Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 6 August 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL. RETREAT.

Has Every Desirable Facility for an Enjoyable Summer Sojourn.

Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will find Eagle Lake, on the Pe^sylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here find rest and liealthgiviog recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surrouudiags. Some desirable cottage sites areyit obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been made. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college halls are used fo Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurauts and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large fleet of row boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing m^v enjnv that pastime* to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations on these lines. In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest. John M. Cou'ter. of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania L'ne Ticket Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should be addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

PLKASJIIU.' TIIIPS,

Numerous KxMirsiiii.s tue Coming Summer sit Reasonable Rates. Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the Nevr England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South: or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this vear. In Aug exeur sion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Linos to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale o* low rate tickets will uot be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

Tne Asbury Park excursion will doubt less attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Ctpe May, Lou? Branch and all the tuitions watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thiug for a signt-seeuig jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going on-i way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and .s-'oun rivers triable route privileges will aNo b* accorded Boston exeur feiouisN, enabling i5t«tu to visit. Niagara

Falls. Vf niMval, Tious'iml [slan ls and St. Lawrence Rapils, the White Mountain.^, tie Hudson Rivtn territory, and to return stHnm-r on Long Island ."sound, after ght*set-iMg at N-wport. Narr «g*nsett Pier. Nantucket, a id the Cape resorts to Ntvv York mid thence tnrou^h the a^rkultu'tal paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susq diauua and Ju.iiata rivers, over the Allegheuies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johns^ovvu and the coke and iron regions of Western P-unsvlv.".ina. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheao excursion-s over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As these ason is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements kh&n the liberal concession? in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, ^hief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsfa ire, Pa. aprfiwd-t-s tf

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, HWMi'HIC PB7SICUN and SURGEON.

Office at 23K W. Main street, ovei Early's drug store. Residence, 12 Walnut street. ...

Prompt attention to calls in city

FOR SALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city.

JOHN CORCORAN.

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ELMER J. BINFORD.

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, rbMUhi estates, guardian business, conveyancing, elf. Notary always in office.

Oflice—Wilson block, opposite court-house.

C. W.MORRISONS SON,

UNDERTAKERS.

27 W, MAINST. Greenfield, Indiana.

MICHIGAN RESORTS.

Are directly on the line of the

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

EXCELLENT SERVICE TO

July 3 —D&Wlmo.

Traverse City, Ne-ah-ta-wan-ta, Omen a, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay View, Roaring Brook,

Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, Harbor Point, Oden-Oclen,

Mackinac Island

Upper Peninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on sa'e June 1st to fept 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

Maps and Descriptive

OF TIIE

NORTHERN" MICHIGAN RESORT REGION,

Time

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had by application to ticket agents or addressing L. LOCK WOOD, G. P. & T. A.

GUAND liAI'IDS, MICH,

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country. Special attention to Childrens, Women*' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Loula Chlldrena Hospital.

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HUMAN BLOOD FOUND

Startl ng Evidence Against Holmes and Quintan.

SCIENCE AIDING THE DETECTIVES

Trail of lilood Leading All Over the Old Castle—l'at Quiulan in Possession of Min-

uie Williams' Trunks—Chief Jiatienoch Well Pleased With the New and Convincing Discoveries. ••••,• CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Human blood was

found yesterday in Holmes' castle bespattered from one room to another. Science aided Detectives Fitzpatrick and Norton where other agencies had failed, and uncovered more startling evidence against H. H. Holmes and Pat Quinlau than has been found in the castle.

There was found in the castle by the detectives and a medical expert a trail of blood leading from the doorway of the diningrooiu of Mrs. Julia L. Conner to the sink in the same room from there into the dark chamber where she and Pearl formerly slept, and from there to the inside of the door opening into the bathroom, where the secret trapdoor was on the baseboard of that room above the trap-door and down on to the secret staircase which led to the false elevator shaft and thence into the basement. The blood was human. The clot of blood mixed with human hair was found.

Also from the debris in the dark chamber, where mother and child slept, there was taken some child's underwear stained with blood: a pair of brown diagonal trousers, stained at the bottom with blood the pocket of a woman's dress, bloodsoaked a handkerchief which had been used to wipe up blood with and various clothes and parts of underclothing spotted with blood. These articles were examined microscopically at the time of their discovery, and the test made then and there as to the stains and blotches being human blood. With but one or two exceptions the expert decided they were aii marked with human blood. A rope was found in the dark chamber and its knots blood was discovered.

In Pat Qumlan's private living rooms were found two trunks oi the theatrical type. One was purchased from Alecks in Denver. On both trunks were the initials "JYl. R. W." The initials had been painted over. The initials are those of Minnie R. Williams. Pat Quinlan stated, after his being taken into custody, that both of the trunks belonged to him. Detectives Norton and Fitzpatrick have now the truth, that both trunks belonged to Minnie Williams.

Quinlan will be confronted with thi3 evidence. He will also be faced with books found in his possession and which belonged to Minnie Williams. There are Lippinco" magazines bearing date as late as April, 1894, demonstrating that Minnie Williams was alive at that time. The fact that one of her trunks was bought in Denver is explained by the information, already secured by Chief Badenoch, that after she entered the employ of Holmes and finally left Chicago she entered the theatrical business in Denver.

Chief Badenoch has also secured, in addition to the above evidence, which his detectives brought to him last night, positive proof that Benjamin F. Pietzel was at Dwight as a patient when Emily Cigraud was there as a stenographers. He went under the name of Robert R. Pnelps. Under that name lie met Emily Cigrand and wooed her. The girl aid not leave Dwiglit of her own free will, bub was discharged for inability to and Miller. Umpire—OMJay.

properly perforin her duties. A.s soon as lie letr, Dwiglit she came to Chicago and entered the employ of Holmes, There she again met Pietzol under the name ol: Phelps.

Cmef Badenoch. believes all this evidelicti to be I lie most important of any, save the partial oonlossions ot Mr. and Mrs. Quinlan, tnat he has yet secured, llH) inierence drawn by the ollicevs from the trail of blood which was dis-

covered was that the blood being lmmau ime from some person who was killed in the dark chamber, dragged jrom I there to the trapdoor, thence down the secret stairway to the basement beI nearh.

Chemical analysis of all the blood will immediately follow. The bloody doors were taken off and tlio baseuoara also poriions of the flooring, the dark chamber and on the secret staircase.

A NOTED BANK ROBBER.

Clvvi.'laiid A ni liorit i?s ihmk Th*y H-.ivct a VmIliable CLKVKLAND, An ,', tj.—The police tu-

thoritu'.s of this city luive strong cvidenc«) to show tliut Joseph i-ioss, alias Lopc-k, who with companion attempted to rob tho safe of the Bartliolomew Brewing company a lew days a^ro, and wa.i only eapvured alter a lonij chase and a hard liyht, was rne prime mover in the Milan (U.) bank robbery. I Chiet (eory L. Gonldinn' or the Denver police ir's telt^raphed the authorities here asidn^ l'or a photograph of

Ross, saving rhat ne has good reasons lor believing that Ross is the same man I arrested in Denver for bank robbery some time ago, and who afterward escaped from jail.

War on tho Negroes in Texas.

PARIS, Tex., Aug. 6.—News has just reached here of a bad state of attairs prevailing in Delta county. One night last week every negro was notified that he must leave at once or he would be taken out and flanged. This caused a perfect stampede among the negroes, who being thoroughly alarmed began to move out of tne county at once, although good citizens tried to dissuade them and offered tlxem every protection. Valuable property lxas been abandoned and the scare continues.

Lost Survivors of a Settling Schooner. POUT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug. 6.—

Six survivoi-s of the sealing schooner White, which was lost last spring in Alaska, have just arrived liei-e. All of the survivors are horribly mutilated, having lost toes, fiixgers, arms and feet from being frozen. They are on their way to San Francisco.

All Quiet in Jackson's Hole. :fe: DKNVEK, Aug. 6.—A special to The

News from Cheyenne, Wy., says: Adjutant General Stitzer arrived home from Jackson's Hole. He reports everything quiet at that place and says he believes the Indian police will be able to take the Iudians back to their reservations.

MASSACRE OF THE BRITISH.

Farther Details of the 'Outrage Recently I'erpetrated in China.

^LONDON, Aug. 6.—The correspondent of the Times at Shanghai says that the missionaries killed at Ku-Cheng were murdered by an organized baud of 80 of the vegetarians. The correspondent says:

The ladies begged for their lives, promising to yield their property and valuables, but the leader of the band shouted out his order to kill them outright.

A corrected list of the victims is as follows: Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart.

Miss Nellie Saunders. Miss Lena Irish, burnt in the house. Miss Stettie Newcomb was speared and thrown down a precipice.

Miss Marshall had her throat cut. Miss Gordon was speared in the head. Miss Topsy Saunders, speared in the brain.

Master Herbert Stewart, skull fractured and brain exposed. Lena Stewart died from shock.

The Chinese magistrate at Ku-Cheng waited for the completion of the massacre before appearing upon the scene there. There area thousand soldiers at Ku-Cheng. It is therefore absurd to say the authorities could not have stopped the massacre, winch was evidently carefully and secretly organized.

The American mission at Sahshi, near Han-Kow, has been destroyed, and the missionaries are fugitives.

The American consul has advised the missionaries in adjacent provinces to retire.

PRISONERS INJURED.

While Muroliiiijj Across a I!ril« to Supper the structure Gave Way. JKFFKRKOX CITY, MO., Aug. (3.—Two

convicts, Sullivan of Kansas City and Hooley of St. Louis, are in the prison hospital possibly fatally hurt. Twenty prisoners are more or less injured. The prisoners working in one of the shoe I that delightful swelling of

shops were being marcned to supper across abridge 20 feet long, connecting the second stories of tne xactory buildings.

Suddenly, and without a moment's warning, the bridge broke and all of

Died on Duty.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Henry A. Campbell, a colored political leader of Alabama, who has been serving under Secretary Herbert as aSnavy deuartmenfc mes&enger, fell dead while on duty, as a result of heart disease. He was formerly a resident of Montgomery.

Bat tenes— .....• le and Wilson Gunibert and Dailcv. I nipircs—Burnham and 11 unt.

those who were on it were precipitated *n successively lower ridges and broader to the ground. Sullivan and Hooley were among the first to fall. Strange to relate, no bones were broken. Hooley was hurt in thd breast, Sullivan in the back. All who fell were badly bruised.

Postoflice Kubbers Captured. ALTON, Ills., Aug. 6.—Deputy United

States Marshals Ritchie and Everhart arrested William Rush here yesterday, charged with being implicated in the robberies of the Rosedale and Grafton postoffices in Jersey county last fall.

Indications.

Showers probably slightly wanner on the lakes southerly winds.

I'sine Ball.

AT WASHINGTON— II E Washington 0 1 1 0 2 0 4—13 14 1 Baltimore 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0- 5 01

Batteries—Boyd and McGuire Holler and Clarke. Umpire—Keefe. AT I'l I' I'SjSU IJb— E Pittsburg 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0— 4 8 4 St. Louis 1 1 0 (i :2— 7 112

Batteries—Gardner and Merritt Khret

AT CI.HVlil.AND— Cleveland 1 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 x— Louisville 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-

Batteries—Young and Ziminer anil Zahner and Warner. Umpire—Jevne. AT BOSTON— IT II 10 I Boston 2 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 x— 7 Vi 2 I Philadelphia.....0 (J 1 0 0 2 0 0 o— ii S

Batteries—Nichols and Ganzel Carsey and Clements. Umpire—Kmslie. AT NKVV I: N New Yo 1 I! 1 0 2 0 x—13 14 1 Brooklyn SX, 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0— 10 5

E A E S

Ileview of the Grain kets Kor

and Livestock MiirAug. 0.

"Wheat—Spring wheat No. 1 hard spot, 7-1" i. winter, 2so. red. 71 •!(«!75V, So. 1 white, Tlio. (Jorn—2so. yellow, -IT^e No. ii yellow, 47c No. corn. Oats— No. 2 wluto, No. Ij white, rW'aC No. 2 mixed, Cattle— Extra prime -steers, tU(tt:5 75 rough heavy l'at, il (i.'xjjH 7" cows and lusters, common to choice. #3 ouu'-. jjj stock, vs and feeders, $."2 o.JCc'i-J 1'air to lancv veals, 75(t_(k) To coimnon to lair, $-1 0l)u« 5 50. Hogs—Mediums, heavy and choice Yorkers, $5 OUu'j.j 45 ro mh. ?,'i x!Uk/:. 30 stags, ^3 5(Xt4 00. tihecp and lamls—'l'oi wethers, 54 00^4 ~5 lair to good mixed sheep, $3 50(&3 00 good to best spring lambs, §4 75^5 ^5 lair to choice yearlings, 83 00i$4 00.

J'ittsburjf.

Cattle—Prime. $5 30((ji5 50 good. $4 00 @4 75 good butchers, $4 w'0@4 40 bulls, stags and cows. $1 75(^3 00 rough fat, $3 00^4 00 fresh cows and springers, $1j («J40. Hogs—Best grades, $5 35(«i5 40 medium, $5 3U(I!5 35 heavy, $5 15(^5 20 grassers, $5 15(^5 25 roiiphs, $3 50(ol 4 50. Sheep—Kxport, $4 00(^4 ^5 extra, $3 70(3!3 t)) good, ?3 00(®4 00 fair, $1 75C$ 2 40 common, 50c@$l 00 yearlings, $1 50 (OS3 50 spring lambs, §2 00(^4 50 veal calves, $4 00(«!o 00

Cincinnati Tobacco.

Hlids.

Offerings for the week 2,334 Rejections for the wsek S5fi Actual sales for the week 1.478 Receipts for the week 3,485

The range of prices on the offerings lor the week was as follows: 502, $K$3 95 552, $4(d!5 05 5153, $ii(d!7 05 20(3, 05 174, $10@ll 75 178. $12^614 75 142, #15® 10 75 1(5, «20@24 75 1, $25.

Cincinnati.

Wheat—64@71c. Corn—41($42c. Cattle—Selected butchers, $4 (50(^5 00 fair to medium, $3 (50(&4 50 common, $2 50@ 3 40. Hogs—Selected and prime butchers, |5 05(g)5 10 packing, $4 00@5 00 common to rough. $4 40@4 85. Sheep—$1 00($3 75. Lambs—12 50@5 40.

Chicago.

Ho#s—Sehjcted butchers, $5 00@5 10 packers, $4 (Jt)@5 10. Cattle Poor to choice steers, $3 4(X^5 75 others, $ 75@ 5 30 cow's^ind bulls, $1 50@4 00. Sheep— 91 oOdhi.0 lambs, $3 00(^5 60.

New York.

Cattle—II 95(95 tJ5. Sheep—Id 00@4 00 lambs, |3 00(&5 75.

IN CLASSIC CULPEPER

PEDESTRIAN BEADLE EXPLORES A PICTURESQUE AND HISTORIC REGION.

A Long and Lonesome Tramp From Spottsylvania—Ragged Charms of Piedmont Virginia—The First Battle of the Wilderness—Scene of Stonewall Jackson's Death.

[Special Correspondence.]

GUINKA STATION, VA., Aug. 5.—Having crossed Spottsylvania, the champion battle county of America, in three directions,

miserable conception of any place

From the ridge east of Culpeper some 1(5 miles down to Gernianna ford (it is Germanna bridge now) lie road is anal- I most continuous down grade and runs for the most part between handsome farms. I The few villages look smart and new, like those of the northwest-, and the region genorally bears an air of thrift and prosperity. I On that part ot it sometimes called the peninsula, lying between the Rapidan and the north fork of the Uappahannock, the Army of tho Potomac had its truly pleasant winter quarters. Much to my si -is ', a tract, of four miles or so on each side of the Hapidan is now an unbroken wilderness of pines, though tho most lertile land is in that region, and in 1804 it was nearly all in a high state sf cultivation, cms

There one may trudge on hour after hour in tho solemn shade of tall, straight pines a foot or more in thickness, which, in many places, actually mingle their tops over the road and everywhere excludo the sun's rays. Not only is tho slopo to the Rapidan great, but the stream itself has a deep channel, and as it roars over its rocky bottoms the sound, as it is partly echoed and partly deadened by the ovorhanging pines, is like that soothing dr-r-e-e-o of the Colorado rivers which flow through deep canyons lined with mountain growths—a sound which is warranted to cure any nervous trouble that can be cured at all

Prospective Gold Mines.

In nino miles' walk through this forest

saw but two dwellings. To the question why tho common answer is, "Oh, tho people who owned it would not work themselves, and their niggers all went off after tho war, and so it has been turned out.'' Later, however,

was still not satisfied with my battlefield studies, for my "locality," as Fowler calls the bump, is so poor that

can form but a

have

not seen. As to writing about a place

have not Been on all sides—well,

"good stuff" out of my own insides. So

wretchedly dependent on facts and inferior to the silkworm in that

cannot spin

decided to start at Meade's winter quarters of 1864 and follow Grant's movements mile by mile from Culpopcr to Cold Harbor, and down to date

have

been richly repaid, for tlio view alone of the first named place and county is well worth the journey. "Old Culpeper," by the way. is and long has been classic ground to the people of my native section, and tho name was common in our mouths early in the forties, for it was tho birthplace of the first really great man developed in the middle section of tho Wabash valley—Colonel Richard W. Thompson. How many long winter evenings in tho sessions of the old time courts did ho enliven with stories of old Culpeper, and how much he did to create the general belief in antebellum times that all tho chivalry and personal honor and high toned hospitality of all ages reached their perfect llower in Piedmont Virginia.

A Picturesque Scone.

And truly the county is beautiful. Having toiled up tlio slope eastward of 1 he "cotehaouse," as they call tho county sent in Virginia,

paused on the summit and

could scarcely repress a shout on feeling

tho chest which

often comes with the first view of a grand prospect. For 20 miles or more in sight, northward, southward and westward, the country rises swell on swell with lovely vales between to the detached subranges of tho Blue Ridge, whilo eastward it declines

fertilo slopes, thickset with dark green corn, now in its prettiost stago of growth, waving and sparkling in tho August sunshine.

From this point nearly the whole county can bo seen, and tho mountains to the west show here and there in bluo sections, which are only distinguished from tho feather edged clouds by their regular and un-

HOUSE IN WHICH STOSKWALL .JACKSON DIED, changing outlines. It was such a wonderI ful contrast to the sandy Hats and muddy streams, concealed in dense forests, the barren old fields and obstructed views of I the region I had lately traversed. The soii I also of Culpeper is far more fertile than that of Spottsylvania, and the growth everywhere gives a pleasing impression ot abundance. There aro very few old fields i: grown up with pines, few bare wastes of 0 HI 3 rock and sand, and thus the county in fer2 5 1. tility, healthlulness and inspiring scenery

Inks fully justifies tho encomiums wo heard so long ago. A Il:n'« of Vigorous Men.

It is also a region whoro thevra-iso men. All middle Virginia down to tide water is notably health!ul, lmt the Piedmont region—in iact, all the eastern slo|o of the Alleghany mountains from New York to middle Alaba ma—seems peculiarly favorable for the while race. Thi'-re are more tall, fair haired and blue eyed peoplo in a strip of, say, 75 miles wide and reaching as lar south as Tuscaloosa than in any other part ot America, and out of this region and the adjacent sections of tho interior valley came those pioneers, vigorous both in mind and body, who gave character to so many of the young commonwealths of tlio west.

found out that all this

tract of "mulatto," as tho Virginians call dark red land, belongs to a northern company which bought it with intent to wox-k it for gold. The project hung Are in some way, but the company still koeps the land idle and still insists that it will start its great system of ditches and sluices for washing "next year." A few residents on the border of tho forest are already washing for gold in their own land and making wages, they say. I am tolerably familiar witb hydraulic mining in tho far west, and yet the idea ot their having such mines in Vil-giniu is as startling to me as a proposi-

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tiori to mine the sands of New Jersey. really must look into this matter. Five miles south of Germanna bridge the great pine forest gives way to the little oasis around tho Wilderness store, and not far north of there the Confederates "struck Grant," as they put it. And now, having come in by this route, I understand why they struck him there and how it was they struck him so cruelly hard. He did not intend to fight there So much would be self evident even if ho had not said it. And tho view of the Federal generals was1 that Lee would await tho onset farther back, and that Grant would therefore have abundant room to arrange his whole force on a line generally parallel to and defending that road by which ho entered th» Wilderness. By what seems tho result of§| a series of accidents, however, some sections of tho Confederate army were

closed

up on tho narrow but still practicable roads wh?ch crossed Grant's snain road, and. as one of them has written it, '"Grant was* caught in tho act of moving his men into place."

First Hattle of the Wilderness. Of coursc they attacked—they had away of doing that—and so the first battle of tho Wilderness began. It would take weeks of toilsome walking, of crawling over old breastworks, through dense brush and tangled vines, to follow iho lines and get a comprehensive mind picture of the flglit. It would require days of study with maps and tho most careful reading of reports to get at the plan, if plan there was, for as nearly as a nonmilitary mind can make out from the history there was ono day when each division or corps commander fought on his own system. After seeing tlio roads across which these six or seven detached battles were going on simultane-. ously one is not at all surprised to read that both Lee and Grant reported tho results of the day as "very unsaiisiactory." Yet all this field has been surveyed and mapped out, and he who cares may study the maps and mutual contradictions of tho generals and lie wholesale contradiction of all ol. them by the war historians.

A narrow gauge railway from Fredericksburg to Orango Court House crosses the Wilderness in a direction southwest by west, and every mile or so the timber cutters have made pi'acticable roads across it from north to south, so the veteran can easily reach that section of tlio field where he fought. Having traversed all tho eastern part on previous trips I took that road leading down along tho extremo westernedgo of the line of battles as far as the Sedgwick monument and tho bloody angle.

The Mattapony.

wis&ln tho western part of tho county numerous rivulets draining little ponds and swamps run together and form the four streams, Mat, Ta, Po and Ny, which unite in Caroline county and form the Mattapony river. In many parts of the Wilderness, however, ono might come within a rod of one of these streams and never suspect its vicinity, and in some places he would only discover one by falling into it.

Tlio dark and yellow water, with its sluggish current and overhanging brush and shadow which makes the noonday seem like twilight, reminds me powerfully of somo of those queer wild rivers I have seen in the remote west, overshadowed by black rocks or pines, to which Indians, Frenchmen and Spaniards gave such suggestive names, as River of Shades, liivor of Souls (Las Animas), Purgatory and Water of Suffering.

The northern two of these, tho Ny on tho north and the Po on the south, inclose in a horseshoe shaped tract a sandy flat of perhaps ten miles in diameter, in the center of which stands Spottsylvania Court House, a hamlet of some 300 people, which apparently prides itself on looking exactly as it did 40 years ago, except for the marks of a lew cannon shot on sonic old brick houses. I will not go so far a.s to say tliab these are renewed from time to time, like that ink spot on the famous door which Luther made by throwing his inkstand at the devil, but they look remarkably fresh. After the terrific slaughter of May 13 Grant moved off eastward into Caroline, and Lee marched down through this village and southward to again confront tho Federals at tho North Anna crossing. I had, however, followed their route long enough to weary me, and so I climbed upon a farmer's market cart and rodo up hero for a day rest and still inoro for a daily paper, as the tramp of a week in tho Wilderness is like a voyage across tho Atlantic for dearth of news.:

Where .Stonewall .Jackson Died. This was an important station during the latter part of the war and boasts of one interesting sight. A milo or more to the north is tho house in which Stonewall Jackson died. It is a rather poor excuse for a house, and the room they show with some pride is even plainer than (lie average southern "spare bedroom," but it is a place of renown and pious pilgrimage to tho people, and in many a house may be scon a conveniional picture of tho scene at tho hero's deathbed. This and a companion picture, "The. Dealh of General Loo," aro great household adornments in ovory part of tho south, and next to Ilium como pictures of famous charges made by Confederate troops and alleged portraits of Jeb Stuart anil Turner Ash by in all tho pomp of cavalry uniform, with drawn sword Hashing in the sun and mounted on such horses as I at least, never saw in the' lealaimy.

I note tho fact that I have "not yet seen in Virginia a pioturo of Longstreet or Mosby cither displayed in a private house or in any public gallery, and I am not at all surprised to find that 1 he conversation sometimes grows dull when cither of these is named. J. II. 13KADLE.

The Origin of Ttilliards.

In a letter dated 1750, which has been: presented to the liibliot heque Nationale in, Paris, a highly ingenious account is given of the origin of billiards. The writer declares that billiards were invented in Eng-' laud about the middle of tlio sixteenth century by a pawnbroker named Bill Kew. This man, it is alleged, used in his leisure moments to play on his counter with three brass balls which he hung up as a sign. For a cuo he had a yard measure, whonce the term Bill-yard, or Bill's yard, corrupted into billiards. This etymology will hardly satisfy Mr. Skeat, but it is at least curious as showing to what length the speculative etymologist is apt to go. Tho most, astonishing thing about it, however, is tho tact that it is the work of a Frenchman, who might have seen at a glance that billiards is merely a corruption of his own word 'billiard," from "bille," a ball, tho termination "ard" being perfectly regular and natural in the composition of a word intended to designato the table

on which the balls aro used.

Trees In Scotland

About 100 years ago It was when Samuel Johnson visited mado some sarcastic remarks

:ed that

otland he the then

prevalent lack of trees In tnat countxy. Sootsmen were nover slow to/take a hint, and today Scotland is perhoips better fn** Dished in the plantation of /trees than •ther Country In the world! •h