Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — A Couple of Stray Anecdotes. [ARTICLE]

A Couple of Stray Anecdotes.

When Dr. Warren was promoted by the Legislature of North Carolina to the rank of Brigadier General, as a special reward for his services as Surgeon General of the State, some one asked Governor Vanee if he thought Warren wouldjaccept the promotion, in view of the report which was then in circulation that all persons holding the rank of General would be shot in event of the failure of the Confederacy. “Well,” said he, “I know Warren as well as the next man, and I can tell you this about him: He would take the rank of Brigadier General, with the chance of being shot on account of it at the end of the war, and. he would take the rank of Major General with the certainty of being shot for it tomorrow? 9 The Rev. Mr. Tyler had a big dog named Watch, that he was in the habit of taking to church. One Sunday, in the midst of an impressive sermon, Mr. Tyler repeated in an earnest, eloquent manner the words: “Watch! watch! watch! I say;” when rustle, rustle, bounce came his big dog, almost into his very arms. Honest Watch had been sitting with his eyes fixed, as usual, on the minister. At the first mention of his name up went his ears, and his eyes kindled; at the second he was still more deeply moved; at the third he obeyed, and flew completelyover pew rail and pulpit door with leaps that did equal honor to his muscular power and his desire to obey.