking to the boats, when a number of small sailboats came alongside, and the occupants of these boats, numbering more than 100 p armed with guns and revolvers, boarded the Genee and ordered the crew to surrender. An attempt was made by the crew to scuttle the Genee, and a fight ensued in which the defenders were badly worsted. They were then ordered into the small boats without water or pruvislons. After lowing aimlessly for two days, the crew of the Genee made land at one of the smaller Bahamas and hoisted a signal of distress, which was seen by the lookout on the steamer Allemania, which rescued them, nearly dead from exposure and hunger.. A British revenue cutter was dispatched in pursuit of the pirates. No report of a capture had been received by the Al.ejnania up to the time of leaving Intigu for New York city. All of the members of the crew Genee were on board the Allemania when she arrived here except the captain, Joseph Capello, and the first mate, who remained at the Bahamas to prosecute the search for the pirates. Ihe United States government will be isked to co-operate with the British authorities in putting a stop

LOVE REVIVES AND THEY WED

Result of Virginian’s Return to His Native Town After an Absence of Forty Years. Cape Charles. and Mrs. Andrew Crother6, a bridal couple, were passengers on. hoard the New York express train from here en route to New York to spend their honeymoon. The bride is sixty-five years old and the bridegroom sixty-seven. The couple were sweethearts during tl<eii youth in their native town, Adamsto a, Vt., and after a quarrel parted. This was forty years ago. Following the quarrel Mr. Crothers left Adamston for the west, became a mine prospector In Nevada and accumulated a fortune. Mrs. -Crothers, who was then Miss Lilli* ton. never, heard from Mr. Crothers (luring the entire forty years. A few 'veeks ago he visited his' home town and was surprised to hear that his sweetheart of early days never had laarried. He called on her, proposed and they wedded.

Ducks Eat Bees.

Jersey Shore, Pa. —Mrs. W. P. Shoesley of Jersey Shore rural route No. 2 Is a successful duck raiser. She never permits her ducklings out of their lnclosure till the honey bees are through work for the day, and (he consequence is her ducks live to adult age. The new theory Is that the ducklings an* such greedy eaters that many are lost each year by swallowing honey bees, which retaliate by stinging the ducklings department of *he Interior to Ore point where the quacklet gives op the ghost.

CANDIDATE WILSON’S SUMMER HOME

to the activity of the pirates in Bahama waters. * Some months ago the v steamer Prince Joachim, plying between the West Indies and New York, went aground at about the same point. where the crew of the Genee was shipwrecked, and was boarded by pirates, who ransacked the ship for valuables and robbed tips pasengers.

MAD BULL GORES A BOY

Father Rushes to Aid and Beata Brute Off With a Club at Lakeside Park, Mo. « Lakeside Park, Mo. —A three-corner-ed fight occurred here between a mad bull, a young hoy, Raymond Barnes, and the boy’s father, who went to his assistance. -V Young Barnes was badly gored before the elder Barnes beat the brute into submission. The bull first attacked the boy, who screamed for help. His father heard the cries, and, with the aid of a stout club, went to his son’s assistance. A desperate combat ensued, the bull getting the boy down and goring him several times. By exerting all his strength the father knocked the bull semi-con--BCioUS. ~ He then hastily grabbed up his son and fled with him to a physician. Young Barnes is reported to be in a serious condition.

FIXES LOST LOVE AT $30,000

Philadelphia Girl Who "Waited at the Church” Itemizes Her Bill Against Wealthy Man. ’ Easton. Pa.—Miss Edith K. Clotts of Philadelphia filed a suit in the courts here claiming 230,000 damages from Frank I. Groman, member of a prominent and wealthy South Bethlehem family, for alleged failure to keep his promise to marry her. According to the bill of particulars filed by Miss Clotts it was a case of "waiting at the church.” Groman was to have married her on January 6, 1912, but failed to appear. Miss Clotts itemizes her loss as fol, lows: For loss of marriage and mental suffering, $29,000; for loss of position, $500; for wedding trousseau, SSOO.

NAIL HOLDS BOY FAST, HOUR

Rescuer Forced to Saw Off Foot of Plank to Liberate Victim. - Boston. —After lying helpless for an hour and a half in an abandoned barn, pinned to a board by a rusty tenpenny nail, which had pierced his hand, eight-year-old James Gallagher of No. 130 East Eleanor street, Olney, was discovered by a passing farmer, who i found it necessary to saw off 'a foot of the plank to liberate him. The boy was treated at the Frankford hospital, where the surgeons had to use a saw again and cut away the remaining portion of the board before they could remove the nail. The wound was cauterized and a large quantity of lockjaw antitoxin was Injected. The lad had been amusing himself by sliding down an inclined board In an unused barn In Cedar Grove lane, about a mile from his home. He had made only one or two trips when*his hand suddenly struck the huge nail, which had been driven through the edge of the plank over to form a hook. The force of his swift descent caused the sharp point to penetrate entirely across the palm. , Screaming with paiii, he tried to writhe free, but every movement only increased his agony, and he was unable to extricate himself. Literally nailed to the plank, he lay tor more than an hour, until Joseph Wilson, a farmer, of Second street pike, above Fox Chase, heard his cries as he passed in a wagon. Wilson found the lad almost exhausted from pain. He endeavored to free him, but found that his efforts

MAY PRODUCE HUMAN LIFE

Ultimate Possibility of It Is Suggested by Professor Macallum, the Scientist. London. —The time may come when a human being can be constructed to order in a chemical laboratory. So it is hinted by Prof. A. B. Macallum, fellow of the Royal society and a distinguished member of the British Association for the Advancement of SciJ ence. On his theory, an extra drop of this, that or the other chemical solution poured into the crucible may turn out, at will, a Dante or a Nero, a Carnegie of a dunce. "It was customary,” says Professor Macallum, “to regard living matter as unique, with a parallel in the inorganic world and the secrets involved in its actions and activities as unsolvable enigmas. There were those also who put forth, as an explanation for all these manifestations, the intervention in so-called living matter of a force otherwise and elsewhere unknown, biotic or vital, whose action was directed, according to tbe character of the structure through which it operated, to the production of the phenomena in question. Living protoplasm was, in this view, but a mark and a dium for action of the unknown force.” He says the methods of the laboratory are not as yet those of nature, because nature works unerringly, unfalteringly, with an amazing economy of material and energy, while present laboratory syntheses are but roundabout ways to the waste sink. He believes, though, that science has made a start in the right direction and is approaching the discovery of the function and composition of living cells. “To that end,” he adds, “a greatly developed study of microchemistry is necessary. This should apply the stimulus to enthusiasm in the search for reactions that will enable us to locate with great precision in the living cell the constituents, inorganic and organic, which affect its physical state and thereby influence its activity.”

Phonograph Aided Burglars.

Minneapolis, Minn. —Strains of music from a phonograph were taken advantage of by burglars to cover the noise made by their entrance into a house. Loot valued at nearly SIOO was taken from the home of P. H. Ware while members of the family were being entertained by the machine.

only added to the victim’s misery. Hs finally walked half a mile and borrowed a saw with which he cut the board across In two places, while the boy, suffering intense agony, lay watching him. Having finally freed the lad, Wilson placed him, with a foot of plank still fastened to his hand, in his wagon and drove at top speed to the Friends’ asylum, the nearest institution. Physicians at that place, however, were unable to give any aid to the sufferer, and It was necessary *for the farmer to drive with him to Frankford before he obtained relief from his pain.

CAT IS RAISING RABBITS

Tabby, In Fargo, N. D., Some Time Ago Stole a Pup and Reared IL “ i. Fargo.—Fred Haffner’s house cat of abnormal maternal instinctß again has created a sensation along Second avenue south. Three years agq the feline stole a puppy—no one knows where —and reared it with her klttena Several days ago dogs broke into a rabbit coop in the vicinity and killed the older ones, leaving eigfct tiny rabbits. These were placed in a box and carried Tnto a shed where the house cat had kittens. Tabby immediately adopted them as her own. Since then she has been working overtime rearing both families. She Seems to care more for the rabbits than the klttena The bunnies also have taken to their foster mother.

CANNING AND JELLY MAKING

Some of the Necessary Utensils and ' a Few Rules That Bhould Be Observed. The following utensils are necessary for all kinds of preserving: A 10 or 12qoart porcelain lined kettle, a white enameled ladle, a long handled spoon, a wide mouthed funnel, a colander, several paring knives, a wooden masher, scales" and one or two cloth bags through which to strain the jelly. If many jars are to be filled, a clothes boiler will be convenient for sterilizing them. Have a rack in the bottom of the boiler, and on it place jars and covers, and completely cover them with cold water. Bring the water slowly to the boiling point and boil for twenty minntes. Have fresh rubbers and scald them by dipping them in the boiling water. The most important thing to remember is that every utensil must be perfectly clean, and no dust which can be prevented shall be allowed to rise during the time of putting the fruit in the jars. Great care must be taken in filling the Jars. Do not take them from the boiling water and set them on a cold table, or in a draft; otherwise they will crack and sometimes break. A break is often better than a crack, as a crack sometimes is so small that it escapes one’s notice until the jar falls apart and the contents are lost. Also care must be taken to have the syrup boiling, and to All the Jars completely, even to overflowing.—Good Housekeeping Magazine.

FRAPPES THAT ARE DELICIOUS

Tea, Coffee and Chocolate Are Three of the Easiest Made from Beverages. Tea Frappe—Boil one cupful of sugar and two cupfuls of water for five minutes to make a syrup. Add one pint of fairly strong tea, freshly made and cooled, then the grated rind and juice of three oranges, the juice of two lemons and one can of grated pineapple. Freeze in a freezer if desired, or turn into a mold, cover the top with paraffin paper or buttered paper, place a cover on it tightly, and pack in a mixture of equal parts of salt and ice for three hours. Remove from the mold and garnish with slices of lemon or crushed mint leaves, dusted with powdered sugar. Coffee Frappe—Make coffee the strength desired, strain it carefully and cool and sweeten to taste, then place it in a mold and pack as for all frappes. One cupful of cream may be added before packing, if desired. Garnish with whipped cream In serving. Chocolate or Cocoa Frappe—Make chocolate or cocoa as If for a beverage, add for four cupfuls, one teaspoonful of vanilla and one cupful of strong, clear coffee. Freeze in a freezer or mold in ice ahd salt. Serve in tall sherbet glasses and garnish with whipped cream.

Stuffed Eggs and Rice.

Hard-boll six eggs, remove the shells and cut them in halves. Take out the yolks and make a paste of them, adding a teaspoon of melted butter, three sardines mashed, one-half teaspoon of salt and a little paprika. Mix and form Into balls and fill in each half of the whites. Have ready some hot boiled rice on a dish and sink the 12 halves Into it symmetrically to form an attractive design. Place the dish over dot water while you rub together two teaspoons of butter and two teaspoons of flour, a cup of milk, a cup of stock and seasoning. When this has boiled pour over all and garnish with parsley. Serve very hot.

Lemon Sponge.

Soak one tablespoon of granulated gelatin in one-quarter cup of cold water; when soft add one cup of boiling water, one cup of sugar and one-third cup of lemon juice. Stir until dissolved, strain and set aside to cool. Stir the mixture occasionally until frothy, add the beaten whites of three eggs and continue beating until stiff. Serve with custard sauce. % Custard Sauce—Beat the yolks of three eggs until light, add one-half saltspoon of salt and one pint of hot milk. Cook until thick, flavor with one teaspoon of vanilla and chill.— Mrs. H.

Vermicelli Soup.

Blanch six ounces of vermicelli by setting it on the fire in cold water; when it bolls drain the water and put It into cold water; let it remain a few minutes, then drain the water entirely from it; put it into a pan with two quarts fresh milk and boil It; beat up the yolks of four eggs and after gradually adding a pint of boiled cream, strain through a sieve and add one tablespoon mushroom catsup; take off the pan, add the eggs, a small lump of white sugar, a teaspoon of salt and sttir over the fire till near boiling.

Raw Cocoanut is Best.

Purchase the raw nut rather than the desiccated cocoanuL It is easily put through tne food cutter, and if the finest knife, is used it gives a more easily digested article for cakes or candies than the dried product. If more is ground than can be used mix sugar with it and dry. It will keep indefinitely. /

Racy Chicken Sandwich.

Use the white meat of the chicken only; after rubbing the chopping bowl with an onion, chop In It the chicken meat. Season well with paprika, stir into it a little chicken stock, then sufficient amount of mayonnaise and prepare as any other, sandwich.