Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — “OLD SORREL” DEAD. [ARTICLE]

“OLD SORREL” DEAD.

Stonewall Jackson’s Old War-Horse Goes the Way Ot All Flesh—Will Be Stuffed. I Richmond (Va.) telegram.] The old Confederate battle-flag at the Southern Soldiers’ Home was at half-mast to-day out of respect to “Old Sorrel,” Stonewall Jackson’s war-horse, who died yesterday. Many of the old soldiers watched him tenderly during the night, and were with him when he died. ‘T)ld Sorrell” was 32 years of age, was wounded twice during the war, and was the last surviving horse of the Confederate army. A taxidermist was at once set to work upon him, and will stuff and mount the horse, which will be placed in the Soldiers’ Home. The animal after Jackson’s death was placed at the Virginia Military Institute, and no one was allowed to ride him. He was taken to the New Orleans Exposition, and although kindly cared for by the soldiers of the home, it is alleged that the trip fatally injured him. J\mes Walker, a miser of Uniontown, Ohio, died the other_day. He possessed s2o*ooo. He was a bachelor and lived in a little log house. He lived principally on clover and bran in summer. He spent most of his time in winter in bed and ate raw Corn meal to save the expense of fire, A couple of years ago, although in feeble health, he walked twenty-two miles to get one cent which was owing him'through the mistake of the County Treasurer. A paper has been started in Henderson, S. C., with a woman at its head, and to which the contributors are Southern women only. -' ——— Z—i. THE entire coilection of Mrs. Morgan’s pictures, etchings, engravings, books, and art treasures sold at auction in New York brought $1,207,052. Every American Indian costs the United States Government $3,000 a year, estimating the Indian population at 260,000 and the appropriation at $7,000,000.