Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — Must Have Bitten at some “Skin-Game” [ARTICLE]

Must Have Bitten at some “Skin-Game”

Never was name more appropriate than Sells’ circus. It is a huge sell, and those who patronize it are bled to the full extent of their pocket-books.—“Goodland Herald.” A Curious Relic.—The new school house is finished inside with Georgia pine, an excellent and beautiful timber for the purpose, by the way. In the wainscoting of the Jarge or Chapel room, in the northeast corner of the second story, may be seen a strange and suggestive relic in |the form of a leaden bullet inbedded in the board, and surrounded by a hard and knotty growth which Shows plainly that it was fired into the tree many years ago and While it was yet a living and growing tree. ; It requires no very great stretch of the imagination to see in this ballet a vestige of the days when Old Tecumpseh Sherman’s war worn veterans carried their conquering banners in their immortal “march to the sea.” One reliable citizen of this place who was with Sherman • upon that memorable march, says that he, himself, fired the bullet, and with it killed two brigadiers and disabled a major general.

From present indications the Annual National Military Encampment, to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., August 13th to 17th, inclusive, will surpass in interest any similar affair of the kind in the history of prize drills. The liberality of the premiums, $5,500.00, is sufficient to attract National attention. The Assistant Adjutant General of the Grand Army of the Republic is in receipt of communications in such numbers from Posts throughout the State, signifying the intention of such organizations tp attend the Encampment at Indianapolis,|lnd., August 15th, as organized bodies, as to warrant the statement that the Grand Army of the Republic and old Soldiers’ Day will witness the greatest Soldiers’ Reunion held in Indiana since the disbandment of the armies in 1865. The Encampment to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., August 13th to 17th, inclusive, will, as a whole, J present features of more general and varied interest than ever before brought before the public by a military meeting ot a similar character; it will be a complete school of the soldier Irom the most trivial feature of camp duty to the handling of troops and individual action in the rush and roar of battle. Indications are that the attendance will be much greater than at the Encampment last year, both as to troops and spectator. Reduced rates of fare will be granted over all roads centering at the capital.